tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57729520817541519482024-02-18T21:53:24.504-08:00Spirit of the ButterflyAtlanta Marie Carrerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09893732315885110372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5772952081754151948.post-2502883392183379452012-06-11T19:07:00.000-07:002012-06-11T18:06:15.804-07:00Spirit of the Butterfly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The butterfly is lively and full of energy,</div>
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A never ending fountain of youth,</div>
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The butterfly dances to a song only she hears,</div>
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A dance that comes from the inside out,</div>
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Her inner soul revealed.</div>
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Does she know how much joy she brings us?</div>
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The butterfly spreads her wings in triumph,</div>
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Never doubting, eager to please,</div>
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Sharing herself with us.</div>
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Does she know how beautiful she is?</div>
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The butterfly moves where God tells her to,</div>
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Settling down only long enough to touch you.</div>
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Then she is off again on another of God’s errands.</div>
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Does she know how she has healed us?</div>
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You are my gentle butterfly.</div>
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Floating innocently along.</div>
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Saying more with actions than with words,</div>
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A tender softness that warms our hearts.</div>
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Do you know how much we love you?</div>
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The miracle is within you, waiting to be shared.</div>
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Your faith revealing God’s eternal promise.</div>Atlanta Marie Carrerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09893732315885110372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5772952081754151948.post-63208679614421670782012-06-11T06:00:00.000-07:002012-06-11T18:12:47.110-07:00Jenny the Garden Fairy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Planted long ago,</div>
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Hidden behind my fears.</div>
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Watered only with my tears.</div>
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Springing to life somehow.</div>
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Continuing to peak.</div>
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Breathing in fresh air,</div>
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change from everywhere.</div>
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Delicate, yet strong.</div>
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Nurtured all along.</div>
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Growing by your hand,</div>
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Spreading now, its rays,</div>
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Glorious and free.</div>
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Like the smell of a crisp autumn morning, it surrounds you</div>
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Excitement, as if leaves are rustling through the trees</div>
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Reminding you it’s there</div>
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Softer than a gentle breeze brushing across your face</div>
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The winds of change are upon you</div>
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Pushing you ever forward</div>
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Constantly moving and</div>
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Rearranging the world around you</div>
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Gasping for the first breath of new life</div>
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Screaming to fill its’ lungs</div>
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A faint whistling, in and out</div>
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Softer than a whisper</div>
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A tender sweetness soundly sleeping</div>
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No longer one, but always connected</div>
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Feeling every breath as if it were your own</div>
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Forever lifting your spirit with its soul</div>
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One journey ending as another begins</div>
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I laugh with you</div>
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I cry with you</div>
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I am always with you</div>
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It springs ever forward<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Beauty and life<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bursting forth like the green buds of a flower<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Awe and wonder<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Melting into a serene blue sky<br />
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It reflects mysteriously<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Glowing brightly in the hazy purple mist<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stretching endlessly<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sharing everything<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Piercing through the clouds<br />
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One Day</h2>
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Your little voice cries out,</div>
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and I rush to your side.</div>
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One day, you will talk to me,</div>
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but right now, I’m just guessing.</div>
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I hold you so dearly</div>
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and marvel at you.</div>
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One day, I can’t cradle you,</div>
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but my moment is now.</div>
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As I feed you, my darling,</div>
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you cling to me closely</div>
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with tiny hands so soft</div>
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that one day will grow big.</div>
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I’m in awe of your wonder,</div>
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so helpless and small,</div>
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a future awaiting, but</div>
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trusting totally in me.</div>
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You fall asleep in my arms,</div>
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and I lay you down gently.</div>
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One day you will walk,</div>
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and I will miss carrying you.</div>
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With patience, I wait.</div>
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I know each growing hour</div>
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that one day you will leave me,</div>
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but right now, you are mine.</div>Atlanta Marie Carrerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09893732315885110372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5772952081754151948.post-51340241415249314222012-06-07T06:45:00.000-07:002012-09-19T06:46:03.600-07:00Kaleidoscope Bubbles<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Kaleidoscope<br /><br />The future is like a Kaleidoscope,<br /> an ever changing
puzzle<br /> pieced together to form endless possibilities.<br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />Once
set in motion, it unfolds before you,<br /> cascading forward with twists &
turns<br /> in an unpredictable life of its own.<br /><br />A constantly blooming
flower<br /> bursting forth with beauty<br /> for those who choose to see
it.<br /><br />A precariously perched rainbow of color<br /> reflecting back<br />
what you put into it.<br /><br />Your future is what you make of it,<br /> moving
in new directions<br /> with a limitless imaginationAtlanta Marie Carrerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09893732315885110372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5772952081754151948.post-60795768598901304952012-06-07T06:38:00.000-07:002012-09-19T06:43:52.429-07:00Water Fairy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A Mother’s Tears<br />
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I see the rain begin to fall outside my
window.<br />
Splish, Splash, Splosh<br />
Bouncing off the window sill<br />
Dancing,
Skipping, Jumping with excitement on the pavement<br />
It is Youth<br />
It is
Happiness<br />
It is Excitement<br />
Like tears of joy<br />
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I hear the rain
streaming steadily through the trees<br />
Swirling, Twirling, Whirling<br />
Spinning
dizzily through the branches<br />
Splashing, Dashing, Flowing with exuberance from
the clouds<br />
It is Rhythmic<br />
It is Dancing<br />
It is Emotion<br />
Like tears of
compassion<br />
<br />
I feel the torrents of rain pounding their way down to
earth<br />
Gushing, Rushing, Crashing<br />
Endlessly relentless against the darkened
sky<br />
Beating, Repeating, Stinging with pain as it touches the world<br />
It is
Deafening<br />
It is Confusion<br />
It is Anger<br />
Like tears of frustration<br />
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I smell the cool rain as it slows to a soft echo<br />
Rolling, Rising,
Rippling<br />
Wave after wave lapping against the wind<br />
Soaking, Sopping,
Stopping with a gentle layer in the heavy air<br />
It is Calm<br />
It is
Tranquil<br />
It is Understanding<br />
Like tears of sorrow<br />
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I touch the
beading pools of water left behind on the dampened ground<br />
Puddling, Pooling,
Floating<br />
Drowning all life it surrounds<br />
Stagnant, Still, Silent with a wet
quiet against a bottomless void<br />
It is Drenched<br />
It is Emptied<br />
It is
Solitary<br />
Like tears of loneliness<br />
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And then it appears, just out of
reach<br />
Soft, Faint, Glowing<br />
Evaporating all the tears<br />
Pausing,
Stretching, Waiting for the next rain storm<br />
It is Promise<br />
It is Hope<br />
It
is Future<br />
A Rainbow, bringing endless color against the Carolina Blue<br />
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<br />Atlanta Marie Carrerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09893732315885110372noreply@blogger.com0