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Conservative Poet

Tom Zart’s 87 Poems of Love

Family & Faith

LIKE A LILY AMONG THE THORNS

Like a lily among the thorns,

So are you among the rest.

Your love is my joy of life

Which by God’s grace is the best.

When I sleep my heart is awake

It is the vice of love within.

By day or night I seek your love

My life mate, my partner, my friend.

You ravish my heart with just one look

When I’m less than you desire.

Your eyes speak without words

As displeasure kindles your fire.

Your beautiful and extraordinary

Like a fragrant flower from the wild.

I dream of the day you softly whisper

“My love, I carry your child.”

The vines put forth their tender grapes

The fig tree her sweet fruit of life.

My love for you is everlasting

As you nourish my need for a wife.

God gave man a woman to adore

And a woman a man to respect.

God gave us children we love till death

To provide for, cherish and protect.

Until it’s dawn and the shadows flee

I will hold you close and ponder

Our life together past and present

And may our future be blessed by wonder.



RELATIONSHIPS



One of the most rewarding things, each of us can do

Is the acknowledgment of others and their fears.

To promote their happiness and sense of worth

By our love, concern, laughter and tears.

Staying eager to display are willingness

To recognize our support from others.

Where would we be without the people we love

Friends, mom, dad, grandparents, sisters and brothers.

We treasure our relationships and pray to maintain them

As they give us our passion and purpose in life.

Cherishing our family, our faith, our country

Our honor, our husband or wife.

A SCORNFUL WOMAN & A SELFISH MAN

A scornful woman can rip you apart

Destroy your libido and harden your heart.

They shout their list of your every flaw

Declaring you’re lucky you get it at all.

A selfish man can become even worse

When they lie, cheat, beat, steal and curse.

Always demanding to stay king of the castle

As they force their partner to suffer their hassle.

A happy woman thrives on love, faith, family and friends,

A worthy man provides, protects and defends.

Say “No” to Satan and cast him out

Say “Yes” to Jesus and become his scout.

MY HOPE TO FIND LOVE



So here I am, like many times before

All alone with my face to the moon.

Down on knees praying God

For someone who will love me and soon!

The smallest deed done is better than intention

When you wish to receive wisdom from above.

No matter what happens, I refuse to give up

My hope to discover the magic of love.

The better the reason for my existence

The better the life I will live.

Searching for someone who will share their love

By their joy when it’s their turn to give.

My hope to find love has somewhat diminished

Though my need for romance still remains.

Sometimes I feel like Sampson himself

Broken hearted and shackled to chains.

THE GREATEST LESSON ONE CAN LEARN



The greatest lesson one can learn

Is how when loved, to love in return.

Joined together through night and day

Equally yoked in work and play.

Remaining true both body and soul

Never loosing our common goal.

Sharing each other the best we can

Before we are but bits of sand.

Mutual love is beyond compare

Serving one another in the life we share.

Without compassion humans lose

Simply by the path they choose.

Love is a miracle from God to man

How some deny it I can’t understand.

WINGS of HEAVEN



It’s a wonderful situation

To be in love with you.

All my thoughts have changed

Because of everything you do.

I lack the desire for others

No yearning for their love or favor.

All I wish is a life with you

Till it’s time to greet our Savior.

I was afraid I would never find love

Leaving no stone unturned.

I had to suffer through stupidity

To grow from all I learned.

Life is too short to remain a fool

Who doesn’t see blessings handed down.

From now to judgment I will love you

Till the wings of heaven whisper their sound.

SO DEAR TO MY HEART



So dear to my heart are my loved ones at home

As I toss and I turn in my bunk all alone.

Everyday I see death, **** and corruption

Combat is God’s proof of man’s malfunction

For family, comrades and myself I pray

To my love with this poem I wish to convey.

I knew I loved you though never how much

Till by war, I’m forced beyond your touch.

Where violence thrives, there’s the stench of death

With the taste of fear on every breath.

Who shall prevail, who shall die?

As the sadistic kill beneath God’s sky.

Baghdad has become man’s highway to hell

Where the hearts of darkness are alive and well

I count each day till it’s time to come home

And be with my love and never alone.

Love You

Your Marine

MARRIAGE *** AND ROMANCE



Some other time, I’m not in the mood

Why cant we just cuddle and watch TV?

When couples drift into the celibate zone

It’s not long till someone will flee.

Sexual fulfillment helps preserve love,

Parenthood, marriage and self-esteem.

Those who maintain it avoid saying no

To be blessed by its pleasure and gleam.

While dating we tend to be more romantic

Putting forth the best of our charms.

Sharing dinners, long walks and lustful weekends

As we spend more time in each others arms.

How many times have you said “not tonight”

Exposing your happy home to harm?

Today’s crushing deadlines leave little time for love

Leaving partners with sorrow, sadness and alarm.

So share one another with red wine and time

Dial your own number and leave the phone off the hook.

Enjoy some romance, *** and laughter

Improving your mood and the way you look.

MOTHERS



There’s no greater power on earth

Than the love we get from our mothers.

They feel our fears within themselves

Far more than sisters or brothers.

As seasons pass; in time we learn

We can’t always rely on others.

No mater what our mistakes may be

We know we can run to our mothers.

Mothers have great big aprons

To hide from the world our flaws.

They kiss and scold when we do wrong

Teaching compliance of laws.

From birth to death mothers lead

Our angels of kindness from above.

They give us more than anyone else

Preaching the importance of love.

Moms are certainly God’s gift to earth

So if you still have one, let it be known.

You can’t imagine your life without her

While the seed of your future is sown.

DON’T  FORSAKE  ME ?



Don’t forsake our love my darling

On this night before our wedding day.

I know your ex is crying to get back

But that’s just the price he’ll have to pay.

