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kcsgrandma
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0 posted 2001-05-19 11:13 AM


Is all that is the way that it must be,
Inevitably fixed before our time?
Are we but puppets, forced by God's decree
To work out each heroic deed or crime?
Or is our destiny set all by choice,
Decided by each thing we do or say?
Do we, in all that happens, have a voice
To change the course of life from day to day?
Perhaps the answer's somewhere in between,
An integration of our works and fate,
Combining in some way as yet unseen
The plan of old and things we've done of late.

Oh was I meant to know you before birth
Or was our meeting engineered on earth?




© Copyright 2001 Marilyn Gordon - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2001-05-19 12:00 PM


KCS~
Oh, my !
I was prepared to rest the mind this weekend ...
now here I am in the ponder of your 'cosmic' thoughts !

Nicely done~
~*Marge*~

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Denise
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2 posted 2001-05-19 12:52 PM


An age-old question, Marilyn...I sort of tend to believe that it is a  combination of both...like many things that we can't understand...our minds are too finite to comprehend certain things. Fantastic poem! Pefect flow, perfect rhyme, perfect sonnet!
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3 posted 2001-05-19 05:26 PM


I can't answer these ponderings. But, I believe everyone has an opinion of your extreme Cosmic Questions. Very well presented.
Melton

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4 posted 2001-05-20 01:15 AM


Good poem.  I do not think our fate is pre-destined, and we have some control.  but sometimes things just happen.  Joyce
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5 posted 2001-05-20 02:56 PM


Oh was I meant to know you before birth
Or was our meeting engineered on earth?


alot of pondering there, I guess only time can answer those questions and maybe then somethings are probably better as a mystery. thanks for kicking my brain into action with your well written poetic ponderings.  

"across the unfair divide
where black will never meet white
so read my token lips
like they never exist"

nicky wire


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6 posted 2001-05-20 03:34 PM


Good poem and certainly thought provoking. I have always felt we had some choice in what happens to us.  No one really knows I guess.

Betty Lou Hebert

ellie LeJeune
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7 posted 2001-05-21 06:38 AM


wonderfully written ponderings, Marilyn. Here's how I see it...Once my will is turned over to wanting only God's will in my life, then all that happens is encased in the peace of knowing He's in charge and I'm safe! Love, Ellie

A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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8 posted 2001-05-21 10:50 AM


I don't know the answer to all your questions but I do think you were born to write sonnets.  
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9 posted 2001-05-21 03:49 PM


I love this, Grandma!!!!!

Kathleen Blake

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and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee


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