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October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Guess My Name

By: Sandra Rains

Though I walk through the valley

of uncertainty

I will not fear the unseen

And though I walk through pain

and misery

I will not become unclean

I have roamed this world for decades

untouched by human hands

I am but a fading memory

full of pain, you can not comprehend

In dark my face looks tattered and abused

in light I am like you

mistreated and used

I am the man that comes by

in the middle of the day

To hand you a book of wisdom

“I’m not interested”, you say

So, I turn and walk away

Unshaken by your denial

Knowing you’ll come begging

after a little while

For this world will soon be over

I’m gathering my sheep

I will not abandon

those I plan to keep

Can you guess my name?

Can you say it aloud?

In this, there is no shame

You must confess, you can not be proud

I am the pretty butterfly

that gently lands

My wings are that of velvet

My eye’s that of man

I am the stray dog

that no one wants to feed

I am the open wound

that continues to bleed

Can you guess my name?

Will you talk of me?

Are you my friend?

Or my worst enemy?

This world will soon be over

it is coming to an end

Will you be saved and ready?

or committing sin?

Will you be waiting for me?

Or partying the night away?

Listen to me closely

and hear what I have to say

The end is so close, I know it

I set the date

Ask me for forgiveness

Do not hesitate

Asking, is all it takes

two words from you to me

Do this one thing

and ‘chosen’ you will be

But if you choose to wait

and put it off for another day

It’s possible it’ll be too late

Because I’m on my way

Now I have fore-warned you

And I didn’t mix my words

you can not call these parables

you can’t blame me for your hurt

Just stop and look around you

Can’t you see the devils deeds?

I’m asking you to claim your ground

and plant my loving seeds?

If you do this for me

I will not forget you or your own

and I will reward you

and place you by my throne

Can you guess my name?

It’s easy if you read the signs

It’s just three little letters

known to all mankind

Can you guess my name?

Must I tell you after all these years?

Didn’t you know my name

When I wiped away your tears?

Didn’t you say “Please God, help me?”

And didn’t I come fast and running?

and didn’t I show compassion and help you mercifully?

It shouldn’t be so hard

for you to say my name

When it has never changed

It’s always been the same

I am the setting sun

that you so admire

I am the warmth you so love

by the wooded fire

I am the miracle

that amazes you…. when you die

I am your Lord Savior and Christ

I am your God…. it is “I”

Written by AUTHORSANDRARAINS
Published author, married, 3 children.

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Writing Poetry – Collecting Your Thoughts

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Once of the reasons why writing poetry like this is so hard is because it is hard to get a handle on what you are feeling anyway. You probably have a kaleidoscope of emotions and it can be very hard to sort them in any type of logical form. However, if you want a good poem to come from it, you need to find a way to organize your thoughts, even if only for a bit. It will usually help you feel better about your situation anyway.

Begin once again, with writing your feelings down in list or chart form. You might want to create a chart that shows your different feelings and emotions and them stem from them and elaborate more on how it makes you feel. Don’t just tell; show. Make notes of how your body feels physically. All of this will help you sort through your feelings and form your poem.

You may want to construct a “poem tree” before writing your actual poem.

This is a way to chart out and have an actual physical appearance of what your poem will look like and then you can tweak it later as you work on your actual drafts of your poem.

For example, take the topic you want to write on and put it at the top. For example, “losing Sara” and then make a few lines down to the next points you want to include. For example, how did it feel to lose her? Who was she? Why did you lose her? All of these questions may not be directly answered in your poem but they help you set the mood for writing it so they are very important.

You need to plan out the purpose or point of your poem. Typically poems will have some type of punch line or revelation in it. You need to plot out what this will be and how you will use it in your poem. How will you choose to reveal it? Will you add it at the end when it is unexpected? Will you blurt it out in the beginning and then explain? There are many different approaches you can take.

The point is to have that “purpose” or point of the poem and be able to identify it and define it. You want someone to read your poem and think “Wow!” not “So what?”

Lisa Mason is a freelance writer with a specialty in Internet content and SEO articles and the author of How to Earn a Living Writing for the Internet as well as two poetry anthologies and a how-to poetry book. She has written thousands of articles, hundreds of ebooks and thousands of website pages and related content.

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Writing Poetry Online

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Writing poetry can prove to be very difficult, but if a person has a talent to write poetry then he can make considerable profit by posting it online. Making money by writing poetry online can prove to be much achievable. It surely takes much of the dedication, hard work and also a considerable amount of time to make money by writing poetry and posting it online. However conditions can be applied on any field and if you are told otherwise that you can get rich with some quick schemes, they are fooling you. This only happens in a fantasy world. Such people are usually trying to take advantage of your misfortune and make some money.
The Internet is globally spread thus enhances the chances of people that would read your poetry if you published them online. These figures will be much better than the figures or responses that you will get if you would publish your poetry in books or any of the local newspapers. The poets consider it as the highest reward if their creations are adored and enjoyed by the readers. As the main ambition of many poets is to publish their poetries in such a way that they would be spread to maximum possible readers, Internet proves to be the best source of doing so. It provides the best platform for a poet to release their creations in front of world. Keeping this in mind a poet can publish and show off their poetries to the wide audience stream. Along with the adoration the poets can also enjoy a steady flow of handsome income by posting the poetry online.
Unless the poet is already very well-known personality in the world of poetry he cannot attract much audience to himself and his creations. Either a poet should be a famous personality in the poet world or should have a huge list of customers and should be able to e-mail his poetries to thousands of people in a short span of time. This will enable the poet to reach many people at single throw. However not many poets enjoy this privilege and are not very well known. Even if a person does so he would not be able to earn his living only depending on his poetry. Thus many of the new poets may find posting their poetry online as a very fascinating and comfortable way to get adored and also to earn their living. Even if a person considers this as a sideline he will be able to generate a handsome amount of profit and add it as extra income.
Posting poetry online also needs certain amount of help if the poet is totally unaware of the methods and ways of doing so. This is not so different from blogging thus they may also get help from some of the online bloggers or can also approach some professional.

(March 8, 2010) Gwyneth Lewis, Stanford Arts Practitioner/Writer Fellow 2009-2010, discusses the inspiration and philosophy behind her writing methodology.’ Stanford University: www.stanford.edu How I Write: howiwrite.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com
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