41, 5-1, SHOW NOTES & COPYRIGHTS, updated 1/24/2022, pm (Scheduled 1/28/2022 )
Today’s poems are all unpublished. They were, however, posted on the God Still Rhymes Facebook page. I have a few files saved of unpublished poems. These are random poems from the PROPOSED Rest Poems 5-28-18 until . . . file. They are in no particular order. I just randomly looked at poems and these are the ones I chose.
Discussion:
June 11, 2018
Another poem written while resting. Not for any future book, just for me, and maybe you the reader.
THE BOY AND THE MAN (and the writer.)
I. The Beginning of Thoughts and Words
I apologize for yesterday.
I really had nothing to say;
A word here, a thought there,
A lot of nothing everywhere.
Chilled to the bone,
Stuck to the chair,
The pencil kept moving,
The page was filled.
Not even a story for tomorrow,
Nothing to give, nothing to borrow,
An exercise not lifting the weight
As in the lifeless fog I wait.
II. The Words That Followed
I once knew a boy
Who had a favorite toy.
It was his pride and joy.
But now may be a memory.
He had a favorite song
To which others sang along,
Moving forward and onward,
Singing the music, the words.
I see that boy most every day.
The toy is gone, so is the song.
Age has stolen for far too long
His ability to know what to say.
He counts every word
Remembering the long lost song,
Hoping that what he has heard
Will make him again strong.
The toy at some time lost.
That loss has a cost,
The tears and the fears
Of forgetting past years.
3. Hope
Once in awhile
As he walks a mile
He remembers a name,
Once and always the same.
As he walks,
As he talks,
The voice of the Spirit,
Listening, he hears it.
His daily salvation,
The constant revelation
Giving him peace in his walk
Through the voice that does talk.
Giving him peace of mind
As memories he does not find.
So looking ahead he takes the hand,
The hand of his Savior so he can stand.
With peace and joy,
Just ask that boy,
He has known God’s Son,
Not worrying over what is done.
4. There Is No Ending
Once we know God,
Once we know Jesus,
He never forgets us.
Never, not ever.
6/10/18, tcarter
Discussion:
January 19, 2019
This is the result of an overdose of news. There is man’s news and there is the Good News that gives us hope.
WILL YESTERDAY AND TODAY BECOME TOMORROW?
I am beginning to wonder
Where we have gone asunder.
All around us is thunder
As lightning abounds
With so m any sounds,
Like ships run aground
Looking for lifeboats
To keep us afloat.
There are those who shout
As they run about.
Time is running out.
Who do we follow?
Words that are hollow,
Words that divide
And sometimes deride
The thoughts of others,
Our sisters and brothers.
I look around,
We are not alone
Living at home.
There is a tone
Everywhere,
Lack of care
In how we speak,
Of what we seek.
To every argument there are two sides,
The right side and the wrong.
But now too often neither side
Is right as they sing their song
With unrighteous rejoicing
In the words they are voicing.
“Hatred stirs up conflict,
but love covers all wrong.”
Proverbs 10:12 NIV
Before we decide
Which path to take
Time we must make
To seek out the right,
To seek the light.
If we look to One
Before we are done
Our answers will justify
To what we testify.
We will understand
Where we should stand.
If we take His hand,
We will no longer demand
That our words be heard,
But rather God’s word.
Let our hope rest in Him
To lead us from sin
Of our pride
That divides.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding:
In all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
1/19/18, tcarter
Discussion:
June 21/22, 2019
The last few weeks I have been thinking of the life of a poet. It is satisfying, gratifying and mystifying. Thoughts become constant rhymes of the times ,the crimes one commits and admits have been done knowing there is One who understands yet commands that we love others, our sisters and brothers whether or not they live in accord with the love of our Lord. I know this will pass as I look through the window glass. I must continue to concede that it is the Lord who does lead me through times of good and bad, all that I have had, who delivers me from the strife and gives me the life He wants me to live so I may give to others as He has to me so they may see what He has done for us through His Son Jesus.
