A PLAY OF WORDS BY EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO AUGUST 22,2000 OUTDATED I posted myself Yesterday Yet I cannot find Today Where am I at now That I cannot schedule Tomorrow? Maybe if I could find it all I would be here Today A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/28/2000 THE FOOLISH DICTIONARY A Wise Person's answer To a Fool's Question Look Here You will find Yourself A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/3/2000 NEW CALENDAR Surprise, Surprise, Surprise I found myself Today I Looked ahead and saw my way I am here for Today The Days are numbered And I can count my way Maybe Tomorrow I will have Today A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/4/2000 ST PATRICK'S DAY I can Dress you in Green But do I have to use Dollars? Maybe I can use Food Color instead I don't want to put a Stain On Our Relationship So I'll Spot you all the way So you decided To wear the Polka-dot Today I guess I will not have to Spot you Today. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/8/2000 FROZEN OUT We are Heading Into an Ice Age If we Don't Warm Our Hearts Global Warming Will Happen When Love Shines Though Our Hearts A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/12/2000 25 HOURS The Hardest Time In your Life Is the Day you Can't Make it through Tomorrow won't be there For Today has a hold on you A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/14/2000 A TRIP What Better Way To Heaven Than To Take The Fairway Follow The Course And You Will Be Home A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/21/2000 OUTLOOK AN OLD OAK TREE would say Maybe I Need To Turn A Leaf Over Than I Would See The Other side Of Life A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/21/2000 THE DIAMOND A BASEBALL PLAYER would say If I Did Not Have Three Strikes I Would Not Be Behind The Ball How Do I Get Out? Strike At The Ball A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/21/2000 WHAT A RACKET A TENNIS PLAYER would say If I Had All This Love I Would Put My Racket Away A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/21/2000 A BANK NOTE Try not to Bank on me I do not Deposit very well Do Not Cash me in I Will Bounce Like Hell If You Want To Draw On Me Make Sure A Balance Is Left I Can't Afford Canceled Check's Paid In Full Would Be The Best Banking On Friends What Assets Are Left? Draw On Your Heart When The Balance Is Low Give More The Assets Will Grow No Tellers To Ask For The Doe A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/26/2000 ROAD MAP I Am Driving Right What Is Left? Let Me Take A U Turn To Find What Is Best Now, I Am At The Crossroad Two Turns Left How I Go Will Tell Me Which Way's Left A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/28/2000 FOOTPRINTS When In Doubt The Best Move Is Right Look For His Path When Yours Is Not Seen Follow His Footprints And Know He Is With You You Will Find Heaven Is Not Far From You A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/30/2000 HUMANKIND! IN A NUT SHELL God Made Mankind Yet How Many Nuts? Let Me Ask The Squirrels To Count And Shell Them By The Bunch I May Have A Handful Of Nuts My Favorites Are Mixed They Cover All The Nuts God Sees The Humor For I Still May Be In The Shell A Hard Nut To Crack For I Have Not Opened Myself A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/3/2000 A POETRYMAN My Connection Is Faith And Love Honor Him For I Am His Servant Worship No One Other Than Him Your Questions Will Be Answered When You Follow Him Mankind Waits For An Answer If He Had Faith It Would Be Answered A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/3/2000 ACTION I Can Wish For The Stars Yet! A Wish Will Not Do It Try One Step To Take You Through It You May Reach Heaven Just Trying To Do It A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/7/2000 TIME TRIAL I Am Trying To Kill Time Yet Somehow It Keeps Running Maybe If I Took My Time I Would Catch Up I Have 24hrs To Make Up The Race Of My Life The Lost Times I Can Never Make Up A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/8/2000 LIFE I Have A Life Long Friend He Is With Me Day And Night Tomorrow He Will Show Me What I Have Not Seen A Way To Look At Yesterday's Dreams A Bright New Friend Who Will Shine The Way Giving Me The Chance To See Today A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/9/2000 PATIENCE I Am A Patient Gal But Hell! Do I Have To Wait? Not If I Rush Ahead Tomorrow Will Come When Today Has Gone I Have To Wait For Tomorrow's Dawn I May Be There Yet Not Before Today Is Set Until It's Gone Tomorrow I May Not Have To Wait For I Passed It All The Day Before Now I Find I Am Waiting More A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/10/2000 PADDY WAGON