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 Apr 2016
Terry Jordan
We learn the power of our words
Is to learn the power of silence
We speak our prayers and hope to purge
Our hearts of all the violence

God needs no connecting devices
No internet, phone or letter
Though we speak 10,000 languages
Sitting in silence would be better

If it is language that makes us human
One half of language is to listen
Though silence can exist without speech
Speech without silence…something is missing

To pray is to listen to the unspoken
Only God’s speech in Creation
May the calm and the quiet be unbroken
Hearing God’s true syncopation

I trust answers that come in the silence
Like listening for a familiar song with words so sweet
Out of my cage of mortal consciousness
“Closer is He than breathing…nearer than hands and feet.”
*Alfred Lord Tennyson's last line inspired this
 Apr 2016
Terry Jordan
We're all seeking Paradise
But never wish to die
Heaven is a state of mind
Let Go and say Goodbye

Look into your heart and mind
Embrace all your good luck
Release all those resentments
Don't accept that you're stuck

With joyous expectation
Now new dreams will call me
Doors will open for me
No devil will ever gall me

Yes all the wisdom needed
To play the part we're given
Patience, persistence, and strength
Is how the soul is driven

Heaven's at your finger-tips
Transform your world right now
Don't wait for the End Times
Live in Eternity now
Just playing around with Eternity....
 Apr 2016
r
Once I used to drink
with this girl who told me
we could live on an island
if I never touched her

she had this way with words

sit at the foot of my bed
she said, like a ghost

watching the boat in the cove
lose hope for its shadow

these days she hides
behind the shades
still wanting me to find her

somebody to love.
 Apr 2016
phil roberts
Teacher, you teach me dust
I stare into the distance
Long empty hours
The killing boredom
The places I'd rather be
Anywhere

Teacher, you drone like flies
I hear sounds from elsewhere
Sad wasted years
The ritual of failure
Becoming deeply learned
Little else

Teacher, you and I collude
To propagate ignorance
Half-hearted
Mutual mediocrity
Could do better I suppose
But we won't

                            By Phil Roberts
 Apr 2016
nivek
turning poems into a like for like
you will forever chase your tail
and miss out on your muse
so many likeable poems here, never be able to appreciate them all, so here is a like for all the ones I miss.
 Apr 2016
brandon nagley
John 13:34 ( king james bible) christ speaking---
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

1 John 7-21

7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19We love him, because he first loved us. 20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1 john- 3:11-24
11For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

13Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 19And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 20For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. 22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

23And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. 24And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
This goes for fellow Christians ( and non christians who dont know christ or deny him....) who forgot what Christ is about and what Gods about and wants all humans to do, this is his main thing for us to love God first and to love all human beings , for we are all sinful and come short of the glory of God. It's only accepting Christ as your savior can and will be forgiven if ask him for forgiveness of all sins and call on name of Lord ( Yeshua) Jesus Christ for salvation you must believe in your heart Christ was sent here to die on that wooden cross, and rose again the third day... Which he DID!!!! Unlike any other... for faith comes not by sight, but hearing the word of God. Which there are to many proofs to back up the man of Christ and his prophecies and who he truly was and is!!! The Savior! The only Savior.Christ told us all. ( I am the way truth and life no man NO MAN comes to father God but. By and through me( jesus);!! Not others...not the world's way. Christ. As I've been saying this for a long time now something big is coming though are you ready for it??? Do you wanna be left in a world of chaos? Have no hope? No eternal security where your going after death? For you Christians LOVE is what God commanded us to do. Just go on youtube alone of realllllll death experiences people all coming back saying same thing. Christ told them to tell us HES COMING SOON! Or these people saw God the father on a LITERAL throne and tells most if not all go back tell others to LOVE another!!! Forgive another.... Why??? Our word said God first loved US that's why we love another!!!! He sent a man ( Jesus) his spiritual son in manly flesh to be mocked whipped bled out, tortured scorned to death and nailed to a cross to take me and yours sins Noone else in history has given us that love and noone else ever will.... For you non Christians take a look at thy world the chaos, the killings. Suicides , overdoses a world without hope ran by a very REAL Satan and his demons, many wanna call a myth! Yah as the scratches on my arm in marks of three are myths to? And all the demons in live evp recordings saying get out now well **** you, or the live apparitions me and family have all seen including my woman Jane on Skype!!! This is reality!!! Wake up and don't be fooled to an Antichrist that's coming to the world and soon!!!! The world knows something big is coming!!! I've been telling you all along!!! Christ said NARROW is the path to life ( heaven, Christ,)  and broad is the way to DESTRUCTION!!! ( hell, separation as well eternal from God) and many there be that find it!!! As Christ said!!! Who will you choose??? The real Savior? Peace? Comfort.? Love salvation? An eternal Savior who cares listens to you and answers you not always as you want but wants what is best for you??? Will you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord? Savior??? If want to inbox me I'll tell you more of it .. Thanks
Brandon Nagley!!!
 Apr 2016
Karina Norris-Veirs
Woke up alone in my bed
My kids at their dad's
I wonder what stories he put in their heads

Worked ******
Everyone was being an igit
I sometimes wonder if it's even worth it

Got paid today
Gone in a flash
Bills mounting up I have no cash

Picked up the kids from their dad's
He decided to fight
Called me a *****, man what a drag

After some movies the kids fell asleep
Alone now with my thoughts
Yeah, and my idiot dog just left me...
True story...
 Apr 2016
Ja
When we and the world, take pleasure in peace
When we, wars and persecutions cease

When we, overcome hatred, torture and pain
When we, vow to never, use them again

When we, can look at each other, face to face
When we, can see no disability, no colour, no race

When we, love our neighbors, like our own daughter
When we, let our hearts become pure, like a babes in her mother

When we, rejoice in the good fortune of others
When we, acknowledge that we’re sisters and brothers

When we understand, as humans, what we should be
When we, disencumber our souls, set them free

When we, strive to each other uphold
When we, are ready to HIS light behold

When we, let our GODS shine equally bright
When we, trust and believe, in each other’s light

When we, see our lights, merge into one
Then, HE will proclaim, “MY work is done”
BOEMS BY JA 475
O Lord, we whom believe are new Creatures in you Jesus.
We live by your promises, that you have given to us God.
Through the power of your Holy Spirit that lives within us.
I thank you for everything that was done for us on the cross.
We shall allow you to use us as well as our gifts here Lord.
To reveal you to those that are seeking you seriously God.
We know that all of your ways are the right way to live.
By trusting you alone to carry us to the finish line here.
So that we may hear you say well done my child well done.
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