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Words in Honey Next Try
Words in Honey Next Try
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( A Poetic Anthology)
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1) "Lovely Nature" pg 1
2) "Mighty Earth" pg 2
3)"The Lion" pg 3
4) "Combating Racism" pg 4
7) "Autumn Trees" pg 10
10) "Nature" pg 14
25) "Tarantella" pg 42
Medieval Poems
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Personal Poems
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Western Poems
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Assorted Poems
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The wind gently blows, What beauty spring brings,
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I started writing poetry at the age of five, but this is the earliest sample of my remaining
poems, which was written at age seven. I gave it to my mother as a present and found it
years later in an old purse.
"Oh Mighty Earth" 2
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( Written fall 1987- Age 9)
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them securely.
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"Combating Racism"
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( written Apr il, 1990 - A ge 12)
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this is a mistake.
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and obscure,
No grea ter spec tacle will you see than this cosmic light,
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Let us observe this light traveling through infinite space and time,
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"Autumn Trees"
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( Written November, 1992- Age 14)
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the sunrise,
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Oh tree s, thou art a mosaic of colors tha t fills me with fasc ination,
And goe s into the inner d epths of m y soul with an ins pirational s ensation.
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And as long as I witness thy beauty that fills me with happiness, in my life
loving emotions.
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to my face,
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The sun shines up on the water with it's rad iant light,
Oh when will I part with thy beauty and exquisiteness I do not know,
I merely fixate m y eyes filled with awe on your feathers a s white as snow.
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"The Ducks"
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winds blew.
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"Nature"
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( Written July, 1992- Age 14)
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From the grass f illed with the beauty of f lowers to the skies f illed with
Oh nature thou art the sweetest nectar from the greatest of flowers,
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Thy beauty makes the world filled with strength and combats all weakness,
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Nature, thou fills the world and all the worldly nations,
Thou fills the world with joy and abolish all tribulations,
Oh nature let thy wind and breeze of purity run through me,
Thou oh nature, from whence comes all that is living and free.
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Alas! B ut thou dost not know ther e are d iffere nt states or plateaus of
And we depend on our mind fully to perform all of our daily functions.
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You knowledge that have been on Earth since the dawn of time.
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Thou knowledge, travels around the world and through inner dimensions,
And those who do not acc ept thy knowle dge ar e ignorant, thus their
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"Devote your brain to wisdom, and thou shalt be amazed at what thou finds,
"The W oman"
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(Written March, 1993-Age 15)
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That elim inates this c haos and b rings m ankind togethe r in unification.
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For one who believes such foolish things is usually the inferior.
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True superiority is not in gender, but in modesty, spirit, and the mind,
This light r epres ents no other b ut the fem ale bound to c hains of
The fe male is like a fra gmente d rose w ith no thorns, incom plete due to a
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And let in the hearts of all mankind the song of humanity be sung,
The fe male ha s been a victim of society long enough, an outc ast of this
and irrationality.
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Weak, weary, lonesome, isolated, and abandoned by all the world, filling
This oce an that sep arates her from all the world , filled w ith the drea dful
And the sky surrounded by the obscure darkness for it is all night, and
there is no tomorrow.
Note From Author: When I was a young girl I was in most ways the same as I am now.
I was very serious, always had a great love of learning and justice. I believed in
social activism, I liked to dress conservatively and was old fashioned in many respects.
However there were some things which I did not look at through a Biblical viewpoint,
and this poem reflects one of those instances. Now I believe that although G-D by no
means is in favor of discrimination against women HE nevertheless gave women a
specific role in life: tending to and raising G-D fearing children and serving her husband
(who should exert leadership in his family). Women who wish to earn some income ( in
my opinion) should work from the home so as not to jeopardize their duties as wife &
mother. Call me old fashioned & outdated but that is what the Bible says.
