Poetry
A Message from the Heart of an Elderly Person to your Heart!
We found this in the office of an excellent geriatric physician – Dr. Hollis Day. It is quite an office with rooms in which beautiful dolls from many countries can be found. What a walk down memory lane scooping up the humanity on which we seldom stop to reflect. “When I spill some food on…
Read MoreWHO AM I?
I suffered a loss, that could have destroyed everything I’ve built over some 30 years. In very bad shape emotionally, I came to your back door and asked for your help. You were busy and would not let me in. You kept me standing outside your back door while we talked I heard people inside…
Read MoreA BNLMember Responds to Poetry
I loved the poem about trees. I would love to respond with my own poetry, but until that day this is what I found which i find beautiful and an addendum to Lynn O. Cohen’s poem – “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green…
Read MoreCome to me..see me..hear me..touch me!
Leaves moving this way and that sounds just like big ocean waves. i am elsewhere. Ah! the leaves giving me a kiss on my cheeks cooling me even moving my short hair i have arrived at the ‘mentor tree’ bottom looks like gargoyles, witches faces But look up! many big branches tall and strong! parts…
Read MoreAlan Powers – A Book Review
A member of Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community, Alan Powers is Author, Astrophysicist, Professor and World Traveller. His book that most intrigued me was “Giordano Bruno” – the Man Galileo Plagiarized. Just the sub-title was enough to get me to read the book. Alan’s wife Susan, usually is the illustrator of his covers and inside art.…
Read MoreTransforming Africa! A Poem by Esi Elliot
Copyright by Bettina Network, inc. for Esi Elliot Africa, once again is transforming into a king Linking, Bridging and reaching to unite as one motherland! Embracing and lacing through cleave of nations, Moving from collision to coalition. Golden chains of economic cooperation that adorn the neck – Thinking – A crown of dazzling precious stones…
Read MoreShake the Dust……Anis Mojdani…
One thing we discovered on Easter Sunday was the poetry of Anis Mojdani. Jonathan Fields introduced us to “Shake the Dust”. When he started the recording he had on his telephone of “Shake the Dust” everyone was talking about other things and as Anis Mojdani started his poem the table became very quiet. We wanted…
Read MoreThe Listening Ear
“Give me the listening ear. I seek this day the ear that will not shrink from the word that corrects and admonishes – the word that holds up before me the image of myself that causes me to pause and reconsider -the word that challenges me to deeper consecration and higher resolve – the word…
Read MoreA Beautiful Meditation and Song
For a rare treat, click on the following YouTube recording. http://I Then Shall Live) Sometimes you hear a beautiful song with words which bring your life to a standstill and it fills you with beauty, strengthens your faith, and makes your day richer. This hymn created that for several of us. We shared it back…
Read MoreA Tribute to The Rev. Patricia Riley Colenback (1931-2013)
taken from “Alla Bozarth-Campbell’s – From Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey, Paulist Press 1978 Bakerwoman God Bakerwoman God, I am your living Bread. Strong, brown, Bakerwoman God. I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. I am your rising bread, well-kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth-hands. I…
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