Food 4 Thought Have a Bite
by Edgar Allan Prieto 1


Forward

If you can nibble

Not get full

You'll find

You can digest it all.


As you Turn

From one to next

Browse through

The Book of Thoughts


Do not be afraid

To take a bite ..


For Food 4 Thought

Has an Appetite..


So Read

Digest all you can

Even Share it

With a Friend.


But Please!


Do not Swallow

My Book .



It's only

To be Read

Not Cooked..


Written by

Poeatreeman

HERE ARE JUST A FEW

God: Decides

What is Right .


Your Conscience

Decides

What you Do.
10/25/88



Wrong:

There's no

Greater Wrong

Than

Half Truths

Am I

Half Right?
5/27/78



The Only

Conqueror

In War is Death.
4/4/92



THE ONLY RIGHTS
YOU HAVE
ARE THE WRONGS
YOU DON’T COMMITS
1/2/95


Edgar Allan Prieto
May 12,1985

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

This message has been edited. Last edited by: POEATREEMAN,

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite
by Edgar Allan Prieto 2


Peace

Is not Hard

To Understand .

Only Those

Who do not

Want it.
11/7/94



The Fool

Who said

They would

Never

Get Aids

Is the First

To Denial it.
12/1/94


There are many Paths

To Take you Wrong

Yet a Lifetime to Find

Which one is Right?


Today

Is your only Course

Yet many Paths

Will Block your Way .

Choice is one Way

To get you through

God will Help you

If you Choose .
2/5/94



My Pen is my Heart

God!

Gave me a Hand

He Let me use a Tear

To Write this by Hand .
12/14/94



PRAYER IN SCHOOL

It Takes Heart to Pray
Not Words To Say
God
Would you Help
This Nation? .

I Took this Moment
To Ask you this
In Silence ,
and Deep Reflection .

I Speak From Heart
That you Would
Hear my Prayers.

Guide This Nation
That We
May Find your Way
12/6/94


Morality:

Does not Change

Only your Concepts?
11/24/77


Remember:

If you Forget

Who I am

I am

What you

Did not Remember
12/21/88


Success:

The Success to Succeed
Is to Try
3/13/79

Success:

The only Difference

Between

Success and Failure is

Failure is Trying

Not to Succeed

Success is Trying

Not to Fail.
3/1/79


Tomorrow:

Will Awaken

To a New Day

When Yesterday

Puts Today to Sleep .
2/9/80



Time:

A Clock that's Fast

Will Shorten your Time.
10/10/77


Value:

The Value we Place

On Nature and It's Creatures

Will be

Our Salvation or Destruction.
7/25/78


War:

is Death's

Best Friend?
6/7/85



GUILT BY ASSOCIATION

I have been trying to clean it ever since

Guilt is bad, Yet there are Those

Who want to stain it more.

For those who would Judge us all

Will They know to see it?


I am not Guilty because of a Lie

I am because Truth has seen it


Look at self and Judge me not

For I'm you am I am not?


We Punish Those

Because we Think they are

We Punish ourselves

When we Judged them Wrong

Who does not have a blot on their Soul?

I had one when I entered here

Now I am Trying to Clean my Soul.
5/28/96

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 3

I am

What God

Allows Me

To Be .


But Then

I Asked Him

For a Hand .
1/14/89

Knowledge

Best Friend is Wisdom
1/20/89

If you

Befriend Knowledge

You'll find

Wisdom Comes Along.
1/20/89


My Pen has Written

My Words have Spoken

My Strokes have Written

My Pen has Spoken.
12/26/87



I am Finding my Soul

And the Well is Full

All the Years

I Poured my Heart .


When no one was There

To Share my Tears .


I never Knew

Where they Went

Until it Poured Inside

Overflowing into my Eyes

Then I Saw

Where they Were .

Deep Inside

Where I Lost Heart .


The Well of Tears

Had Flowed to God

When I Reached

For His Love .

I Found my Soul

Had Shown me Life .


The Tears still Flow

But back to God

I Can Share

Knowing

My Tears are God's
1/20/89



I am no one Special

I just Found

My Heart and Soul sooner

I am you;

No more, no less

I am

What you make of yourself.


Look to God

To Find yourself

Know who you are .

I am one Step

You have not Reached .

The Difference

Is your Faith in God .


Look to my Heart

and Into yours

Find there's room

For Both .


Keep me the size

I have always been

My Shoes

I won't be any bigger .


I am Flesh,

Not Stone or Brass .


Whatever

You make of me

I am you

So keep me in view

Hold me in Heart

For that is

The only Place

I want to Grow .



Fed by Love,

Tears, and Soul

Cared by Pain and you.
1/22/89



Well of Tears

Pours down to God

Trying to Reach

Everlasting Life.


The Souls

Are Crying to God

Take me in

Give me Life .


I Reach Down

To the Well of Tears .


There's my Soul

Crying For God

Give me a Little Love

and my Tears will Flow .


Share with me

What no one has Given

A Love that will be

Until the end of Time .


Take me in

Keep me

There with you

For all Eternity

Never Let me Go.



Keep me in

The Well of Tears

The Tears within your Eyes .

When I am There

I'll Share

All The Love Inside

The Love

Within your Eyes.
1/22/89

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite BY EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO 4


DEATH IS

THE ONLY ONE

NOT

KILLED IN WAR

5/31/2009


WATER GAIN?

When you Share

You're a lot Lighter.


Your weight

May not Change

But your

Spirit is High .


You Heard

About Water Gain

Well!

You have to Let go

Of some of those Tears

Swell!

Now I am Crying.
1/17/89



MY POETRY

I only Hope

It Finds a Place

In your Heart .


For my Tears

Have Found

A Place in you.
1/17/89



MOP UP

The Best Change

Is a new Wash

So use your Tears

To Rinse it Clean

But don't

Have a Wash out

I'll only

Have to Mop it up.
1/17/89


DEATH

If Man

Befriends War

His Friend

Will be

Destruction .


For War is Death's

Best Friend .
1/12/89



TRUTH

Truth

Cannot be Harnessed

For who

Would lead it?.


A Lie

Pulls the other way

You Cannot carry Wrong

Expect it to be Right.


For where is Truth

If you Hide it all away?

In Front of you

For it never Left
5/26/96



When you

Carry me

The Hands are

Faith and Love .
1/4/89



When I am

Under God's Care

I Serve Him

Who Bears my Heart .



When I see

The Stars at Night

I Know I am

Under God's Blanket .
1/12/89


MANKIND


Is not

A Flower a Flower?


Not because

of its Color

But because it is

Are we not one People

Because it is?



Govern me

From Heart

But Let

The Powers be Love.
1/12/89



It is only

The Darkness

That does not

Allow you

To See the Light

and only the Light

That can Take you

From Darkness
1/14/89


Religion:

No Religion is Right

When it Serves itself.
1/8/89


Love's Best Friend is Heart
1/20/89


Love was Born

But Shaped by Heart
Held Inside

Until

Love Grew out.
1/9/89



Love

Will be the Cloth

That Wipes

Away the Tears

Care will be

The Helper

That Carries

Heart around.
1/15/89



A Little Squeeze

Will bring me

A Big Hug .

And if

You Bounce .


Come on Back

Cause I'll Know

You're Soft Like me.
1/22/89



If I Follow my Nose

I'll Get to the End.
1/22/89



One Strike

I am up to Bat

Two Strikes

I am near the End

Three Strikes

I am out

No Time to Win
1/23/89



I am not the Story,

The Words are
1/27/89



Bible:

Take not

From that

Which

Is not in you .
1/27/89


A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto
Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 5

The Book only Holds

What is in your Heart

For if it's not in you

You cannot

Take From it.


If the Words are in your Heart

Then God is Speaking too

If it's in the Book

How do you Say the Word?


Let your Heart Speak through

For if you used the Book

As a Vessel

You would Surely Sink .


Put it in thy Heart

The Words

Will always be There

For you.


As I said of Stones

The Book

Will also Pass away

But not the Words of God .


For it will never Pass away .


For if it is in your Heart

You also will never Pass away.



