Captured Thoughts

Poem By: e.h

2022-02-15T00:47:00.000-05:00

She wove golden rays of sunshine,

Into a long and flowing dress,

That left the scent on everything she touched,

Of nature's sweet caress,

Everywhere the girl did go,

The flowers would all bloom,

And she could chase the lonely feeling,

Out of every darkened room,

She could drive out all your sadness,

And cause a frozen heart to thaw,

She'd paint the sky pink every morning,

But nobody ever saw,

No one thought to thank her,

For the warmth upon their skin,

Or for chasing all their demons,

From where the night-time'd breath had been,

So she thought she wasn't needed,

She could leave and they'd not care,

But they'd just taken her for granted,

Since her light was always there,

Because you never thank the ground,

Until you know how it feels to fall,

Or just how much you need the sun,

Until it doesn't rise at all.

-e.h

I think it is important for us to remember to be grateful for the people around us and to let them know how much they mean to us! We should never take for granted the people who are closest to us. Don't wait until someone is gone to realize how much they meant to you! It is the little things that can make someones day, a simple "thank you", holding the door open for someone, or just a smile. Always be thankful for those around you!

- Captured Thoughts

"Beauty" By: e.h

2022-02-08T12:24:00.000-05:00

If one of the things you believe in,

Is that this world's an ugly place,

You must have never gone outside at night,

and stared up into space,

You haven't felt the way air changes,

In minutes before it rains,

Or watched the world pass by below,

Out the window of a plane,

you've never been awake so early,

That you see the moment the sun starts to rise,

And you've never lain with your back on the grass,

And made shapes with the clouds in the sky,

But maybe if you've done all of this,

But still don't believe it's not true,

It's because you don't see the beauty,

That I see when I look at you.

-e.h

I hope your Tuesday is going well!

-Captured Thoughts

"The Snowbird" By: Frank D. Sherman

2022-01-31T12:56:00.000-05:00

When all the ground with snow is white,

The merry snowbird comes,

And hops about with great delight

To find the scattered crumbs.

How glad he seems to get to eat

A piece of cake or bread!

He wears no shoes upon his feet,

Nor hat upon his head.

But happiest is he, I know,

because no care with bars,

Keeps him from walking on the snow

And printing it with stars.

-Frank D. Sherman

Here is a fun winter poem on this fine January day! Hope that this poem finds you well!

-Captured Thoughts

"The Heart of the Story" By: Captured Thoughts

2022-01-24T12:31:00.000-05:00

I open the golden pages as if they

Were a box of jewels,

The words flowed into my heart like a waterfall

Filling the river with wonder and light.

My eyes looking through the character and filling

The character's needs, wants, pain and laughter.

I look up,

Only to find the real world staring back at me

As I dream of myths and mystery.

-Captured Thoughts

I wrote this poem an an expression of how I feel about reading. I have always loved books and telling stories in different ways. I hope you have enjoyed this poem!

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"What Then" By: W. B. Yeats

2022-01-09T23:38:00.005-05:00

His chosen comrades thought at school

He must grow a famous man ;

He thought the same and lived by rule,

All his twenties crammed with toil ;

'What then?' sang Plato's ghost. 'What then?'

Everything he wrote was read,

After certain years he won

Sufficient money for his need,

Friends that have been friends indeed ;

'What then?' sang Plato's ghost. 'What then?'

All his happier dreams came true-

A small old house, wife, daughter, son,

Grounds where plum and cabbage grew,

Poets and Wits about him drew :

'What then?' sang Plato's ghost. 'What then?'

'The work is done,' grown old he thought,

'According to my boyish plan ;

Let the fools rage, I swerved in naught,

Something to perfection brought ;'

But louder sang that ghost, 'What then?'

-W. B. Yeats

I felt like this poem was very relevant to today's time. You could have the whole world in your hands but in the end it will never be enough. You will always be striving for more, always asking 'what's next?'. That is why it is so important to trust in Christ! We may not always know His plan for us, but we can know that His plan is good.

In 1 Timothy 6:17-19 it says:

17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. 18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, 19 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

My point is that we must live for God because He is the one who give us life.

I hope you enjoyed this one!

