WHERE HAS MY LOVE GONE?
Gone is my heart's love - from my heart and from hearth
Gone from my bedside - no comfort left on earth
Where is my heart's love who was so true and kind
He's chosen to flee, proving cold, and unkind
Come back, my true heart's love, I'm lone and forlorn
We both are at fault and will realise at dawn
Forgive me, my heart's love for any hurt, pain
I'd rectify all should you come back again.
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WHERE THE WATER LILIES GROW
(Song)
Leave behind this minute
All your cares of spirit
And come with me in secret
To where the water-lilies grow!
Sit with me in silence
Hear the voice of nature
Hearken to its old wisdom
Then return to the world you know!
Go lighter, of burden
Joyfully tend your duties
Go back home with love anew
Returning there, be strong and true!
But when cares of spirit
Make you restless and tense,
Return there again with me
To where the water lilies grow
And we'll sit alone in silence
Listen to the voice of nature
Hearken to its ancient wisdom
Return refreshed to the world we know.
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WILDFLOWERS AUSTRALIS
The open sand plains - so wide and free
Merge greyly with the sombre cloud
Light descending, arches the colour,
To mould the fine rainbow's bending.
Alpha/Omega begin, and end
Full spectrum the rainbow's blessing
Was twice touching our precious turned earth
Where we would begin our growing
Harmony of Nature, felt, and seen
Transformed dull day to full beauty
And all at once it seemed to be that
Magic pervaded our venture
Our country's flowers, of strange beauty
Are to thrive here cultivated
We ask that beauty, and love, and peace
May attend our project's offering.
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WILD STORM
The wind whistles wildly
It shrieks high and it whines
It heralds the coming
Of the gathering storm
Wind shrill, its thin whistle
Then groans deep, low in tone
A momentary silence
And I'm here all alone!
The gathering forces
Of great nature outside
And the pending climax
Drawing closer in time
Thunder, lightning and rain
Rumble, flash and again
Fire and water repeat
Age old drama complete
And it's clear now outside
No more wind nor the rain
Clouds scattering westwards
Earth free now from the strain
My soul feels the clearer
My mind's screen is now calm
Energies returning
Nature's storm cleared my heart.
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WOMAN'S DISMAY
He's turned away...
Remembering little of the other day
When hearts and bodies, souls and minds
Mingled in sensuous ecstasy
He's taken all....
And freely gives others my most precious gift
So cruel and harsh I find him now
He disregards our wedding vow
So what! You say
If immorality is so common now
Surely all married couples should
Re-evaluate vow and worth
If woman was in virtue true,
Surely other wives would have no cause to rue
If men would in their one shrine trust,
They'd find true love, not futile lust.
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WONDROUSNESS OF WATER
Water... Where is it born? Where does it die?
Asking these questions, I really wish to know why...
Why it forms magically as the dew upon grass
It lights up with sunlight, diamonds mirrored in glass
Gently transformed, drawn into air by the sunlight
It falls as rain from the sky in daytime or night
Brings refreshment to Nature's life forms, young or old
And precious gift of Life from the gods we are told
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Water, you're needed by blade of grass, forest tree
Vegetation the world over sustained by Thee!
A seed swells in the warm earth, life stirs at thy touch
All Earth life to be sustained requires you so much
Water is our love, our delight, and prime life need
Wondrous is water, stirring life in every seed
Insects, and animals, plants, birds flying on wing
Fish in seas, lakes, rivers live in you, creating
And man in his kingdom, high, alone from the rest
Depends upon, adores you, delights in you best
For from morning to mid-day, and evening's repose
Water gives life to his body, garden and rose
Cells of his body bathed in life giving fluids
Akin to ocean mineral salts say the Druids
In life in the womb and from the day of his birth
Water sustains man, in all his days on the Earth
Our life began, in life-waters was seed encased
Father gave us life -mother's water us embraced
Water came from Moon-mother as fire from the Sun
Water controlled by the moon, sun blessed- life begun
Intense experiences of life to all are known
By watery expression, joy, and pain are both shown
By his sorrow soaked teardrop, or laughter filled tears
Delight in good humour, or with pain it appears
It cools and cleanses his body, nourishes cell
All manifold functions impossible to tell
Its scarcity results in death, stress or dry thirst
When relieved, by cool quenching, of delights comes first
Soul's pleasure as one watches entranced and complete
As waves of great ocean bombard shores, then retreat
Man loves gaze, enjoy water's elemental powers
He sits watching waterfalls- takes joy in rain showers
Its forms are so wondrous, mysterious and so vast
Droplet, iceberg, rainbow show beauty unsurpassed
Water may be hot, warm, tepid, cool, sometimes ice
It rages in turbulence or flows smooth and nice
We swim through it, under it, traverse on its wave
We add to it a little and then toast our brave
We use it, we channel and take it for granted
Yet can't control rain or when grain's to be planted
Water's many moods, various forms -great their range
Yet we recognise water in spite of the change
For when tiny and gentle, or turbulent, vast
We're bound by this element till death comes at last
When we're free, spirit soars, we're akin to the air
But while in our body it's with water we share
In honour, and reverence - how little we know
Thanksgiving time for this element needed so
We praise natural powers honouring water best
Essential to our lives even more than the rest
Water has sustained life on the Earth aeons past,
Trust future man will cherish its values so vast.
