Star! Life Poems: Volume 2

By Margaret A. Lort

These words to be treasured are a little slice of heaven to help lighten your load and to brighten your day, beginning with the poem, “Laughter.”
Margaret Lort lives in Colorado with her husband, two married children, and five grandchildren.

She enjoys spending time with her family; doing crafts and participating in a poetry group.

Her first book, Star! Life Poems was published by lulu.com in 2010. She has been published in The Denver Post, several volumes of The National Library of Poetry and the Focal Point Magazine now named Denver Seminary Magazine

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Jun 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483401409

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Star!

Life Poems Volume 2

Margaret A. Lort

Copyright © 2013 Margaret A. Lort.

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ISBN: 978-1-300-97436-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-0140-9 (e)

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 06/06/2013

Contents

Laughter

Wings

Beg, Plead, Ask

Forgiveness And Faith

Pink Tennies

Kindred Spirits…

With My Hand In Daddy’s

Dewdrops

Scribbles On My Heart

How Long?

Questions I’ll Ask God One Day!

A Summer Afternoon

Padlocked

My Man

Shadows And Reflections

Rooted

Recognition

Unacceptable

The Evil One

Grandma’s Lap

Real Love

Grapes

On The Other Side…

Three C’s For Congress

Perfectly Created

Voices…

Joy-Filled Reminders

Certainty

Raspberries And Dreams

Spring Flowers

Investments Secure

Teenage Eye Rollers

The Puzzle

Bindweed

God’s Mirage

Tapestry

The PH Challenge

Jewel Box

Sweetest Sounds

Opals

Infusion

Salt And Thirst

Balloons

Jurassic Park Revisited

My Beloved And The Betrayer

Armored Yet Vulnerable

Welcome Home!

A Twinkle In Rhyme

M and M’s

Fingerprints

A Patch Of Blue

Soles And Souls

Mourning And Peace

A Panorama Of Fury And Blessing

Cacophony

Named

Problem Solved

Soft Places

Petal Paradise

On The Beach

Space Available…Step Right In

Quotations

Fall Beginnings

Two Hummers

The Blue Ridge Parkway

Countdown

Boomerang

What Is A Poem–Really?

Pennies…Heaven Sent

Freedom…In Christ

Mini Vacation

The Original Constitution (Unamendable)

Enchanting

The Landscape

Computer Dream

Lessons Learned

Invitation

I Was There…

Acknowledgements:

Dedicated to my dear grandchildren

without whom I would not have known

that I could write.

You are my inspiration!

May you grow in the stature

and grace of the Lord

as you draw close to Him

and make Him

the center of your lives.

Because I love my Lord

and because I love you

and pray for you,

I am Grandma

Laughter

Laughter leapfrogs across the

lily pads of my life,

and leads to lavish love!

Laughter is liquid,

dazzling the languid, lazy

longings of a lifetime.

Laughter lavenders my lamentations,

rendering them lamentably lax

while loneliness leaves.

Laughter levels the Legions

licking their lying lips

in loathsome lust

to lure away my spirit.

Laughter lifts me up

to view a lilac landscape

laced with lessons to learn

and lighthearted lyrics.

Laughter lends luscious luster

to the luxurious

link with my Lord,

adding to the length

of my lilting lambish days.

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*lol = laugh out loud

Wings

Perched on the grandma side of my heart,

you try your wings,

then you burrow back eagerly for love and a hug

when your legs buckle and your smile wilts.

Your sleep-heavy eyelids slip silently down

in mute surrender to Grandma’s soft lullaby sounds.

Saddle-seated on Grandma’s hip

you point at your world –

sailing birds, pink roses, and yellow daisies.

I teach you words while your copy-cat sounds

gurgle as water tumbling from your lips.

I lose myself in your yodel coos,

your I love you smile, and your delicious belly laughs!

Soon your real-life words will take flight.

But you won’t stay molded to me for long

as your perpetual-motion body flings you into space,

propelling you into realms unknown.

As you grow and change,

Grandpa and Grandma’s prayers will glide over you daily,

challenging you to soar toward life,

your wing tips brushing your dreams.

Beg, Plead, Ask

Lord, I find myself

on the corner of my