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Elizabeth Santos
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2001-08-11 07:17 AM

Truly Blessed

Blessed am I with eyes to see
With ears to hear sweet harmony
With feet to tread a pathway traced
Where blue forget-me-nots are laced

With voice to sing a lullaby
And hands a satin bow to tie
With arms to hold a crying child
With smell to breath in earthy wild

But if I were to have my choice
Of ear or eye or foot or voice
I think that I would choose to see
The nature strewn in front of me

Perhaps, though, I would choose to hear
A sonnet floating to my ear
Or voice to speak the thoughts that brew
Within imagination’s stew

Perhaps it best to have the feet
To walk the pathway where we meet
Or better yet the hands to write
The thoughts that creep into the night

If I were made to make a choice
Of hands or eyes or ears or voice
I think to have them all is best
And for this gift I’m truly blessed

Elizabeth Santos

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

1 posted 2001-08-11 05:39 PM

Liz: A lovely poem, as usual! We are all so blessed to have our different senses. It is hard to imagine living without any one of them.

Betty Lou Hebert

MoonShadow
Senior Member

since 2001-08-02

Posts 943
Dark side of the Moon.

2 posted 2001-08-11 08:42 PM

One more blessing... you are obviously blessed with the talent of expressing your thoughts in a lovely write. Thanks for sharing.

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2001-08-12 02:32 PM

Very well and beautifull expressed, Elizabeth! Yes, that would be hard to make a choice, wouldn't it?

ellie LeJeune
Member Elite

since 2000-01-10

Posts 4156
King of Prussia, PA USA

4 posted 2001-08-13 05:57 PM

Delightful, Liz...and isn't your grateful heart most pleasing to God for all your senses? Love, Ellie

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

[This message has been edited by ellie LeJeune (edited 08-14-2001).]

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

5 posted 2001-08-13 08:58 PM

This is a lovely poem and I agree it is nice to have them all, but I understand if one is lost, the others try to compensate. So great are our blessings. Joyce

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

6 posted 2001-08-16 11:20 AM

Thank you for the reminder that we, whole with ears, eyes, feet and smell, are truly blessed. Wonderful poem.

Melton

bestgirl911
Senior Member

since 2000-10-04

Posts 551
Clio, MI , United We Stand

7 posted 2001-08-21 10:36 PM

what a wonderful reminder that we have all been truly blessed.....for the wonderful gifts we have been given.

Best

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

8 posted 2001-08-28 08:22 PM

Bringing this back up 'cause it makes me realize how blessed I am!

vlraynes
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

9 posted 2001-09-02 02:03 AM

Elizabeth-
   This is so beautifully penned.
   These are all wonderful blessings indeed,
   and it's often too easy to take them for granted.
   Thanks for the reminder.

   Hugs,
   ~vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

10 posted 2001-09-02 02:04 AM

Lizzie~
This is truly beautiful~
And helps remind me I have so much to be thankful for~
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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