Just like Jesus Christ

Knew Joy of Salvation

only after

He Died on the Cross

For Man's Salvation,

So Shall we

Only After we find God

And know the Pain of Life .


So Shall the Almighty

Know more Joy

When His Temple

Is Built in Heaven

Only after it is Completed .


We who are There

Each of us is a Brick

In His Temple

So when it is Finished

The World

Will no Longer be

For a New Beginning,

A New House
1/27/89



Faith:

You must

Shed man's Shackles

Go with Heart

The Tool

Must not be a Book

But the Word of God

It is that which

Is Good in you

That will Find me

I am that Part

Which Hears your Cries.
1/27/89


I Was

At the Crossroad

When you did not

Know which Way to go.
1/27/89


If I was an Angel

Do not See me

Any Brighter .

Look

For the Light in you

For it will

Shine Even Brighter
1/27/89



I Believe

Tomorrow will Come

You Believe

Today it is Here.


The Belief of God

Is His and Should be yours

The Belief of your Church

Is not the Beliefs of God

You cannot Carry God

By Carrying a Church

For He is you .


When the Stones Pass away

Where are your Church Beliefs?

You are the Foundation that Stands

The Test of Time .


And your Belief in God

Will Keep you Strong

For if the Church has God's beliefs

It does not have its Own.


For if it Does it must Unshackle

For it cannot Bear the Weight of Both.
1/27/89



I Never

Found God

Easy to Find

When I did

I Knew

The Joy and Pain.
1/28/89


I Have

A Lot of Soul

I Put

A new Pair of Shoes

On Every Day.
1/28/89



I Am

The Light that you need

I Am

The way to See all things
1/28/89



The Laws of the Church and God's Law

Which hold Heavier?

The Spirit of God moves about

The Church is held down

By its own Weight .


Which has more Heart?

The Spirit of God .


The Church has Man


No Wonder

He Shackles Himself

By His own Laws

You can't do this

You can't do that .


God said

Do what thy Heart tells you

But Know my Laws .


For they are not Shackled by man

Therefore owes no Homage.

I Am the Law

And the Law is Truth

He who Believes in me


Though He is Dead

Shall Live Again .
1/28/89



I Am one Brick of God's Temple

The Mortar is Pain Mixed with Tears

The Ingredients

Are Soul, Love, Care, and Heart.
1/26/89



The Three Temptations of Christ!


Deceiver of Hearts

Liar of Truth; Prince of Darkness, go away!

Leave my Presents in the Name of all that is Holy

In Jesus, His Son and the Father Almighty

Leave me Forever For I am in the Spirit of them.


I Command you

In the Name of the Father Almighty

And His only Begotten Son

In Whom we may Know the Father

And have Everlasting Life .


In our Lord Jesus Christ our Savior

In which we may Know Everlasting Peace

Through Christ our Lord amen.

My will is not thine

My will is God's

He commands you

Be gone, Be gone.
1/30/89



If I have no Honor

I Honor no One
1/30/89


A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto
Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 6


Pay Me

No

Homage

Honor Him

That Gave

Me Life.
1/31/89


The Sheep will Gather

In One House

For all the Doors

Will be Open

One Flock

In God's House

When all

The People

Leave

Their Churches

And Come Under

One House

To Worship God.
1/31/89



I Am

Among you,

Know this
2/1/89



The Road to Heaven

Is Paved with Thorns

The Road to Hell

Is Paved with Roses

Deceptively Sweet

But Bitter at the End.
2/1/89



A CLUE TO FINDING?

The Face of Time

Will Show you

The Key

The End of it

Will Let you See

Look into it

There you'll be

The Key to Find

What's there to See.
2/2/89




Treasures

One Chest of Memories

One Heart

To Hold all
2/3/89



One Lifetime

To Remember

One Shared by Love.


One Lifetime to Regret

One Quick Aim.
2/3/89



Oh God,

Where Did you

Place my Laurels?

I Left Them

Behind you,

Oh !

I Squashed Mine.
2/7/89


A Sheep

That is Let go

From the Fold

And Comes Back

Is a Wiser One.
2/9/89



What has Fallen

Has Risen

Far above the Fall

What has Grown

Was Because of it .


The Fall Becomes

The Seed,

The Soil of your Making

What is There to See?
2/9/89



You Can Rise above

Yourself

To Greatness


Or you Can Rise

To Destroy Yourself

Or Fall

Below Greatness .


Either to the Stars

Or to Decay

The Fall

Is yours to Take.


Learn From it

Or Die not Trying .


I Rest

Where I Fell

Or I Rise Where I Fall

My Life will be

The Spirit in me

My Will The Call.
2/9/89



A Poeatreeman

If I could

Write your Wish

It would be Peace

But I can

Say the Words

I Wish you Love

Dedicated to God

For He found me

My Heart

His love

To Grow in it

A Tear to Weep

Care to Know

When Pain is Hurt

Joy to Know

When Sadness Comes

Sorrows

When Feelings Cry.



My Heart is a Tear

Each Time I Fall

I Fall For Love.
2/12/89



Feeling Forces

A Tear can Flood the Earth

Sorrow can Fill the Oceans

Care can Wipe it all up

Pain can Tear it to its Core

Love can Hold it all Together

Hurt can Shake its very Foundation

God can Bring

His Force to Bear

Soothe all Feeling Forces

With God's Heart at the Center

Our Forces will be Calm

2/13/89




Humanity:

Try a little Prayer

To say all over

Try a little Humanity

To Spread all over.
2/15/89




No Empty Glass

Or Half Filled!

It is not That you

Have an Empty Glass.


You Filled it

With your Life

If you can't See

What is There,

Know what is .


If you Look,

Look into and See

How Clear it is .


Either Filled

Because you Filled it

Or Empty

Because

You left it Unfilled.


Either Way

You Filled the Glass .


Empty not So!

Unless you Poured

What is in Yourself

Full of Life

Or Full of Nothing .



Either Way

You are

Full of Something

That will be yours

To Pour over .


If it Overflows

You’ll know you're Full .


If there is Room

Just Drink

A Toast to Life

Pour yourself

A Glass

Think about

What is Left .


You may

Find Room For more

So Fill

Your Life with Love .


Fill your Heart Full

Your Glass

Is Full of Tears,

Your Life Full
2/15/89



Edgar Allan Prieto
2/11/89
Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 7


Tenderness is

The Heart of the Flower

Hate is the Death of it all
2/16/89


Care:

It is that Which I Care to Know

That Carries me Through Life

It is that Which you Show no One

That Shows you Through Life
2/16/89


I Asked For A Lot

I Only Asked For Truth.
2/16/89


Wedding Toast

Know my Heart

Will be with you

For my Words

Will Carry it Inside

My Tear in a Glass

I only Wish you

One Thing

A Tear to Last.
2/20/89




Wisdom of a Poeatreeman

My Wisdom is none

For His is all

I am only a Penman

Who writes to God
2/20/89



To Tie The Knot


If you Tug at me

I Can always

Keep you Strong


One Two, one Two

See how Easy

The Excise is Going.


Getting Strong Yet?


Tug Some More .


Don't Cut me Off

I need

To Know you Care

To Keep me Going.


Finally I Can Relax

I Feel Like

I was on a String

No Wonder

I am a Yo Yo
2/21/89



Anything

But Self Control

Is a Cover up
2/21/89


Please

Dear Jesus and my Lord

Please Allow me

To be your Penman

That I may Know

You Even More.

Let me Love you

With all my Heart

Be with me all Life Long.
2/22/89


A Child's Care

Say a Prayer

For Love

Love

Will Carry you

Pray

For Care each Day

Care

Will Be your Way .
2/21/89




Truth Teaches me

God lets me Know

When I am Wrong.
2/22/89



One Step to Heaven,

The Right Step .

One Step to Hell,

The Wrong Step.
2/22/89




God have Mercy

On this World

For I have not

Seen many Cares.


How many People

Say I Care

Look

What I did

For you.


How much

Does it Take to Care

One Tear, One Heart,

One Love, and God.



One Soul

To Reach a Heart

One Tear

To Wake Them up.


One Drop to Know

He is There

One Time

To Give them Love.



