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Each Day Contains Your Name

 

 

 

 

Paint Me a Picture A Child Needs to Know A Choice to Make A Mother's Day Poem A Mother's Presence A Special Season Another Year Dream Number 4 Each Day Contains Your Name East of Jobson For Her Majesty Queen Ann of Trowbridge Near GlouchesterForeshadowing God's House Grant Me The Honor In Harbor JanuaryLater . . . Tonight Mon Vive Avec Tu Open Window Padre Island Peace Port to Port Rain Rain Again Rarity Rising Sun Spring Trilogy The Knight (Return to the Court) The Landgar Mountains The Letter (From Oldham at Carrington) The Mirror That My Father Made The Next School Year The Two Faces of Rain The Voice in the Forest This Holiday Season When I Think of You Winter's Day Year's Before You, the Rain and Me



 

Each Day Contains Your Name

Each day contains your wonderful name.
It may not be spoken,but it's there the same
The wind may carry it over a silent town
or a gliding bird may sing it all around.

The sunsets that we cherish speak it too,
for their majesty has not yet rivaled you.
A river caressing the sloping banks
runs to you to give its thanks.

You are there in all I choose to see.
And in my mind, you're always there for me.
Whether on a hot and blistering day
or if the winter wind chooses to blow my way.

I know that time will not lessen the desire
to finding answers of which my heart inquires
But all these things don't make it as plain
as to say each day contains your name.


James P. Howell

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