A lasting friendship
between you and me
a friendship I never
take for granted.

A lasting friendship
to the end, a friendship
always want, to make
me smile each day.

If sorrow comes, and tears
must fall, I'll always be
with you my friend to
the end.

If happiness we shall find
may we share it among
the ones we love, we are
never alone being friends
the way we are to this
very day.

Like each flower that blooms
and noticed, for it's beauty
so is our friendship that
will never die.



(Dedicated to my best friend I have known
since I been three years old) Were 78
now)


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Stardust, falls gentle like
fresh fallen snow, it lands
on dreamers, lovers, young
and old..

Stardust are not only
for little ones, it shines
each night in the velvet
heavens..

Golden dust falls from
the sky in the warmth
of summer, when the
moon is full..

It creeps around the world
like fine mist, before the
dawn appears..

Stardust is what's on the roses,
like dew they say, it soon
fades away with the brightness
of the sun..

Stardust is like the finest diamonds
displayed in the jewelry stores,
only thing with stardust, it comes
without a price...

Collect your stardust, when the
moon is full, and put it in a
golden box, in case God runs
short someday..

Stardust covers angels wings,
they shine so bright, they fly
so proud, in the heavens
above..



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

They say to love unconditionally! why is that!
you know you expect love to be perfect
when it enters like a fresh summer breeze.

When you realize, it never was like you
expected it to be! unconditional never
enter your mind, you grabbed, held on
drained, till their was nothing left to
take.

Survival of the fittest attacks, a person
has to save themselves to save another
so had to save beauty, before the beast
unconditional or not, the drained, weak,
became the strongest when beauty was
saved.

Unconditional love, does not exist in
here, their is always one wanting from
the other, if not love, something that can
damage, if not body, mind.

If understanding lives, one will understand
what happens to the one who always says
'Who cares'? Do they really care, sure
they do, the things they say they don't
care about, are the things they really
care about, unconditional or not.

(Animals can teach us how to love without
any expectations (They know unconditional
love from the day they were born)


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Where are the old toys of yesterday?
I wonder who takes tender care of them
now, remember when eyes sparkled
with joy, when you played hours with
toys that now are broken, trashed, or
put in a box somewhere for memory
sake.

Simple Indian, soldier, and cowboy
toys, so tattered they became, now
they lay buried, in the vault of time
what enjoyment, it was, to play with
them, even brought them to bed.

Paper dolls, they were so much
fun, cutting out their cloths carefully
wishing you had as many cloths as
they did, what a little girls delight
now they have become a something
that was once, a little girls joy.

Tinker toys, what angry surfaced
when falling apart before you finished
making what you were building
holes were not drilled properly
little arms, did not have strength
enough to push hard, that is when
daddy became a pushing tool.

What happened to our simple toys?
they were toys that brought sheer
happiness, little toys, but fun toys
that will never be forgotten from
the one's who spent hours playing
with them.

Now look! at the toy shelves!! What
do you see but a price tag, that
most will never spend, on something
made without feeling, batteries
for everything, and now where did
the simple life disappear too
ask yourself!! Have you ever
wondered how it would be to
live the simple life without all
these changes, that not only toys
have changed, we have, wishing
life was simple and rewarding
once again.

(Nothing remains the same, except the
universe and the world).

(We live, love, and pass away..
But nature continues on in grace)


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Sitting on a mountain high
gazing across the wondrous
art, so magnificent, with clouds
that will never appear again, they
shall vanish into vapor and another
will appear to bring forth
another.

Wonder if life brings all this beauty
for us to become aware, finding
it in our own hearts to except
what we cannot change!

Calming effect flows through us
while we wipe away the stress
of another day.

Upon a star we make a wish to
have better understanding to
know answers to questions we
must learn through research
or living.

Sweet air we breathe to live
proud, realizing each breath
we take is another second chance
to live a better life, knowing we
are in charge, of all we do with
deep love and respect.

Their will never be another us
it is in our own hearts to climb
each mountain collecting each
thought, storing it away in our
memory bank.

How lovely to appear amongst the
stars, making wishes and praying
for happiness we carry deep
within our golden legacy
of whom we have been
forever.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Emotions went out one day and
forgot where they lived, they roamed
all around the world and still couldn't
find their way home.

Something did not seem right, since
emotions forgot anything to do with
emotions, and life started a new with
out a single emotion in thought.