One Hopes,

But Wishing won't do

Care is the only

Thing I know

God have mercy

When we Lose this

For who will Be

There to Care?
2/22/89



Care has Heart

He brought me Cares

He Showed me Love

His name is Care.
2/23/89


Bittersweet:

If you Bite Misery

Expect to Taste it

If you Taste Sweetness

Expect to Know it .
2/20/89



A Seed of Life

Tragedy

Is only Grown

If you Seed it.


If you take Tragedy

Till it with Love

Your Seed

Will be a Great one
2/23/89



Tragedy

The Seed

To Greatness

Is in a Root

The Strength

Must be There

If it is to Take Hold,

and Grow into Itself.


Whoever

Comes will Gaze

For it is

A Magnificent Seed

Grown Beyond its Size .


A Test of Where it Came

A Monument of Strength

A Tower of Spirit

That Reached For God .

Dedicated to Tragedy

The Monument of Love
2/24/89



Unfruitful Thoughts:

I don't want

To think about Bananas

So don't send me a Bunch

I may go Ape, or even Bananas .
2/23/89



What Arrow?


What Deeds

I set Forth

Will be

of my Making.
2/25/89



How Much?

If I have to Worry

About the Cost

I am Paying already.
2/25/89




The Seed of an Empire

Is in a Thought

The Seed of Knowledge

Is in a Tree

The Seed to Wisdom

Is in the Face of Time

The Seed of Faith

Is in Belief


The Seed of Life

Is to Understand God.
2/28/89



A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 8

To you Critics that have no Heart


Words cannot Say but God will.


To the World let them Hear


Judge my Words by Heart

For my Tears are with Them inside

For I Care what Happens to us all .



For my Heart is there to See

All that I have Done

Or Try to Do .


Not all Successful I Might add

But Try I Did .


For Failure brought me Along

The Years have not Always been Good

But they are Now .


For I am Finding Peace as I Write

Finding God, and Myself

Life and You .



The World as I See it

As I Hoped it Would be

As it Could be If we all Cared .


I Know this is not So

I Have no Illusions

For I Know how we Can be

That is what Hurts

The Most of all .


The Carelessness

That will Bring us to Our End

As much as I hate to See .




Truth is the Light

This is what I See

We had our Chance but it is Gone

Each of us has Our chance now

So Take Care .


Beware it is only Once for you

We each Have our Soul

It is up to Us what we Do .


God is There to Take us if we Choose

We are Our own Spirit, Our own Hell

God Forbid Those who Choose

To Go the Other Way.
3/1/89



Truth is the Light

This is what I See

We had our Chance but it is Gone

Each of us has Our chance now

So Take Care .


Beware it is only Once for you

We each Have our Soul

It is up to Us what we Do .


God is There to Take us if we Choose

We are Our own Spirit, Our own Hell

God Forbid Those who Choose

To Go the Other Way.
3/1/89



Truth does not Belong to the Government

But to God

Freedom Belongs to the People

It’s not Governed by Government

Patriotism is not the Flag but the Heart

For I am the Flag that Waves Patriotism
7/3/89



If We Give Truth To Government

We Give Lies To Ourselves
7/5/89



You're Trying

To Stuff Tomorrow in There

We only Have Today.
7/21/89



President Bush

While the Words are Good

The History is Not
8/10/89



If Man Holds Heart

He Holds His Beginning.

If Man Holds Hate

He Holds His End .
1989



Love is the Mother of Tears

She Bares the Cares and Pains within

When She Pours through .


Her Heart Flows out

Her Life is a Tear

Born to Weep all Her Days .
1/20/89



A Prison of my Mind:

I Locked Away my Mind

When I throw Away my Dreams .
2/29/88



President Bush

Appeasement is

No Defense For Truth.
4/25/90


A Sorry Soul:

Man Perfects

Not Himself

But The Means

To Eliminate Himself .
1/6/90



Friendship is the Birth of Love
5/12/90



What Color are Your Tears?

All too Clear if I See
6/16/90


The only Failure is Defeat

The only Success is Trying
6/16/90



Let me have

A Thought for myself

I will Think Free
6/18/90


If my Country has Heart

Then I'll Know it's Mine .
6/17/90



If We Protect The Flag

What Freedom will be Lost?

If we Serve our Hearts

No Flag needs Protection

If we Serve our Country

Our Flag is Protected
6/17/90



President Bush

I hold Heart with you

You hold Office

Do what is Best for God

Than you will Do

What is Best for Country
6/18/90



President Reagan

No Country

Should Take a Life

If it Has

Peace as its Tool

For when you Need

To Sharpen The Blade

Make Sure

The Cut is Right.
9/1/84



Wrong does not Change

Because it's Past

If People have no Respect

It is a Cloth

Blowing against the Wind .
6/19/90


I did not Write

Because I was Handicapped

I Wrote Because I was Human .
6/23/90



Truth:

I am the one that gives Belief to all

I am the one that Serves God and man
6/18/90



A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 9

The Good is not the Best

But the Worst you've Overcame
8/10/90


If you Spread me

I'll go as

Far as the Edge
8/10/90


Deceit is a Cloth

WOVEN by Lies
8/19/90


If Tomorrow Ever Comes

I Won't be Here Today.
8/19/90



Human

If you Have to Fill me in

Color me with Love .
8/26/90


It's Hard to Discern Truth

When a Lie Speaks Through it.
8/28/90



If Truth is my Companion

Then God is my Way

If Lie is my Companion

Then Hell be on its Way
8/28/90



Sorrow is Shed

Tears are Poured

Love is Caring

Pain is Bearing

God is Sharing

All with You .
8/24/90



The Greatest Blessing

The Day you Gave to Love
8/29/90



Remembrance:

It's not like a Disease

You call Retention
9/5/90


Expect what you Give

But Give all you Expect
9/5/90


How do I know Truth?

Until a Lie Touches me.
9/6/90


Make a Smile

It may Crack you Open
9/6/90



Future Event

If I Take a Step

For Tomorrow?

Will I Fall Today

Only if I Trip over .
9/8/90


Use your Tears

Where the Flowers Grow most

Use your Heart

Where the Pain is most

Use your Care where Love is not

Use your Faith to Carry God.
10/4/90




Taxes:

The Rich Pay Less

So They Can Keep More

The Poor Pay More

So They Can Keep Less.
9/30/90




Feelings Have no Color

But We Color them Anyway.
9/16/90


The only Difference

Between us

Is Indifference
9/8/90



I Am no one Special

I have Special Cares .
10/11/90



We can't Defend Ignorance

When

The only Attack is Knowledge.
10/11/90


It is not Age that Allows us to Learn

But Insight that Lets us See
10/15/90


How is One

To Shape a Heart?

But to Love it .
10/17/90



To President Bush

One Who

Rode the Roads of War

Hopes Understanding

Will Come Along .
10/11/90



One Heart

Will Let us

Share our Difference

Two Hearts

Will Give us

More to Share

Three Hearts

will give us

One Shared by God .
10/10/90



For Each Care

That is Giving

A Flower Grows .
11/1/90



Life does not Give us Problems

It Gives us Everyday


We Ourselves have Problems

By not Dealing in Reality Today

Tomorrow may Come

Today I am Here Yesterday has Gone
11/19/90



No War has Ever Come in Peace
11/21/90



If I Look to Tomorrow

Make Sure my Vision

Is here Today .


FOR REST ASSURE

I WILL NOT SEE TOMORROW

IF I DO NOT SEE TODAY.
11/22/90




Death is not 1 PERCENT

it's 100 PERCENT

Life is the PERCENT you Live it
12/15/90


I've Been Through the Mill

But I've Ground my Way .
12/24/90


Truth Cannot be Supported

By One Percent

If Ninety Nine Percent Lie


Yet One Percent is all it Needs

FOR TRUTH IS TRUTH

NO MATTER HOW YOU SEE IT
1/11/91



It is That which I See

That Faces me .
1/25/91


It is Life

That does not Carry Problems

But Man who Carries Life.
2/7/91


If Man would use his Heart

The Tools would be Peace .
1/23/91



GOVERNMENT

If I Reach for the Plow

Make sure my Heart is in it

If I Reach for the Sword

Make sure Truth is in Hand .


