“Filled My Heart With Joy”

 

Filled My Heart With Joy
.
He had filled my heart with joy
Ever since we met

He has made me happy
We started off as good friends

When we started to date

I thought I would burst with joy
Because of how happy

He had made me
I thought he couldn’t

Make me any happier
Then he asked me

To be his wife
And I just couldn’t

Hold my joy in
He has filled my heart with joy
And I know I will have

A happy life with him
And I know I make him happy
.
Jet ©

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It Means So Much
.
First time I saw

My newborn child

It filled my heart with joy
I was a father of a new life

As was my wife

A new baby boy
.
Such a great responsibility

But when it is a matter

Being your own
From the same blood and bone
You are attached

Not only by DNA

But by what it means to be
Human and to propagate

Yours and your wife’s lineage

Like your father and mother before you
The family facing the world together
Never alone
.
Beautiful and glorious daughters

Followed a few years later
It is more than just loving babies
The feel of the tiny hand

the sound and feel

Of the heart beating
Within mother

Maybe with a sonogram

If it’s a girl or a boy

You can see
You can always

Be proud of every lovely one
In your family tree
.
Dave ©

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The Eye Of The Beholder
~
All you poets
Find an open mic reading
Go and listen to others
Just think of it
You are not alone
There are so many of us
We who love words
We who see
What is outside the box
What this old lady loves
Is when I see a couple of kids
Who are in love
Once I saw a couple
Mathew and Mia
They were so in love
That I asked if
I could take their picture
It filled my heart with joy
To have been able to share
Their love for each other
And their love for poetry.
~
Martha ©

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The Joy Of Kristin
~
That June tenth
Long ago

I did not know a child
Could fill a heart so
~
Blue eyes
Blonde hair
First time I held you
I floated on air
~
You lived with us
When your family changed
Your parent’s marriage
No longer remained
~
I watched you crawl
I heard you talk
I laughed out loud
When you learned to walk
~
We colored, we played
We snacked and we napped
And suddenly you were grown
Just like that
~
Your now a young woman
A Mom and a wife
A doing so beautifully
Each day of your life
~
I look at your kids
A girl and two boys
To see all this
Filled my heart with joy
~
Stella ©

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A Life of Joy
~
The decisive moment in photography
When a click of the shutter
Brings all the elements of the final print
Into sharp focus.
A true Ansel Adam’s celebration
~
Exercising the finishing move of
A successful team play…
~
The moment when muse and
My hundred voices in my head
Come together
To reasonably agree on the first line of
The poem
~
When I remember a dream
Sufficient to write it down
And let it inspire
~
When I solved a previously
Unsolvable outer space problem
~
When you greeted me at the front door
In your negligee
~
When there is great joy
In my ministry to the sick visits
~
When the bars of jail
Fade away with the shared love of
The Holy Spirit
~
At the births of my
Four children
~
When I was present to a friend
Who needed me in that moment
~
Playing a game, any game,  with
My grand kids
~
All of these
And a myriad of others have
Filled my heart with joy
~
Robert Lanphar ©

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These Five Little Diamonds

~
There are no words to match

The beauty of a diamond

Masculinity elegant

Meanings behind

Such a stone are angelic
An expression of love

So not for granted

This stone given with

Unconditional meanings

Without fear
~
To have and to hold

Sealed with this ring

I do thee wed
As years pass

Our love will always

Glisten with heart
Deep the meaning

Of a diamond

Shows life when worn

With love that is was

And is intended
~

Given honestly

A humble heart

Cheers with every beat
On your finger

Gives a meaning

No words could commit
A true heart

Never beats in silence

Behold these five stones

Elemental beauty and grace

These five little diamonds
~
So beautiful on your hand

From my heart that

Has searched high and low

For your arrival

Now wrapped around your finger
Five steps taken

A march down the aisle

Where promise is sealed

By an exchange of rings

And a life of joy
~
A day in time when

That full circle may

Become a little worn

Never tarnished

Like true love

These five little diamonds
With confidence

The choice we made today

In my heart will always be

Till death do we part

Eternity everlasting
~
You have filled my heart with joy

A joy I have never known

Joy that took the heartache

And tears away
With much gratitude

I have been blessed

To be found by you

The love you show me

When you wear

These five little diamonds
~
I LOVE YOU BABY
~
LourdMoon ©