Good guys provide for their families

Tell the truth, pay bills and remain true.

Bad guys procrastinate, chase women and party

Then blame their shortcomings, on “you”.

I will love you only and tend to your needs

Never to lie, steal or cheat.

Giving all I have to share and prosper

And when wrong I will accept defeat.

Your happiness is my inspiration

For when I please you, you please me.

I wish to father our children and give them love

And be the best husband a man can be.

MY FAVORITE POET



My favorite poet is God above

Who gives Earth its rhythm and rhyme.

Not pied pipers of misguided souls

Who promote distrust, hatred and crime.

Poetry is nature serenading in song

The peaceful roar of the oceans waves.

The wind through the trees and over the hills

And the flowers in the fields by the graves.

The sound of rain as it waters the thirsty

The songs of children at play in the park.

The far off rumble of trains or thunder

As they pass through the night in the dark.

The joy of our babies first words and steps

The passion of life with its heroes and clowns.

The on going struggle to survive our sins

As we proliferate in hamlets and towns.

My favorite poet is our Father of love

Who was first to know us before birth.

His poetry prolongs every thing we love

As His deliverance gives life its worth.

I WHO HAVE NO ONE



I who have no one, no one at all

Envy others as in love they fall.

Sleepless nights, with inward burning

Feeling hopeless, tossing and turning.

Lord please forgive the fool I’ve been

Hiding from goodness in the shadows of sin.

I humbly pray to heaven in space

For one more chance to regain my grace.

I’ve lived my years indulging myself

Leaving decency and principle on the shelf.

Now that your light shines on my face

I pray for forgiveness in shame and disgrace.

All I ask is your life mate for me

And I pledge to become all I can be.

A soul without love is empty and void

No wonder so many become destroyed.

Outside my window there’s the thunder of rain

And the haunting sound of a far away train.

I feel your presence as I silently cry

For someone to love before I die.

JESUS IS A FISHERMAN



Jesus is a fisherman

Who saves the souls of man.

Dead or alive He leads the faithful

To the streams of promise land.

He sees us when we’re happy

He hears us when we’re glad.

He whispers words of hope to us

When we face something sad.

As wicked thoughts control the mind

Evil deeds control the heart.

Jesus is who we turn to

When from sins we must depart.

Jesus is a fisherman

Who baits His hook with love.

Casting His line in your direction

From the banks of heaven above.

LOVE CONSUMES ALL



Love consumes all physical functions

Hearing, taste, touch, thought and smell.

It can heal, destroy, weaken or bond

Those caught in its presence and spell.

May I be remembered by tears of love

When my hands lay across my chest.

Displayed for view to say goodbye

To my family, friends and the rest.

Until it’s time for my final farewell

I will serve whom I love even more.

These words of passion inhabit my heart

Conveying my need for all, I adore.

PASSION AND LOVE



Samson so loved Delilah

He ended up grinding grain.

Anthony so loved Cleopatra

He lost all and was slain.

David so loved Bathsheba

He drifted from God’s command.

The way I feel makes it easy

To imagine and understand.

You‘re the inspiration of my day

And the delight of my night.

The joy we share as we conceive

Makes everything feel just right.

Thank heaven for passion and love

Blessings from God to man.

Without them we’re mere creatures

Subsisting like ants in the sand.

TO BE BLESSED BY LOVE



Darkness submits to the brightness of day

For all rich, famous or peasant.

God gives us love as a tool of endurance

For what is glorious, painful or unpleasant.

He gives us friends that mean so much

Though His greatest gift is fathers and mothers.

From them we learn the guidance we need

Or from grandparents, sisters and brothers.

How rewarding it is to share our concerns

Of the burdens that trouble man’s soul.

With words of love, passion and faith

With happiness and purpose our goal.

To be blessed by love elevates life

Projecting a radiance of grace to our face.

Like the heavenly bodies that illuminate the night

As we voyage through the vastness of space.

THE JOY I FEEL



The joy I feel within my heart

Has overcome my void.

No more foolish, selfish acts

Risking love to be destroyed.

You’re the rainbow of my day

And the tiger of my night.

Your style of loving me

Leaves no reason to fuss or fight.

Happiness shuns the selfish

Who fail God’s test of time.

Contentment comes as a gift

To hearts of the thoughtful and kind.

I obtain my daily need

As I awake to find you near.

The love we share celebrates life

As we laugh or cry with tear.

Through out each day, there are moments,

I find I need you even more.

You’re the radiance of my life

Who I worship, serve and adore.

I LOVE BEING LOVED BY YOU



My life overflows with happiness

As my favorite dreams come true.

My days and nights are magical

Because of everything you do.

You stand by me as troubles occur

And listen to my worries and fears.

You share my burdens and my joys

With faith, compassion and tears.

God’s gift to man is someone to love

Which can be both splendid and rare.

Throughout life there’s nothing better

Then those who will love us and care.

There’s the past, present, future, and beyond

Which will test our measure by what we say and do

Too many overlook the thrill of now

But not I, “for I love being loved by you.”

WE’LL ALL REUNITE IN TIME



Fame, wealth, prestige, and wild women

For too long were my passions of life.

One day I found sweet liberation

When God gave my heart to my wife.

33 years we loved one another

Sharing all we possessed and more.

Last year she passed in the middle of night

Never to shadow our door.

I’m sure in rapture, she awaits

For me to arrive in heaven divine.

I’ll miss our children and grandkids too

But we’ll all reunite in time.

THE LAST GOODBYE



I’m on my way to greet my Master

And shake His hand when I die.

I’m on my way to john sweet Jesus

In His mansion beyond on high.

I’m on my way to escape man’s woes

Where the faithful rise to tell their story.

Following the path of love and compliance.

Guided by God’s magnificence and glory.

