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		<title>&#8220;Be Yourself&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As long as your eyes are open you can see&#8230;</p>
<p>But seeing is only half the battle</p>
<p>For life is beyond sight</p>
<p>Life lies within the soul</p>
<p>As emotions lie within the heart</p>
<p>As long as you can touch your can feel</p>
<p>Pain is only flesh deep</p>
<p>Feeling is far greater then just touch</p>
<p>As pain is only a word not a meaning</p>
<p>As [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As long as your eyes are open you can see&#8230;</p>
<p>But seeing is only half the battle</p>
<p>For life is beyond sight</p>
<p>Life lies within the soul</p>
<p>As emotions lie within the heart</p>
<p>As long as you can touch your can feel</p>
<p>Pain is only flesh deep</p>
<p>Feeling is far greater then just touch</p>
<p>As pain is only a word not a meaning</p>
<p>As long as you hear you can listen</p>
<p>Yet listening has nothing to do with what you hear</p>
<p>For to listen one must trust and question</p>
<p>As your ears may be deceitful</p>
<p>As long as your mouth shall move you shall speak</p>
<p>But words are deeper than just sound and speech</p>
<p>One word could be spoken without sound only thought</p>
<p>As your heart may speak for you</p>
<p>Whether it be seeing, hearing, touching or speaking it is far beyond our comprehension</p>
<p>As there are too many truths and too much life for us to ever understand</p>
<p>Give in to your dreams as they are what will guild you to true happiness</p>
<p>Listen to your heart for it will never lie</p>
<p>Look into your own soul before passing judgement upon another</p>
<p>Speak only what you know and not what you perceive to be</p>
<p>Hear and listen to a friend for they know you better from the outside</p>
<p>Feel all of lifes truths not only the good one</p>
<p>But most of all: </p>
<p>Be yourself, for who else can you be.</p>
<p>~01/12/2006~</p>
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		<title>&#8220;The Light in the Darkness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepoeticworld.com/blog2/?p=61</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Shadow of darkness crowded the truth within  the heart</p>
<p>Bursting endlessly into my minds deepest fears</p>
<p>Why have I been so wrong for so long</p>
<p>Why have I not seen the pain I have caused so many</p>
<p>But as I drift deeper and deeper into my fears I realize</p>
<p>I am the light I seek so desperately, I am my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shadow of darkness crowded the truth within  the heart</p>
<p>Bursting endlessly into my minds deepest fears</p>
<p>Why have I been so wrong for so long</p>
<p>Why have I not seen the pain I have caused so many</p>
<p>But as I drift deeper and deeper into my fears I realize</p>
<p>I am the light I seek so desperately, I am my own salvation</p>
<p>Even as the thought entered my mind I began to feel hope</p>
<p>Life was mine once more, I could see my own fate</p>
<p>Love and happiness was my chosen fate my hearts desire</p>
<p>Nothing else seemed to matter, though my mind seemed pained</p>
<p>I needed to feel, to know to except this new destiny and path</p>
<p>I was headed for life not death, for peace not war</p>
<p>In all I became my own light in the darkness</p>
<p>My own heart had escaped the fear that had once encased it</p>
<p>But I knew that it was not over, I would always have to fight</p>
<p>If love and happiness where that easy to keep we would live in Utopia</p>
<p>But we do not, do we, I had given inot my heart and excepted Life</p>
<p>With it I have experienced love and I have known happiness</p>
<p>My advice to all whom read this is to look beyond what you can not see, within your heart</p>
<p>Become your light and withdraw for the darkness.</p>
<p>~07/25/2005~</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Maybe&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We have to ask from time to time who we are supose to be</p>
<p>Is there a plan out there that someone contols, a predestined line</p>
<p>Or is it all in our hands to figure out and see</p>
<p>Is it fate or coincidence, is it destiny or chance</p>
<p>Do we choose out path or just follow the road</p>
<p>These questions [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have to ask from time to time who we are supose to be</p>
