Forrest Hainline Poems

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131.
Enemies

Enemies assail
Me from ev’ry direction
You, Lord, are my shield
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132.
Infirmities

Age brings
Infirmities
The nagging reminders
That I’m not done answering death
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133.
Teaching The Young

Sense joy in all things
Empty your heart of anger
When teaching the young
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134.
Balaam

I was on the wrong road
And in the wrong road the Angel took her stand
To stand in my way and right my journey
I would not see her though she stood before me
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135.
Waste

I looked to earth and saw a formless waste
I looked to heaven and saw no light
I looked to mountains and saw them crumbling
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136.
Psalm 009 - Cinquain

Rejoice
With your whole heart
The Lord maintains your cause
Hears your cries, and remembers the
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137.
God's Anger

I looked
At formless earth
And the empty heavens
The mountains were quaking with God’s
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138.
Psalm 010 - Cinquain

Why stand
So far from me
In my time of trouble
When will you listen Lord and give
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139.
Anger

There’s truth in anger
Speaker's truth - more than love words.
The sheathed knife stays sharp.
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140.
Beauty

Beauty frightens us.
Terrible beauty. We all
Quiver before it.
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