As I journey to and from all I love

It hurts to say my absolute goodbye.

I’m on my way to divine fulfillment

But for those left behind, “I cry.”

The Last Goodbye

MOMS

Millions of dewdrops greet the dawn

As hungry of bees buzz the clover

Dazzling butterflies flutter about

As moms give love the world over.

Lessons learned at our mother’s knee

Last a lifetime till we grow older.

Popping up when troubles accrue

Like a whispering angel on our shoulder.

Gods gives us friends that mean so much

Children, fathers, sisters and brothers

Though far, far above all the rest,

No one loves us more than our mothers.

In and out of friendships, jobs and partners

Our mothers always remain our evening star.

Those who where born to a selfish mom

Make the rest us realize how lucky we are.

How great life is to have a good mom

Who reads what we feel but can’t say.

Nothing means as much, as her tender touch

And for all who are without one, “we pray.”

SHOULD TOMORROW START WITHOUT ME ?



Should tomorrow start without me

Remember I love you

Looking down from up above

Seeing everything you do.

If I become a casualty

I pray you will love again

Whom ever makes you happy

I’ll consider my friend.

Should tomorrow start without me

Remind our boys, God loves all who care

And when life seems too harsh and cruel

With “Him” they must share their prayer.

I have proven I’m not a coward

Who breaks and runs to survive

Always fearing death will kiss me

As the streets of Baghdad I drive.

Should tomorrow start without me

Be proud I choose to serve

Our faith and our patriotism

Earn the freedom we deserve.

I miss home more than ever

It breaks my heart to stay away

I can’t help but want to hold you

And whisper what I say.

PASSION

Passion is any strong feeling or thought

Of love, hate, fear, anger and grief.

The emotional joy of sexual desire

Sometimes the suffering of saint or thief.

The cruelty of man nailing Christ to the cross

His treatment subsequent to the last supper.

Continuing conflict with endless war

Make it seem we’re prone to suffer.

All must carry their own cross in life

While they struggle to survive the day.

Passion reveals how much we desire

As we race toward our outcome and pray.

WHO?



Who wrote the tune the songbird sings?

Who made the diamonds we wear on rings?

Who caused the snow and rain to fall?

Who made spring, winter, summer and fall?

Who gave man a woman to love?

Who made the clouds and sky above?

Who lights the stars and moon in the night?

Who makes heaven and beyond so bright?

Who gives us babies we follow till death?

Who made us able to speak with our breath?

Who gives us heroes willing to die?

Who made the tears we shed as we cry.

Who shows us hope and guides our way?

The same one who loves us night and day.

SATISFACTION



Too many people never know satisfaction

For their goals for happiness are placed too high.

Most of us complain about what we can’t have

When we’re not bedfast or in the grave, we lie.

No one finds satisfaction from serving themselves

Contentment takes place, by our unselfish concern.

The more we repent and regret our wrongs

The more we are able to retain what we learn.

So tally your blessings and be thankful for life

And remember there are those who wish, they were you.

Satisfaction and love are what mere mortal’s pray for

Though the lucky among us, who feel both, are few.

LOVE & HATE

Unselfish concerns are the footstones of love

Though far too many still waste time on ****.

Real happiness happens to the lucky in life

Who’ve bonded to others with love as their fate.

Malice, disfavor and ill will complicate life

To where our days resemble frustration’s hell.

The warm rush of love can turn things around

Enabling the sleepless to again rest well.

Tender love and affection generate fondness

Where hatreds repugnance eats body and soul.

Friendship, attachment, good will and charity

Are the mother’s milk of life, when love’s our goal.

So recognize **** for what it truly is

And reject it when it whispers in your ear.

For the power of love is the only way

To avoid corruption, resentment and fear.

MY TRUE LOVE



Lord, have mercy on my soul

For all the wrong I’ve done

When I was young and foolish

And searching for some fun.

My daddy told me, son

You reap what you sow

Everything I’ve learned the hard way

Are the only things I know.

I searched all the honky tonks

And every bar in town

The right woman for me to love

I had not yet found.

My mother always said

Why not look at church

There’s where you’ll find

The right one to end your search.

So, here I am singing a song

To the music of a choir

Next to me is my true love

Who sets my heart on fire.

I can see her left hand

And there’s my wedding ring

She catches me peeking at her

With every line we sing.

A man and wife are equally yoked

In everything they do;

That’s why I celebrate

God saving me for you!

CHRISTMAS



Husbands with ladders hang lights on their home

As all who have no one feel sad and alone.

The churches are full of the faithful that sing

For the birth of our Lord, is a spiritual thing.

The sound of Christmas sweetly fills the air

While frantic shoppers hustle from here to there.

The windows of storefronts at this time of year

Reflect all their wonders as Christmas draws near.

Little ones stand looking with their nose pressed to glass

As model trains on display come speeding past.

The path to Santa is lined with girls and boys

With a list in their heart of their favorite toys.

The stores shelves are crammed with dolls that crawl or walk

Games, cars, trucks, planes and stuffed toys that sing or talk.

The miracle of Christmas comes once a year

When all that we love seems more precious and dear.

THE SEED of LOVE



A kindly woman can make a sad man sing

With her love and affection winter seems like spring.

Of all the pleasures in life given to a man

There’s nothing beats the touch of a woman’s soft hand.

God saw Adam alone on Eden’s floor

Then decided to give him Eve’s love and much more.

So take what you need from she chosen for you

Then rid thyself of others and to her be true.

The Lord planted love within mankind’s heart

Though things can grow sour when from Him we depart.

Love and **** are but two sides of life’s golden coin

So be ready for both no matter whom you join.

DOUBLE TROUBLE



To tell you the truth, it still hurts to share;

Even though with him your heart is not there.

