Poetry Page

       Our local newspaper is looking for submissions of Poetry for the Poetry page.   I am very much a poet.   When I look at my poetry collection, as usual, there is not very much there appropriate for publication.  My poems tend to be either very spiritual/religious,  or else deeply personal.    Here is an example.  I am sure they would not want to publish it!!

                                                         Some Will Be Angels                                  

 

Some spirits will be angels, 

angels of assorted kinds.

I do wonder what spirits do,

when eternal life is on my mind.

 

There are surely angels 

of the guardian kind,

who keep us in line and keep us safe,

when we stray or veer away.

 

Some may be messengers, who deliver

a Word which the Lord sends

to direct our path

toward what God’s intends.

 

Some angels will be singers,

—praising God night and day.

(though there is no night there,

for the Light of Glory fills the place.)

 

In the world of the spirit,

I long to sing with the Heavenly Host.

(When I wonder what angels do, 

that’s the part I want the most.)

 

It is not a choir, I shouldn’t think,  

With auditions for alto or bass,

but chosen according to our love of God

and the steadiness of our faith.

 

Some will be companions, 

who guide us so we’re not alone;

they take us from death to life,

and keep us company as we go home.

 

Some will be angels who walk with us

through the valley of the shadow of death,--

sometimes sending us back, 

when our earthly end is not due yet.

 

Some angels are our loved ones

Whose presence we perceive.

 They wait for us in eternal life;

this I do believe.

                                                                        

 

                                                                                                By  Nancy Rehkugler