THIS POEM IS FOR MY NEW LITTLE DOG, PATCHES, WHO CAME TO ME AS A STRAY ABANDONED ON OUR ROAD AFTER SHE HAD A LITTER OF PUPS.  WHOEVER HAD HER ONLY KEPT THE PUPPIES AND DUMPED HER.  SHE HAD BEEN BITTEN ON HER BACK TWICE BY A LARGER DOG, HAD PUNCTURE WOUNDS TO HEAL, WAS FUR MATTED RIGHT TO HER SKIN AND HAD TO BE SHAVED.  VERY SAD AND DEPRESSED.  NOW SHE IS LIVELY AND HAPPY AND SHE IS MY DOG !!  I WILL SHARE SOME PICTURES SHORTLY..HERE IS A POEM I WROTE FOR HER ONE DAY....

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Thank you Linda.

I have so much missed your poems and so glad that you are back with us and writing for us once again.  It makes my day reading such lovely things that everyone writes.  It sure brings smiles to my face so I am sure it brings them to many others also.  Keep up the great work my friend.

Michael B.

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Incest Prayer

sunlight
shining through
lightly painting my face
with signs of life

daylight
helping keep
me safe from those
that hurt me so

night
do not leave
me with them
keep me safe

night and day
safe keep me safe
the child tells itself
keep me safe please

keep me safe
love me please
stop hurting me
stop hurting me

by Michael Joseph

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The Greatest Gift

The days are short and holidays are near
A time for receiving and giving is clear
The best gifts are Friendship and Love
So under the tree there is nothing for me
Because I have all I need from my Love
Gifts are grand but not like Love
It is the greatest gift.

Michael Joseph

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The Mirror

As I look into the mirror
I see myself as I am
the past has shaped me somewhat
But it is who I am inside that has
made the biggest impact on who I am

I can look behind and second guess
what if this or that did not happen
And it is what I have done with myself
that is so amazing that I could do so much
with the cards I was handed

Looking in the mirror and seeing all
that I have done and all I have been through
not sure how I did it but friends help me through
all the mess and pain of life
I had something to do with it too

I am amazing and so are many who have walked
in my shoes even if only a day
for these shoes have seen so much
more than they should, And now I
see someone wonderful in the mirror, Me!

by Michael Joseph

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The Mirror

As I look into the mirror
I see myself as I am
the past has shaped me somewhat
But it is who I am inside that has
made the biggest impact on who I am

I can look behind and second guess
what if this or that did not happen
And it is what I have done with myself
that is so amazing that I could do so much
with the cards I was handed

Looking in the mirror and seeing all
that I have done and all I have been through
not sure how I did it but friends help me through
all the mess and pain of life
I had something to do with it too

I am amazing and so are many who have walked
in my shoes even if only a day
for these shoes have seen so much
more than they should, And now I
see someone wonderful in the mirror, Me!

by Michael Joseph

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HALT WHO GOES

A LONG, LONELY DRIVE AND ONE FLAT TIRE

IT WOULD SEEM THE ELEMENTS JOIN TO CONSPIRE

THAT I SHOULD HAPPEN UPON THIS WOOD

AT A TIME WHEN I NEVER REALLY SHOULD

THE ROAD STRETCHES BACK AS NIGHT DRAWS NEAR

THE TIRE MARKS SEEM TO JUST DISAPPEAR

OBLIVION LOOMS BEFORE ME NOW

THE TREES DRAW SO MUCH CLOSER SOMEHOW

A FANCIFUL THOUGHT SAYS I TO MYSELF

NOT SAID IF THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE

BUT I AM ALONE WITH A WALK AHEAD

NIGHTFALL COMES WITH A SENSE OF DREAD

FEARFUL THOUGHTS WRAP ‘ROUND MY HEART

EVERY SOUND I HEAR GIVES ME A START

I FEEL A NIGHT MIST SETTLING IN

DROPLETS FALLING FROM MY CHIN

MIXED WITH ONES COMING FROM MY BROW

WHAT FEELINGS ARE COMING OVER ME NOW

THE TREES LEAN IN AS I WALK ALONG

SUDDENLY THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG

I HEAR A THRASHING IN THE BRUSH

ALL OTHER NOISES THEY DO HUSH

MY HEART IS STRANGLING IN MY THROAT

SENSES SWAMPED WITH FEAR AS THEY FLOAT

IN MY MIND GONE MELTED WITH SUDDEN FEAR

WHAT IS IT THAT I SEE COMING NEAR

A BRIGHT LIGHT AND A BOOMING VOICE

I WOULD DROP DEAD IF IT WAS MY CHOICE

I FALL TO MY KNEES AND BEGIN TO SHAKE

A VERY LOUD CRASH, I HEAR SOMETHING BREAK

FEAR FILLS MY LUNGS AS I RISE AND TURN

CHOKING ME, MAKING EVERY BREATH BURN

THE THING IN THE WOOD IS DRAWING CLOSE

AS I START TO RUN A VOICE CALLS

“HALT WHO GOES !!”

