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A POEATREEMAN POETRY

THE RISE OF A POET

DONOR OF TIME VOL.12
A DREAM VOL.11
THE RIVER OF LIFE VOL.10
THE BOOK OF LIFE VOL.9
THE CANVAS OF LIFE VOL.8
THE LIBRARY OF LIFE VOL.7
FOOD4THOUGHT VOL.6
THE SOUL HAS HEARTVOL.5
THE ROAD OF LIFE VOL.4
THE STORMS OF LIFE VOL.3
THE SEASONS OF LIFE VOL.2
THE SHIP OF LIFE VOL.1
A POEATREEMAN ABOUT MYSELF
INDEX 4 THE RISE OF A POET
POEMS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
A PLAY OF WORDS
NORTHERN HUMOR WITH A SOUTHERN TWIST
A TRIBUTE TO AMERICA

THE WORLD


To All The Nations Of The World And To Its People

"A Melting Pot" 

I Will Help It Serve The Best It Has
I Will Hold It All Together
Take From The Melting Pot

I Will Stir And Mix And Add To Flavor
I Will Turn It So I Will Know What Is There
I Will Take The Spices That Is In The Pot
The Flavor Has The Best Of The World

No Salt To Add To Change The Brew
No Vinegar To Ruin The Pot

The Spices Are Colorful In Themselves

They Add Uniquely To This World
Serving All Will Serve Each One

Mixing In Will Help The Pot

Holding All Will Keep It From Spilling

Bringing God Love And Caring
Will Help To Serve All Hearts

Adding All Will Help The Melting Pot

Just Serve The World And Know Your Neighbor
Bring Peace To The Table

All Will Share In Giving Favor

All The World Is Mankind's Table

One Melting Pot To Serve Us All

No Sense Spilling It Over
Who's Going To Clean It Up?
No One's At The Table.

A THOUGHT!
Human Kindness Starts with You
Say A Prayer To Give Peace A Start
You Will Finish With A Friend
Give A Friend Your Heart 
You Will Have Peace To The End

Dedicated To The United Nations And Peace Around The Table

A Poeatreeman
If I Thought Humanity Was A Dish
I Would Serve It To All
To Share In Its Goodness

A Poet's Note
One World To Live In

One To Find Peace

One Chance To Give All You Have

One Time Around

One Symbol Of Peace One Symbol Of War

Which One Will You Use To Stir It All?

Only Man Can Protect Peace
War Will Surely Kill Us All.

Edgar Allan Prieto
1/13/92


AN EARLY MORNING 

An Early Morning Solitude
Has the Beauty of the Day

To Find yourself Where the Sun's 
Cutting Through the Trees

Watching! 

The Painting of the Morning
By the Sun's Golden Rays

To Reach Down and Touch you
Feeling the Warmth of Day

To Think About What is Coming
in this Very Special Day

Meditating Upon the Light
Shining Through the Trees

Reflecting Like a Prism
When it Touched Upon the Leaves

To See All of God's Beauty
When the Morning Breaks the Day.

A Poeatreeman
NO MATTER! WHAT HOUR I WAKE
I RISE TO HIS GLORY

EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO
10/27/78


	
What Warms my Way

The Breath of God 
When He's next to me

The Smile of a Child 
Who Looks to me

The Humanity of the World 
To Love Each one

The Sun when it Shines 
When I awake to see

The Beauty of Nature 
When I see all the Flowers

The Day I was Born 
When God gave me an Hour

The Heart that I Loved 
When I found I was Feeling

The Tears that Fell 
When Love was Hurting

The Hope that Comes 
When Darkness Falls

The Times I’ve Learned 
When Life Taught me

The Sense I Feel 
When I Pray to God

The Hour that I Spend 
When I was Looking for God.

A Poeatreeman

If I Shared a Tear 
Touched a Heart

Life will have been Painful

But oh, 

What Cares Will I Have?

I've Shared a Child's Smile

God Smiled on me

I Found the Worlds Tears, 
They Came to be Part of me.

