Elizabeth Padillo Olesen Poems

Love is a language of the heart-
It is prose and poetry
It is in film or comedy
And yet nothing can fathom
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Renewed from hatred
that strangulates the flow of love.

Renewed from anger
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Catch a dream in your mind
Nurture the dream in your heart
Share the dream with your loved ones.
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Why do we have to slaughter
our love in the gallows
of rudeness and indifference?
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When two hearts beat as one,
the bells ring out tunes of great melody.
The angels bow down and offer their hands
to bring these two hearts to the mountain
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Rain falls, knocks and invites

Rain keeps on falling on my rooftop
waking me up after midnight.
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Give as we have received
the air that we breathe
and the food we eat.
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We all crave and long for money;
the rich, the poor, the young
and old cry for money to keep and hold.
We crave to be masters of money
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FOR ONLY A STRONG WOMAN KNOWS HOW TO LET GO OF HER PROBLEMS

A woman, taken from the rib of Adam
is part of man, a builder like man!
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Give and you shall receive
Plant and you shall harvest
Smile and smiles to you be extended
Help and you will be blessed.
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