My life has become a run on sentence, one without end that I do gladly serve.
BEFORE THE DARK OF NIGHT
I have been spending time
Reminiscing about the rhyme
That I always find
Running through my mind.
It is a rhyme I have been given,
So as I write I have strived
To write this word
Others have heard.
It may be in a line
That is no longer mine,
As others awaken,
As others have taken.
It does settle in their spirit,
At times the moment they hear it,
Leading them to find
Peace beyond their mind.
Their life is changed,
Life rearranged
By the One who does atone
They are no longer alone.
Now knowing a birth,
Now knowing their worth
Living on this earth,
Now seeing His works.
The words I still write
Of now in God’s sight
Through the One who redeems us,
Living through God’s Son Jesus.
The Way, the Truth and the Light,
Through Jesus we see the father.
Now justified in His sight
Through Jesus we see even farther.
I heard a sound
Looking around
When I found
That all around
Love does abound!
6/21/19, tcarter
Discussion:
January 7, 2019
A new way of saying what I have written before because it is always on my heart. My life is more than better through the grace of God, His love for me, The sacrifice His Son to cleanse me of my sin,once and for all. I believe and I pray there are more to receive.
WITH HIM
The times of His rhymes
May vary as we carry
Our burdens alone
As if they were stone.
It is at these times
He will welcome us home
To bless us with His rhymes,
No longer alone.
Wandering and lost, at what cost?
Will our life end before He can mend
The brokenness in which we live?
No, He has so much more to give.
As the sun rises every day
His Son has saved us in every way,
More than we can understand,
But not more than we can withstand.
By the world demeaned,
By Jesus redeemed,
Forever blessed
In God’s rest.
Believe in Him
Who defeated sin.
May our life He uplift
As we accept His gift.
The gift of life everlasting,
The end of our fasting
From all that is good,
All we misunderstood.
Be healed, eternity sealed.
Find the way and with Him stay
For the days beyond forever.
He will leave you never.
ONCE WRITTEN
I have written the words before.
I will write the words once more.
Do not be deceived
By what others have received
The lies of deceit.
As they repeat
Words meaning nothing,
Words wanting something,
Leading others astray
So they will lose their way.
Following the ways of man,
Who never will, never can
Fulfill their hope
So they may cope
With the life they live,
Hope man can never give.
However,
Under the sun
There is One,
One of Three
Who sets us free.
1/2/19, tcarter
Discussion:
March 22, 2019, # ??
It was the end of day, the time before bed that this one came to me. I find that some of my favorite times are when the unexpected rhymes come to mind. (The ??, I have to go back and look at the last poem with a number. They are the a total of what I have written since the last book.)
PRAY THEN WALK
There is time each day,
The rhyme as you pray,
Those times you need it,
The rhymes, His Spirit
That dwells inside.
As you hear it
You cannot hide.
At the rising sun
See the risen Son,
The answer to prayer.
He is always there.
As you have believed,
As you have received
The gift of God’s grace
You will see His face
In those you meet
Along the street.
As you walk
Stop to talk
So they see His smile
As they walk their mile.
3/21/19, tcarter
Discussion:
Do we have time for another?
One From Living In God’s Rhyme
Draw Me Closer
Dear Lord, draw me closer to you
In all I desire in all I do.
Lord, open my heart to your Holy Spirit,
Your spirit that dwells within me.
Lord, I do not want to knock on the door
So that you may open it for me,
I want the door to always be open.
I never want it to close.
Those moments when we share
My prayers and your answers
Are special moments I pray
Will never end, but continue
Throughout my day.
With the door open
I allow you to lead me from temptation,
I allow myself to be in your presence,
One with you, Abba, Father.
Abba, that relationship
I pray will never end.
Thank you, Father
For leading me to
The way,
The truth
And the life
With you
Through your Son, Jesus.
Amen.
Closing Prayer
If you give
Him the times
As you live
His word rhymes
And don’t forget, “We are the Kings kids and you will never get rid of us for we are His with Jesus.”
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