tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31854919858490170112024-03-05T07:23:20.631-06:00silver glimmer dustlorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-67314043913311092752012-11-24T00:43:00.001-06:002012-11-24T00:43:23.453-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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17</div>
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I can't even begin to tell you what it's like</div>
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At the very age I met my groom to be</div>
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What shall I dare say?... </div>
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Intrigue lies around the corner</div>
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Heart beating rampantly in my chest</div>
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A surge of exploding hormonal ecstasy</div>
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Panting frantically at the open door</div>
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Locked within.</div>
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Who pummeled?!</div>
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The nights of long surrendering, gone.</div>
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A mother, lonely grasping at straws to hold on </div>
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to the last lock, the last locket. </div>
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Curls cascading, past the frock.</div>
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A windowpane seared upon opening. </div>
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Popcorn tossing in the brisk wind. </div>
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Pajama parties, searching, wondering</div>
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The last hem. </div>
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Whom shall be beyond the very stitch? </div>
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I've held on for dear life. </div>
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Raised her from a filly. </div>
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A colt. Blasting through the gate. </div>
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I can no longer contain. </div>
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Youth and madness must circumvent.</div>
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Find a way to coexist. </div>
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I'd give anything to take back the years</div>
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the locusts have stolen. </div>
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But for now I will cherish </div>
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Gain a new appreciation for fondness</div>
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Learn to rest my weary head </div>
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And dream of what is never lost. </div>
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Nothingness</div>
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For some reason I decided not to write.</div>
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There wasn't anything different about the day </div>
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or the air.</div>
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It was an intentional decision</div>
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Poignant and from the heart. </div>
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And I decided not to post. </div>
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Many eyes were upon me and I responded </div>
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To nothing no one and </div>
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Nothingness.</div>
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Intentional </div>
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Very intentional indeed. </div>
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I parted a farewell</div>
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A very fond farewell.</div>
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It wasn't that I couldn't write. </div>
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I knew there were words forming in my head. </div>
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I just simply chose to not put them upon the paper. </div>
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I walked alongside the ocean</div>
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And I heard the screams</div>
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Telling me to toss them in</div>
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Everyone of them</div>
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And I silently listened</div>
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To the roar and the pounding surf</div>
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And I obeyed to the christening of the folds </div>
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And the panting of the water. </div>
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As it beckoned me. </div>
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I thought at that moment I would toss in the words</div>
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and I would never hear from them again. </div>
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And peace enveloped my soul. </div>
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Another season has passed </div>
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And I am calling upon the words</div>
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The sensitivity</div>
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As I so keenly need to listen </div>
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and hear them chant once more. </div>
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What I thought I had lost</div>
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Has now remained. </div>
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And I must tune my ear to the cry once again</div>
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The pounding of the surf</div>
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The sand beneath my feet. </div>
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No more. </div>
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Nothingness again is calling to me </div>
lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-56992900174291218722012-03-23T12:31:00.000-05:002012-03-23T12:31:51.864-05:00The Days of Hunger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZuumz60_qrfrOdu6B0p-SWKNnhtWnV2nvwryxa_D46a5nXU3OPhqFK9SDWewQ8UR8sjx78JR-lq3UUsfzmBLZTrhM9bodF8SFl58rgIMwxYW8Jux733dtvHslV3_RG0OaJECEPe2KlqE/s1600/hunger.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZuumz60_qrfrOdu6B0p-SWKNnhtWnV2nvwryxa_D46a5nXU3OPhqFK9SDWewQ8UR8sjx78JR-lq3UUsfzmBLZTrhM9bodF8SFl58rgIMwxYW8Jux733dtvHslV3_RG0OaJECEPe2KlqE/s320/hunger.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> We exist in the days of hunger and revolution.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Viral expansions of those crying for morsels of warmth and justice</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tranquility yet to be mourned...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"A piece of bread would buy a bag of gold." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Is it apocalyptic or a figment of the imagination?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hearing what our itching ears want to hear.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Deafening and defaming the shouts of our children.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The charades continue in capitalistic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Labyrinths of humanity encircled by the mazes of our soul preoccupation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Shall I dare ask for a crust, to dip it in the milk of mankind. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Gently awaiting the weeping and reaping of another, mangled in the excuses of violence and bloodshed. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The moans of our saints lie in spattered streets while the sheets enclose the mutations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Silence shall be broken.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We exist in the games of hunger and revolution</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Silence the cries. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-15825940787947756212012-01-01T15:51:00.001-06:002012-01-01T15:53:18.344-06:00Unfolding of the Journey 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinM42Zls6Fq-RnfJgIlA03IpoZSVYr3eEiopbfw90tXEi2rAwi_49OJ4X1DlBZjgZOC5-G2RoKXeHukLZ0pgDve66o_PaVAnrSao23uz9k5_zZkdu5yp84XcL4gQUVHTotYDb3YhLCW_8/s1600/Path.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinM42Zls6Fq-RnfJgIlA03IpoZSVYr3eEiopbfw90tXEi2rAwi_49OJ4X1DlBZjgZOC5-G2RoKXeHukLZ0pgDve66o_PaVAnrSao23uz9k5_zZkdu5yp84XcL4gQUVHTotYDb3YhLCW_8/s320/Path.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">To pluck or be planted</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">In the moist dry soil</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Trodden </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">A seasoned</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Time Under heaven</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Through birth or death</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">To kill or heal</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">That is the question</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">As the dry leaves break down</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Manifesting </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">The lack of crystals and emerald blades</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Weeping will build </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Upon the laughter of frowns</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">To mourn or dance</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">That is the dilemma</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">We shall embrace</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">And throw away stones together</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">When we refrain</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">We shall number the lost</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Not keep<br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">The word of <b>Love</b> will be spoken</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Not Hate </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b>Peace<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">Not War</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal">527,040</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><i>"Five hundred twenty seven thousand and forty<o:p></o:p></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><i>How will you spend them?<o:p></o:p></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><i>(Inspired by Ecclesiastes 3)</i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Happy New Year!<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-53445127478874006882011-12-30T21:34:00.000-06:002011-12-30T21:34:49.693-06:00The Celebration of One's Mankind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86FkcXhl-ycjlsh6vJgTedO_7HQJRdJMXfRlG68wbFtPxfZcbpFkE17VOo2VtM1RQ5FJHMN7maDY9lj3XkObBjFEdRAUozzH9jYuNYfmPXFbi33Er12yuqUJBzNk6Rm8jOP2OnDhuAyA/s1600/imagesCACXWGMH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86FkcXhl-ycjlsh6vJgTedO_7HQJRdJMXfRlG68wbFtPxfZcbpFkE17VOo2VtM1RQ5FJHMN7maDY9lj3XkObBjFEdRAUozzH9jYuNYfmPXFbi33Er12yuqUJBzNk6Rm8jOP2OnDhuAyA/s1600/imagesCACXWGMH.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Sparkling about. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Cardboard golden paper hats. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Flimsy and whimsical. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Noisemakers and tinny hollow sounds. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">French Silk pie from Baker’s Square.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Shrimp and sushi as friends and family embrace.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Meaningless or mindful traditions? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Crowds packed in frigid weather just to see the crystal fall. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Another year passing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">The culmination of good and evil. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Wicked smiles and joyful grins. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Streamers floating about.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Littering the streets. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">People pounding on stainless steel. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">For what?! What does it mean?!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Another year wiser? Another year of uncertainty?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Children’s delightful laughter. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Prancing about. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Couples sharing a romantic kiss. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Others alone in an empty house. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">A time for vows and resolutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">To be fought. To be gained. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Auld Lang Syne. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Memories fleeting by…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">On long cold cobblestone streets. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">And clock towers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Ringing the chimes. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">A celebration of one’s passing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">And one’s beginning. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">A new start. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">A fresh awakening. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">A pouncing of the old ways. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Lessen the stagnancy of tomorrows. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Lost letters, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Unreturned correspondences, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Broken promises. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Lighter steps. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">A welcome glance and dance to the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">A scattering and smattering of one’s thoughts and one’s dreams. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Lego; font-size: 9.0pt;">Upon the concrete walks of the morrow. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">Listening to the dusky sounds of Mahalia Jackson,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">escaping from the harried shoppers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">Hurry, Worry, Panic, Shop!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">O Come let us adore Him…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">Are we adoring Him? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">Or have we become one of many who scurry past the bellowing symphony of a Holy Night?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">Not even hearing it’s reverberations. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">Yet everyday, opportunities await. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">A cold person yearning for shelter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">A widow or widower in distress.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">A child spending another night in fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">A young man fighting his addictions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">A person looking for acceptance. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">How do we break out of our warm toasty homes?