posted May 06, 2015 08:33 PM            

Isaiah 55:12 For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

Ephesians 5:19 ...speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Genesis 31:27 Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?
http://biblehub.com/concordance/m/melody.htm

posted May 06, 2015 08:37 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by Ayelet:
A lovely poem. So human and so true. We tend to worry until worry, being destructive, demolishes itself. Then we sing. And when the song begins, the poem ends.

---

posted May 08, 2015 09:21 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by mirage29:
I just had a 'Poetry Thought'... : it said "Pearlty"

---

You are too cute Mirage!

and.. lovely replies Mirage and Ayelet.

posted May 10, 2015 05:05 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by Pearlty:

"She was patient with dogmas, where light never dawns,
She was patient with people who trod on her lawns;
She was patient with folks who said blue skies were gray,
And dentists and oxen that pulled the wrong way;
She was patient with phrases no husband should utter,
She was patient with cream that declined to be butter;
She was patient with buyers with nothing to pay,
She was patient with talkers with nothing to say;
She was patient with millers whose trade was to cozen,
And grocers who counted out ten to the dozen;
She was patient with bunglers and fault-finding churls,
And tall, awkward lads who came courting her girls;
She was patient with crockery no art could mend,
And chimneys that smoked every day the wrong end;
She was patient with reapers who never would sow,
And long-winded callers who never would go;
She was patient with relatives when, uninvited,
They came, and devoured, then complained they were slighted;
She was patient with crows that got into the corn,
And other dark deeds out of wantonness born;
She was patient with lightning that burned up the hay,
She was patient with poultry unwilling to lay;
She was patient with rogues who drank cider too strong,
She was patient with sermons that lasted too long;
She was patient with boots that tracked up her clean floors,
She was patient with peddlers and other smooth bores;
She was patient with children who disobeyed rules,
And, to crown all the rest, she was patient with fools."
~James Thomas Fields

---

posted May 11, 2015 01:16 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by mirage29:
I just had a 'Poetry Thought'... : it said "Pearlty"

---

posted May 16, 2015 12:43 AM            

All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Northing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.

For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled;
Our todays and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build.

Truly shape and fashion these;
Leave no yawning gaps between;
Think not, because no man sees,
Such things will remain unseen.

In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.

Let us do our work as well,
Both the unseen and the seen;
Make the house where gods may dwell
Beautiful, entire, and clean.

Else our lives are incomplete,
Standing in these walls of Time,
Broken stairways, where the feet
Stumble, as they seek to climb.

posted May 16, 2015 10:22 AM            

Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good. Love is none of that. There is nothing in nature like it. Not in robins or bison or in the banging tails of your hunting dogs and not in blossoms or suckling foal.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love just because you want it. You can only earn - by practice and careful contemplations - the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God-carefully. And if you are a good and diligent student you may secure the right to show love.

Love is not a gift. It is a diploma. A diploma conferring certain privileges: the privilege of expressing love and the privilege of receiving it. How do you know you have graduated? You don't. What you do know is that you are human and therefore educable, and therefore capable of learning how to learn, and therefore interesting to God, who is interested only in Himself which is to say He is interested only in love. Do you understand me? God is not interested in you. He is interested in love and the bliss it brings to those who understand and share the interest. Couples that enter the sacrament of marriage and are not prepared to go the distance or are not willing to get right with the real love of God cannot thrive. They may cleave together like robins or gulls or anything else that mates for life. But if they eschew this mighty course, at the moment when all are judged for the disposition of their eternal lives, their cleaving won't mean a thing. God bless the pure and holy. Amen.
~Toni Morrison

posted May 18, 2015 10:13 PM            

I want to say this to you, as I know some of the hard work you're performing for Others right now in your present life... (okay, maybe I'm bein' mama a bit here~? But know with assurance that I'm protective of you.)

^ I'm not into that notion that you have to "earn" love, or to feel as though you are always 'deficient' in some way. If the other person is not kept happy-happy by your daily works, then that can 'get old' and wear you down after a while. That's a trap, and a way of manipulation.

Don't "buy" into that notion that Love must be earned.... FEEL that You have Great Worth, just-because You Exist in this world. You don't need to prove yourself, or have to Earn God's Love for you~~ that was freely and liberally given to you before you were even conceived. Be enslaved in that way to no one, but Be and Stand as a free agent and willing Servant of God.

You... are the Apple of His Eye, and He is thrilled and tickled every day with your Beingness. There is nothing you can do less or more that can change His Feelings about you. He doesn't 'charge' you for His attention? What?! No never. His Eye is Lovingly Upon You at ALL Times..... You are fully His Child. You have the Right to BE Here. You are the Head, and not the Tail; above, and not beneath.

