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EtherealOmega Nov 2015
A healer with broken wings
Stands staring down at his hands
They are covered in crimson blood
As clear tears run down his cheeks like a flood

The memories..
They are all coming back to him now
Terrible things which he wishes he had never done
Things he wishes he could go back and change somehow

He lost his gift trying to free her
His love to him the greatest spurr
Yet still it was not him that broke the chains
Yet still it was not him that took away her pains

He lost his wings when he was cast from the order
His gift used up and his mind now in complete disorder
The ones above him saw him more as a threat
That it would be better to just cast out and forget

He lost any last shred of humanity when that creature came
When it tried to make him and it one and the same
For that life it took from him his sight
But ever more it had cast upon him a terrible blight

Now he is losing his sanity
As he stands in the rain contemplating life’s profanity
Everything is swirling around him in a cloud of dark abyss
Everything within him has gone terribly amiss
The simpleness is gone
And so is the light

  Now his mind is falling into…..                                                   
                               
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Vanessa Marie Nov 2015
Oh what a life
Such beauty
why look at the sea of green grasses and leaves
each without haste to grow and become
just awaiting for your wandering eyes
they dance in the wind
trying to grasp your attention
the sun shines down to warm you
and embraces like an old friend
the wind comes to cool you
in a peaceful lull it whispers
the sky a striking blue
faint traces of pure white clouds
lethargically passing over head
oh but what you don't understand
is the gift at hand!
please look around
be grateful for that sun
and the wind and all these clouds
and all these green newly sprouted plants
because simply
its all for you
a little gift of peace
I'm so grateful for everything and especially natures gifts of beauty.
your life is such a blessing
it brings me joy
For my daughter Winnie,  who turned 1 on Nov. 11.
Having trouble with redemption?

Think of a gift card.
Starts with an urge to give the opportunity to use freely.
Then a purchase of a certain amount is made.
Then a card holds that amount.
Then it is gifted.
Then the giftee is accounted to redeem the amount to receive something freely.

So. With our Creator. Who wanted to gift us to be with him. He purchased a price. The price equal to a perfect eternal life. Enough to pay for the sins of all humanity. This price was bought by the amount of the pure blood of Jesus the son of God. And redemption is found in the resurrection of Jesus Christ so that we may choose to buy our salvation upon the sacrifice spent on the cross to be free from sin.

Eternal life is the gift. Jesus is the gift card. Heaven is the place we are receiving when we redeem this gift. Don't let your gift card expire. Go. And make the transaction.
John 14:6 New International Version
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Transcendent sleep
is still a rarity
for me
and
such a gift
when it comes
©Elisa Maria Argiro
Liz Humphrey Oct 2015
I behind her watching in the cold room she unzips
my gift blue bagged and pink skinned pungently
I exhale she inhales turning away from
my half-closed eyes closing her eyes
stinging from the stench of
my body given for her
for the blade of her scalpel to
slice she cuts along my spine
and I trace ghostly fingers in a line
down her shivering back to say there
that is the place where
what you see beneath in me is you.
From my anatomy lab experience in med school-the ghost who taught me what it means to be human underneath the surface.
Clair Meyrick Oct 2015
I can feel your words echo with the breeze on my skin
We sat here, you and I, for the longest time
Saying goodbye to the day when the sun went down
The tide took with it the dreams and wishes of the dying souls we'd be missing
Then returned it as a gift for the living
Let the water cover my feet and the sand run through my fingers
The oyster shells a reminder of a taste of the good times
A physical symbol of the hours we'd been given
Wendell A Brown Oct 2015
What happens as love finds new life
Within ones heart in a genuine way
When a beautiful treasure blossoms
One which takes inner breath away

What happens when life given words
Refreshes a heart and deeply instills
The blessing of a Loves sweet reality
Whose spiritual touch is always real

What happens as moments are shared
When spoken words bring one to pray
Leaving such a spiritual loveliness
Which in a heart will forever stay

What happens as sweet joy comes alive
Making one to feel they are never alone
When in their heart and spirit is found
Seeds of a precious love finding a home

There is a genuine selfless love existing
When shared it continues to blossom more
Especially when it's bliss is heaven-sent
We find each day it refuses to be ignored

For my heart listens to Your smiles voice
Each morning Lord as Your love awakens me
Embracing me with Your precious happiness
As I praise You for the gift I received.
A psalm of love written to honor God!
The longer we do what we don't like,
the more difficult it is to become who we want to be.
The moment we choose to do what we feel is right
is the moment to explain to those who are blind to see.
If we are critical of others
we expect that's how we're seen;
to allow others to make mistakes
is to allow ourselves to succeed.
William J. Crowell
April 13, 2012
Dreams of Sepia Oct 2015
Tis' only poetry, sweet poetry
that lingers on my mind

that haunts the drunken moon
that lovers whisper in the shadows

Tis' only poetry, sweet poetry
that rescues us from sorrows & ourselves

that the Sea sings in it's lullabies
& that the oppressor fears

Tis' only poetry, sweet poetry
that lingers after death has tolled

it's dark, dark bell
Richer than the gift of any king-

behold!
Sweet Poetry!
It's National Poetry day today in the UK so I thought I'd celebrate by writing this poem!
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