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Poetry by Patrick N. Kramer

A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org

To contact Patrick: [email protected]

A CHRISTMAS STORY
A HEART OF GOLD
A KISS
A LITTLE GIRL
ALL GOOD CHRISTIANS
ALL IS WELL
A PARDON WAS GIVEN
AS LONG AS I LIVE
A SOLDIER'S DREAM
A TALK WITH GOD
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
CONDEMNED BY YOU
COULD IT BE
DO NOT FORCE THE WORDS
DO SPEAK OF THE THEM
DUNCES
EASIER UPON THE HEART
EVERY DAY
FALL IS COMING
FOLLOW THE ONE
FROM NOW ON
GENTLY
GIVE ME I PRAY
GOD’S ANSWER TO WHY
HALLELUJAH
HEAR THE ANCIENT WIND’S STORY
HE IS EVERY WHERE
I AM
I am what I am
INDEED IT IS TRUE
IN THE SHADOWS
I SAW IT, DID YOU?
I SHALL GO ON
IS THERE A CHANCE
IT IS ALL UP TO YOU
IT IS THE TIME
IT MAY BE SO
IT’S COLD OUTSIDE
LEST WE FORGET
LETTER NUMBER FOUR
LET NOT A MOMENT SLIP AWAY
LIKE THE BEAR
LOVE AND COMPASSION
MORE PRECIOUS THEN GOLD
MORNING HAS BROKEN
MY FRIEND
MY VISITOR
NATURE QUESTIONS
NIGHTMARE OF THE SOUL
OF CHRISTMAS SONGS
OF THE LIGHT
OH WHAT A NIGHT
ON THANKS GIVING DAY
OPEN FOR ME A DOOR
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Questions
QUIETLY THE TEMPTER CALLS
REGRETS OF THE DAY
SHE CRIED
SILENCE
SILENTLY THE SHADOWS WATCH
SNOWFLAKES
SOON
SPRING AND STRING TOGETHER
TAKE A WALK IN THE RAIN
TAKE TIME TO HEAR
THE FEELINGS OLD TOYS
THE MISTS OF TIME
THE NEW YEAR
THE TEMPTER
THE WORDS AND ME
THIS DAY OF SORROW
THIS PIECE OF LAND
THOUGHTS FROM A THOUGHT
Thus It Is Pray
TO BE BEGUILED or NOT TO BE
TO SMILE OR FROWN
TO SUCH AS I
To They Who Live
UNDER AN OLD OAK TREE
UNDER PAST CLOUDS
VALENTINE’S DAY
WHENEVER I STRAY
WHEN HE SPEAKS
WHERE DID IT GO
WHERE HAVE OUR IDEALS GONE
WHERE IS MY FAITH
WHO AM I
WHY A MEMORIAL DAY
WHY I WRITE AS I DO
WHY THERE IS NOTHING TO EAT
With All That It Brings
WITHOUT LOVE
YE OF THE SIN
YESTERDAY
YOUR WORDS YOU SPEAK

About the Author
This is what I believe is the best way to tell others about who or what I am. After giving the question on my Biography great thought and finding it hard to just write about me, I realized my answer to a prior question truly speaks more than anything else I could put down to be read.

On the site where I started leaving my poems inspired by the Bible there is a section requesting 100 interesting things about the person who leaves their words there. #18 there says "I believe in order to be happy first you must learn to smile" It is from this simple statement, that Bio, that I give you now, came to be, as I truly know no better way to describe the reasoning of what I am and why I write as I do. The poems in themselves have been about me and those who I know or have known. With that allow me to give you the answer I gave to a reader's statement of it is hard for me to do #18 in your list of 100 things. Note I have only completed 31 items on that list.

Why I smile

Learning to smile has always been difficult for many. At one time I too found this to be difficult. I myself have lived through things most have no desire to live through. I have made the decision to allow my own father to die in stead of placing him on a machine with a hope of his surviving. I accepted that I could not be near my mother as she died and yet I am able to look back on my life and say it has been good to me. I have felt the pain of loosing a child, dew to premature birth. I have pulled my Nephew from a tube of water in which I found him and started CPR to no avail. I have come within inches of my own death. I have lost many friends to death and yet I live on and find it is through the memories of the good times that even I can find a reason to smile. I believe there is no reason to fear; not death, for it brings you closer to the Lord. I believe it is best to “Live life to live, and love those who you can”! “No matter what anyone says, you are an important part of life”. So smile at all things that are worthy of smiling at and know you are worthy of having a smile. As for me I have lived as a soldier a medic an Infantry man and even a generator mechanic. I have spent countless hours in the cold doing my duty there. I have worked with the elderly and watched their struggles of each day. I have seen the change that comes over them, when they know the Lord has sent for them. I know the feelings of loss, hope, love, desire, and pain. I tend to see and hear what many it seems fail to see or hear, and it is through this that I am what I am. It is also here that the Words and me have come together. It is also why I write as I do.

Here also you will find two more poems. Both of which speak of me. I am what I am and the other is Why I write as I do. May you and all who reads them enjoy them knowing a bit more about where they come from.

I am what I am
WHY I WRITE AS I DO