CHRISTMAS PRAYER

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An old fashioned Christmas
To make your heart glow
An Aquarian Age New Year
To help your mind grow
Christ's love is the binding
To make your life sweet
A package for living
That cannot be beat!
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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SUNSET ON MARINA BAY

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Rich the fading
Of the western sun;
Quiet - silent
Closing of today,
Beauty unnoticed
Under sun's demanding play
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What unknown gift
What untouched love
Has found it's life
In fading light of day?
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From Bite Size by GoeE
November 2006
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LINDO LAKE

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Once upon a silent lake
A lovely Romance came to call
Father sun peeped through
The cool and shelt'ring trees
Smiled on soft-piled leaves
And love embraced them all.
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Then peace, as it's inclined to do
Multiplied the love
To ten or twelve instead of two!
And though the silence slipped away
The Lake still tempts,
...............................the children play
And Lindo Lake shines brighter
In it's lively tempting way!
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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ALONE

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He stood upon the highest hill
Feet planted in dark soil
Peering eyes on distant skies
Searching there for God
He gave his heart in selfless love
Did all a man must do
Shared his love in selfless zeal
Was loved in many ways
But not that he could feel;
Loved, adored, admired, praised
He walked alone, through quiet days.
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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A MUSE D

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There you sit
In your sexy red gown
A half damp towel
About your crouched back
Bare feet curled
Tight on bare floor
Praying silently
Chattering teeth beating time
NOW! Do your duty now!
Recalling a time
When "go-go"
Was a Jitter-bug chant
Not a shiver-shake prayer!
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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BELIEF

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I believed

"You are only as old as you feel"!

So at age 85

I was teaching a group the

"Can-Can"!

I am now 87 - and bitchin'!

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From Bite Size by GeoE
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NOT DIMINISHED

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God is not diminished

Because I will not see.

My blindness

Takes not from the tree

One barren twig

She stands complete

In her own beauty.

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How could I be less

Becasue my off'rings fall

On barren ground?

I am enriched

To the degree that I can see

None can lessen me!

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From Bite Size by GeoE
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WORRIED

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It matters not where my body lies

For there, too is God!

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From Bite Size by GeoE
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POEM TO LIVING

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My heart sings
.....And joy encompasses me!
..........I savor thee!
...............I savor thee!
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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LIFE'S LITTLE MYSTERIES

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Why is it that in watching television

The proram is so subtle

We mus turn up the sound -

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But in-between advertising

Is a deafening pound!

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From Bite Size by GeoE
October 2006
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FALL

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Eucalyptus leaves, like lace,

Etched In dusty tracings

On my window

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From Bite Size by GeoE
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DREAMER

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Hang, sweet hov'rer,

Twixt earth and sky

Naught but heart of flow'r

To catch your eye

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From Bite Size by GeoE
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INADEQUACY

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It is my fear of inadequacy which

Causes me to walk the path

Of Discovery,

Where I am thrice blest

By those who walk beside me

And help carry

My self-endowed burdens.

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From Bite Size by GeoE
October 2006
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TIME AND TIME

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Outside my window
Maple buds, blossoms, withers, dies
Wrens come and go
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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CLIMAX

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Silver fire danced
Along the swell of ocean breast
Impassioned
Moaning
As moonlight's softest touch
Set flames alight
Burying the rhyhmic climax
Of the Sea and Night.
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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KOAN FOR KAREN

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To use God as a crutch
Is to make a first step alone
To use God as a crutch is to die
Koan Is a crutch
To walk alone is death
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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GOD LAUGHS

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God has a sense of humor
As shown to me each day
For when I try to hide it
It simply goes away!
And I am left in sadness
For another lousy day!
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From Bite Size by GeoE
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XMAS WISH

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It's been a successful ride
Down a joyful path
With the end not yet in view.
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Lest you think that age
Will slow you down
And leave you with nothing to do,
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May you use my love
To spear you on
And churn up a challenge or two.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR WALLY

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Age has moved graciously
Across the mirror of your time
and like ripples on a sylvan pool
Disturbs only with suface attention
The depths and the soul of you.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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ME-NESS

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Father, be with me sorrow,
Father, stay with me in pain.
I'm filled with fear and affliction,
See nothing but dark clouds and rain.
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I am lost in the desert of me-ness
And parched from the thirst of alone.
Father, stay close as I wander,
Give light to my pathway home.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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LOST LOVE

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My Paine died
And the very next day
Excruciating pain
Came to stay.
"Twas never he
Who caused the strife,
but restless me
Who rasped for life.
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Why should I cry?
He lived in joy
With compassionate wife.
Children grew strong
In their own way - and I
At eighty-three
Live in loving memory.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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DIDDLE, DIDDLE

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Diddle, Diddle Dumpling
My son John
Went through life with his stockings on;
Arrived too late, and left too soon,
Much too smart, but never wise,
Looked at life through fearful eyes.
Never touched the simple things,
Lost in intellectual dreams,
And found the earth a place to die;
Caught a plane and said goodbye.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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BALANCE

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Woman watches her world
And calmly and confidently
Ties and repairs loose ends.
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Man confidently and boldly
Challenges his world
To meet his desires and needs.
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Ever the two shall meet
And greet - and question
Such is the balance of life.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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TODAY?

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When my heart is heavy
And Life is dark
I call on you
To do your part.
Why is it, then
On bright sunny day
I dance, and sing "O'lay!"
And never stop to say,
"Dance with me today!"
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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SEEKING

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My frantic hunger

Bites

The softness of your lips

From which I tear

Drop by ruby drop

The blood of love

With which I try to quench

Again - and yet again

My burning thirst for life!

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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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DEMONS

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If Demons abound
..... In the night of my fears,
And I experience no fright
..... In no way does that
Diminish the light
..... For I AM the one who IS!
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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ON THE DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN FRIEND

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I was unaware
Of you ... until you were not there.
As though the essence
Of some rare perfume
Had faded out
And left a dry and empty room.
I knew that part of me
.......... was gone.
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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FIRE

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If you keep the fire going
.....You may burn down the house!
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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CREATIVE GOD

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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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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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AFTERMATH

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Tall, the eucalyptus stand
Like painted soldiers;
Shakers motionless
'gainst a flat grey sky,
Silent guardians of the night.
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Faint ripples teasing breeze;
Subtle, blank turns great ...
Rose ... blue;
A winged hawk hovers high,
Promise of a 30dimension day.
..........Shall I wake?
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From Bits and Pieces by GeoE
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