Category: Poems

Donkey in the well how did you get in there

I cannot see how without there were stairs

It’s so far down that I barely am able to see

What will you do, someone help him please

No one can do it; it is not possible they say

He’s too far down, in the bottom he’ll stay

Not that we don’t care, really, we do indeed

It’s just that there’s no solution we can see

So, we began to cover him up, to fill the well

Ever so sad that into the well he had fell

He was such a sweet donkey to have around

But now we must bury him deep in the ground

What’s this we see, why he’s on higher ground

With each new shovel of dirt, we pitch down

Why he’s shaking the dirt right off of his back

And I do believe he’s smiling, now that’s a fact

Lo and behold, he’s climbing over the well

And, and all I see now is the back of his tail

Because he has trotted off to the barn

And with nary a single sign of bodily harm

The moral of this tail, I would like you to see

When all hope is gone, there is hope indeed

Never give up on God bringing you to where

He wants you to be, even without any stairs

Author, by God’s grace, Sharon Rose Lawless, August 30, 2019

I saw a stranger in the street along life’s way.

He was knocking on people’s doors both night and day.

Asking all that would hear his voice speak.

Won’t you let me in for I am lowly and meek?

But no one would hear him their door they had barred.

And I saw the stranger crying so pitifully loud and hard.

Why don’t you want my presence within your dwelling?

And then mine own heart within my soul I found failing

Failing to comprehend the true price that this man in the street.

Had paid so that one and all might someday be able to meet.

In a paradise beyond the realm, we now live in as our present home.

To live in mansions, he is preparing in his kingdom round his throne.

Then I looked again only to see in front of my lowly eyes.

No longer was the man to be seen but something else that did fly.

Upon the apex of my heart doeth it linger within my very soul

And I must have its story to everyone i know told.

This dove’s wings have lighted not only upon my heart today.

But also, has brought the light that once had been so far away.

To the point that the glimmer of its rays now touched my very insides.

Now i am covered with Christ robe of righteousness and I am alive.

Now I ask each one this question and ask you to tell the truth.

Has this small white dove’s wings by you ever been bruised?

Did you also like I brush it aside with the sweep of your hand?

Not knowing it had been sent to you by this meek and lowly man.

Jesus said I am meek and lowly in heart and now I understand.

Mankind’s sins have burdened his load as he walked this earth’s land.

Causing him pain and suffering undeserved ore and ore again.

When all God wanted to do was walk beside us holding our hand.

Author, by God’s grace,     Sharon Rose Lawless

FAMILY REUNION

My heart has been torn into by the events I once again must endure,

Never had I felt such forlorn and emptiness on this earth.

For once again I have traveled the path I thought impossible,

The sadness within my heart causes tears within my eyes to pool.

Not long ago this scene I had been a part of and I find that it seems,

Now I am feeling as though I am somehow living within a dream.

It cannot be that one has to endure the pain within my heart,

Once again I have seen one I loved so dearly from this world depart.

How can this be that I have not once but twice so soon to have lost,

Those I hold so dearly in my life, for I cannot bear the cost.

Of a lifetime of ties that have been suddenly ripped apart,

And within my being now lies a shattered, broken and bleeding heart.

Help me this day to see how this could possibly bring anything good,

For my life I’d gladly laid down in place of my loved ones if I could.

Oh to see something worth living beyond this day that I am in,

Would be at least something to help me start living life once again.

Afar in the distance dimly I see something coming within my vision,

Is it possible that I have been given an answer to the reason.

Of why I must go on in this my journey upon this earth which I now trod,

I find myself held close to a being like none other and I know it is God.

He is telling me this is not what I had wanted for you to have endured,

For I had created mankind to live forever without a single fear or tear.

In time to come all sorrow and pain will be erased with no trace about,

Don’t give up, a mansion awaits you and yours in your Father’s  house.

Where our loved ones will gather once again in a reunion the like never before seen,

And looking back upon this life we now live in will seem but like a dream.

For the reality is, this world is but a testing ground upon which we now do trod.

A family reunion will be given like none seen before, for the children of God.