If Peace is a Hand

Why can't we Take hold?

Do we Serve God or man?.


God help the Nation

Who Serves itself

For it Serves not me

Who Serves itself.
1/27/91

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Compass:

If you don't Know

Where you are Going

You are Lost anyway .
2/10/91


Life does not make Problems

But man Creates them .
2/8/91


The Wealth of Life is Wisdom

The Wealth of Knowledge is to Learn

The Wealth of Ignorance is an empty Mind

The Wealth of you is the Faith you put in God

The Wealth of People is the Hearts you fill

The Wealth of Time is to not let it WASTE AWAY

The Wealth of all is to Know who you are

The Wealth is a Soul that Found God
2/10/91


A Sword Cuts

Both Ways

Truth only Once.
2/11/91



The World without Cares

Is an Empty waste

The World better Know

It is Getting late.
2/8/91



If I Shared a Tear

Touched a Heart

Life will have been Painful

But Oh!

What Cares will I Have

I've Shared a Child's Smile

God Smiled on me

I Found the World's Tears

They Came to be Part of me..
2/8/91


A Good Friend is a Bank of Love

Empty if no Heart to Share

Blessed if Found In a Lifetime

Twice if you Have all the Cares..
2/9/91



The Battle For Man is to Understand
3/8/91


If you

Make War Sweet

You will Have

Bitter Fruits Later.
3/7/91


If I am a Twig

Let me go Against the Wind

For I will Know my Strength

For Which I Stand .
3/8/91


A Great man Will have Little Time

For the man and the Hour will Pass

The only Monument will be his Truth

Or his Footprint in the Sand .
3/10/91


Through the Best of Ideals

It is the Worst that Kills .
3/10/91


It is only the Can't

That Stops us From the Hill

Only Our Will

To Dream the Things we Can't .
4/1/91


There is no Time

That I cannot Care

There is no One

I Can not give Love

There is only Hearts

That are Filled or Empty

There is only Care

To Fill the Emptiness

Only Hate

To Tear it Apart..
4/21/91



It is that Which I Can't

That I Long to Do .
4/5/91


My Step is not the Print I made

But the Imprint that I Make.
4/22/91


I Never had a Father

To Look up

Look down or Look at

Now I See myself.
4/20/91

What is the Cost of a Penny?

The Cents of not Having it
4/25/91 .



My Tears Wrote this

Love was the Ink

God was my Strength

Who held me

When I was not.
4/26/91


My Answer is not

The Prayers I Prayed

The Faith I carry

No matter What.
5/9/91


Never be Afraid

To Shed a Tear

For the Hurt

Is not Having it.
5/12/91


Friendship is a Flower

Cultivated by Love

Never Pollinated

For it Seeds itself

When Giving Love
6/8/91


If Judgement is not Quality

Then who is Qualified to Judge?

If I measure Quality

What Quality Do I Judge?
6/7/91



A Lie has no Color

It's Unclear to me

Truth has not Color

It's Clear to See

Deception has no Color

It's Painted on Truth

Then what is Perception?

It is the Wisdom to See
6/5/91


If I Uncover it

It must be

A Cover up .
6/9/91



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A House of Care

Built by Love

Held by Feelings

Tilled by Heart

Poured by Tears

Cemented by Humanity

Cornerstone of God

Foundation of Faith

Earth!.



Honor the Dead

For they Have Fallen

For the Peace is to Know

There with God.



If I Embrace Care

I am Sheltered by Love

If I Embrace God

My Spirit is in God's

Own Hand.


A Little Seed

That Showers always

Grows to Know

What Life has Become .
6/30/91


As Long as you Don't want to

Is the Best Reason Not to .
7/1/91


If is a Mountain

Lifted by Might .
7/3/91



One Twist of Fate

One Turns the Screw

One Right, One Left

One Combination

Opens up the Gate .
7/16/91


The Strongest Strength is Care

For it can Hold the World

The Weakest not to Care

For it only Holds Emptiness

Too Weak to Hold a Tear .
7/3/91


One Turns One's Right

One Course One's Left

One Wonders, One Guessed

One Knows, One Way's Left

One Goes The Course They Set.
7/17/91


If I use my Heart

I need only a Prayer

If I Share it with God

I need only His Word .
9/11/91


Once Born, Twice Die

If you Leave God Aside .
9/11/91


Cares without Feelings

Are Souls without Tears .
9/18/91


It is only the Light I cast Aside

That Blinds me to What is Right.
10/6/91


Whatever Space Travels

You Take in Life

Make Sure God

Is along For the Ride

For it Will be His Wings

That will Hold you Up

When you Can't Fly.
10/7/91


One Sword Feathered

Is a Blow for Humanity
10/10/91


When you

Can't find a Friend

To walk with Life

Keep God at your Side

He will Walk you Through .
10/11/91


The Hour Starts when Birth began

The Hour Comes when you Least Expect

The Hour Strikes when You're not Ready

The Hour Ends when God Recalls

The Hour is no More at All .
10/11/91



What I Gather, Let it be Love

What I Tilt, Let it be Pain

What I Grow, Let it be Humanity

What I Harvest, Let it be Shared .
10/29/91


One Man with a Heart

Has Saved the World

One Faith can Save it all .
10/29/91


It was Good that Destroyed Evil
11/1/91


It's Hard to Keep

A Train of Thought

Unless you

Hook a Caboose .
11/3/91



I Pay my Electric Bills to God

He Keeps the Lights on .
11/12/91


TIMESHARE:

Time only Eludes Those

Who have not

Time for it.


Time has Time

For Those

Who take it.


If I Take

One Second to Care

I'll have Taken

The Time to Share.


59 Seconds left to Give

One Minute to Live .
11/14/91


Perfection is not Perfect

Unless it is Perfective
11/14/91



MY COUNTRY

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?
11/22/91


My Faith is my Bridge to you

My Loss not to Believe

My Heaven to Be with you

My Hell for I Chose not you .
11/22/91


The Mistake is Not the Right

The Wrongs you Did not Right.
11/24/91


Good does not

Come from evil

But Walks Beside
11/26/91



A Gift that is Given has it's Reward

Kindness is a Present given to Care

You'll find it Treats your Fellow man

Helps to Open the Door to Heaven

Humanity will Last as Long as it Cares

Christmas Comes Each Time you Share .
12/3/91

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Christmas Comes

Not Once a Year

Each Time

You Open Your Heart

To Heaven .
12/3/91


Fate is a Path

That Takes

It's Own Course .
12/5/91


What is the Greatest Pain?

The Love you Hold Dearest .
12/5/91



The Greatest Gift

Is not What you Receive

But that Which you Give.
12/5/91



If I Uncover Fear

What do I Expose?

Myself .
12/5/91


If a man Carries God

He need not Fear Darkness .
12/5/91


A Birthday with God

Is an Eternity of Love .
12/5/91



A Little Knowledge

is Dangerous

To a Fool

It is All his Answers .
12/6/91


What is the Opposite of Black?

Unclear For I See not

What is the Opposite of White?

All the Colors that Come to Light

What is the Opposite of Prejudice?

Only that Which I Care to See

What is the Opposite of Indifference?

All the Things I Choose not to Share

What is man If he Opposed Himself?

A Race to end His Life.
12/5/91



You Cannot Walk in Love

Not be Touched by Pain .
12/6/91


Christmas is Love Unwrapped

So Where is the Ribbon

To Wrap me up?.
121/6/91



The Way

You Build Character

Is Strength in Truth ,
12/9/91


If I Do one Thing

Make Sure it's all

If I Do one Thing Right

Make Sure it's not Wrong .
12/10/91



A Flower Faced with Life

Will Surely Feel the Petals Fall?

