NEW YEAR JANUARY 1
ONE NEW YEAR One new year will bring me a day One new year Has all the promises of tomorrow One new year To find the best of our world One new year To make peace with sorrow One new year To love someone new One new year To mend all the cares One new year To keep friendship from falling one new year To thank all the days past gone One new year To dream hope for tomorrow One new year To thank God you're alive One new year To make it all worth while. A Poeatreeman If I bring care to this day I'll have added a tear to life And with the world I'll have given love Dedicated to Mike Cianocchi And to the world for they are all in it Edgar Allan Prieto 12/25/91
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. JANAURY 17
THE SHADOW ON THE WALL The Shadow of My Face I Cannot Help Yet I Can Certainly Help My Soul For it is Filled by Me Myself No Other Can I Blame The Reflections looking back at Me Like the Shadow on the Wall For it Covers All My Being even unto Soul The Reflection of My Shadow The Reflection of Myself The Reflection of My Soul I Will Have To All Face. DEDICATED TO DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. A Poeatreeman MY FACE WILL SHOW THE SHADE I AM YET MY SOUL WILL COLOR ALL I AM WHAT COLOR AM I IF MY SOUL IS BLACK? A WHITER SOUL I HAVE NOT SEEN FOR IT IS NOT COLORED BY HUMAN GENES BUT HUMAN KINDNESS BY HOW WE TREAT OUR FELLOW HUMANS Edgar Allan Prieto 1/15/89
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 12
WHERE IS THE FLAG? Where was the flag When people were in slavery? Where was the flag When they held them in chains? Where was the flag When they cried for freedom? Where was the flag, When they died for it all? Where is the flag That wraps them in sorrow? Where is the flag That waves them off to war? Where is the flag That gives freedom? Where are the people that serve the cause? Where are the people That honor it all? Where is God That flies above all? A Poeatreeman Wrong does not change because it's past If people have no respect It is a cloth blowing against the wind. Edgar Allan Prieto 6/19/90
VALENTINE FEBRUARY 14
CUPID'S NO ANGEL Cupid flying with bow in sight shooting arrows into flight you're no angel playing strings you're a Cupid with a sting winged and naked is thy mark shooting arrows from the start you're no angel playing darts you're a Cupid taking shots Cupid flirts and strikes the sparks having a love affair with a heart you're no angel playing games you're a Cupid with an aim now I feel your arrow wing I've felt the sweetness of your sting you're no angel playing harps you're a Cupid that left your mark Edgar Allan Prieto 5/29/77
COURT PLAY Love Games Took Me all the way I had no faults in games I played The Net caught Me and Let Me Win The Court was Mine To Lose or Win I stayed in and served well I Took Love to Match and Win I Ace Love to make a Point I Matched its Game and I was in A Poeatreeman This Court sometimes is not always Clay I cannot shape it the way I want I must Play and Try My Best I must squeeze out all To Win The Test Dedication To All The Love Ever Played To All The Matches Won By Love To All The Love Served Both Ways To You I Say Court Your Love Keep Your Heart In All Your Play Love Will Serve You All The Days A Poet's Note It Took Love To Win The Set I Served it out and Matched its Play Love Took Me All The Way Now I have a better hand Not always will it be so well Yet Love is always a hand It's how I face the Court to Play It's Love I Served That Helps My Aim For without I could not play Edgar Allan Prieto 1/21/98
CUPID'S PLAYING TENNIS What a Racket He's Stringing now! Is He trying to Shoot Arrows from it Or Hit Love to Make a Point? A Game of Love He tries to Win Is He trying to Volley with a Heart And Take Aim at Serving Love? Who Will Match The Game of Love? But a Cupid with Forty Love Match and Win was Cupid's Aim He Aced The Heart and Hit Love What a Racket in Cupid's Hand He's Serving Love Each Time He Aims He's winning Hearts with His Game. Dedicated To Cupid For Love is The Aim Valentine is just not one day it is Each Heart Serving Love Every Day To All Happy Valentine's Love is Served Both Ways So give it Your Best Shot To keep it in The Game A Poeatreeman Court play can be hard So keep your Heart in it Then you will know Who is serving Love Care will give you a better hand To Serve Love Always A Poet's Note A Foot Fault! When Cupid hits His toe His Heart was still in it He needs a better Aim So Watch Cupid! He May Hit You with His Serve Love Will Help You With Your Aim If You Keep it in The Game Edgar Allan Prieto 2/6/98
