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Gelett Burgess 1895 read by Michelle Colquit

I never Saw a Purple Cow,

I never hope to see one,

But I can tell you, anyhow,

I'd rather see than be one!

Untitled by Jen Garrison

The way you talk to me

Makes me want to grind my soul

Down to sand, and vanish in the wind.

 

The way you talk to me

Makes me forget

The beautiful well of wisdom

I hold deep inside.

 

The way you talk to me

Creates swarms of poisonous ants

That invade my mind, and tell me incessant lies

I feel breathless, worthless.

 

But along my journey, I have found a secret light

In how I talk to myself: sweet and kind, yet strong

Just what you had hoped to tear down.

I replenish my spirit

By filling that well of wisdom

Living, fighting every day for what I stand for

I talk to myself kindly now

I believe in my right to be here,

No matter what you say.

Anger Hurts by Sean madderra

Anger hurts,

     But this is different.

The beast,

     It's eating me.

This feeling,

     It moves fast.

Faster than thoughts,

     And sound itself.

A monster is brewing,

     And it won't stop.

It won't stop,

     Until the rage is spent.

I lash out,

     Breaking and killing.

Blood splatters,

     And this demon laps it up.

My mind is gone,

     This horror has taken it's place.

I am simply a passenger,

     On a bus moving faster than sound.

Life is a Journey Written and Performed by Ja'Nae Felder

Life is a Journey

A Journey without a map

That lays out every landscape, obstacle, and direction

We Experience the amazing and learn from the challenging

Living in perfection would be a life in vain with nothing to truly know and nowhere to truly grow

Without suffering there would be no compassion

If hate was nonexistent, love would be insignificant but now, it is simple tainted

Overused and under minded simultaneously

Trampled underfoot

Blinded to how it should be

And that our source somehow doesn't line up  with the true nature of love

Or with any fruit of the Spirit

Joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control

Slumbering while awake because life isn't yielded to our rules and point of view

Customizing all things to satisfy ourselves

And creating windows to thoughts too shameful to voice

Actions too shameful to admit

And feelings to shameful to reveal

Walking in faith is the difference between living and existing

Acknowledging the unknown, yet believing iin the possibilities

Every decision lead to our future

It's like the wind 

Unseen, yet powerful

Blessings come with patience

And timidity restrains true potential

Life is unpredictable,

Things aren't always what they seem or go our way,

Brighter days occur after storms

The ones loved the most have the ability to hurt the most,

And you get what you need and not all you want

Because life is a process

Building and breaking

Molding and testing 

Preparation for what's to come and determination of who we are

Despite of

That's just Life,

It's a journey, but it's the journey we create...

 

Love Song by Dorothy Parker and read by Karmen Sunshine

My own dear love, he is strong and bold

And he cares not what comes after.

HIs words ring sweet as a chime of gold,

And his eyes are lit with laughter

He jubilant as a flag unfurled--

Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him.

My own dear love, he is all my world,-

And I wish I'd never met him.

 

My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleets,

And a wild young wood-thing bore him!

The ways are fair to his roaming feet,

Ant ehe skies are unlit for him.

As sharply sweet to my heart he seems

As the fragrance of acacia.

My own dear love, he is all my dreams,-

And I wish he were in Asia.

My Love runs by like a day in June,

And he makes no friends of sorrows.

He'll tread his galloping rigadoon

In the pathway of the morrows.

He'll live his days where the sunbeam start,

Nor could storm or wind uproot him.

My own dear love, he is all my heart,_

And I wish somebody'd shoot him