Heaven's Shore
What it is? Or Isn’t?
What love is…Is joy inside
Hearts so full of hope and faith
Longing to give from the soul
Gentleness, kindness, whispers of warmth
Breaths of compassion that fulfill needs
Answer prayers and enlighten spirits
What love isn’t…Love isn’t fame
Fortune or wealth. It isn’t the answer
To questions that express a need for knowing
All the best places, all the best spaces
All the best faces. Love isn’t getting
More than we give. It isn’t listening
To the shadows of doubt within.
Love is alive, a fire on the inside
Breaking through the worst fears
Assuring hearts their feeling is real
Love is nurturing, honest and true
Filled with faith and sincerity, serenity
That feels wise and so self-assured
Love is gentle and concerned with truth
Welcomes tender thoughts and reflections
On goodness, kindness and sweet acceptance
Love is passionate and thrills the heart
With the urge to listen to soft, gentle thoughts
That beckon from the spirit of one who gives
Love is the answer to many of our prayers
It’s filled with faith and peace, sighs lightly
Through the tenderness of a soft breeze
Love is a dance through the melancholy sadness
Lifting spirits with a caress from sensitivity
Music caresses the heart with rich notes of inspiration
Love loans more than hope and faith to us
It loans rivers and floods of grace and mercy
Pure joy that delights our most dismal moments
What love isn’t… is fear, hate or greed
What love is… is hope, faith and dreams
What love isn’t… is anger, rage and doubt
What love is… is living on a prayer to Him
A God who knows our spirits live on real love
Love that gives, lives and fills up our spirits
With beauty and peace that comes from knowing
Love that is stronger than anything there is
Love that is wiser than anything that we might give
Love that is the answer to our heart’s quest
For a feeling that can guide us to heaven’s shore
It is what it is..............or is it??? Poetry Contest
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November 24, 2020
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