It Shows In Your Face Poem by Karlene Garner
It Shows In Your Face
You don't have to tell how you live each day;
You don't have to say if you work or play.
A tried true thermometer serves in the place,
However you live it shows in your face.
The false, the lies, that you bear in your heart,
Will not stay inside where it first got it's start.
Blood and muscle are a thin veil of lace;
What you wear in your heart, you wear on your face.
If your life is unselfish, if for others you live,
Not how much you get, but how much you give,
If you live close to God and his infinite grace,
You won't have to tell, it shows in your face.
So glad to find a copy of this poem. I used to carry a copy of it in my Bible but somehow I lost it. I am working on a digital book of my life and I was wishing I could include this poem, now I can!
I am very happy I came upon this poem because I was thinking of it today. I recited it at the age of 8 in the island of Trinidad at my School Concert but it was by another poet. I love it and I am going to memoriize it again. It really is true that your feelings do show on your face.
Thanks for putting this on line... my mother enclosed a card with this poem in a scrapbook she made for me and I often wondered who wrote the poem as it practically guided me in my life’s walk.. I am now 62 years old
This HAS to be one of my most favorite poems of all time. SO beautiful, & poignant!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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There's a copy of this poem in Hazel Felleman's "Poems that Live Forever" but some of the words and phrases are different.