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">to welcome the prodigal ones?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">Tis much more pleasant to sip creamy coffee and watch the world go by…..<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">This season may we take a moment <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">To hear the baby’s cry amongst the crowd, the sacred.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">And stop and reflect on God’s goodness.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">His first gift to mankind. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">To see his face in the glistening ornaments hanging on the tree. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">To pause and be thankful. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300; font-family: BauerFuturaIB; font-size: 14pt;">“O come let us adore Him…”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-48555659215483687152011-12-18T09:36:00.001-06:002011-12-18T09:38:13.433-06:00Affirmations<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8aCn7KNm93tr1NJRLa6ugfYAH7Jh-INLCWMDecKDRphOmrYZq30HCZPawl_6_BJQVF9mqzcM81eat0U1K6TWV8L07yQy8qEIPrHBXbvXoEyhQQM_5Xm-C3HWN21D1LMioNKy5jN4ogjo/s1600/empty+cupboard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8aCn7KNm93tr1NJRLa6ugfYAH7Jh-INLCWMDecKDRphOmrYZq30HCZPawl_6_BJQVF9mqzcM81eat0U1K6TWV8L07yQy8qEIPrHBXbvXoEyhQQM_5Xm-C3HWN21D1LMioNKy5jN4ogjo/s1600/empty+cupboard.jpg" /></a></div>There shall a star from Jacob come from</div><div class="MsoNormal">and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel....</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sometimes the greatest of gifts remain untouched</div><div class="MsoNormal">remains lying in a vacant cluttered cupboard</div><div class="MsoNormal">crumbs spilling about...</div><div class="MsoNormal">The empty hollow taste,</div><div class="MsoNormal">the touch of a friend's attempt,</div><div class="MsoNormal">a glimpse of but a shadow of the past. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Our lives are filled with crumbs and palate and empty morsels</div><div class="MsoNormal">mostly given from the heart. </div><div class="MsoNormal">The question is what to do with the particles that remain.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hide them under a bushel ?No!</div><div class="MsoNormal">Talents which lay unspoken can be brought about</div><div class="MsoNormal">just by the faint affirmation of love</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Holidays escalate the clatter</div><div class="MsoNormal">the loud din which occurs in whispered corners </div><div class="MsoNormal">and kids frolicking about...</div><div class="MsoNormal">A manic pace rushes in to absolve of guilt</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>"This little light of mine....I'm going to let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine..."<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-32763542380582867042011-11-10T13:45:00.001-06:002011-11-10T13:47:36.294-06:00Greatness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19-rlJN227x8HDcRR_MbXxxozzcX5J4YVduoZWMJrYloY5CFiUhezDfAaP3kI9dh82dHLRL81dq3kT8pbF3dSk_91wdOI3uMkJ_I7zziNYI-pGzTzR5QkXzptZlo3qy5F8SQyxs6zEmg/s1600/purple+rain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19-rlJN227x8HDcRR_MbXxxozzcX5J4YVduoZWMJrYloY5CFiUhezDfAaP3kI9dh82dHLRL81dq3kT8pbF3dSk_91wdOI3uMkJ_I7zziNYI-pGzTzR5QkXzptZlo3qy5F8SQyxs6zEmg/s320/purple+rain.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">It was one of those mystical evenings</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">where it seemed the whispers of the dawn were speaking</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">Visions of greatness</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">Dance in the purple rain. </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">The pungent smells realize</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">raindrops which meld </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">upon glistening pavements</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">will find their way upon skin</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">Breathing in the voice</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">The touching of fragments.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">An ordained frock </div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">upon the shoulders</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">gives way to beyond the ordinary</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">Or does it?!</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">Tinkling of the ivories</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">bent in the wind</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">seeking what appears</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">behind the curtains</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">Turns into a smile</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">An embellished hand</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">begins to hear the song</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">to belong</div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;">to dance in the purple rain.</div></div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-73526526005286252532011-10-31T09:51:00.000-05:002011-10-31T09:51:20.616-05:00Twilite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS4rn_TaTN88rCuEhJ9_4mRnrVTNjEB0P18gCRJSz_XSjAOplVAQSO0JGmbPiW16dsNUKxO27HNRf2q2Kr4_o_24VShiW4G_jDLNj-FcMtKeVRLU-qS6CoMRQm6gepVl4-KxVTafsfGuI/s1600/twilight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS4rn_TaTN88rCuEhJ9_4mRnrVTNjEB0P18gCRJSz_XSjAOplVAQSO0JGmbPiW16dsNUKxO27HNRf2q2Kr4_o_24VShiW4G_jDLNj-FcMtKeVRLU-qS6CoMRQm6gepVl4-KxVTafsfGuI/s1600/twilight.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Seeking around corners.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Predators oh so delicious about.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Eagle eyes changing color with the wind. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">From amber to golden browns.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Tell a story of young love, everyone’s dream. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">The strong in self control.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Unyielding to another’s passions and desires. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Clawed by the piercing of vultures. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Cold and white skin embellished in crimson.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">The need to get closer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Fangs touch and break through the barriers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Pupils dilated ready for another violent thrust. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">A kill. As lust enrages within the human grip, sweat and saliva. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Enticing innocence. Coupled with the darkness. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Wanting to protect. Wanting to torture. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">The blackness engaged masked in clouds of fog and doom.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">To see the glimmer of prism sunlight glittering on the skin. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">To taste the drops of frozen sweat. Mirrors crashing. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Flying above the everglades. The forest draws one near. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">To seek the forbidden. The lost. The committed. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">A self- fulfilling legacy of destitute belonging.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Ample bosom, brunette locks, embraces the unwilling.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;"> The touch of bodies. Yielding. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Swollen lips. The kiss of death.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">As the blood drips. Scarlet.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">The dichotomous choices of the morrow. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Ahh to hide one’s face in the shadows. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Never to have sunlight upon the skin. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">A vampire’s loss. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">The beast within. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Temptation prowls about. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">(To anyone who has ever dreamed of a scarlet lover...)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Forte;">Happy Halloween</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>S</b>ilently I wonder wha<b>t </b>it is lik<b>e</b> to lie unencumbered in a shallow gra<b>ve</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">listening to the mind of one's genius</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">the cerebellum never ceasing.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">T'was it all in vain?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Bringing a generation of touch.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The family mourns.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Technology slows if just for a moment.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Yet to live life fully in one's passion</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">not waiting for another's</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">claiming to find that niche </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">and embrace it wholeheartedly.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">What did he surmise that none of us could?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Did he spend his life chasing quadruple rainbows</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">because he knew they existed? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Yet we must capture that first photograph to prove t'was real</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">In my daily life may I choose to simmer in the afterglow of one's brilliance</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">and never cease</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">chasing rainbows. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It seems much like any other eve<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">yet there is a glimpse in the sky<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">a glimmer of rain and a rainbow appears<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">my daughter moves so majestically and gracefully<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">while watchful eyes from above look on...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">her spirit is there<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">i catch just a quiver<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">knowing that she is silently<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>beckoning to her loved ones<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the young man <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">gallant in his 1943 plymouth<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">brushes into this moment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">so awakened so alive<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">his smile reflecting <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">upon his silver tinged<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">boutonniere<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">stars will shine tonight <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">as another milestone<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">in a young woman's life<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">meets the meteor<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">of every little girl's <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">to you my jess <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I wish the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-26277498921028155522011-08-23T08:30:00.000-05:002011-08-23T08:30:26.729-05:00Fledgling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVfLFffO4I6eBgYWsG7nl4Z1PUlIr8OzCy5nYrF6XBB0dLeQXSczVXzp93i9fFdw0wJ2qqubGrnJdkQRQiVdkOXb32DuLhBHM_g5UdrHmhmz4TYzOG6Dr8k2N5uCbbiyKu4E9kfeZRvc/s1600/fledgling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFVfLFffO4I6eBgYWsG7nl4Z1PUlIr8OzCy5nYrF6XBB0dLeQXSczVXzp93i9fFdw0wJ2qqubGrnJdkQRQiVdkOXb32DuLhBHM_g5UdrHmhmz4TYzOG6Dr8k2N5uCbbiyKu4E9kfeZRvc/s1600/fledgling.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One's life to another might look <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As if a dream.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The reality is the rose colored lenses <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Looking at the other side of the lawn<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Light', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;">Is just as green.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI Light', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 21px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If not more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With depth and illusion<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So easy to peer through the lense<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And see past <span> </span>the fence.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pink tinted and peeling. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Belly swollen and purging<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With the whys and wherefores.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A different dimension <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An empty nest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lies in the awakening of another.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet for years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Captured by schedules rigidly the days flounce by<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While she beyond the garden <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Longs for the days of young.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The pitter patter<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The loud and clatter<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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My apologies for neglecting this blog. Summer has been fast and furious, and I have been enjoying time with my children while they are home from school. I just returned from this lovely place, Sunset Beach, North Carolina, and I am heading out this week to Pennsylvania to visit family. Writing has been on the back burner, but I'm sure it will sprout its wings once again. To all my followers I hope you are having a fantastic summer. I'll be in touch soon. May the lull of the oceans and the dawn of the tides speak to each of you...<br />