A Flower Faced with Heart

Will Surely Feel it all? .
12/11/91


The First Justice

The Truth That is God

The Second Justice

When all Will be Judged .
12/12/91



If you Find God

Snuggled

In your Heart

You will Find

You are Never

Without His Love .
12/13/91


If I can Balance

With Temperance

I can

Scale man's Faults.
12/13/91


I must Weigh all of man

If I am To Balance the Scale .
12/13/91


One Lights with a Smile

Love will Keep it on

One Lights with Faith

God will Hold the Smile .
12/16/91




What Foundation I Lay

Will be

The Cornerstone of my Life?

Held because

Strength Holds it

Crumble because

Weakness Exposed it.
12/24/91



One Hour To

Make the Most of Life

One Hour

To Mark a Place in Heaven
12/24/91



Travel only in the Right Direction

No Compass to Point the Way

Only Will! to Choose the Course

Only Wrong you'll Find you're Lost.
12/26/91



My Path is only Right

If Conscience is there Ahead

If one Can Shine a Light

I'll Hope you'll See where you're Going

A Course is not Changed by One

But a Nation Aware of its Consciences .
12/27/91


The only things I Should Change

Are the Changes that will Bring me Good

The only Change that is not Right

Are the one that Changes all the Good .
12/29/91



There are Movers and Shakers

Earthquakes too

There are Salt and Pepper

Shakers Too

There are Movers that Move

But don't Shake

There are Shakers that Shake

But only to Move .
1/13/92



Pain is only Sharp

If there is no Love

To Soften it up .
1/15/92



Serve Him

That Served Heart

Honor Him

That Loves you

Befriend Him

That Died for you

Honor Him

Mercy will be yours

Obey Him

Heaven

Will be your Reward

Anger Him

Hell Shall be yours.
1/16/92



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If I Keep my Sense

I am Left all Intact

If I Let it Get the Best of me

I am all Out of Whack .
1/30/92


I Still have my Mind

Even Though

It Leaves me Sometimes ,
1/31/92



CHORES

It Should be

Easy as Pie

Just not as Sweet
6/5/09


CREDIT CARD

Imagining

I Don't use it

Imagining

How much More I'll have

A Card

That Travels on Imagining

Is Pressed to Make an Imprint.
1/26/92


Know Truth

Wisdom will Follow through .
2/8/92


A Negative

Is the other Side of the Picture

Expose for What it is

Dark, not Enough Image

Sharp, a Contrast

That Shows its Image

Light, to Cast a Good Image

Heart and Soul to Fill it in

Human is the Picture

Give me Flesh, Give me Soul

Give me not a Picture

That is over Exposed .
2/15/92


It's not Right or Left

But Will! to Choose

It's Can't that Stops

But Will! will Choose

It's Will! that Turns Right or Left

It's up to You to Find what is Best

It's Easier when You can See Ahead.
1/11/92



Through Pain

You will Find Strength

Through Strength

You will Bear the Pain

Through Wisdom

You can Learn

What really Hurts.
2/22/92


Before you Think

Of why you Can't

Think of Why

You Should
2/22/92


One Hour of Thought

Is Far Better

Than

One Second of Impulse.
2/22/92


Twisted Mind

Will Bend itself

Care will

Straighten out the Way

Love will Find

Its Heart Unbroken

You will Know

When Hurt has Spoken

Love

Will Say it with a Tear .
3/6/92


WHERE DO I COME FROM

GOD’S PLACE

I am Neither

Northern, Southern, Eastern, or Western

I am just Here

Where I am at

EARTH'S PLACE!

ORBITING AROUND

GOING FOR A SPIN

TRYING TO FIND HUMANITY.
3/30/92


The Power to be your Best

Lies in Failure

When you

Overcome its Success .
4/5/92


PIGGY BANK

As Long as you

Keep your Sense

All you Need

Is Change .
4/11/92


The Holy Grail,

Who does it Serve?

You,

My Lord and Master

The Father of us All

The Cup of your

Son's Salvation

Beholds

Drink

From your Faith

And have

Everlasting Life .
4/19/92



Can't

Is one Step

That Won't

Go Anywhere.
4/20/92


FREEDOM

If My Heart Is Free

My Spirit Flies

No Will! to Hold Me

To The Sky

Heaven Stands

Not in My Way

I Am Free to Go

Where I May.
4/20/92


I am not More

Than Yesterday's News

So Where am I Today?

Reading it
4/25/92



When is

The Whistle Louder?

When you Toot

Your Own Horn
4/25/92


An Early Morning Solitude:

NO MATTER

What Hour I Wake

I Rise to His GLORY.
4/26/92


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ONE COURSE

One swing can Put me in the Hole

One Turf can Sure Fire the Course

One God can Take me Through

One Course is only One Play

Eighteen Holes It's the Big One!

I am in THE Back Nine

God, will Let me Know the End

Bogeys will Let me Know the Play

One Tee Shot to Start me Off

No Ref to Watch the Play

Only Lies are What's Insight

The only Truth is to See the Lie.
4/28/92


GOLF

You May not Swing your Partner

You will Certainly Hit the Ball

Don't use your Shoes for Dancing?

You may Spike them All

Try to Play the Fairway

The Course will Take you Home .
4/29/92


If the Grass is Greener

On the other Side

Why am I Sitting here?
4/30/92


Control

It's not like Golf

Where it Goes in the Cup

No Putting around

You may Land in the Ruff

Life will Keep a Score

I Thought I was

The only Player

Not When

You Drop the Ball
5/2/92


GOD

If it Spills over Remember

I am There to Dry the Tears
5/3/92


There's Two Roads One Course

There's Two Ends One Right

There's Two Choices One Left

There's Two Fates One Heaven

There's Two Doors One Open

There's One Time

When I was Born

One God to Open the Door

One to Close it all Behind.
5/5/92


Tears were my Birth

Love Came to me

Heart was my Feelings

You Came to me.
5/30/92


The Tree is

The Strength of Society

With each Limb Broken off

It Weakens its Strength,

No Growth can Grow

If the Limb is Broken

As with the Family

The Tree has Broken

The Strength is in the Roots

One is not Enough

To Feed a Tree for Life

For even Trees will Fall

When the Roots

Do not Take Hold.
5/20/92


If you have a Pressing Issue

You should Iron it out

If you're Press to make an Imprint

You should Take a Picture

If you Work the Press

You should Wrestle with this Line .
5/30/92


Out of the Whole World

I had to Fall

In such a Small Hole

Oops! my Foot.
5/30/92


Before a Word can Cut you

You must Feel it First.
6/11/92


Sometimes

When I Fall behind

I go Forward.
6/13/92


I Gave you Credit;

Not much Cents

I Gave you a Dollar;

Not much Credit .
6/8/92


If I Watch what I Eat

I Hope it's Looking up

If I Eat what I Watch

I Hope it Does not

Look at me.
6/8/92


What is the Difference?

Between

A Sharpener and a Pencil?

The Point.
6/11/92


If you Find you're in a Twist

Be Glad you're not in Knots .
6/11/92


When I am Down Under

I can Write up Line

When I am in China

I can Underline .
6/12/92


Time's not Holding Hands

Is one Strike against you

Time Sharing

Is a Beautiful Reflection .

I am Faced with Time

My Hands are There

No Movements

Unless I Share

One Second

Will Push me Along .

One Hour to Care

No Time to Stop

No One to Wind me up

I am not a Clock .
6/13/92


One Ties up

When One

Cannot Let Loose .
6/26/92


One Prayer is

A Connection I Need

One Faith

Will let me Cross the Seas

One Travels Nowhere

When Leaving God

One Travels a Lifetime

To Reach for God.
6/26/92


How do I Commit a big Sin?

By Committing a Small one
6/21/92


Who Picked up the Check

When I Could not Pay?

Sorrow Wrote it

Care was There

To Make it Good .
6/29/92


No Time to Pass

When Left with Self

No Hands to Move

When Time has Stopped

No Time unless

I Push ahead

No Clock to Move,

I'm Faced with Self

One Time to Set

Before it's Gone

One Hour ahead,

Its Not too Long

No Time to Wind,

Just Pass Today

No Time Tomorrow,

I am Here Today.

Beyond Tomorrow,

I'll Find no Way.
7/7/92


I am Half Between the Hour

And Beginning of the Start

I am at the Start of the Day

And the End of its Time

I am the Dawn of my Beginning

And the Twilight of Life

I am Sunset Falling for the Night

I am Today Rising to the Light.
7/7/92



Am I that Tall Ship

From Long ago?