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But rest My LORD is something that I nor others shall have until we
Thus E mbellis hed One knowledge and harm ony shall rule the Ear th, and
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I contem plate ea ch day tha t I at the end of this des ert will re ach a
heavenly oasis,
Thus humanity will be reborn and I shall thank THEE with my lips
"Nighttime Duck"
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( Written April, 1995-Age 17)
With thy fea thers of gold shining unde r the moon's pale light,
Little nighttime duck swimming upon the waters of life's great expectations,
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awakening song.
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"What Is War?"
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( Written M ay, 1995 -Age 17 )
Behold them, who think themselves so brave yet are nothing but cowards!
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That inste ad of im proving hum anity through kind ness, ha ve blinde d the
Tear away the veil of hyp ocrisy, see wa r for wha t it really is , look at the
Thou are not brave , but sinful c owards , who takes lives nee dlessly and
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Must the innocent die and pay for your lust and greed ?
Selfish little imps who think only of your fragile insecure egos and
Little do y our prim itive mind s realize tha t true glory lies in the sp irit, in
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Savag e ones who d estroy the mselv es am ong corrup tion and trea son,
Oh Gracious G-D, is this the race to whom you gave the gift of logic
Only reason and morality can break through this hateful rage,
For war is the damnation of humanity that sinks the world into a Dark Age.
Speak of war as it truly is, a n evil epid emic f rom whic h all
Two sailors upon the deck talking to their hear ts' delight,
Amid the calm blue w aters and und er the moon's pa le light,
For who s ays that in the life of se a adve nturers the re are no
When to f eel the ca lm sea breeze m ildly car essing one 's skin
and seeing the beauty of nocturnal waters quickly puts one's heart at ease.
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Listens attentively while the other sailor sp ills out to him all
Their image sends our minds back in time, to our own childhood days,
"The Picnic"
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( Written April, 1995-Age 17)
Nature's sweet open air lifts up from our shoulders everyday burdens,
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I bite into a juic y plump apple w hile the juice r uns down m y chin,
And the thought comes to my mind of how our picnic feast surely surpassed
"Seed Carrier"
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(Written May, 1995- Age 17)
A non-rhyming poem
But one day this seed will begin to grow and blossom,
And we will then open our eyes to a new per spectiv e of the wor ld, and
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Each seed within us will form a branch, and all of mankind united together
That like the swe etest lullaby sings me to sleep in the lonesome night?
I've be en told that a g racef ul angel fr om the high he avens s ings with his
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For who can deny that sweet celestial music can unite mankind
For m usic ma kes ma nkind blend tog ether in unific ation, like the b lending
of these harmonious notes that I hear coming from the heavens above.
Who fills the emp ty souls of m ankind with your celestia l music's
A non-rhyming poem.
That with your melodies reflect the beauty and passion of my Latin land,
You sing to the rhythm of castanets and maracas of the glory of our ancestry.
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proud people.
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"Coronation Of The Mountains"
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( Written December. 9, 1995- Age 17)
The stars are slowly fading and night's dominion is almost gone,
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The mountains stand still like giants upon the land with the same
Seven la rge, im penetra ble figur es, whos e peaks give the im press ion
that they ar e amb itiously see king shelter amids t the heave ns and contr ol
I see the rays of the eme rging sun e mbra cing aff ectionately the
For in these five words I find all the behaviors, attitudes, doings, and
about it's faults so that those who are sagacious can help the turbulent fire
of ignorance to soothe,
While those who are ascetics reach the borders of masochism trying to reach
from the wise that keeps the world with balance and equality,
things, but to v alue mor e the spir itual is what hum anity mus t teach.
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Whether society has lost the true meaning of life following a path of greed
It is plain to see that the world has taken a servile position toward
excessive materialism,
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And whe re huma nity is in dang er of dr owning in a gr owing ocea n under the
waves of egotism.
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'Tis true...the world is like a stage that contains comedies and trag edies, a
Or else tragedy will conquer, and the world shall close it's curtains forever.
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constructions of stone,
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"Tarantella"
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( Written November. 21,1996-Age 18)
Too many people would without hesitation take the hand of greed
But few of them shall be with the finer things in life blessed.
