Brian Johnston Poems

Do not wait for rain
To hide your tears
Like a statue standing
Alone in a park,
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You touch my battered heart
Like the feathered wings of angels,
You burst from my poor eyes
Like the tears of awakened love.
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Alone….. what relief in the face of life's riot,
Alone….. and what sweet space, fragrant air all around,
Earth's rotation imparts no real sense of motion
Until stars appear! Their swirling dance makes no sound.
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(A short lesson in Republican science!)

Seems once in a while even dumb folks are right
Even broken clock's right twice a day friend,
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Such a trembling rose! She has something to hide,
Feigns her cough hoping Prince will remain by her side,
Though she loves him, in fact, she is loath to declare,
Her connection to one with two feet, could he care?
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Everyone's life

Everyone's life's really tragic it seems,
There's just not time friend to live all our dreams.
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1. Covenant of Affirmation
(Unconditional love, agape love) Rom.12: 10, I Thess 5: 11
There is nothing you have done or will do that will make me stop loving you. I may not agree with your actions, but I will love you as a person and do all I can to hold you up in God's affirming love.
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I feel sure mine's a true case of ‘Poet's Mouth'
My fans certainly are precocious,
My goodness, oh they think I'm divine
They are all itching to be my Valentine.
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If ever I forget to wake,
Don't let me go, for heavens sake,
Just slap me hard, give me a shake!
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