All emotions thoughts were subtraction
how the thought appeared within the
mind why subtraction? when all the
answers are wrong emotions wondered
gather strength to find something
to do with emotions that somehow use
to be part of life.

Warmth of the sun seemed no longer
warm to emotions, since the sun use
to be so glorious once upon a time
in emotions lost world.

So emotions subtracted her way
to the countless few, looked in the
beautiful heavens and started
a new.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Great men never die
they walk among
the giants, they live
on, never to be replaced.

Great teachers live on
with works to be taught
to each generation, where
their is knowledge comes
wisdom.

Great art never dies
it just goes up in price
while the artist that was
so humble, is painted in
raptured gold.

Great poets walk among
the giants, their poetry
is read over and over
again, from a beginner
to a pro.

We walk among the giants
of our own, teaching what
we know, to the youth
of today, so they may walk
with giants in their own time.

(We are all Giants in our time!)



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Games people play, hurting
teasing, self satisfaction
feelings not needed in every
corner, where people play
games with love..

Games people play, fun
to them, hurting to another
many tears shed when love
is not real, only a game..

Games people play, unfair
much pain, like a knife slicing
through the giving heart, caring
less who has been marked
for life..

Games people play, mean
cruel, cold, inhuman, selfish
like a wounded animal, life
continues on without compassion..

Sinner be dam for your selfish
deeds, fall into the pit of hell, feel
how it hurts to be used and thrown
away like a piece of rotten meat..

Games people play, what's the hurt
of a broken heart, nothing to them
only a play toy, when the fun is over,
the games are over..



By Derena
© 2019 Derena (All rights reserved)

Softly I touched her face, I wipe the tears
away she shed, she cried for our nation that
was gone many centuries ago.

Stories, from years, came back to me
when I was very small, each story
powerful, as her heart is brave, and
true, I let them flow from heart, our
nation that understood how to live and
raise their children with spirituality, mother
kissed them with fertile ground for survival
to continue on with stories that go down
in our history books.

Come walk the fields and streams, I
will tell you how our nation became
a nation, the sorrows, beliefs, faith,
your ancestors had that gave them great
courage, and skills to put a smile on a
face that never frowned, they never had
to be sad, they had their struggles, and had
mother nature by their side, with God's
arms stretched out with love and peace
for his children.

She sat their on a rock near the
stream while I told her the story
of her dear ancestors, while she
listened, she started to shed
more tears, but never in vain.

Each story I told her, another tear
fell, not on the ground of sand, on
the Green Indian burial grounds
growing with flowers, and weeds, and
stories she could pass down from generation
to generation.

We walked for miles and chanted,
and cried for our nation that was
a legend already, all we saw, and
felt, we found out nothing was ever
lost, it was growing all around us,
our nation was blowing in the
softness of each whisper of the
breeze, all we saw was a deep
reminder that our Indian nation
will always be.

(God made us strong, why are we not
anymore?)


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Electric you, electric me, were
floating, merging in every
direction, completing our vast
journey home

Rebirth, you, me, no recollection
of what was, infinity, lost in a
dimensional space, electric you,
electric me, mesmerized, locked
in our deepest imagination

Flashing lights before our eyes,
appearing like diamonds across
our mind of blurred memories
now forgotten

Touching angels near and far,
God's face in the distance we
do see, in a world we would
call paradise

You, me, dreaming, about a world
so new, happiness never felt till now,
when the un-blemished blackness,
opens wide, with golden light, collecting
both our souls, electric you, electric me
in the newness of spiritual light**


(A New World is coming Our Way)


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

What shall this divine purpose be
I ask in the silence of my lonely
room!! I cannot listen to loves
call any more, it has disappeared
and went into another dimension,
a place where love sleeps for
awhile.

Divine purpose reveals sheer
devotion, for in having this
shall you control all conflicts
that appear before you, for
leaving behind one special thing
in life, you face another with
a wiser stronger heart.

Not all happiness revolves
around love, it revolves around
an important deed, that needs
to be accomplished, a deed
that will come from heart and soul.

Though this time is still untouched,
it will open and you will find
that divine purpose you are here
to make happen, it is sad your hurting
again, it will heal, and you will understand
what your divine purpose is.

Life on earth never always turns
out the way we want it too, it has
so many clouds that pass, but their
is always the light that lives deep,
to keep you strong from pain, stopping
those tears you shed for the loved
ones you left behind.

