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Cynthia Jean Oct 2016
guidance

open mind and relinquishment

courage to act upon it

cj 2016
Cynthia Jean Sep 2016
Such a hunger
     holy hunger
         and thirst
              such joy
                   such peace

A Holy Place
      to be

Such a memory
     to return to

The Presence of God
      is in that place.

Cj 2016
a simpler time to return to....forgotten for a moment....the memory brought to life once again by another's poem....thank you!
Cynthia Jean Jul 2016
each day
choose not worry
not fear
choose to trust

cj 2016
every day is a work in progress, and we can only live for that day...one day at a time...have a blessed day
Cynthia Jean Feb 2020
God saw it

He allowed it

He is always here

by my side.

Cynthia Jean

copyright 2.8.2020
Cynthia Jean Apr 2016
you are my lighthouse

soooo many memories of my lighthouse

the eyes of my heart wrap themselves around you

...and the sound of the sea remains forever within me

cj 2016
a wonderful memory that makes me smile
Cynthia Jean May 2016
i see the petunias ,  lilacs and  forsythia.

the tomatoes , strawberries,  grapes and  pine cones

and the squirrels

in my garden

and i know God is there


and He brings me gifts

of flowers and sunshine

and butterflies

and hummingbirds

and sweet, sweet air

and i know God is there


He lets me play in the garden

my garden is

my art


He brings me lilies and daisies and asters

marigolds and sweet alyssum

...memories from grandmas


a magnolia and butterfly bushes

from my sons


foxgloves from a time spent with my precious friend


and bittersweet geraniums...

memories

of my mama's

grave...


cj 2016
my garden is my therapy, and God's gift to me
Cynthia Jean Aug 2016
Your gravest danger
giving up
ceasing to believe
I can still do
wondrous things
in your world.

Keep moving forward
depending on Me
trusting
expecting  a path
to open before you.

Refreshingly new

Behold
I will do a new thing

I am making a way
a way in the desert
and streams
in the wasteland.

Cj 2016
Isaiah 43:19
We must never lose hope
Cynthia Jean Aug 2017
Tears of love

They are not joyful ones

But, I believe

necessary.

They flow

along with my prayers,

for my offspring

some of whom

are

the prodigals.

Cynthia Jean 2017
Cynthia Jean Sep 2016
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process  he does not become a monster.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Cynthia Jean Mar 2020
My Word for you

Perfect
is My Love.

It fills you up

Leaving

No room
for fear.

Only

Fix your eyes
on Me.

Only

Trust.

Return to Me.
Rend your hearts.

Then

I will hear
and heal your  land.

Cynthia Jean
Copyright
March 19, 2020

Hope.
Today is the first day of  spring!
Cynthia Jean Apr 2016
The time has come

I can never again be
your friend...
neither will a curse
ever pass my lips...
I will
never
be your
enemy.

I know
from time to time
a prayer
for you
will
spontaneously
rise to my lips.
Nor will I ever
attempt
to withhold
or deny it.
It is destined
and will be
delivered
to God
the giver of life.

In another life
our paths crossed...

you were once
my brother
my dearest friend
my husband
my lover...

YOU WERE THE VERY
LOVE
OF MY LIFE.

you are gone
no more to be found

you walked away

a page has turned

and it is blank

my back has turned
I walk away
God takes my hand

sometimes
He dries my tears
like now

sometimes
He carries me

other times
we walk together

I climb the stairs
I see the light

I leave the world
of
the living dead

I will
never
be the same

I am
New

Reborn.

cj   2016
written a long, long time ago, and well-survived....funny how terrible occurrences turn out to be such blessings, but you would never think it while you are going through it....
Cynthia Jean Sep 2016
Being politically correct. ..that blue house over there  is red.  We must all agree that it is red...otherwise. ..we are subject to being accused of hating the blue  ( I mean red) house. ..

and

Oh yes,  of course. ..the emperor is definitely  wearing new clothes. ..

can't you see???

cj2016
New clothes
Cynthia Jean Jan 2017
I have this moment

Only one

Help me to embrace it

Fully.

Cj 2017 0111
Cynthia Jean Apr 2017
So many reasons
for tears
in my life,
yet I need
only One
for hope.

Cj 2017
Cynthia Jean Mar 2020
Haiku

Only a Creator
Can hang the stars
And spin the  planets.

