<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641</id><updated>2011-07-30T05:52:12.800-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poetry for those of heart</title><subtitle type='html'>poetry documenting the ideas and emotions which i experience throughout my life.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>23</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-866929663404337484</id><published>2010-05-30T20:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-30T21:31:06.113-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The school</title><content type='html'>this sphere of sanctity is separated &lt;br /&gt;from the tempting tunes of ignorance&lt;br /&gt;that the world has loved and decorated&lt;br /&gt;and for this, i leave a better human &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From days of blooming desert blossoms,&lt;br /&gt;to the dancing pollen of summer days,&lt;br /&gt;we hush we fight, we cry, we learn,&lt;br /&gt;and bend the rules of our childish ways&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we learn to look at man as man,&lt;br /&gt;as breathing, thinking comprehending,&lt;br /&gt;for this, we learn how to love a human&lt;br /&gt;to use, passion, sweetness, understanding,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this little sphere is just a home,&lt;br /&gt;for those souls who wish to run away&lt;br /&gt;they find a hallowed hovel of misfits&lt;br /&gt;who fear to seize the day,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and yet it shines with an ancient light&lt;br /&gt;from the eyes of the youngest of heart&lt;br /&gt;from those who hear with open spirits&lt;br /&gt;and pray for a wiser start,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-866929663404337484?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/866929663404337484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=866929663404337484' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/866929663404337484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/866929663404337484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2010/05/this-sphere-of-sanctity-is-separated.html' title='The school'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-4895414847727024340</id><published>2009-12-10T20:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T22:11:06.651-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Curse</title><content type='html'>I sprawl upon a sterile stable,&lt;br /&gt;yes, weak i know my body is, &lt;br /&gt;to run from life she is not able,&lt;br /&gt;have i cursed her, as she is?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gleaming globs,a receptive soul,&lt;br /&gt;after hours at these i gaze,&lt;br /&gt;naive and new new knows not her role,&lt;br /&gt;in that Ive cursed her to behave,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look in them, so blue and strong,&lt;br /&gt;her spirit dead must never be,&lt;br /&gt;yet she must live by our people scourged,&lt;br /&gt;for my strong child was born as," she"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Endure i know i never could,&lt;br /&gt;to see her see her silenced by but another child,&lt;br /&gt;because his waist is but what would,&lt;br /&gt;relieve my babe of being reviled,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clutch my child and weep must I,&lt;br /&gt;while our people carry her away,&lt;br /&gt;better the flesh or soul to die,&lt;br /&gt;this curse, is now HERS to decide...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-4895414847727024340?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/4895414847727024340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=4895414847727024340' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4895414847727024340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4895414847727024340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2009/12/our-curse.html' title='Our Curse'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-4619302249742959235</id><published>2009-10-17T21:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-17T21:51:42.984-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To Persecute</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;&lt;meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 2.3  (Win32)"&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 	&lt;!-- 		@page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } 		P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } 	--&gt; 	&lt;/style&gt;   &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;The laughs of cruel ones found the grounds,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;an order for the jackle's sounds,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;they scowled and cackled in the face,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;of a small and dying race,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;just as the reincarnated hated,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;by segregation discriminated,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;scars have children separated,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;so the child of wounds, death carnated,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;“stay away!” said they to it,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;which ride away in chariots,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;of coal and brimstone rides upon,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;alone forever from thereon,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;a time struck child of faithful soul,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;cast away to hills of coal,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;sobs of turquoise raged the skies,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;where the time stuck child lies,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;due