Matthew Dingle

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Jude Swaddle (GTS Friend)

August 23, 2011

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Metamorphosis

I watched a butterfly dry his wings
On a sun warmed blade of grass.
A dry cocoon fell to the ground.
The need for it was past.
Not long ago a squirmy worm
Had wriggled up this way,
But now this flying flower
Had brightened up my day.
The caterpillar wasn't gone,
But changed, so he could fly.
He left his former way of life
Without a tear or sigh.
I wonder if the caterpillars
That he left behind
Wonder what became of him
Or knew what he would find?
Did they try to hold on to him?
Do they miss him? Do they mourn?
Do they know he isn't gone,
But that he has been reborn?
It can be hard to say good-bye.
It can hurt to let go.
But, sometimes, that's the only way
Those lovely wings can grow.

By Gwen Flowers

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An Angel's Kiss

Your breath is the song that the morning sings,
Chirping birds, fluttering angel wings,
Daylight dances on the air;
Leaves rustle unaware.

Quietly, thoughts of you wander through my mind,
A gentle breeze on my face I find;
As if a kiss delivered to me
By the angels I know are there, but cannot see.

Just like the love that will never end,
I long to call this sorrow my friend.

By Tracy

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Mel Xxxxx

April 19, 2011

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✰ The Night Cries On ✰

And the night cries on
As if alone -
Though a thousand angels
Weep along.

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And these tears that fall
I gather close -
To merge and mingle as my own.

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Yet still the night cries ever on.
Perhaps ten thousand tears
Will fall -
The nights,
My own,
And a thousand angels
Who weep along.

~ Eric P. McCarty ~

Mel Xxxxx

March 24, 2011

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✿ Sonnet ✿

In every dream thy lovely features rise;
I see them in the sunshine of the day;
Thy form is flitting still before my eyes
Where'er at eve I tread my lonely way;
In every moaning wind I hear thee say
Sweet words of consolation, while thy sighs
Seem borne along on every blast that flies;
I live, I talk with thee where'er I stray:

And yet thou never more shalt come to me
On earth, for thou art in a world of bliss,
And fairer still - if fairer thou canst be -
Than when thou bloomed'st for a while in this.
Few be my days of loneliness and pain
Until I meet in love with thee again.

~ William Barnes ~

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Mel Xxxxx

March 4, 2011

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The presence of an angel is like a snowflake lightly touching you with its special gift,
then evaporating into your warmth as you hurry on your way.

Author Unknown

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Guardians
By Adrienne Jones

After a morning there is an evening
And when the evening’s gone, another day.
If your heart’s broken, it will be mended,
For we will rise for you like guardians.
And we will sing your soul to keep
And we will keep the dark at bay
And we will lift you up to greet the morning.
If in your lifetime this world of troubles
Should come to peace among the nations,
Your heart, in gladness, would leap to heaven
And nevermore you’d need your guardians.
But we will sing our world to keep
And we will keep the dark at bay
And we will lift you up to greet the morning.

✽ܓ✽ܓ✽ܓ✽ܓ✽ܓ✽ܓ✽ܓ

Mel Xxxxx

March 1, 2011

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"How lucky I am to have something
that makes saying goodbye so hard."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

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◈ Heavy ◈

That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had His hand in this,
as well as friends.
Still, I was bent,
and my laughter,
as the poet said,
was nowhere to be found.
Then said my friend Daniel
(brave even among the lions),
“It’s not the weight you carry
but how you carry it---
books, bricks, grief—
it’s all in the way
you embrace it, balance it, carry it
when you cannot, and would not,
put it down.”
So I went practicing.
Have you noticed?
Have you heard
the laughter
that comes, now and again,
out of my startled mouth?
How I linger
to admire, admire, admire
the things of this world
that are kind, and maybe
also troubled—
roses in the wind,
the sea geese on the steep waves,
a love
to which there is no reply?

