Power

Some people use it as a shower
Others scrimp for it
We all have to sit
and agree to it
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Knowledge

The acquisition of knowledge
Neither begins nor ends with college
It's immensely fostered
As adding to a roster
Which will never end for postures

All Hollows Eve

Twas the night before Halloween
And all through the street
Some creatures were lurking
Who had no feet

Up to the house
They scared us galore
It wasn't like a mouse
I could hear them roar

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You and I

By Mary Ann Hoberman

Found in Highlights November 2010

Only one I in the whole wide world
And millions and millions of you,
But every you is an I to itself
And I am a you to you too!
But if I am a you and you are an I
And the opposite is also true,
It makes us both the same somehow
Yet splits us each in two.
Its more and more mysterious,
The more I think it through:
Every you everywhere in the world is an I; every I in the world is a you!

Don't Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,


When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about,

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don't give up though the pace seems slow--

You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than,

It seems to a faint and faltering man,

Often the struggler has given up,

When he might have captured the victor's cup,

And he learned too late when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out--

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far,

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--

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Suffiecent Time

You held that hand those many years
Shared in the joys as well the tears
Such promise made so long ago
Your love would hold and make it so
You dared believe with all your heart
Forever meant you'd never part
And so it was or seemed to be
Your lives revolved eternally

But years amassed the way they do
Some ground was lost and ere you knew
The time had come you felt the shock
The loss so great you couldn't talk

But oh the flood of tears that came
And yet that come to hear that name
Relived the past you knew so well
In freedom's wake and not this hell

And hell it's been for sure a while
A frown you've worn and not a smile
In such a state you've wished to die

If yet to stay and know not why
But truth be told for what it's worth
Impermanence you'd have on earth

Therefore to learn to cope somehow
To understand the here and now

To take in stride the things that are
Once more to wish upon a star
To bear in mind there's always more
To think of life and what it's for
Returned in spring the robin's song
As well the hope for which you'd long
The summer sun to bring the bloom
Your world to fill with sweet perfume

Renewed the dream the heart to heal
Returned to form and made to feel
Replayed the scene as will be done
Still life to live beneath the sun
This world of yours that has no end
But that you'd come to comprehend
Transformed the lot but little more
One day to chance that distant shore

But not as yet for here's the grant
A world that's wont to say you can't
The loss of you more cause to grieve
And this for sure you must believe

For such as left the call was clear
The time had come to hie from here
But those as yet who've stayed behind
Must not forget that love was kind
For love it was that gave such days
You'd now recall in wondrous ways
And love it is will bring accord
Sufficient time to come on board
-Richard Doiron

Tolerance

To do this Dance
You Don't Nedd Romance
You do't need a lance
All you need is to Dance
For Tolerance