Cynthia Jean
Copyright
March 21, 2020
Happy spring!
Cynthia Jean Dec 2016
paid mercenaries

these are not riots

this violence is all paid for

you have sold your souls
you have sold your souls
you have sold your souls
you have sold your souls
you have sold your souls

you are stirred up pawns

you have been pawns
for a long, long time

voter puppets of the democratic party
not ever expected to think for yourself
so easily used
and manipulated

kept in a different type
of slavery

shaped and honed and fed
like cattle
in a stall

to be used only as
inseminators
(let's create more voters)

not allowed to be fathers
(let's **** the family)
(family?)
( what's that?)

fatherhood
a forgotten trait
only progenitors
raised by generations of women
on the dole
fathers not allowed
in the home

used, used, used
can't
won't
see it!

stirred up in the cauldron of anger

who are the real haters????

???
??? whose lives matter???
???

only those killed and used for media attention

and believe me, they are used by everyone
from the president on down

never waste a good crisis
and
when necessary
create
one

do the large numbers
of
brother killing brother
matter?

and why not?

we don't hear about those numbers
on the nightly news

guess those lives must not matter

do the lives lost
the babies killed
the genocide of planned parenthood
one in every neighborhood
do they matter?

do they matter?
do they matter?
do they matter?
do they matter?
do they matter?
do they matter?

no one speaks of them

why not?
why not?
why not?
why not?
why not?
why not?

because brother against brother
and baby genocide
don't matter
to the media

HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they all fall in line with Bill Gates
population control
anyway

only the deaths
used for
exploitive
incendiary
political purposes
matter

to the elitists
the George Soros types
and the media

pawns=slaves
pawns=slaves
pawns=slaves
pawns=slaves
pawns=­slaves
pawns=slaves

generations of pawns
whose usefulness
will soon be over
being used one more time
to start all these fires

where will these pawns be
when the fires go out?

who will bother
to pay them
to feed them
then?

their usefulness
to *****'
will be over
then.

I cry for the pawns
for my brothers and sisters
for all the fatherless
children.

a life is worth so much more.
a life is worth so much more.
a life is worth so much more.
a life is worth so much more.
a life is worth so much more.
a life is worth so much more.

a life is worth so much
a life is worth so
a life is worth
a life is
a life
a
.
.
.
.
.


Cj 2016
Cynthia Jean Apr 2016
Poetry is
life...
passion....
which spills
and explodes
and spews forth...


it can get really messy

imagine the mess inside
when for
years
and years
and years

it doesn't get expressed

and when it
finally
does

you have to look
high
and low

for someone

to
receive it

you see the glazed over eyes
as you speak
your
words

your heart breaks

seeking for
that
knowing
kindred
spirit

and when you find
that
one....

how
fortunate
you
are
!!!!!!

cj
How often in life we carry things inside us because we have no place to give them....
Cynthia Jean Jul 2016
Unsuspecting pawns
get played
in someone else's game

fragile
misinformed minds
become volatile
their minds molded
like clay

hardened by
manipulated
anger
and discontent

their lives
are sacrificed
on the altars
of evil, greedy politicians

whose strings are pulled
by the ultra wealthy
and the devil himself

they think
and believe
in all these politicians
and their promises

who temporarily
stroke their egos
and satiate
their bellies.

They are being
used, used, used...
their youth being devoured.

Sacrificed, sacrificed, sacrificed...

They're on somebody else's
front lines
and they don't even  know it.

Somebody
won't
somebody
wake them up?

Of course their lives matter.
They are precious.

ALL LIVES MATTER.

God says He made us
ALL
in HIS IMAGE
after HIS LIKENESS.

HIS SON DIED
for us
ALL.

Not for the
SOME
but for the
ALL.

Should not these
"scheduled"
demonstrations
and
"days of rage"
be  projected
towards
the manipulators????

The disillusioned...

they are blinded
they are being used
as a tool
a veritable weapon
to achieve
someone else's agenda

they are being primed
pumped up
like air in a tire....

The media
the purveyors of information

are they not responsible
to tell the truth?

If not,
by default
are they not  responsible
for orchestrated
debacles
in the making?

They are bought and sold
the price paid for the lie
is higher
than for the truth.

Pawns.

Don't be a pawn.

The time is now.

Please

Wake up.

cj 2016
Cynthia Jean Nov 2016
Unsuspecting pawns
get played
in someone else's game

fragile
misinformed minds
become volatile
their minds molded
like clay

hardened by
manipulated
anger
and discontent

their lives
are sacrificed
on the altars
of evil, greedy politicians

whose strings are pulled
by the ultra wealthy
and the devil himself

they think
and believe
in all these politicians
and their promises

who temporarily
stroke their egos
and satiate
their bellies.

They are being
used, used, used...
their youth being devoured.

Sacrificed, sacrificed, sacrificed...

They're on somebody else's
front lines
and they don't even  know it.

Somebody
won't
somebody
wake them up?

Of course their lives matter.
They are precious.

ALL LIVES MATTER.

God says He made us
ALL
in HIS IMAGE
after HIS LIKENESS.

