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I was born in 1965 to Lloyd E. and Pearl Strickland, the youngest of 6 children. My formative years were spent in the small south Georgia town of Blackshear were I graduated high school. I joined the USAF in 1985 and met my first wife who gave me a son. Discharged in 1987, I left the service to raise my boy. I married a second time to a hometown girl in 1988 and she gave me three beautiful girls. She and I divorced in 1991 and I raised the youngest of my girls until 1995. My third, and final, marriage is to a Milledgeville girl. She and I have been happily married for, now, almost 27 years and still going strong. My writings were developed mostly during the 4 years between my second and third marriage. I had time to contemplate life and my station in it. My faith had been tested and I came out the other end stronger and a little wiser.

  March 2022     11 months ago

Submitted Poems 5 total

My Home in Jesus

My home is on a hill
In a field forever green
There I will stay
Til my Lord beckons me.

He gave for me His life
Three days later he rose from the grave
The price for me was His blood
And He so unselfishly gave

Through unnatural birth He...

by Daniel Len Strickland

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My Hymn

As for my life I make no excuse
Smoking and drinking, my body abused
But as for my soul, I give to the Lord
The one that saved me and I adore

Christ has granted me the will to go on
I do so in praise for Him within this song
The words I...

by Daniel Len Strickland

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Alone

As I sit here at home
Watching TV all alone
I find myself feeling blue
Because my heart is missing you

You see, my dear
You hold my love
You are my heart
sent from above

Come home, my precious
When you are well
Bring back the vision
I...

by Daniel Len Strickland

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Thank You Lord

Thank you, dear Lord
For waking me this morn’
Another day to be thankful
For the trials you born

You took on the mantle
Of my sins against you
Before I was birthed
Before I had a clue

To see you in Heaven
I pray each day
Dear Lord...

by Daniel Len Strickland

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My Kids (And G-kids)

All my kids. I’ve got six
I find myself in quite the fix
four of my loins, plus two more
that belong to the woman that I adore

William, the oldest, nearing 41
in trouble, he got, because of “too much fun”
aside from that, children three
we...

by Daniel Strickland

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added 2 years ago
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