-Captured Thoughts

"A Memory Never Forgotten" By: Captured Thoughts

2021-12-20T00:13:00.000-05:00

The stars kiss the dawn good night

And kiss the moon to shine brighter for all.

The moon kisses the ocean

And the ocean knows what to do.

The ocean kisses the tinder feet of a child,

Making joy and memories that will never be forgotten.

-Captured Thoughts

I wrote this poem a while ago and thought I would share it today. I hope you like it!

Because today's poem is short I thought I would share a photo of the ocean that I took as well!

"The Rain" By: W. H. Davies

2021-12-12T22:56:00.001-05:00

I hear leaves drinking rain ;

I hear rich leaves on top

Giving the poor beneath

Drop after drop ;

'Tis a sweet noise to hear

These green leaves drinking near,

And when the Sun comes out,

After this rain shall stop,

A wondrous light will fill

Each dark, round drop ;

I hope the Sun shines bright ;

'Twill be a lovely sight.

I thought this was a beautiful poem, hope you like it as well!

"A Man Without Faith" By Richard Church

2021-12-06T22:39:00.001-05:00

A man without faith

Grows old before his years,

His world a wraith,

For whom the end nears

Like a winter mist

When the sun is cold

In the cold west.

His children about him

Are strangers, unknown ;

The love that begot them

Cooled and gone.

If he get riches

They turn to rust,

And he can do nothing

With the handful of dust.

Life's miracle fails him,

Life's rapture, life's breath ;

He has done with living,

He has forestalled death.

I think this poem has a lot of truth to it! Many people in today's culture live without faith, without knowing the Lord. When people try to find happiness in the world, it ultimately fails them because this world is finite. The Lord will never fail you though. God is not finite, He is infinite, never changing.

"All That's Past" By: Walter De La Mare

2021-11-28T09:54:00.002-05:00

Very old are the woods ;

And the buds that break

Out of the brier's boughs,

When March winds wake,

So old with their beauty are-

Oh, no man knows

Through what wild centuries

Roves back the rose

Very old are the books ;

And the rills that rise

Where snow sleeps cold beneath

The azure skies

Sing such a history

Of come and gone,

Their every drop is as wise

As Solomon.

Very old are we men ;

Our dreams are tales

Told in dim Eden

By Eve's nightingales ;

We wake and whisper awhile,

But, the day gone by,

Silence and sleep like fields

Of amaranth lie.

If you haven't guessed, poetry is my favorite form of literature. It has so much freedom of expression and emotion in it, you can't help but feel the poets thoughts. I love how you can take the most simplest thing, like a flower or a beautiful spring day, and write about it as if it was magic from another land! It is sad to me that more people don't enjoy the simple pleasure of reading poetry. That is why I started this blog, so that more people can discover the joy of poetry.

-Captured Thoughts

This poem was published in 1981

"Daffodils" By: William Woodsworth

2021-11-22T14:59:00.000-05:00

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way.

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of the bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing there heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they

Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not be but gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed - and gazed - but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant, or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

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I love this poem. I think people should pay more attention to the beauty around them especially the small things like the wild flowers that grow on the side of the road, the sun rising and setting, or how the water sparkles in the sunlight! I feel like people would be more happy this way!

- Captured Thoughts

This poem was published in 1807.

"I Sit and Look Out" By: Walt Whitman

2021-11-15T11:39:00.001-05:00

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all

oppression and shame;

I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men at anguish with

themselves, remorseful after deeds done;

I see in low life the mother misused by her children, dying,

neglected, gaunt, desperate;

I see the wife misused by her husband-I see the treacherous seducer

of young women;

I mark the rankling of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be

hid-I see these sights on earth;

I see the working battle, pestilence, tyranny-I see martyrs

and prisoners;

I observe a famine at sea, I observe the sailors casting lots who

shall be kill'd to preserve the lives of the rest;

I observe the slights and degradation cast by arrogant persons upon

laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;

All these-All the meanness and agony without end I sitting look

out upon,

See, hear, and am silent.

- Walt Whitman

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This poem really struck me because it is so easy to sit back and watch while others are struggling with their problems. Sometimes we don't know how to help, but more than often we don't take the initiative to help. I encourage you to be more observant of other's struggles and problems. While also being more observant of ways you can help. You never know how you can be a blessing to others!

