Betty L. Delaney Saltillo, TN

Betty learned to love poetry from her father. She learned to love and understand people, from her mother. Betty practiced nursing, as a Registered Nurse, for forty-one years. She wrote poems of comfort, for her patients and coworkers. She now being retired, lives with her husband, Edward, in the beautiful hills of Tennessee. She has received awards for some of her poems. One collection of her poems, entitled "Return", was published. Betty's philosophy of life, in one word, is sharing. Life, nature, and God's Love, all are for sharing in her poems.

FORGIVENESS Forgiveness is a thing sublime, Which has been through the years of time, The needed ingredient in the human mind, To ever be able, any peace to fine! God provided and gave us a choice, And acceptance and repentance was of course, The Key to having this peace of mind, But we must just as quickly forgive mankind. Do not hold or harbor hatred, you see., For that is the poison, destroying humanity. If we do not forgive, as we are forgiven. We will never have a life worth living. Old hurts and sins, we must forgive ourselves, For God forgets, and doesn't even keep them on a shelf So never, ever, dwell on past sins, For it confessed and forgiven, they can never hurt again.

JEWELS ABOVE PRICE The air is crisp and clear, As Fall tells of winter drawing near. Hues of red, gold, brown, and green, In the tree leaves, can be seen. You almost wish it would not end, But, know Seasons must blend So the cycle of life may go on, For Earth to rest before New Birth! God has given wonderful colors to each Season, And they each have rhyme and reason Even in the Winter snow, The rainbow hues glisten so! By The Master's Design, our World was made And He painted it with every color, in every shade. The warmth of the reds, the uplifting brightness of yellow, The peaceful blues and purples, ease tensions in a fellow. The life giving greens, so abundantly seen, And in the Earth itself, every tint of brown may be seen. In darkness, color is not visible to the eye Rather black and gray, in Earth and sky. The Light is necessary, for the beauty of colors to be seen And this has been true, since Time began The Light of the World is Jesus, oh yes! Without Him, all Life would be a sea of blackness! Would you be rich? Famous? Secure? The colors Christ gives mean far more. He gives the Rainbow, as a promise secure, Mountains and valleys, trees, flowers, foods, and water so pure! Are not all these, Jewels above price? His Life within you, makes Death loose its fright. We really are somebody, in Christ! It makes us His Jewels above price !!

Betty Delaney welcomes letters. Write to:
bdelaney@centuryinter.net
All poems Copyright © 1997 Betty L. Delaney. All rights reserved.