ALONG THE BARREN ROAD

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Guideposts Along the Barren Road

Free – A Love Poem Just when I thought I’d seen it all, You burst onto the scene And shattered my expectations within An hour of your spirit’s introduction. Since my first glance there has…
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The Streets of Love – A Poem Somewhere in the depths of solitude There’s a searching, a seeking, An endless pursuit for meaning Among the daily rendezvous with silence And the lonely morning hangovers From…
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My Love is an Ocean – A Love Poem My love is an ocean – An endless reservoir of new hope That collects new deposits from tributaries daily. My heart ebbs and flows With tides…
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Love’s Sacred Rite – A Love Poem Lie down beneath the moonlight. Celebrate with me in love’s mystery tonight. Shake the dust of past experience from your clothes And lay on me, my dear, your…
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Reunion – A Love Poem From the moment your voiceFirst left your lips I knew you.I recognized you from my soul’s masquerade,Dancing across love’s ballroom in dream.I remembered you from my subconscious longings,Some pattern painted…
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A Lover’s Journey – A Love Poem If you offer me your hand, I will follow you Forever across fields of heather, Through the pastures of clover, And down the valley filled with bramble and…
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Entangled in Your Love – A Poem About Intimacy With God You are the cool, autumn breeze,The great mystical force that brings me to my knees,Stupefied in awestruck wonder.I miss you when you’re not near,When…
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The Battle of the Heart – A Christian Poem About Temptation Oh Lord, my heart quakes with confusion. My mind twisted with the delusions of desire. I am a boat that wanders across the sea…
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The Lamb Who Sanctifies – A Christian Poem What peace, what hope What incomparable growth That sprouts from the True Vine. What love, what joy To be employed – To do the work of the…
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A Plea To Love – A Poem Oh, this wanting, this waiting, This endless pursuing A feeling that waxes and wanes Like the cycles of the moon. Her eyes dangle like glistening diamonds, But close…
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Christ the Redeemer – A Rhyming Religious Poem For Easter Darkness drew back in disbelief on that day,When death’s victory was thwartedAnd the stone was rolled away.What depths of love,What heights of grace,Could bear the…
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“After this, Jesus knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’ A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on…
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A Poem About Jesus’ Crucifixion and Good Friday
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The Great Unifier – A Poem About Love It is love that spands the cosmos Unaltered by time, Unmoved by distance, years, wrinkles, Or finite desire. It stands tall like a lighthouse at sea, Promising…
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Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make…
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Will You? – A Love Poem Will you dance with me for a moment, Take my hand and let me waltz you away? Will you whisper to me your dreams And tell me tales of…
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Brewin’ – Poem About Coffee Dark elixir for drowsiness,Brewed before the dawn stretches and wakes.Steam rising, birds rousingSitting on the porch waiting for the morning to break. Magical, mystical potion that revives, vitalizesOn Monday morning…
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My short stories “The Storm” and “The Christmas Gift” will be temporarily free on Amazon until Monday. “When a unusual storm hits the Utopian town of Nod, the forces of evil are released and allow an unthinkable…
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