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We also need to remember that just because someones "social media life" looks good doesn't mean that their reality is great and amazing. We need to be observant of people outside of social media because that is when we can help the most.

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I'm not saying you have to fix everyone's life either. Some people just need a friend to stand by them and encourage them. I ask you to be that friend that so many people need!

This poem was published in 1860

A Quote from Adrian Rogers

2021-03-09T21:55:00.001-05:00

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

- Adrian Rogers

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So many people today don't speak the truth for fear that someone will be offended or mad. We see this especially in today's time, in politics, in religion and pretty much anything else. We need to live by the truth, no matter what others may think or believe, because someone will always be offended or mad.

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Lies and deceit may comfort at the time but they will soon come back to bite you. But what is the truth? Our world is so twisted and upside down that no one knows what to believe anymore. I believe truth is the Bible that comes from God.

Proverbs 12:19 says: Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

"Today" By: Billy Collins

2021-03-02T14:17:00.000-05:00

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,

so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw

open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,

indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths

and the garden bursting peonies

seemed so etched in sunlight

that you felt like taking

a hammer to the glass paperweight

on the living room end table,

releasing the inhabitants

from their snow-covered cottage

so they could walk out,

holding hands and squinting

into this larger dome of blue and white,

well, today is just that kind of day.

- Billy Collins

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This poem was published in 2000.

"True Beauty" By: Captured Thoughts

2021-02-23T14:25:00.001-05:00

Bury me in a field of flowers where the aroma is sweet and the soil is deep.

Bury me by the trees of old so that we may exchange our wisdom from ages ago.

Bury me where the earth sings that I may hear the praises to my King.

Bury me in the west that I may see the sun setting and the light at its best.

Take me then from this world of mine, that I may see true beauty in Thine.

For so little and fleeting is this place, only He could have given me so much grace.

I now walk in glory from above, with nothing on my mind but singing and love.

So hear me when I tell you this: nothing compares to Heavenly bliss.

- Captured Thoughts

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I wrote this poem not because I was sad or depressed, but because I wanted to show that death can be just as beautiful. Many have been afraid of death this past year, not wanting to die of COVID, or letting others die of it. I believe we should be careful around others. However, we should not live our lives in fear of what may, or may not happen. As Christian's, we need to trust that God has a plan for our lives, no matter what!

In Jeremiah 29:11 it says: For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.

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Very often we do not know what God's plan for our life is. Sometimes it's scary, but we always know that it is good. Even during the difficult times, when life seems at its worst, we can put our faith in God and grow from the experience.

- Captured Thoughts

A Lesson on History

2021-02-16T16:20:00.002-05:00

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it"

- Edmund Burke

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"The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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Today is short quote day. So, I gave you two that I think are extremely important. There are so many people today, young and old, that don't know their history. For instance, did you know that "Santa Clause" was a real man who was a christian in the 4th-century? (Santa History) Also St. Patrick was a fifth-century Christian missionary and bishop from Ireland. (St. Patrick History) These are small examples but still important. No one tells you about the christian perspective on history. Everything is so secularized, even our holidays!

People wonder why our world is the way that it is. Well, this is why. Everyone is so busy screaming things that they don't fully understand. I know for some of us history can seem boring. However, if we took more time to understand the past and the people that came before us, then I believe we would be better prepared to speak about our beliefs and our future.

- Captured Thoughts

A Quote from Uncle Tom's Cabin

2021-02-09T00:00:00.180-05:00

"'If this world were all, George,"' said Simeon "'Thee might, indeed ask, where is the Lord? But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him, and, no matter what befalls thee here, He will make right hereafter."'

- Uncle Tom's Cabin

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This quote really stuck out to me when reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. During the book George has a hard time seeing what God is doing in his life and why He is letting him go through all these trials. I love how Simeon replies with "'no matter what befalls thee here, He will make right hereafter.'"! So many times we get caught up in our own life and struggles that we forget that God has a plan for our life even during the difficult times. If we believe in Christ and believe we will go to heaven, then the toils of this world mean nothing!

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George has such a great character development in this story. I love how he goes from someone who don't know the Lord, to being a man who strives to serve the Lord! You really see his struggles and what he goes through but in the end he comes to know the Lord and starts to trust in Him!

