Willem VanVoorthuysen Poems

Lord Jesus, send Your Holy Sprit
into this dusky desert of my mind,
in which, whatever trees are left
are shaped like question marks...
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One day, an angel will appear and take
those cool dark glasses from your eyes,
the mask that hides your creeping fear
that gold, nor sweat, nor persuasion,
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So, what if yesterday
our world was full of joy, but
tomorrow looms like this prison wall,
repulsive, hostile, cold and grey...
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Since God threw Adam and Eve
out of His Paradise Garden,
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After I lost you, I kept complaining
about the loneliness I felt, in spite
of all the love, concern and help
that I received from family and friends,
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God made the universe too wide
to be enclosed by boundary lines,
eternity a constant flow of time,
with no beginning, and no end...
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I parked my car on a lakeside lot, planning
to eat my lunch in peace, seated comfortably
on my driver's seat, with all my windows open,
and the radio softly playing Liszt sonatas...
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Beloved,
you are still so much here,
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The substance we call water
occurs in differenT forms:
as fluid, ice or vapor.
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Her lovely charms display the humble splendor
of pearly sea shells on a windward shore,
a fragile beauty, simple yet sublime
in gracious and serene surrender
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