Archive for the 'Poems' Category

JOY COMES IN THE MORNING

Sunday, February 19th, 2012

          By Ken Blue Psalms 30:5  Creation is under a curse; creatures all are groaning. Lazarus lies neath the stone, his love ones, all are moaning. The Apostle is left for dead, at Lystra’s stoning. Mary watches Jesus die; for sin He was atoning. With feet on land and sea, and [...]

LITTLE SPARROW

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

          By Ken Blue Be sure and listen to the great songs to lift your spirit Little Sparrow, did you know, The Father used you to show His love. You reap not, nor gather into barns, Yet you’re fed from a storehouse above.   You are seen, where’er you are, Whether [...]

THE END OF SELF

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

  By Ken Blue Be sure and listen to the great songs to lift your spirit         How much pain can a heart take? How much weight before it breaks?   Our Lord’s grief was unto death. As drops of blood, He did sweat.   A giant was killed with a stone; [...]

BITTER WATER

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

    By Ken Blue     Be sure and listen to the great songs to lift your spirit Moses led them from Egypt; he’d been saved by Pharaoh’s daughter. They came through the sea, untouched by the fleeting water.   He sang a song of deliverance; there he built an altar. They journeyed next [...]

THE DARK SIDE

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Be sure and listen to the great songs to lift your spirit By Ken Blue               Fall is here and it’s dark. The sun, it seldom shines. Is this the way it really is? Or is it only in my mind? Looking at things around, They have lost their [...]

ESTHER KRAUSS

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

                    By Ken Blue I’ve met some fine ladies in my life time, Mother was one; another’s that wife of mine. But you stand out among the most sublime. I think of heaven when you come to mind. Your silver gray hair, with its tint of [...]

THE LEGEND OF THE DOGWOOD AND THE ROBIN

Friday, January 6th, 2012

          By Ken Blue There is a legend my mother told me, About the Robin and the Dogwood tree. The beautiful flowers for all to see, Are my gifts to Jesus, who died on me. You ask why the snarled and the crooked limbs? So a cross may never be made [...]

ME, AND MR.WINSTON

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

    By Ken Blue (Note: This poem may help some of you with a New Year’s resolution)     I started smoking cigarettes when I was fourteen. I stole them at night from dad’s cigarette machine. Dennis and I went to the outside can, And smoked in hopes of becoming a man.   Dad [...]

DEAD END

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

            From a window above the street, With a view that was commanding. I saw among the simple ones, A youth void of understanding. At the corner on a broad street, I saw her searching for a prey. See saw him coming to her trap, She’d snared, perhaps, hundreds this [...]

ONLY ONE

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

By Ken Blue “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Ephesians 4:4-6. There is one church, to which all the saved belong. [...]