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Human Condition
Struggle through the birth canal
The baby fights for life
Tiny lungs that gasp for air
A slap across the butt
Pattern set for human life
It’s cruel and cold sometimes
Fraught with tests and challenges
To teach life’s lessons best
Question not when things are good
Enjoy the respite time
Love will keep your spirit whole
Resilient, strong, inspired
Time to leave will come with death
For most another fight
Struggle through the veil to light
Cross over, job well done!
Inner Voice
Twisted moments, fleeting dreams
Confusion, fractured thinking
Make a change or stay the course
Decisions weighing heavy
Seeking wisdom I must have
To excavate God’s message
Light one step before I fall
Or give me wings for flying
Life’s a crap shoot, nothing’s sure
Endure on Faith all blindly
Listen to the inner voice
Within the answer’s hiding
Another Chance
New Year,will it bring
Another chance to dance and sing?
Chapter ended, next one starting
Baby steps give hope eternal
Like a flower petals open
Showing more of God’s intention
Roses’ beauty pricked with thorns
Yin and yang, self sometimes torn
Fear not to reach beyond
Take risks and stretch, to grow
Sad truth is if stuck in muck
Your heart will never know.
Happy Heart
Padlocked heart
Selfish heart
Angry heart
Troubled heart
Trust someone
Help someone
Thank someone
Free someone
Open heart
Giving heart
Grateful heart
Happy heart
Another Soul
Another one has left this place
Never to return
As parent, friend and confidant
Strong until the end
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It takes belief and open heart
Know that she lives on
Her home is peace, love, harmony
Painful body shed
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Five senses do not see her soul
There behind the veil
Be still to view her messages
Love sent from afar
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Rejoice she’s found her way back home
Angels there to guide
Another soul has left this place
Resting in the Lord.
Unexplained
Unexplained symbols
From places unknown
Numbers repeating
Feathers and dreaming
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Signs from the loved ones
Sent from the heavens?
Only your heart can
Translate the meaning
Hill of Beans
My mother lived ’til three months shy of ninety-five
She level set my crazy ways by stating fact
“It doesn’t ‘mount to hill of beans,” she’d say to me.
I’d have to reassess my faulty point of view
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I share the simple wisdom to evaluate
Your circumstances, problems and those challenges
That lock you in a jail created by your mind
Enumerate the beans and free yourself to fly
Obstacles
Some days feel like cliffs to climb
Focused on the summit
Blockades, detours, slipping back
Kicking, clawing upward
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Other times full speed ahead
Skiing down the mountain
All goes well without a hitch
Expediting, winning
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Doing what you love to do
Makes the struggle worth it
Overcoming obstacles
Life is good, go live it
Wisdom Not
With age I thought I’d know
The answers of the universe
Instead I am in awe
More questions, all is mystery
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Each one of us unique
With systems of complexity
The miracle of birth
Who doubts the hand is heavenly?
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I look around my world
Observing plants and animals
How do they know the drill?
Forever marching to the beat
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Life’s cycle has a plan
From now until eternity
All creatures play their roles
There is no end, infinity.
Infinite Being
Infinite being, boundless soul
Travels Earth to learn and grow
Struggling through life’s muck and sludge
Search within to rise above
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Infinite being, well equipped
Silence! Listen to your heart
Navigate stormy, crashing seas
Calm and sunny days prevail
Marilyn Dalla Valle 