to hatred of the people,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;proud and set upon a steeple,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;not to know disquieting sorrows&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;to snare children of tomorrows,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;who tread into a persecution,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;worthy of a revolution&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;hatred do all they embrace,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;hating all of other race,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;for theirs in hatred most advanced,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;keeping all of wealth entranced,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;with envy for the worldly things,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;which thrust upon destruction's wings,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;so how reside this gruesome people,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;set upon a prideful steeple?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;They live within a rosy dome,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;but flee in crimson catecomes,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;to kidnap those of freedom's minion&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;and hate a race of time struck children,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;p.s: i wrote this when i was 13&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-4619302249742959235?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/4619302249742959235/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=4619302249742959235' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4619302249742959235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4619302249742959235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/to-persecute.html' title='To Persecute'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-2699591361372781150</id><published>2009-10-08T10:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T20:55:15.640-08:00</updated><title type='text'>rockingchair</title><content type='html'>we're all born onto a rocking chair,&lt;br /&gt;upon an elevated knoll,&lt;br /&gt;laid before a rustic path,&lt;br /&gt;as minutes, hours tick and toll,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;time and force, it pushes us,&lt;br /&gt;along the lands secreting life&lt;br /&gt;deced along the rustic path&lt;br /&gt;are tears and laughter, smile and strife,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and as we're pushed allong the path,&lt;br /&gt;we know, we live, we clutch the seasons,&lt;br /&gt;as its lesons make us who we are,&lt;br /&gt;we love, we learn, its every reason,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;were all born onto a rockingchair,&lt;br /&gt;with lovely sweet receptive lives,&lt;br /&gt;we slowly age on the rustic path,&lt;br /&gt;on rockingchair we smile and die,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-2699591361372781150?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/2699591361372781150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=2699591361372781150' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/2699591361372781150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/2699591361372781150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2009/10/rockingchair.html' title='rockingchair'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-7717486698297474387</id><published>2009-07-30T20:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-30T20:31:41.498-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tribute to 2049</title><content type='html'>Embodiment of sentiment,&lt;br /&gt;show me all I am,&lt;br /&gt;replay for me,&lt;br /&gt;my liberty,&lt;br /&gt;and was it blessed or damned,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Show me all the tenderness,&lt;br /&gt;of this my little life,&lt;br /&gt;made of scratch,&lt;br /&gt;a velvet patch,&lt;br /&gt;upon a quilted knife,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Embodiment of sentiment,&lt;br /&gt;if ever Im alone,&lt;br /&gt;Ill close my eyes,&lt;br /&gt;before it dies,&lt;br /&gt;and remember you are home&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-7717486698297474387?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/7717486698297474387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=7717486698297474387' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/7717486698297474387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/7717486698297474387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2009/07/tribute-to-2049.html' title='Tribute to 2049'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-6887746167932258632</id><published>2009-01-03T20:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-03T21:05:32.504-08:00</updated><title type='text'>the Boarding</title><content type='html'>In an instant, in one day,&lt;br /&gt;the world turns it's belly up,&lt;br /&gt;the child cannot inhale now,&lt;br /&gt;what is this thing i walk upon?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in an instant, in one day,&lt;br /&gt;the protector becomes the predator,&lt;br /&gt;the child cannot smile now,&lt;br /&gt;who is this man i now behold?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in an instant, in one day,&lt;br /&gt;words become a solemn threat,&lt;br /&gt;the child cannot listen now,&lt;br /&gt;what are these words my ears intake?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the child is a vegetable,&lt;br /&gt;a ward of God alone,&lt;br /&gt;for in a day, only a day,&lt;br /&gt;all changes in a n instant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-6887746167932258632?