write poems

so i just do it
when it comes
a veces mas
a veces menos
pero ha sido una de mis actividades preferidas
toda la vida,
desde que empece a escribir

Believe In Each Other, Supporting Love Believes All Things

By violetta.p

Those who truly love each other, believe in each other, because in order to love someone, you must believe in them. Only a pessimist says “seeing is believing”, but an optimist believes in advance, and says “believing is seeing”. Love always believes for the best, and through love a couple believes in each other. Love believes in you, it’s been supporting and encouraging you since the day you were born. Believe that? Think about all the supporting people you have had in your life.

In all of your relationships you have the ability to see the best in people, and to believe the best in those people. When you meet someone for the first time and find that you like them, it’s due to something positive that you seen in them. Now since people are imperfect, you most likely had chosen to have an open mindset in that initial meeting. The question here though is, what is it that you liked about them? You must have initially given them the benefit of the doubt to find some positive aspects about them. Now it is possible that you could have gone into the meeting with pessimism or optimism, and came out with two completely different viewpoints based upon your own thought mannerisms.

Much of what you see or believe in other people has a lot to do with your own personal mindset, sometimes it’s your own personal constraints that prevent you from believing in others. This is not to say that you should jump rashly into anything, sound and wise judgment are essential. The point being, is that couples are capable of finding many positive aspects about each other, if they decide to focus on those good traits. All too often though people get stuck in skepticism, fault finding, defeatist, negative, and doubtful attitudes. You see, often times someone’s lack of belief comes from within them, not from what they may truly see in you. If you ascertain that about someone in your life, you have an opportunity to encourage and support them, by showing them that you believe in them.

Everyone needs a supporting cast of love around them, we all desire to have someone who encourages us, and someone who believes in us. I would not be writing this article if I had not been encouraged by love to do so. Often times we become discouraged by some less than favorable occurrence, and we need others to give us some forward momentum. We need someone else to believe in us, in our capabilities, and in our realm of possibilities. God wants you to hear this, if you meet rejection in some manner, do not be lowly in heart, that rejection is only a deflection, it’s a redirection, and sometimes it’s an admonition for protection, there is something better for you ahead, press forward with expectancy.

We all know how it feels to be urged on, to be encouraged by words of faith. Since we know we need to be believed in, we know others need to have someone believing in them as well. Women, loving wives stand beside and believe in their husbands with supporting attitudes and encouraging words. Your words have power, they have the power to shape the future. By the fruit of your own words you will reap the harvest you have spoken, so do not blame the failures that you yourself have spoken into your own relationships. A good wife speaks faith into her husband, she sets up favorable outcomes by believing in and supporting her husband.

Husbands, your wife needs your dedicated confidence, she needs to know that you believe in her. When you speak favor over your wife, you bless her and everything she does. Which, by the way, also benefits you because you are together. No matter what the circumstances may appear to be, believe in her and her abilities. Nobody has been destined to mediocrity, supporting belief alone will open up favorable manifestations. Proverbs 31: 11 says, Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. Men, think about that, because you believe in your wife, you will be rewarded. Husbands to believe in your wife, is to love your wife, love believes by way of grace, and grace believes in second chances.

You probably are not able to count the times when someone believed in you and gave you another chance to improve a previous outcome. Folks we all falter, but just because we come up short from time to time does not mean that we are unable. I believe that each person who reads this article is well able, you have unique abilities that define you as extraordinary. You have an originality about you that is incomparable, you have exceptional qualities that are full of potential. Within you is a dream, and that dream wants to come to fulfillment. You have an advantage unlike anyone else, believe in it, and you will manifest the desires of your heart.

When your spouse comes up short they need to know that their partner will be there believing with supporting reassurance, not condemnation. Couples need to believe in each other in advance, your faith can be just what your spouse needs to rise up to and overcome any obstacles. Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. Besides, when you are making an effort and you fall, you fall in the direction of faith, you fall forward, not away from it. Believing has only brought you closer to your intended destination.

You can’t believe unless you walk in love, because love always believes, love always hopes, love always trusts, and love always perseveres. You see, believing is seeing, you must first believe in your spouse in order to love them. When you believe in your husband or wife you set them up for increase. By believing you strengthen your spouse, you support and encourage them. You ignite favor upon their lives, and you draw blessings towards them. Married couples who believe in each other prosper because they choose to believe first. When one prospers the other prospers as well. Favorable outcomes are on the horizon for those who love each other enough to believe in each other. Make a choice today, a choice to believe the best for your wife or husband, believe in their potential, in their abilities, and in them. Realize that they have some unique characteristics, they have some pieces to complete the puzzle that you don’t have.

Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, never gives up. 1 Corinthians 13:7

Who opens up your heart?

it’s there and ready
there and waiting
open close
open close
the automatic muscle
volunteering constantly
for work your thoughts wouldn’t consider
the heart never does not
punch the clock
it is always on a full day job
rain or shine-miles through the snow
or evenly through the rolling night

the heart, as you know
has more than that single employment
it knows, as your body does
more than your brain
but for those who satiate with the minimum
you can teach it to only be a worker
but it knows more
you can exercise it into gorgeous shape
but it knows more
you can teach it to sleep obediently at your feet
where it will remain quietly
knowing how much more it could be
if you allowed it

At the bowling alley
far into my bowling years
someone turned on a flashlight during the midnight
pointed it in my mouth
showing the warm glow of my heart
and how it reached up and through my cheeks
cracking through the established belief
that my heart was fine the way it was
and broke it
the tears that tore me
watered me
and left me in the desert to wonder
drifting slowly back into the weather of my state

later, after I had officially wandered away from the whaling town
I took to fitting slippers on the rich and the poor
the ecstatic and the needy
the calm and the unsteady
when I found my foot in the hands of another
where, in an unveiling instant
I began to unfold
and unravel
until I was buoyed enough into thinking that I am new
and interested
and about to begin another life

translation:
I inadvertently met someone who cracked open my heart
not that I had been Scrooge
but had never found out
that more than a little more was possible
my heart remembered
but went back in for preservation sake
because it couldn’t go there
then, when that same heart went out into the world
was released to go seek it’s fortune
which it did in a somewhat cavalier yet cautious style
it tossed and bumped around other hearts
which were not too pleased
having been opened to see the wider life of their own heart
and then placed alongside me in the big sea
not pleased because they wanted a harbor
something I was not really looking for
until I landed on the shore of the unexpected land

translation:
I fell in love and though it is still early and a little scary
for a lumberjack like me
it’s pretty good
it’s good for me

translation:
my heart grew a pair of wings

pulling out the listeners responses and letting them stand on their own
from MLK’s American Dream Sermon

yes sir
yes it is
make it plain
yes
yes sir; make it plain
glory to god
preach
all men
make it plain today
sure
Amen
have mercy
yes, Amen
yes sir, everytime
preach it
no sir
no
get in the door
yeah
great dream
Lord
Lord, Lord
a dream, yes sir
all right

Ease Goes

the achievement mystery
we go on so about Prometheus
and his wily ways
sneaky man going out of bounds
put into chains for not listening to his elders
would he have worked for the underground
with a Mohawk and spiked necklace?
would you have honored his heroism
or come to watch the grisly display
in the warmth of your living room?
and
why
is it that we zero in on the falling man
the upside down teenager caught speeding
and now, with melted wings
descending to the splashing sea?
meanwhile
back at the ranch
with the soft glide of ease Daedalus goes

i am going to fly away
from your television
and place of nothing more than hope

sometimes i lay in my bed thing of what to do with my life.
everyone says i make a fool out of myself.
i never believe what other people what they say about me.
i just walk away from them but they follow me.
they push me around and bully me.
they hit me with rocks and i fall to the ground because of all the pain.

all I ask of you
all you need to give
is something small
a sip
the gentle smile reminder secreted without
a sweet effort of a slowly placed finger
the limb of a spoon moved toward me

dedicate the motion
gesture to only me on the other side of the glass
outside
surrender the one thought
and a day to day ease of repetition
reflected one upon another

leaf on the water
turns in the wind
on the glassy surface twirling lightly around to see
and ask
are you ready to hear of touch in return?

“WHY” He was young His life just begun all of a suddenly it was taken away I didn’t even get to say the things that I wanted to say only if god could see How he could of turned out to be Alcohol was the cause He was wrong and broke the law He wasn’t the only one to pay I still cry to this day He would have been 21 this year Sometimes I envision him in my mind As clear as I would in a mirror I only hope that he knows That no matter where in life I go I love him so much I only wish that I could feel his touch only if God could see How much he meant to me Why won’t the sorrow disappear? Why can’t I stop shedding the tears? I never told him how much I cared or how much I enjoyed the things we shared All of mind is filled with hate Becouse I never told him how much I love him and now its too late Sometimes I feel he’s here I only wish he didn’t drink that liquor For he’d still be alive today and I wouldn’t think of reasons to say “WHY”!!!

how to be in love
here is the diagram
raise the window
open your mind
to open the heart
lift it up
and change
turn on your confusing intentions
and ask them fierce questions
pull up those sucking receptors set on default
re-wire them toward a nicer, more brilliant outcome
all said and done
it’s what is in you
what is in you to put forth
what it is you want to put forth, what you want to receive
and how to negotiate with what you’ve been taught
raise the window

create that which you want
will take either fear of dynamite or
acknowledging the shared molecules
the former falls

he is being your just king
the queen’s strength measured by her calm forceless power
eventually, you have to acknowledge what is and what works
he wants more than the allotted space
is he supposed to crumble?
she wants more than the time allowed
should she breathe any faster?

the siege, with gunpowder now
pushes bigger projectiles
breaching the impregnably heavy walls
before
a narrow window could fend off those in the water
decidedly vulnerable

you can’t squeeze the present
out of what isn’t there, or what you can’t see
can’t create what you can’t ask for
can’t say it’s an orange while looking at only a color

the poet in me, even if I don’t do another thing
will be two more things added and then some more too
aren’t you glad i didn’t rhyme
a boat load of swans, chocolate glue
i sent up a flare, we’re all brand new