Don't feel alone, for your never
alone, your people stand by you,
you may not know who they are now
but in time, you'll notice the change
that will be taking place, for in doubt
does one come out, a winner.

Like the plane that flies high over
clouds, you shall fly high, way over
the universe, where your heart lives
not here on a earth, that brings conflict
pain, and in the end, destruction.

Your heart does not live for you
alone, it teaches many the meaning
of what is to come very soon, listening
gathering thoughts from you, shall this
happen little at a time, with knowledge
just like a bird who cannot find his
nest, but after searching hard enough
he finds a better one that is stronger.

Divine purpose is so sacred, it
leads one to walk a life alone for a
special reason to reach out and touch
the hearts of others, though, the sacrifice
may be great of heart, you will reap rewards
to great to mention, for in giving, one must
keep believing.

The blackboard is no longer black, it
has now been filled with information that
needs to be read and accomplished step
by step, information important to be unloaded
within, and followed carefully, doing this, will
you find your people, and your divine
purpose.

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Love is like a dream,
never ending, just
continuing into a sea
of sweet bliss.

Love and forget everything
else, if you love and share
life, it will reward you in
every thought that makes
living worth while.

Love lasting, like the
shadow of your smile
in the silence of the night.

A constant beating
of a loving heart
whispering across
the wind swept room.

Storms of love shoot
out, like diamonds
falling to the ground.

Dreams of reality grow
deep with each tender
touch. a kiss that pours
out love, will never be
sad, they found the light
of tranquility.

Lasting emotions unleashing
desire of loves first kiss
a night of eternal bliss.

Midnight glance, a smell
of sweet perfume floating
with the soft breeze of
summertime.

Tenderness of dreams live
on, to see another night
showered with stardust.
and daffodils in the garden
of sweet memories of every
thing that has passed in the
mind of a peaceful heart.

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Along my life of wonder
chasing each star in
the heavens above.

Dreaming about the good
times when life was simple
and kind.

Dancing with nature
taking chances, wading
along the stream of life
waiting for a second
chance to look love
in the eye.

Laughter fills each
day with gratitude
walking along counting
pine cones.

Dancing with nature, I pray
I will always feel this peace
inside, a simple wild rose
finds it's way behind my
ear, while dancing and flirting
with natures ways.

(A poem taken from my (Nature Collection)

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

I borrowed love from my flowers
in my flower garden, for a little
while, how warm, fragrant, as
they quietly entered, like soft music
in the misty dawn of summer
time..

Love every where inside and out, just
notice the song that flows from
all living creatures, they have a special
note all their own.

The first snow in winter falls, gracefully
each different in shapes and song
as they drop lightly to the frozen
ground.

I borrowed all of natures love for
one season, feeling sensations of
communication and song, through
out time, she sowed her sweet
love in my soul.  


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Awaken children of the light, it is
time to go forward into the Universe
finding why you have had no knowledge
of your present life and where it is leading
you now.
As we know! living is all we have ever known
it is about love, respecting, working hard
on all we believe, and taught, simple as that.
False belief's grow stronger behind doors of
confusion as we place our complicated thoughts
on hold, fabricating excuses without knowledge
of what they themselves are trying to understand.
Now, it is time to find out all the answers to your
questions. As you know, we are only using very little
of our brain, and now we are awakening our brain
which means our intellect will be energized to the
point for us to travel through our own dimensional
state of awareness, finding knowledge, is only
a scar away from the main wound.
Your mind will be opened to all creation, with
no definitional length of intelligence we
have inherited through the beginning of man kind.
We have been enlightened once again for the last
time, for in finding our own light, we will be our
guide for ourselves and all your thoughts of the past
will be erased and a new life will start once again.
Seems hard to understand this is taking place right
now, but it is! and as time passes by, time will be
no more, it will no longer be important.
Living will be different from what you know it to
be, it will be spot intellect, without memories
to hold you down. Memories have only been the
after math of having a brain in the first place,
all that happened in your life was not a memory
it was a thought, manifesting a memory that
was never a reality from the beginning.
All to complicated in our small minds right now
only you shall travel into your own enlightenment
Yes you:! will travel without knowing, you will be
enlightened and nothing will be the same again.
You will be your own person and know all answers
to every question you have always wanted to know.
No more questions will be asked, we will know all
answers, right from the beginning.
Be observant! you will no longer move into the
darkness, when your enlightened, no fears, no
doubts to hold you back from being your true
self enlightened being of the Universe.