Edgar Allan Prieto
2/8/91
Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto



Monumental

If we built a million monuments to war 
We will not have learned one thing 

For as long, as we are warring 
There will be many more to build 

Many more will die 

Let's build a billion more 
The world will be our war 

Let's build a monument saying all are gone 

No more monuments no more wars 
Who needs one now? 

Peace who had a chance to come 

Man has finally eradicated himself 
He left his monuments to himself 

He became a monument himself

A Thought! 

These creatures built monuments to misunderstanding 

How are we to understand their best? 

Try to find what creatures left 

For peace !is the greatest monument I can see

There is none for war to be seen 

Let him use his heart 

That it will become a monument to God 

A Poeatreeman 

War may bring the best out
Yet a little of it dies. 

A heart may touch a tear
yet so a bullets just as near. 

War may sometimes bring the best. 

Yet what is better!, If it was not here.

A Poet's Note 

A Monolithic Society 

Building til he finds himself interned 

He built it to last 
Yet he is not here to see 

What did he leave? 

Not chaos! 

For it would ruin what he planned 

A Monolithic Society
Has  risen to decay 

The center of all civilizations 
Must have the peoples hearts 

For then all will be civil 
From the center to the heart 

No civic center can ever come together 
If it is a building without a heart 

For it will find itself in ruins 
Even before, it even starts. 

Edgar Allan Prieto 
5/22/95 



THE BLACK HOLE  

Into The Hands of God

Out of The Darkness Into The Light
Into Life From Death We are Born

Out of The Perils From Whence We Came
Into The Knowledge That He Will Be There

Out of Faith We Find Our Self Here
Into Our Travels We Search High and Wide

Out of The Heavens We'll Find Where We are

Into Our Search We'll Search with a Prayer
Out of Wisdom We'll See Our Way Clear.

A THOUGHT!
It is only The Light I Cast Aside
That Blinds Me To What is Right

Dedicated to NASA and The Astronauts

IN MEMORY OF ALAN SHEPARD JR.

A Poeatreeman

Whatever Space Travels You Take in Life
 
Make Sure God is Along For The Ride

For it Will Be His Wings 

Holding You Up, When You Can't Fly

Edgar Allan Prieto 
10/6/91

WAR ON HUMANITY

War on Humanity is fought each day

It is the cares who are dying 
By what we do Today

The Bullets are not flying
Yet Hate has given way

It kills the Love we have
Takes the cares away

The Body does not bleed
Yet the heart is torn away

Life is not dead
Yet the soul is surely Wounded

What is Man  Without a Heart to give?
A soul who is dying

For He's killing Humanity in Him.

Dedicated To Humanity

For it is the only way to win

The casualties will be less 
when Love is there within

I bandaged it with Cares 
to keep Humanity from dying

Hate is always near 

Yet it does not have to be within

For the first loss will be yours 
When Hate; is more than you.

A Poeatreeman

The mine fields of Hate, are every conflict Man takes.

He lays down His Hate, Love will not get through.

He keeps out cares, Only hate is there.

Humanity cannot win. 

Until He clears, The mine fields of Hate.

Understanding can help, Yet Love must be there too.

For it is the only opening, 

That will let Us get through.

Each time I step in, 

What will it take, To clear the way?

I hope the love within, Will find a better way.

A Poet's Note

Read well! For it is Your Heart

Won or Lost it is up to You?

Take the Day, To give Care a hand

God and Love will help You too

You have the Day to help Yourself

Take the time to do it well

TOMORROW? I CAN NEVER TELL!

Edgar Allan Prieto 
10/22/96

HUMANITIES A COURSE FOR LIFE

I have a course in life

I am trying to be human
With all the others in this world

I am trying to be the best I can

My grades will be each day I am here

I am not better just trying to be good

I am not in any class, for I see only one world

Grant you there are poor and rich

Better off does not make you better

There are some who find greatness being poor

There are others who are rich
 
Finding they are burdened by it all

I am best when I am human

I am even better, when I help my fellow man

If I was born with a silver spoon
It does not mean my plate is full

If I was not!
Does not mean I have an empty one

For heart and spirit need both be full

If I am poor if I am rich?
It matters only if I lose my soul

For in the end it will not be money
That will bring you to heaven

But a heart of gold

Love knows no rich or poor
It touches all who seek it

Only man, puts it in a class

Poor little boy!

