16 Tuesday Apr 2019
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Hope, Just Poems & Prayers, Love
The beauty of my woman is found not in the fit of her clothes, nor the application of her cosmetics.
It matters not how plaited her hair or the fall of it upon her shoulders
Neither does the color of her hair matter, nor the smoothness of her beautiful skin.
All these fail to show the real beauty of who she has become to me. Continue reading
12 Friday Apr 2019
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Healing, Hope, Just Poems & Prayers, Love
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From The Heart, Hearing God's Voice, Love, Meaning of Life, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind
Here’s another one of my Prayers I stumbled across and thought you might enjoy.
Here’s to hoping Jesus enjoyed them each and every one!
Oh Lord, my God, sweeter are the moments I spend with You; Continue reading
08 Monday Apr 2019
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From The Heart, God is Great!, Hearing God's Voice, Love, Meaning of Life, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind
Hey Whirlwind Fans, this is simply a prayer I offered on February 26th 2019 because I was feeling moved by the Holy Spirit as a sense of His love flowed through my spirit.
How much more blessed can a people be than to actually feel the loving presence of their God!
So here’s the prayer:
Stars fill the heavens and streak across the night’s sky.
Brilliant and glorious light bathes our world every day in life warming beauty.
Then there’s that first cry of a newborn child
The first tears from a beloved
Laughter at a distance – listening to such delight in those we love.
23 Friday Nov 2018
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA
Days of pastel blues and lusterless reds could fill the inevasible blind pages to come. I have seen the splendor of my own antecedence, or rather the privation there of. Once bound in a twirl of youthful folly now I marvel, can they not see? I think they too, as I once, choose drunkenly, willfully to be ensnared by the false comfort of never‑ending youth; the pervasive, there will be time.
Though I have traveled many roads and stumbled on paths bleak, yet onward I plod; defiant, I stand in the face of waning possibilities. Though it may seem as brackish waters to the weak of spirit, nevertheless, I thrive. I have decided to dominate that which lies waste. Failure, you shall not take me!
I swim in a sea of spring-tide, the deep brims with life about me, yet I find Continue reading
15 Thursday Nov 2018
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Without Love
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Ever endure and never give up!
Decades passed entrenched in great, deep abiding hope
In joy of life we danced and sang and loved and drank in life’s inordinate soul
Valiantly I fought to keep the love of life alive
Alas alone my partner drank my strength till hope did die
Yet on I plod, in endless hope to find again that spring
But I had not a partner true to save me when I screamed:
Help, save me, catch me quick for in the mire I sink
For hope long lost can drag one down beneath the hopeful spring.
For abides the endless depth of never ending hope
From fools who plod alone until hope has drowned their soul.
Then from said soul the spring of hope is fed so others stride
Until they feed eternal hope until they too do stride.
By Steven R. Harrel March 28th 2014
15 Thursday Nov 2018
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Uncategorized
Oh folly of man, oh arrogance of my kindred, whilst thou would not humblest thyself in the knowledge of thy God and recognize His greatness amidst the bottomless quality of thy immeasurable comparative insignificance, others accomplish His will whilst thy bosom remains empty.
By Steven R. Harrel 11/29/2010
Writing just for the joy of writing. 
12 Friday Oct 2018
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, This Side of the Whirlwind
His eyes never blinking
His tears bring the rains,
His image ever growing in love, knowledge and change.
Time without ending, His creation fraught with pain;
Then with love overflowing in a world He made with joy
His grace it keeps and keeps on going to His glorious evermore.
By Steven R. Harrel 8/11/2018
Simply for your reading enjoyment, hopefully. 🙂
12 Wednesday Sep 2018
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, True Life
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I selected this poem today because it has been on my mind for several days; I didn’t and don’t have any specific reason.
I do however remember being in such a great mood on the day I wrote “Throbs”. When I read it this morning the poem suggested I was suffering from some crisis of the heart or soul, but (Thank the Lord!) I was not.
I hope you enjoy this poem for it is one I truly enjoyed writing back in 2012 and reading again today. The Lord bless you one and all!
Throbs
O God! Shake my heart, shake my heart, Continue reading
02 Thursday Aug 2018
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Love
Bright is the light of a romancing moon
Matters not the hue nor the fullness, we croon,
Our hearts set free thus we serenade,
In the shadows of night where our passions are splayed
Pure shade of light, penumbral bliss
Slight the bright of day just a lunar kiss.
Sweet glancing lips like the breezes of May,
Remorse unwept for the games we play.
Spring conveys such forces unleashed,
Boundless sighs, passion replete,
Follies commenced, endless thirsts and desires,
Till moon is spent upon our crooner’s sweet fires.
31 Tuesday Jul 2018
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, Hearing God's Voice, Love
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From The Heart, Hearing God's Voice, Love, Meaning of Life, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind
Blessed be the King of kings who gave me you and gave you me.
The grace of your smile which brings one all my own,
My lips to your nose which makes my heart yearn and glad I’m not alone,
The tingling’s of my heart as your eyes meet mine,
The unction of our souls in communion divine
There you are, my love; in you I am complete.
There you are, my sweet, in you my love replete.
Deep down and beyond where no other could go or see,
Profoundly you abound in the interior of that which makes me, me.
Still, I am part of you, in all the important ways,
And where ever you may look within, you cannot escape my loving, gentle and devoted face.
For I am deep within who you are, as you are ever part of all I become.
How can you not forever but love me even as I in you must love your soul?
In you forever I am, and in me resides you as we walk hand in hand with our Lord,
God in me, in you and we, in Him the Three are more!
I love you for now and forever, your love in deed and we are friends.
I’ll be with you forever and until beyond the end.
My love, my heart, my friend.