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/6887746167932258632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=6887746167932258632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6887746167932258632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6887746167932258632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2009/01/boarding.html' title='the Boarding'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-6692344629328651067</id><published>2008-12-11T19:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-11T20:00:35.137-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Clover Hill</title><content type='html'>Inside the brick boned walls,&lt;br /&gt;the mounds of stick, stoned halls,&lt;br /&gt;abides my hill of clovers,&lt;br /&gt;my only clover hill,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the taint, toned ebony,&lt;br /&gt;the stars of saints,owned only,&lt;br /&gt;sleeps my hill of clovers,&lt;br /&gt;my only clover hill,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amid the grass grown hoppers,&lt;br /&gt;the fellowship found rompers,&lt;br /&gt;plays my hill of clovers,&lt;br /&gt;my only clover hill,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But for the hate hued globe,&lt;br /&gt;only the tainted Job,&lt;br /&gt;exists my hill of clovers,&lt;br /&gt;my only clover hill,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-6692344629328651067?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/6692344629328651067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=6692344629328651067' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6692344629328651067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6692344629328651067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/12/clover-hill.html' title='Clover Hill'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-6556645182270826859</id><published>2008-11-03T19:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T19:59:11.906-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sparks</title><content type='html'>I see them in your soul pits, this i learned to call them,&lt;br /&gt;bellowing, pleaing, begging for birchwood, keep thee alive,&lt;br /&gt;how sickly they have become! malnourished again!&lt;br /&gt;bent and broken, old thy tolken from which you derive,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sparks, o darlings can you not kindle your own!&lt;br /&gt;for the child which was to war prior,&lt;br /&gt;for  dear sparks, o they're infectious, but so i am alone,&lt;br /&gt;for infectiousness is in the wood, which spread o faster fire!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your droll has spread unto me, the forest grows relentless,&lt;br /&gt;the child which was prior to war is done, the child's sparks have ceaced,&lt;br /&gt;but in your eyes, o this i know, that yours, they wont return, lest,&lt;br /&gt;in mine eyes they learn kindle, are we all deseased?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-6556645182270826859?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/6556645182270826859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=6556645182270826859' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6556645182270826859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6556645182270826859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/11/sparks.html' title='Sparks'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-8184419760348870650</id><published>2008-11-02T22:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-02T23:02:40.441-08:00</updated><title type='text'>my little rest</title><content type='html'>the trial has taken its toll,&lt;br /&gt;the locusts little cease to linger,&lt;br /&gt;chipping at my soul,&lt;br /&gt;with every little singer,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i rest my head in exhaustion,&lt;br /&gt;i further cannot keep,&lt;br /&gt;can i bear to resist eruption?&lt;br /&gt;minds not as strong and elite,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;as one in monotonous dole,&lt;br /&gt;being hidden from beauty or joy,&lt;br /&gt;yet is this not a godgiven role?&lt;br /&gt;by which myself i destroy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;" lift your head!" bellow many i hear,&lt;br /&gt;for my rest cannot soothe what i am,&lt;br /&gt;o must i emerge from dear sphere?&lt;br /&gt;o this world from which i ran!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and yet i know i must continue,&lt;br /&gt;for my place in the world must go on,&lt;br /&gt;must i follow each road and avenue?&lt;br /&gt;perhaps not, am i from else withdrwn?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-8184419760348870650?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/8184419760348870650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=8184419760348870650' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/8184419760348870650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/8184419760348870650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/11/trial-has-taken-its-toll-locusts-little.html' title='my little rest'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-5255552653297041291</id><published>2008-10-17T20:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T21:05:44.775-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CONTROL</title><content type='html'>how i fear what i will do, the potential of my malicious mind,&lt;br /&gt;how it daunts me, this i know i will do what i needs find,&lt;br /&gt;how freedom beckons at me so, with roses of the sharpest thorn,&lt;br /&gt;how confinement flogs me so, between two minds am i now torn,&lt;br /&gt;obey and kill my spitit, rebel and kill my heart,&lt;br /&gt;i desire my own fire of worlds brought to one part,&lt;br /&gt;stay and mar my joy, run and scar my mind,&lt;br /&gt;i request, upon my breast, my own soul unconfined,&lt;br /&gt;but you with eyes of malice, and i with of desire,&lt;br /&gt;i beg myself, for yourslef to mecry have with fire,&lt;br /&gt;i cannot forgive your wrongs, i know them far too well,&lt;br /&gt;but you will see, the day youll be, alone... this i fortell.