A BRANCH HAS TRIPPED ME AND I FALL

I KNOW I AM DEAD AND DON’T CARE AT ALL

SUDDENLY ARMS GRAB ME FROM THE BACK

I SQUIRM AND TURN TO FACE THE ATTACK

THERE STANDS A LOGGER HOLDING A LIGHT

HE SAYS WHAT YOU DOING HERE IN THE NIGHT

IT ISN’T SAFE TO BE IN THESE WOODS

AT NIGHT WITHOUT ANY FIRE OR FOOD

SO STATE YOUR BUSINESS IF YOU PLEASE

FOR THE WOODS YOU ARE IN BELONG TO ME

I NEAR COLLAPSED IN HIS ARMS RIGHT THEN

KNEW I WOULD NEVER COME HERE AGAIN

AS I TOLD HIM MY PROBLEM HE GAVE A GRIN

SAID THAT WAS NO WORRY JUST LEAVE IT TO HIM

HE CALLED AND AN ANSWER CAME FROM THE TREES

TWO MORE MEN EMERGED.. THE OTHER WAS PLEASED

GO AND HELP THIS FOOL GET HIMSELF ON THE ROAD

GOT TOO MUCH TO DO, HE’S TOO MUCH OF A LOAD

STRANGERS WHO WALK THROUGH MY WOODS AT NIGHT

SHOULD ALWAYS MAKE SURE THAT THEY CARRY A LIGHT

I WAS NEVER SO GLAD TO BE LED OUT OF THERE

THE TWO MEN TOOK MY TIRE AND MADE THE REPAIR

WHEN THEY WERE ALL THROUGH I SHOOK BOTH THEIR HANDS

PLEASE TELL THE WOODS OWNER I’LL STAY OFF HIS LAND

AFTER THAT I NEVER DROVE OUT AT NIGHT

A LESSON SCARED INTO ME FROM SHEER FRIGHT

NOW WHENEVER I HAPPEN TO HEAR “HALT WHO GOES”

I REMEMBER THAT AWFUL NIGHT RIGHT TO MY TOES

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LINDA VALE MARTIN © NOVEMBER 30, 2008

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Healing

Sometimes it happens
sometimes only partial healing
will happen

Sometimes the pain and hurt is deep
sometimes life helps erase
part of the past

Sometimes love and caring shatters the hurt
But healing comes from inside yourself
somtimes difficult, sometimes easy

Healing is nessesary for moving on
Sometimes others can help
Sometimes we do on our own

Healing is part of life
Friends help and loved ones too
Moving forward with a Smile

Sometimes it happens

By Michael Joseph

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this is open to all I just happen to be the one posting on it.

it is only 3 cont because I could not find 3.

Feel free to post

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Please forgive my interrupting your poetry.

Tatiana

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One step

One step in the right direction

One foot forward

Not knowing what the future holds

Stepping once more

Pushing toward tomorrow

Putting one foot out

Not knowing what the next step will bring

One step in a direction

I hope it is the right one

One Step

By Michael Joseph K.

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…..

The collapse of The Twins, The Build-up of Arms, The declining health care, The Housing Shortages, The Emphasis On War, The Selling, Harvesting of Organs, Tissues, The Genocide of Darfur, The Control of Communism To Tibetan Hearts – their exacting control of Nations –Faith, peoples, children; The General(s) Control of Myanmar and her gentle peoples and children dying to live one more moment in the arms of freedom, lives …lost by the callousness of apathetic arrogance and evil

I have survived and still continue to live, and mourn in freedom’s name, and cry….

Oh Earth and sky, dear peoples of the earth, God of our Earth and hearts, This Universe - - -

Be with us; bring care to dwell once more, and conscience to prevail

Let Love, Faith and Life, Expand and be shared with assurance, without betrayal

Let us ALL continue to live with equitable balance & justness, not just left to ‘survive’

By Tatiana A. Kostanian –2008 – June –‘From The Heart of San Francisco’

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I have survived and still continue to live

Through too many issues of space and time

There is neither any type of salve for my pain for body or mind, continuing to be entrapped

It continues relentlessly as if its own vehicle running rampant without let up, through time

I have survived and still continue to live

For my Husband, My daughter, For Those whose need is beyond human experience

Beyond human endurement, they live to remain survivors now in a world unknown

Locally –Globally Together, we muddle through each day, one foot before the other

I have survived and still continue to live

Wondering as everyone else where the nightmare ends, and a touch of heaven begins

We are struggling to gain footing in a world we have known lifelong, the globe, our earth, now disappearing from view, from safeguard of ecological balance; land policies drowning down stream, and fishes gasping their last breath, while real human kindness, drifts from view, and heartless leaders betray their people’s trust

I have survived and still continue to live

Yet the land I once knew, the Americas I once lived in and under is fading as fast as

Democracy living as a vibrant word on the tongues of once proud peoples and youth

Electing Presidents & a stance for life that dated back & embraced the nations good

I have survived and still continue to live

I wonder all the more, where has my country gone? Where does liberty still dwell?

