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Best Poems From
HARLAN SIMANTEL
(August 8,1951)
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made free
if the Son makes you free
you will be free
indeed
why he did willingly bleed
keep us really free, jesus
only You, good friend -
we please
and you please us!
not humans
not religions
not that regressive, old fashioned
dead church
formal, boring
lurch to creaky lurch
like a mostly dead birch
pretty white on the outside -
but dead inside -
give us new green wood!
and useful fruit
from us, your soil
your dirt
Harlan Simantel
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makeup
lipstick
makeup
why cover up
God's beauty?
fresh faces
in all their 'imperfections'
beautiful variety
rosy cheek from winter cold
flushed face when feeling shy
natural eyebrows
curved - short - long - noses
and below - curious toeses
subtle color of natural lips
fat lips
plain lips
thin lips
real expressions
real feelings
not makeup
human beauty - heaven's reeling
attraction ceiling - feeling!
i've seen beauty in 'ugly'
boy or girl, man or woman
the inside lights up the outside -
God's vivid life inside their animated hide
Harlan Simantel
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marbles
she wanted to play marbles
i didn't
i rolled her a marble at a time
she accepted each one
didn't roll any of hers back
i kept rolling my favorite but ordinary
marble to her
and she kept rolling it back
wouldn't accept it
didn't like it i guess
a new player entered the scene
with a shiny big marble
he rolled it to her
she smiled and accepted it
i told her i didn't like playing marbles anymore
she didn't say a word
i got up and left
never saw her again
i never did like playing marbles
Harlan Simantel
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mate
i need a mate
a perpetual fun date
partner - with -
rather than over (except that pleasant way)
dovetail
not a 'wife'
sounds like a slave
i want to be free
love our simple key
a gal pal
sold out to jesus
the Person she aims her heart at -
pleases
yes, even that way!
loses her life
(loses the moniker 'wife')
to find it
fresh start
led by God's heart
God, please send her!
the right one
a little sun
much fun!
Harlan Simantel
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