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Fire inside, burning, growing deeper
as the wind blows away fears no longer
existing.

Fire inside, blazing across unknown
dimensions of space and time
as we know it.

Touching heart, touching soul beyond
knowledge and understanding, fire
unseen glowing with delight.

Fire of youth burning through, strong
as steel, forever true.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Miles crisscrossing among unknown exotic spices mingling together
making tremendous sounds not forgotten.
Show in action, not seen by unfaithful believers, nightmares clashes till light shines through darkness of blue destiny measured with misty softness awaiting spoken answers to questions not known on Splendor Road with magical elements ac curing through senses of play and imagination.

Surrounded light sparkles across midnight mystery, capturing creatures like faeries flying across exotic leaves of lavender and misty locus flowers, not seen any where only on Splendor Road by those who believe, will roam among the secrets and mystery of beauty unknown to doubters of a world created to appreciate life the way it was to be appreciated.

What you find on Splendor Road is what the world was meant for all to find, but only a few have found the answer to the question unable to be answered by the unbelievers, when your heart is opened, you soon will become a believer, the question will be answered without any effort what so ever.

Cross and come over to Splendor Road, you will not go back among coldness and heartless surroundings, your love has wondered on the road to happiness and harmony and miracles beyond any imagination you can imagine will happen, you have surrendered yourself to a higher power unknown to you alone, that key that opened up your heart has always been around your neck, you never become aware of it till you opened your own heart to the deep wonders of love, power of unselfish deeds and commitment to others
than yourself.

Life as you see it now is a mystery of unknown spender and will continue through majestic places of happiness and glory you
will not be able to comprehend, as you really still don't know how strong love really is, many have no love to fly high like a bird, free, happy, and peaceful.


(Find your way to Splendor Road all questions will be answered)


By Derena (Harriet)
© 2018 Derena (Harriet) (All rights reserved)

Divine power soars high above me, standing
for everything I do and believe in, cannot do it
by myself without God's divines spirit.

Dreams do not just happen, they have to be desired
having faith in our divine spirit, helping our dreams
goals, understanding, to become a reality..

The colors surrounding my heart were not always
as bright as they are, it took many years of
determination and struggle to make those
colors as bright as they are today.

Divine power gave me the strength to be a better
me, it did not happen overnight, now I lay in a
valley of Lillie's with fragrance lingering for
miles, a calm and peaceful feeling brought on
from years of belief, faith, and deep love.

Defeat should not exist in our world, not ever
fears of knowledge should not be setting our world
on fire, it should be the strength we grasp on
collecting only the light, spirit, and positive truth
that lives within our own souls.

With understand ourselves, we shall become wise to
comprehend truth, of spirit within our own complex
self.

All answers are just before us to hear, if we only listen
to the spirit of our own subconscious, installed deeply
within, instead of darkness of misunderstanding, we
could all fine out own paradise within our own self,
learning the real reason of existence.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

I wolf, maiden in the day light, wolf
at night, where I wonder with a wolf pack
hungry for food, the shattered truth of my
life is a threat to my human friends, never
been so happy since I become a she wolf.

I feel the freshness upon my soul, I'm
renewed each time I transform, a feeling
of great power and true freedom, no one
shuts me in, I am a she wolf of the wild,
a place I've always wanted to be.

The night I was attacked, it did not
hurt, just a little break in the skin, several
months later, when the moon was full
I had a feeling to go into the timber
lands, seeking something, I did not
know what.

Now I have found the freedom I've
always wanted, freedom of a true
she wolf, I with my pack, I ****
for food, and at dawns early light, I
become a woman graving blood.

It may not sound to happy, to be in
the spot I'm in, it really is, I feel more
than anyone will ever feel, I know
what true freedom feels like when
the moon is full..

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Mr.Moon, send your love down, let
lovers gaze deeply, let your beauty
shine into each dreamers heart.

A silence, a whisper of each star
sparkling, so many desires becoming
a song of love.

Cross your heart, love has entered in
it plays a role only each heart knows
it leaps to the moon, kisses her, bringing
her brilliance of sparkle back, into the
reality of adventurous bliss.

Beauty of love and spirit surrounds
each believer, she has sent her spell
of love down to those lovers, dreamers
surrounding them with warmth.

Though dreams may not all come true
it is miraculously a miracle to fine their
true destiny.