A THOUGHT!

If my spirit is rich 
I have no need for gold
 
If my pockets are full 
and my heart is empty

What is my soul?

DEDICATED TO HUMANITY
A Poeatreeman

The measure of a man is not 
If his pockets are filled

But his heart has riches beyond gold

For what if a man has no heart

Where could he place his greatest treasure?

He cannot, For he does not hold it.

Edgar Allan Prieto
5/3/96

GOD WAKES ME

God wakes me each day I am here

I rise with the morning
To hear His songs play

The wind that is whistling Through the trees

The birds singing in the right keys

The harmony of nature
When it follows God's plans

The hopes Man will find His way through

The songs will be sung is all up to You

Nature will follow Her own way through

Man can help if He keeps in tune.

A THOUGHT!

One Key to Knowledge, don't Lock the Door
One Key to Wisdom, be willing to Learn

Dedicated To All of Us

For God Wakes Us Each Day We are Here

A Poeatreeman

If I hear a Song I do not like
Be happy that I can hear it twice

If I do not like what I am playing
Change the record now

See who wrote the lines 
Know there are two sides 

One label, which side now?

Right or Wrong it's your Play Now.

Edgar Allan Prieto
9/3/96


Not All

Not All were smiles, Not All was rain.

Not All was everything,  not even the same.

Not All was sunshine, nor, was  it  Storms.

Not even light, could stay past twilight.

Darkness came,  and light faded out.

Time was one thing,  I could not stop.

Hope was there,  not always bright.

Yet faith was there,  to see the light.

Love came,  and showed me pain.

Sorrow said,  I feel the same.

Care came, and said all right.

I'll show you love, in a different light.

Happiness had its joy in spurts.

Laughter came,  and covered up hurting.

Feelings felt, and said I'll  stay.

For where am I,   If  I  leave Today?

I'll have no companion, to share the hurt.

Nor love to find,  The treasures unearthed.

A Poeatreeman

Suffering is the loss of all 

Care to know what love's about

Heart will let you feel it all

Pain is there for care to see

Tears to let you wash the soul

Love to keep it all from dying

Sorrow,   If  I  Lost it all.

Edgar Allan Prieto
4/19/92
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Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto

LOVE BLOSSOMS

May the flowers of our love
be as bright as the daisy

Have the fragrance of the rose

May it be as soft as the petals
Gentle as the rain

Warm as the sun
when it falls upon our love

May it be as lovely as the violets
Deep as the blue sea

To never know an ending 
In this love we seed

May it always be in blossom
Forever and a day

As tear drops fall 
It will rain on our bouquet

to bring forth life
Like a flower opening up

Be as sweet as the honeysuckle
when it touches upon our lips

To taste the sweet nectar
of your kiss.

A Poeatreeman
ONE SHOWER FROM THE HEART
WILL POUR LOVE THROUGH

ONE CARE FROM YOU WILL HELP LOVE GROW

ONE BLOSSOMS WHEN LOVE'S WITH YOU

ONE GOD WILL SEE US THROUGH

EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO
November 10,1978

THE CLASSROOM Five Stars are Good Yet all the Stars in Heaven are Better Since We are still in Class I thought I would give You Some Homework! Read the Lessons and Grade Yourself Try not to give Yourself A Grade too high Honor Student? I hope You will be! Let Truth Serve You Well During the Test If You Fail on some of the Answers You May Have a Chance to Redeem Yourself? The Course You are Taking Comes Only Once! The Tools You Need are All in Sight Use Each Well to Have the Best Grade The Time is Little When Left to Chance Know Your Answers Before the Bell is Struck For the Marks You Make Will Tell the Grades Pass or Fail, it's Up to You? Remember! There Are No More Tests For You. A THOUGHT! A Passing Grade is not High or Low It is Right and Wrong I choose to Know It is the Course I Take Throughout the Test It is the Answers I Gave To My Final Test Dedicated To Sherry (The Teach) Love Your Friend A Poeatreeman One Hour to Find What Answer is Right One Hour to Write it Down for Life One Hour to Find the Truth in All One Hour to Know I Did it Right One Hour to Hold it For a Life One Hour is All The Time I Have One's Faith Will Have the Answers Right A Poet's Note One Questions One Answer One's Faith Need Not Answer One Truth is True One Lie Cannot Speak Right One Questions Who is Right? One Lie Will Give You Any Answer Truth Speaks Right Edgar Allan Prieto 10/18/97
TITLE OF BOOK   "THE RISE OF A POET"   JUNE 5,1985 BY EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO

INTRODUCTION

The Rise of a Poet is about my life 
the struggles I have come to know.

as I was rising from feelings I had
To a life I did not understand
I had to search myself to see 
I suffered less than thee
when I saw the world in tears.

To be able to rise above my pain 
seeing I was not alone.
sharing with other souls 
the things I have felt and care
gave me hope to see 
other people felt the same.

For the burden is hard to carry 
when you feel you are alone
when you find another's heart 
the pain is shared with two.

life is not so hard at all 
when love is shared with two
To create and share what God gave me 
to learn from myself what life taught me
sharing what I have seen.

To open my soul and pour it to you 
to feel my heart and see it bleed
to show you that there is love indeed.

To be able to express and hope I do 
these feelings we all have shared
to let you see the soul in me 
with all my doubts and fears.

for all the things I have come to see 
is the love we have if we give it free
helping each one understand 
the suffering of a soul in need.
 
Sharing the pain with love and care
is to lift the burden from their heart 
leaving them with a love to care.

It's the time we take and give within 
when we feel our soul and heart at once
tears pour down deep within 
to make us feel our God again.

for we have lit our soul to see 
the suffering God has beared 
for He gave to us our hearts to share.

I hope I have helped you to understand
the feeling you have deep within.

Edgar Allan Prieto
June 5, 1985

INTERPRETATION

If it helps your heart gives you a start
to better understand what you are feeling
making you see not all is bad
or even makes you feel your pain
or remember a love you wish you had.

as long as it helped you through the tears
making you feel your heart and soul
you'll know that you have a love that's dear.

for the key is what you feel
in whatever you see or do in life
let your feeling guide you right.

how you see what I write
does not matter if ones is right?
as long as it helps you through the pain.

the Interpretation is not my aim

only that you see what's right
facing life with all its falls
to lift you up and see again
that all is not lost.

for whenever you feel your heart and soul
you'll know you touched another's soul
by what you felt their pain to be.

A Poeatreeman
If One is to See
Then One must Feel,
and Share Their Soul.

Edgar Allan Prieto
June 6, 1985

DEDICATION TO THE RISE OF A POET

Dedicated To those who understood my feelings
and to God, for He understood my pains

Edgar Allan Prieto
June 9,1985


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO THE RISE OF A POET

To all the people that shared with me
Their feelings and to all the worlds tears.

To each one that crossed my path
had a talk with me.

to all the Loves that shared my heart
even if it broke apart I have more love for you.

To all the times I've felt my pain
I knew I had a heart to give.

To those who understood me most
you helped me to grow with you.

to you my God where would I be 
without your faith in me?

A Poeatreeman
To all the tears that fall
To all the ones that will
Love will helps us all

Edgar Allan Prieto
June 9,1985

GOD HOLDS ME

Love is always Beautiful

For it never wear's its face
always show's its Heart

I hope You are wearing Yours
For I would love to see your heart

It never needs makeup
For it always shows its best

What should I wear today?

The best face you can put on

Love For All Humanity
Would be a place to start

Try it with a Heart

Love will show itself

you will be more Beautiful
For you carried Love with Heart.

Dedicated to Jacquelyn 

A Poeatreeman
WHEN I HOLD LOVE GOD HOLDS ME
WHEN I FEEL NOT LOVED
REMEMBER WHO IS HOLDING ME

A POET'S NOTE

Each day I have a chance to carry you
I will be loved until the end

Each day I stay with you
Love will hold me once again

Each day I spend with you
Will be another day

I was loved by you

Each day I look forward
To see you once again.

Edgar Allan Prieto
7/28/98



WHY DO POETS WRITE?

