Brian Johnston Poems

you know that you need forgiveness for…

A. Distrusting (even just a little) any person who looks or seems different from you in any way.
B. Wishing someone crazy would use one of those millions of guns to kill several million of those people who think that they have the right to kill others (for protection of course) . Wouldn't that teach them a lesson? !
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It's true that she loves her tears most of all,
With her tears she starts every day,
Could this be how she earns her pay?
I keep wondering, what's in it for her?
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In legend a man named Darth Vadar*,
Served evil, a perverse crusader,
I don't say this with pride,
But the day that he died,
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Dare to explore the unknown heart,
It's virtues for to sing.
Vistas grand and sweeping,
If entrusted to your keeping,
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Where is your home if it is not in God's love,
Though loud voices always doubt His existence,
Say His part in Creation is just an illusion,
And the idea He cares is just man's delusion?
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If reading a poem takes more than three minutes
Then most poetry's out of your grasp,
Your life's barely a popular song.
Might this not explain why other's demands tire you?
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I guess I don't know when a poem is done,
There's no bell that goes off, no starter's gun
Which signals to me a new poem's begun.
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(A Rave By A Poet)

Remember when you were a child?
Adults seemed then to be in control,
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Version 1:

Some writhe in fear before a roller coaster ride,
You would think they just wouldn't get on it.
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A dream of mine has always been
To know that I am loved,
By one, perchance, that I find fair,
Soul dancing in her hair.
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