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Have been va lued mor e by this ig norant socie ty than virtue s and
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in insignificant plenty,
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But to decorate life you must have a firm structure upon which to decorate,
Woe to the accursed who only have possessions to console their tribulations,
For those who value love and wisdom more, shall never from joy separate.
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"Y2K"
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( Written Ja nuary. 2-3, 2 000-Ag e 21)
A frenzy of people on their way home with propane stoves and canned food,
Did not aw ait with joy or e agerne ss for the new mille nnium to be b orn,
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Bulbs w ould say f arewe ll and cand les would b ecome the height of f ashion,
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Comp uters would take their r evenge for being bossed around
lighting a candle,
Prophecies from the Bible and old computer chips flooded the city with fears,
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their lights,
As they realized that their hi-tech world was not at all that sly.
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By those who believed that if they just had enough food they would be fine.
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Three !.. Two!. . One!.. . mad e all hear ts glued to the TV b eat at the
Shrieks and trembling increased as the ball got lower and lower,
Moc king and dis appointing thos e who ma de their le ngthy pre parations .
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But weird looking puppets and silly clowns in glasses with four digits,
Making those who spent a small fortune preparing look like idiots.
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"The Bird Brothers"
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( Written June. 18, 2001-Age 23)
Born of blood,
Born of love,
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Must one deny what is in them because it's known too late?
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They will say "I wa s born a Christian and die a Jew ."
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"Sunny Sp ain"
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( Written June. 19, 2001 -Age 23 )
Land of my grandparents,
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Causes a sensation that is brief, The jasmine flowers bring tears to my eyes,
As the wind blows my hair. The earth beneath my feet makes me whole,
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"Modern Romans"
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(Written June.19, 2001-Age 23)
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For it turns the soul insane. In their dark hearts they are lighting,
"A Ballad"
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( Written June. 19, 2001- Age 23)
To right a wrong,
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The influe nce he lea ves be hind, He desire s his mind to soak,
Vocab ulary: 1) T he Tora h are the f irst five books of the B ible which
contains the 613 Divine commandments of G-D's Holy Law.
2) A person with a Talmudic mind is a wise person who is capable of great
feats of reasoning and who knows how to apply G-D's Law to the problems
that confronts us. The term " Talm udic" com es from the "Ta lmud" w hich is
a collection of 16 volumes of legal arguments, commentaries,
and teac hings of the g reat sa ges ab out G-D's Law. Studying the Talm ud is
no easy feat and requires a highly developed mind.
3) A mitzvah is both the observance of a commandment and a good deed.
Charity is a mitzva h becaus e G-D comm anded us in the Tora h to give to the
poor, but it is also a good deed.
4) A mikvah is a bath of purification when one has become ritually impure.
5) Tzadik is "righteous " in Heb rew. A tzadik is a rig hteous G-D fearing
person.
6) HASHEM is G-D in Hebrew. Literally it means "The Name"
because G-D's true name is too Holy to pronounce.
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"The Broken Four Leaf Clover"
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(Written Spring 2000- Age 22)
it should,
So whoever has intact the bud of happiness is truly the luckier and richer,
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She ignoringly blows pass the small eroded hill that is a sculpture of my life,
For a shovel made of glee and dug deep in my heart , would solve much
inner strife.
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Perha ps it is the w ind who see ms to sc ream onomatopoe ias with it's
As I ask L ady Luck if sorrow shall be m y shadow and she answer s with a nod.
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Virtue is friend to the bold, E xpectations rise like the sound of a b ell,
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That time can never wither nor can happiness it's sorrow repair.
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While spurning the hope that dwells in the eye that uncovers,
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The bow on the violin does not break under adversity but still plays,
To bathe those that know too much under it's flattering rays.