Author by God’s grace,      May 23, 2010 Sharon Rose Lawless

IN TIMES LIKE THESE WE OFTEN HEAR IT SAID ROUND AND ABOUT

I’M TIRED OF THIS OLE WORLD AND I JUST CAN’T WAIT TO GET OUT

YET IN THE MIST OF LIFE’S TRIAL’S AND TRIBULATION’S SEEN ALL AROUND

MIRICLES ARE TO BE HAD, BEAUTY AND KINDNESS ARE STILL TO BE FOUND

PAINFUL CRYS ABOUND AS A LOVED ONE PASSES THROUGH THIS WORLD

TEARS OF JOY GLISTEN HEARING A NEWBORN’S CRY SETTING HEARTS A WHIRL

FEAR IN THE LONELY NIGHT WHEN ALL HUMANITY VANISHES WITHOUT A TRACE

COURAGE RENEWED AT DAWN UPON FINDING FRIEND AND FAMILY FACE

ANGER AND HATRED FOUND ABIDING IN THOSE WHO SHUN GOD’S LIGHT

MERCY AND GRACE HAND IN HAND EVER WALK TOGETHER DAY AND NIGHT

SEEKING THOSE THAT ARE TIRED AND TRODDEN, WEARY AND WORN BY LIFE

THE HOLY SPIRIT BECKONS US TO ABIDE IN HIS WINGS AND TAKE FLIGHT   

FOR THIS WORLD CAN NOT HOLD THOSE LIVING IN JESUS CHRIST

ONCE PRISIONED TO THIS WORLD WITH NO HOPE TO WIN THE FIGHT

WE CLAIM HIS PROMISES BELIEVING HIS WORD WITH ALL OUR MIGHT

SOLDIER’S IN THE LORD’S ARMY, THE CROSS EVER HELD IN VISION’S SIGHT

THY WORD OUR MEAT, BREAD, AND WATER BY WHICH WE ARE FEED

RENEWING OUR SPIRIT, REFRESHING THE SOUL, QUICKENING OUR STEAD

FORGIVENESS OF SIN BRINGING PEACE IN THE MIST OF LIFE’S STORM’S ALL AROUND

GRACE AND MERCY SURROUNDS OUR BEING, WHERE ONCE SIN ONLY WAS FOUND.

LOVING MY GOD, THE GREAT I AM, FOR HE FIRST LOVED ME WITH ALL OF HIS MIGHT

EVEN GIVING HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON TO A WORLD HE KNEW WOULD TAKE HIS LIFE

I’LL FIGHT WITH EVERYTHNG THAT IS IN ME, TILL ONE DAY I WEAR MY ROBE OF WHITE

HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE ON THIS EARTH, KNOWING IT IS GOD’S BATTLE I FIGHT

AUTHOR, BY GOD’S GRACE,     SHARON ROSE LAWLESS     OCTOBER 21, 2011

That time of life’s end we are now in,

Lord knows the places we have been.

But by Thy grace we would have failed,

And seen our souls in danger of hell.

Thy patience, long suffering, and love,

Sent the Holy Spirit on wings of a dove.

Guiding us on life’s journey here below,

Bless the Lord, praise God, oh my soul.

Author, by God’s grace, Sharon Rose Lawless.

03-31-2021

JUST A PEBBLE IN THE ROAD OF LIFE

LYING THERE IN THE DARK OF NIGHT

NO BUILDING DO I HELP SUPPORT OR HOLD

UNABLE TO CARRY LIFE’S HEAVY LOAD

BUT WITH MY SAVIOR AS MY ROCK I STAND

UNABLE TO BE MOVED BY PRINCIPALITIES OR MORTAL MAN

FOR HIS STRENGTH IS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPLY ALL MY NEEDS

BY THE POWER OF JESUS SHED BLOOD HE SAVED AND LIFTED ME

ON HIGHER GROUND IN A CITY SOMEDAY

I’LL BE ONE OF CHILDREN IN THE KING’S FAMILY

WHILE HERE ON EARTH I MUST HELP TO GUIDE

WONDERING SOULS TOWARDS HIS KINGDOM ON HIGH

ALONG WITH MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS I HAVE FOUND MY USE

