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- From: MPT@cup.portal.com (Michal P Todorovic)
- Newsgroups: alt.personals
- Subject: Re: Hugs For Illiterate Flamers
- Message-ID: <74484@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:17:34 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1k2sigINNcbh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- >
- > HUGS
- > R. H. Grenville
- >
- >Hugs are happy, healing things,
- >Like a wraparound of angel wings;
- >Like a mother's cradle when you're small,
- >Like a lovely rose-embroidered shawl.
- >
- >Hugs can reach to distant places
- >With loving heart and thought embraces.
- >
- >And in the peace that follows prayer,
- >How often are we made aware
- >Of the enfolding comfort of
- >The everlasting arms of love?
- >
-
- OK, here's another:
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- Silver Boxes
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- My words were harsh and hasty
- And they came without a thought.
- Then I saw the pain and anguish
- That my bitter words had brought.
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- Bitter words that I had spoken
- Made me think back through the past;
- Of how many times I'd uttered
- Biting words whose pain would last.
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- Then I wondered of the people
- I had hurt by things I'd said;
- All the ones I had discouraged
- When I didn't use my head.
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- Then I thought about my own life,
- Of the painful words I've heard;
- And of the times I'd been discouraged
- By a sharp and cruel word.
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- And now clearly I remember
- All the things I might have done;
- But, by a word I was discouraged
- And they never were begun.
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- Help my words be silver boxes,
- Neatly wrapped up with a bow;
- That I give to all so freely,
- As through each day I gladly go.
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- Silver boxes full of treasure
- Precious gifts to give in love;
- That all the people I encounter
- Might have a box of love.
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- Michael Bright
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