Good Friend

Went out of town today.

Took 2 hours by train.

Had dinner and a movie.

Was nice and relaxing.

Then two hours back.

So happy to go out of town,

and spend time with friend

who lives 200 meters from me.

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Right for you

Life for you has now become a mixture of moving on and grieving.

Every day will be different:

on how much you need to move on,

and on how much you need to grieve.

On some days the former will be more important,

and on other days the latter will be more important.

Just grieve and move on in amounts – big and small

that are right for you - for you and your kids.

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Respect

I get it from my friends who I dearly love.

I get it from colleagues who I work with.

I get it from the small store owners where I shop.

I get it from the staff where I work.

I get it from strangers who I help.

I get it from the lower level management where I work

I get it from strangers who help me.

So why cannot I get from the higher management where I work?

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On Top of the Flue (Revised)

Clover and I climbed the flue
because i was feeling blue.

When Clover and I got to the top,
I yelled yoohoo.

Then I heard the cop
who was next to my pop

tell me not to jump,
so I sat on my rump.

When Elsie bellowed moo.
and i wondered oooooo;

how to get this bovine
off this chimney of mine.

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Life and Doors

You can't long for the past, for what could have been.

Those doors are closed. Never to be open again.

Nor yearn for a future whose doors will never open.

Nor live only in the present whose doors are open.


To live in the present without reflecting upon the past

means that one will repeat one's mistakes.

If one does not learn from the path through the doors,

then happiness will never be behind the next door.


To live in the present without contemplating upon the future

means that one will be go through doors aimlessly.

If one is aimless, then one has no path to follow,

then happiness will never be behind the next door.


If one lives in the present, but reflects upon one's past

and learns from them, and one contemplates one's future,

and sets goals to work toward so the future is not blank,

then behind the doors some day, happiness will be there.

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Life

Life goes on for better and for worse.

Live goes on through happiness and sorrow.

Life goes on through hills and valleys.

Life goes on forward out of the past

Life goes on to remember the past joys.

Life goes on to make new smiles.

Life goes on and so should you.

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Cheer for a Journalism Student

go leanna go;

she's our writer;

a real deadline nailbiter;

she gets it done;

then goes out to have fun;

go leanna go.

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