I BELIEVE IN YOU
As a man among men
As a strength and kindness
As goodness, honesty
As sensitive and just
Being gentle and firm
Being faithful in love
Yes, I believe in you!
You’re so rare among men!
Both in your mind and will
You exceed in all skill
Your body is so strong
Feelings beneficent
In your work, so expert
Yes, I believe in you!
In your talents so keen
Your heart so generous
With your love of knowledge
In your search for the truth
With fine intuition
With your altruism
Yes I believe in you!
I wish you Wealth, Success
And your heart’s happiness
These in time to be yours
I know you are correct
Your culture not neglect
You know what to select
I believe in You…
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I LOVE AUSTRALIA
Heat haze and long, grey horizons stretched far
Chill nights ablaze with a myriad star
Stirred by emotions of wonder and love
I embrace both worlds of earth and above
South, kookaburras with their gurgled mirth
North, curlews to weird strangled cry give birth
East, they awake to sunrise over sea
In West, sun rises over land and lea
Sculptured continent surrounded by blue
Ancient land, includes Tasmania, too
Dryness of deserts and the flood of plain
Both experienced and both bring man pain
Extremes test the mettle of men and beasts
Famines are well known, and so are the feasts
We’ve strange platypus, emu, kangaroo
Cassowary, wallaby, wombat, too
The Southern Cross glints in our skies at night
Once guided our sailors- glad of the sight
Our country is vast with more brown than green
And in grey cities more people are seen
But in many a heart is nurtured the dream
Of retiring to simple rural scene
Seeking to live in health to full measure
Making the most of fortunes we treasure
Here in this beautiful country of ours
With natural wonders of mountains, flowers
Of oceans and lakes and valleys and plain
Living free of war and battle’s blood stain
Future is free- a new path to follow
Value today, trust fortune’s tomorrow
Our freedom hard gained by statesmen through years
Not to be wasted by blind eyes, deaf ears
Freedom’s rare fortune is ours on this earth
Effort and courage help keep all its worth
Careful husbandry of earth and of child
Culture, dreams , visions and new schemes trialled.
Australian days – delight in the sun
And the starry skies when night has begun
Stirred by my love of the earth and the sky
I offer my talents of brain and eye..
To my country, dear homeland of which I’m a part
It’s forever enshrined deep and true in my heart.
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IN A CHINESE MOOD
Lacy white clouds slip past vision
Lazily…
Blue skies welcome and comfort my soul
Protectively…
Wrens dart, swift, with flashes of blue
Brilliantly…
Lying on the green, soft grass, I watch
Contentedly…
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INDIA SEDUCES
So kindly the little lady in the red sari leads me
To my guest resting place, close to the lovely inner courtyard
Where the family and friends, showing naive childlike attention
Observe curiously, as I settle into my abode.
She has such quiet ways and shy, this kind lady who leads me
To my simple little bedroom close to the family courtyard
And all the family members continue in their general ways
Allowing me to feel accepted as part of their family
And the courtesy, grace, natural goodness and delicacy
Of this humble Indian family so gentle and so good
Made me love them and this country of India which bred them
Endowed them with its ancient culture, wisdom and its life blood
I opened wide my heart and soul as making an offering
Seeking penetrate to know the beauty of India’s great heart
And I was led to an inner sanctuary where protected,
Finest remnants of its cultural habits remain secure
The wooing of my senses was successful! My soul surrendered
easily
I became one with the people on the city streets and in the country
huts
So many of the people were so attentive and endearing
I embraced in my heart the inspiration of their temples
And perfumed countryside embellished with exotic flowers
I loved the sacred cows, the incense of sandalwood
Charmed by their consideration of a sleeping dog
Lying unheeding in the centre of a busy traffic intersection
It was left undisturbed – the traffic directed around him!
The colourful, bejewelled ladies tinkling by with lyrical gait
With polite well spoken simple speech and charming gestures
They showed refinement, education, and a quality appealing
Far more charming, and many men nobler than their past English
lords
Their love of ritual and status showed in conversation with officials
In their quaint offices emulating those of old colonial rule
With legs sometimes placed deliberately, casually upon their desks,
Or in their smoking, in which showed mimicry of past habits of
those in authority
In their casual use of telephone and modern signs of “progress”
They would mimic the remnants left of British habits’ rule
I loved their innocence, naivety and love of showing so
honestly, that if
They had the latest, material luxury it must be displayed
If it was a heater, then it was set high heated to its maximum,
And if to cool, then icy it must the atmosphere become
Exaggerating all the delights of their technical fortune
They yet considered value of the smallest living thing as sacred
I found that, charmed by these sweet people
I must disengage my soul to flee its country
Else all my life here I’d live entrapped and entranced.
