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I have sat for hours,
And could sit for hours more,
Watching the sea;
Marvelling at its many moods
From a calm, gelatinous mass
To a raging, furious, crass
But fascinating, captivating
Eccentricity;
Throwing itself against the rocks
Blocking its way, and the spray
Dispersing, diffusing across my view
Covering you and me
As we watched the sea.
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©Denise G Allen, 05 November 2014 09:30
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The call of the mountains
Echoing through the air,
The singing of the sea
Softly sighing eternally,
The morning chorus of birdsong,
The bullfrogs’ croak at night,
Thank you Heavenly Father
For all you’ve given me,
My destiny… and my delight.
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©Denise G Allen, 09 October 2014 08:36
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Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by civilized human activity. It may also be defined as: “The most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet—those last truly wild places that humans do not control and have not developed with roads, pipelines or other industrial infrastructure.”
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Everything can be reduced
To a maths equivalent,
A chemical blueprint,
But beauty is lost along the way.
Give me, if you may,
A formula for splendour,
For magnificence,
A delight to the eye and
Sustenance for the soul.
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An impossible task, I say,
To encapsulate beauty,
Put it behind bars or
Chain it and hold it captive
For our admiration and approbation,
Because it is a living thing,
From day to day unfurled,
Living on love, shrivelling with hate,
God’s gift to our world.
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©Denise G Allen, 07 October 2014 09:48
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Thirteen days to go
But already tiny leaves appear
Barely visible to our naked eye
Stating ‘Spring is almost here’.
Life springs from dead stalks,
Only one of His miracles each year,
But some of us are blinded
By false ideas of wealth
And life counts for naught
Compared to untold things on earth.
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©Denise G Allen, 18 August 2014 08:32
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The star-studded blanket of night
Lay warm in the silver moonlight
Then slowly unravelled row by row
While the cock kept watch for the sun
And lifted his head to crow
Saying ‘Hello’ to the new-born morn.
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©Denise G Allen, 05 August 2014 12:33
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They sail on high and fill the sky
With shapes asunder, large and small,
Harbingers of rain, or thunder,
Giving relief to the thirsty earth.
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They move without a single sound
As shadows creep across the ground,
Separating, pooling, as the wind blows,
Journeying as far and wide as the sky goes.
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©Denise G Allen, 24 July 2014 09:41
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Looking through God’s window
At the earth below
Wide-eyed at the beauty
Lost to man’s neglected duty
Sorrow for the morrow
When we’ll have to beg and borrow
Food and drink and air to breathe
Nothing saved ~ we disobeyed
Destroyed our earthly paradise
Right before our very eyes
Care-less, thought-less, heed-less greed
And avarice beset our needs
Is it too late to turn the tide
We have nowhere else to run and hide…
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©Denise G Allen, 15 July 2014 12:41
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Black as the night
Absorbing all light
Sometimes invisible
But very beautiful
When viewed silhouetted
Against the bright rising sun
Emerald eyes stare
Unblinking, considering
Which way to run…
And then he was gone.
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©Denise G Allen, 02 July 2014 08:07
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My eyes are overflowing
With the beauty of the Lord,
My heart is filled to bursting
With the love held in His word.
We must prepare to meet Him
As He is on his way,
And His glorious coming
Gets closer every day.
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©Denise G Allen, 23 June 2014 06:08
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God is everywhere and in everything,
In the valleys and vast plains,
In the warmth of the sun and in the rains,
As an artist leaves some of his soul in his creations
So has God in His innovations
And if we open our eyes and ears,
Everyone will see and hear;
His soul is a magnet drawing us closer
But oft times we struggle to deny His lure.
Without Him we are incomplete,
As hollow as an empty shell
While He is our Creator, Lord and Master
And our Loving Heavenly Father,
Our Shelter in the storms of life,
And in the darkness He’s our Brightest Light.
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©Denise G Allen, 30 May 2014 04:33
