my winter experience

what is winter truly like?

snow flakes
blizzard
frost
cold ice
and frustration?

shorter days
longer nights
bare trees
gray skies
and depression?


i have seen winter
in brief moments
as a lone traveller
in a foreign wilderness


i shall see "winter"
yet again
when love takes its leave
and solitude shall be my mate

friends without faces

i wonder.....

we can be so bold
to tell some of our secrets
that have never been told
on screen

we can share the thoughts in our mind
with those we can't see
as though we were blind

we cannot tell them to "real" people
and yet we must tell someone
so we turn to the screen
and tell as if we can trust those who read them

- our "faceless friends"

revelations

what does one settle for after the ups and downs of ecstasy?

perhaps one does not know what one is looking for
perhaps one does not realise what is there

now is the time to look back, to take stock
ignore the confines set by the clock

the years to come will be but fleeting moments
and each eternity will be again and again

all of us will live on the wheel of joys as well as of torments

painting my pictures

i see my life as a picture
painted by only one person - me
it shows everything i am doing
and everything that i have done

during times when i get a little tired
and don't want to paint a picture
problems will start
and the picture will never get finished

however i wish my life to go on
it's up to me to paint the pictures

sometimes i ask myself
how soon do i want to see the whole of it?

now - if there is no more to paint
or later - when there will be so much more than before

it's my choice and i will be wise...

thoughts on a still night

[a poem by li bai]

either way, there will be no love....

should i enclose my heart with steel bars
in order not to be pained?
or find true love but let it go
and never love again?

should i isolate my heart from all
so that it shall never break?
or let my heart love and soon become lost
and forever ache?

either way -
there will be no love...

so

i will keep my heart from finding love
and allow loneliness to enter
i will bury my heart in walls of stone
it will not be touched

who cares lord ?

who cares lord, when one is distressed?
who will take the distress away?
you, who said that you will be there to guide
and see one through
do you care?

who cares if ones heart is broken down?
i hear your voice from afar
you, lord, is who cares
who else will care, but you lord?

lord, you said that you care
you care because you love -
one cares because one loves

the greatest love is one from above
the greatest love
that which comes from the heart and soul
that's what you give lord

love that is graceful, kind, and true
a love that's spiritual and strong
majestically and faithfully your love shines
you, lord, is who cares

[andrea fletcher]

e-m-o-t-i-o-n-s

emotions -
they keep playing their songs
they hound me, haunt my dreams -
why do i hide what i feel
will my emotions disappear
why don't i just open up myself to you
am i afraid that it will just be a mistake

i have built up a wall around me
it will be hard to get past my defenses
i have guarded myself all around
i don't trust my own feelings

at last
i have to admit
that in my heart my emotions will remain
i will surrender myself to them
no longer will i struggle
i will open myself up to your love....

love at all times

time - the measureless and the immeasurable - yet man created machines to measure it. like the river, man would sit upon its bank to watch it flow - so would man sit and stare and let time flow by.

god has put eternity in man and this has made him aware of life's timelessness.

yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream

as the new year dawns, let us embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

let us love at all times and love with no time to bound us.