I’ve tried hard to think what brought this about

For we’re not the type who enjoy sneaking out.

Your husband, my wife, were into themselves.

Like old Christmas toys, they placed us on our shelves.

Somehow we managed to take ourselves down

And found one another while out on the town.

You gave me your number for reasons well known

And now you weep as you drive home alone.

It’s hard to make love when the romance is dead

It causes confusion in your heart and your head.

There’s a battle inside as your mind and heart fight

While you lie by the wrong one in the middle of the night.

We now know the meaning to the words of that song

That it hurts to love someone and to the wrong one belong.

HOLLYWOOD WOMAN



Hollywood woman, I’m in love with you

Though you’re always on your own stage.

Some days you love me and some days you don’t

No wonder I’m in such a rage.

You baited your hook

Then threw me a line

And like a big crayfish

I thought you were mine.

But you have that fever

To fish other streams

And you’ll be the cause

Of many men’s dreams.

For other men have loved you

And other men have cried.

Every last one of them

Has felt you inside.

Before long you’ll grow old

And your looks shall fade

And all you’ll have left

Is your video parade.

Those who once loved you

Will be dead or gone

And you’ll lie alone

In silence till dawn.

A MAN’S BEST FRIEND



A man’s best friend is still his faithful dog

Who anxiously awaits his return home.

Where would man be without his canine love

When his human mates have left him alone.

If a man was as good as his dog thinks

He’d be more famous than a football star.

It’s too bad our wives don’t feel the same way

I guess its because they know how we are.

Man has no fear of his dog’s love for life

Though it’s usually man who buries his pet.

It matters not be they large or small

What animal has loved man more, as yet?

GETTING OVER HER



I thought we’d raise our only child

And feed him with a spoon

But, his mother loves another

And they’re on a honeymoon.

All my friends say I must stop

Loving her, of course

So I drove my Ford to a honky tonk

Still lonely from divorce.

From out of my chair, I must get up

And ask someone to dance

For, if I plan to get over her

I know I’ll need romance.

The dance floor is almost full

Of country kings and queens.

I feel a pair of eyes

Just checking out my jeans.

I can see a smiling face

I’m almost at a run

For I know if I dance

I’m going to have some fun.

She stands up from her table

And reaches for my hand

Then I lead the both of us

Right up in front of the band.

Somebody turned the spotlight

Toward the dance floor ball.

She is so beautiful

I’m afraid I might fall.

Here I go, a-gambling

A gambling with my heart

For when I love a woman

It always hurts to part.

BODY HEAT 1O5



We drank several glasses of champagne

In the living room of her house.

Around 9:30 that evening

I found myself in her blouse.

I fondled and kissed her so gently

Like the soft footsteps of a mouse.

To my surprise, she opened her eyes

And said, “look, we’re not going to play house.”

I right away replaced her clothing

And buttoned her blouse once more.

There was no doubt of my defeat

As I lay there upon the floor.

She said, “tell the truth, are you angry?”

I answered, by far I was not

“It’s more important what you think of me

Than what I may not have got.”

She wiped away a tear from both eyes

And said, “you’re my kind of man.”

At that point, she did arise

And to me she held out her hand

She led me away like a blind man

Who had somehow lost his cane.

When we reached her bedroom door

I thought I’d gone insane.

Before long, we found ourselves naked

As she held me in her palm.

Can you dare imagine, my friend

How hard it was for me to stay calm?

We touched all the forbidden places

As our body heats reached 105

If love’s relief had not been achieved

I doubt if we’d still be alive.

WITHOUT LOVE



Life is simply a circus

With too many fools on the stage.

There ’s greed, fear and indifference

As many hearts suffer from rage.

Divorce is like a bad book

Where the heroes get killed off to soon.

When we reach the point the light goes out

Then we’ll stand up and leave the room.

Without love we become such fools

In a desert which has gone all dry.

When the one we love ignores us

There’s nothing to do but cry.

The worst curse that one can endure

Are those who just wish to take.

When all we give is our own love

To find out we’ve made a mistake.

Of all the prizes life may bring

To be loved is by far the best.

That’s why so many search for it

For without love, what good is the rest?

THAT OLD COVERED BRIDGE



We returned to that old covered bridge

Where as sweethearts we used to go.

To kiss, hug, and squeeze in the shadows

While beneath us the water would flow.

Up under its wood roof of shingles

Is where we took refuge from the rains.

Carved in some boards within that old bridge

Side by side you’ll still find our names.

Our memories of our past childhood

Are a gift from God for us to keep.

Like that picture you once gave me

Which I peaked at before I could sleep.

We find ourselves back at that old bridge

Only now, with our kids to catch fish.

We pray someday that they’ll find love

And come here with someone, just to wish.

SOME MEN PRAY



Some men pry to marry the woman they love

Where my prayers can’t help but somewhat vary

As I humbly pray to heaven above

That I am loved by the woman I marry.

The essence of love is its spiritual fire

And there’s nothing more sought after on earth.

Man’s only escape is his own flight

But what, without love would his life be worth.

Love can be man’s worst pain or best pleasure

A dangerous gamble he must take in life.

For he who falls in love with the wrong woman

Shall find all he’s worked for belongs to his wife.

THE COAL MINER



Coal mines in my daddy’s day

Were dug with strong hands and back.

They got larger and deeper

As the lungs of the miners turned black.

Cave-ins, fires and explosions

Were my father’s daily fear.

But what choice has a man

When the wolf of hunger is near.

With three small kids and a wife

There were five stomachs to fill.

As we lived in poverty

In our shack below a hill.

I feel his blood within me

As the years of my life pass by

I’m proud that dad dug King Cole

For a miner so am I.

Life to me is but a rose

Though it’s thorns can make me cry.