TENNIS GOD? I Volleyed with God He Tossed Me Good I Tossed it back Hoping it's Good I Started To Play He Taught Me Right I Served Him Love Hoping it will come back He Has a Golden Hand His Serve is on Track I Am Trying To Serve Without Making Faults He Has Shown Me Right That I Will Serve Well His Toss is Right And Always Good It's How I Serve That Will Show My Aim Keeping it in Bounds I Will Stay in His Court The Play Will End When I Served His Last Point. Dedicated To God He Keeps Me in Play A Poeatreeman My Services To God are My Best Point My Play From The Start Will Tell How it Ends My Serve ! Will be Won or Lost By The Choice of The Play Edgar Allan Prieto 2/12/98
WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY FEBRUARY 21
A CRACK IN THE WALL Will crumble and fall In matters of time where none is support Care has not held for God was not there You separated the best and shattered the Wall How can I keep it from falling at all? Mend it with Care and Patch it with Heart You are the bond that is bound to the Wall Believe in it and it will not fall Stress will Stress the best foundation The Cracks will appear as times goes on It's up to You to hold together Faith in God will cement the hold Bound by Love I can fill it all. A THOUGHT! The Wall will only stand As long as God is at hand For when it falls it will be His hand Before then its up to Man The Crack in The Wall is only the Beginning Man's failings will stress it All A Poeatreeman When God is not there to Govern Who will Govern Us? When Man Governs by Himself Who will be in charge of Hell? Edgar Allan Prieto 5/29/97
ST. PATRICK'S DAY MARCH 17
WHAT ONE NEEDS? What one needs most is heart Then love will follow through What one needs most is trust Then love will have a friend What one needs most is caring Then sorrow will have a tear What one needs most is happiness Then sadness will have the blues What one needs most is feelings Then pain will have to hurt What one needs most is faith Then God will bring us through What one needs most is wisdom Then understanding will let us speak What one needs most is hope Then wishes will have its peace What one needs most is prayer Then praying will find an answer What one needs most is humanity Then we can live with one What one needs more than most is care Then we can feel each others tears. A THOUGHT! I cared because love was there I felt it all because I cared I shared both good and bad I took the pain as it came I gave it all for love was there I would give it again just to know I cared Dedicated To A Stranger A Poeatreeman One shares many things Yet many things are not felt One shares love And many things are touched Edgar Allan Prieto 8/27/93
EASTER
AN EASTER TALE Love does not always hop Yet when it does hop to it What am I a bunny? Just love hopping to you The last time I looked I did not have a tail Then why am I hopping around? Love's got me by the hare I never know when love will come Yet when it does I'll take it all Love will carry me through tomorrow Beyond eternity and to the first day What am I to do If someone tries to pull my leg A lucky foot they won't get A HEART OF LOVE IS WHAT I HAVE. They won't find it in any basket You'll find it when love comes to you. A THOUGHT! Don't stay in your shell If you want the hare to win Don't race to love It will come when you care Don't wait for tomorrow Love is here today Don't cry tomorrow You have the rest of the day DEDICATED TO REBECCA A Poeatreeman I am not here for Easter But all the days you care I won't be in a basket My nest eggs in my Heart If you find the Golden one You'll have a Heart that truly cares Edgar Allan Prieto 4/2/96
AN EASTER CARD To all you eggheads I wish you an egg I hope it does not crack open on you I could not put the egg in here So I thought I'd send it to you I did not want to have, an egg on my face So If you find one? you can Eat it instead Enjoy the day when it's not on you Happy easter and best wishes for today. A THOUGHT! Just think of all the eggs It took to get here ha ha! A Poeatreeman Harvey was a tall rabbit I hope this day won't be a tall tale For I do want to fill the basket And count this as a special day A Poet's Note Instead of counting your eggs Count your blessings For it is with God that you can count today Edgar Allan Prieto 4/16/95