They're Coming To Take You Away It Was A Gut Wrenching Experience That Drove Me Nuts I Thought The Squirrels Where Going To Collect Me And Pack Me For Their Lunch A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/11/2000 CHOICE The Choices Become Few When We Choose Not To Do The Minutes Are Less When We Let Our Choices Pass Through Our Grip On Life Is Passing By Make A Choice For Life Before It All Goes By A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/12/2000 A SLIGHT OF HANDS I Have A Handful Of Choices Yet Nothing To Show I Held Them All Not Taking Any Chances I Made My Choice Yet Nothing Shows I Have A Handful Of Changes Yet What Do You Know? Abracadabra! There They Go A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/13/2000 A NEW CHANCE When I Choose To Do What I Have Not Done I Choose To Begin Where I Started From A Choice I Made To Go On Living To See Tomorrow With All The Promise Of A New Beginning A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/13/2000 FINAL TEST Hear My Words Do Not Grade My Life The Score I Make Is For God To Grade The Homework I Carried Is What He Gave My Lessons Will Be Over When He Marks My Grave. A Poetryman These Are God's Words It Is Time To Go Edgar Allan Prieto 9/27/200 RU486 Are You Ready For The Consequence? An Unwanted Pregnancy Is Best Controlled By Unwanted Sex Take Restrain You Will Have Not Water Gain. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/28/2000 UNANSWERED If Answers Were Easy I Would Not Have Any Questions The Problem Is I Have No Answers The Riddle Is What Questions Can Be Answered? A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/29/2000 LIVING WILL When I Kick The Bucket Do Not Kick My Can I Do Not Want To Be Resuscitated With A Dent In My Can. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/29/2000 WIGGLES If You Were Any Livelier I Would Have To Hold You Down So Stop Squiggling I Am Trying To Hold My Ground. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/29/2000 OLYMPIC HIGH Piss And Tell Is Sure Not Swell When It Comes Out Not Red, White, And Blue It's Only Colors Not Black And White Unless The Drugs Are There In You The Goal Is Set To Pass The Test No Drugs Can Enter Into The Events The High Jump And Hurtle Go Only So High The Vault Is Only Nineteen Feet High Any Further You Will Jump To The Sky Out Of The Olympics And Beyond Your Quest No Gold, Silver, Or Bronze To Hang On Your Chest No Proud Moment To Boast Of Your Quest. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 10/1/2000 A BLOOMING IDIOT Do Not Throw Dirt On Me Yet I Am Not Ready To Cover Up Cultivate Me And I Will Grow One Blooming Idiot Will Show One Flower Not Quite All There Do Not Uproot For You Think, I Should Not Be There We Are All In The Soil You May Be Next? All Flowers! Should Grow To Their Best What Flower Is Better Than The Rest? Hybrids! Who Think They're The Best How Do I Contain Them When The Pot Is Too Small? I Let Them Grow Outside Of It All Who Is The Idiot Who Has Grown So Big? They Can't Keep Themselves From Blowing Their Lid. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 10/2/2000 GUARANTEES There Are No Guarantees In Life Only That You Make It Right For Playing It Wrong You Will Know What Hell Is Like Guaranteed To End Your Life A Promise Made By Heaven Your Soul Is Yours To Lose Guaranteed Life Will End The Road No Return To Try Once More You Have Entered And Closed The Door Where It Opens Next? Guaranteed You Have Walked Through It Before Close Not Heaven's Door For Hell Will Surely Open Theirs. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 10/6/2000 ENVIRONMENT If The $Dollar Becomes Mightier Than The Trees Will We Still Be Able To Breathe? There Will Be Two Things Falling Man And The Trees I Hope It Will Be Just The Leaves I Choked On $Dollars For There Was Nothing To Breathe Let Me Not Make $Dollars From The Trees Rather Clean Air I Can Breathe Cut The $Dollars Not The Trees Then The Economy Will Have Room To Breathe Then The Growth Can Grow With The Trees The Economy May Fall But So Will The Leaves. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 10/8/2000 A RACE FOR HOME Run Like The Wind Let The Breeze Catch Up You May Get On Base Before The Dirt Settles In Stranded On First You Will Not Come Home You Have Three Bases Before You Strike Home Covering All The Bases You Will Be A Hit At Home. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 10/24/2000 WHEN THE FLESH IS WEAK Jesus Take Me Before I Fall I Do Not Want To Lose My Soul At All If I Should Be Tempted Before I Die Take Me To Heaven Before I Sin In Your Eyes. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 10/25/2000 CHAD! YOU SWUNG THE VOTE I Voted For Chad And I Was Bushed I Tried To Vote And Gored My Finger I Could Not Find The Punch I Made I Guess I Left It In My Hand Now I Know Where My Vote Went I Made My Impression When I Voted For Chad The Only Problem He Dropped To The Floor He Was So Impressed That I Cast My Vote Now They're Picking Him Up Off The Floor Not Counting On Him Anymore He Took A Position Only He Would Make To Stand On His Ground Firmly In Place There Were Many Chad's Left In The Race Others Were In A Family Way Waiting For Dimple To See Them Through He Was Not Open To The View Counting On Him To Come On Out He Was Last To Know He Landed Far Behind The Race After All Of This, He Was Bushed And Gored Who Would Want To Do It Again? To Cast Your Vote And Be Counted More? The Winner! Who Else Who is Pushing For More Bush Wins and I get Gored. A Poeatreeman Edgar Allan Prieto 11/19/2000 THE COST OF LIVING It Only Costs A Few Sense To Go Through Life Yet A Hell Of A lot Of $Dollars To Live With Its Expense A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/8/2000 BOUNDARIES I Walked Until I Hit The Edge Of Freedom I Was Up Against The Wall Beyond! I Felt No Freedom At All A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/9/2000 PALATABLE If I Swallow Truth It Will Be Easier To Take If God Is There With Me A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/9/2000 $DOLLARS & SENSE The Cost Of Living Goes Up! But I Do Not Want You To Lose Your Sense Otherwise! I Will Have To Pay With The Consequence A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/9/2000 WHO BROKE THE LAW? The US Supreme Court Buried The Law They Decided Recklessness Is The Law Justice Is Not Blind Only The Men Who Choose Not To See Where Will It Be Buried And What Will It Read? Here Lies The Law That Used To Be A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/10/2000 COLLUSION Collusion Is A Two Part Party Only Running On Its Own Ticket The Winner Will Be Deceit For It Is The Goal The Loser Truth For It Spoke Before It Was Told I Was Left Out Of The Race I Was Never On The Ticket For I Would Not Pay To Win I Was Never In The Running For Truth Was Hid Away A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/10/2000 FAIRNESS The Scale Of Justice Serves Only Man When It Is Balanced By Truth Not The Left Hand A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/10/2000 THE SUPREME COURT The Ten Commandments Are Supreme To Me Not The Nine Judges Who Cannot Interpret For Me Truth Has My Vote A Lie Will Oppose It Saying It's Not Right God Is My Judge Who Knows What Is Right He Only Opposes The Harm That Will Come To My Life I Oppose All Wrong When I Do It Right A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/11/2000 FUZZY MATH When The Count Is Added For Bush Not Gore When Harris Count Shows Less Is More Equal Becomes The Lesser Standard More Or Less What Count Is Gore's? The Count That Is Counted For Bush Not Gore Fuzzy Math; Minus Is More A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/11/2000 THE DEATH TAX Is Alive And Well The Tax Payer Is Being Taxed To Death Even After! I Am Dead And Gone I Am Still Paying On What Do I Do If I Should Live On? Make Sure I Have The Taxes To Pay For The Rest Otherwise! I Will Be Taxed To Death No Rest For The Unpaid Debts I Am Left With The Taxes To Pay For My Death. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/21/2000 MUTE If Truth Cannot Speak Will I Then Hear A Lie? Only If I Listen To It Will I Then Hear The Truth A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/29/2000 A DISH FOR ALL SEASONS You Are The Sweetest Dish I Know No Candy Can Treat Me So For You Hold My Heart And Love Is What I Will Put Into It I Will Use It Each Day And Draw Love From The Heart I Thank You For The Moments We Have Shared Life's Wishes I Will Fill It With Candy And Love Will Be There Too No Dish Can Be Sweeter When It Is Filled With You A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 12/29/2000 LABYRINTH If You Give Your Child Too Much Little Will They Have The Value Of Life Must Be Found In Trying If They Are Ever To Find Themselves Success Or Failure Is Only The Road Which One They Make Will Follow Them Home. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/2/2001 TODAY'S BEST What Is The Best Of The Day Is That Which! We Do Not Make Worst Better Our Life The Day We Came To Birth There Are Chances Better Or Worse It Is In Your Hand That The Turns Will Be First A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/4/2001 THINGS GOING UP! If You Get A High Chair The Prices Won't Look So High When You Grow Up The Prices Seem So Low Until You Face The Cost Of Life Will You Truly Know What Price Is Life A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/5/2001 A WARM DISH The Only Time Love Spoils Is When You Do Not Put it in The Heart It Will Turn Cold When Left Outside The Temperature of Love Changes With Degree Watch it Does Not Fall Below The Freeze Give Love Warmly To Keep The Chill Away Caring Will Tell You How Love is Doing Today Freeze Burn! Will Keep Love Away. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/6/2001 LOVE MIX Ten Pounds of Sugar One Ounce of Love I Hope This Will Sweeten The Best of Yourself I'm Afraid! To Mix Anything Else You May Come Out Sweeter Than Hell. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/8/2001 TIP TOE One step to Heaven is one I did not take to Hell One step to Heaven is each day I spend with Him One was hot on my toes Trying to get me on in I danced around the fire To keep from falling in. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/11/2000 LIFE'S OUTLOOK There are very few things I am sure of in Life Yet I am Positive to make it Better When I have the Chance, To Make it so For Hope; is My Greatest Wish That Each Day Will Be Better When I Make it so. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/12/2001 LOST HOPE It is not Dark Outside It is Dark Inside A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/13/2001 LIFE'S GIFTS Life gives you a Gift Everyday! You Open your Eyes To See its Present A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/13/2001 RUSH What is One Minute, If I Wasted Two To Get There? A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 1/13/2001 COMMON SENSE I try to Collect Sense Yet some People Throw me Pennies. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/4/2001 MIND WASTE Feel freely to speak your Mind I do not Mind at all It is when you say Nothing I hear no Mind at all. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/4/2001 LOOK WHO'S TALKING The Biggest Critic Is a Fool with Words They say Everything Yet no Wisdom is Heard A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/7/2001 BLIND CRITIC How can you Criticize the Style When you have not seen the Dress? My Signature is the Style That Shows how my Words are Dressed A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/8/2001 TRUTH UNHEARD It's Hard to Say the Truth What will I Say until Then? A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/8/2001 PRETZEL A Lie is Complex It Twists The Truth Hard To Swallow When it's not a Treat A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/9/2001 OPENED MINDED Thanks! For Finally Showing me your Brains It is not Often! I get to see the Workings Keep it in your Head You will be Better off Knowing it is Working A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/9/2001 THE TRUTH OF GOD Must be accepted How often one accepts a Lie? And believes it to be Truth How then will you accept Right and Wrong? Give it a try and see who Lies You will know then where Truth Lies A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/9/2001 TIME CLOCK God gives me the Time That I can Correct the Lines It is the Days; I Find Hard to Change Unless He is there with me. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/9/2001 HISTORY'S LOOK You know how it is Each Day You Dress up for Today History is this way too It Changes its Dress By what you do Best you do it well If you want History To Reflect! The Best of you. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/22/2001 A STATE OF AFFAIR A Sad State of Affair When you cannot Smile A Happy State of Affair When no Sadness Will Break your Smile A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 2/22/2001 REVERENCE I bend my knees That I can fall below the trees I bow down to God's Creation That I can be closer to Him each day I stand on the Soil that brought me here And Thank God for His Blessing That I am here Today. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/9/2001 TO NAOMI STANSFIELD I want to help develop Her Heart and Mind Her Soul; Will have too find Her own way I Pray She Choose's the Right way Then I will know, Heaven is not far away. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/10/2001 WHOSE BASKET? The European Common Market Is trying to put all their Eggs Into One Basket; Yet who owns the Basket? Who laid this Egg? It was not the Easter Bunny He is too Busy, Hopping around I hope the Market can count Today For how much will be left, If it all falls away? A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/17/2001 IF GOD WERE A MYTH? I would not be a Man Since I am He must be so I call Him Father Would not you know A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/20/2001 THE HAND OF JUSTICE The More Power you Give Them The Less Justice is Served A Heavy Hand Cannot Find Balance When it Outweighs The Law A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/23/2001 JUDGMENT It is not Hard To Tip The