IN PREPARING THE PATHWAY TO GOD’S WORDS OF TRUTH

HIS STORY MUST BE TOLD TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

BY NO OTHER NAME THAN JESUS IS THERE ANY HOPE OF OBTAINING THE NEW BIRTH

JESUS SHED BLOOD IS THE MORTAR THAT HOLDS AND BINDS

EACH PEBBLE IN PLACE THROUGH THE AGES OF TIME

NO LONGER A COLD AND LIFELESS STONE LYING THERE

NOW BECOMING A JEWEL, SO LOVELY, SO PRECIOUS, SO FAIR

LIFE’S TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS SMOOTHING MY ROUGH AND JAGGED EDGES

WITH THE HEAT OF CHRIST PASSION MY HEART IS REFASHIONED

WE EACH HAVE BEEN CREATED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE MOSAIC OF LIFE

ITS THEME BEING OUR CORNER STONE, JESUS CHRIST 

AUTHOR, BY GOD’S GRACE

SHARON ROSE LAWLESS

LORD HOW DO YOU DO IT, I JUST CAN’T UNDERSTAND

HOLD UP WITH ALL THE SORROWS BROUGHT TO YOU BY MORTAL MAN’

SIN AFTER SIN, DAY AFTER DAY, LOSS AFTER LOSS,

YOU EVEN GAVE YOU SON JESUS TO DIE FOR OUR SINS ON A CROSS

NEVER GIVING UP ON A WORLD IN WHICH LOSS SINNERS DOTH ABOUND

YOUR SON DID COME TO A DYING WORLD WHEN HE LAID ASIDE HIS RIGHTFUL CROWN

IN ORDER TO SAVE THE WORST OF THE WORST OF EARTH’S MANKIND

NEVER ONCE DID JESUS CHRIST CONSIDER CROSSING BACK ACROSS THE DIVIDED LINE

FOR OUR WORLD IS DIVIDED BY THE SINS BROUGHT ON BY THE SINFUL NATURE OF MAN

AND THIS PLACE, NOW OUR HOME, IS SO VASTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE PROMISED LAND

THE LINE IS THERE IN THE FOREFRONT WITHIN THE REALM OF OUR REACH

ONCE WE GIVE OUR HEARTS TO OUR SAVIOR FOR HIM TO EVER KEEP

AND THE LINE THAT NOW DIVIDES WILL SOON BE FOREVER ERASED

ALL TEARS WILL BE DRIED UPON SEEING OUR SAVIOUR FACE TO FACE

IN THE SWEET BY AND BY I AM LONGING WITH ALL MY HEART

TO JOIN MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD NEVER AGAIN TO PART

I CAN’T STOP PRAYING NOW LORD, NOT NOW, IT IS THE LEAST I COULD DO

TO SPEAK WITH MY HEART IS THE ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW TO SPEAK TO YOU

EVEN THE WORDS I USE ARE A GIFT WITH WHICH TO OFFER MY KING

FOR I AM SO INEPT TO FIND THE WORDS THAT I AM FEELING DEEP WITHIN

AND I REALLY DON’T KNOW HOW YOU LOVE AS YOU DO

WHEN SO MANY CHOOSE TO REMAIN DISTANT FROM YOU

YOUR ARMS ARE STILL OPENED WIDE TO THE SINNERS ON THIS EARTH

AND I FEAR TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR GOD’S PEOPLE TO DO THE LORD’S WORK

AUTHOR BY THE GRACE OF GOD

SHARON ROSE LAWLESS DECEMBER 13,2009

Three little baby ducks, named Rinky, Dinky and Stinky loved their mother so

They would follow their momma each and every single place she would go.

One day it came to each their minds that they wanted to know.

Which one was the favorite one that their momma loved so

In secret each little quacker went alone to speak to their mother

To see if favorite little quacker was themselves, not the two others.

Then each baby quacker mother answered the question they asked.

Momma’s little quackers were told what they wanted to know at last.

Later that evening while in their room and all gathered to play.

Little Rinky spoke and said I have something that I wish to say.

I asked our momma who her favorite quacker was, who was the best.

