The Fair Felon

In Love's name you are charged hereby
To make a speedy hue and cry,
After a face, who t'other day,
Came and stole my heart away;
For your directions in brief
These are best marks to know the thief:
Her hair a net of beams would prove,
Strong enough to capture Jove,
Playing the eagle; her clear brow
Is a comely field of snow.
A sparkling eye, so pure a gray
As when it shines it needs no day.
Ivory dwelleth on her nose;
Lilies, married to the rose,
Have made her cheek the nuptial bed;
Her lips betray their virgin red,
As they only blushed for this,
That they one another kiss.
But observe, beside the rest,
You shall know this felon best
By her tongue; for if your ear
Shall know this felon best
By her tongue; for if your ear
Shall once a heavenly music hear,
Such as neither gods nor men
But from that voice shall hear again,
That, that is she, oh, take her t'ye,
None can rock heaven asleep but she.

-James Shirley

Blind Sight

I met a man who could not see
Yet he seemed happier than me
I asked him "Why?" without his sight
and everything as dark as night

He said, "To Mourn what I have not,
would cost me more than I have got."
He then described a lovely scene
He must have witnessed in a Dream

He spoke of a peaceful summer breeze
Of resting under big shade trees
Of flowers growing by a stream
A World that's calm and so serene

And as he spoke I realized,
He saw these things without his eyes
The more he Shared, I was to find
It was not he that I was Blind...

-Randy Lee Richards

Christmas in Heaven

 
I see the countless Christmas Trees around the world below,
with tiny lights, like heaven's stars, reflecting on the snow.
The sight is so spectacular, please wipe away that tear,
for I am spending Christmas with Jesus Christ this year.
I hear the many Christmas songs that people hold so dear,
but the sounds of music can't compare with the Christmas choir up here.
I have no words to tell you, the joy their voices bring,
for it is beyond description, to hear the angels sing.
I know how much you miss me. I see the pain inside your heart,
but I am not so far away. We really aren't apart.
So be happy for me dear ones.You know I hold you dear,
and be glad I'm spending Christmas, with Jesus Christ this year.
I send you each a special gift, from my heavenly home above.
I send you each a memory, of my undying love.
After all "Love" is the gift, more precious than pure gold.
It was always most import in the stories Jesus told.
Please love and keep each other, as my Father said to do,
for I can't count the blessing or love he has for each of you.
So, have a Merry Christmas and wipe away that tear.
Remember, I'm spending Christmas, with Jesus Christ this year.

Copyright 1999
-Wanda Bencke

A Prayer For Everyone

Every child deserves love
A safe place to run and play
Every man deserves a chance
To bring home a decent pay

Every race is equal
Beloved in God's eyes
When I see discrimination my soul cries
Say a prayer for the lonely
A prayer for the confused
Say a prayer if you'd only
For the secretly abused
Say a prayer for the newborn
With all the battles to be won
Say a prayer for the tired and worn
Say a prayer for everyone
Walk a mile with a stranger
Put yourself in his shoes
Lend a hand to an old one
Good will come to you
In our heads were happy
We go our merry way
In our hearts were all afraid of our dying day

~Belinda Carlisle

~Lyrics A Prayer For Everyone

Reason, Season, or Lifetime

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is,
you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON,
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty;
to provide you with guidance and support;
to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend, and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON,
because your turn has come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it. It is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons;
things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person,
and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
— Unknown

My Dream House

My walls outside must have some flowers
My walls inside must have some books
A House that is small and a garden large
And in its hefty nooks
A little gold that is sure every week
A lovely wife and gentle too
Contended that no eyes but mine
Can see all her virtues not vice
And call her beauty nice
Within this small house, this garden large
This little gold, this lovely mate
With health in body and peace at heart
Show me man more Great...

I Am There

I cannot ease your aching heart,
Nor take your pain away,
But let me stay and take your hand
And walk with you today!

I'll listen when you need to talk;
I'll wipe away your tears.
I'll share your worries when they come;
I'll help you face your fears.

I'm here and I will stand by you,
Each hill you have to climb,
So take my hand, let's face the world;
Live one day at a time!

You're not alone, for I'm still here.
I'll go that extra mile,
And when your grief is easier,
I'll help you learn to smile!

-Author Unknown

My Heart Hopes

I was sitting behind you
Blind to the world around me
And watch the sunlight on
Your lovely long hair shine...

Your beautiful face was for me
The most beautiful sight in the office
Helping me to work with glee
Filling my loneliness with your eyes

Others around me in groups were speaking
I can't hear them as if they were unknowing

But in the midst of your friends
I was searching my eyes so blue
For a glimpse of You

But I also knew that
You were oblivious to my presence
Though I, who wasn't in the proper sense
Was searching for a look of your face then

And then suddenly my dreams shattered
As I saw you with a boy speak
And my soft heart ever so meek
Started picking up its pieces you had scattered

At his jokes you were laughing
And looking at him you were smiling
His company seem to fill you with joy
Though my mind was constantly questioning
Why not me? Why he?, With a cry

But then a thought filled my
Heart with delight
Just as darkness is dispersed by rays of light
Just as the stars are to the night
Just as the spring is to the rain
Just as the beats are to the heart
Just as the trees are to the earth
Just as the sea is to the ocean
Just as the foam is to the river
And the arrows are to the quiver
And you are mine forever and ever and ever....