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Gems from the Ethics Of The Fathers* shed light on why some things are,
Words flow through the ages like water through a clear stream,
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That our day s are like wither ed flowers in a gloomy ga rden that
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The cha llenge is in it 's awar eness a nd the joy is in it 's applic ation,
The cla rity of wha t can be le arned w ill imped e it 's domina tion.
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"This path is short and long and the other is long and short ",
And our day s can be f illed with pleasure s of the right sort.
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"A vir tue draw s along anothe r virtue a nd a sin dr aws along another sin ",
That in it 's foolishness dares to state that one can ignore morality
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" Do not throw a stone into the w ell from which you dr ank ",
"You shall converse in the words of Torah and not in other things ",
And the idle to exp lore the joys that G-D 's Law brings.
the living,
to tarry,
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Our opp osition to the danc e bree ds a dis sent that is a decep tion,
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But although our coopera tion the pass age of tim e does not b eckon,
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To was h away the hurt of things d enied to whic h one 's heart aspires.
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And the p ast is lef t only as a r efere nce for a nger or a ffection.
MEDIEVAL POEMS
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seepe d through.
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Poison of y outh,
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Manhood is on display,
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"The Minstrel"
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( Written Early December, 2001- Age 23)
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"Little Bird"
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( Written December. 26, 2001- Age 23)
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"The Poacher"
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( Written Spring 2002- Age 24)
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Ma y my fa ce be thy light,
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He looked well in a coat of mail, The sword's flat edge fell hard on him,
With a pride that could not fail, On his shoulders fear weighs slim,
To gre et with stre ngth the swor d. His brave ry is his c rown.
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We feasted as he told,
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They say that they protect us, But we of wit know better,
When it is we who take care of them, They think they have us tame,
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A consort to folly,
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The red and white roses now have swords for thorns,
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"Manchet"
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( Written Summer 2002- Age 24)
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Mos t are ver y abstra ct in nature and re quire a good d eal of refle ction to
understa nd. The se poem s are the most intim ate that I ha ve writte n in the
experiences.
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I am in a cage of years,
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"Expressions In Latin"
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(Written M ay. 27, 2 003- Ag e 25)
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In the day s of Aug ustus and P ompeii, Even if the learne d was onc e comm on,
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"The Eye"
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(Written May. 27, 2003- Age 25)
Ignorant to d eception.
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Pupil and Iris, thou givest the world it's light and shape,
"Silence"
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(Written May. 27, 2003- Age 25)
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Easte rn Europ e (Russ ia, Pola nd, including also Ge rmany ). Alm ost all the
Jews in the U.S. a re As hkenazim. H orowitz and E instein are Polish and
German last names that are frequently found among Ashkenazi Jews.
5) "Jiba ro music " is the tra ditional mus ic of Pue rto Rico. It closely
Seville.
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8) "Em panada s" are a dish orig inally from Spain, but popular thr oughout
ground be ef, ve getable s, and s easonings . The p astry is fried in oliv e oil.
I try to follow this standard but (G-D forgive me) I sometimes lapse in my
observance.
11) "Anusim " is the Heb rew term for M arrano. B oth are term s used to
convert to Catholicism.
can insuff iciently be translate d into the "O h!" in Englis h, although the
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the regular Spanish "¡Ay!" is just as passionate as the Ashkenazic " Oy!".
14) "K ugel" is a potato pudd ing that is ve ry firm . Popula r among the
15) "F lan" is a tr aditional de ssert f rom Sp ain which is p opular throug hout
Latin A meric a and am ong the Spa nish Jews . It is a ty pe of cus tard with a
dishes ( G-D 's Law f orbids eating m eat and dair y foods together ).
16) "Shabbat" is the seventh and last day of the week. The Holy day of rest
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Is hope waiting for a ship, Does the glass of hope overflow forever?
That sunk in life s cruel ironies? Does it s bottle ever seem to have a lid?
If skepticism takes a sip, Who can say, when possibilities join together,
Could it perhaps perish direly? And desire makes one last bid.
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As fa te gives us a wink.
