Sleep
This poem by  Patience Strong reminds us that no matter what we are facing, sleep can help make things look better. Each day is a new day given to us by God to begin again.
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Sleep
Poet:  Patience Strong
 
Sleep is a soft and gentle hand that charms away all strife - 
And draws us with a magic touch from out the grasp of Life - 
It throws into our tired eyes the golden dust of dreams - 
And we forget our failures and our little futile schemes...
If you've a grievance in your heart, don't rail and storm and weep - 
Just put a finger on the lips and then lie down and sleep -
And in the morning when you wake, you'll take a different view - 
For God gives you another day in which to start anew. 
 
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More short poems by Patience Strong:
Try Again
Poet:  Patience Strong
 
You can't recapture yesterday. 
You can’t put back the clock that way
And what was said you can’t unsay
But you can try again.
The future beckons. Start anew, 
To make another dream come true
Every day life offers you  
A chance to try again.
The Fruits of Time
Poet: Patience Strong
 
Though many be the roads  
You travel and loads you bear 
Make a little time for dreaming,  
Resting here and there. 
 
Looking round at what you’ve done 
The fruits of time well spent 
Gathering in peace  
Your little harvest of content.
 
 
 
Remember What Went Right
Poet: Patience Strong
 
You have had your troubles  
but you’ve had the good days too. 
Much you lost, but many mercies 
 have been granted you. 
 
Problems there are bound to be.  
Life can’t be all delight. 
When you think of what went wrong, 
 
Remember what went right.
 
 
 
Think Happiness
Poet: Patience Strong
 
Think health, think hope, think happiness -  
And in a wondrous way  
Things will work out for your good, 
 
Though dreary be the day  
 
You will see a shaft of sunlight 
Breaking through the cloud  
As you walk with shoulders squared, 
 
Heart light and head unbowed.
 
 
 
Take Heart
Poet: Patience Strong
 
Take heart.  
Take comfort too, 
Let time be kind to you. 
Think thoughts that heal and bless, 
With quiet happiness.
 
 
 
Recollections
Poet: Patience Strong
 
The year is threaded with remembered days  
Strung like beads upon a rosary. 
Forget them not, but count them and give praise. 
They are Time’s most precious legacy. 
 
Birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, christenings  
The dates that keep the past alive -  
To these the memory clings. 
They linger though  
Times hurries on. 
 
 They live on in the mind. 
Tell your beads.  
Give thanks for 
What the good years 
Leave behind.
 
 
 
Harvesting your Dreams
Poet: Patience Strong
 
Time grant to you the harvesting of dreams  
And may your path be lit with golden gleams  
So that you walk down bright and pleasant ways. 
Light be your heart and sunny be your days.
  
 
 
Lamplight
Poet: Patience Strong
 
Of all the hours of the day 
Perhaps the best of all 
Is when the day is over and the twilight shadows fall. 
 
For then I switch the lamplight on 
And things take on an air 
Of unfamiliar beauty, 
Half-afraid, I sit and stare.
 
 
For even ordinary things 
Look lovely to the sight 
Like living things that dream beneath 
That soft and golden light 
 
The table with its bowl of crimson leaves 
The leather book 
Take on an air of mystery, 
A secret, dream-like look. 
 
The cups upon the shelf, 
The copper jug, the chairs as well 
 
I feel I dare not move, 
Or I should break the magic spell.
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