Posted by: mrpaul on: January 1, 2011
OLD YEAR SAID And old year said… “Stand on my shoulders, my good new year friend. New horizons await you where my vision ends.” “I am looking now,” young new year replied, “and see greater glory than met thine own eye.” “Then seize on that sight and never retreat!” And old year went silent unto [...]
Posted by: mrpaul on: November 30, 2010
the end of November so humid and gray with rain that comes from the west pouring into December but soon to give way for a bright season and rest
Posted by: mrpaul on: July 7, 2010
i like this beautiful Chinese poem from the Tang Dynasty A SONG OF A PURE-HEARTED GIRL Lakka-trees ripen two by two And mandarin-ducks die side by side. If a true-hearted girl will love only her husband, In a life as faithfully lived as theirs, What troubling wave can arrive to vex A spirit like water [...]
Posted by: mrpaul on: April 21, 2010
the journey the journey all began when by His gentle hand He pushed our baskets out into the waters we drifted onto distant shores and grew up in different lands we followed different ways to live and learn some learned to give some learned to take some learned to love some learned to hate some [...]
Posted by: mrpaul on: January 2, 2010
the promise the promise has been made the promise has been given the promise has been heard the promise has been taken the promise always was the promise always is the promise always shall be the promise is love
Posted by: mrpaul on: December 19, 2009
two trees two bare trees aglow in the creamy winter light standing side by side brushing branches in the wind beneath the hard earth their tender roots entwined seeped in moisture pressed in warmth yielding nothing to the cold Photo by Bernadette Kazmarski
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