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 Jan 16 Crow
Keara Marie
I kept going
Not because I wanted to
Trust me
All of me wanted to stop
I kept going
Because I deserved to know
What not giving up on myself felt like
 Jan 16 Crow
Lawrence Hall
Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com

                                       To Accept Israel

                    “Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will
                    endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home
                    of the brave. It carries the shield of democracy and it
                    honors the sword of freedom.”

                               – President John F. Kennedy)

To deny Israel is to curse ourselves
For we are inheritors of the Covenant
That He should be our God, and we His people
He creates us, He calls us – this is so

He has given us prophecy and law
Cattle in the fields, fish in all the seas
And lovers, flowers, sunsets, songs, salvation
The Great Dance of Creation - and Himself

Let not the sinister whisperer divide us!
To accept Israel is to accept - everyone
If I try to say "I'm sorry" one more time I just might wither into nothing.
Why are you so kind?
I'm starting and ending in all the wrong places, but You won't let go.
What does it mean that You're with me when I'm being stupid?
Does it still matter when everything is my fault? Or mostly my fault. Or partly my fault. But still I don't know how to stop.

Teach me a beautiful song.
I might not sound like it fits at first,
but I think you're swaying along
and it's like I've always known these words.

I wasn't made for the dust
I was raised from the dust
I was made for an "us" and a whisper.
The place where we meet
are secret retreat
is where I was born.

I don't know the way in or out, what is up or is down, but I know you--
I'm starting to know You.

What I know is sweet.
What I know is kind.
What I know is more than sufficient to kick down my doors every time.
What I know is wild.
What I know is sure.
What I know won't fail to answer like each of the answers before.
I know that you're more than
an abstract ideal.
I know that you know me.
I think that you're real.

Accept me. I trust You. Without You, I'll die.
I have You. I miss You. I'll tell all of the shadows You're mine and I am Yours.
 Oct 2023 Crow
Lexie
Devout
 Oct 2023 Crow
Lexie
Grief is my religion
And oh, how earnestly I worship
 Sep 2023 Crow
Kim
The other world
 Sep 2023 Crow
Kim
Those whose souls aren't stirred by -
The pleasant and slightly unsettling fragrance of fresh earth
The cold enveloping light of the moon
The delicious warmth of a light breeze on a hot summer's day

And when I say stirred,
I don't just mean some passing feeling
I mean that joyful painful yearning from the bottom of your soul
That spreads through your whole being and consumes you
For that moment - however brief,
Of spiritual bliss, if you will.

And when it passes,
You are not the same you
From a few seconds or minutes ago

You are the earth,
The moon, the breeze
The pain, the joy
The moment.
Do you ever feel that the others can never really see or feel you the way those with the soul of an artist can?
 Sep 2023 Crow
Kim
Sunshine, Autumn
 Sep 2023 Crow
Kim
And the leaves alight,
One by one by one
Float, dance, twirl, in the sun
A bright and beautiful end
To a season well begun!
Thanks for sharing this prompt @A Alexander
https://hellopoetry.com/poem/3200524/writing-prompts/
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