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YOUTH
We romp, and we play
We don't think of yesterday
We laugh, we sorrow
We don't think of tomorrow
We do, and we dare
We try and learn how to share
We give, and we keep
We waken, we go to sleep
We dream, and we fear
We laugh then we shed a tear
We hate, and we love
We look down and look above
We see, and we stare
We learn caution, have a care
We free fly, or plod
And we wonder "what is God"?
We explore wide, and we adore
We go from hillside to the shore
We love father, we love mother
Walk hand in hand with one another.
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YOUTH-AGE
"But you're old now and frail"
The young man said.
"Yes, I'm frail in body,
"But not in my head!"
"But what do you do and what do you drink?
What can you do with your time, except think?"
"That certainly seems to you a sad end
No drinking bouts and no worries to tend"
"But don't grieve, my son, reward is all mine
Enjoying each day, I melt into Time."
"But you're old and feeble
And can't run, like me!"
"Yes it's true that I'm slow
I enjoy rests, you see"
"I'm sorry for you, Dad
Your life, is ending".
"Don't be concerned, my boy
Death's not yet pending!"
"But what do you know allows you accept
A fate which demands loss of life's pleasures?"
"Son, now forget the body, listen, you'll find
I'm a man, my son, I'm a man in my mind!"
"I master my life by my thoughts, as I will
My thoughts can run free, to explore or be still!"
"Ideas are created and ever made new
I'm free in my mind and I'm young, just as you!"
"My young body matured and it reached it's peak
My feelings grew, too, and expanded to seek."
"Fulfilment in love and emotional need
But my mind, ever young has no limit, indeed"
"Ever onward, and onward, upward I grow
First was my body and then, rather more slow."
"But finally man now in body and mind
I'm mature now, content with what I now find."
"Father, what have you found?- this I would know
So I can look forward to the path I must go."
"That the body lessens as brightens the mind
Like a burning candle, they're not of a kind
"But this I would hope, that you maybe will find
How to keep them both healthy, with face unlined.
"Remain ever youthful, age and youth combined.
Forge on, young man, with your long life before thee
"Just know I speak well, and wiser still I will be
When death comes at last to quietly claim me."
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THE ENDING
When all the melodies of life are sung
And all the tunes of joy all played away
When all the music has been orchestrated
And no more flutes and notes pattern in the air
When no more sadness squeezed from out our souls
And no more virtues for man to express
When ideas can no more torment the mind
Or feelings tear the heart within our breast
Only then is life it seems to end
When no more human love is there to give
When no more hateful miseries bemoan
When there are no more books to read or write
And no inspiration to turn a rhyme
When no more laughter stirs to bring a tear
No longer untouched kingdoms to explore
When no more happiness to fill the heart
Then surely is that life can live no more
When there is no more dancing in the street
The sunsets and sunrise drained of their glow
When no more stars to seem a sparkling show
With no great buildings to design or build
When there is no longer cruel human war
Barriers to peace dissolved, no life killed
Then will we have lived great years of human life
Time then to rest until another round is Willed.
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Elizabeth S. Adams is known for her published "Forgotten Dreams - a collection of Poetry" with additional interests that extend to Astrology,Astronomy and mystical subjects that help us understand who we are and our place in the Universe. Astrology when applied to self understanding of our personality and deeper soul potentials is a great practical starting point. We also need assistance to unveil the special inner talents of our soul so we feel confident to offer our contribution to the world. Astrology is such an aid. Visit her site http://www.spirit-of-astrology.com