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Moonlight vision in the twilight of a dream,
be reb orn,
might seem,
of guidanc e to be torn.
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an orator,
myself,
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Maze Of Lies
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(Written: February 8-9, 2009- 30 years)
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However a lie may twist the truth but it cannot live off itself,
For my beautiful, brilliant, and silent boy Wencito. I love and value you my son.
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Though his silence serves as a target for those who despise him,
But it also exhibits a pride that does not allow him to perform
at another's whim.
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My beautiful boy, the evil of others does not let them see your worth,
The little s ilent boy who is always thinking has eyes filled with
Letter s, mus ic, and numbers are his passions and to know more he
is always yearning.
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They never loved him yet they claim to know him more,
His father's love for him torments them like a festering sore,
And so the genuine light of his beauty grows for them more dim.
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as a bird,
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extraordinary,
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At one and a half my adventurous intellectual would jump out of his crib,
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Cars , houses, T Vs, a nd trains he would dra w with gre at prec ision,
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But the silence of my little genius was just what they needed,
And so the y laugh at the little intellectua l who only shows what he
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someone.
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His has more wit than more talkative children I'll any day wager,
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treasure,
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love of learning,
of thought burning,
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He pre fers to run and e xplore and does not think that TV is that gre at,
And whe n he does d ecide to s how off his ta lents he de mands attention.
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G-D s ees the e vil in your hea rt when you a sk him his na me and
He can write his first and last name as well as his brother s
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He lea rns eve rything that he wishes to le arn, with a determ ination
He only talks when he wishes to, usually when his speech is not sought.
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And only those who love you can see that your potential has no measure.
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twinkling eyes,
of frustration cries,
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Through the m the lost w orld of the P iza, the Gua dalupes , and
They w ill learn all tha t at one time seem ed doom ed to per dition,
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To show the ir ances tors that their sacrif ice was not in vain,
That a sweet scent can persevere among the thorns of the roses.
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We fall to rise up again, and never will totally forget all that we knew.
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Into our lives, until that which was buried becomes as visible as
a tall tree.
1) The prophet O badiah ... - Re ferring to the end time prophecy found
in Obadiah 1:20 which states that the descendants of the Jews from
Sephar dic tradition the Jews of Spain are descende d from the house of
David and the tribe of Judah. Jews have been living in Spain since
Biblical times, but a large migration arrived after the Romans destroyed the
Second Temple in Jerusalem and exiled all the Jews from Israel in 70 CE (A D).
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Delighting the young and the old with a warmth not feeble.
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While caressed by the wind that causes the lush leaves to sway.
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And wha t was ple asant re mains, though the blows of fate b e brutal.
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" Among My Father's Books "
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( Written: M arch 8, 20 09 -31 ye ars)
The only thing s that see med ne ar wer e old pag es filled with
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And I would learn in my life that what ill will destroys , wisdom mends.
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To my y oung eyes those b ooks were like sta rs that shone brig ht,
And to lea rn some thing worthwhile was alw ays the m ost attrac tive prop osal.
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Our only T V languis hed in the cor ner of the liv ing room b arely s een,
And I think that from that age, I conc eived the notion that I mus t create
in order to be deserving,
Of a lif e, that though not a lways p leasant, must lea ve som e trace of
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And the streets are f illed with folk that appear different yet are the sam e.
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And the M exican ros e vendor that sells y ou flowers by the bunc h.
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The young man that runs to catch the bus no matter what it takes,
vibrant rainbow,
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is found.
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A ray of light to cheer up the will of the gifted and the proud.
it's toll,
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But there are places where the sights and thrills are saner,
And where you need not worry about how many daylight hours are
pedestrian pathways,
to Coney Island,
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expensive,
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hoping to banis h,
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Where children peacefully play under the watchful eyes of their mothers.
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and countryside,
great to hide.
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in life,
can bear,
And then com plain when people d o not allow you to create
more despair.
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You see what you ca nnot understa nd while I s ee the irony that I can,
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And only thos e who will nev er bloom find evil f un.
