poartryinme

I love you because you have never let me down
I hope in you, as you, are the truest friend I’ve found
I need you and I’m grateful, we’ll always be together
I believe you, when you say forever

Holy, holy, hol […]

Only you can take away my shame, Only you can give me life again, Only you own forever more, Only you Lord, Only you Lord…Only You expel darkness with Your light, Only You take my wrong and make it right, Only […]

Can you see the dove
A symbol of God’s love
Lost amidst this earth’s breath
This dove knows life
and yes knows death
Hope, peace , twig in beak
Noah sent forth this bird to seek
A leaf, new life, hope […]

Happy Fourth, 2018. I almost had my own fireworks last night, or fire. I work with melted wax and I turned it off and went inside. Turns out I turned it to high and luckily I could smell it. My white wax was […]

These feet are from me, though not of me
These feet and mine are born of Him
I’ve but the privilege of guide and mentor
To point toward heaven time and again
For now these feet will walk behind me
Too small to […]

A tangled quandary
Complex beyond me
All I know
Is what life shows
Sun still light
Beauty, colors, night
Sun now gone
Darkness strong
Son still sees
Them, you, me
Sunrise comes at dawn
Life goes on
Until the […]

Am I just a fool
Inept at all taught in my school
I’m but a cell
Brought forth from heaven maybe hell
Wait, hell nor heaven don’t exist
So how is it I question this?
Words and art PatsyP

1968—love never hate
1969—this world is mine
1971—adulthood begun
1972—I married you
1975—ambition alive
1978—can I still relate
1983—3 children from me
1990—hay-days behind me
1994—Vice […]

Life is a forward moving motion
A battle… a notion
I can trust or fight
Yours vs. my right
Today I still have breath
This day my heart still beats
Lord I’ll find my rest
Your glory my retreat
One thing left t […]