WATER

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WATER, Murky flows
WATER, Troubled, angry flows
WATER, Pristine, flows
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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FOR WANDA

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Sweet sound of laughter
Sharp salt of tears, join to make
Joy of loving you
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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POETRY

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Poetry is not born
In creating tides
But in the quiet wash
Of memory.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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REMEMBER

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What IS, is God's will

What I do with it

Is MY choice!

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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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MESS

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In the midst of a mess

Make mud-pies!

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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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FLAME

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"The inner flame
..........Once lighted never dies."
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Not so
.....For even conflagration
.....Gently tended must be
..........The hottest flame consumes
..........It's host ... and self
...............Ashes cool, blow and turn to dust.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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PERFECTION

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I am perfect me
Not potentiality
Yet all I see
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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YES!

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I don't think in straight lines
I think in quest'nable rhyme
Does that mean I am devious
Or that I'm sublime?
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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HAIKU

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Summer hot the sun-shine
Frail the feathered pepper-sylphs
Waltz in false-spring time
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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LAUGH

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Laugh: Release of joy
Laugh: Grief of broken heart
Laugh: Tear of compassion
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
(For Dr. Chan)
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SIMPLICITY

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Life is so simple

Belieive - or don't. If you do

Life will simply be

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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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POEM TO A HEALING

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.....My heart sings
And joy encompasses me!
.....I savor thee!
..........I savor thee!
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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DICHOTOMY (2)

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I spend half my day

Drinking Water

For 'tis good for me

They say

Yet

I spend half my rest

And half my night

On the pot

Draining it away!

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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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LIGHT

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Lo through your eyes

My eyes can see

Your light within me is my light

Your joy to God enjoins me.

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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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HEALING HANDS

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Hands of healing

Heart of Love

Enriching Life of pain

Soothingly encompass

Lonely heart

To see new world again

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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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NEW YEAR

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May I express this new year with the love
....and beauty which surrounds me,
..........And may I embrace each day with
...............Responsive Action
.............................and so it is!
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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LIFE

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Deep within the heart
Of dying blossom, moves
The pollinating bee
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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ONE

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I AM, and know I AM
Because YOU ARE, and
YOU ARE because I AM.
You, and I, and God are One
Enjoining with each other
As all life must express
And recognize itself in Self
In and as it's brother.
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Why do I love Thee?
Beloved, let us count the ways...
Infinite as Eternal Mind
The Way ... is One.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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WHEN

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There was a time
At Sixty-Nine
When life still held
A surprise or two
"What can we do
This day for you?"
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When did chores
Change to challenge
Somewhere along the way?
Since when did I
Just hide away
To miss the thrill
Of a brand new day?
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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FISHPOND

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Somnolent water
Murky, Golden carp flutters
Unperceived be
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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MIDNIGHT AFTER STORM

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Un-named excitement lies
In me, as in the heaven
Megalopolis of skies
In rush-hour anticipation
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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PROLIFIC POET

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I'm a prolific poet
Rhymes rattle ruthlessly
Through my head mentally
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I hear not the rogues of life
Nor join their ruthless pranks
Yet stand and watch with glee
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What have raucous family
And dedicated work
To do with me?
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER,

OR,

BUT THEN-AGAIN-BON MOTS

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What is is God's Will
What I do with it is my choice.
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In the midst of a mess
Make mud pies.
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If you keep your fire going
You may burn down the house.
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I believe in a Creative God whose
Tendencies, abilities and love
Are pushed down and running over.
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Beauty lies in the eye of the appreciator.
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From Wisdom From The Ages by GeoE
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COMMENTARY

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In a modern country which has embraced "4-letter words" as poetic, why is a 3-letter word, like God so shocking!
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Some of us still prefer it - publically as well as privately, whether cursing - or praying.
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From Wisdom From The Ages by GeoE
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AWAKENING

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My eager ears reverberate
.....With life;
Poetry and song soar softly
.....Rhyme on rhyme.
Behind my darkened eyes
.....Word pictures dance.
God speaks within my heart
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From Wisdom From The Ages by GeoE
3/2001
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ON MOVING

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Outside my window
Sparkles gold the Oaks
And flutter white the Moths,
Absorbing pain of parting
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As seasons pass
Does one still mourn
Fierce crash of waves
On ageless rocks and shore?
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Perhaps an aching heart
Will richly heal
In silent contemplation
Day by quiet day.
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From Wisdom From The Ages by GeoE
Nov. 02
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REDEMPTION

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Failure comes not from the lies
.....But in the lying there.
Arise! lest today
.....Dies a-borning
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From Wisdom From The Ages by GeoE
4/12/00
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SHAKARI

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God lives not in some
.....Far-off Shakari
But in the heart and soul
.....Of you and me
Though not the mind!
.....Not even He
Through convoluted thought
.....Can see.
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Nameless, answers to all names
.....Voiceless, sings in every heart
Formless, lives as mountain, brook and tree
.....Earless, answers every plea
Sleepless, speaks in every dream,
.....Loving thee and me.
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From Wisdom From The Ages by GeoE
1999
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DEVIL

I cannot fight and conquer
The devil I see in thee...
Only the one
I recognize in me
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From Wisdom From The Ages by GeoE
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TIDES

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The Tides of Time
Have washed upon my shore
A plethora of toys
Swirling 'round my feet
In dizzying array
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Dare I get wet?
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From Wisdom From The Ages by GeoE
1997
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LIFE'S LITTLE WHIMSIES

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I don't think God stopped creating because he
perfected his creations in mankind -
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I think he quit because it just got worse and
worse!
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From Widsom From The Ages by GeoE
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