Mr. moon shine your light, fill the lonely
heart with love, dreamers their true desires
lovers, a song never forgotten, a flower
blooming softly in soul, touching heart gently
with promises an wonderment.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

I love my own road, it took so long to make, it
gave me so much pain you wish it would go away
and than one day the road looked like it finally was
beginning to look like a road.

Thought just making it was just the sweat of it,
but not the tears, sorrow, darkness that suddenly
covered the area around it, so you could not continue
till the time was right.

To many pebbles to sort, not enough dirt to
make the foundation secure, surprises under each
level that is removed from the ground, leaving a
gap in between the sweetness that was use to live in
under Neath all the confusion of misplacing the
dirt in the first place.

My road is not very straight, but it was made the
best I could make it, with a lot of sweat, love, compassion,
forgiveness, and much giving of my own heart without
any rewards, I made it strong to last many life times

Indeed my road was worth a life time of making,
and God was my strength through it all.

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Little angel be my guide
always let me keep my smile
let me hold you dear within
while I pray to God above.

Little angel sing your songs
never let me see a tear, I'll
always keep you close with
me, while I walk my path
to God.

Little angel play with me
so I'll never be alone
let me know what I must
do, to let you rest at
ease within.

Always shine your light
on me, never let me shy
away, let me learn more
every day, the real way
to say a prayer.

I now shall say good
night, hoping that
tomorrow shall bring,
a more thankful me,
with love to spare
among my friends
so far away.

Little angel your so special
I cannot begin to tell you
how much I love you so.

You helped to clear my sadness
away, when I asked you from my
hurting heart, you never told me
wait a minute, maybe later
I shall help, you have always
been my little friend that no
one knows about.

Little angel now I'm old, your
still a standing by my side, I
have asked you a million times
to help me be strong, and each
time you made me stronger then
the time before.

You still make me keep my smile
through my sickness and pain, and
failure to notice, you even shed a
few tears for me, standing by my
side so many years.

My little angel in God's holy light, you
showered down peace and understanding
within my life, of life's, you gathered
all the fragrance of each flower in
one, and showed me God's holiness
within all of us hold.

Bless you my little angel, this time God
hears my little prayer, with blessing from
his heart, to yours, my little one.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Capturing a lost thought, flowing through
without realization, laughter can actually exist,
with one, contact with yourself, not being overly
aggressive, believing, accepting you.

Self awareness, understands the consequence with
one alone, living with pleasure of mind and heart
expecting nothing from nothing while music automatically
soothes the misunderstood meaning, of false
pretense, consciously known, by only one
who feels the thought trying to disguise it
from the subconscious mind.

Truth cannot be hidden, it comes out of those
who speak nothing, when awareness awakes
truth is spoken quietly, unknown to the ones who
are envious needing comfort, of self, wishing
they had love, more confidence, letting laughter
exit, with meaning, and strong character of self.



(Lying to your inner-self, will damage your own beliefs.)

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Beautiful heart, untouched
and pure, free like a
hawk in flight.

Beautiful dreams of love
never known a dream
such as you.

Angel of loveliness
standing in your
own space, capturing
all who look upon you.

Beautiful eyes, made
for only me, a savage
deep, with no evil
flowing, only love
locking up with mine.

Singing songs that echo
above the mountain tops
a softness that calms
me, when my eyes may
stray.

Beautiful, everlasting
dreams, and rainbows
surrounding you my
love.

Beautiful heart, so pure
letting me in step by
step, oh, sweet love
your my everything.



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Control in manner
sadness in spirit
shadows follow
prisoner chained
till you understand.

Mask covers deceit
darkness hides away
the truth, turning off
hope intent, till you
believe.

Casting stones, hitting
home, sadness deepens
within the heart alone
till growth begins.

Content concealed
waves rage in anger
upon an island of
disbelief, holding
back destiny by those
who will not try.

Peace lingers, out
of reach, fear soars
high among dreams
untouched, till you
understand.

No beginning, no end
hearts grow uneasy
with every passing day
till life drained, begins
a new.

Truth hidden among
snow cap peaks, touching
places never seen, alone
sad, without knowledge
to understand.

Another time, another
place where dreamers
live among fairies,elf's
unknown by those who
travel alone, lashing
out without faith to
understand.

Fear like shadows
follow, no explanation
to doubts, living deep
within the raging soul.

Touching promises
breaking dreams with
restless minds, not
believing God's holy
word, just their own
thoughts, alone, forsaken
drowning in self-rage
without a mind to
understand.