-CSBharati

My Dreams

"I have gotta speak to you", Said I
With fear in the heart, hopes in the eye,
"About What?", Asked She
"About the trees, about the flowers
About the stars, about the clovers
About the breeze, about the showers
About the weather, about the sea
About You About Me"

Replies She,
"Oh my dear, don't you see
My heart in its every beat
Is filled with only your name so sweet
Like the star twinkling in the sky
My heart on seeing you begins to flutter and fly
Today I announce with neither care nor fear
I do Love You really, my darling dear"...

Then from my Dreams, I opened my eyes
To the naked, brutal, honest truth
All these were a bunch of lies
Fragments of the imagination of my mind
Since many days I haven't seen her smile
The girl who made me loose my sleep
Whose memories in my heart I keep
Because whom for many days I haven't met
I, constantly, lonely, slowly, silently weep...

-CSBharati

A Child's Hymn

Hear my prayer, O heavenly Father,
Ere I lay me down to sleep;
Bid Thy angels, pure and holy,
Round my bed their vigil keep.

My sins are heavy, but Thy mercy
Far outweighs them, every one;
Down before Thy cross I cast them,
Trusting in Thy help alone.

Keep me through this night of peril
Underneath its boundless shade;
Take me to Thy rest, I pray Thee,
When my pilgrimage is made.

None shall measure out Thy patience
By the span of human thought;
None shall bound the tender mercies
Which Thy Holy Son has bought.

Pardon all my past transgressions,
Give me strength for days to come;
Guide and guard me with Thy blessing
Till Thy angels bid me home.

                         - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
                             (200th B'day Today)

She Is Not Fair To Outward View

She is not fair to outward view
as many maidens be,
Her loveliness I never knew
until she smiled on me.
Oh, then I saw her eye was bright,
a well of love, a spring of light.

But now her looks are coy and cold,
to mine they never reply,
And, yet, I cease not to behold
the love-light in her eye.
Her very frowns are fairer far,
than smiles of other maidens are.

                  -Hartley Coleridge

Beautiful Lines For Beautiful Her

When she laughs the birds feel
That they no longer have to sing
Or it may be that I fail to hear
they sound !
I sit behind her, blind to the
World around me
And watch the sunlight flicker on her wavy hair

In the market on the roads I hope, that her
Eyes are searching for a glimpse of me
But I know that she is shy and wishes to be left alone

Her sweet melodious voice enchant me and
make me feel that they are
The most beautiful harmony of nature
Or it may be that I am oblivious to other harmonies

Those dimples on her lovely face
That lovely innocent smile of hers
Those wavy, silky, beautiful hairs,
Those black, pearl like eyes of hers
Sigh if a drop of rain were to fall,
Every time I think of her
Then the World would have been Flooded Already...

-CSBharati

I Wonder I Ponder

Everything does not change, I Believe
Seasons change I Agree
Moments are not the same, I Know
Gone are the memories
Left behind only to cherish
Like a seed sown today
Will grow into a tree tomorrow
And then Perish
But I know that You will remain Unchanged
Is it True or my Intuition?
I Wonder and Ponder about the fact
That you are still there beside me station

At this moment when everybody
Has turned their back to me
Is it True You will remain the same,
A voice raises inside me making me lame
I cannot forget, You still holding my hands
And call out my Name,
You still hold my hands Whispering
"I am always there"
I opened my eyes to meet yours
Allowing the words to touch
My soul and Heart
But the sun had already Bestowed his Life,
A fresh day had started
Is it True or my Intuition that
You will remain the Same
I Wonder I Ponder...

After Awhile

After a while, you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises.
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads
On today, because tomorrow's ground
Is too uncertain for plans, and futures have
A way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine
Burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate
Your own soul instead of waiting
For someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure...
That you really are strong
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn...
With every goodbye you learn...
-Veronica Shoffstall

The Knots Prayer

Dear God,

Please untie the knots
That are in my mind,
My heart and my life.
Remove the have nots,
The cannots and the do nots
Erase the will nots,
May nots,
Might nots that may find
A home in my heart.
Release me from the could nots
Would nots and
Should nots that obstruct my life.
And most of all,
Dear God,
I ask that you remove from my mind,
My heart and my life all of the “am nots”
That I have allowed to hold me back,
Especially the thought
That I am not good enough...

Amen
Author Known to God ♥

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

 - William Henry Davies

The Solitary Reaper

The Solitary Reaper

Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.


No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?--
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?

Whate’er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o’er the sickle bending;--
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.

- William Wordsworth

I Have Forgotten Myself...

My blood colours in your tale my love
Shouldst you forget, I shall still remember
When I wish to burst forth in tears
Wretch that I am, forbidden to cry out
When this mortal shell in anguish throbs
My tongue dare not give word, speak not I
In all my words, that which is hid
That which I foolishly choose to show
I no longer know what meanings remain
You turn my truth into a coat of lies
You wear it well, you choose to leave
You break me, cudgel me, bruise me, batter me
My many broken pieces then become your strength
I am an emptiness, and thus have you forsaken me
Now you gently enquire – how farest thou?
Me, I shall never ever return my love
I have neither home nor homecomings
An endless wait is all I am heir to
Having forgotten my way, forgetting my self ~ I leave today

Never Say Promise if You Don't Care...

Never say I love you if you really don't care.
Never talk about your feelings if you really don't share.
Never hold my hand If you are gonna break my heart.
Never say your going to be if you never plan to start.
Never look into my eyes if all you do is lie.
Never say hi if you really mean goodbye.
If you really mean forever then say that you will try.
But never say forever, because forever makes me cry...

My Favourite Peoms....Daffodils

Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

-William Wordsworth