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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It is delving into the ocean of childhood days
It is giving words and life to great memories
It is mapping the mind with rich fantasies
It is wrestling between fiction and realities.
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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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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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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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In the Stillness of your Presence

My heart longs for you, O Lord,
Ín the stillness of your presence
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