Joey

Joseph Peter Valentine
The Faith and Poetry of Joey Valentine

St Joseph with
the Christ Child
Patron Saint
of Carpentry

Sacred Heart Of Jesus

The Crucifixion

Poetry By Joey Valentine

" The Sacred Heart of Christ "

Sacred Heart of Jesus
I trust in you alone

Sacred Heart of Jesus
In your love, I have a home

Sacred Heart of Jesus
I am yours and you are mine

Sacred Heart of Jesus
I pray to you, to pass the time

Sacred Heart of Jesus
I pray you take away my pain

Sacred heart of Jesus
I know my prayers are not in vain

Sacred Heart pf Jesus
Your mercy shines too bright to see

Sacred Heart of Jesus
Won't you please watch over me.

" The Ocean "

I love the ocean
Ask me why...

Because the way the tempest rolls
From the pink of Innocence
to the blood red of Passion.

Because the wind carries the light
Scent of salt and the taste
of exuberance and life.

Because the waves crash upon the Rocky
shore
creating a symphony of unsurpassable
beauty

Because...

" My Deepest Regret "

When I think of her
my heart bleeds in sweet remembrance
of the softness of her touch
and the look in her eyes

My love for and her for I
was so pure, so true
that the seraphs cold not help but envy
as the observed from Heaven

through their envy
our love was put to rest
now there is only a bitter memory
that tears my empty heart

Oceans of tears I have wept
and yet there is no comfort to be found
no consoling to be had
no dulling of the pain

Who was once my love, my life, my joy
is now my deepest regret.

Before you speak, it
is necessary for you
to listen, for God
speaks in the silence
of the heart.

Give yourself fully to
God. He will use you
to accomplish great
things on the
condition that you
believe much more in
His love
than in your own
weakness.

Mother Teresa
of Calcutta

" Insanity "

My mind is always wandering
Like a tramp from bed to bed
you would laugh and cry
wince and scream
if you could see
what's in my head

I don't really care that much
and people say that I am apathetic
"sticks and stones," I say to them
Pour opinions are, I think , pathetic

If it turns out that I am not insane
One thing will always be
No psychopath in this whole world
is comparable to me

I was told that I looked weird
on the day that I was born
and not many can say from birth
they have been beyond the norm

And while no person
can measure up
to the genius that is me
Some will say I have no brains
just pure Insanity

Copyright Joseph Peter Valentine
2006 all rights reserved

" Why Did She Lie "

Why did she lie when all I gave
was love and tenderness

Why did she lie when my heart
bled for her for her sweet caress

Why did she lie and enfold herself
in another's arms instead

Why did she lie and reassure me
all I said was true

Why did she lie and lie again
by saying " I love you "

Why did she lie about our love
and say we would always be

Why did she lie and break my heart
Why did she lie to me

"I can do All things
through Christ who
strengthens me" St
Paul

Immaculate
Heart of Mary

Philippians 4- 4:13

4 Rejoice in the Lord
alway: and again I say,
Rejoice.

5 Let your moderation
be known unto all men.
The Lord is at hand.

6 Be careful for nothing;
but in every thing by
prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let
your requests be made
known unto God.

7 And the peace of God,
which passeth all
understanding, shall
keep your hearts and
minds through Christ
Jesus.

8 Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are
true, whatsoever things
are honest, whatsoever
things are just,
whatsoever things are
pure, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good
report; if there be any
virtue, and if there be
any praise, think on
these things.

9 Those things, which
ye have both learned,
and received, and
heard, and seen in me,
do: and the God of
peace shall be with you.

10 But I rejoiced in the
Lord greatly, that now at
the last your care of me
hath flourished again;
wherein ye were also
careful, but ye lacked
opportunity.

11 Not that I speak in
respect of want: for I
have learned, in
whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.

12 I know both how to
be abased, and I know
how to abound: every
where and in all things I
am instructed both to be
full and to be hungry,
both to abound and to
suffer need.

13 I can do all things
through Christ which
strengtheneth me.
KJV