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silverstone
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posted March 11, 2007 07:17 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
Here's a poem which was shared by a student in my poetry class~


Renew Me

Why am I such a dusty window
For your light to shine through?
Why am I just a tiny star
In a sky already blue?
Why do I offer everything
With my heart closed like a fist?
I want to love You better than this

Why do I live like I’m in chains
When You have set me free?
And why do I have to break Your heart
Before I fall to my knees?
I know it’s time to pray for change
Give all I have to give
I want to love You better than this

So renew me
Remake me
Undo me
Unbreak me
Come into the empty spaces
Of my broken places
And consume me
Complete me
Pursue me
Redeem me
Renew me

I need Your power to renew me....
I need to know You’re moving through me

I need You as my refuge
My first and last resort
Be the river always running
Through my deepest thoughts
Keep me in Your arms
‘Cause even when I drift
I want to love You better than this

So renew me
Remake me
Undo me
Unbreak me
Come into the empty spaces
Of my broken places
And consume me
Complete me
Pursue me
Redeem me
Renew me
My life bending to Your will
Seeking You until I’m more and more like You
~*~*~*~

~*~*~*~
The Two Trees
William Butler Yeats

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart
The holy tree is growing there
From joy the holy branches start
And all the trembling flowers they bear
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with merry light
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody
And made my lips and music wed
Murmuring a wizard song for thee
There the Loves a circle go
The flaming circle of our days
Gyring, spiring to and fro
In those great ignorant leafy ways
Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the winged sandals dart
Thine eyes grow full of tender care
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart

Gaze no more in the bitter glass
The demons, with their subtle guile
Lift up before to when they pass
Or only gaze a little while
For there a fatal image grows
That the stormy night receives
Roots half hidden under snows
Broken boughs and blackened leaves
For all thing turn to barenness
In the dim glass the demons hold
The glass of outer weariness
Made when God slept in times of old
There, through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought
Flying, crying, to and fro
Cruel claw and hungry throat
Or else they stand and sniff the wind
And shake their ragged wings: alas!
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind
Gaze no more in the bitter glass

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart
The holy tree is growing there
From joy and holy branches start
And all the trembling flowers they bear
Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the winged sandals dart
Thine eyes grow full of tender care
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart
~*~*~*~

Silverstone

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The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

~Robert Frost

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silverstone
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posted March 13, 2007 05:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)


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The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

~Robert Frost

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MysticMelody
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posted May 02, 2007 04:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MysticMelody     Edit/Delete Message

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lotusheartone
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posted May 02, 2007 07:30 PM           Edit/Delete Message
Why has Man forgotten
forsaken, the promise?
Each Master and Master
together,
Husband and Wife,
but, alas Man
turned
on God,
and his Woman.
Do you not remember?
Do all Men slumber?
Through their pain
never willing to
give her,
her Name
and Place,
by his side
as above
so below
says,
the Dove of LOve. ...

Thanks for sharing those POems, SilverStone!

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silverstone
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posted May 04, 2007 12:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
Very nice, Lotus Thanks, MysticMelody

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Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year....
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost

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lotusheartone
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posted May 04, 2007 08:19 AM           Edit/Delete Message
Thank-you, Silverstone!

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Charlotte
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posted December 29, 2007 11:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Charlotte     Edit/Delete Message
Bump!

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26taurus
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posted December 30, 2007 12:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 26taurus     Edit/Delete Message

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