Kathy's Poems - 2

Oasis You interrupt My vision With deepening words That Startle me You place Your thoughts in Mine With searching sight That speaks To me Your warm soothing smile Brings Oasis To the style Of life I choose to lead Now And somehow need to flee You hear me You make me care I’m too Aware Of you Sign in to see full entry.

…..The Lantern….. Running in panic toward dreams Tired and falling and circling my moods Complaining and crying To you - The sweetest poem A work of art That ever touched a human heart Breathes a kind of lantern love Lighting shadowed paths above You bid me welcome with your eyes And break the shell... Sign in to see full entry.

Extinction I ask For His special favor Yet Still I savor The pain And The past Why on earth Would I want It to last Am I forsaking My Lord When I hoard this aching too Like I amass other things Apropos Of all I once knew If I throw it all away Will I feel new Or Will I fade away too Sign in to see full entry.

The Gift I have been running Across the land And burying my head In the proverbial sand It is hard To stop running away It is hard To see at all The trees get taller Every day And what if they should Fall My heart is loud and when I pray I barely hear You As You call Longing to hear the Word You say... Sign in to see full entry.

Reprieve I wandered Not aimlessly Into a place But With more of a hesitance For I felt A slight pull And a trace Of a Presence That I knew I lingered And I lingered Still And breathed slowly there The air was fine A delicate line between Beauty And Disgrace I wondered If I belonged to it To Him Or... Sign in to see full entry.

Long Time Ago Long time ago I wrote a poem or two Or a million Not one Was read By aught by me But that was how I wanted it to be – Reach out Fall back Cry for help Retreat again Too wearisome For my soul To try again Too dreary For love Or anything That connection could bring And most of all My... Sign in to see full entry.

Still How Can I write Can I talk Can I breathe Is it all the same Now You are gone And I am still here To think To write To talk To Breathe Can you still see me Do you hear me Are you with me Because I feel your presence Still As if You never vanished For all those hours every day Or ever were ill... Sign in to see full entry.

Friendly souls Friendly souls Oft' times Abide As if on Airplanes And In first class They never ask Me Who I am There time is Rom Or Rune Or Ram And I encounter them As if In Anna's church Where I found You And In the clouds Are many souls Like those Who speak their heart When transport equals risk... Sign in to see full entry.

Frightening B eauty Can I possibly miss something I can still hear A nd see And smell Tell That To my memory The sea has Become a part of me Just like I wanted it to be Like a powerful soul Seemingly gone Helps me to move on But the ocean isn't meant to be a memory The scent The sound I feel The... Sign in to see full entry.

Mysteries Some Share a bed I rest my head For a while On the chair ‘Till the child In me Is momentarily Still’ I go on To face the reality Of God’s will And mysteries That Some Won’t review Or Even test Lest They Rediscover We are not each other’s enemy Sign in to see full entry.