Rose.......one year in heaven today...God bless....

I picked a rose
From the enchanted garden of truth
As days passed by
I realized it did not die,
Because I planted it in my heart
And the roses have grown wild

Never a thorn
Close enough to harm
Never a leaf fallen
Too far from home,
Blanketing a path
Of trust and beauty infinitely

In suffering,
My tears are as soft As my roses’ petals
Cradling me
With no abrasions…

published in "eyeliner" 2005 by Alica Griggs

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i gathered myself up
Off of the floor
Like freshly raked leaves
One pile at a time

I wiped my tears
And rung out the towel
My puffy eyes
Pink as a pig

I cried my worries
Into a box
And sent them FedEx
To God
Without a return address
In quite a hurry, as if
I had no time to spare

My soul
It felt stripped bare
Like an autumn tree…

published in "eyeliner" 2005 by Alica Griggs

Quotes

Search inside and seek
Your problems and fears

Address them

So they don’t live with you anymore…

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I eat but, I am always hungry
I am thirsty, but never drunk…

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The distant cries of a child are as near to my heart as myself…

Quotes published in "eyeliner" 2005 by Alica Griggs

I M A G I N E

Imagine if everyone smiled at one another

As they would a baby in the arms of his mother

Imagine if cost was not consequential

Imagine if racism meant to love unconditionally, equally

Imagine if fear was just a word less used
Instead of a word abused

Imagine if your heart only ached with love
And never harbored repugnance

Imagine if selfishness
Wasn’t self righteous, but benevolent

Imagine if billboards and advertisements didn’t falsify happiness

Imagine all imaginable,

War would not exist….

copyright 2010 Alica Griggs / published in 2005 "eyeliner"

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Give something and be given nothing

Give something and be given something

Give nothing and be given something

Give nothing and be given nothing…

copyright 2010 Alica Griggs / published in 2005 "eyeliner"

A Whisper

A whisper inside
As light as a feather
As light as a candle
As bright as its fire
Its core is as blue
As a sorrow
Is as dark
When the breath
Takes it away
That the sun
Brings back tomorrow
In the feather of a bird
Of his wings wide open
In the whisper of the wind
He sings triumphantly
Beckoning only
What he knows is beauty
His song
Soaring onto ears,
Making wise of their years
Until the moon gives hope in darkness
A whisper inside
As light as a feather
As light as a candle
As bright as its fire
Its core…

copyright 2010 Alica Griggs / published in 2005 "eyeliner"