And like my dad before me

To my Lord I will not lie.

In cold earth someday I’ll sleep

With a shinny stone above.

Carved in it, shall be the words

I have known the joy of love.

ADAM THE LONELY



Adam, the lonely was chased from God’s land

When Eve picked that apple with her foolish hand.

Delilah, the evil, cut a champion’s hair off

When Samson; the strong man’s heart became soft.

David the shepherd, a king among men

Was teased by Bathsheba and driven to sin.

A man needs a woman to build up his pride

To bolster his ego and to lay by his side.

Life mates are a treasure and difficult to find

I feel like a blind man who’s lost in a mine.

Lord, I’m a sad soul with no hand to hold

Searching for someone who’ll love me when I’m old.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD



Our house is big, though our family’s small

The phone’s off the hook, cause we don ‘t want a call.

I need you darling more than anything

For your sweet kisses make a sad man sing.

I can feel life’s clock as it pounds away

While the moon says hello to the dying day.

I pray to partake every sight and sound

While I still enjoy the right side of the ground.

Nothing beats the love of a willing mate.

So little time for fun before it’s too late.

The Lord made you for me and me alone

And not for others that you might have known.

LOVER’S TOAST



Come to me with just your love

And I will pledge you mine.

Feel my lips and share my glass

And we shall sip red wine.

You’re the red rose of my day

And the lily of my night.

Nothing is so grand in life

As when you seize me tight.

Love’s uncertain future is

Where mankind’s torments dwell

With both it’s pain and pleasure

Our lust is alive and well.

DADS AT WAR



Where would I be without you dad

My hero of night and day?

I’m so glad you love my mother

And take time for us to pray.

The last time we played baseball

You reached for me with your hand.

I looked at you, then made a wish

That I might be just half the man.

I love my father of earth,

And I love my Father of heaven.

It’s a lot for me to love, you know

For I’m only eleven.

Mom and I sure miss you

Since you left to defend our flag.

When others ask, where is your dad

I can’t help but boast and brag.

MOMMA



Oh, I love my momma

She’s the reason I’m alive.

Her total love for me

Has made her struggle and strive.

Jesus had a momma

Who bore Him in a cave.

She couldn’t help but love Him

From His birth to the grave.

Should I hang on the highest hill

My momma would be there.

I know her love would follow me

My Angel of despair.

Her hair is now all silver

As I hold her fingers, worn.

Oh, God, bless this wrinkled brow

From whose body I was born.

LETTERS



We were just the best of friends

I knew him all my life.

I’m sure that he, towards the end

Found out I love his wife.

He drove his car right off a cliff

And crashed into the sea.

I know it was no accident

For a skillful driver was he.

He must have found our letters

Of love that shouldn’t be.

He’s the type to harm himself

Instead of killing me.

As I looked in his wife’s eyes

She sadly said to me,

Instead of us, he killed himself

Because of lovers, such as we.

Lord, have mercy on our souls

For her husband, my friend, has died!

No one else may ever know

But God how much we’ve lied.

HONEYMOON CRUISE



The gulls have gone long ago

As we sail a peaceful sea.

The skies are blue, soft and kind

Where else would we wish to be.

Late at night, as we embrace

In front of a reggae band.

You kiss me, and then you whisper

I want to be alone with my man.

A little after midnight

We both slip away.

In such of some time

For the games lovers play.

Alone in our cabin

Your skin is so soft.

I’m just that angel

Who fell from aloft.

After twenty-five years

Of our love has gone

It’s a honeymoon cruise

We find ourselves on.

May the Lord show mercy

On any of those

Who have never been loved

Or ever been chose.

MY LOVE of LIFE



Wise men learn more from watching fools

Than fools do from watching wise men.

I should know for I’ve been both

I can ‘t believe how lucky I’ve been.

Everyday as I speak out

With verse I come alive.

My lust for life shall be fulfilled

As another day I survive.

I take the clay of every day

And mold it to my fashion.

All I need is my true love

Whose heart flows free with passion.

I thank the Lord who watches us

For blessings which are mine;

That I’m festive, fit and free

To love my wife who’s sweeter than wine.

LITTLE BABY



Little baby, I love you

For you are a part of me

Each and every inch you’ll grow

I want to be there to see.

Someday you’ll chase fireflies

Who ride the breath of the winds.

Someday you’ll be all grown up

And out on the town with friends.

You have your daddy ’s freckles;

You’ve got your mommy’s eyes.

I pray to God every day

You’ll survive all of life’s lies.

Little babies shoot up fast

As they need to stretch and grow.

They do such things as children do

In a world they’ve yet to know.

Someday you will understand

How your parents feel inside

Someday you’ll have your babies

And raise them with great pride.

Of all the gifts that life may bring

A sweet baby is still the best

Your mom and I shall love you

Till the day we’re laid to rest.

ONE MAN’S PRAYER



Where are the women who need a good man?

Where are the women with love in their hand?

Where are the children who played on the lawn?

Where are the children when mom and dad are gone?

What about the marriage that began with smiles?

What about the marriage that ended in trials?

What about the future of all involved?

What about the problems that must be solved?

Answer these questions that tear at my heart.

Answer these questions that keep us apart.

WHAT LOVE MEANS TO ME



I know now for sure what love means to me

It’s a chance to be needed and to give happily.

For I’ve felt what it’s like to be sad and alone

And wish for that someone I could call my own.

It’s just like young Adam when he lost his rib bone

God gave him Eve, so he wouldn’t sleep alone.

When a man loves a woman, there’s many lessons he’ll learn

As she respects him, her favors he’ll earn.

One thing for certain, when your thoughts are for real

As you hug and you kiss, you love how you feel.

Some live a lifetime just a step from love

You are that person who gave me my shove.