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-5255552653297041291?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/5255552653297041291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=5255552653297041291' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/5255552653297041291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/5255552653297041291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/10/control.html' title='CONTROL'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-7502021467006737100</id><published>2008-10-12T23:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-12T23:49:00.135-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In the dead of night</title><content type='html'>in the dead of night i behold,&lt;br /&gt;many forms of beauty,&lt;br /&gt;in the dead of night i behold,&lt;br /&gt;many forms of fear,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the hallowed haunting gleam i behold,&lt;br /&gt;of the moons great radiance,&lt;br /&gt;the wolf who bellows before it i behold,&lt;br /&gt;to alarm its pack of a messy kill,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the secret soothing sweetness i behold&lt;br /&gt;of the whispers shared by lovers young,&lt;br /&gt;the shattering trust by yet yelling i behold,&lt;br /&gt;of the parents of lovers young,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the sacred sighs of babes i behold,&lt;br /&gt;dreaming in their treasured quarters,&lt;br /&gt;the malicious malcontentment i behold,&lt;br /&gt;of the intruder into their quarters creeps,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-7502021467006737100?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/7502021467006737100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=7502021467006737100' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/7502021467006737100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/7502021467006737100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-dead-of-night.html' title='In the dead of night'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-3276585263036171387</id><published>2008-10-02T21:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-02T21:51:23.566-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Dismay</title><content type='html'>where are you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the days gone by, my heart, frail heart,&lt;br /&gt;beckon for me to stay within,&lt;br /&gt;to play a chilish gave therin,&lt;br /&gt;to abide in the times in which thou art,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you show me views of glory,&lt;br /&gt;of times in which my heart did leap,&lt;br /&gt;of faces precious did i keep,&lt;br /&gt;you read me my own lovely story,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;kill me not i ask of thee,&lt;br /&gt;spare my mind which you devour,&lt;br /&gt;leave me not so spar and sour,&lt;br /&gt;o mind mind does treasure thee,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at times i desire you dead,&lt;br /&gt;at times i wish you present,&lt;br /&gt;andi your humble peasant,&lt;br /&gt;of which you rule,yee great crowned head,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;take me in thine arms,&lt;br /&gt;release me not for any,&lt;br /&gt;thy torments they are many,&lt;br /&gt;but i know you did warn,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you will not slip away,&lt;br /&gt;as tradition says you should,&lt;br /&gt;this i wish i could,&lt;br /&gt;ye my own dismay&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-3276585263036171387?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/3276585263036171387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=3276585263036171387' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/3276585263036171387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/3276585263036171387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/10/where-are-you-days-gone-by-my-heart.html' title='My Dismay'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-4143315770411818456</id><published>2008-09-24T22:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T23:21:56.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>In Vain</title><content type='html'>I have about me those which tell,&lt;br /&gt;man which day it is to be,&lt;br /&gt;those which for man is compelled,&lt;br /&gt;to forget this o God given schene,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;disheveled knolls of checked filled trees,&lt;br /&gt;whining to my every nervous glance,&lt;br /&gt;round about, I on my knees,&lt;br /&gt;and they my every inhabitance,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;below the mounds, under the rude&lt;br /&gt;confusion, which is but a clear debris,&lt;br /&gt;there exists but one checked nude&lt;br /&gt;month on it which waits for me,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my expiration does it fortell,&lt;br /&gt;its presence haunts my every moment,&lt;br /&gt;each second pounds within my cell,&lt;br /&gt;within which I preside for no attonment,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;can cease my eyes, my heart, my mind,&lt;br /&gt;form this which does fortell my death,&lt;br /&gt;o now precious is my every kind,&lt;br /&gt;of function, o my every breath,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;closer, closer, to count each day&lt;br /&gt;agony o my heart it flogs!&lt;br /&gt;far is it that time of death?... nay!&lt;br /&gt;for so my thought, my mind it clogs,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the day has come, all checked are gone,&lt;br /&gt;but the lonesome black one stays,&lt;br /&gt;revelation hits theron!