Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Faith

  • Those Who Trod

    Not those who leap, but those who trod

    The narrow road with feet unshod

    Are conquerors – those who scheme and snare

    To fill with stolen wealth their lair

    Ride on all those who walk the sod

    Tis those who daily bear the fraud

    Who find their way on roads so flawed

    May sing the final victory prayer

    Not those who leap

    The mansions have no hills to plod

    Nor deep pits hidden in the sod

    To burn in meanness, heap with care

    And rob of safety, food, and air

    For conquerors are the ones who trod

    Not those who leap

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  • Stitches

    Running stitches round a hem

    Running down and up again

    Piecing quilts and piecing dreams

    Mending hearts and mending seams

    Sewing love in many ways

    Sowing seeds for future days

    Pinning patterns for a shirt

    Pinning plans that somehow work

    Cutting fabric, cutting losses

    Patching tears and patching bruises

    Basting hopes in fragile strings

    Basing faith on unseen things

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  • Mixed Up

    My thoughts are such a jumble

    They rattle, spin and tumble

    The words I thought I said

    Mean something else instead

    The feelings that I’m feeling

    Are trapped by a glass ceiling

    And when I try to write

    The words I want take flight

    My life is so unknown right now

    We will get through, I’m not sure how

    My plans rock back and forth each day

    I know that there will be a way

    I don’t have to know it all

    Or get it right on every call

    I’m not alone out in this stream

    And I know I can trust our team

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  • Risk

    Take a risk and

    Run with it

    Once you’ve chosen

    Don’t back down

    Follow it through

    To the end

    It’s okay then

    To turn around

    It doesn’t mean

    That you failed

    You always learn

    Something new

    You’re further now

    Than before

    Now you know what

    You need to do

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  • Darkest Hour

    No one else feels this hurting pain

    That pummels at me from within

    No one else knows the sheer despair

    Of getting stuck alone again

    No one else hears the cries for help

    So silent in this agony

    No one else sees the deep regret

    That this again is destiny

    But I can feel the ray of hope

    That warms me through the waves of pain

    But I can know that I will rise

    When I get through the storm again

    But I can hear the bells of love

    Chime faintly through the din of hate

    But I can see that just one day

    Does not determine my life’s fate

    I can’t avoid the storms of life

    Or dodge the rain from every cloud

    But in it, if I listen, still

    Hope will rise and sing aloud

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  • Paths in the Sea

    When stormy waves wash high about my boat

    The breakers roar and peaceful channels flee

    When hope departs but for the lowest note

    He makes for me paths in the sea

    When storm clouds rise with darkness all around

    The sun is hid — the course I cannot see

    Though faintest rays of help cannot be found

    He make for me paths in the sea

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