<p>Is there a plan out there that someone contols, a predestined line</p>
<p>Or is it all in our hands to figure out and see</p>
<p>Is it fate or coincidence, is it destiny or chance</p>
<p>Do we choose out path or just follow the road</p>
<p>These questions aren&#8217;t new but need more then a passing glance</p>
<p>Would you choose differently if you knew for sure there was no devine code</p>
<p>If we just exist and that is all its over after this, no eternal life, heaven or hell</p>
<p>Would you life your life differently</p>
<p>how hard it is to imagin that kind of life its a hard sell</p>
<p>But if it were true people would be very angry and justly</p>
<p>Well its just a thought a question to think of now and again</p>
<p>Life, heaven, hell, fate, chance, and destiny</p>
<p>Where do you stand?</p>
<p>~08/08/2010~</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Mystery&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Along time ago you acrossed the open sea</p>
<p>In search of a long forgotten unguilded mystery</p>
<p>You climbed the tallest mountain crisp with winter snow</p>
<p>For where ever this mystery goes, you shall follow</p>
<p>Nearly dieing of thirst as you crossed the dessert sand</p>
<p>With only your quest for this mystery in your barehand</p>
<p>Looking back now start to realize</p>
<p>All the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Along time ago you acrossed the open sea</p>
<p>In search of a long forgotten unguilded mystery</p>
<p>You climbed the tallest mountain crisp with winter snow</p>
<p>For where ever this mystery goes, you shall follow</p>
<p>Nearly dieing of thirst as you crossed the dessert sand</p>
<p>With only your quest for this mystery in your barehand</p>
<p>Looking back now start to realize</p>
<p>All the days, months, years you chose to sacrafice</p>
<p>The mystery you search to find was within you</p>
<p>Guilding you in all that you chose to do</p>
<p>Your passion for the quest of this mystery</p>
<p>Far out weighted the truth of your reality</p>
<p>Your lose was great for in life time can not be replaced</p>
<p>However you have learned so much on this quest that can not be erased</p>
<p>Quest are not as simple as they some times appear to be</p>
<p>But now your life is no longer a<em> Mystery</em>&#8230;</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Day by Day&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>It only started days ago</p>
<p>The things  I want to know</p>
<p>I never felt this way before</p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t know what this feeling is for</p>
<p>I believe I am not ment to understand</p>
<p>Like I&#8217;m under antoher command</p>
<p>My heart cried such deep tears</p>
<p>My mind feels such horrible fears</p>
<p>No one ever understands me</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t believe this is the way I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It only started days ago</p>
<p>The things  I want to know</p>
<p>I never felt this way before</p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t know what this feeling is for</p>
<p>I believe I am not ment to understand</p>
<p>Like I&#8217;m under antoher command</p>
<p>My heart cried such deep tears</p>
<p>My mind feels such horrible fears</p>
<p>No one ever understands me</p>
<p>I won&#8217;t believe this is the way I&#8217;m meant to be</p>
<p>People try oh yes they do</p>
<p>But I get mad when they try to</p>
<p>Its like I&#8217;m not really me at all</p>
<p>And then I fall</p>
<p>Deep into a depression sad and alone</p>
<p>I feel like I&#8217;m on my own</p>
<p>But thats not it at all</p>
<p>Then I rise from my fall</p>
<p>High up on a hyper strike</p>
<p>With a spark of light</p>
<p>But when one person blows it out</p>
<p>I see doubt</p>
<p>Once again I feel it all</p>
<p>Once again I fall</p>
<p>It gets worse everytime</p>
<p>My life is made up 0f ups and downs</p>
<p>But mostly frowns</p>
<p>I never noticed this before now</p>
<p>So I ask how</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if I should cry or be happy</p>
<p>Because there is something wrong with me</p>
<p>Now I know its not just the way I am</p>
<p>But is it better to know why I frown</p>
<p>It might be better to forget aboutit all</p>