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IN PRAISE OF THINGS I LOVE
The Earth…
Earth’s foundation – to earth itself
My love and enduring sense of satisfaction
Giver of form to everything we know and see
Springs Beauty from its Source into reflection.
Flowers…
I adore all flowers
Wild or cultivated – small or splendid
All flowers I love, for I believe
Each is a thought from God intended.
Skies…
I spread my soul in flight
When skies are blue and free, unclouded
They offer strength and peace, expansive
Skies comfort all with love blanketed
Oceans…
The primal waters
Which gave birth to all we know
Love and cherish here on the Earth
Our mystic Mother protects and helps us grow!
Trees…
I love them all
Their shapes and sizes, colours, character
They serve as friends to all requiring shelter
Man and beast, bird, every living creature.
God…
To the great one God
The Allness of all things in life
That which is with Nature clothed
Receives my total, deep soul’s adoration.
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IN SILENCE
No word, no sound to break the silence of my inner mind
Faint echoes trembling, touch reaches of my halls of memory
Where secretly reside as true companions of my being
These, intimate creations of mine own intelligence
Their bright secret content pure, understood by only me,
Unscarred by abortive efforts to commune with others
Who may not be unkind but by unheeding word, hurt me
By not comprehending, nor sympathetic nor are they kind
They deny, ignore, scorn creations of my fond ideas
And thus injure my tender new-born thoughts, children of my mind,
In so-doing give pain, damage the sensitive nature
Of my mind itself -
Yea, receivers of one’s thoughts can prove unkind!
So, to the inner silence of my mind there I retire
Into safe and hallowed quietude of my inner thoughts
Where stately palaces, edifices, aspiring thoughts
Freely live and breath, exchanging, communing with Divine
My thoughts perceived, conceived by mine own pure spirit being
Through agency of love, through sharing mysteries of Space
With sky, sun, moon and stars as well as teachers of our race
I commune with That great Power that gives life birth, and Grace.
Seeking from that to transmit wealth of thought to earthly place
Thoughts enthusiastic, creative, constructive and clear
Fervent love of life blending with love of the human race
For those generous -
Yea, the givers of their thoughts do prove them kind!
With many mental children left bereft of human care
I would gladly choose to share your thoughts and should listen, kind
I ne’er would hurt infant ideas which venture forth from mind
But regard with value thoughts you communicate to me
I’d wish we could enrich each other thus by our ideas
Exchanging, growing, changing but alas, this will not be
It’s not by speech, or eagerness of intellect we share
But only by some inner silence – can I share with thee.
Hoping without friction a greater concept will appear
Over-riding all the differences, barriers of thought
Manifest as understanding in each of human kind
We all will evolve-
Yea, to the final Truth, found in the silence of each mind!
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IS THERE NO ONE TO SHARE MY LOVE?
Is there no one here to share my love
Seeking inspiration from above
Who seeks live life simple, cultured, free
Is no one left to discriminate
Without neighbours to recriminate
Spoil expressions of integrity
Is there no one here to share my love
Of real friendship’s bond of hand in glove
Spirit innocent, generous, pure?
This world now discards truth and honour
A place where no one regards valour
Seeing man as same species as beast
Is there no one loves true refinement
Aim developing a cultured goal
In freedom to grow as ne’er before
Is there no one who shares my great love
Of everything here on this dear Earth
Specially sharing love of honest men
Now, we have traitors to our life cause
In crisis we have a chance to pause
We can resolve turn and re-create
Better life on earth for all to share
If we would consider and beware
Of pitfalls in human history
I know that many must share my love
But these people are unknown to me
And life for me has come to an end
If this world was one of bright glory
Our people with humane a story
I’d feel safe if the good earth buried me!
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Elizabeth S.Adams has published works of her own such as “Forgotten Dreams – a collection of Poetry”,and essays on art and culture. She has a strong sense of romantic and is dedicated to classical values,idealism and the retention of past wisdom if we are to solve problems of the present.
We have ample proof that noise instead of harmony and quietude harms ear and brain and that classical music has a positive influence; that ugliness is a distortion and that on the other hand, beauty uplifts the soul to cure depression; that idealism encourages heroism and none would argue that romance is cherished in the hearts of us all.
The savage trends in opposition to old values have taken their toll and modern life offers us little inspiration.
Astrology offers many explanations and many positive indications for our personal and collective future and hope that new efforts will produce happier results in helping an advance in civilization for the future.
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