EARTH DAY APRIL 22
THE SOUL OF EARTH Mother Earth Pours Her Heart Out To Feed The Land and Give it Birth For All We See Has Come To Grow Flowers, Trees, Grass, and Seeds With All The Things That Touch The Earth To Grow Within Her Womb With All The Life That Feeds Upon Her Bosom To Take From Her and Not Be Giving For To Chop a Tree is To Tear Her Roots If We Do Not Replace it With a Tree To Drill a Hole Into The Earth Is To Shoot an Arrow Right Through Her Heart And Spill The Blood Within Her To Strip The Land is To Wound Her Soul When We are Taking and Not Replacing For if We Go On Doing These Things Tearing Her Roots and Stripping Her Soul Shooting Arrows Into Her She'll Erupt and Bellow Her Mightiest Force Gushing Forth Her Blood Like a Mighty Volcano To Spill Her Fury Upon The Earth. A Poeatreeman The Tree of Life Comes Only Once Keep its Branches Strong and Green Then You Will Have The Air To Breathe Dedicated To all the beauty of nature Edgar Allan Prieto November 27,1978
SPACE DAY MAY 4
A BRIDGE ACROSS THE STARS No Bridge Will I Not Build To Reach You No Distance is Too Far No Mileage Will Ever Keep Me From Traveling To The Stars No Record Will I Not Break To Find You No Luck, Is Not My Charm No Time Can Distance Between Us Unless I Choose To Lie No Bounds Will Ever Break Me Unless The Span Is Flawed No Bridge Will Not Be Built Unless I Will It So No Friend Will Ever Come To Me Until I Build a Bridge No Distance Can I Travel Until I Reach Their Heart No Time Like Now To Reach Across The Stars. DEDICATED TO NASA & STAR TREK FOR SPACE FLIGHT & SPACE DAY TOO A THOUGHT! TRUST The Bridge I Built Musts Be Built From Trust If I am Ever To Go Across A Poeatreeman One Star is Only a Thought Away One Friendship is Only a Hand's Reach One Bridge Will Let Us Speak Man and Heaven Reaching Far One Try Away, One Prayer To Say God Speed Your Way A Poet's Note EARTH BOUND If You Understand The End You Will Know Where To Begin A Good Place Is Start To Bridge The Stars A Further Place! Is To Reach The Heart Inter Space! I Heard There Are Humans Traveling Through Earth You Will Find A Home Start Here! To Understand The Outer Limits Edgar Allan Prieto Feb 7,1987
NATIONAL NURSES DAY MAY 6
KEEP IT UP To all the Nurses who carry the pans and walk up the halls with a great smile to take us to our Mr John and let us dump it in the can Keep it up! To all the Nurses who take their shots and put it right where it counts they have our end in view don't play Cupid with the shots Keep it up! To all the Nurses who give us our pills and try to make us feel good they make sure we take our medicine to keep us on our feet Keep it up! To all the Nurses trying to keep our temperature down and keeping pace with our pulse and telling us when our blood pressure's high they're trying to keep us from getting hot Keep it up! To all the Nurses that rub our backs to try and make us relax and all that is not required of them to do they keep life going by being what they are a dedicated Nurse to the ill Keep it up! To all the Nurses who take their time to try to understand and be kind you have a special gift to try and heal the sick but most of all it comes from you the love and care you have in your heart even when you're off your feet To all the Nurses that care you have me as your friend for life. Dedicated to All the Nurses Especially the Ones Who Took Care of Me Edgar Allan Prieto Feb 13,1980
TEACHER'S DAY MAY 9
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 Change 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) AND ALL TEACHERS 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
MOTHER'S DAY MAY 14
A MOTHER'S CARD Even though you carried me I still need to take my steps When I was one I walked away Those steps took me not from you But to a place I had to know The world was there but so were you I had to go but not from you No pain could cut the life you gave I am here to say that I love you One love that grew beyond your womb One love that is sweeter Because of you. A THOUGHT! I came from love and grew in heart You held me when I was not You carried me all through life When I was born you gave me love When I am ninety nine I'll still be yours No matter if I am loved or not A Poeatreeman If I have anything I have a chance to love If I have nothing it is because I chose nothing to love Edgar Allan Prieto 6/19/93
