Timothy Branch Poems

In the little that you have many call you rich. Shake the misuse of the word poor.
Those you call poor are very rich in that they hope for greater than they have.
They hope for the unseen because there is no need to hope for what you can see because to lay hold of the source fulfills hope.
Wealth like this does not dwindle.
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Into a field high above the field, a single bird shows.
Still in flight, no fluttering wings did the eye see.
The presence of wind not found in trees.
Upon the breathe of the spirit does each wing.
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I’d run a little harder against you if I knew there was a competition between you and I.
You would get a better workout if against a both parties agreed to the competition.
It is no fair to your own despair, your choice not to share your disdain with the one in whom you give this burdensome attention and care.
Don’t be so selfish just share not stare.
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I hear these things.
I record these things.
I am in no way gifted enough to ponder these things alone.
God needs a body. He needs one to transmit these things.
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Adam was a keeper and a worshipper.
So much so that God did not create for him her.
Not until that Adam was proven to be a keeper and a God worshipper.
So that Adam would not know from whence she came
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Without being profane, what are you saying? No problem when you split a few or butcher a verb or two. But to hear profanity laced dialogue all the time, works on my yes my nerves. I'm not concerned about what I used to do because I know that you learned the same thing that I learned too.
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Words have meaning. ijs.

a picture is worth a 1,000 words. ijs.
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I'm afraid to say.
I can't believe you are going that way.
Just the other day you say, 'How can they be so laissez? '
Is it now fair? So soon did you forget.
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Feeling some kind of way today.
Leadership can make you go there some days.
Leader if it stinks in your AO, check your shoes.
Yeah, them bodies underneath your shoes.
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Leaders, check yourself.
It's about the folk under your watch.
Watch them and see the fruits of your labor.
Bright and vibrant or foul, dark toilet matter brown.
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