To Keep in Touch with God and Soul

To Keep the Heart From Growing Old

To Nourish Love with Pain and Sorrow

To Keep the Cares From Losing Ground

To Keep the Faith When Days are Long

To Let the Spirit Speak in Rhymes

To Say a Prayer in Words I Knew

To Give Thanks I am Here with You.


A Poeatreeman

The Lines I Write,
Let it Speak of Love

The Lines I use,
Let it not be, Just Words’ I Write.

Let it Say I Spoke of Life,
Let it Show, How I Lived My Life.

Let it Be Known, I am Human,
Know I am Judged by One.

Not by any Human.

Less They Judged Themselves,
They Will See Their Self.

A Poet's Note

Why Do Poets Write?

To Keep Despair From Breaking Ground

To Keep Hope From Dwindling Light

To Keep Cares From Feeling Ne’er

To Keep Tears From Drying Out

To Keep Happiness From Sorrows Yoke

To Keep Pain From Getting Worse

To Keep Faith From Breaking Down

To Keep Love From Losing Heart

To Keep Myself From Cracking Up

To Keep It All From Falling Apart.

Edgar Allan Prieto
12/16/97

Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto

                          
What Is?

What is Life? 
An exercise in school.

What is Time? 
An hour to learn the rules.

What is Hope? 
A dream to fulfill despair.

What is Faith?
A belief all will come true.

What is Heart?
A vessel to hold our cares.

What is Love? 
A feeling of all that is there.

What is Pain? 
A tear that poured love through.

What is Sorrow? 
A hurt that fell on love.

What is Care? 
A bandage to wrap the tears.[cuts]

What is Darkness? 
A way to find yourself.

What is Light? 
A way to end the darkness.

What is God? 
A way to hear all our prayers.


A Thought!

What Is? Is all that is there.

What will be? Is all that will come?

When life is shared.

Edgar Allan Prieto
9/8/91



Tools of Life

Take Life!  Make it work for you, 
and Life, 
Will be your greatest work.

Take Heart!  Hammer it with love, 
and Love, 
Will nail you to its heart.

Take Care!  To labor all  life long, 
and it will carry, 
All  your tools  through.

Take Pain!  Grind it to the hurt, 
And feel,  it could be worse.

Take Tears!  To smooth it all out, 
And know, how good it feels.

Take Joy!  To polish it all up, 
and see the shine, 
When it lights your face.

Take Hope!  To work in the dark, 
When dark,
Has  not hope to see.
 
Take Happiness!  To know it’s all done, 
and see all the beauty,
That came to be.

Take Dreams!  See all you can build, 
and make your life, 
A dream come true.

Take Sorrow!  When it all falls away, 
and remember, 
It is still with you.

Take Prayers!  To keep your Tools of Life, 
and pray,
They will stay with you.

Take Faith!  To bring you to the heaven's,
And build your life, 
On one foundation.

Take God!  To keep it all with you.

A Poeatreeman

Hard knots make hardware
So use your tools
If you need a solution
Hammer it out
Don’t pound it out
God is a carpenter!
He can give you a hand.

Edgar Allan Prieto
2/27/89
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Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto	

ONLY HUMAN

It is a ROUGH copy so please forgive me for any mistakes I am a perfect human with all the imperfections of being human So please help me if you find me wrong Let me know if I spelled a word wrong

A POEATREEMAN
It is not with Computer or Pen I Write
It is Heart and Tears, that Write the Words
The Ink is My Soul The Scroll My Life
For the Words Written, is each Day of Life
Open Your Heart and All Can Come in
You Have One Time To Take it All in.

Edgar Allan Prieto
12/23/97

 

My Background

I WAS BORN IN A WORLD WHERE NOT ALL IS RIGHT YET THE HARDEST TO SEE WAS LOVE FOR ALL MAN I HAD THIS DAY TO BRING IT HOPE I HAVE TOMORROW TO WISH IT SO I HOPE? Edgar Allan Prieto 2/26/97 A POEATREEMAN Links to My Favorite Sites THE WORLD'S HEART IT LINKS ME TO EVERY DOOR THE INTERNET IS OPEN I AM HERE TO LINK WITH ALL Edgar Allan Prieto 8/8/98



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