One Day Print
David Whyte

One day I will
say
the gift I once had has been taken.

The place I have made for myself
belongs to another.
The words I have sung
are being sung by the ones
I would want.

Then I will be ready
for that voice
and the still silence in which it arrives.

And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again
on the road
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop
and laugh
and drink together again

from the deep well of things as they are.

-- David Whyte
from Where Many Rivers Meet
©1990 Many Rivers Press
 
Valentine's Day Print

Jessica Ahern
Paul Revere Middle School
Los Angeles

Can a century-old tradition start anew?

Will the tiny candy hearts be replaced?

A day when children will share, a

Nation will come together,

All on Cupids special day?

Instead of chocolate, would people 

Give money to charity instead?

 

Restaurants, movies, and flower shops

Would have an all-time low, because

Everyone would skip work to help out

The homeless

A day when the president would order

12,000 meals to be given to the less-

Fortunate

 

A day when no tears would be shed, just

The ones of pure joy

A time where everyone would care about each

Other.

 

To forgive, all in harmony.

A day where someone else is a top

Priority.

 

A universal peace day

 

 
This Valentine's Day Print
Mary Kennedy Eastham, San Jose

Remember an old love with fondness
not regret.
Pray for World Peace.
Send yourself flowers.
Give all but one to people who matter.
Kiss a child's tears away.
Smooth over love's jagged edges
in a relationship you've been meaning to mend.
Slow down.
Thank someone for being kind to you.
Wake up smiling.
Hold that smile close to your lips all day.
Bury a prejudice.
Kiss someone you love
a long, slow kiss, deep and promising
Like it's the first time.
 
One Year Ago Print

Nomi

This flower honors those killed in action February 14, 2007.

Army Pfc. Branden C. Cummings, 20, of Titusville, Fla.; assigned to the 1st
Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood,
Texas; died Feb. 14 in Baqubah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device exploded
near his vehicle during combat operations.

Army Spc. Ronnie G. Madore Jr., 34, of San Diego; assigned to the 1st Battalion,
12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; died
Feb. 14 in Baqubah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his
vehicle. Also killed were Sgt. John D. Rode and Sgt. Carl L. Seigart.

Army Sgt. John D. Rode, 24, of Pineville, N.C.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th
Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas; died Feb. 14
in Baqubah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
Also killed were Spc. Ronnie G. Madore Jr. and Sgt. Carl L. Seigart.

Army Sgt. Carl L. Seigart, 32, San Luis Obispo, Calif.; assigned to the 1st
Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood,
Texas; died Feb. 14 in Baqubah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated
near his vehicle. Also killed were Spc. Ronnie G. Madore Jr. and Sgt. John D. Rode.

Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel T. Morris, 19, of Crimora, Va.; assigned to 2nd Battalion,
3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Kaneohe
Bay, Hawaii; died Feb. 14 while conducting combat operations in Anbar province,
Iraq.

Army Sgt. First Class Allen Mosteiro, 42, of Fort Worth, Texas; assigned to the 1st
Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas;
died Feb. 14 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when his unit came in contact with the
enemy using small-arms fire during combat operations Feb. 13 in Taji, Iraq. ***

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.
I brought him up to be my pride and joy.
Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder,
To shoot some other Mother's darling boy?
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles,
It's time to lay the sword and gun away,

There'd be no war today,
If mothers all would say:
 
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