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" Reason Rhymes With Love "
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(Written: M arch.9, 20 09 - 31 ye ars)
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Although som etimes those rea sons are not allowed to b e seen,
Reason rhymes with love, and sadly hatred with the obscene.
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To reason is to know,
To know is to value,
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born there,
in me much awe,
a moment to spare,
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More grand I bet, even while the cost of living goes through the roof,
Yet no one seems to worry much about what the other says,
And there is the consolation of privacy among those that are aloof.
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be beat,
The future c annot be allowed to suffer at the hands of the past it's de feat.
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went up ag ain,
wonder why.
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Please don't tell me the gossip that you heard in your local
grocery store,
Tell me instead in what month did the flowers bloom this year,
tell me more,
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That was stolen from me, Your pain may delight others,
I can find little pleasure, But far from you my heart sobs,
Until I see injustice flee. Yet I know that an angel above you hovers.
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Me anwhile we shall hav e faith in G-D during the time of our grief.
HAIKUS
5 syllab les in the fir st line,7 in the second line , and ag ain 5 in the
third line. Haikus require even more wit than other styles because
Rain
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Watery fingers,
Feeding the need to blossom,
Let them drink your touc h.
The Mocker
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Ignorance shining,
Mocks the unreachable star,
Needs to gain wisdom.
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Haikus On Women
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(Written March. 8, 2009 -31 years)
Mother
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She will always give,
Born to nurture and to love,
Sacrifice always.
Girl
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Start of a blossom,
Innocence to be molded,
For a distant day.
Wife
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Helper and lover,
Born to inspire and to love,
Pillar of the home.
Fem ininity
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Strength and gentleness,
She will lead while she follows,
Faithfulness s o sweet!
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Haikus On Landscapes
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(Written: March 9, 2009 - 31 years)
Sea
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Profound and so vast,
Pathway to the big wide world,
Sail on bold, brave one!
Cherr y Bloss om
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Beautiful blossoms,
Art displayed among nature,
For wise grateful eyes.
Bird S ong
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Langua ge of the s mall,
Sounds that take flight like small wings,
Sweet sounds among trees.
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Rice Paddy
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Country G irls
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Farmer
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Strong hands that can plant,
The earth gives up her treasures,
So they know no want.
WESTERN POEMS
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Singing about how her eyes sparkled like the distant stars,
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And hearts that yearn would not see their hopes go.
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With the Good Book in his hands to guide through the haze.
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Are the pride of Ma 's gard en, who makes the best apple pies,
And so those juicy apples are like rubies that delight our eyes.
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In M a's gar den there are pota toes, be ans, pum pkins, and corn,
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Our whole family makes apple butter for the cold winter months,
And when Ma makes those dried -apple pies the whole family runs,
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Those apple trees in the garden bring us joy throughout the year,
They g ive us sha de with their leaves and with their fruit help to
And the sweet songs of the occasional birds that take refuge in them
of the future,
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"Just improve the land for five years and it's yours." they said,
But one hundr ed and s ixty acre s was not la rge enoug h,
Espe cially whe n the land wa s not arab le which m ade pla nting tough.
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After leaving it all it was the railroad that came out the winner,
They got the b est land while the hom esteade r had to bite the dust,
And so those who had sacrificed all found that their gains grew thinner,
Forcing them to return to a place w here eve rything had bee n lost.
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stern voice,
But as the school was mostly open in the winter they had no choice.
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The slowest boy in the school would make excuses for not learning,
While the schoolmaster explained that one becomes what one chooses,
And the others looked at the ruler in his hand that kept turning.
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His life wa s a hard one a s he drove the cattle to the mar ket,
And ther e were few who could gaze at the photo of a sweetheart
in a locket.
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A grueling dusty job with only a few minutes of relaxation each day,
The ca ttle had to be watched day and night so that they would not stray,
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And life seem s like a wild horse that one has to control w hen one can.