The world has both givers and those on the take

Life can be bad if your love’s a mistake.

I can’t help realize how lucky I’ve been

For you are my wife, but best of all, my friend.

I WON’T BE THERE



It‘s true; I’ve been living with a looser

And it’s been going on too long

I’ve prayed for the courage and, now I have it

To sing you your farewell song.

I won’t be there in the morning when you need me!

I won’t be there when you call on the phone!

I won’t be there in the bed beside you

As you lay by yourself alone!

Too many times at night I’ve cried

Wondering why you won’t just come home

Staring at the clock on the wall

As I lie half awake by the phone.

For so long it was enough that I loved you

Though now my heart needs more.

So, I’ve packed up my bags and my pictures

And I’m on my way out the door.

WHEN YOU LOVE A MEAN WOMAN



When you love a mean woman it hurts down deep

In the middle of the night when you find you can’t sleep.

I remember those times we kissed in the park

Covered by moonbeams and stars in the dark.

You told me you loved me and would never run away

Though now, there’s another with whom you play.

Somebody tell me what I’m doing wrong

Somebody show me before I’ve waited too long.

Other women I’ve met, they remind me of you

It makes me afraid of what they might do.

But life without love isn’t living at all

Everyone needs someone who waits for their call.

I thirst for a woman who will love me again

One who needs both a husband and friend.

Dear Lord, I pray for my angel of love

So I may fly high on the wings of a dove.

SHE’S MY BUDDY



Adam and Eve lay beneath the stars.

I wonder if their love was as strong as ours?

Darling, I love you, I’m not afraid to say

Our love just grows with each passing day.

I was afraid our love would grow cold

That’s what I’ve always by others been told.

I’m glad they were wrong, so I sing this song

For you are the woman to whom I belong.

Without your concern I have nothing at all

There’s no one to help me should I take a fall.

I need your love it builds up my pride

Bolsters my ego and stands by my side.

Many men still search for someone like you

Case to find a good woman isn’t easy to do

Lord, I thank you for the love of my life

For she is my buddy as well as my wife.

OUR MOTHER’S LOVE



Our mother’s love like a candle

Burns brightly upon the shelf.

As she lights the way for all others

Never thinking of herself.

Seven little kids in a farmhouse

By my moms hard work survived.

Through her love and faith in Jesus

We learned how to struggle and strive.

The lilacs still bloom by the window

Where our mom would quilt and sew.

In the winter she’d sing by the fire

To the tunes she thought we should know.

Our father labored at a quarry

In the dust of the earth every day.

He worked so hard for his money

For the bills our family must pay.

Little sister came down with pneumonia

And almost died in bed.

Our momma lie sick beside her

Putting cool rags on her head.

We were sure glad to see daddy’s face

As he drove up our driveway

He ran up and into the house

Then knelt by their bed to pray.

Oh, Lord, please save my family

From the fever that burns within

For we have always loved Jesus

And will serve Him till our end.

Our mother and sister survived

But daddy, he died long ago.

When it’s our time for heaven

We’ll see many that we know.

TILL THE END of TIME



I feel like Samson pushing the stone

For I gave into love and now I’m alone.

Betrayed by a woman, I gambled and lost

And now I suffer what disloyalty cost.

Samson was blinded by the blade of a knife

After his capture by the love of his life.

Imprisoned forever and forced to grind grain

To spectator laughter, the whip and the chain.

The same so am I, a victim of chain

For I’ve too many memories of you in my brain.

Together my darling from a window we shall peer

It will be from heaven both faraway and near.

The heirlooms of tomorrow the woman and the man

Waiting for our ashes to sift through the sand.

I will  love you always, till the end of time

Now and then dreaming of when you were mine.

SAD DAD IN JAIL



They put me in prison for the deed I’ve done

I killed the drunk driver who crippled you, son.

Your mother, my wife, she died in the wreck

That’s the reason I broke that man’s neck.

His dad was a rich man, who pulled lots of strings

So well connected he could do many things.

I live in this hellhole with all sorts of men;

I’m sure glad most like me and call me their friend.

The food here is so awful, I’ve lost many pounds

I’d rather feast on the vittles the guards toss the hounds.

At night we play cards and you don’t dare cheat

For if you get caught, you’ll be stomped on by feet.

Most inmates fashion some sort of knife

To help out their odds in a fight for their life

I took me a padlock and snapped it on a chain

Then hid it in my pant-leg to keep from being slain.

I get to see you on our family day

The worst part about it, is when you cry as you play.

Many times you question, “Dad, when can you leave?”

As the tears from your eyes drop to my sleeve.

Our visit is now over as they wheel you away

I whisper, “I love you” and you see what I say.

It’s time to go back to my one-room, shared cell

And try to write a song about a sad dad in jail.

SOLDIER IN THE RAIN



I’m just a soldier who stands in the rain

My memories of home are what keep me sane.

Back home is a land of milk and honey

Ruled by lust and love of money.

But, what can I say, when I serve her true

For I volunteered to see this war through.

Now, that I’m here, it’s hard to believe

We’re just the victims of those who deceive.

As darkness falls on the rice fields of Nam

Scared men with rifles walk the shadows of the calm.

It’s thousands of miles to the steps of my church

With its stained glass, steeples and lost souls who search.

Off in the distance I see an arc light

Bombs being dropped on children at night.

I’ve seen that evil they call the “yellow rain”

And how life withers when it’s sprayed by a plane.

All of my buddies have been taken away

No more touch football will they ever play.

Zipped in their body bags for the long trip home

Are some of the bravest, I’ve ever known.

War is a hell, devised by man

There’s death in the sea, the sky and the land.

Lord, I can’t help but wish I were home

Back with my love, whom I hope is alone?

