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  December 2023     1 month ago

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Jack Of All Trades

You did what a true father should
Though you didn't get any pay.
You would do anything you could
To get my car started that day.

I was working the graveyard shift.
The days that my car wouldn't start,
You would use your God-given gift
By...

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The Effort, God Rewards (He's The Result)

In that chapel,
There was a small
Piece of paper
Like 3×5,
On it the most
Perfect of prayers.
I read it, but
It didn't have
Enough info
On front or back
So I went to
A bookstore and
Ordered the book,
'Jesus Appeals
To The World' now
I...

– by Robert Joseph Mattingly

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Write To a T

I will let the world,
See what I look like.
As l dress up my
Poem looking in
The paper, until
Every letter is
To a T, word for
Word in all respects.
I'll comb my title,
By making sure my
Body is in top
Form daily leaving
A name for...

– by Robert Joseph Mattingly

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Prayer and Poem

There isn't any day
Or any kind of time,
In Heaven why I pray,
Every day and write rhyme.

Others live day by day,
Here 24/7.
Way I live pray by pray,
When I get to Heaven.

A Poet with his Muse,
Actual one I am.
It is prayers that I use...

– by Robert Joseph Mattingly

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The Thing That's Missing

Our garbage man's truck died.
I'm sad with all my heart
And the driver he tried,
But it just wouldn't start.

The owner who I know
Lives on the other street.
I watched the driver go
Up my road on two feet.

I do not have a car,
Fixing...

– by Robert Joseph Mattingly

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