Denis Martindale Poems

As one who's hardly been abroad,
So few rights to complain,
Can't think of any warm reward
Of getting cold again...
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Are white wolves merely dogs to you,
While you are safe at home?
Or do you have another view
While in the woods you roam?
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At the Creative Writing Circle that evening,
The poetry's main theme was about love.
We began writing down our thoughts as usual.
Within minutes, I had finished my poem,
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What can I write? What should I write?
In truth, it would be nice,
Within a dream, unveiled each night,
To get the Lord's advice…
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What Makes Poetry Beautiful?


What makes a poem flow like wine or dance upon a page,
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What makes a poem flow like wine or dance upon a page,
Or celebrate all truths divine, transform both love and rage?
What makes a verse converse and share or touch as if a breeze,
Or whisper like a secret prayer one says upon one's knees?
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As long as good stays in your heart, to guide you on your way,
Such that the Lord can still impart His blessings every day,
Then I give thanks for all that's done, despite each pain and strife,
For God will bless you through His Son... I thank God for your life!
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Father, in Heaven, forgive them,
They know not what they do,
For their hatred is the problem,
It clouds their point of view...
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The prophet woke up from his bed,
He then began to write,
Explaining thoughts still in his head
God helped him dream that night...
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The Holy Spirit comes to those aware of sin and death,
Yet who is He who died yet rose? Jesus of Nazareth!

With Pentecost, the Church began and tongues of fire, too,
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