Poems: "Early Thanksgiving" and "Gift"

EARLY THANKSGIVING - 28 FEBRUARY, 2004

   (At Midday)

 ...Just can't suppress the Angel in me.

   It comes out!

   The Wings Sprout!

   Some kind of Will to be healthy,

   A need to Love and perceive beyond;

  To wonder at the simplest occurrences...

 Bring poems and many messages out of the Thinking Pond...

  WE are all ANGELS when we feed and announce...

  And once again (never tiring let it be said),

  Glory and Thanksgiving to God we pronounce!

  ... (And then an Angel comes along...)

Surely we will hear a Thanksgiving song!

                                      By: Karla

 21 February, 2004

      (David Bowie, "She says, sh")

 GIFT

Thank You!

Thank You for giving me what I have thirsted for...

Thank You

For giving me what I need, and, oh, so much more!

Thank You for this day,

For the Love inside,

For the Gift of your attention,

Your respect and your time...

The way that it all shines in you...

Thinking of my true needs,

 And out of our love,

So many more it feeds!

Thank you and Let me be quiet and still...

 And Let Your Great Graces, all of the World fill!

                                By: Karla

Poem: "A SIMPLE SIGN IN DIFFICULT TIMES"!, From the Collection of Poems, "Simple Words of Great Hope"

A SIMPLE SIGN IN DIFFICULT TIMES!

(November 26, 2013)

(From “Simple Words of Great Hope”)

Knowing I am not worthy of this,

I hold my heart and life out in an offering of bliss.

Feeling blessed in life and honored, hoping to share this grace,

Something beats out Hope and Spirit, with a humble need to embrace,

All of Creation, all of the human race!

Let me be worthy!

Let me help, not hurt.

Let me heal, letting loose of this love caught inside,

Going beyond selfishness or personal needs, turning the tide…

Help me face the weaknesses from which I hide.

Let me realize a greater Will,

And the promises that are to come still.

Let my life and existence be, if nothing more,

A Simple Sign of hope…

And let everyone know, if nothing more,

About my loving history and kinship

With Our Blessed Pope!

                       By: Karla

Poem: "Rising Sun Over a Waterfall" from "Simple Words of Great Faith"!

RISING SUN OVER A WATERFALL

(From a Collection of Poems called “Simple Words of Great Faith”

(Written July 28, 2013/John’s Birthday!!!)

I prayed all I could.

I gave it all I got.

Now it is up to all of you.

Decide if it’s all a lot!

Don’t know where I’m going.

Hard to remember where I’ve been.

Now I see the light through the distance.

Life is better, left behind the worst of sin.

Lookin’ for a sign.

Tryin to see just what to do.

Wondering what is really mine.”

It’s a tough and cruel World, too!

The wait is surely worth it.

All that is suffered has a value.

The way is now made clear.

Your presence is felt, it’s near.

We pass out time as best we can.

We do our best, and think and think…

Peace is promised, new life, and a special drink!

                                          By: Karla

Poem from "Thanksgiving", called "Just Ice"!

Well, another poem in English.  It comes from a collection of poems and songs I wrote some years ago called "Thanksgiving".  I dedicated the collection to my father, who was a World War II Disabled Veteran, and also a humble and honest bookkeeper.  He taught me to be grateful in life and gave me the example of not complaining about his situation.  I call the title "Just Ice" which is a play on the word "Justice"!

 

November 11, 1999

 

JUST ICE!

 

Just one little thing do I ask of you.

Just one little thing do I ask.

 

Justice in the World.

Love in my heart.

Happiness and Trust to start.

 

Just one little thing do I ask of you.

Just a little, Just a little thing.

 

For joy in the World.

For peace in my mind.

For a change that's for the better.

 

Just one little thing,

Just one little thing,

Do I ask, I ask of you...

 

For a song to sing,

For a reason to live,

For health,

For good company...

 

For a day like this,

Filled with Love and Joy,

For the simple things in Life.

 

I got all that I need,

I got everything.

 

I got hope,

and hands to work.

 

                  By:  Karla

Poems from the Past! "Ave Maria de la Patria" y "Marcha Para Octubre"

    AFTER so many years of pouring out my heart to all of you in a personal sort of way, I feel as if the "stage is set" as we say in English (¡el escenario esta preparado).  So I am taking us back a few years to 2002.  It was a year of much trouble here in Argentina.  Nevertheless, I wrote the two songs that follow with much hope.  I wrote one on (The Day of Children), “El Dia del Niño”, that year and this year (2007), it is on the same day.  In October we have Peregrinations here to Lujan for the Virgin and I wrote a song thinking in the different seasons in the World.  When it is March (autumn) here, it is September (autumn) there.

   So, what I am trying to communicate to you is I have studied the Spiritual World intimately, and I believe the time has come to have Faith, and sing!

   12 de Agosto, 2002    8:30 a.m.

   ¡FELIZ DIA DEL NIÑO! - 2007

 AVE MARIA DE LA PATRIA

 (Cumple de Elena en el 13 de Agosto)

    Somos Millones; Seamos Millones

    Como “Evita” lo deseo.

    Seamos unidos, somos pueblo,

    Pueblo de Amor, y de Dios.

    

    Es el destino, goce dulce

    Para El que se lo creyo´

    No, ni importa,

    integrar a La Peringrina,

    si en respeto camina.

    (Asi´ que:  repite lo anterior y agregue...

    Y vuela alto, a las alturas, montañas

    Para picotear... LA PALABRA SANA…  DE LA PAZ!

                                   Por:  Karla

                                         (Alias: LA "TERA")

    

    14 Agosto 2002

MARCHA PARA OCTUBRE

           (Para Lola de Santisima Cruz que cumple

            ¡90 años el 14 de Agosto, 2007!)

    

    Dile al Pueblo que Marche.

    Dile a Mi Pueblo marchar.

    

    No pregunten ¿como?

    con la Fe se hara’.

    

    Dile a Mi Pueblo que ande

    Dile a Mi Pueblo andar.

    

    ¿Como?

    Como es cantar.

    

    ¿Como?  - Alturas de Montañas

    ¿Como? - cancion - esperanza.

    

    ¿COMO? - Saber - Pasaje

    

    (Repite)

 Dile a Mi Pueblo ...Que se prepare. Dile a Mi Pueblo ...Preparar...

    

    con los pies caminando

    Caminando sobre la sierra.

    Caminando trayendo

    LA NOTICIA DE LA PAZ!

     

    ...Caminando sobre las aguas.

    Marchando sobre el Mar!

                              Por:  Karla

      Bueno (confieso)  Padre Daniel alguna vez en un Sermon dijo que no ibamos a hacer nada sin un poco de picardia (lo que yo llamo en ingles Pick Card Dia - It is like a special Day of Grace).

Poem from "Songs of Deliverance"... "SONG OF THANKSGIVING"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING - 2013!!!

SONG OF THANKSGIVING (May 14, 2005)

    Thank God for the poetry.

    Thank God for my family.

    

    Thank God for the days and nights.

    Thank God for skies full of lights.

    

    Thank God in many ways and times;

    In theatre, poems, songs and mimes.

    

    Thank God in every way I can.

    Thank God that he made animals, plants and man...

    

    Thank God in everything I do.

    Thank God that he has made you too!

    

    Thank God and each day as it begins.

    Thanking God is the one who wins.

    

    Thank God in everything I do.

    Thank God, and may He bless you too!

                                    By:  Karla

    

    After reading Psalm 32 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered... (etc.), where it says "You shall surround me with songs of deliverance", I decided to write a collection poems called "Songs of Deliverance".  This is one of them.

    Some are in English, some in Spanish.