Eighth Day of Christmas
With New Year dawned, let hope be spawned
Eighth day from Christmas morn
Through joy and pain this week was lain
'Tween birth and death was torn
Christ child’s birth sweet with love complete
God’s gifts of hope and peace
Then the earth did shake a mighty quake
Dreams swallowed by the seas
This morn be bright with new found light
As the seeds of time be sown
That man shall grow and future know
A world of peace enthroned
May war and hate now dissipate
Liberty and love ensue
Of freedoms ring each voice shall sing
All mankind’s life imbue
The fate we share this New Year fair
Is up to you and me
For hope resides and love abides
Through lives lived peacefully
Sherry Gail Heim
January 1, 2005
Copyright © Sherry Gail Heim 2005
"The fate we share this New Year fair
Is up to you and me
For hope resides and love abides
Through lives lived peacefully"
Jack
and i'm in the tenth day--i'm really late LOL
a most beautiful, inspired poem--i'm glad i stopped in to read your words--things of wisdom and beauty
(((HUGS))) and love, and may 2005 be your best EVER, karla. :)
I read this twice, again so I could simply absorb into your most gifted and utterly fine piece.
Happy New Year to you too!
katy
xox.
most enjoyable
William ....Peacre
"The fate we share this New Year fair
Is up to you and me
For hope resides and love abides
Through lives lived peacefully" < < < <>>>>
Thank You Poet for sharing beauty and knowledge and wisdon through Your poetic art.
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Is up to you and me
For hope resides and love abides
Through lives lived peacefully
Marvelous sentiments, Sherry; and a most Joyous and Peaceful New Year to you and yours.
A very poignant verse for the times..it seems to be getting tougher and tougher to see the bright through the shadows that hang darker and darker each day.
I just didn't feel much like celebrating this year..the death toll was piling way too high...
I love your visions of hope Sherry! Thank you for sharing them when we need them the most!
Lisa
Happy New Year to you, Sherry!
Sandie Angel :o)
Felix
Happy New Year!!
Love Tinka
"The fate we share this New Year fair
Is up to you and me
For hope resides and love abides
Through lives lived peacefully"