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Time

What is this unseen power
It changes all that exists into dust
It shapes our lives and our landscapes
It sculpts and changes us.

What is this unseen power
That rules the world of men
That heals and teaches and equalizes
That triumphs again and again?

Time is that great master
Of power and wisdom and grace
Which by doing nothing but passing
Leaves its mark on every place.

Time...yes you can waste it,
But be aware when you do
Time will return the favor my friend
And eventually start wasting you.

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Unity

Wander through the forest
Sing out in the rain
Feel the beautiful breeze of wind
And never feel the pain

Love the newborn morning
Caress the gentle night
Know the world in which you live
And you'll see that it's all right.

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Women Walking

While enjoying my walk in nature today,
Dark thoughts came to me...from far away
From our sisters in Africa and the Middle East
Who can not even walk this earth in peace

In Darfur little Jill went down the hill
To fetch a bucket of water
Her body was found, she'd been raped, she'd been drowned
But there was nobody left to mourn her

In Iraq little Jane walked down the lane
Hand in hand with her mother
When the car bomb exploded a building imploded
Leaving them both there to smother

In Israel today children at play
Ran joyously out in the sun
Until a rocket screamed down, impacting the ground
Killing every last one.

How can it be, we can't simply agree
That none of us are being fulfilled
When all over the world, women and girls
Are being brutalized while their families are killed.

Needless to say, we can't turn away,
This is a holocaust we just can't ignore
Enough with religions and politics and greed
Let's end the nightmares in the Middle East and Darfur!

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Essay: Prelude To Women Walking Part 1 of 2

I love Southwest Florida and I feel privileged to live here in Paradise.  One of the 
things I enjoy most about living here is being able to walk year round in beautiful 
parks and nature preserves.  One of my favorite places is Eco Park where it is so 
lovely and peaceful.  Whenever I hear a twig snap, or leaves rustling, I turn in 
delightful anticipation of seeing something wonderful, a mother fox and her 
kittens, a family of raccoons, or perhaps a beautiful bird...but the other day I 
watched the news before my walk, and the program focused on the increasing 
violence against women and children around the world.  It so distressed me that 
the solace and peace I sought on my walk for the first time completely eluded 
me.  At every rustle, my stomach leapt,  at every sound, my body tensed, my heart 
pounded, and  finally I had to turn around and go home.  I had lost my sense of 
peace and security in life and I felt desolate.

Now I don’t know the answer to the problems of the world, but what I do know is 
that what humanity is currently doing isn’t working.  It doesn’t take a great genius 
to see this.  Everywhere we look around the world we can see that what we are 
doing isn’t working, and Denial ain’t a river in Egypt folks.  What I also know is 
that Scientists have mapped the human genome and have found that each and 
every last one of us on this earth can trace our origins back roughly forty 
thousand years or so to a tribe in eastern Africa.  That’s right, every single last 
one of us all came from the same place.  We all have the same base of origin.  
We’re all made of the exact same stuff.  We all may look different but we’re really 
not. We are the family of mankind.  Humanity is all in the same boat, and if some 
of us are sinking, all of us are sinking.

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Essay: Prelude To Women Walking Part 2 of 2

Unfortunately as a species, we’ve advanced in our technology to the point that we 
can pack doomsday into a suitcase and send it across the world, but we haven’t 
advanced in our simple ability to get along, play nicely and share.  I once read 
that you could accurately gauge the direction and future of a society by observing 
what they are willing to do to and for the least among their members...one look 
around the world today should have all of us properly horrified!  Albert Einstein 
once said  “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World 
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”.  I think every single soul on this 
planet should think about that statement and ask ourselves if this is what we truly 
want to create in the future, because it doesn’t have to be this way.  

Uni means One and Verse means Song...literally translated, we are all One 
Song.  What will it take for us to recognize this and begin to work together to 
produce harmony rather than the cacophony of discordant notes that we are 
currently collectively expressing.  I hope my contribution can in some way add 
value and make a positive difference in our world.

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Power

In the chalice of intention
Is where we sow the seeds
The harvest that is rendered 
Is our thoughts and words and deeds
We are imbued with a might power
To fashion the fabric of life
We can live in Peace, love and joy
Or poverty, struggle and strife.

We attract to ourselves like a magnet
The images we hold in our mind
And whether those thoughts are good or bad
They will manifest in time
Reality is a product of consciousness
Always will it be thus...
For as we think and we believe
So it is done unto us.

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The Gift

I've finally found my Special Gift
In the writing of poetry
Though I never viewed it as special before
Just another facet of me.

Poetry is part of who I am
Not a hobby that I pursue
It's like breathing, blinking or simply thinking
It's something I've no choice but to do.

And who'd have thought these words that flow
In Joy and Grief and Pain
Were more than a private remedy
To keep me from going insane?

Yet mingled upon my pages with tears 
To my delight and disbelief
Were words of power, beauty and hope
Words of love and comforting peace.

I've discovered my buried treasure
My blessing to share with the world
I've found the way to unfold myself
So the sails of my soul are unfurled

I can finally see the real, true me
And the long twisted paths I have taken
Oh, why in the world does it take fifty years
For Sleeping Beauty to awaken?

I'm so thankful I've found my soul's magic
I'm so grateful to share my heart's song
And who would have guessed the enchantment
Was right here in me all along.