Best Avila Poems
There is a place so beautiful I'd love to see again.
My dream vacation started in Madrid, in central Spain.
How I long to stroll again down by Retiro Lake
and see El Prado art museum. Then for old time's sake,
I'd find some iced “horchata” down by Alcala Gate,
and later see Flamenco at a bar where folks stay late.
Come tag along with me as I remember old Castile.
We'll bring potato omelets in french loaves for our meal.
In any one direction, heading north, east, south or west,
is something quite amazing for your senses to digest.
A cross upon a peak is near the great Escorial.
And Avila, by Romans built, is circled by a wall.
Segovia, Toledo, and further by the sea,
lies Valencia. That's a place I want to be!
Try the calamares (squid). I like it best when fried!
Oranges abound and the paella's bona fide.
In March , through all Valencia there is a grand display:
people burning giant statues made of papier mache.
Northward are the Pyrenees, rugged, vast and green,.
Sheep in fields, refreshing clime, and villages serene.
There's bustling Barcelona if we journey up the coast.
Farther west, along a bay in Galicia, I like most
a place named San Sebastian, a very lovely town.
It has some trees with tops like cute umbrellas upside down.
Last, to Don Quixote's Andalucia -south let's drive
where for centuries the moors' enlightenment could thrive.
Cordoba, Granada, and Seville we have to visit.
The mosques with marbled columns at Cordoba are exquisite.
Granada has a palace like none you've ever seen.
The ornate rooms and gardens were fair pleasures for a queen.
Malaga I never saw, but if ever I should go
back to Spain, that's a beach I really want to know.
So many different nations arrived on Spanish shores:
Greeks, Phoenicians, Visigoths, Carthaginians, Celts and Moors.
Iberia is fascinating. Its diversity
is so enchanting, it's the best vacation spot for me!
4/28/2015
Christ has no body but yours,
No hands or feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he
looks,
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he
walks to do good,
Yours are the hands with which he
uses to bless the world,
Yours are the hands,
Yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes,
You are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands no feet on earth but yours
Yours are the eyes with which he
looks Compassion on this world,
Christ has no body on earth but
yours
By St.Teresa of Avila
This was inspired by this quote by
St. Theresa of Avila - March 28, 1515-October 4,1582
“God has no body on earth but yours....”
From your hands, a child somewhere is fed
Another desperate young father ‘saves face’,
In a world eager to judge others on unfamiliar paths
That only by God’s grace, our children have not yet trod.
From your smile a lonely soul may feel alive
And kind words thaw a frozen heart.
These are priceless gifts which all can give…
Gifts of light and love that cuts through the darkness
Like two thousand years ago, each day we can herald...
“Emmanuel”..,(God with us)!
~*~
Peace and love to every Souper and our families
Merry Christmas!!!
D-ark
O-f
N-ight
I-s
T-aken
A-way
A-s
V-iew
I-s
L-ovely
A-gain
Topic: Birthday of Donita Avila (May 16)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
S-cribe's
H-appy
E-xpression
R-ightfully
Y-ields
L-ovely
A-crostic
V-erse
I-n
L-ady's
A-we
Topic: Birthday of Sheryl B. Avila (March 28)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
S-tatement's
H-eartfelt
E-xpression
R-ightfully
L-ets
Y-our
N-ame
A-pply
V-erse
I-n
L-ovely
A-crostic
Topic: Birthday of Sherlyn Avila (January 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Z-oom
Y-our
A-mazing
V-iew
I-n
L-ight
A-s
L-ook
O-f
S-ublimity
A-ppears
Topic: Birthday of Zy Avila Losa (August 26)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-ays
O-f
M-orn
A-re
L-etting
Y-ou
N-egate
A-nother
V-ileness
I-f
L-ight
A-ppears
Topic: Birthday of Romalyn C. Avila (November 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-orning
H-ues
A-round
Y-ield
A-nother
N-ew
G-low
A-s
V-iew
I-n
L-ight
A-ppears
Topic: Birthday of Mhayang D. Avila (December 19)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Happy birthday, Sister Sheryl,
War is an act of violence;
Aid is a gesture of goodwill;
The man of God works in silence.
Topic: Birthday of Sheryl B. Avila (March 28)
A-nother
N-ame's
N-atal
A-crostic
A-pplies
V-irtuous
I-dea's
L-ovely
A-spect
Topic: Birthday of Anna Avila (February 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
D-ay
O-r
N-ight,
I-'m
T-hinking
A-bout
A-nything
V-ery
I-nteresting
L-ike
A-lliteration
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Donita Avila)