Why are we promised so much, while in the backdrop of time lies continue to evolve?

…..

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Eyes Shut

eyes shut
body hurt
out of body
body broke
eyes open
mind tries
to forget
what broke
my body

eyes shut
body healing
and reconnecting
eyes open
mind tries
to heal
what broke
my body

eyes open
mind aware
body healing
night falls
eyes shut
body remembers
body heals

by michael joseph

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Something Better

Each day brings something

Sometimes we don't want to get up to see

Something happens and then

we pick ourselves up and begin

hope goes a long way

love goes even father

give hope and love to those around you

help make their day better

Michael Jospeh

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Therapy

Running from the past
in circles
faster and faster

Looking for a future
through broken glass
what a disaster

Standing in the present
lonely
facing the fear


Michael Joseph

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Current Landscapes

The snow has covered everything
the air is crisp, and the wind is blowing.

My mind is distracted, but it is current
no more flashbacks of the past.                                                                                                      I am Just getting ready
for Christmas and New Years, and more snow.

I am Looking forward to seeing beautiful
landscapes appear before me,
and watching life as it unfolds around me
like a warm hug from a friend.

Each season flowing to the next,
and people coming and going in my life
Noticing life and appreciating it more,
But being current is the key.

Looking out the window at the current
landscape keeps me present.
Being in touch with daily life and what is current
keeps me from dwelling in the past.

I have more time for myself and others
while putting old things where they belong.
In a box marked dealt with.

I am Looking forward to viewing
majestic landscapes as they they appear.
Watching the world change as it surrounds me.
I am looking forward to being myself and
time being with my friends loving life together.

The snowflakes are gliding through the air
and landing softly on the ground.
I hear a loud noise and my mind is distracted,
but it is current.

Watching the sun rise and set with
brand new eyes.
With eyes that see a new world and
all the new colors within that new world.

More snow has covered the landscape
outside my window.
The air is still crisp,
and the wind is still blowing.
Trees are colored with bright lights,
and an old woman is walking her dog.               

By Michael Joseph

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All you need is Love

it took a long long time
to understand what love was

so many said they loved me
only a few meant it

sometimes it was hard to understand
what love really was and who really cared

it took a long long time
to understand who I really was

so many said they loved me
even my grandparents said so

love is not hurting it is kind
love does not take it gives freely

no one can take away those I love
and I will never stop loving those that love me

so many said they loved me
only a few meant it.

BY Michael joseph K.

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two are in print in a book the rest we shall see

 a lot of people like my poetry

for the most part it was partly how I healed

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NO WORDS

There are no words to
describe my pain
explain how I feel.
Tell you I'm hurting

There are no feelings
left in my body
they all left
The day you hurt me.

There are no tears
to be shed
because there are
No words inside me.

No words only numbness
Feelings severed from my body
Ripped from my soul
By your bare hands.

By Michael Joseph K.

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That was lovely Michael, thanks for sharing with us.

I want you all to know that the other Poetry 3 topic folder is now in the archives and you can still view it at anytime.  If you have a poem you would like to share, we will use this folder to do so in.

Also this is a good time to remind you that if you have something to share or are looking for certain information and you do not see a thread topic for it on the main page, remember to check out the archives as it just might be in there.  To get to the second page of threads which is the archives, all you have to do is to click on more discussions at the bottom of the first page of listings of topic folders.

Thanks again and have a wonderful Christmas everyone.

Michael B.

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My Heart Of Gold
It is true I have felt pain
my heart has been crushed
people say things or do things
in the attempt to hurt or gain from me
and still I have a heart of gold

I have been touched
in ways children should not be
by those that said they loved me
and yet I still find love and love
thanks for my heart of gold

I have been blessed several times
despite being walked on and abused
by family and friends over and over again
so when someone tries to sting me now
I find ways to use my heart of gold

As I look inside and see my own heart
and see the smiles on the faces I touch
my reflection of my own love given freely
I see a wonderful person in me
I see a heart of gold every time

A heart of Gold with enough
With  Enough Love to hold you up
and enough  Love to hold me up
walk with me a while and smile
I have gold to share with you from my Heart!

by Michael Joseph

still working on Book this is newest poem

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