&lt;br /&gt;of all my counting, hellish days&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o precious was my every breath,&lt;br /&gt;but preciousness was found profain&lt;br /&gt;for it did die, not live on from death,&lt;br /&gt;so ends the tragedy, a life in vain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;precious is my every breth&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-4143315770411818456?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/4143315770411818456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=4143315770411818456' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4143315770411818456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4143315770411818456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/09/in-vain.html' title='In Vain'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-6292470926338778414</id><published>2008-09-23T21:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-23T21:23:12.263-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Monique</title><content type='html'>you abide in distant lands, athough your face too close,&lt;br /&gt;your vision haunts me gleeful hues but that i love the most,&lt;br /&gt;your smile reflects those yester years of laughted pain and love,&lt;br /&gt;your voice echos within my heart and peirces it therof,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;those halls they hold that harold haze,&lt;br /&gt;which bludgens me with o that phase,&lt;br /&gt;in which we were to me my treasure,&lt;br /&gt;work to obtain that hallowed leizure,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in which our souls did flow from us,&lt;br /&gt;o days of Novena ye will not rust!&lt;br /&gt;time has changed yet not one thoght,&lt;br /&gt;my love for you shant cease to rot!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a love which devours my happiness,&lt;br /&gt;witch burns at stake in dancing fest,&lt;br /&gt;which torments my every moment,&lt;br /&gt;is it thee which feeds my torment?!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you are far distant lands and you await me not,&lt;br /&gt;i am but a passed era yet in me you cease to rot,&lt;br /&gt;but go along you ways dear one, but I can not forget,&lt;br /&gt;and yet i know, our every time was but your one reget,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i say once and only once this that i must needs say,&lt;br /&gt;i miss you dear with all my heart but go along your way,&lt;br /&gt;and be the child that you had been before i came to thee,&lt;br /&gt;and hold your own prosperity this you were meant to be,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I miss you Monique&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-6292470926338778414?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/6292470926338778414/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=6292470926338778414' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6292470926338778414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6292470926338778414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-abide-in-distant-lands-athough-your.html' title='Monique'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-7112263806082352275</id><published>2008-09-21T22:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T23:12:04.749-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Come Home</title><content type='html'>You'd wrap your arms around me as held above volcano's pit,&lt;br /&gt;your smilie which did surround me, eniticed my affections, forfit,&lt;br /&gt;your memory held so sacred, enthroned within my soul,&lt;br /&gt;a queen of pure affection, buy you cannot console,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;your depart so, rough and cold, a child of eyes of black,&lt;br /&gt;your affections grey and shaven, inviting arms contract,&lt;br /&gt;i love you little child! i scream to you my lovely babe,&lt;br /&gt;recieve me once again! and affections cease to shave!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I open so my arms to you, climb into my lap,&lt;br /&gt;as you did once before child o cease now to contract,&lt;br /&gt;I know you cannot hear me, i know you see me not,&lt;br /&gt;but in your days, your wrinkled days, when time is dear and hot,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you'll look into your memory and see once agin your kin,&lt;br /&gt;the one of which you sat upon, and loved unto therin,&lt;br /&gt;o child i beg recieve me, my memory now assalting,&lt;br /&gt;the one i was before you left my person you defaulting,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i bid you well, o child of mine and bid you careful eyes,&lt;br /&gt;that they may clear, that you may hear, this plead from me to thine,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I miss you Allysa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-7112263806082352275?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/7112263806082352275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=7112263806082352275' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/7112263806082352275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/7112263806082352275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/09/youd-wrap-your-arms-around-me-as-held.html' title='Come Home'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-1666236368633609702</id><published>2008-09-13T21:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-13T21:41:22.769-07:00</updated><title type='text'>the day</title><content type='html'>running faster time has fallen,&lt;br /&gt;for this thing that i did fall in,&lt;br /&gt;look around behold the lovliness&lt;br /&gt;of that which has surrounded me,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lifted hearts, o seem of eden,&lt;br /&gt;lovely storm so wild and heathen,&lt;br /&gt;spouting fourth the joy i capture,&lt;br /&gt;in the fearful happiness,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;reality has sat now down,&lt;br /&gt;for this moment rosy gown,&lt;br /&gt;as though reserved, clock set time,&lt;br /&gt;in which the world did smile at me,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wrinkled woman sits upon,&lt;br /&gt;the gallows age curses thereupon,&lt;br /&gt;and recalls this day of joy,&lt;br /&gt;the day the world stood still for me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-1666236368633609702?