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Topic: Renew Me~*~ The Two Trees~*~
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silverstone Moderator Posts: 2279 From: Registered: Mar 2006
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posted March 11, 2007 07:17 PM
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 ------------------ 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 IP: Logged |
silverstone Moderator Posts: 2279 From: Registered: Mar 2006
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posted March 13, 2007 05:14 AM
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) ------------------ 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 IP: Logged |
MysticMelody Knowflake Posts: 2849 From: Registered: Dec 2005
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posted May 02, 2007 04:40 PM
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posted May 02, 2007 07:30 PM
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 Moderator Posts: 2279 From: Registered: Mar 2006
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posted May 04, 2007 12:58 AM
Very nice, Lotus Thanks, MysticMelody ------------------ 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 IP: Logged |
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posted May 04, 2007 08:19 AM
Thank-you, Silverstone! IP: Logged |
Charlotte Knowflake Posts: 978 From: Music City, USA Registered: Apr 2004
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posted December 29, 2007 11:58 PM
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26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12513 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted December 30, 2007 12:06 AM
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