Just living life, taking it
don't question, don't ask,
be aware what you see
don't deceive yourself
put others first, be giving
be compassionate, but
most important, be true
to yourself, in actions
words, and deeds..

(Doing this, your tree of life
will forever bloom)

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Come in, the door is opened
don't you see? it is forever
opened, waiting for people
of all nations, to find peace
that never seems to appear
in these days of starving
souls of confusion.

Come in, light is bright, you
wait, he wants, he knows
what each one feels, after
another day fades.

Come in, it will never be
shut, his glow is bright,
your search won't end, till
you finally decide, to turn
to God, and love him with
all your heart.

Come in, feel the glory
that fills your soul, you
made your choice, crossed
your heart, and gave your
self to God, who has waited
so long, for you to find peace
in his Holy Name.

(You seek, you find your peace)

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Dress yourself in love, be who
you are, not another person's
fool, in games of chance..
Waking up before your time, will
never make you wise, it will
only bring you doubt, fearing
darkness before the light..
Dream with all your heart
never were dreams meant to
leave angels warmth behind
while you sleep peacefully
in grace and light..
At times we wonder why
rain must wash away
the dust upon the roses
watching rain droplets
fall to the ground.
Miracles do happen when
we believe in light and
grace.



By Derena
© 2019 Derena (All rights reserved)

Around each bend their stands
a plastic folder, information about
life's true purpose living on earth
around each bend, another reason to
keep travel on.

Around each bend, a tear is shed
for mistaken lies, lost emotion, no
more tears before our final walk
our final dream, our final sleep.

Around each bend, regrets grow,
not from mistakes, not from love,
not from a misty night unseen,
regrets that peace was never found
on God's holy earth.

Around each bend, a flower grows
hiding away it's beauty to those
who cannot find it, in themselves,
to pray in a whisper untouched by
time.

Around a bend, a thought, only simple
thought, of how it was, and could of
been, if their was another bend instead
of just a road paved in confusion to
have one more chance to repent.

Across the road, a path, leads to
a good side an bad side, when life
has made the final choice, shadows
disappear, no bends, no questions,
no answers, just the final place to enter
good or bad side, You picked the side
you wanted, when you lived your life the
way you did.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

You fought for our country brave
and strong, you gave your all the
best you could.

You prayed so hard I felt your tears
when blood soaked in the dry hard
ground.

You called for help the angels came
with brilliant confidence, they gave you
strength to finish your fight.

You  fight the war now within yourself
to try to make people understand that
love comes from deep, not from the
depths of darkness, so easy to follow.

You will always be a brave young man
in the hearts of all men and women of
America, the home of the free and the
brave.

Thank you for your protection to all our
fighting men and woman and those who
have laid down their lives for America.

**********

“God Bless America”



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Being in the light of encouragement is comforting
to the warrior of doubt, no wounds, caused by
the insensitive alliance between the admirer and admired.
Is except able in the eyes of the beneficial betrayer.

No remittance can permit man to believe in
persons of confidence, upsetting the rhythm of life's
sweet alluring presents and purpose.

Perform with strength and admiration toward
the power of resilience and acceptance of faith
and assurance resurrection will appear in
glory and light and appearance, will cast the
warriors of disapproval away from wisdom and
acknowledgment of perfect alignment.

Enlightenment will make your path easier
to follow the warrior of confidence to survive
the unconditional force of immortality.



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

I'm flowing away, cannot resist this breeze,
freshly blowing across my path, I'm free,
never thought different..

Flowing away on this winter day, filled
with promise, with joy, I'm flowing,
skating on horizons glory..

Snow dancing, touching earth, touching
bliss beneath my feet, in silence flowing
away, where I've always been, from
the start..

Here one minute, gone the next, how
sweet each storm is before the
light, mother your right! you've
always known..

'You'll know my child, when the rainbow
appears,' I grew, hearing her words
through life, never knowing what she
meant till now..

Now mother, I'm here, gazing into
eyes, smiling brightly, all I've ever wanted!
was to see you smile, now I'm
happy at last..

You'll never see another tear fall,
upon the thirsty earth, you hold no more fears,
no more doubts, no more sorrow,
you finally found a place where
laughter flows..

Now I'm glowing as I flow, toward
you, where sorrow and pain has no name,
now I see the rainbow appearing as
you told me many years ago..