There's a difference between Love, and "Trust." Some people automatically couple the two of those together. Not everyone deserves your trust, especially when they constantly prey or betray you--

I'm so glad you speak of having good boundaries (recent poems I've read). You need to take good care of your energies, in your loving devotion and caring for your family (and your recent friend who is in the depths again with problems, near your home right now). When you have a big heart, it's easy to get in the rhythm of doing too much sometimes, and it could burn you out.

Be Gentle with your self. "LOVE who YOU are," and do so in a manner that is guilt-free and unconditional. Breathe... Be monitoring of a mindset where you start to measure the amount of self-love and self-approval, with whether you had the ability to put-out work, in the service of and in the wake of so many needs of others surrounding you in your life at this time. You are still ONLY 'one person'....
Keep taking those walks, those special Venus-breaks... (wonderful poems, and inspirations here for us). Do it without it "costing" you in self-whippings.

Love Yourself, in the way God Loves You~~ no strings, no price. Definitely always there for you. Drink it in deeply into your pores. ... Like, be a GodBreatharian! Breathe and absorb all the Love you could ever want or need.

posted May 19, 2015 09:00 AM            

to quote:

"Don't "buy" into that notion that Love must be earned.... FEEL that You have Great Worth, just-because You Exist in this world. You don't need to prove yourself, or have to Earn God's Love for you~~ that was freely and liberally given to you before you were even conceived. Be enslaved in that way to no one, but Be and Stand as a free agent and willing Servant of God.

You... are the Apple of His Eye, and He is thrilled and tickled every day with your Beingness. There is nothing you can do less or more that can change His Feelings about you. He doesn't 'charge' you for His attention? What?! No never. His Eye is Lovingly Upon You at ALL Times..... You are fully His Child. You have the Right to BE Here. You are the Head, and not the Tail; above, and not beneath"

Don't worry I don't "buy" into that, and I agree with your insights throughout. t.y.! Your thoughts provide that important reminder to be just as kind, gentle, and loving to ourselves as we are with others... We are loved- perfectly.

Sometimes with these pages of poetry thoughts, I resonate and other times not so much.

What I truly enjoy and marvel at- whether they're modern, oldies, well known, or obscure; is the differences. The abstractions, platitudes, experiences, and at times an unveiled seat to the soul. Also the fascinating circulars or particulars which tie into their writing, art, and or poetry. Whether jaunt or journey it's interesting to see the individual strengths or trials within their uniqueness shine through...and shine on.

posted May 19, 2015 03:16 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by Pearlty:
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. ~John Muir.

---

Now that's some awesome truth!

posted May 29, 2015 08:38 AM            

She alone is the happy woman who has learned to extract happiness, not from ideal conditions, but from the actual ones about her. The woman who has mastered the secret will not wait for ideal surroundings; she will not wait until next year, next decade, until she gets rich, until she can travel abroad … but she will make the most out of life today, where she is. Paradise is here or nowhere. You must take your joy with you or you will never find it.
*
Like the sun, love radiates and warms into
life all that it touches.

*
The habit of learning to appreciate to the utmost every situation in life adds wonderfully to the sum total of one's happiness. But many people are incapable of real happiness because they never learn to appreciate anything except that which appeals to their own comfort, pleasure, or appetite.

*
Oh, what riches live in a sunny soul! Take joy with you; cling to her, no matter where you go or what you do. It is your lubricating oil which would prevent the jars, the discords, and shut out the sorrows of life. What a heritage is a smiling face,—to be able to fling out sunshine everywhere one goes, to scatter the shadows and to lighten sorrowing hearts; to have the power to send cheer into despairing souls through a sunny and radiant disposition!

*
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
*
If you have had an unfortunate experience, forget it. If you have made a failure in speech, your song, your book, your article, if you have been placed in an embarrassing position, if you have fallen and hurt yourself by a false step, if you have been slandered and abused, do not dwell upon it. There is not a single redeeming feature in these memories, and the presence of their ghosts will rob you of many a happy hour. There is nothing in it. Drop them. Forget them. Wipe them out of your mind forever. If you have been indiscreet, imprudent, if you have been talked about, if your reputation has been injured so that you fear you can never outgrow it or redeem it, do not drag the hideous shadows, the rattling skeletons about with you, Rub them off from the shite of memory. Wipe them out. Forget them. Start with a clean slate and spend all your energies in keeping it clean for the future.

*
Whatever the soul is taught to expect, that it will build. Our heart longings, our soul aspirations, are something more than mere vaporings of the imagination or idle dreams. They are prophecies, predictions, couriers, forerunners of things which can become realities. They are indicators of our possibilities. They measure the height of our aim, the range of our efficiency.

*
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
~ Marden

posted July 03, 2015 10:58 AM            

Somewhere in a peaceful dream
thoughts elapse in passing
quietly awakening
nudging softly
adhering to the new morning.

Before the hatching sun
or the birth of dawn
flows through everything
in unison.

Virtuous wishes lightly come
from heavenly above
woven through barren space
with love.

Each one more beautiful
than the last
brightening the day
before it has
yet been cast.