River

Heidi Viars's avatarHeidi Viars

This life a river, running fast

O’er my heart, a calloused stone.

Troubles seem like waters, vast

Rushing with the goal to hone.

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Wake me up, let waters flow.

Move me so that I give in.

Use this river and do show

Where I stray and where I sin.

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Mold my cold and stony heart

Into the shape you have it be.

I know pain will have a part

For my heart to be set free.

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Put in me, o God, your heart.

Help me live with love inside.

Help me receive what you impart.

Help me put away my pride.

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Your design, Jesus, for sure

Is what I want and what I seek.

So I stay, wait, and endure

Knowing waters will recede.

Ken, from the moment you stuck these words into your guitar-case and said you wanted to let your guitar get aquatinted with…

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As one

K.L.Laettner author(InfiniteZip)'s avatarPeace, Love and Patchouli

We run our thoughts through scenes,
colored images exploring the realms
in empty spaces found
dipping our mind in to swirl it around
mix it all up creating something new
special and sincere
like rain on a solitary afternoon
we become as one
feeling the drops fall
plopping down to the ground
making a mighty splat
we marvel at the makings
of natures art.

Watered down days of paintbrush strokes
and songs that soothe the mind
relaxing us into the place
where artists dwell unseen,
we blend in becoming
something new from ingredients found
in dreams and ideas
we craft them into collages
sea shells and waves
on blank canvas we shuffle it here
and then there
trying to fit pieces in to appeal,
we realize there is a bit of us
within each frame,
as love is all in the end
we evaporate to become
the images of our…

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