Or just a Mask

Of Weathered Storms

Showing all its Breakage?
7/8/92


One Course

Will not

Let me go Aground

One will Take me

Through all Storms

One will Keep me

From Braking up

One will Show me

The Northern Lights.
7/8/92

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What is

The Depth of Reflection?

The Imprint .
6/18/92


The First Prison

Is Self Incarceration

The First Lock

Is Lack of Will

The First Sentence

Is Responsibility .
6/18/92



If my Feet

Are in Yesteryear

How do I

Walk around Today?
8/15/92



God help them

For They

Lost Their Cents

Kept Their Dollars.
8/16/92


TIME

You Cannot

Take a Step Backwards

You Can Go Forward.
8/18/92


CHOICE

Life Made

My First Choice

I Follow Through .

The Second

Was my Own

For it Took me

All The Way Through .
8/26/92



If I Told You

The Sky Was Down

Would you Look up .
6/10/92



I Cut my Knee

Had a Bandage to Cover

I Tore my Heart,

No Bandage could Cover

I Took Love in

Closed the Wound

I Remember the Hurt

Care was Working

To Hold it Together .
9/2/92


HEAVEN & HELL

The Road to Hell

Is to Give

A Good Damn about Nothing

The Road to Heaven

Is to Give

A Good Hoot about Everything.
8/30/92


MY COUNTRY'S PATH

My Spirit has Battled my Soul

My Heart was Torn to Hell

My Country I Hope the Wiser

I Could not Battle Myself .
9/21/92



UNDERSTANDING

Less

He Finds a Better way

There is

No Time to Talk again

War answers

When man Cannot

It is Humanities' Death

That Dies

Each Time There is War

I will Exist,

Yet How Much More?

Each Time

I have Fallen,

There is no Return

I am Buried

With all the Hearts

That Where Killed in War

Raise up Peace

I Will Come Through

Kill me you will be Too .
9/21/92


An Elephant

Never Forgets

Remember

I Forgot

I was an Elephant

I Was Wondering

What This Trunk was For .
9/26/92


The Measure of a Man

Is How he Stands up

Don't use a Yard Stick

You'll not Measure up.
9/18/92



We Brutalize

Each Other

By not Caring

We can Find Peace

Through Sharing .
9/25/92



The Biggest Instrument

Is your Mouth

It really Blows out

No Trumpet

Can Play

The Tunes you Sing out.
9/30/92



A Tree is just not Leaves but Life

Branching out to Touch the Light

Reaching for life's Sweetness

Taking all and Holding Life

Broken Limbs and Falling Leaves

It Sheds its Heart so all May See

Changing! Yet Holding on
10/1/92


Is not Life one's End to here?

Is not Death one's new Door?

Is not Choice one's Beginning again?

Is not God one's Faith to Life?

Is not Birth one's Start to all?

Is not Wrong one's Fatal Flaw?
10/1/92


A PERFECT FOOL

Generally

I am Right

Hardly

Ever Wrong

Except

When I do not Know

Almost Right

Knowing

What I Know

Only

One Percent Wrong

Not Knowing

Anything at All

99 Percent Right

I Will Have

The Answers to All .
10/8/92

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The Balance Between

What is and is not

Is only a Thread

That can Hold up

What is .
10/8/92



WAR

There are

No Credits in War

Only

A Sad Commentator

For Peace

Fear

Is not Ignorance!

Ignorance is War

For Knowledge

Is the Understanding

Your Enemy is War

Strike at it with Wisdom

Peace will be Yours .
10/16/92


To all

That Held up Truth

You have Fallen

Not Forgotten

One Day all

Will be Unveiled

The Cloak of Secrecy

Covers Us All .
10/16/92



GOD'S HOUSE

I Built my House

With The Tools of Life

I Built my Foundation

Under it all

I Live with it Until

The end of Life

I Rose to Find

It still Stood up

I Built it on

The Laws of God

I Found that I Was

Always There

In God's House

For I never left

Heaven it was

For I was only

Outside Praying
10/18/92



If you

Want to be Presidential

Serve God's Laws

If you

Want to be President

There is Man

To Elect You .
10/15/92


WHAT PATH?

Patriotism is the Willingness

To Hold the Course

When your Country

Is Leading away

From its own Direction

The Forefathers

Chose to Walk

Freedom was the Course

Truth was the Light

For Darkness Showed

The Shadows of Decay

Their Constitution

Gave them

The Chance

To Challenge Wrong .
10/18/92


MANKIND

We Must Inoculate Peace

So War Can Die

If He wants

To Eradicate Himself

He can Stay

On The Path of War

If He wants to End it

He must Eradicate War

If He wants to Live

He Must Hold

Peace Up

If He wants

To see Tomorrow

He Must

See Himself Today .
10/18/92


Words are

As Sharp

As a Blade

Yet Cut Deeper

Than a Knife

It Rips the Heart

Tears the Soul

Wounds you for Life .
10/19/92


VIEWS

My Friendship

Is not Right or Wrong

When he Takes me

To his Wrong

I Cannot

Go with him at all

My Friendship

Must have

Truth and Heart

Care and Love

Will Keep it Going

My Friendship

Must be True to us

Speak your Mind

Without you Going .
10/21/92


If Man Wants to Fight War

Let Him Start with Peace

If He wants to Win it all

Let Him not Start One at all
10/22/92




One Chest to hold

A wealth of life

A Tear in a Heart .


One Chest to Hold

A Heart for Life.


A Tear that Carried

Care to Love.


One Chest to Treasure

All your Life

A Tear I Gave to God.
10/22/92



LAST CHANCE

No Time to Start

When you

Have not Begun

No Time to Know

When you're

Not at the Start

No Time

To Answer

When Questions

Aren't There

No Time to Begin

When you are

Already There.
10/31/92

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 17

Let my Vision

See What

Course I take

Let my Heart

Believe in Country

Let my Strength

Be God's Light

Let my Country

Serve What is Right

Let my Insight

Not be Blinded

Let my Loyalty

Be as Right

Let my Honor

Serve no Wrong

Let my Duty

Work for Truth

Let my Life

Be As God

Would Have .
11/12/92


Let Government

Serve God

By Serving Humanity ,
11/2/92


I Try

To Iron myself Out

Not Always

With a Wrinkle .
1/8/93


Tomorrow

Does not Exist

Yet We Are

Faced With it Today .
1/10/93


A Road Scholar

He Has To

Drive Through Life

To Get a Degree.
1/11/93


A Wise Man

Becomes Wiser

When Wisdom

Is Around
1/22/93


Each Day Dies

Yet Tomorrow's Reborn

Each Day Begins

A new Day is Born

Each Day That Passes

Life is Ending

Each Day We Have

Is a Beginning

To Our Ending .
1/22/93


Life Holds

All that is Good

Yet we

Choose the Bad

God Holds all

What will We

Choose Instead?
1/24/93


God is a Good Choice

When Left with Doubts

God is a Good Friend

When it Comes to the End

God is a Good Start

When There

Is no Place to Start

God is All

When You

Take Him to Heart .
1/24/93


A PRAYER OF HOPE

I Have one Heart

Only if I Give it

I Have One Care

To Take you Through it

I Have One World

To Share it All

I Have One Hope

We Can Live With All.
3/6/93


A PRAYER

I Pray

That God will Answer

I Thank Him

When He does

I Pray that God

will Hear me

When I Thank Him

For His Love .


If I Go

God's Way

My Thanks

Will Have

Been Served

If I Find

God's Home

My Prayers

Will Have

Been Heard .
3/29/93


UNKNOWN

How Far is Why?

From Here to Eternity

How Far Will you Go?

Why Only Knows .
3/28/93


FAITH

There are

Many Things

You Cannot See

Many More

You Cannot Believe

Yet Faith

Will Bring You

All You Need.
4/5/93



GOD'S HAND

Does Life

Shape Itself?

Or Man

Shape Life? .


It Forms Itself


What Shape is Life?