The two annual roundups were in the fall and in the spring,
With time off in the cattle towns to spend his hard earned money
by the wing,
And so in the cowboys nomadic life was much that was sad.
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And the best claims w ould go to those who got there sooner.
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1) Oregon: Oregon was the pioneer term used to describe the Pacific Northwest of
America which included not the only present state of Oregon, but the states of
Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as well as the present day Canadian
2) Prairie Schooner: Name given to pioneer wagons because they were like
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break down,
Best p ray that c rossing the river thos e anima ls do not drow n,
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to disease,
With each day the provisions grow s limmer and no one is at ease,
was a m ust,
Hooray? Hooray?
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And your hopes shall fall forever like leave s fall in the autumn.
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to respect,
dangers,
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Rejecting the good for the bad leads to gener ations of strife.
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people's land?
language to slay,
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malevolently say,
Their justifiab le anger at s eeing how they ab use and then boas t?
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his head,
Wher e the vanity of working f or what one d oes not enjoy ta kes it's toll,
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For the land has been mistress since the sun arose,
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A fire that warms and that tickles the darkness with it's flames,
And children that gather around their mother as she calls out their names.
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There is the story about how grandpa c ame from England long ago,
And looking a t an old atlas while ima gining other la nds with
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a timeless treasure.
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be nice,
And so w ith rose color ed eye s he acc epted d angers yet unsee n.
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were needed,
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keep going,
Now can one im agine the hards hips that he had when it wa s snowing ?!
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On a prairie m orn,
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And that they make the leaves of any tree exceedingly refined,
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for day,
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forming a garland,
And her hair looked like honey under it's soft beams.
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huge brood,
And ea ch day only serve s to show her that her will ha s won.
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With her spinning wheels, loom, dye pots, and quilting frames,
This among her other chores left her little time to relax,
But while she was spinning she enjoyed watching her children play games.
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husband's hair,
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And she would tell her children a story after the washed dishes were set
At the end of their toil would shine bright their newly acquired fame.
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newly acquired,
And when the need to know is great the body seldom grows tired.
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A land g reat and unknown that taught w ith the mys tery that only
surrounds parables.
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1) The only death on the expedition occurred on August 20, 1804.
unexplored W est,
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Would make the unknown known, while joining itself to a young nation.
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adventurer seeks,
nation expand.
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The slightly older Clark was outgoing and laid back, and lived life
as if it were a dream,
almost symbolic.
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In order to stare a t the unknown eac h day, f or destiny never s tood still.
But I doubt that his chains felt any lighter while traveling through
a land so wild.
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some propriety,
obvious as right.
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landscape changed,
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was sent,
They beheld the infinite sky above the prairie grass that moves,
And sle pt amid st the rec ently see n, finding w armth in hop e with the
temperature's de scent.
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The Grea t Plains abounded with elk, deer, bison, and beave rs,
Dreaming that the world can be molded by what one has believed.
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The gr ound slightly s hook under the d ancing hoove s of the bis on,
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The L akota who had intimidate d the Fr ench and the Spanish,
For throug h stealing a nd aggr ession they always sought to vanq uish,
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cautious glances,
And dubbed them the "Pirates of the Missouri " for their
unsatiable demands.
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Who ca lled the white people " Ma shi " me aning "nice folk ",
That they were willing to see peace through clear air instead
of through smoke.
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In Nove mber *, as ic e appe ared in the river the y knew that w ithout
Ma ndan support,
The cruel cold would make a reality out of their worst fear.
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winter warmer,
There they met Sacagawea , who would be their guide and informer,
And who w ould inspire the explore rs with her strong will.
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the unknown,
The wind s could not im pede the seeds of deter mination that w ere sow n,
And fe et may have gotte n tired, b ut their hands kept car rying ea ch pack.
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1) The Mandan had a very immoral custom. During the Buffalo Dance Indian men
would allow their wives to be with other men in order to lure the buffalo with their
intimate acts.
