tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48703870906285572752024-02-07T02:08:20.477-08:00Sands of TimeHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13414538420222024389noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870387090628557275.post-44870777185376666802013-07-08T18:41:00.001-07:002013-07-08T18:42:53.533-07:00Just Hold On<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: left;">
I wrote this song a while ago and Yakyn was helping me put music to it, but it was never finished. Maybe someday I can get around to finishing it. Anyway, I thought I would share the lyrics with you.</div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Just Hold
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">You’ve lived a life of shame and dread <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Only to find you’re bruised and broken <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Your past just keeps replaying in your head <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Your loved ones warned you not to go <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Walking the path, the path that you chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Now you can’t see a hope through all your tears <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Chorus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">When your soul is aching <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And your heart is breaking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And your world is quaking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just hold on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">When your feet are stumbling <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And you’ve started wondering <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">If the hands that held you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Are going to stay strong <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just hold on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Your world of dreams is crashing down <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Finding yourself was all that mattered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Your future seemed brighter all around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Your loved ones begged you not to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Treading the path, the path that you chose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It’s the one you’ve journeyed all these years <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Chorus:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">When your soul is aching <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And your heart is breaking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And your world is quaking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just hold on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">When your feet are stumbling <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And you’ve started wondering <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">If the hands that held you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Are going stay strong <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just hold on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">So when your heart is straining <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And your breath is fleeting <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">You cry out… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I’ve surrendered in my shame <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">There is no one left to blame <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I try to run and hide my pain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Yet every time I turn around <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It is always there again <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Chorus:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">When your soul is aching <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And your heart is breaking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And your world is quaking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just hold on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">When your feet are stumbling <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And you’ve started wondering <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">If the hands that held you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Are going to stay strong <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just hold on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">In God’s loving arms you have found<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">You never knew your heart could change<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Nor all of your sins that He forgave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Your loved ones welcomed you back home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Abandoning the path, the path that you chose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It’s the one you’ve traveled full of tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Now that He has opened your eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">You see…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">That He has healed your aching soul <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And He has made your broken heart whole <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">And He has stilled your world <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He has stilled your world <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just Hold on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Cause He is holding on to you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">He is holding on to you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Just hold on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13414538420222024389noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870387090628557275.post-52071728327589285182012-10-17T19:30:00.000-07:002012-10-17T19:31:11.607-07:00Rotten Veggies<br />
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I wrote this poem because I was bored.</div>
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<b><u>Wishing
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The air is warm<o:p></o:p></div>
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The sun is hot<o:p></o:p></div>
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Billions of flies swarm<o:p></o:p></div>
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And vegetables rot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here come the clouds,<o:p></o:p></div>
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All wispy and white,<o:p></o:p></div>
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In puffy shrouds<o:p></o:p></div>
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And summer sunlight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no rain<o:p></o:p></div>
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No not a dot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I wish for rain<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet see not a spot.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13414538420222024389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870387090628557275.post-54629740394284494642012-10-17T19:07:00.000-07:002012-10-23T09:00:47.891-07:00Things You Just Can't Do to Love<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I do not pretend to be any good at writing poems, they are sort of experiments. Anyway here is another poem I wrote for and English assignment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b><u>Things You Just Can’t Do to
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love
is limitless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore
you can’t bottle it up, tie it up,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Round
it up, nor rake it up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love
must be pure,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So
you can’t fake, mix, match,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Or
make it up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love
is not silent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Therefore
you can’t hush it up, gag it up,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Quiet, choke, or shut it up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love
is beauty,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So
you can’t feign, mimic, pretend,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Or
mock it up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These
are the things you just can’t do to love!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;">*Note: I chose this image because sometimes the ocean seems limitless like love. </span></o:p></div>
Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13414538420222024389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870387090628557275.post-42655359396201767442012-10-17T19:06:00.001-07:002012-10-17T19:06:37.002-07:00What is poetry?<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is a poem I wrote about poetry.</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">What
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Poetry is an expression of your
feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> It’s where you suppress them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And compress them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Access and express them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">True poetry resides in your
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your heart is where you contain
them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And obtain them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Retain and explain them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are the author of you
poetry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You control and uphold it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are brave and bold with it,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">The
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">It
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">Love
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">Than
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">It
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">Could
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">A
way to be humble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">A
way to be bold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">On
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 16px;">Grime or mold.</span><span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">There is no price,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">For it can’t be sold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 16px;">Ancient and old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">For it we sell our souls,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Pristina; font-size: 12pt;">For its warmth in the cold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last night I decided to take a walk up to the pond to look at the stars. I was not necessarily looking to spend time alone with God. I just thought that is would be nice to see the stars without all the lights and people around. Little did I know that I was going to have a really awesome experience. So I wrote a poem about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gazing into the blue abyss,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where stars twinkled and danced,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I prayed a prayer and made a wish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hoped beyond hope<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And said aloud,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“God if your there,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Will you send me a shooting star?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know He heard me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cause He sent me that star,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For it streaked across my vision<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And in that moment He seemed so near.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All my hopes, dreams, and fears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I poured out to my unseen maker,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I knew He loved and cared about me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet, I believed beyond just believing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I have seen You perform wonders for others,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But can you give me a miracle of my own? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Will You send me a shooting star?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And then without hesitation or thought,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He sent me my shooting star. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For by chance I spied it, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As it shot across the sky. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And my heart leaped for joy inside <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I knew He was really listening to my prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13414538420222024389noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4870387090628557275.post-1074143968767253152011-09-07T15:38:00.000-07:002012-10-23T08:58:19.121-07:00A Poem<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is a poem that I wrote for an English assignment. Sorry if my grammar is horrible, but I hope you enjoy it. My brothers tell me that it sounds like the beginning to a strange book. It is telling a story it does not rhyme. You :an leave a comment if you like it, absolutely hate it, or it you have any tips or ideas for it. :)</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">An Ancient Sword<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I saw it glistening in the moonlight, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Not even the clouds cast a shadow upon this ancient blade. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> The stars danced across its blade<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> As I lifted it from its dewy grave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Not knowing what story this sword beheld…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Its hilt was of mahogany wrapped in leather <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">The cross guard inlaid with precious stones,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Along its blade, of Damascus steel, ancient runes had been inscribed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">In an old form of Gaelic</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"> unknown to man.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">As I gazed upon this ancient weapon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I saw visions of battles fought long ago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Full of darkness, loneliness and death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> In the midst of blood and confusion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> I heard the shrieks of horse as their riders fell to the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Brave men, young and old died beneath the steel of this ancient sword<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Visions of burning villages and ruins of castles swept by.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Sorrowing mothers, lovers, and sisters shed tears <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For those now lost forever to the wrath of that relic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> of death.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">After years of miseries, happiness, victories and defeat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">This sword of terror fell to the earth in a single bloody battle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Never to be raised against another again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">It lay in where it fell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Travellers took no notice of it and ordinary men dared not touch it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Years passed by and finally it caught the interest of a young hero…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I turned my head upwards away from the sword to gaze at the sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;">All clouds had vanished leaving a clear vista of the</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 115%;"> moon in the vast sea of stars<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Then and there I decided to give that ancient sword a new history.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">A history of heroism and good deeds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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