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/1666236368633609702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=1666236368633609702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/1666236368633609702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/1666236368633609702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/09/running-faster-time-has-fallen-for-this.html' title='the day'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-3189576864662320449</id><published>2008-02-21T10:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-09-13T21:41:50.957-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wayward Minds</title><content type='html'>o woe to you wayward minds,&lt;br /&gt;who's path doth ignorance intwine,&lt;br /&gt;who along this road doth wind,&lt;br /&gt;o woe to you of wayward minds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;woe to you wayward minds,&lt;br /&gt;which selfishness is all ye find,&lt;br /&gt;who stumble trip for ye are blind,&lt;br /&gt;o woe to you wayyward minds,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;woe to you of wayward minds,&lt;br /&gt;to which the hearts of cruel are bind,&lt;br /&gt;who cleave to all of your own kind&lt;br /&gt;o woe to you of wayward minds,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;woe to you of wayward minds,&lt;br /&gt;until your road doth fall and grind,&lt;br /&gt;and cry do do such of all mankind,&lt;br /&gt;o woe to you of wayward minds!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-3189576864662320449?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/3189576864662320449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=3189576864662320449' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/3189576864662320449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/3189576864662320449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/02/o-woe-to-you-wayward-minds-whos-path.html' title='Wayward Minds'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-5368709945750216841</id><published>2008-02-08T16:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-08T17:22:18.182-08:00</updated><title type='text'>THE HAWK</title><content type='html'>The Mountain Hawk lay next the brook there came his time to fall,&lt;br /&gt;The grassy ground grayed by the gaze of the sun so dim as tall,&lt;br /&gt;sights of tree trunks tread his throat to think there he had sat,&lt;br /&gt;His Mount mourned merry mockingbirds her prey that she lay flat,&lt;br /&gt;The sky did weep, such sightly soaring clouds did he behold,&lt;br /&gt;the nest of she did build for self her majesty foretold,&lt;br /&gt;Twas age which wounded the powerful fowl, life of royal led,&lt;br /&gt;there dropped she upon the the  brook  which she herself had tread,&lt;br /&gt;such majesty that crowned the hawk the queen of all her lair,&lt;br /&gt;That sat upon thrown  yet not a jeweled gemmed filled chair,&lt;br /&gt;But a seat of one to the Glory of Great the Creator she'd exalt,&lt;br /&gt;for when a man of mind would look upon such grain of salt,&lt;br /&gt;he would see the glory of creation of The Greater&lt;br /&gt;And think to self "if thus is such then how must be Creator?!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-5368709945750216841?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/5368709945750216841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=5368709945750216841' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/5368709945750216841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/5368709945750216841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/02/hawk.html' title='THE HAWK'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-8156966901083723896</id><published>2008-01-22T15:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-22T16:18:08.795-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The War for Life</title><content type='html'>how many have died in midst of blood,&lt;br /&gt;for evils worth of Noah's flood,&lt;br /&gt;enemies prize be dusk and vain,&lt;br /&gt;against the righteous's vast domain,&lt;br /&gt;The soldier clad in robes of auburn, virtues bound his breast,&lt;br /&gt;with muskets of fluently passionate love, and avenging just less rest,&lt;br /&gt;he holds his name in high esteem , for proud he is to bear,&lt;br /&gt;the name of vigorous fighter for life in an answer to powerful prayer,&lt;br /&gt;he raises his voice to the heavens and bellows to God to aid his plight,&lt;br /&gt;to stand by his merciful, terriless heart as he with vigor would would fight,&lt;br /&gt;" For His children," The battle cry sounds,&lt;br /&gt;And warrior's clashes that bang and pound,&lt;br /&gt;" Now who will come victor?" you ask me at present&lt;br /&gt;but you tell me,  such a war so unpleasant,&lt;br /&gt;join in the fight, recruit your own heart,&lt;br /&gt;and not only a segment or piece or a part,&lt;br /&gt;but all our living, each fiber of being,&lt;br /&gt;to ending this ongoing cruelty were seeing,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-8156966901083723896?