<p>Try harder not to fall</p>
<p>But no matter how hard I try</p>
<p>I fall, I cry</p>
<p>it lasts longer and hurts more and more</p>
<p>I want to die is what I said before</p>
<p>Now I just take it the way it is, what can I do</p>
<p>I know its harder too</p>
<p>But if I died what good am I</p>
<p>just dead and still making people cry</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know who I am or wha tI&#8217;m here for</p>
<p>Yet most people don&#8217;t know what they have in store</p>
<p>Do I leave now with only this to say</p>
<p>You can only live life day by day. </p>
<p>~09/03/1998~</p>
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		<title>&#8220;My Grandfather&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A man of power and a man that showed me a piece of the old ways of life</p>
<p>He showed love and compassion, but truth and strenghth as brutal as a knife</p>
<p>The way he loved was unlike most others we all knew</p>
<p>But it was love all the same and that was ever so true</p>
<p>Though he wore [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A man of power and a man that showed me a piece of the old ways of life</p>
<p>He showed love and compassion, but truth and strenghth as brutal as a knife</p>
<p>The way he loved was unlike most others we all knew</p>
<p>But it was love all the same and that was ever so true</p>
<p>Though he wore strenghth on his face those who knew saw the truth behind</p>
<p>For my grandfather was truely kind</p>
<p>Giving without thought or questions as to how or why</p>
<p>Doing all he could, and even when he couldn&#8217;t he would still try</p>
<p>I know as we all stand here weaping as we recall our memories of this coragous man</p>
<p>We question what we don&#8217;t understand</p>
<p>he was strong, stronger then anyone I have ever known</p>
<p>But his mortality has shown</p>
<p>We will never forget him or all he has done for each and every one of us</p>
<p>For that in God we trust</p>
<p>Remember him now in thought and prayer</p>
<p>For in our hearts he shall forever be there&#8230; </p>
<p>~2006~</p>
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		<title>&#8220;The World Are We&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adcostenbader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As the sun shines down on the empty sea</p>
<p>The birds fly over as through history</p>
<p>As the clouds change every second we look</p>
<p>We look down as the historical book</p>
<p>Times come and times go</p>
<p>As the moon shines over the rivers floor</p>
<p>As each day leaves us it becomes history</p>
<p>as each life leaves us it becomes eternity</p>
<p>The mountains grow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the sun shines down on the empty sea</p>
<p>The birds fly over as through history</p>
<p>As the clouds change every second we look</p>
<p>We look down as the historical book</p>
<p>Times come and times go</p>
<p>As the moon shines over the rivers floor</p>
<p>As each day leaves us it becomes history</p>
<p>as each life leaves us it becomes eternity</p>
<p>The mountains grow higher by years</p>
<p>As the clouds desend and teh captured sky clears</p>
<p>As boats are soon from the seas and trees still grow</p>
<p>The flowers bloom and to all they show</p>
<p>So close your eyes and imagine how it would be</p>
<p>The sun shinning, the rivers flow, the clouds desending as the trees still grow, the moon cries for us to hear</p>
<p>Living life with no cause to fear</p>
<p>Look close and try to see</p>
<p>The Earth is our life and the world are we.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Friend&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adcostenbader</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>With emotions deeper than deep</p>
<p>With Hearts begining to weep</p>
<p>One would almost date to say</p>
<p>Life isn&#8217;t worth another day</p>
<p>But one should turn the other way to see</p>
<p>Tey are the ones who are free</p>
<p>To change the way they fell</p>
<p>To make themselves heal</p>
<p>So one would say that there is too much to change and why</p>
<p>All they wish to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With emotions deeper than deep</p>
<p>With Hearts begining to weep</p>
<p>One would almost date to say</p>
<p>Life isn&#8217;t worth another day</p>
