I Give My Song to You

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You spoke
and there was light
You breathed
and there was life
You gave
Your life for me
So I give mine back to thee
Chr.
Storms rocked
my tired faith
I gave
my heart away
Your love
stayed strong and true
So I give my heart to you
Chr.
You healed
my broken soul
New life
You made me whole
You gave
me words anew
and I give my [...]

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Marvelous Light

by Charlie Hall
Verse 1
I once was fatherless,
a stranger with no hope;
Your kindness wakened me,
Awakened me, from my sleep
Verse 2
Your love it beckons deeply,
a call to come and die.
By grace now I will come
And take this life, take your life.
Pre-chorus
Sin has lost it’s power,
death has lost it’s sting.
From the grave you’ve risen
Victoriously!
Chorus
Into marvelous light I’m running,
Out [...]

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There She Stands

by Michael W. Smith
When the night
Seems to say
All hope is lost
Gone away
But I know
I’m not alone
By the light
She stands
There she waves
Faithful friend
Shimmering stars
Westward wind
Show the way
Carry me
To the place
She stands
Just when you think it might be over
Just when you think the fight is gone
Someone will risk his life to raise her
There she stands
There she flies
Clear [...]

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Parker’s Lake

Here’s another old one that I dug out of the archives and decided to type…
Well the harvest moon was glistening
off of Parker’s Lake again and
I savored it alone without companion or friend
The fragile shades of summer
floated slowly to the ground
-a festival of dancers clad in
yellow, orange and brown
The smell was quite intriguing,
a mix of earth [...]

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The Rise

The Rise
Keen, astute, the inked quill
Quivered yesterday
Spilling things of eighteen months
Upon an empty page
Eighteen months of melodies
Solemn notes and praise
Constant though so far we’ve sailed
Remains redeeming grace
A flowered, yellow letter-box
Filled with hopes and fears
A little, flowered, yellow house
Filled with eighteen years
Echoes of the things that were
Calling all the while
Several thousand Israelites
Moving past the Nile
Louder than [...]

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Mother’s Day

Oh boy… I still can’t believe I’ve found the gumption to publicize this, but here is my Proverbs 31 poem for Mother’s Day. Be merciful, I was a wee one when I wrote it…
If you searched every home
all the days of your life
every country and town
you might find such a wife
You will know right away
when [...]

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The Mountain Prospector

The Mountain Prospector
Weatherworn on luckless search
among the rocks he stays
panning mountain rivulets
as apt to do each day
The water laughs in eddy swirls
rolling ’round his knees
but steadfast on he pans the mud
sure a glimmer sees
His eyes aflame with golden dreams
he turns and shifts the soil
ever hopeful, counting not
his muddy, fruitless toil
A sparkle of a ruddy hue
caught [...]

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My Eyes Are Dry
by Keith Green
My eyes are dry
My faith is old
My heart is hard
My prayers are cold
And I know how I ought to be
Alive to you and d.ead to me
But what can be done
For an old heart like mine
Soften it up
With oil and wine
The oil is you, your spirit [...]

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Prairie Storm

A result of my far-too-early anticipation of Spring. Well it was a little bit warmer today…
Prairie Storm
by Lady Carmen
The morning mist has cloaked the plain
and given way to gentle rain
Across the prairie horses graze
beneath the sky of grayish haze
In the distance thunder rolls
The horses stir and nudge their foals
Every creature towards the woods
flees [...]

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Walking Her Home

For the wedding anniversary of a very special couple…
“Walking Her Home”
By Mark Schultz
Looking back
He sees it all
It was her first date the night he came to call
And her dad said son
Have her home on time
And promise me you’ll never leave her side
He took her to a show in town
And he was ten feet off the [...]

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