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Dear 2006
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Dear 2006 |
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Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania 
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Dear 2006, I ask of you, 2006, what fate you have in store Of catastrophic incidents, of love, of hate, of war? What novel treats will you endow to lace our days with spice? What will we pay for such delights? What blood? What stress? What price? Will you continue to consume the simple joys of life? The laughter shared by brothers and between a man and wife? The games we played together and the meals we shared as one? The pride a plump tomato wrought beneath the summer sun? Will you engorge our media with filth to bathe our youth? Or will you have our children spun of fibers made of truth? Will people fix their visions on the screen of no return Or toward the fate of salmon and the forests that we burn? Is it the selfish conquests that our emptiness will seek? Then let the quakes and tempests and the Mississippi speak! Then let the silent voices from a West Virginia mine Remind us of humility and simple peace of mind I ask, Year of Uncertainty, Millennium’s Restless Son, Will you renew our cities and undo what has been done? Will you continue to erode the values we possess? Take Christmas out of Christmas and the wild from wilderness? I ask these questions, for I cannot see a ray of hope As privacy and dignity slip down the fatal slope I beg of you 2006, a hint of what’s to come Will you march ever onward to a rapping funeral drum? The breezes chuckle quietly, the ocean laps a lilt The planet shrugs its shoulders and displays a puzzled tilt The New Year sighs, “This Eden is the fruit of YOUR OWN DEEDS For I am only time and do not plant the future seeds” Elizabeth Santos |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
How do you do this, Liz? You find the ferfect words and then put them together in perfect rhythm and rhyme. I wish I could write like you do!! It is so good to see you posting, my friend. I have missed reading your poetry!!   |
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Jeep Monkey Member
since 2005-12-18
Posts 96Chaos |
You are a remarkable writer, Elizabeth. This are questions asked in perfect timing and rhyme. Absoluely great. I'm sharing this one, you better believe. My favorite part? ...take the Christmas out of Christmas and Wild out of Wilderness... Love that. jm |
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Skyfire 
since 2000-12-27
Posts 3381Riding |
fantastic  and then He created the horse... |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Questions asked for us all Lizzie, for us all. Happy New Year wise one.  Carpe' Diem |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
As amazing as always... Happy New Year, dear lady - See you soon!!!... |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
"The breezes chuckle quietly, the ocean laps a lilt The planet shrugs its shoulders and displays a puzzled tilt The New Year sighs, “This Eden is the fruit of YOUR OWN DEEDS For I am only time and do not plant the future seeds”" Great write Liz..and Happy New Year! In the midst of winter, |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Lady Santos... My one New Year's Resolution: Multiply and share the good, the smile, the love. Maybe it won't fix much... but whoever the recipient might be, might be appreciative. m'friend. |
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