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/8156966901083723896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=8156966901083723896' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/8156966901083723896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/8156966901083723896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/01/war-for-life.html' title='The War for Life'/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-6758069055273773429</id><published>2008-01-20T14:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T14:45:54.046-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>What right have we to think for God, to choose between such things,&lt;br /&gt;between a child and easiness, winter and dappled springs,&lt;br /&gt;what right have we to murder young ones, kill the mild of heart,&lt;br /&gt;to God and babes of newfound life to hurdle far apart,&lt;br /&gt;to yank from children laughter, and the joys of living found,&lt;br /&gt;to bind in dismal drunkenness of sadness they're confound,&lt;br /&gt;why abandon innocence, to comfort lonely lives,&lt;br /&gt;bound in blood are all they now together never thrives,&lt;br /&gt;"why" they ask us " do we die for you and you alone,"&lt;br /&gt;raise them with me knights of life upon a gaudy throne,&lt;br /&gt;for they did die from no self fault, or ugly sinful breath,&lt;br /&gt;merely because they lived alone are they sentenced to death.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-6758069055273773429?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/6758069055273773429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=6758069055273773429' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6758069055273773429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/6758069055273773429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-right-have-we-to-think-for-god-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-5274983837522121056</id><published>2008-01-20T13:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-20T13:53:15.175-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ode to the joys of Girlhood</title><content type='html'>round about the field I danced as firefly's surrounded,&lt;br /&gt;they nipped and played to me a tune of wings that loudly sounded,&lt;br /&gt;my skit flew all around me as I did play along,&lt;br /&gt;with mockingbirds to watch for me as they would sing their song,&lt;br /&gt;The butterfly would twirl to me and kiss my freckled nose,&lt;br /&gt;I'd spin and awe the turquoise sky made marble Id suppose,&lt;br /&gt;My father sat beside me, and read to me a tale,&lt;br /&gt;of grandeur love and royalty and goodness's prevail,&lt;br /&gt;as I would drift into my land of sleepful simple rest,&lt;br /&gt;so glad was i that i was born and clutched onto my chest,&lt;br /&gt;a rose that i had reaped that day, so lovely it did seem,&lt;br /&gt;but not so lovely as the life of a girl inside her dream,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-5274983837522121056?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-4237200497971837376</id><published>2008-01-19T20:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-19T20:42:09.202-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: webdings;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Dear people,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;did you know that every 2 and a half seconds a child dies of starvation.&lt;br /&gt;And did you further know that by selling one i-pod and donating the money to trustworthy fund, you can provide food, shelter, clothing, an education and medical supplies and treatment to at least 5 children in northern alone.&lt;br /&gt;I have no i-pod or cell phone, and I refuse to own one because of this. Children die because of a lack of food, and in America many of us have luxuries and things we don't need.&lt;br /&gt;So please, stop, think about what is really happening and look at life the way we all should, with a selfless eye and a careful heart, please give something up for them, anything.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-4237200497971837376?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/4237200497971837376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=4237200497971837376' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4237200497971837376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4237200497971837376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/01/dear-people-did-you-know-that-every-2.html' title=''/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2908901553103457641.post-4846441097755210135</id><published>2008-01-19T14:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-21T17:12:21.876-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>listen softly, calm your voice,&lt;br /&gt;hear the turmoil of this choice,&lt;br /&gt;hear them poisoned, hear them screaming,&lt;br /&gt;suffer from their mother's dreaming,&lt;br /&gt;watch life slip from tiny fingers,&lt;br /&gt;as hope and love no longer lingers,&lt;br /&gt;look to them and tell them plainly,&lt;br /&gt;their life ended  inhumanely,&lt;br /&gt;you were unwanted little one,&lt;br /&gt;your murder so unjustly done,&lt;br /&gt;So fight with me oh knights of life,&lt;br /&gt;do not end your struggling strife,&lt;br /&gt;for the young we will prevail,&lt;br /&gt;make strong the voice of all the frail.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2908901553103457641-4846441097755210135?l=mariaspoems.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/feeds/4846441097755210135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2908901553103457641&amp;postID=4846441097755210135' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4846441097755210135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2908901553103457641/posts/default/4846441097755210135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://mariaspoems.blogspot.com/2008/01/listen-softly-calm-your-voice-hear.html' title=''/><author><name>Maria</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06471640367651601618</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_41t4jFxW60g/StqgS96I30I/AAAAAAAAAFE/-sUZQrg8NNI/S220/emwillow+086.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
