poems19

GUARDIAN ANGEL�S LESSONS
Know all the possibilities of your impossible dream.
Leave space in your relationship so
You�ll have lots of time to play.
Be yourself.
forgive, forget, and forge ahead.
It�s easier to fly
when you take yourself lightly.
Reach out and touch someone
Lightly with your wings.
Love is the only four letter word you know.
Whenever you hear a bell,
Another angle has earned their wings.
It�s ok to cry during sad movies.
Don�t postpone joy to scrub the bathroom
Or clean the garage.
Love Mother Earth.
Whenever you feel afraid,
Get a new box of crayons.
Carry a spare set of wings in your pocket.
Wherever you go is where you will be.
Spread your wings and fly.
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THE SUN IS BURNING GASES
I was young
When 17 was a number too high to count.
The sun was the miracle spinning sorcerer
That melted my crayons into bright wax rivers.
A golden-skinned prince lived there
Nightly in my mind.
When stars and moon
Were marginal connect-the-dots,
Different every time-
Beyond the realms of man.

Now I�m 17,
And even infinity is a place I can define.
Man has touched the moon-
Now stretching to the stars.
I know the sun is burning gases,
My prince long since turned to ashes.
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TRAVEL
The railroad track is miles away,
   And the day is loud with voices speaking,
Yet there isn�t a train goes by all day
   But I hear its whistle shrieking.

All night there isn�t a train goes by,
   Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
   And hear it�s engine steaming.

My heart is warm with the friends I make,
   And better friends I�ll not be knowing;
Yet there isn�t a train I wouldn�t take,
   No matter where it�s going.
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THE LONG HILL
I must have passed the crest awhile ago
   And now I am going down-
Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know,
   But the brambles were always catching the hem of my gown.

All the morning I thought how proud I should be
   To stand there straight as a queen,
Wrapped in the wind and the sun with the world under me-
   But the air was dull, there was little I could have seen.

It was nearly level along the beaten track
   And the brambles caught my gown-
But it�s no use now to think of turning back,
   The rest of the way will be only going down.
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FIRE AND ICE
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I�ve tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But f it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate,
To say that for destruction, ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
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LIFELESSON
The fierce wind rages
And I see how trees survive-
They have learned to bend.