Scale It is Hard To Keep it Balanced For Who Will Weigh The Truth? I Hope not a Lie For Surely it will be Unbalanced A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/24/2001 WHO TEMPTED EVE? If you have proven yourself good Have you not proven yourself not wrong? Evil does not exist in the minds of Men It takes Heart and Conscience in Left with Choice we Choose our way If the Devil does not Exist How will I Choose the way? There would be no Right or Left For God to guide the way A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 3/24/2001 SPEAK YOUR MIND Yet Mind what you say For Thoughts; Can Convey many things Wisdom is the Best It will let you Win Remember your Thoughts They are taken within Pass no Hate; And Love will Win A Pleasant Thought; That just came in A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 4/6/2001 MINDFUL Who has entered in my Mind? Was it a Thought Or a Friend of mine? Needful Thoughts and Mindful Friends I will find both are with me, Until the End. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 4/8/2001 WAR IS NOT HELL It is an Experience in Hell Who the Hell would want to War? The Fool who has nothing to do I will Fool all of you And come back a Hero Now I have Eternity to Boost at Last I Laid in my Coffin With nothing to do Oh Well! I have Eternity To Come up with something New. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 4/10/2001 BOUND BY ACTS All Who Serve God Will Go To Heaven All Who Serve Satan Will Go To Hell Religion; Is Not Bound To God For It Serves Man Separating Him; From God's Command Faith; Serves God It Needs Not Religion; To Establish The Faith A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 4/14/2001 ENROLLMENT My Class is Life Both Day and Night I Need not Enroll For I am in it for Life The Degree, I am Striving for, is the Best of Life To Take Each Day and Pass the Test Failure and Success Will Grade the Day and I Will be Left To See My Way. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 4/30/2001 A COIN Failure is Faced up Yet Many Times We Turn it Around Flipping a Coin Will not Bring you Luck Heads or Tails You will Fall on your Duff A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 5/6/2001 GOAL A Recipe For Success Will Take a Lifetime of Trying A Recipe For Failure Is One Day not Trying Triumph and Disaster Will Bring You Their Goal Count One not Higher For Both will Balance The Road Try is The Equalizer; So Let it not Rest It May Take a Lifetime Before you Reach Success. A Poetryman STRUGGLES The Mountain is There Yet Life has its Highs Take what is There; And Reach For The Stars It Will Take Failure and Winning To Get You Far Edgar Allan Prieto 5/6/2001 A SIGN FOR THE AGES Thank You! Please Accept, Our Sincere Apologies For Letting Us Serve You We Will Try Our Hardest To Offend You Unhappy Customers Are Welcome To Return The Management, Compliments You On Your Choice Today For Those of You Who Are Happy I Thank You Anyway. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 5/7/2001 PUNS FOR FUN How is Life Treating you? By The Day How is Night Treating you? It Keeps me in The Dark Then How am I to see? Use a Flashlight For The Outside Use Hope To Keep The Light Within All Will Be Bright When God Shines The Way He Lights it Each Morning For you To See The Way. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 5/23/2001 LONG FACE I Look Better! Since I Lost The Frown I Took Off The Weight When I Lighten a Frown I Began To Smile, And it all Came Back My Face Had a Grin For My Chin Was Back. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 6/10/2001 BEHIND, AHEAD? If I Hurry Up To Get There I Will Still Have To Wait To Leave Why Rush? When One Minute is Early And Two Minutes is Late One Second Ahead, I Will Still Have To Wait Death Comes Too Soon So Why Rush To The Gate? A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 6/10/2001 APPOINTMENT What good is an Appointment If it's not Related to the Time? Chaos keeps its Appointment All in good Time I was Late, For Early Came Too Soon Next Time I Wait It Won't be Too Soon I Will Let The Appointment Time itself Out I Will be Thereafter Whatever Comes About Never Too Late When The Appointment Passes Time It Keeps me Waiting Even When I am on Time. A Poetryman I Would Reschedule! But Life Keeps Changing The Time Edgar Allan Prieto 6/18/2001 MORE OR LESS? I am Better When I am Less Less I am Better I will Fail Myself I am Best When I am Striving To be Better I am Worse When I Don't Get Better A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 6/23/2001 THE VISIT The Doctor Gave me A Clean Bill of Health Only After I Took a Shower A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 6/24/2001 VALUE The Only Thing, Worth Keeping