Thomas Josiah Chappelle

Balm To My Heart

You are a balm to my heart
Always have – from the start
Your breast against my chest
My loving heart for you to invest
Ne’er ever us to depart
To stand true in life’s …

Meant to be kissed

You were meant to be kissed my me.
It was simply destined to be
My lips, even now, hunger for yours.
Your bright eyes are as lures –
To draw me closer in.
You to be …

My Angel Heart

Ever dear, my (ever so unique) angel heart,
Who yet in time’s span – a short while.
In my soul, holds a tremendous part.
With twinkling eyes that ever smile,
You won me o…

Persistent Scribbler

Once called the persistent scribbler;
Bit by bit – I munch; quite the nibbler
Thoughts are thus impressed – a constant dribble.
Nourished by enlightenment’s breast a…

You are ever on my mind
Cause you are ever my best find.
You are mine, unique of a kind.
My eyes are wide open, I am not blind;
Your weaknesses are mine to bind
With compassionate care.
I…

Are you in such a loss?
What I want to get across?
It’s not really up to a toss;
Heads or tails are not the ‘boss’.
Neither this stone gather moss,
Loving you – put a kiss across.
Give y…

Happy Birthday, Mother dear
May this poem cause a joyful tear
Put many blessings to you – in gear.
Bring them forward to you – very near
May they always before you appear!

How are we at facing our giants?
Are we on our own strength reliant?
Would to our fears, be pliant?
Would we be Divinely compliant?
Faith in God’s counsel, alliant?
Face our giants, with c…

To know you is to ”knaw” you
To “knaw” you is to “chew” on you
To chew on you is to “choose” you
To “choose” you is sublime
To be sublime is to make it rhyme all the thyme
Speaking of tim…

Do you rise before daybreak
To find yourself with morning glum?
You wonder what it would take
Not to feel like your mind is numb.
Perhaps then ask “will Jesus come today?”
Would not thi…

Why should I not give God my thanksgiving?
Who gave me the power to be his child and for Christ like living.
Out of His merciful and gracious bounty
He provided me His riches from life’…

FATHERS DAY
Tis a day, we honor our fathers
A day that a son and daughter gathers
To commemorate the sacred institution of family
God has inaugurated it from the beginning
A man to be the …

"Oh foolish girl, you have wed a poet,
Whose passion and devotion is as deep as you can know it;
As thick as summer hay when it comes time to mow it;
As big as a drive in movie screen when i…

Ever since Eden’s expulsion, Mercy birthed Grace
Forgiveness brought forth the paternal trace
Dispersed upon Eve’s prodigy and Adam’s race

Really is quite the blight
Can’t seem to reach new heights

Do they fail to realize their judgement hardly passes;
Nary as wise as the stable mules and jack asses,
who in his folly will sink in his own morasses.

You would think “class” would be lent,
With such a honorable degree of knowledge
For all that “academic mileage”.

In the end , they won’t build you a shrine
Nor think you to be so very sublime
It’s quality things we do in life’s time
So don’t be playin’ it like a mime

Cost you a great heap-heap.
Sow it and it will reap-reap

You scrub my back ‘n’ I’ll get yours right bak
We’ll be rub adub clean but clothes we lack
Don’t peek but you’ve already took a look