A Living Cell .


What Forms?

Life in All its Cells


I Began

When God

Came To Me

The Day

He Gave Me Life

I Was Just

A Little Cell

Now He

Calls Me Life.
4/5/93

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 18

MANKIND

Less

I Reduce Hate

I Will never Be

In the Right Shape

Unless

My Heart's in Place

All Else Will Fail

To Keep its Shape
4/18/93



A STEP TO TOMORROW

I Left my Past

When I Walked

Through Yesterday .


Found Today


Yet I Looked

To Tomorrow

With Eyes Today

Saw

I Was Here Today .
4/22/93



WASTED TIMES

There is no

Life Tomorrow

Unless I See Today

There is only Now

Will I Let it

Pass Away?

And not Be

Sorry That I Did?
4/22/93



CARE

God is the only Cover

That can Dress me up

He Holds me Together

When I am Cut up .
4/23/93


FOOL WITH ME AND HELL TO PAY

God will Help Fools

But don't Fool with Him .
4/22/93


TRYING

If I Reach

For Today

Tomorrow

Will be There

To Let me

Take Hold.
4/23/93


LOVE

The Heart Speaks

Many Words

Yet only Feels One .
4/12/93


COURSE CORRECTION

The Right of Passage

Is to Do the Right Thing .
4/25/93



NOT PLANTERS

What do you Get

For Peanuts?

Just Plain Georgia .
3/20/93


TRY AN IRONING BOARD

No Matter

How Many

Pressing Issues

I Have

I Can only

Iron them

One at a Time .
1/1/93

DRY CLEANER

If you Want to get it Right

Try not to Steam it over

If you Want to Press it Right

Try Ironing Out your Soul

If you Want to See yourself

Look over What you have Done ,
3/23/93


WHO'S PATTING MY BACK?

When all About you

Think you're Wrong

God Knows

What is Right

When all About you

Think you're Right

How Sure

Are you of Wrong?
3/25/93


FEELINGS

I Hit my Toe

Hurt Came out

I Felt the Pain

Let it Go

I Tore my Heart

Love Came out

I Felt the Pain

Throughout my Heart
5/1/93


LOVE AND HATE

Who did I Leave out?

One that I did not Let in

Who Came out?

One who was Already in .
5/12/93



COURSE

The only Steps

I left Behind

Those I Chose

To walk

The only Things

Left Undone

Are the Ones

I Did not Walk.
5/25/93


GOD'S SHOE SHOP

I Changed my Shoes

Yet!

Kept my Soul

I Bought

A new Pair of Shoes

My Soul

Was there for Life

I Hope

I do not

Have any Holes

I Cannot Buy

A Soul for Life

Maybe

I can Change my Feet

I only Have

One Soul to Lose

Yet!

Left and Right

Are always There


Funny!

How I Slip into Them

It is almost

Like my Shoes.
5/25/93


CHOICE

The Best Direction

I Can Take

Is not to Go

In the Wrong Direction

The Best Course

Is the One

That Leads to God

What will I Do

With a Compass now

Can't Change Direction?

If I don't Set the Course.
6/3/93


INIQUITY

The Foundation

You put Down

Is a Weak one

If you Do not

Use your Strength.
6/5/93


GOD'S PRESENT

My Birthday is Life

Each Day I am Here

Is a Celebration to Life.


I Hope Tomorrow

Will give me my Present

Today brought me

The Biggest Gift

Yesterday

I Opened it up

It Gave me

All of Today to Enjoy.
6/10/93


A MOTHER

I Came from Love,

Grew in Heart

You Held me

When I was Not

You Carried me

Throughout 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 .
6/19/93


TOGETHER

I am all When I am One

I am one With all that I Love

There are Many Branches

Yet one Heart Holds us all .
6/19/93


ONCE IN A LIFETIME

I have a Soul

To do it Right

But never Twice

I Have one Chance

To Find what's Wrong

I Have one Path

To Find the Way

I Have one Hope

If I am to See .

I Have

One Time to Do it all

I Have one End

If I am Wrong .
6/26/93


HEAVEN

Faith will Show me

When I am Lost

Prayers

Will Let me Hear the Way

God will Bring me Home again

If I Let Him Chart the Way.
6/26/93


GET YOUR HEART INTO SHAPE

Love is never

out of Shape

Yet Hate

Can Always

Find its Place

Try to Keep It

From Forming you

Carry Care

In all you Do

Love will Have

No Room for Hate

A Heart

That Has only Love

Is in the Best Shape?
7/1/93


FATHER TIME

Father time

Has not Passed you

But held its Heart

For you to Grow

Now you Know

What Father is

The Times

We Spend Growing Old.
6/20/93


A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Tomorrow only Exists

In the Imagination of Today.
6/19/93


LOST TIME

Yesterday I Thought

I Would do it Tomorrow

But Today Came up.
6/19/93


GIVING

A Card for all Seasons

Love is never out of Line
6/20/93


AN HOURGLASS

One Day

Can be a Life Time

One's Lifetime

Is only by the Day

One See's it all

At the End of it

How Did

I Get Here Today?

It all Started

Yesterday

When Tomorrow

Became Today
6/7/93


HURT

If you Want to Care

Put a Bandage on a Tear.
6/22/93


DON'T ASK DON'T TELL POLICY

If you Pass a Law to Say you are

You Prove to yourself What you are not

How Can you Have a Code of Conduct?

And Conduct it Both Right and Wrong?


You Cannot Hold up Wrong and Right

And Balance the Scale to Equal Truth

You must Weigh what is Right

To find What is True

You must Weigh the Cost

To know What you will Lose.
7/24/93


ETERNITY

There is no End

When the River

Flows to God

There are only Starts

Where will I Begin?

There is one Choice

Where will it be?
7/24/93


I AM WHERE I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN

One Starts

When one is on the River

One Chance to Stop

From Falling to the Falls

One's Birth

Will Bring me to it All

One's End

Is only just Beginning

Eternity is just Ahead,

No Time to Lose

Time is not Running,

Nor are you

You're Faced

With what

You Chose to Do

No Time to Think

Of where I will Go

I knew Before

I Ended my Journey .
7/24/93


OUTLOOK

If I turn Life upside down

I may only See my Feet

If I go down under

I may not See at all

Maybe

I Can turn Side wards

And See the Other view

I Tried

North, South, East, and West

Maybe

I Should

Straighten up

Beats Standing

on my Head

Let me Pound

My Feet instead

Go with Life

Keep a Friend

You will Learn

To Love

Those Little Things

The Cares you Found

Along the Way .
7/25/93


REACH FOR GOD

If There is no One There,

To Hold you

Just Reach

For God instead

If There is no One There,

To Care For you

Care For God instead

If There is no One There

To Take your Heart

Give it to All

Who don't Have Love .
7/27/93




A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 19

UNEMPLOYMENT

If it Was

Not so Hard

To Breathe

I Would

Not Work

At it So Much .


Unless I Do

I Won't

Work at all .
7/24/93


TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE

What is

Constant is Change

For it never

Stays the Same

The Hour Falls

Passing us all

I am

Left Knowing

It is not The Same.
7/25/93



JUDGMENT DAY

When

I was Here

There were

Many Standards

When I Left

I was Faced with one .


When I am

Judged

It Will be

My Standard .


When I am Faced

With What I Did

Will my Standards

Hold up Then?
8/5/93



AN HOUR GLASS

This is

One Time

That Counts

For Everything .


This is One Time

Not to Throw

It all Away .


The Hour Glass

Pours Through

Each Grain is

A Little Bit of Life.


Yet only Once

Can I Turn it Over

Not Do it Twice.
8/5/93


WHAT IS THERE?

I Changed a Diaper

Because it was There

I Changed Nothing

Each Time I Worried

I Changed Worrying

When I Let Wisdom

Show me How.
8/24/93



WHEN

I Know

All I Can't

I'll Know

What I Can

When I Know

What I can Change

I'll Know all I Can't

When I Have Wisdom

It Will not

Change a Thing

For all is

What it Should be

I Will Learn to Change .
8/24/93


One Shares

Many Things

Yet many Things

Are not Felt

One Shares Love

Many Things

Are Touched .
8/27/93


LADDER TO LIFE

Each Rung

I Climbed

Is One Step

Further?