Is What You Share For Giving it all You will not Lose a Share A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 6/24/2001 DRAMA Drama; is the Stage you Set For Today You meet the Players, Throughout the Day High Drama will come Today Act One Begins, When the Sun Rises The Curtain will Fall When The Act is No More A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 6/27/2001 BLINDERS The Truth Can Spill Out Yet you Close your Eyes God Help The One Who sees no Lies A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 6/29/2001 CROSSROAD We Start with a Straight Road And Only Turn When We See a Bend Right and Left Are The Choices of The Road That Will Take Us Beyond The End We Turn at The Bend When We Cross The Line Right and Left is a Narrow Line Taken When We Choose The Way Heaven and Hell, are Different Lanes Crossing Over, Will Change The Way. A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 7/1/2001 DEAD ON People Kill Time Yet Never Can Revive it Wake Up Dead Beat It's Time to Keep on Flying A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 7/16/2001 HAPPY BIRTHDAY If I am in The Twilight Of My Life Don't Blow Out The Candles My Wish To Keep on Burning The Candle A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 7/21/2001 TRAVEL WHERE? I have been Everywhere Yet Nowhere to Show I have seen Nowhere Yet it all Shows I hope to look on Tomorrow To see where I begin Today My Steps must be Forward If I am not to Lose my Way For going Nowhere My Steps will Show Today A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 7/21/2001 SAINT PETER OPEN THE GATE I am Trying To Get My Foot in Heaven But It's Caught Between The Gates Let Me Try To Swing It Right Then I Can Open The Gate Left Will Only Swing Me Out Hell Has Caught My Foot Now How The Hell Do I Get Out? A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/21/2001 GET SMART If Smartness, is Measured By Man It is The Dumbest I Have Seen Wisdom Never Measures It is Wise not to do We Each Have a Gift That Measures Us All Finding It We Will Be Wise, when we do Sharing it, Will be the Smartest of all A Poeatreeman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/25/2001 A YARDSTICK The Measure of a Man is How He Holds Life in Hand The Length is not Greater Than The Truth Nor Shortness Less From Great It is Equal To The Truth A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/26/2001 AN EXPERT If I Give Credence To an Expert What Do I Give To Myself? If I Expect an Answer Why Have I not Found it Myself? I Must Listen To Truth To Know Which Answer is Right There are Expert Liars Who are not Right A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/26/2001 LABEL MAKERS There are Labels for Man He Sticks it on Life and Calls it Right He Names it all To Identify Himself What is Man But a Label in Hand Ready To Mark His Fellow Man I'll Label You Black I'll Label You White I'll Label You Red I'll Label You Right I'll Color it all To Match Your Life A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/26/2001 A CLONE Will They Have More Rights Or Less of Their Own? Will They Have No Rights For They are not One of Our Own? Will They be Human or Just a Clone? A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/27/2001 TRASH TALK The One Thing That is Surplus is The Waste of Man You Can Count on Man To Waste The Land He Will Fill it With Surplus To Empty The Land A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 8/30/2001 ON THE LEVEL If I Get Planed Would I Be on The Level? Only If I am Straight And Between The Bubble A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/10/2000 DOCTOR CARE The Hardest Pill To Swallow Is Kindness Feel Better Now? Then How About a Refill? A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/21/2001 BOUNTY If You Paid The Devil Do Not Expect Him To Be Good Watch Who Collects They May Return It In Sorrow A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/22/2001 TERRORIST A New Kind of War Yet Death is not New It Hides in The Shadows And Strikes at You A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/22/2001 SCHOOL BREAK Everyone is Praying It's All Quiet Here When They Return I Will Pray I Can Hear A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/23/2001 ONE NATION UNDER WHO? In God We Trust Then Why Do We Not Trust Him in School? Would Prayers Change Our Values? Let Me Look At a Dime What is a Prayer Worth? I Will Pay You not a Dime What If They Adopted God Would not That be Worth Something? Do not Spend it All At Once It Will not Bring You a Penny I Will Wait And Put it Into Heaven The Value is Worth Every Penny A Poetryman Edgar Allan Prieto 9/23/2001 NEXT My Home page INDEX FOR THE RISE OF A POET
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