HIS SON DIED
for us
ALL.

Not for the
SOME
but for the
ALL.

Should not these
"scheduled"
demonstrations
and
"days of rage"
be  projected
towards
the manipulators????

The disillusioned...

they are blinded
they are being used
as a tool
a veritable weapon
to achieve
someone else's agenda

they are being primed
pumped up
like air in a tire....

The media
the purveyors of information

are they not responsible
to tell the truth?

If not,
by default
are they not  responsible
for orchestrated
debacles
in the making?

They are bought and sold
the price paid for the lie
is higher
than for the truth.

Pawns.

Don't be a pawn.

The time is now.

Please

Wake up.

cj 2016
Cynthia Jean May 2016
"There can be no peace with the forces of evil. Peace comes only through the establishment of the supremacy of the forces of good." -President Coolidge, Memorial Day, 1923
Cynthia Jean May 2016
The peace of God
flows
through the channel of trust

the elevator of thanksgiving
helps us
rise above
our life's circumstances

create a revolution in your life

as trust and thanksgiving
become
perrenial habits.....

cj 2016
written a while ago
Cynthia Jean Jan 2020
Every day

I
will
get
right
back
up
.

Cynthia Jean
9. 2019
Cynthia Jean Dec 2016
We are the Bride
We prepare
for the Bridegroom.

We make our lives ready

And the two
shall be One.

Khatan

He who joins Himself
to you.

Cj  2016
Our hope...to become the Bride of Christ.
Cynthia Jean Sep 2016
dry drunk son,
sallow of complexion
victim at heart
nothing
ever his fault
disdains
flushes his family
away

daughter
mother of two
enables the addict
the shooter husband
every time
the poor thing he is
every time
and he still gets to
call the shots!

and she flushes the family
away as well

throws their love in the street


and the eight year old
granddaughter
and the three year old
boy

forage
climb the refrigerator
leaving footprints
literally
live in chaos
and filth
codependent
on the addict

and the family's flushed away

their love thrown in the street

and it's all about the addicts
and it's all about the addicts
and it's all about the addicts
and it's all about the addicts
and it's all about the addicts
and it's all about the addicts

nothing is ever their fault

and the family's flushed away

their love thrown  in the street

and the children

what of them.......

what of them.......

what of them.......

cj 2016
Cynthia Jean Jan 2020
It's all the smallest
bits and pieces
of life
the conversations
the speaking
and the listening
that are most precious
and worthy
to be
remembered.

Cynthia Jean

1.18.2020
Cynthia Jean May 2016
The Lord your God
           in your midst,
the Mighty One,
          He will save;
with gladness      
          He will rejoice
over you,
         He will quiet you
with His love,
         He will rejoice
over you
        with singing....

Zephaniah 3 :17

cj 2016
God's love is so amazing.   He puts such a value on us.....so incomprehensible.....
Cynthia Jean Sep 2016
Rise up!
     Take My Hand
           Rise Up!
                Though rocky crags
                     Surround You....
                          You walk
                              Sure-footed
                                 On
                                    Solid
                                       Ground.


                                                 cj 2016
He holds you by your right hand.
Cynthia Jean May 2016
the salt and pepper of life

the rich nuggets

precious little details
that we miss

in our overwhelm

the little jewels
of everyday life
that make it
so sweet

so
much
to
be
thankful
for

all the days of our lives

cj 2016
May God open our eyes everyday to His gifts...that we wouldn't miss anything!
Cynthia Jean May 2016
in quietness
      and confidence
shall be
      your strength...

Isaiah 30:15


cj 2016
Cynthia Jean May 2016
oh, the air is sweet
the sun is hot,and the waves come crashing in
on my sand castle

and the sky is blue,
and the gulls cry out
their grateful song

for a perfect day
for a time for building
castles in the sand

for a moment in time
for a memory

cj 2016
some of my best early memories are down at the beach and being in a creative place ...in my mind...playing in the sand
Cynthia Jean Oct 2016
Seeking to please
Me
above all else
grows you daily
into
the masterpiece
God
has created you
to
be


Cj 2016
preparing us for our purpose
Cynthia Jean Apr 2016
A mother gone
Safe warm arms
Stolen...
from her
two-year old
daughter...

