To Flourish: God is the Light We are its Spectrum

By Duane Haynes

"Positive and encouraging poetry for everyone. Poetry to encourage and give you a positive outlook on life.

This is also a poetry book that teaches you to be strong in

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sweetspire Literature Management LLC
• Release date: Jul 21, 2023
• ISBN: 9781960861290

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Copyright © 2024 by Duane Haynes

Paperback: 978-1-960861-30-6

eBook: 978-1-960861-29-0

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023909533

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

This is a work of nonfiction.

Dedication

I would like to thank all my friends whom stood beside me and helped me put together this collection of poems.

Peace be with you always.

Poems are also available in iTunes and Spotify.

Illustration by: jgpurestudios.com

Your friend forever

Table of Contents

This Is About You…

Yourself

Destination

Motivation

No Where to Go

Small Tears

The Harp Seals Speak for the Last Time

A Letter to God

The Art Museum

Reality

Death to a Poem

The Innerly Believer

Catching of a Dream

Realities of a Dream

African Warrior

To Find God

Remember Me

Directions

Seasons

Ashes to Ashes

Righteousness

Come With Me

The Children, the Blessed Ones

Nourishment

Words of God

Go to Him

You Gotta Give Me a Chance

What Is Love

And the Lord Said

What Can Prayer Do

If You Build It, He Will Come

Rise

The Heart

Loneliness

If Only You Could Come Back…

1 - 2 - 3 - 1

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

I Think of You

More Than Enough

Love Dove

What Makes You Cry?

Love

I Know

Life Saver

Love

A Star

She Is All and Everything

Window Glass Love

Look Just Look

Under the Cross

Struggle

My Word

This Is About You…

You ask me why I’m the way that I am.

I’m the way that I am because of the path I have chosen in life.

If you stand for something, you become something.

But if you stand for nothing, you become nothing.

If you believe in something then that belief becomes your strength.

But if you believe in nothing, then that nothing will let anything tear you down.

It is that which you believe in that makes you the way that you are.

Life is not the way that you are but the way that you are is life

For whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6 -7

If you do good, good will come to you

If you do bad, bad will come to you.

That is the law and that is the circle of life.

What goes around, comes around.

You are the way that you are because you have chosen to be that way,

There is no other answer.

Do not look at the world around you and see an ugly place.

But look at the world within you and see its beauty.

Fault the world for the way that you are and you lose.

Change the way that you are in the world and you win.

Strive for the truth and learn His word.

And if what you seek is the understanding of yourself, look into the mirror and tell you what you truly see.

There, your search will end.

Find that love here within you where it’s always been.

Because that will be all that you will have at the end.

Because at all times you will be all that you have become.

For when you are at your toughest time and you need that strength