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Marsha
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0 posted 2001-04-30 07:37 PM


Rainbows Return


Can you touch a dream, or hold it in your hand?
Or will it forever evade you trickling away like sand?
Do you hear the music that sings through a heart?
Is it the melody or the spirit, which is the vital part?
Reach out to hold the wind and it will pass on by
And as it passes can you hear in it a breathless sigh?
Mist is insubstantial but it’s there clouding clear sight
Ethereal and mysterious it confuses and contorts light

Is starlight identical, do all stars shine just the same?
Or is one very special has it called out your own name?
Do you see the magic that’s held in the child’s eyes?
Full of wondering mystery, delight and awed surprise  
Each of us has something special we all have our destiny
We are each here for a purpose and that’s no mystery
What is our value are we here simply to live and then to die?
I believe we are here to love or at least we all should try

It’s not for us to ponder the reasons things go wrong
We are here to sing, to perform our own life’s song
If we can stop focussing on things that cause our fall
We would be more receptive to hope and to beauty’s call
If we take a few moments to look around and just see
Think of the pleasures we’d uncover, imagine the sheer beauty
As you pass through this life take the time to stand still
Take the chance to stop and then your soul with hope will fill

Give back to yourself the time to dream and softly sigh
Renew your power to connect and you will then again fly
Stop chasing after rainbows let them return to you once more
With their return you’ll find your ability to fly, again to soar
Pause in the day to contemplate life’s ebb and flow
And reflect back to others love’s pure and gentle glow
Let love shine it’s light and clear the path of dreary pain
And you will be singing and dancing on rainbows once again
Marsha  


Take back the hope you gave,- I claim
Only a memory of the same
Robert Browning



© Copyright 2001 Marsha Grace Melody Todd - All Rights Reserved
Joyce Johnson
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1 posted 2001-04-30 07:57 PM


Marsha, these are loving, hopeful words. Nice poem.  Joyce
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2 posted 2001-04-30 09:29 PM


Marsha, how beautiful. And some very good advice. I must now proceed to take it...
Sandra

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3 posted 2001-04-30 10:22 PM


Beautiful poem Lady....Wonderful words of wisdom...Enjoyed it....I must find the time to dream again....
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4 posted 2001-05-01 12:43 PM


Marsha~
What gentle lifting thoughts !
You've just that that lift-ability !
Thank you for the rainbow dance ...

'Reach out to hold the wind and it will pass on by
And as it passes can you hear in it a breathless sigh?'


Oh ... I like this thought.
Love n' hugs~
~*Marge*~

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SEA
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5 posted 2001-05-01 09:45 AM


"Give back to yourself the time to dream and softly sigh
Renew your power to connect and you will then again fly"


I'm trying Marsha......

I've missed you.   Happy to find you this morning!    SEA

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6 posted 2001-05-01 10:17 AM


Ah Marsha....you've penned a keeper....
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7 posted 2001-05-01 07:30 PM


indeed the rainbow has returned. . . and she's brought with her a wonderful poem. . .

this is wonderful love. . . thanks for sharing it with us. . .



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