By Mary Oliver

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Mel Xxxxx

February 25, 2011

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With one more look at you
I could learn to tame the clouds
And let the sunshine through ~
Leave a troubled past
And I might start anew
I’ll solve the mystery
If you're the prize
Refresh these tired eyes
♥
With one more look at you
I might overcome the anger
That I've learned to know ~
Find the peace of mind
I lost so long ago
Your gentle touch
Has made me strong again ~
And I'll belong again.
♥
For when you look at me
I'm everything and more
That I had dreamed I'd be.
My spirit feels a promise:
I won't be alone
We'll live and love forever
♥
With one more look at you
I'd learn to change the stars
And change our fortunes, too ~
I'd have the constellations
Paint your portrait, too
So all the world
Might share this wondrous sight:
The world would end each night
With one more look at you
With one more look at you.
I want one more look at you.
♥
Written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher
♥

Mel Xxxxx

February 21, 2011

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"Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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A Prayer for Spring

Like springtime, let me unfold
And grow, fresh and new,
From this cocoon of grief
That has been spun around me.
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Help me face the harsh reality of
Sunshine and renewed life,
As my bones still creak from
The winter of my grief.
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Life has dared to go on around me.
And I recover from
The insult of life's continuance.
I readjust my focus to
Include recovery and growth
As a possibility in my future.
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Give me strength to break out of
The cocoon of my grief.
But may I never forget it as
The place where I grew my wings,
Becoming a new person
Because of my loss.

Janis Heil

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Mel Xxxxx

February 8, 2011

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-::- The Other World -::-

It lies around us like a cloud,
A world we do not see;
Yet the same closing of an eye
May bring us there to be.
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Its gentle breezes fan our cheek;
Amid our worldly cares,
Its gentle voices whisper love,
And mingle with our prayers.
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Sweet hearts around us throb and beat,
Sweet helping hands are stirred,
And palpitates the veil between
With breathings almost heard.
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The silence, awful, sweet, and calm,
They have no power to break;
For mortal words are not for them
To utter or partake.
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So thin, so soft, so sweet, they glide,
So near to press they seem,
They lull us gently to our rest,
They melt into our dream.
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And in the hush of rest they bring
’T is easy now to see
How lovely and how sweet a pass
The hour of death may be;—
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To close the eye, and close the ear,
Wrapped in a trance of bliss,
And, gently drawn in loving arms,
To swoon to that from this:—
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Scarce knowing if we wake or sleep,
Scarce asking where we are,
To feel all evil sink away,
All sorrow and all care.
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Sweet souls around us! watch us still;
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide.
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Let death between us be as naught,
A dried and vanished stream;
Your joy be the reality,
Our suffering like the dream.

-::- Harriet Beecher Stowe -::-

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Mel Xxxxx

February 4, 2011

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We never lose a joy we once have known,
We never lose a love so tender grown,
We never lose a smile whose seed was sown
Deep in our hearts.
Earthly life may pass,
But 'tis not lived in vain...
Joy, love and smiles live on forever
Just the same.

ღ Grace Walker ღ

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☆ I'm Going To Board A Dream ☆

I'm going to board a dream today,
And sail off on a cloud,
And drift to the end of a saffron sky
Where the sentries rightly proud
Push back the thin prismatic bars to let a dreamer in.
I'm going to sit where the dawn drips gold,
And watch the day begin
With quiet sifted generously on
Mountain slope and plain.
Where shepherds rouse their drowsy sheep
With prodding staff and cane.
I'm going to slide down the golden shafts
Of sunbeams through the trees,
And kiss the cheek of each sleeping child
And rout the bumblebees.
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And when the sun reflects high noon,
And the South to siesta goes,
I'll curl myself in the perfumed depths
Of a cool white rambler rose,
And all the lazy afternoon I'll watch
A spider spin
A patient web of flimsy lace,
And in the evening pin
The twilight with a studded star;
Then draw nights jewelled shroud.
Oh, I'm going to board a dream today
And sail off on a cloud.

☆ Pearl Polosky ☆

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Mel Xxxxx

February 3, 2011