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Peace to you.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh how the mighty has fallen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A cold day in history. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pride cometh before a plunge.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The vulture unleashes from the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">A gentle wind escapes through the panes of my office. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Feathers blowing in the mist.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">A thin wispy air. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Rosy cheeks and dimples.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">A child’s innocence led by a weathered manicured hand. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">To the rectory where no one sees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one hears. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">No one whispers. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Incompletely torturing another’s soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">For eternity. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Raging truth must be set free. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Flames flying.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">An old steeple with tarnished crosses. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Where is the truth?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wherein lies naivety?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Refusing to capture the pangs, the pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Shall I escape from the ruins? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">To other gray stagnant days. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Fog laying all about.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Attempting to consume.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To cover. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Foolishness attempts to hearken another’s vow. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">At the expense of one so bright, clear and young. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">Causing questions which will last throughout the centuries. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">No time to ponder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only to walk away. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Dauphin","serif";">And begin again. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Amongst the rooftops I sit in a query<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">as to the meaning of life. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">A lone flag rustling in the breeze<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">if only…it’s patriotic call.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">A young woman falls<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">another maintains.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Symbiotic rhythms and waves,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">a myriad of quandry,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">listening to the quibble of far off folks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Carolina</span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;"> sun upon my skin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">and here I sit once again,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">waiting for answers…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Realizing as each day passes,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">they’re immersed within…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">the very fabric of daily syncopations,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">universal oneness, and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Goudy Old Style","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">the simple, yet profound…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ascertained by the necessity of one's belongings living in the lawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dumped while scavengers peer in the windows.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A young sophomore plucked from his decade of surroundings.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Abandoned to the backwash and prompted by the maternal prescriptions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mother laying lifeless upon the next fix.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Enthusiastic bright smile, never questioning, always adapting to the unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His name given by the forefathers a glimpse of salvation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gone in the midst of the night of never ending goodbyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div></span></div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-17445275057166908442011-06-03T15:04:00.000-05:002011-06-03T15:04:55.512-05:00Pestilence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZzY5GaLMIu2LIiwkBYsExI6BWoQ12RKzEvP_OduphhYQkSBoZRhUZbAnnZoohuZ-n7zCDbawWHh0hCSehyphenhyphenODKjPwDDp-y1JnLxc3RA36nXy6y8c8JwrM7LWLsL8NF9GDsdyQz9FqVKQ/s1600/Pink+slip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBZzY5GaLMIu2LIiwkBYsExI6BWoQ12RKzEvP_OduphhYQkSBoZRhUZbAnnZoohuZ-n7zCDbawWHh0hCSehyphenhyphenODKjPwDDp-y1JnLxc3RA36nXy6y8c8JwrM7LWLsL8NF9GDsdyQz9FqVKQ/s320/Pink+slip.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I shall choose not to be afraid<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Of the arrows which pierce by day<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Flying without any sense of direction<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Or the deadly diseases<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Which stalk in the night of darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Under the veil of gloom.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">His armor shall be my protection<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">From the loss of opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Surrounding the feathers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Which cover my wings.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">When one entryway opens...<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Another closes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Shielding us from the serpent<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Detours carefully guarded<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">By the traps which surround<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A refuge from the terrors<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Which attempt to consume.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 13.5pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The month of May is a tough one for me, perhaps that is why I wait until the very last day to write. This month is a fresh reminder of grief. A few years ago I lost a very dear friend to a mysterious and sudden illness in May. And recently a friend of mine lost her son, a young boy, a soldier in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Then just a few weeks ago another friend lost her husband of 45 years, within a few weeks of illness, he was gone. So this month has definitely been a reminder of reflection and the painful reality of mortality. With that being said I am very aware that life is meant to be lived and lived abundantly! But I must indeed admit that I am thankful to be heading toward the month of June.... Peace to all you bloggers who continue to follow faithfully. You bring great joy! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Across the universe<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Poets and seers have expressed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The vision<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The ideal<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">To have peace<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And happiness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Interlocking hands<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Singing "kum ba yah"</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Nations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the people<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Voluntarily cooperate<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Against warfare, selfishness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And greed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">A cessation of hostility<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">What's mine is yours<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Brother and sister<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Vibrations of mankind</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Using energetic active words<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">To heal transform<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And empower<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The course<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Of planetary destiny</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The human heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Embracing oneness</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">An all inclusive message<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Fighting the winds of despair<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Blowing from every direction</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Ending strife convulsions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And chaos</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Dawning a social evolution<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">The planet</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Of sacred books<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Hold the promise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-40865130094116695812011-05-23T15:09:00.000-05:002011-05-23T15:09:13.938-05:00Rapture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXdalG1mSNSdr5yxmrvLs1OgOxPL18_Nru-qaM8sCMAN6SZ2F6NLiwdqyXbyFVRJv2-2lA1RqHk3RD2fNPjJ5IrDCQcKIjSwkdlBvNOii22CM6vspLyB02tcwz8ftqp_jytNGDAAkozd4/s1600/rapture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXdalG1mSNSdr5yxmrvLs1OgOxPL18_Nru-qaM8sCMAN6SZ2F6NLiwdqyXbyFVRJv2-2lA1RqHk3RD2fNPjJ5IrDCQcKIjSwkdlBvNOii22CM6vspLyB02tcwz8ftqp_jytNGDAAkozd4/s1600/rapture.