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And pic ked wild lic orice and berrie s for their
meals,
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daunting,
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was reached,
much sacrifice,
And a new world was born, though others would have to pay the price.
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A Recipe In Rhyme.
syrup or honey,
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And af ter you hav e adde d two cups of buckwhe at flour tim e will
For the b atter will ha ve to rem ain in a war m plac e overnig ht, and
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So add the soda to the b atter and bake those pancake s, and f or a mile
"Frontier Winter"
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with boldness,
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The space between daylight hours grows more and more narrow,
So there is m ore time to sp end with the fam ily to everyone's delight.
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1) Tallow- A mixture of animal fat refined to make candles. Beef fat was valued
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been said,
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Amidst the warmth of the family and the fireplace, the coldness
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To those who are willing to overcome, adver sity is not entirely vile,
And so they g ive thanks to G-D for all the bless ings sent.
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and dear,
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Older children play with the babies by blowing a feather into the air,
is fair.
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favorite dog,
childhoods,
And his uncle complained about the low price paid for goods.
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demands.
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Only to those who did not like learning did all seem gloom,
But many a child was glad to learn and eager for knowledge
to acquire.
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1) Berryman Jennings - Berryman Jennings was a young man who really lived
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The rough school benches only seem to get harder as one moves,
But the teacher demanded absolute silence and one must obey.
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The littlest childre n are learning w ith great car e the alphabe t,
And a whipping was given to those who with the teacher 's expec tations
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There was the g irl that wrote with the goose quill pen,
The teac her hits a boy who had bothered a g irl and had star ted to
chase her.
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But when they were well behaved and studious the teacher
things in a rus h.
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fall apart.
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But their over dependence on them w ould one day lead them to chains.
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Food to eat, hides for clothing and shelter, and bones for a needle or a knife,
And so the Sioux and the Pawnee hunters would to the buffalo sing.
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to Spain,
Gover nmental f raud fixe d on their sun b urned fa ces a p erma nent frown.
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And so they ended up as migrant workers, working land that had once
been theirs,
And they looked angr ily at the A nglo ranche s as the c ause of a ll their
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resorted to violence,
And realized that after the sunniest day the dark always approaches.
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Only six p ercent of Me xicans held on to their land w hile the res t lost all,
What they had worked so hard for was held up for the taking,
And re ality prom ised that f rom that nig htmare there would be no
awakening.
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The bus will soon come to pick him up, so he must wait only
a little while,
And the brightest learner shall outshine all the others with a smile,
That will lighten up the class and put everyone in a good mood.
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One will never experience that which seems common but is rare.
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purely p hysical,
for fun.
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a believer.
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"Neve r! "
And the only house that survives the storm, is the one that is firmly built.
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bring,
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study law,
stern finger,
For he thoug ht that Hand el's love of music w ould be his d ownfall.
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Sounds would excite him , and his passion for music w as not me ek.
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And was accepted at a music school for boys that were gifted,
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men of fame,
marry twice,
Bach w ould comp ose for a cathedr al, while H andel hea rd the king of
Handel was more secular while Bach was more religious and wise.
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spirituality,
royalty,
Both were different, and yet in this they were the same,
They would forever alter the world of music and it's view.
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The eld est of nine c hildren, he would soon pr ove his wor th,
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Vivaldi shared his father's love of music as well as his red hair,
His asthma never destroyed his creativity even when hope was
And his fra il body refus ed to complim ent his cocky per sonality
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Through music the girls would forget their harsh world where
embellishment abounds.
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He love d to see the opening pe rform ances of his opera s, and the
For him the crowd's rea ction was not to be taken lightly,
And his greatest joy was producing music that would be admired.
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She was his favorite soprano and perhaps his secret love,
For the gifted priest did not possess the innocence of a dove.
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Vivaldi fervently,
The fla mboya nt, almos t playful e xuberanc e of his m usic was soon
More modern styles had taken root and the regal flow of his music
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His fune ral was in a cathed ral, whe re Jose ph Had yn was a choir boy
at the time,
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