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I love Jesus! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This really expresses who I am and the underlying theme of most of my poetry. Look hard enough and you can always find something about God in my poems. This is of course because he's the centre of my life and the deepest part of my soul- poetry comes from my soul so God must feature- that's just how it is. My poems are generally regular in pattern with 3 to 5 stanzas, but there are exceptions. I don't go in for rhyming much.

I would like to dedicate some of these poems to my wonderful sister, Beth (and no she isn't holding a gun to my head....quite).

Psalm 23

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil for thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou anointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

When You Are Old - W B Yeats

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face among a cloud of stars.