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  "Great Poets of our Time"
  
              I HELPED HIM CRY...
  Her little son of four years old
  Seemed to understand
  When the neighbor’s wife had died
  And left a lonely man.  
  He saw him sitting on the porch
  This man of eighty-one,
  He went and climbed upon his knee
  He sat there in the sun.  
  When the daylight turned  to dusk
  The little boy returned.
  His older friend was smiling
  Although his heart still yearned.  
  “What did you two talk about?”
  “Oh, nothing,” he replied.
  “I just went and sat with him,
  “I thought I’d help him cry...”
               DAVID GOFF
  
  
  From "The Sunlit Path"
           
  MY MINISTRY
  I looked for a ministry far away,
    One that would thrill my soul,
  One that would challenge hundreds
              of lives,
    Perhaps even numbers untold.  
  But the Lord said clearly, “Listen to me.
  I want you right where you are.
    I want you here
    To comfort and cheer
  With a deed and a song or kind word.”  
  People aren’t looking for doctrines
           or creeds.
  These can be found anywhere.
    They want to see
  The love of the Lord
    Flowing through you and through me.
  MILDRED EBY MCKEEHAN  
  
  
  LADY JANE
  Outside my window is a world beyond
  my stares...
  What ever my heart wants to imagine
  there you are...
  In every glance I picture you in my mind.
  
  A gentle breeze blowing through your
  golden hair...
  My heart sees you inwardly with warm
  affection...
  Is there any wonder that I could be in love
  The sky is in your eyes with shades
  of heavenly blue...
  
  Within each look you hold my breath endlessly
  taking little parts of me.
  DELORES M. MASSEY
  

To D. M. M.

 Upon the endless journey road we meet
 another soul beyond expectancy.
 Perhaps an angel makes that link to
 finalize our destiny.
 
 While my fingers do not trace
 the lines that form your manly face
 and ears not let to shiver to your whisper,
 I can sense your presence in the air.
 
 The words your eloquence chose for me
 proved how deeply you did care.
 
 And if forever we must go apart
 your words have left a warming glow
 like sunshine in my heart.


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