Elizabeth Padillo Olesen Poems

Dance in the night
and enter into the world of dreams,
where mermaids invite sailors
and angels guide travellers.
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The wheels rolled on
passing by fields and valleys,
bridges and silent rivers.
We spoke without words
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"Why are you crying, " asks the parrot high up on a tree.
The little mouse hides her face and sips the tears from her eyes.
"Something sharp has entered into my eyes, " she says.
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If I lived in riches as a child
with servants all around
to attend all my needs,
I wouldn’t have learned
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There are times in our life
when we find ourselves
wandering in a wilderness,
in a harsh and thirsty land,
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Filling, flowing, emptying, birthing
A cycle of seasons
Connected to nature's
Resting, growing and cleansing.
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Breathe and find that the air
You breathe is no longer clear
Breathe and look at the blue sky
which has turned dark to the eyes.
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You have only one body,
one body to live with,
one body to care for and feed.
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Christmas is a trip to the Wonderland
when darkness turns into nights of sparkling lights
when despair is met by the Star of Hope
when want is reached by generous hands.
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Why do schools of our innocent kids
are made the playground of insane jackals
who ran amok in classrooms with their guns
and think that they are in the forest
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