New arms and faces
kindly enough
reach out to her

But she learns
...too late...
where her mother
went

Confusion and uncertainty
new faces and places
fear and
loss

no belonging place
to call her own

no okay safe place

and many very hurtful ones

...you'd better not tell

...of course not....
she forgot

she never learned to listen
no one ever heard her voice
they didn't know she had one.....
she didn't know
...she had one.

shellacked....

painted over
shoved down
no thinking or feeling
here
no talking
nobody home
covered up
with coats and coats
and layers upon layers
of
shellac
all sealed up
no life here now
no air to breathe
what life to live?
How do you do that?????

no one lives here
people look and don't see her
there

is she stuffed
like a doll?
Who is she
anyway....


new names and faces
over and over
no belonging here
no safe places

always trying

to find

acceptance

and

a place

to belong.......
Cynthia Jean Jan 2017
Standing
Innumerable
Shining
Written in light
Like living hymns
All for His glory.

Cj 20170106
Cynthia Jean May 2016
May the Lord's blessing
be upon you both

May He always  keep you
in His care

When He sees you
may His face
always shine

And His grace
be as dew

May His loving gaze
be as the blossom
of a smile

Permeating

Your entire being
.....heart and soul

With His Peace.

cjp  2016
A friend is getting married, and so I wrote this for them....
Cynthia Jean Feb 2018
Gently drifting
downward

Crystalline flakes
blanket all

in glistening white

in silence
profound.

Cynthia Jean

February 2018
So lovely to be able to watch it snow from a warm and cozy house.
Cynthia Jean Jul 2016
I love you
simply

because I have paid the price

you are
simply
Mine

cj 2016
there was nothing simple about the price that was paid...or the value of us    to the One who paid it
Cynthia Jean May 2016
Windshield wipers
slappin' time
Grandpa drivin'
Grandma singin'...

Goin' home from my
weekly Wednesday visit

after my mama died...

only   allowed
one day a week
with Grandma
my mama's mama...

Always a stop
at the store
for one more
Golden book
and a roll of Lifesavers
on the way home...

and I remember
my  tears
going back  to a place
that did not feel
like home
and Grandma singin'
"You are my sunshine
my only sunshine".

My tears are fallin'
now
with the memory
of her voice
and the sight and sound
of the rain...

Grandpa drivin'
and Grandma singin'....
and those windshield wipers
they were slappin' time...

cj 2016
my mother died when i was two
Cynthia Jean Jul 2017
where there is much light
there is much shade
else....there would be
no comfort
to give
.....
..

cynthia jean poems 2.24.2017
Cynthia Jean Apr 2016
"When the people become ignorant & corrupt ... Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found."-Pres. James Monroe
Cynthia Jean Jun 2016
sometimes
the words I write
make me
cry

cj 2016
sometimes the only thing to do is to pray and to write
Cynthia Jean Aug 2017
Each day as our trials wash o'er us
We glean the comfort He gives
We yearn for respite from mourning
For His promise
of songs in the night.

8.9.2017
cynthia jean poems
one of those answers to prayer
Cynthia Jean Aug 2016
over and over

I'm  sorry

again

what is that

really

?

Cj 2016
and then there are those who never even bother to say sorry  at all
Cynthia Jean Jun 2016
the Lord says

stand
at the crossroads

look

ask
for the ancient paths

seek
where the good way is

walk
in it

there

you will find

rest

for your souls....

cj 2016
finding your way
Cynthia Jean May 2016
"States should not be induced by coercion...to surrender the management of their own affairs."         Calvin Coolidge
It speaks for itself....once you give something up it's hard to get it back!
Cynthia Jean Aug 2016
It's not just the stopping
it's the starting
down
a new path

stopping  
isn't
enough.

Cj 2016
Cynthia Jean Dec 2016
Standing in one's own sunshine
creates shadows
in your life.
Be true to yourself
first
So you can reflect the sun
for others.

<3<3<3

Cj 2016
Cynthia Jean Sep 2017
Listening to
a cacophony
of sounds

joyful
symphonies

warm sweet air

late bloomers arriving
others on the bye

bees and butterflies
at home
harmoniously

drifters
faded leaves
wafting
gently

just for a moment
a quiet
stillness

nature smiles

all sweetness
and peace.

Cynthia Jean
2017
Just  a moment spent in my secret garden.
Cynthia Jean Jan 2017
What else are they good for?

Cj 2017 0111
About an old friend who has cancer and dementia.
Cynthia Jean Sep 2016
The  true path
the Words wrapped 'round
your heart and mind
'tis freedom
to your
soul.

Cj 2016
Peace and serenity.
A cocoon.
Cynthia Jean Feb 2020
Don't believe everything
you hear.
People are being
brainwashed
by the tellers
of tales.
History teaches us
"if a lie is repeated
often enough,
people will believe it."
Let us have
ears to hear,
and eyes that see.
May our ears  and eyes
be open
to the truth.
Not just the tellers
words,
but provable facts.
We must each make an honest
search
for the truth.
Don't
let someone else
do your
thinking
for
you.
May we all
wake
up.

Cynthia Jean
copyright
February 8, 2020
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