ARMED FORCES DAY MAY 20
A SERVICE FOR LIFE GOD'S ARMY I Serve Hearts And Hate is what I Combat The Casualties will be Sorrows Care will have to Aid me through Yet in the end Love will come through And Peace will Win The Tears will fall As Love Hurts too But God is there to see me through Each Day I Pray Peace will Come For Prayers are my only Ammunition That Hate will not Win Love is my Salvo I fire to Win I keep Hate in check That it will not Come in A Poeatreeman LOVE is only OUT When HATE is WITHIN PRAY for CARE to RETURN And LOVE will be WITHIN Edgar Allan Prieto 11/17/98
MEMORIAL DAY MAY 29
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 And many more will die Let's build a billion more And 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 Dedicated To James 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 bullet 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 that 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 Before it even starts Edgar Allan Prieto 5/22/95
FLAG DAY JUNE 14
THE FLAG The Flag is not a Cloth of Thread But Hearts that is Twined with Care The Red the Blood that Spilled Through Years of War That Stained the Cloth From Hearts that Lost The White from Purity Through Souls that Gave Their Lives and Dreams And Still Kept Heart Through all the War The Blue The Hope of Peace to Come The Silence of the Guns When Hearts will not Fall And All Can Raise Our Hand To Other Lands And Greet a Friend The Stars I See When I Hope to be Free To Look Across And See All Hearts Wave The Banner Throughout The Land And Mend The Bridge That Has Torn Us Apart. A Poeatreeman If My Country Has Heart Then I'll Know it's Mine Edgar Allan Prieto 6/17/90
A FLAG WAVES It is My Blood That Keeps it It is My Dream That Wishes For it It is My Hope That Freedom is Not a Dream It is My Belief That God is The Key It is My Heart That Holds its Breath It is My Willingness To Do What is Best It is My Right To Follow Truth It is My Country That I Must Protect It is Wrong That I Must Not Let Go Even If My Country is Not at its Best It is Wrong Not To Answer Wrong But Right To Help The Land I Do Not Follow Course, But Rather Know The Path Then I'll Know The Course That Leads My Country Off To War A Country That is Not Bound By God Is Bound To Find No Course is Left. A Poeatreeman Let I Walk Beside, I'll Never Know The Course Unless I Walk Upon The Path That Land My Country Takes One Path Can Take You, To Many Places One Course Leads To Endless Wars Unless I Know What Path is Right What Course is Left? Dedicated to My Country Edgar Allan Prieto 11/22/91
WE ARE THE FLAG
The Flag Cannot Wave Unless We are its Banner For it is Our Hearts That Hold The Cause Our Blood Keeps it Flying Our Hope it Will Not Fall Our Freedom Will Set it Free Our Death The Sacrifice of All We Are The Flag Each One Whose Heart is in it And Fights To Keep it Flying High It is More Than a Cloth Yet Not More Than Us For We Are The Cloth. Dedicated To Us All For Freedom is The Banner That Must Be Waved For All A THOUGHT! The Flag! Must Not Have More Rights Than We Do For Freedom Will Be Our Loss Pass No Amendment To Change Let Freedom Reign Keep It In Sight Check It Every Night To See It's With You Don't Wish For It To Come It Must Be Won Each Day How Far Can I Walk Today? Freedom Has Many Steps I Need One Free One To See The Way A Poeatreeman The Flag May be Torn and Burned Yet it is Our Heart That Keeps it High It will not be Torn, Unless You Tear it From You No One Can Crush it For it's Within You The Spirit Flies When All Else Died You Raised it When You Gave Your Life A Banner You Waved For Your Country's Rights Edgar Allan Prieto 4/28/2000
FATHER'S DAY JUNE 18
A FATHER'S CARD Even though you got me here I am still trying to find where I am I think it's earth but you never know I am just trying to find my space Yet there is always room for you Where do I keep you? My heart will have to do With lots to do loving you On this father's day The time has come to say these words That may not be spoken often enough I love you more today. A THOUGHT! What would I do if you were not here? Not show up but because I am I thank you for this day And all the days I am here to love A Poeatreeman I was first born with God Then you came along and gave me a start Now I have a chance to show you love Each and every day Edgar Allan Prieto 6/19/93
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