And momma  told me it was I, so I am her favorite more than the rest.

Then little Dinkey said, “Well that it just simply cannot be so.

Because Momma says I am her favorite, and she wanted me to know.

Upon hearing his brothers little Stinky raised his head up high

Why that simply cannot be true at all, momma told me that it is I

Then off to mother’s bed they all decided to scamper right away.

Each shouting they were momma’s favorite one that very day.

Looking at her darling little quackers momma smiled and said, “Oh.”

Each one of you is my very favorite one I want you each to know.

There is none other in the world like each one of you, for you see.

God gave each their own unique and wonderful personality.

The three little quackers hugged and kissed their momma’s cheek.

Saying all of us are mommas favorite not one of us, but each!

The point of this story I hope to be as clear as clear can simply be.

God gives each his children their own unique individual personalities.

Each are Gods favorites we see is true when his word we will see.

Opening our Bible to the book of John 3:16-17 we can read.

 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,

 that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; 

but that the world through him might be saved.”

Please do not lay your head down before asking Jesus into your heart this day.

Author, by God’s grace,   Sharon Rose Lawless

February 10, 2024

My  prayer  for  you  I  wish  to  convey.

Regarding  what  I  hope  for  you  each  day

Flickers  of  glimmering  light  from  time  to  time

With  each  one  may  it  bring  a  smile  into  your  mind

Sparking  tears  of  sorrow  into  tears  of  joyful  thoughts

Bringing  treasured  memories  to  recall  never  to  be  lost

There  is  no  special  power  this  clear  bobble  of  glass  holds

But  simple  a  symbol  of  the  message  wished  to  you  be  told

Tis  a  reminder  that  this  world  we  live  in  is  not  our  final  home.

Along  with  its  presentation,  a  prayer  of  special  memories  of  the  past

When  shimmering  rainbow  reflections  of  its  hues  glimmer  cross  your  path

You  are  loved  over  the  moon, above  the  stars, beyond  the  galaxies  on  high.

REVELATION 4:3 And  he  that  sat  was  to  look  upon  like  a  jasper  and  a  sardine  stone: and  there  was  a  rainbow  round  about  the  throne, in  sight  like  unto  an  emerald.

Author, by God’s grace, Sharon Rose Lawless

COULD I BRING YOU GOD’S SUNBEAMS FROM ON HIGH

TO RIDE UPON THE BLUE HEAVENS ABOVE IN THE SKY

‘TWERE IT POSSIBLE WITH ALL MY MIGHT I WOULD TRY

I’D LASSO RAINBOWS OF COLORS SO BRIGHT ABOVE

WRAPPED TIGHTLY IN A BUNDLE OF KISSES AND HUGS

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU ARE LOVED

TWINKLING STARS FROM ABOVE I’D GATHER JUST FOR YOU

SPRINKLED WITH ROSE PEDALS, BABY’S BREATH AND DEW

THAT IN LIFE’S DARKEST STORMS GOD’S PATHWAY YOU VIEW

THEN I’D LASSO THE MOON WHEN AT ITS FULLEST PHASE

AND UPON ITS SURFACE MEMORIES TOGETHER ENGRAVE

THAT IN MOON LIT DREAMS EACH NIGHT YOU ARE BATHED

NONE DO I NEED DO TO KEEP YOU IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME

ALTHOUGH IN DEATH I AM NOW FROM THIS EARTH SET FREE

LOVE WE SHARED FOREVER REMAINS ALIVE, NEVER TO FLEE

THE TEARS OF SORROW LET NOT LINGER, LET NOT BUT A SIGH

FOR I REST AWAITING MY LORD’S RETURN IN THE EASTERN SKY

WHEN MY BODY SHALL BE CHANGED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE

GOLDEN SUNRAYS WITH BOWED RAINBOWS OF COLOR EVER TRUE

WITH TWINKLING SHINING STARS AND MOONBEAMS OF EVERY HUE

WHEN VIEWING GOD’S CREATION, REMEMBER, FOREVER I LOVE YOU

AUTHOR, BY GOD’S GRACE, SHARON ROSE LAWLESS SEPTEMBER 23, 2018