Poems By Vance Broad
Do Not Rage
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My heart stopped and I entered that quiet place of light,
Shining in Truth, Beauty, Trust and Love.
Fragile and brittle these cold, naked lights
Crack and shatter once born,
To melt and warm again in that safe womb.
I have been there and will go again and again.
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Yesterday Too Late!
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Yesterday I saw God
Shining on the water,
As I lay poised
Between joy and sorrow.
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Golden, His warmth chilled mine.
Happy that you are found,
Relinquished in sadness
- I gave you up.
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Beauty marred by neglect,
I remembered God too late,
As I scurried for the cold glow
Of Indulgence
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This to warn
You who know God
And will know that you did
- Too late!
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Each Must Play
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A part never knows it is fitted
Even whilst it is working away.
And only when it is failing
Do we know what part it did play.
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But a part that will be mended
To work better than before;
Cherishing what it has tended
Has a chance to do so much more.
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Gracious Goodness
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When were we at our best?
When I depended on you.
When could we meet the rest?
When you provided - it’s true!
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Then you depended on me...
- That never was for you.
The love you gave so free,
You held for me - that’s true.
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You gave good all around
But then I changed your way
Since teaching took your ground
And you had less to say.
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And now you’ve found anew
That good was always there
And I must learn for you
That you were made to share.
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You need to be where needed,
You cannot be away;
Your goodness shared and heeded
By those you show the way.
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So now the future urges
And I am needing you,
Inventiveness resurges;
Still your good holds true.
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And you must be yourself
That I shall no more reign,
And I shall crave your strength
- To share that good again.
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The Last Day
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I’ve said “I love you” a million times
And yes, it’s easy to say.
I know I love you more than life
But I knew not in which way.
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I love as much to give you up
In another’s arms to lay,
But I can’t be here, or near to you
To see that happen some day.
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No lingering, no withering
But a diff'rent bright light day,
And time to spend all my life,
This late, a final way.
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There are some things of which I know
To take this pain away;
Far better something beautiful -
Greater Love to win this day.
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Grow and flourish in your light,
While I live full this day:
No time to ponder things gone by,
My life shall quick away.
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‘’Tis a far better thing that I do now...
But if you love me, say!
Please hold me from that destiny,
To save, just one more day.
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The Last Valentine
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My heart aches, our love breaks,
Valentine's vows discarded;
Thirty two years we've held these vows,
We promised how to be parted.
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So I will keep my promise
To make your pledge come true
And I will trust an angel
This special day, for you.
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Thank You
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Thank you darling for making me feel -
Alive again!
Thank you darling for making me reel -
And thrive again!
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Your wake up call has done the trick -
Awake again!
I don’t feel ill, I don’t feel sick -
I feel again!
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But love has caused you so much pain -
Safe again.
A gentle soul has kept you sane -
Thank him again.
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I see your need and step aside -
Pain again.
But pain I welcome, not numb inside -
Life again!
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He will love you and keep you safe -
Love again.
I know you love me but how unsafe -
That edge again.
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And I will hurt to see you go -
Torn again.
But I am saved by one we know -
Our son again!
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He saved us once a while ago -
He does again.
He saves me now while you must go -
Binds again...
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To life this time and not to you -
Saves again.
I need him now for he is true -
Allow again...
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That he should stay and keep me sane -
Be kind again.
And I shall leave you through my pain -
In peace again.
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Get Real
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Grace stopped loving you fifteen years ago
When Barry took interest and flattered you know.
Brought up honest, decent, proper and prim
And she had to tell you all about him.
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We fled from the Solent with her little bun
She never forgave for her ball and chain son
And hoarded each folly to like me the less
Craving attention from everyone else.
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Would have taken the true love, of her best friend
But then didn’t do it, she couldn't offend.
But she was so ripe for a bit on the side
Opportunity knocked, Gabb came for the ride.
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Our family ties she has broken apart
And when Gabb pretends to write knowing on art
From aloft, far removed from experience and heart
He will cause her to doubt and doubtless, to smart.
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Of family shackles she’s now broken free
And when Gabb researches his book of the sea,
She’ll cast ‘round her charms to prove than she can
And trawl in another such wimp of a man.
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And she could have men that she missed out before
And they might come flocking and knocking her door;
Until with experience her body wears out
And she will have mem'ries, of that there’s no doubt.
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Fulfilled, independent, she wants to be
But far from the woman her mum wished to see.
And yet I once loved her, I can’t hide that pain
And I'll still be there when she wants me again.
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Your Eyes
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Only your eyes have eased the pain,
Smiling bright, though they've seen so much.
Sparkling eyes, promise life again,
For you are too young, for life to touch.
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And still I see through, to your hurting soul:
Those eyes that beg me and plead me to hold
You.... close to me....to make you whole,
In these steady arms that I.....you....enfold.
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Resurrection
(My Epitaph)
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A new life begins
As my fiery sun sets.
Forgiven all sins
As day soon forgets.
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A silver moon splashes
On my quiet sea
And day's deeds are ashes,
No more part of me.
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Mother caress me,
Earth bring me home.
Through ashes I now see
Bright madness has gone.
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And I am at peace
With earth, wind and air,
Anger now cease
No more shall I care.
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For I have come home
To my woman of earth,
No more shall I roam
Scythed in your turf.
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And we will bring wild life
To sea, wind and air;
Wet, smouldering passion!
Such storms we shall bear.
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Rainbows
(A Valentine For Hayley)
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Have you ever seen two raindrops
Melt on a window pane?
Have you ever seen a rainbow
When there wasn't any hint of rain?
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No more rain on Valentine's Day
Because I couldn't stand the pain
Of seeing all those rain drops
Melt together, not to part again.
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Because people are not raindrops
I know, it's a crying shame,
That when we come together
It's not how we remain.
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For now I've melted to you
And thank God for the rain
That made us one together
Trickling through life's pain.
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A rainbow in a bright sky
A bridge across our pain,
Until all rainbows vanish
Our hopes will still remain.
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What Goes Around
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Help time to meet its fate
And all will be revealed.
Better now than far too late,
That all might soon be healed.
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For now you see what I had feared;
He cannot hold your course.
A helmsman's way must now be steered -
Back to our True Love's source.
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