Poetry & Other Writings by William "Poet Bill" Childers
Welcome to Poet Bill's main page. Bill, a retired minister and former precinct chaplain for the Dallas Police Department, writes a lot of what he calls "growing-up memories and lessons". We have sorted these writings for organizational purposes, but most transcend the category in which it is placed. For example, Bill's military poems are much influenced by his family life and faith in God. Likewise, his writings about life, living, being, etc, contain spiritual thoughts and messages, sometimes obvious and at other times, slightly hidden in the heart of the writing.
We are delighted to have Bill as a part of our ministry and hope you receive a blessing while reading his works. See About Poet Bill for a short biography.
"With all the difficulties of life that surround each of us, we give all the glory to our Lord and our God, Jesus Christ" - Bill Childers
Poems Uploaded 2007 - 2010.
Categories
Religious
- The Gift of a Crown
- Everyman
- Either Or... Both And...
- And Then, I Knew
- Just Like Me
- When God Gives Me a Day
- Dance of Life
- The Ultimate Gift
He
A Pause...
Measure of a Gift
- A Riddle?
- None but Thee
- Poems About Christmas
Foreword
Christmas
The Christmas Gift - Poems About Christmas - Page 2
Anxious Awaiting
A Little Reminder
Christmases Remembered - Poems About Christmas - Page 3
The Day
The Place
The Story Complete
Life and Family
- Poems About Life
Life
If I Could Change
I Wonder
If I Were - Poems About Life - Page 2
Forward to Life
Run True
Time... and Things
As High and Far - Poems About Life - Page 3
Life's Life Movements
If I Should
Scenario of Life
I've Often Heard Said - Poems About Life - Page 4
A Token
The Season
A Wish - Grace
- Growing Old
When I Grow Old
A Second Thought - The Old Oak
- Friend
- An Acorn for Miss Dovie
- Moms and Dads
A Mom's Touch
My Daddy Always Said... - The Journey
- Seeking Forever
- Speaking of Friends... and Love
Prelude
Love
Mama
You Think You're getting Old
- The Accidental Life
- Poems About Life - Page 5
I Said
Where to... from Here
All in All - My Friend Frank
Believing is the Answer
Interlude...
The Back Side of the Cross - Poems About Life - Page 6
Just When...
The Big pond
Finding - Poems About Life - Page 7
The Winning
The Chase
Rules - Poems About Life - Page 8
The Tottering Stage
Words at a Late Hour - It Hasn't Seemed Long
- Poems About Life - Page 9
Country Road
The Best
About Being a Neighbor - Another Pause... P'haps a Thought...
But Mostly...
Remembering... - He was Just a Man
- Poems About Life - Page 10
The Hunger
The Agony of Victory
If I Thought I Could... - Final Thoughts...
Life... By Any Other Name
Empty Time
My Friends
Military and Patriotic (Dedicated to Our Troops)
- Vietnam
An Insight... A Trail of Life
Nam - Memories of Vietnam
Helmet and Rifle
My Spirit
Face to Face
- Point Men
- Korea 1952
Sixteen Years Earlier...
Hill "William" - Tattered... Not Torn (Old Glory)
- What Difference
Miscellaneous
- Leaves from the Acorn Tree
Foreword
If I Though I Could
Against All Odds
My Grandmother
Lord You Said...
For My Troubled Ways
- The Legend of the Brass Swan
- Song Lyrics
A Touch of the Master's Hand
To Set the Whole World Free