"Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom." -Robert Frost

This life's dim windows of the soul

Distorts the heavens from pole to pole

And leads you to believe a lie

When you see with, not through the eye.

 

 

William Blake.

The Everlasting Gospel

Friends should be mathematical,

They should multiply the joy

Divide the sorrow

Subtract the past

And add to tomorrow

Calculate the need deep in your heart

And always be bigger than the sum of all their parts.

 

Untitled.

"Along the Road"

 

I walked a mile with Pleasure;

She chattered all the way.

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say

.

I walked a mile with Sorrow

And never a word said she;

But oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me!

 

Robert Browning

"Slow Dance"

 

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

 

You better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

 

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask "How are you?"

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

 

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

 

Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say "Hi"?

 

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

 

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away.

 

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

Anonymous

"Just to Say Thank you "

The sun sets slowly over the stones

As it gives them a golden hue

So many stones marking the bones

Of the veterans of World War Two.

 

Stones engraved with years too short

Yes, the years, by far, too few

Because the men who lie in these graves

Were willing to give them for you.

 

Has our generation forgotten

What these brave souls were willing to do

They fought and they died in most horrible ways

To secure this freedom for you

 

Could our Nation master the spirit

To raise the red,white and blue

And offer the last full measure of life

Like those boys in World War Two

 

Or would we run to lands far away

As you know,others did do,

Unwilling to fight,to do what is right

Like those heroes in World War Two .

 

They came in blue and khaki and white

To do what they had to do

To fight without flight,to stand up for right

Those soldiers of World War Two.

 

Have you stopped one to thank him

For the freedom he purchased for you

Have you ever considered ,where you'd be today

If he hadn't followed through.

 

So slowly their numbers dwindle.

Till now there are just a few

So take the time while you still have the chance

To thank a veteran of World War Two

Elizabeth Tucker

"Sunset"

When we share laughter,

There's twice the fun;

When we share success,

We surpass what we've done.

 

When we share problems,

There's half the pain;

When we share tears,

A rainbow follows rain.

 

When we share dreams,

They become more real;

When we share secrets,

It's our hearts we reveal.

 

If we share a smile,

Then our love shows;

If we share a hug,

Then our love grows.

 

If we share with someone

On whom we depend,

That person becomes

Family or friend.

 

And what draws us closer

And makes us all care,

Is not what we have,

But the things that we share.