<p>But one should turn the other way to see</p>
<p>Tey are the ones who are free</p>
<p>To change the way they fell</p>
<p>To make themselves heal</p>
<p>So one would say that there is too much to change and why</p>
<p>All they wish to do is die</p>
<p>But if one would try to escape the depression they find themselves in</p>
<p>There might be a new place to begin</p>
<p>Then again one might say</p>
<p>Thats for tomorrows people not today</p>
<p>But if only one could barely understand the tragidy that would happen if they die</p>
<p>Then one would say why</p>
<p> Because people care no matter what one whinks, they do</p>
<p>Of course one would say thats not true</p>
<p>But the truth lies inside of the one whom sets it free</p>
<p>The truth is, that is the way it shall be</p>
<p>One might deny but see it in the end</p>
<p>The one who speaks is ones friend&#8230;</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Life&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here stands a broken mind</p>
<p>closed to all that should be here to help her</p>
<p>she stood in the eyes of the emothions of life and scarcely left in fear</p>
<p>this is not the person that she knew or hoped to become</p>
<p>it wan&#8217;t until her love who has stood beside her told her that life was fear to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here stands a broken mind</p>
<p>closed to all that should be here to help her</p>
<p>she stood in the eyes of the emothions of life and scarcely left in fear</p>
<p>this is not the person that she knew or hoped to become</p>
<p>it wan&#8217;t until her love who has stood beside her told her that life was fear to her</p>
<p>that she truely understood what she had become.</p>
<p>this is not a  good life and she can see that now but still she questions where or what to do from here</p>
<p>fear has led her for so long how does she stray and be the person she could only hope to become</p>
<p>there is many year at hope for her left on this earth</p>
<p>too much time to waste in fear and regret</p>
<p>the knowledge is there but the question still is whatr to do now</p>
<p>is there an answer or someone who can help her</p>
<p>that is not in the stars and it is not in the heavens either</p>
<p>this she must find herself&#8230;..</p>
<p>~2003~</p>
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		<title>“Mother’s  Day  1997”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As the hours pass and the time goes by, I feel a sense of fear</p>
<p>As all I see and know of my life brings forth a tear</p>
<p>What shall I do or even become in this world today</p>
<p>I know that life is so far away</p>
<p>I seem to be loving in the world I dream of</p>
<p>When I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the hours pass and the time goes by, I feel a sense of fear</p>
<p>As all I see and know of my life brings forth a tear</p>
<p>What shall I do or even become in this world today</p>
<p>I know that life is so far away</p>
<p>I seem to be loving in the world I dream of</p>
<p>When I honestly can feel love</p>
<p>I try to hide my feelings way down deep</p>
<p>The ones I share with my self so my secrets I can keep</p>
<p>I don’t understand who I am or what you want me to be</p>
<p>But if we try maybe we shall see</p>
<p>I’m still that little girl you love so very much</p>
<p>I’m sorry that I grew up</p>
<p>But please, I try to give you what you ask of me</p>
<p>But then you say its not the way it use to be</p>
<p>I try to become that little girl every day</p>
<p>But I can’t be her in every way</p>
<p>I’ll try to be every thing you want me to be</p>
<p>But please don’t get mad when I don’t happen to be, because I’m just me</p>
<p>Mom you are always in my heart and mind</p>
<p>And no matter what I try to be and I’ll find</p>
<p>I love you with all my heart mommy</p>
<p>I wish it could be the way it use to be</p>
<p>We aren’t close and neither absolutely happy</p>
<p>But if we help each other maybe we could be</p>
<p>Please don’t get mad or angry at me</p>
<p>I don’t want you to be</p>
<p>You are a part of my life and I thank you</p>
<p>Mommy I’ll always love you!!</p>
<p>Happy Mother’s Day</p>
<p>May this be a happy day in every way…..</p>
<p><em>Dedicated to:                                                Barbara Ann Fornaro</em></p>
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