Tag: hope
member name: Cat Givens
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October 17, 2006 01:20 PM EDT --
So many times I ignore the trouble
Shove the sorrow down
I know if I sing it out
Loud and blue
Painful choking words ring clear and true
Saving me
I struggle.
Don't wanna rain sadness on the day . . .
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February 08, 2006 10:33 AM EST --
I'm looking for my humor
Mayhaps it's just asleep
What's us'lly on the surface
Must now be burried deep
I'm looking out the window
To birds who flit and fly
Elusive, like my humor . . .
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January 26, 2006 03:01 PM EST --
There's a rainbow on my carpet
Red Orange Yellow
Green and Blue
Violet glowing
Shining showing
Vibrant bow for me and you
Rainbows dancing in the kitchen
Over counters
On the Wall
See the colours . . .
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February 16, 2006 06:58 AM EST --
Ah
Sweet moment between dream and awake
No difference as my mind dances
Melody of fantasy moves consciousness
The two glide flawlessly together
Embracing
Then, dream pulls away like lovers will
Arms . . .
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January 08, 2006 07:20 PM EST --
A few years ago, my daughter came downstairs frantically telling me she needed water. I thougth she was feverish or having a bad dream, and went to get a glass for her, when she cried..... NO! . . .
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January 10, 2006 08:26 AM EST --
On January 30, my son was transferred from county jail to a men's facility to stay for 6 months. He is living there among others who's ticket out will be getting a job, a stable place . . .
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January 12, 2006 06:15 PM EST --
I am in the middle of the street with stained underwear.
I run to you and
You hold me.
My sorrow crashes into your chest as my tears soak your shoulder. Grief consumes me and spills all over you. . . .
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January 12, 2006 06:37 PM EST --
(see nervous) for part I
I cut my car engine and wait here at the curb beside the corner grocery.
It looks abandoned, this store, with boards where the windows should be, no ads and a couple of bricks . . .
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January 13, 2006 08:24 AM EST --
Relaxed to the max
(In a tense sort of way)
Walking with tacks
In my shoes everyday
Always more to do
Nothing left alone
Work to keep from drowning
Weary to the bone
Smiling bouncy baby
Tickles me, . . .
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January 25, 2006 12:10 PM EST --
Cardinal lights at the feeder
Blazing contrast to
White snow
In evergreen
Puffed up in this cold
Black mask hides watchful eyes
He muches, then flies off
Makes way for snowbirds who
Share the perch and . . .
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March 07, 2006 07:44 AM EST --
Golden goddess of the morn
Wrap me in your loving arms
Hold me in your dawning light
Soothe my sorrow from last night
Shelter me in love light's flood
Start anew like flower's bud
Dew forms from . . .
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January 08, 2006 04:22 PM EST --
I'll admit it, I can take a lesson from my 3 year old granddaughter.
When she wants to do something, she plunges right ahead and does it.
Me, I ponder and hesitate first.
When she is ready . . .
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January 17, 2006 12:08 PM EST --
A lot has been said about mind over matter.
Can we really effect the outcome of an event, or even change reality?
Some say no, that reality is stagnant and that is that.
Others not only claim the possibility, . . .
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January 27, 2006 11:46 AM EST --
Do you have a wealthy mind?
Would you like one?
I have a secret I shall share with you now.
I'm pocket poor. That's right, I live paycheck to paycheck, and sometimes I'm even in the . . .
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February 23, 2006 08:41 AM EST --
Butterfly
So fragile
Yet so strong
Fly away
Please carry
This along
Mother's love
Enduring
Salty tears
My message
I miss you
All these years
Butterfly
Please won't you
Bring my . . .
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April 01, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
The sun has set for you, my friend
You linger in colorful splendor across the sky
As we look to see you one last time
The blazing glory of sunset is the beauty you leave with us
Shining red yellow purple . . .
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January 01, 2006 11:39 AM EST --
I've been reviewing my life trying to get a sense of when depression became my life's companion. Though I had a lot of teenage angst, I don't think we'd become close yet. . . .
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January 03, 2006 09:27 AM EST --
The water's so hot it hurts.
Stepping in burns my shins, and my feet go numb.
I squat, toadlike, water just meeting my bottom as I slowly decend to the porcelain.
Breathing--- as in labor--- shallow . . .
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January 14, 2006 02:58 PM EST --
By Cathy Givens
AKA
O C Whiteleather
Illustrations by Doug Drought
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ran barefoot down his favorite trail, swift as the sparrows that criss-crossed in front of him, and he laughed-- his . . .
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