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Enraptured by the lack of rapture<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A rape upon the rapids<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of astonished beliefs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My ravished body fills with delight<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Living each day as if last<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not snatched or grasped<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or clasped upon<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A few more years to gather<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To capture what belongs<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Itching ears want to hear<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The kingdom is near<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Doctrines of the spirit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Discern the truth<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Empowering each<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>different<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Interpretations<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now seeing through<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The mirror darkly<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cognitive dissonance<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gift of learning.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ambiguity<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Confusing at best<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A plate of food<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A drink of water should<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Be the crux of salvation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And emphasis.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not the waiting<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Upon counting ducks in a row<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Never ready<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Always Willing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anticipating<o:p></o:p></span></div>lorelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875619862193834212noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185491985849017011.post-20582634301794375362011-05-19T08:09:00.002-05:002011-05-19T09:09:43.336-05:00Impermanence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmsJJy4OUqeJlBA4UZyg1MojHWQf2VM1eXdV9Q-vI7Ics1Ahu2r6CrLEQc51QXQE0vdF7TRCbV0ndaYV52xU96DLg5DgVPqzFBHkezQmk_QGXiVUAh6I1eA9VAav2db56LSLGHt1kVps/s1600/impermanence.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmsJJy4OUqeJlBA4UZyg1MojHWQf2VM1eXdV9Q-vI7Ics1Ahu2r6CrLEQc51QXQE0vdF7TRCbV0ndaYV52xU96DLg5DgVPqzFBHkezQmk_QGXiVUAh6I1eA9VAav2db56LSLGHt1kVps/s320/impermanence.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Yet even the fairest and strongest can stumble across fate’s doorstep of the much needed rest of which stress remains hidden.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">A strange world for her, yet so familiar…as if yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The monotone of the machines, patients crying out.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Sympathetic grins of the staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Resilient and apathetic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">The droning days pass.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">One caressing another.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">For breath to return, the willing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Bring back to surface.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;">Reclaiming what has been broken.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><i>(In honor of my dear friend Debbi...rest well fair maiden...)</i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">With royal pomp and ceremony<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Events mark our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Sometimes with shock and awe<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">As if a theatrical trick is exposed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Others are more quiet. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">A holy and instantaneous <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Awakening of solitude. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Unpredictable moments<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Such as a first-born child<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">We are cut to the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">A graduation<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Or <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the finality of passing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Bittersweet<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Life,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>like an ever-flowing stream <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Bears all its children away. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Current by current. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Deeper truths and trappings are pulled back. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">A power beyond our own<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">The light that never fails<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Is stirring the pot. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">A time to turn <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">To reflect upon the hope filled sanctities. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">When there is a break-through.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Only by our own twitching of the hand <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Will our lives become mussed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">We can't change the past<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Nor can we let its pungent stamp<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Define us. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">A lurch of the heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Quickens<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Compelling<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Drawing us forward<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">To no return. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">Even at our bleakest<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">The need to praise <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">To stand amazed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">At all there ever was <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";">And ever will be. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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