A lovely
lonesome lily
Your appearance
from the side
Come
do turn
and face me now
Whatever have you
to hide?
Draw closer
I beseech thee
Upon your petals
I’ll gaze
Let not
this timidity
Hide your pretty
winsome ways
Come closer
my dear lily
Your anthers
fully displayed
Fearful
is not becoming
Let faith’s freedom
have its sway
Play your music
before me
Newborn notes
drawing great crowds
Singing
so melancholy
Squeezing tear drops
from the clouds
Let love leadeth
lost petals
Languished lily heart
forlorn
Banished
but not forgotten
Spring awakens you
reborn!
Wendy/2012
I heard, through open windows, my daughter’s piano lesson as I wrote poetry in my van. I asked her how the lesson went, and she said that she has learned some sad, but pretty, music today. It appears that this poem was written under the influence of “Weeping Willow” and a couple of other sad, but beautiful songs.
I love happy endings – even if the journey takes me through some melancholy meadows to get there.
Reborn ~ Wendy
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For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For,
“All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the
flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of the Lord stands
forever.”
And this was the word that was preached to you.
1 Peter 1: 23-25
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