(Mother You'll always be beautiful to me)

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Ever find yourself getting
up on the wrong side of
the bed, knowing your
going to have one of those
days!! Guess what!
everything went wrong,
first, the letters slipped
out of the mailbox when
I went to mail
them.

The cat ate the dog food
the dog ate the cat food
The fish tanks pump
went dead, with the fish,
swimming on there sides.

I left the house, tripping
gracefully over the stepping
block, got my neck caught
on a rose thorn trying to get
the morning paper the boy
threw in the thorny rose bushes.

The dog next door came
in the yard, took a big dump
on my new planted grass, the
city gave me a ticket, for planting
flowers to close to the fire
hydrant..

I went to work, found someone
parked in my parking space, my
computer decided to stop working
and the coffee tasted like tar.

Went to the store, on my way
home, checked everything out
at the counter, realized I had
left both my wallet and charge
card in my other hand bag.

I was about to scream, when my
son came home from school wearing
a black eye, which his girlfriend gave
him for something stupid he had
said to make her upset.

Now was time for bed, and decided
to take a nice soothing bath to relax
my shattered nerves, when I realized
their was no hot water, because the
hot water tank had broken.

I just had it, got into bed, thanking
God for giving me a wonderful day to
tackle, with patience and gratitude.

I figured if thanking God for a wonderful day
my day tomorrow may be just great which I
needed so badly to be, after the stress of
today's craziness.

Should I tell you what happened on my
wonderful day, I thought would be great?
I really better say nothing about it.

(Please don't expect to always have beautiful day)

By Derena  (Harriet)
© 2018 Derena (Harriet) (All rights reserved)

Wisdom is his worldly gain, dancing away
reaching for dreams riding wild and free
down that freeway of life he rides carelessly
his mind blows like the breeze silently
no one to sway his ways no one to care.

Once in days when glory reached heights
life melted like water running free
down that freeway of life where roads go on
once only in timeless rage, will signs be seen
leaving the road, that leads somewhere.

Like a wounded child lost alone searching
you find that place you never left, your freeway
running through your system faithfully every day
till the day you stop having dreams, and your
heart stops beating and those beautiful roads
you kept racing for years, just seem to have
left an empty space.. Once upon a time!

(Keep your freeway clean at all times)


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Running wild, free among dreams
magical, soothing, blossoming
flowers blowing in the breeze
of lost time.

Thoughts flooding through my mind
as free as deer running cross paths
far beyond my destiny.

Barefoot! I walk flirting with sweet
nature mother of my temperament
mother of my heart.

In shadow! she wolf follows me
beautiful white, with eyes softly
steading me with every step I
take with delight.

I have to be free, have to be
no other way can I breathe
I dance among the wild flowers
sleep by the river bank listening
to the waters of heaven pass me
by.

No other than mother shall give me
peace as I dance around with my
animals so wild and free.

I am part of mother bright and loyal
I am part human loving from afar
I was born to be free and wild in
dreams flying with the birds of
love and peace.



By Derena

© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Across the mountains
across the skies
birds fly free and
brave.
The land of treasure
continues on into a
world of brand new
freedom found from
within ourselves.
Flames of desire flowing
with faith achieving a
a great nation.
Dreams, life's sweetness
links together like
melted iron.
Thoughts Uncontrolled!
bonding heart to unconscious
mortal soul.


(We live forever with never dying energy)


By Derena
© 2019 Derena (All rights reserved)

Surrender love sweet whisper
swing across heavenly light
wander with me, embrace
loves surrendering passion
while we drift far above
earthly desire.

Surrender mine, swim with me
in streams crystal and warm
shine your love upon my soul
less we linger softly with loves
sweet song.

Surrender softly unto loves
reality, where shadows flicker
like flames dancing on a sea
of glittering bliss.

Come sweetness, we shall roam
free, touching heavens gate
when stars have just begun
to glow, with a new beginning
of loves first tender kiss, my
love, surrender with me.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

The red monuments stand majestically under neath skies
of blue wonderment, and the Lord in heaven speaks
in a soft flowing voice.” I have given you all this beauty
to collect and store in your soul”! “Someday you will
realize this beauty did not just appear from no where,
it was created for all man kind, to open their hearts and
find the true beauty of life”.
How peculiar I felt, has I held one red little rock
in my hand, listening to it's heart beat, long enough to
gather information, that all beauty you notice, will be
the only energy source that will leave with you when
you once again fly through the universal dimensional
plane, with all beauty, you actually captured in the waves
of your soul's core while living on earth.
So what you see of pure beauty was captured from another
soul core, waiting to be created for another, to capture, and
collect, and recreate, over and over again.
Instantly! I knew how creation actually begun, through all
beauty God created for us, and those who collected this
beauty, stored it in their own soul core, passing on over
over again from those who loved enough to store and
pass on the true beauty of love to those who really cared
enough to notice even the simplest of beauty to be passed
on through eternity..
How the mystery of life unfolded before my eyes, as I laid
down the little red rock, I brought home from the red
monumental statues of miracles. In Arizona, we
must make time to capture all beauty in our soul core
to be passed on for eternity, or all beauty will die and
never be passed on again.



