Open Gates

Brother Bill Kelso may be revealing a secret here or maybe he just watch one of those loves story movies with his wife and got inspired. He didn’t say when the sent the poem to me.
Open Gates
There was a certain look in your eyes
When I first saw your face,
It was just a meeting, but I felt, for
some reason, like it was a date.
I listened to your words, and knew
I had met you 20 years too late.
By then I had decided to love
Another and make her my mate.
Meeting you then was the devil
Working or the tempting of Fate.
It might be a missed opportunity,
But feelings for you flood the gates
That held back the fears I had
Because I never wanted to be alone.

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License to Love

I’ve got a license to love,
But I’m willing to give it way.
I’ve got a license to love,
And I need someone like you to stay
By my side.

I’ve got a license to love back now,
And it’s tattooed to your heart.
You’re the only one for me now,
And I’m sure we’ll never part.
For some it’s the end, but
Really for me, it’s just a start.
I’ve got a license to love,
But I’m willing to give it way.
I’ve got a license to love,
And I need someone like you to stay
By my side.

I feel your love wherever I go.
It’s an emotion I can’t deny.
I know you’ve been hurt before.
I’m glad you’ll give love another try.
You’re the only one for me now,
And that, my sweet, is not a lie.
I’ve got a license to love,
But I’m willing to give it way.
I’ve got a license to love,
And I need someone like you to stay
By my side.

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Ladrillos

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Ladrillos

Tomo cada momento de mi vida,
y los amontono juntos como ladrillos
para formar mi vida,
mi personalidad,
miexistencia.

Yo sólo espero que yo no
construya una pared alrededor de mis ideas,
mis pensamientos,
mis sentimientos.

Debo estar libre expresarme.
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La Police de Fromage

La Police de Fromage

La Police de Fromage sort travailler la nuit,
et ils assurent quel fromage je mange à droite,
et bon pour moi,aussi.

La Police de Fromage assure que le fromage est scellé.
Chaque packet doit être une affaire carrée, ou la forme il a besoin d’être.

Si la Police de Fromage trouve quelque chose mal,
alors le fromage est allé par le début du lendemain même.

Quelques gens se demandent si la Police de Fromage existe,
mais ils sont très vrais, j’insiste. Je n’ai jamais
de mauvais fromage.

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Rent-A Friend?

I can appreciate the ingenuity, creative imagination and the entrepreneurship of those reinventing the limits of the Internet and its programs; however, one of the hottest topics on Google is a Rent-A-Friend website for those with low-friend-count on their Facebook or other social network page.

It’s not a dating or escort service, and that’s good. However, people who don’t have enough “friends” connected to their account can enter any zip code in the USA or Canada and find those who will sell their relationship.  People who want the “friends,” have to become members, and that’s where they pay before connecting to the new group of acquaintances.

The Rent-A-Friend site reportedly has 100,000 hits a month, claims 200,000 members, and it has only been around for six months. Here come the knock-offs, and the trend is here to stay for a while.

Some of the youth I work with have tried this new-fangled thing, and results have been mixed. I have encouraged them to avoid this web site and others like them. It’s not that I’m an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but I believe friends are friends, and it’s not hard to make friends for most people.  If you have to rent them for what every reason, something’s not right. It’s also against what God has taught us, too.

I once gave a friend in my young life a quarter if he would not tell a certain girl in school that I liked her.  This was when 25 cents could by 25 pieces of bubble gum. He took the money and promptly told the certain female of my interests the next day.  How much would he have taken? I don’t know. How much would others charge to be a friend of a stranger? I don’t know.  I do know that Jesus taught us to be fishers of men, to spread the word of an everlasting life, and we should help strangers in need of help.

Does help include renting friends to be popular on a social website?   I don’t think so.  An article on the topic suggested some practical uses of the Rent-a-friend website, such as a person new to a city looking for someone to show them the town, but that could be a bad situation, too.  One-one one talking is the real answer to finding a friend, and that includes a prayer every now and then to Jesus.

Peace be you with always,

Rev. Paul Abernathy

“Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” -2 Peter 1:2

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Big Party

(Photo by Mike Hall)

Hundreds of thousands migrated to the Louisville Waterfront Park in the heat and humidity to get the right seat for a concert with several bands including a major country act.  The event itself was free to those who attended, however there were plenty of booths under the overpass near the park which offered food and beverages for a price. Following the two day event, fireworks filled the dark sky for each of the two days.
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Visit to Virginia Beach

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Childhood Revisited

This the debut poem by the newest Lambda Sigma Chi brother, Levi Jacobs, and it just happens to fit the theme of this month.  For more information on Jacobs, go to this month’s World of Words Newsletter, the Exponet.

Childhood revisited

A tear appears on my face,
and another.
I can’t go back to when I was
a child, not so long ago.
The time has passed quickly.
Now I have things to do, and
places to be because more
is expected of me with my
new responsibilities
I wanted to hurry to be grown up,
I but I don’t know why.

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Rain for the Ivy

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Rain for the Ivy
The ivy
creeps
over the
edge of
the cement wall
of this old two-lane bridge,
and the roots of the plants find life anchors in
cracks where they shouldn’t be at all.
I believe in the many possibilities,
And the potential of what I can’t see.
Faith in myself and people sustain me.
This is my reality I face every day.
The guy on the radio says there’s lots
of sunshine coming my way,
but I really wish it would rain
so the ivy would get a shower of
life and keep
on growing as I drive over the
the bridge again.

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Antigua Maldición

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Antigua Maldición

Mientras hacía un castillo de arena en un día del verano,
yo encontré una botella extranjera que mira.

Ansioso de ver por el vidrio,
yo enjugué la arena lejos, y entonces
un hombre con barba extraño pareció antes de mí.
Dijo que fui su maestro, y yo tuve tres deseos.
Para cada uno de ellos yo deseé
para tres más, y de cada uno de ésos, yo deseo para tres más.
Paré mi castillo de arena de hacer una lista
de deseos en la orden para lograr éxito
material en la vida, y él concordó.

Entonces me dijo una historia de
cómo fue liberta una vez como mí, y entonces
fue puesto bajo un rato para servir a maestros
glotones como un antiguos siglos de maldiciónviejos.
Pregunté si tuvo los poderes asombrosos, por
qué fue él todavía tuvo a cautivo a su alma.
Fue escrito en las Reglas de la Arena sus
capacidades nunca fueron violadas.
Los que trataron pagaron el precio, él dijo.
Tuvo que utilizar sus poderes para otros.

Utilicé mi último deseo en mi lista para
Ponerlo liberta para serse, y él se fue.

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