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Angel White
Poems By Lynn Barany
So you want to be an angel?
The good Lord said to me,
Do you think it will be easy
To be spiritual, and free?
He said, "I guess we'll try it"
So He sent me here to live,
He told me I would learn a lot
On how to take, and how to give.
He set up many hardships
That I really must endure,
He made sure I wasn't rich,
He made sure that I was poor.
He didn't give me good looks,
He didn't make me smart,
He just gave me the very basics
To go ahead and start.
It's been many years
That He's let me stay around
He hasn't called me home at all,
He's seen me smile, He's seen me frown.
I often stop and think
Have I passed the angel test,
Have I done all I can do,
Have I tried my very best.
And when He calls me home
Sometime late at night,
Will He send me back again
Until I get it right.
Or will He let me have my wings
My halo, gold and bright,
Will I ever get to wear that gown
That gown of Angel White ...
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Hi,
Thank you for coming to my poetry site. I hope you've enjoyed reading my poems and will come back again to this humble poets home -- Island Poetry. Every poem is original and is derived from my daily encounters, thoughts, experiences, relationships and contacts with family, loved ones, friends, nature, the world and people at large.
My poetry is simple, uncomplicated, straight-forward and honest coming from the heart, soul, a spiritual presence and obviously God -- Her/Himself. Thus, once the idea and first line of a poem "pops" into my head, the balance of my poems "arrive to me" more or less complete requiring only my immediate and total attention and focus in its writing down, with minimal additional work or effort thereafter.
While belonging to the International Society of Poets, I have also been fortunate to have had the support and publication of many of my poems by local community newspapers, faith groups, charitable organizations, and in various anthologies published by the National Library of Poetry and catalogued in the U.S. Library of Congress - Publication Data ISBN 1-56167-256-4
I now live on lower Vancouver Island, off the Canadian west coast. Although originally from the Canadian province of Ontario, I have over the years also lived in the province of Manitoba, as well as Germany.
Once again thank you for reading my work, hope you enjoyed and found it relevant also to your own experiences of the living, loving and challenges of everyday life. I truly would appreciate and love to hear from anyone with comments, critiques, suggestions or what-have-you. Email Me - lynnbarany@islandpoetry.com
Regards,
Lynn
Barany (Hanna)
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