WE WISH YOU WERE HOME



I remember that fair in September

As we waited for a Ferris wheel ride

Just as you reached for my fingers

I felt how I loved you inside.

The next thing I knew we were airborne

Above all the eyes of the crowd

Surrounded by rainbows of neon

As the moon popped from behind a cloud.

You asked, “daddy, do you love me”

I answered I couldn’t live without you.

Then you reached up and tugged on my collar

As we flew in that chair painted blue.

Now you are grown and gone

And have marched away to war.

As I’m writing this letter

I yearn for your knock at our door.

I got out some rags and the wax

And gave your old Ford a rubdown.

I went for a ride of remembrance

While its mufflers made your favorite sound

I drove by the park to ponder

Those ball games we loved to play.

I can ‘t help but worry and wonder

If you’ll ever come home to stay.

Your girlfriend still teaches school

We see her every seventh day.

There’s no doubt who she thinks of

When she folds her hands to pray.

Your mother still talks to your picture

As she works at her sewing machine.

I hope my son you realize

How much to us you mean.

PLEASURE SEEKERS



That road of pleasure seeking

Has so many deep pitfalls

And all the while we walk on it

In the distance the devil calls.

Some folks drink those bubbly spirits

Or smoke that tall green weed

Anything to dull their conscience

As they sow their wild oat seed.

I’ve been no angel in my life

Though I fell from a righteous shelf

When I took those risky chances

And tried both, many times, myself.

Now I’m tired of being foolish.

So I sing my songs at church

With one eye on my hymnbook

And the other free to search.

If you’re yearning to love someone

Let’s get together and seek no more

Kiss and fondle by the fire

And push pillows across the floor.

For we need love, health and money

And may we live to enjoy them all

Before we ‘re old and in our autumn

And our leaves begin to fall.

THE FIRST ONE TO LOVE ME

The first one to love me was you; Lord

And nothing can take that away.

My soul is refreshed by living water

While my heart flows with love each day.

I thank you for the love of my family

And I thank you for the love of my life.

I thank you for all of the blessings

You give to each husband and wife.

Your glory rides high on the sunsets

Your voice is the thunder of rain.

I thank you for all of the heavens

And Jesus who came to be slain.

I feel when your eyes are upon me

As you listen to my humble cry

You’ve redeemed the soul of your servant

To dwell in your mansion on high.

I’ll claim each and every promise

From the Lord of the earth and sky.

I’m so glad I’m free from my bondage

Of the grave where my body shall lie.

I thank you for parting the darkness

And guiding my footsteps each day.

I thank you for being my shepherd

You’ve walked with me all the way.

I know your armor protects me

From the devil in search of his feast.

And all who are lost without you

Shall dwell in hell with the beast!

CHRISTMAS IS COMING



Christmas is coming and I’m all alone

With no one to snuggle at night.

My wineglass is empty to help dull the desire

To kiss you by soft candlelight.

A rare pearl of value, you don ‘t leave alone

Or someone will steal them from you.

After they’ve gone and flown far away

It’s hard to know just what to do.

I’m watching my neighbors hang lights on their tree

With tinsel and striped candy cane.

I took you for granted and didn’t hug enough

And now I must suffer my pain.

Lord, I’m so lonely; I wish I could die

Then be born to relive again.

I realize the value of someone to love

And the danger of my selfish sin.

There’s a ring on my phone and a knock at the door

Which do I dare go for?

If neither is you, I’ll break down and cry

And again pound my fist on the floor.

I run down the hall and the doorknob turns

As the swirling snow rides on the wind.

There, in my doorway, it’s the face I love

Such a beautiful present to send.

Now, I am happy and dancing around

With a permanent smile on my face.

As children are singing their Christmas love songs

And the world is a wonderful place.

PATHWAYS



Lord, I’m so lonely, I thirst everyday

In search of the love I need

like a man in prison with no warmth at night

A slave who seeks to be freed.

For I need a woman who will heal my heart

So my life won ‘t seem so wrong.

I’ll lie down beside her and gamble again

Then sing of our love in a song.

Remember, young Adam, your first favorite born

Who slept in your garden alone.

You took form his body and transformed some flesh

Then gave him a woman unknown.

Whichever the pathway I should choose to take

I realize that there will be brambles.

For the man who has visions everyday of his life

Will always be the same who gambles.

Now, to heaven I pray, for my treasure of life

After searching the deserts in vain.

I’m tired of mirages from fool-hearted women

Please give me someone who’s sane.

May her eyes be turquoise with cheeks like peaches

Ripe and ready to risk.

Soon they’ll turn rosy when she sneaks a peek

To the tingle of where I kiss.

Though I will love her, I shall never follow.

Nor will I ever lead.

I’ll walk beside her and share all I have

For the children who spring from seed.

If we should argue about foolish things

I ‘d rather be loved than right.

Then when I lie down at the end of my day

I’ll sleep with a smile at night.

ENCHANTED

Over any man who feels lost without love

God gives women divine powers.

They can break our hearts or deflate our ego

And cause us to buy diamonds and flowers.

They have compelled kings and presidents to beg

Wild singles to commit to change their way.

Loving us with pleasures problematic to replace

With flashbacks of their passion night and day.

Women mother our babies who we love till death

For us to raise, protect and provide for.

They contribute revenue, affection and direction

With love, companionship and more.

They insist we never abuse or disgrace them

Cheat, lie or take their love for granted.

Which helps us to become more than we are

In love and totally enchanted.

WHISPERS



The one thing I’ve learned about happiness

It will never last pretending you’re not you.

Somehow, someway the truth will arise

And all that you hide will show through.

Sooner or later, one way or another

Something in your life seems wrong.

You go to bed unhappy and awake the same

Repeating life’s mistakes too long.