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

There are many roads to travel, so many
look right, there is only one road that's worth
traveling down, the one that reach's the depths
of your soul.

Follow your heart, though it may lead you astray
at times, you'll soon find the highway without a
curve, it's the right direction of heavenly peace,
just listen to your heartbeat, once before it's to
late.

Dreamers often dream beyond reality, but without
a dream, life would be like a shell dried from the
hot summer sun, dream on dreamers, rewards
are waiting.

Pick the right road my love, if you desire, I shall
walk that road hand and hand with you, we shall
always be soul mates, never ending, our love will
go beyond our own knowledge and understanding.

We will connect in spirit my love, the dimension of
peace will travel among our people of the light, we
will unite in harmony finally being home after all
these years.

By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Connect the circle, give it to someone that
needs to know, the true meaning, to
continue on, with passion, endurance, in
spirit, of all who love mother earth, with
all their heart, realizing she loves you
dearly, treat her good, with deep respect
and understanding.

Living true to nature shall make you strong
excepting trials that face you every day
having courage, strength, and faith to
complete your journey.

Say hello to mother sun and father
moon, and collect all the stardust
that falls upon your life with joy.

Drink of the water fresh from the heavens
and collect the feathers from angels
dropping them for you to know they are
around.

Thank your spirit guides that shall
lead you home someday with love
and grace.

Be yourself and don't be deceived from
those who think they have all the answers
living life.

Play your cards well, and honesty will deal
you happiness, always respect your heart
desires, passion of life, to succeed your
adventures with knowledge, understanding
and wisdom to follower your heart.


By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

I look within my own eye, and see a void
so deep, so light. so green with flowers
blooming across a pasture of grace, love
and eternal contentment.

There is no sense of enjoyment until you
find the pearl of satisfaction, wisdom,
understanding of why we must continue
to go on with enthusiasm.

Living is filled with excitement waiting to
write the next chapter that enlightens our
curiosity, pleasure of body, hearts fondest
desire, down yonder beneath our own
depth of life itself.

How interesting instant happiness can
flow to the surface, without wishing for
nothing, but a pleasant thought of something
simple and beautiful

Guess that means, if you are totally contented
with life the way it is, you must be lucky to have
found that little space in your life that brings
flowers blooming in wonder, other wise
their is no explanation for the peace you have
locked within your heart, willing to share that
secret of true happiness found, without why
this something special was ever found.

Must be the door you saw when you were young
and decided to find your way back to the door
small, plain, rusting away, not a spark, of desire
to be opened, just a feeling that it must be opened
and find that magical key.

No demands on thoughts, love, feelings, only
a simple understanding, of your inner-self,
That is what I found, a life of pure gratification
within my own soul.



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

Submerged wistfully, a lovely image appears
subconsciously before a forest filled with
mystical, illusions dressed in earthly admiration
not known to a mindful thought, of an exotic
atmosphere.

Mystified, confused without believing beauty
could exist in perfection, floats away sights
of unbelievable visions, of a world made
before thoughts appeared to visualize a
scene exactly what you imagined it to be
before you thought you could imagine
a vivid place, so mystifying, painted by a
master artist of beauty.

With satisfaction, visions have not been
a disappointment, no description could
be better presented than the vision that
mystifies within the inner mind
of our imagination.

Through deep thoughts, how could we actually
be attuned, with existence in our subconscious
without awareness, mystifying what appears in a
second, a life that meant so much to us in time,
space, a remembrance laced with perfection.





By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)

A wish that keeps growing with each passing day

it covers the waters of each dream, it controls me
like a whisper in the night, it weakens the heart

making each day a wish of love that shall always

grow deeper and deeper, till there is only dreams

left to dream, wishes have now become a reality..



By Derena
© 2018 Derena (All rights reserved)