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I honestly can't tell you how good the book Uncle Tom's Cabin is! The book is set before the American civil war when slavery was normal. The main character is Uncle Tom, even though I focused on one of the side characters, George. It talks about what slavery was really like, the good and the bad. I learned a lot from this book and I highly recommend it!

The book was published in 1852 by Bantam Classic and written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A Quote from Laura Ingalls Wilder

2021-02-02T14:40:00.001-05:00

"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and courage when things go wrong."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

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I believe this quote is definitely something we all should be striving for! You see so many people being deceitful, being greedy, and not enjoying the simple pleasures of life. Everyone is so caught up in their own agendas, their own plans, and their own wishes that no one looks at the beauty of life. When things go wrong and their plans don't work out, their worlds crumble to dust.

We need to learn to enjoy the simple things in life. When things don't go as planned we need to take a step back, have a little courage, pray, and go on with our life. I know it is easier to say than to do, especially when it feels like everything is falling around you. But I believe if we strive to live like this then we will be much happier!

- Captured Thoughts

"Worth While" By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

2021-01-26T14:27:00.000-05:00

It Is Easy Enough to be pleasant,

When life flows by like a song,

But the man worth while is one who will smile,

When everything goes dead wrong.

For the test of the heart is trouble,

And it always comes with the years,

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth

Is the smile that shines through tears.

It is easy enough to be prudent,

When nothing tempts you to stray,

When without or within no voice of sin

Is luring your soul away;

But it's only a negative virtue

Until it is tried by fire,

And the life that is worth the honor on earth

Is the one that resists desire.

By the cynic, the sad, the fallen,

Who had no strength for the strife,

The world's highway is cumbered to-day;

They make up the sum of life.

But the virtue that conquers passion,

And the sorrow that hides in a smile,

It is these that are worth the homage on earth

For we find them but once in a while.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This poem was found in the book, Best Loved Poems Of The American People, selected by: Hazel Felleman. The book was published in 1936. Although, I'm not sure when the poem was first published.

"Worth While" is one of my favorite poems. I love how Ella Wheeler Wilcox brings out that being prudent while life is easy isn't enough. You must be prudent when life is hard. It's only when you are tempted that your true character shines. We all have choices in life. We must not choose temptation. We must resist desire because those that choose to be prudent even when life is hard are the one's that are worth while!

I also encourage you to be a good example and to let your light shine before others because people are watching you, even if you don't realize it. They watch to see how you handle certain situations, whether you're going to let temptation in, or resist. In all circumstances, you are an example to others, good or bad.

I want to point out as well that we have the choice be joyful during our trials and tribulations and we have the choice to be down and depressed. I encourage you to choose joy because being down and depressed helps no one. It only hurts yourself. I will say, however, that there is a time and place for everything. You can cry when you are sad, but you don't need to let that time of sadness run your life. You need to move on and focus on the joy in your life.

This are my thoughts on this poem. I hope you liked it and got something out of it as well!

- Captured Thoughts

"The Thinker," By: Berton Braley

2021-01-19T21:23:00.001-05:00

Back of the beating hammer

By which the steel is wrought,

Back of the workshop's clamor

The seeker may find the Thought-

The Thought that is ever master

Of iron and steam and steel,

That rises above disaster

And tramples it under heel!

The drudge may fret and tinker

Or labor with lusty blows,

But back of him stands the Thinker,

The clear-eyed man who knows;

For into each plow or saber,

Each piece and part and whole,

Must go the Brains of Labor,

Which gives the work a soul!

Back of the motors humming,

Back of the bells that sing,

Back of the hammers drumming,

Back of the cranes that swing,

There is the eye which scans them

Watching through stress and strain,

There is the Mind which plans them-

Back the brawn, the Brain!

Might of the roaring boiler,

Force of the engine's thrust,

Strength of the sweating toiler-

Greatly in these we trust.

But back of them stands the schemer,

The Thinker who drives things through;

Back of the Job- the dreamer

Who's making the dream come true!

- Berton Braley

I'm not exactly sure when this poem was first published. I read it in one of my favorite books, The Best Loved Poems of the American People, selected by: Hazel Felleman.

I always had a love for poetry and think it is something that is going out of style in today's literature. I decided to share some of my favorite poetry with you, along with some of my own that I have written. I hope you enjoy this as much as I have!