One day, to yourself, you begin to question

Is this who I am and wish to be

How will I choose to live the rest of my life

Till the angel of death comes for me?

Most people wish to be at peace with God

Oneself, and those we love.

Frequently taking a look at our past

Praying for guidance from above.

Thank heaven for the whispers from the heart

Which remind us that evil has it’s voice too.

It’s always a battle amid right and wrong

As we ponder and perform what we do.

LIFE



Life’s a book written through

Where the pages are the years.

There’s good, evil, false, and true

With laughter, sweat, and tears.

Our days are songs composed by God

As we set them to music with pleasure.

His cup of life is for us to drink

Though, He, decides the measure.

Hurried and worried, dawn till dusk

There’s no time for a curtain call.

We burn our candles from both ends

And we’re lucky to be alive at all.

Cards are shuffled and hands are dealt

For all to place their bets.

Youthful blunders, adulthood struggles

And old age, with its regrets.

It matters not, how long we live

But more, how well we play our part.

For the road to heaven is always near

As long as there’s truth in our heart.

EYES OF LOVE



A mind may see a thousand eyes

Though the heart yearns for two

When the eyes we love have up and gone

To the arms of someone new.

Eyes that twinkle, I distrust

For they are the distant stars.

Eyes in love have a steady glow

Like Venus, the Moon or Mars.

Eyes of love, like planets at night

Use borrowed light to shine.

Eyes are the living lenses

To the camera of our mind.

Eyes tend to believe themselves

Like the blind love of mothers.

Eyes speak without words

To the hearts and souls of others.

LOVE



No rope or cable can hold so tight

What love can do with twine.

No kiss can taste so bittersweet

As the one which captures our mind.

The first sign of love is the last of wisdom

As eager hearts fulfill desire.

Love is just a staple of life

Though heaven sparks the fire.

Heaven knows no rage like love

Once to hatred it has turned.

How wise are we who are such fools

Who forget the lessons we’ve learned.

Love, indeed, descends from heaven

Like a shooting star across the sky.

Love sometimes stirs the dust,

Till tears fall free from the eye.

God must love people in love

Or he wouldn’t make so many.

Those who claim it’s a mental disease

Have never been loved by any.

Love is stronger than life itself

And jealousy more cruel than the grave.

Men and women have loved one another

Since they spent their nights in a cave.

When the hands of love

Touch the strings of souls

There’ll be babies on the way.

That’s the basic rules of life

No matter what games we play.

Like the flowers in the fields

We shed our shields

To be warmed by the sun.

We live our lives the best we can

Till death catches us on the run.

MY WILD ROSE



You ‘re the full moon of my nights

And the sunshine of my day.

Like a queen upon her throne

You rule what I do and say.

It’s God who makes us beautiful

And the Devil who makes us mean.

It all depends on whom we follow

Which way our lives shall lean.

With one foot in the future

And one foot in the past

Let us try to live our days

As though each was our last.

You’re the wild rose of my life

My flower of desire.

Made by God for me alone

Out of earth, stars and fire.

MY WIFE



You’re the bone of my bones

Who I love for my wife.

The flesh of my flesh

And my partner in life.

For me to have and to hold

For better or for worse.

To love and to cherish

Though we might fight and curse.

Be I richer or poorer

Till death makes us part

I will give you great portions

Of my soul and my heart.

Heaven won’t be heaven

If I don ‘t see you there

May the first to go

Be me, is my prayer.

FAMILIES

The first stage of a family group

Begins with husband and wife.

Shelters are rented, bought or built

As they yearn for more from life.

Families are found throughout the world

In bone clusters buried in caves

Where ancient people lived and loved

‘Till death placed them in their graves.

Humans still have that need to group

As a family to survive

They love and care for each other

In the world in which they strive.

Families are a nation’s crown jewels

Far more than a golden coin.

Members find love and sympathy

From the groups they’ve chosen to join.

TEARS



Tears are the raindrops of the soul

And there’s one for all who die.

They are the silent words of grief

As they fall free from the eye.

The shortest verse in the Bible

Is the one where Jesus wept

So, if you hold back tears, “shed them”

When your pains too harsh to accept.

Tears are lovelier than a smile

When they come from those you love.

As they seek relief from sadness

When you’re summoned from above.

Tears are a love-mates humble gift

When it’s time to say goodbye

Though the eyes are wet and swollen

With time and patience they dry.

LOVE & ELECTRICITY



Love and electricity are a lot alike

For we never seem to miss them till their gone.

We need both, every day of our life

And even more so between twilight and dawn.

Love resembles a self-consuming amber

A static current of both pain and pleasure.

It can warm our bed and lighten the darkness

And for most who don ‘t have it, it’s a treasure.

We can turn it on or we can turn it off

Depending on whatever we’re forced to do.

It may shock us, please us, thrill us, or hurt us

Though once without it, we can’t wait to renew.

THE SEED OF LOVE

A kindly woman can make a sad man sing

With her love and affection winter seems like spring.

Of all the pleasures in life given to a man

There’s nothing beats the touch of a woman’s soft hand.

God saw Adam alone on Eden’s floor

Then decided to give him Eve’s love and much more.

So take what you need from she chosen for you

Then rid thyself of others and to her be true.

The Lord planted love within mankind’s heart

Though things can grow sour when from Him we depart.

Love and **** are but two sides of life’s golden coin

So be ready for both no matter whom you join.

FORGIVE ME

Forgive me, forgive me

And I’ll kiss your tears away.

You’re the first thing and the last

I think of every day

Let bygones be bygones

And be willing to forgive.

And I will love you only

Every moment I live.

I love you and I need you

It’s a fact and not a lie

So if you plan to punish me

Say anything, but good bye.

PARTING

The truest words, which portray my love

I speak to you from within m

WARREN