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One Loving Word
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Aug 10, 2009 4:56 am
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One loving word erases years of pain
replaced the grief with feelings good and warm
a gift that’s there forever we’ll retain
the same to share and take the world by storm.
Examples are the teachers that we need
beyond which point the call to duplicate
the soul the thing not egos that we’d feed
addressed the lot of things we’d celebrate.
We will be blessed beyond our wildest dream
and not because of fortunes we’ll amass
but more because of love that reigns supreme
and that’s one gift that nothing will surpass.
Of all the words we’ll ever come to hear
that one resound with love the rest grows clear.
-Richard
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Arrives The Dawn - a rubaiyat
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Aug 8, 2009 2:40 pm
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Upon the wings of time we fly no end
To things both known, unknown we must attend
Each puzzle solved the way that we alight
Each flap of wing a draft we can defend
Arrives the dawn to chase away the night
The shadows gone the lot of them to light
A lesson learned the universe decrees
No need to pause and question that it's right
No need to fret nor else be ill at ease
The Grand Design forever guarantees
The job gets done somewhere along the line
No arguments whence laws the likes of these
-Richard
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Leaping At Life
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Aug 5, 2009 2:24 pm
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One jumps for joy when one has seen the sun
with gratitude for days the way they dawn –
a track that's broad where God is geared to run
and whisper words like wind that's quickly gone.
A sweet caress can turn one's world around –
the Spirit side increasingly in place –
the thought of home as being hallowed ground
with love enshrined that nothing can efface.
Secure the soul the shadow falls aside –
no more the thorn that overrides the rose –
the peaceful pull that's not to be denied –
as good a nosh a gourmet surely knows.
The move ahead the only move to make
how not to leap at life for heaven's sake!
-Richard
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Home Among The Silent Trees
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Aug 4, 2009 11:48 am
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I long to walk among the silent trees
to think myself at home where I belong
a study made of their philosophies
that here they'd stand a million years, and strong.
While weatherworn with moss an overcoat
or bushy beard that emphasizes age
the quiet calm's an ode that nature wrote
that's slick as silk upon that wooden page.
My soul is stirred by talk that stills the tongue
connection made beyond the skeins of time
perceived such seeds as once were scattered, flung,
like letters are that culminate in rhyme.
I long to walk where silence works the word
a welcome guest who knows what’s being heard.
-Richard
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The Dream
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Aug 3, 2009 1:53 pm
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When the dream is sound then the end is found
Should it be as yet awhile
You've a wont to go for in time you know
It's upon that measured mile
When the going's good it's to knock on wood
And to take it all in stride
For the thing that's clear is that day is near
And it's warming you inside
It's a high to hope and it helps you cope
Seen the sun that shines once more
And revealed the dream so your eyes will gleam
For that dream's what living's for
-Richard
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The Seeds We Sow
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Aug 2, 2009 5:46 am
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As the rivers flow so the seeds we sow
Are the fruits the future finds
Not a doubt in this to be hit or miss
But a pact therein that binds
As we till and toil and we work the soil
Let us check our lease on land
For the greatest yield will reflect the field
That has known that loving hand
Let us strive as such with that loving touch
Till we've seen our gardens grown
With the world aware that the going fare's
From those seeds that we have sown
-Richard
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Emphasis On Love
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Aug 1, 2009 4:21 am
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It matters not the sorry state
Put love on hold yet love will wait
And when it's time it will arise
A rainbow's arc across the skies
And let it slide for some too soon
When comes the night the silver moon
Will take its place and glint and gleam
That all might live the dashing dream
The night therefore a blaze above
That all should know a world of love
While emphasized we each belong
The stars that shine a billion strong
-Richard
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Whereas Knowing Eyes
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Jul 31, 2009 11:01 am
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Compassionate, one tends to take the lead
and faith is known to therein play its role –
a pressing push that one should meet a need –
the sweetest smile that celebrates the soul.
The inner eye is made to see the sign
success, as such, that's bound to follow suit,
sometimes no doubt the drafting is divine
the lease on love that reigns, and resolute.
So much at hand it makes it hard to rest
yet close the calm for energies that are,
a silver sheen that bridges east and west
the book a bank that beckons to the star.
The past is gone, tomorrow's on the rise,
a twinkle seen whereas those knowing eyes.
Richard
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Recurring Dreams
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Jul 28, 2009 4:56 pm
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Recurring dreams are messengers assigned
to wake in us awareness to a theme
our higher selves thus helping us to find
the answers sought outside a world of dream.
Reminders rife we'll finally get the drift
if truth be told the process will be slow:
preoccupied, our tendency's to shift
our train of thought so often touch and go.
Subconscious surge reveals the deeper ridge
addressed the mind beyond the bounds of time
informed the frame on how to use the bridge
whence metaphor adopts itself to rhyme.
Recurring dreams are not the stuff of chance,
they are the drums by which we're made to dance.
-Richard
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The Transformation
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Jul 20, 2009 5:04 pm
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I took a stroll along the shore
And saw the sea unlike before
As well the sky so broad above
For now I walked along with love
And love was keen and love was kind
And while I walked I was inclined
To view the world a different way
For love you see had made my day
And with the change I was now keen
To spread the word on what I'd seen
That others too might know as well
A world transformed a world to tell
-Richard
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