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{Straight From the Heart}*One Million Books I've Yet to Write* 8/11/00
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One Million Books I've Yet to Write

By: Lisa Maria

One million books I've yet to write
I think I'll start my first tonight
to fill the page with ink and verse
my trails across our universe
that path and skew and cross all ends
each footstep that I take descends
and yet in forward stride it be
a lesson that life gifts to me.

So many pages will define
the latitudes that change outline
and others, longitudes with force
each bittered or bewildered course.

In searching all the earth I've found
the silent heart that bleeds aloud
on eyes we stare in finding home
each one apart yet not alone
the cry of unrequited love
our deepest human need, a hug
our morsel of our will to live
the purposes we aim to give
the shadows of our own neath sky
as hawks will soar and scatter by
or cows that graze on grasses green
or spider webs we dare to clean.

Yes, life has many books to write
and each alone can fill the page
the ink that blends or smears the lines
for words that ought be read ten times
and love for life is never dull
a million books will prove to tell
a million stories of a million lives
with different ways to view through eyes...

Yet here, the poet I bequest
I've oft to write just to protest
the mean an honery ways we live
to kick the spirit of those who give
a morsel of themselves away
with nothing more to ask or say
just for the cause to ease your soul
as weary it begets to hold
the burdens and the splendid things
oh all of life's rememberings...

Perhaps the misappropriate times
have cursed the innocent lives
and never a soul til now hath dared
to speak out loud or be prepared
as mockers look to laugh and kill
the spirit of another's will
or yet to rob and bury joy
their pain that only knows destroy
and worships only this to give
a thorn or knife, a spit to wind
for to have never seen the earth and sod
tis cursed to never see the eyes of God
and though a million books I write
not one can ever measure this
that if I reach just one of them
perhaps the lord my soul will bless
and all the eyes that lean to see
to read of truths perplexity
not cover theirs to what is right
then I've a million books to write
I think I'll start my first...tonight.

©2000
Lisa Maria
LMN777@aol.com

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A little bit about Lisa:

I live in the Los Angeles area and have all my life. I have been writing for 30 of my 37 young years. I write everything from poetry and prose to scripts and lyrics as well as technical manuals for my professional career as
a Financial Controller & Financial Consultant to Fortune 500 companies. I presently create designer jewelry, with many invention patents pending and have a wide variety of hobbies that include photography of various bands that
play in the Los Angeles area. Thank you for reading my poem.
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REQUEST:

From: bgreer4182@yahoo.com (Bill Greer)

Michael:
My Uncle Bliss Kemmerling, that I had asked be prayed for passed away last week and we will be going to the funeral this weekend. Thanks to all for their thoughts and prayers. God took him as he was holding my Aunt's hand and had just said the
Lord's Prayer with her. Thanks again.
Bill


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Thought For The Day:

"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened."
(Thomas Jefferson)

Verse for the Day:

"Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life."
Matthew 6:27

Kid's Thought For The Day:

"Dream."

Parent's Thought For The Day

"The main reason kids eat supper is to get dessert. But the better the dessert is, the less supper they eat."
(Bruce Lansky)

Coach's Thought For The Day

"Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together."
(Bud Wilkinson)

Deep Thought For The Day:

"The most irritating thing in the world is when a left-handed person puts the bread tie back on the loaf."



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