WHITE BOX DRESSED IN RED RIBBONS

WHITE BOX DRESSED IN RED RIBBONS

You placed a small wrapped white box

Into the palms of my hands

Smiling you said keep it safe

That I am the only one

You trusted to have this

Then you added

But you can never open it

I looked at this white box

Dressed in red ribbons

I smiled at you, and asked

Does never really mean never

You laughed at my question

You may never open

This white box dressed

With these red ribbons

Until I am no longer with you

I flung my head back laughing

And replied

          Even when you leave this world

You will always be with me

Space and time will never separate you and me

So I will rewrite my will and include

This white box dressed in red ribbons

          To stay with me until my demise

You smiled and said it was only your heart

In this white box dressed in red ribbon

That you can give for Christmas this year

I cried and through my tears

All I could say was thank you

© 12/2011 Ellenelizabeth Cernek

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Freight Train with no lights painting rainbows

 

The freight train had no lights,

yet fire spurred from its belly

it ran through my house

catching it afire

I’ve always have painted rainbows

about me and all bad stuff

but fire destroys all you own

so now I am painting rainbows with embers

while thanking God everyone is ok

for you see religions are man-made  shades of grey

Way Home

Stars glittered overhead

I stared as my neck twisted

Against the car window

And the road takes another turn.

My eyes strain to see through

the thick canopy of the forest.

Where are the glittering stars?

That shows the way home!

Got Poetry Prompt #8

Anticipation

Wings fly around a world of make believe

Through green dells, soaring above rust colored mountains

Where dreams manifest to reality, from childhood tales

Of happily ever after which was shoved down your throat

Flying through this world of make believe

The Love Monkey dances in freedom

Within his cage he know as home

Being born of captivity knowing no true jungle

Daily dreams manifesting to your reality

Giving blue and pink iridescent wings upon your shoulders

Flight as they glisten in the dawn of every new day

Anticipating happily ever after would show up today

©

ATTENTION ATTENTION

I am pleased to announce the publication of my first book of poems which is due out by the end of July 2011!
I will keep you informed!

God Grant Me

God grant me the insight

To find patience in other’s wrong doings

God grant me the time

To find love in myself

God grant me the silence

To find kind words, when others are judgmental

God grant me the kindness

To find good in all who wrong me

God grant me the knowledge

To find resolution in other’s plights

God grant me the love

To find beauty in other’s faults

God grant me the spirit

To find flight within other’s degrading

God grant me the quiet

To find your beauty around me