Each Rung

I Left Behind

Is One

I Cannot Climb?

Each Rung

Will Take me

To its Heights

Even

If I Fall Behind .
9/9/93



FRIENDSHIP IS

The Weight

Of

A Lifetime

Gold

The Weight

Of its Gram

Friendship is

The Treasure

No Gold

Can Out Weigh

It Shines

Through All

Where Gold

Will only Glitter .
9/14/93


One Share's

Friendship

Only When

They Give

Their Best

One Gives Heart

When Friendship

Is at its Best.
9/14/93


A FRIEND

I May not Always

Walk your Way

Yet I Will not

Walk Away

I Feel Love

Will Bring us Through

Two Friends That Found

One Road to Use..


I Hope We Meet

When God is Through

Two Souls

Who Found

Their Way Upstairs

Thank Heaven

We are Finally Here .
9/27/93


LIFE

I Found Heart

Was the Treasure

I Found Love

Was the Key

I Found God

Opening the Chest

I Was Left

With the Key.
9/27/93


No Matter

How Life Goes

You Will Always

Have a Friend .


To Stay One

You Must

Always Be a Friend .
9/27/93



HUMANITY

If I Thought

Humanity

Was a Dish

I Would

Serve it To All

To Share

In its Goodness .
10/3/93

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto
Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto

Food 4 Thought Have a Bite by Edgar Allan Prieto 20

If I Traveled

Alone in Life

It must be Because

I Left God Behind.
10/2/93



How do I Turn

What is

Wrong to Right?

By Facing

What I Know is Left .
10/12/93



Two Friends

Can Share

What is Right

Only When

They Know

What is Wrong .


Two Friends

Can Share Life

Only When

They Can Speak

Their Words .


Two Friends

Can Disagree

Only When

They are not

Afraid .


Two Friends

Can Face the Truth

Only When

Their Hearts are in it.


Two Friends!

What is There

More to Say?

That Love

Cannot

Say it Better? .


Care my Friend

We Can

Take it To the End .
10/12/93


Let my Heart

Be my Eyes

I Will See

The Color of Heaven

Let Love

Reach to God

My Heart

Will Touch the Heaven .
10/21/93



I Mind

A Lot of Things

Too Bad

I Can't Dig it up .
10/14/93


One Colors Their View

By Seeing only Theirs

One Blinds Their Way

By not Seeing Through

One Clears The Way

By Opening

Their Heart to all

One Serves Humanity

By Loving it Today .
10/21/93



I Charted Life

Found many Paths

I Charted Darkness

Found I was Lost

I Took Faith

To See

My Way Through

I Kept God

To Know

Which Path was True .
10/26/93


It is Better

To Follow your Steps

And be Wrong

Than to Follow another

And never Know Right .
12/11/93



What is one Day,

If God is not Present?

One Day Without Heaven.
11/3/93


I Prayed

I Would See the End

Yet I am Looking

For the Start

I Prayed

I Would See the Start

Yet Where Will it End?

I Prayed

From the Beginning

Yet Ended on a Hope

I Wish

I Could Do More

Yet God

Will Give us Peace .
12/8/93



We Have

Drought

And Famine

In This World

Let us not

Add Love

That is

Starving

For a Tear .
12/16/93


When

Did I

First Cry?

When

I Missed

Laughter
12/25/93


How Long

Do you Do

My Minutes?

About an Hour

Is it Done yet?

In a Minute .
12/30/93


If I Bring

Nothing to Life

What Can I Gain?

If I Give it my all

What will I Lose?

If I Share it with Life

I will Have

Everything to Gain

If I Try my Best

I will Both Win and Lose.
1/7/94


What is

Precious is Love

For it Fills

Today

What is Golden

Is Care

For it Holds

Tomorrow

What is

Treasured?

Our Tears

For it Gives always .
1/7/94


Go God's Way

When you Have

No Where To Go .
1/6/94


You Do not

Support yourself

By Putting

People Down

You Hold Them up

When you Carry Care .
1/7/94



If I Iron

Things out

I Won't need

To Press

Them over

No Wrinkles

To Steam out .
1/7/94



Truth

Is Best Served

When it is Not

Served with Lies

The Public

Is Best Served

When There

Is Nothing To Hide .
1/18/94


How Close is Right?

Far away From Wrong

How Far Should I Go?

One Step To The Right .
1/18/94


TRY CHANGING TO THE RIGHT

If I Walk on the Left side

How Can it Ever be Right?
1/18/94


Are you Alive?

I am Breathing
As Hard as I Can .
1/14/94



To be

Politically Correct

Is an

Empty Promise?

For What

Does it Promise

That you

Cannot

Give yourself?

The Promise

That you Will be

Politically Correct

What is the Value

Of Someone

Else?

If I Cannot

Value Myself?
1/19/94

Know

What is True

To Know

What is Right.


Know

What is Right to

Know

What you Will do .


Know

You Have

A Choice

For Good

Know

That God is

There for you .
1/19/94



DIRECTION

If I Turn about

Will I Face Right?

If I Turn around

Will I Be Right?
1/31/94


FOLLOW YOUR RIGHT

Funny how my

Left foot

Always Seems

To Know

It Takes me

Right along

Wherever I Go

Not always

Am I Left with Right
1/31/94



MYSELF

God made all things

I must Know

The Size I am

There are Tall Tales

yet I must Remember

Who I am

Truth

Will Tell me

What I am

A Lie

Will Tell me

All it Can.
2/1/94


JUSTICE IS SOMETIMES BLIND
WHEN IT WEARS MAN GLASSES

The Price of Truth is Sometimes Hard

Yet not as Hard as the Lie you Have Spoken

For when it Returns you must Face up

For Truth will be There to Speak up .
2/2/94


UNCOVER TO EXPOSE

If I Dig all my Life

I will never Find the Truth

For if it is Buried

It will not Be in a Chest

The Treasure is not Finding it

Knowing What is Truth .
2/3/94


NEWSPAPER

A Subscription to Truth

Is not to Subscribe to a Lie .
2/3/94


RIGHT OR WRONG

Do not Hold God

Back From School

If you Want to School

Our Children in Good.
2/4/94


PRAYER IN SCHOOL

Let them Have

A Moment to Pray

If They Choose

But Do not

Pass a Law

That Requires

Them to Pray

For Faith is a Belief

God Will Hear all

I Brought

Him Into School

When I Carried

Faith in Heart .
2/4/94


A Poeatreeman

Who is Still in

The Course of Life?

Trying to Gain

Credits

In The

Acceptances of God .
2/4/94


A DOUBTING THOMAS

If you Have

Nothing to Believe

Still Have Faith

For One Day

It Will Show you

All That is To Be .
2/4/94


There are

Many Things

That Speak

To me

Not always

Will I Listen

There are

Many Things

I Should not Hear

Yet I

Must always Listen.
2/4/94



HUMANITY I AM GIVING

Dedicated to Our Humanness

With all its Imperfections

For Without There is no Place to Climb .
2/7/94


It is my Flaws that Make me Human

It is my Spirit that Lets me Fly above all

It is my Humanity that Lets me Love all

It is my God that Lets me be Here at all

It is my Faith that Keeps me Going When I Fall

It is my Humanness that Shows me my Strengths

It is my Weakness that Lets me Climb it all .
2/6/94


TRUTH SPOKEN

Dedicated to God and Love

For They Both Hold me

Friends Who Speak Their Mind

Yet Still are There to Hold with me .
2/9/94



BLIND FAITH

One Blessed Love

Is God's Reward

He put His Faith

in me

When I Was

Not Sure of mine

Blind Trust

It's Hard to See

Yet Faith He Has

As a Friend Would be .
2/9/94



LISTEN CAREFULLY YOU MAY HEAR THE TRUTH?

Truth is the First

The Last

You will Hear

It Speaks

Through Life

Whatever

You Listen or not

You Cannot Say

I Did not Know

I Did not

Hear Right

When I

Was Born

Yet my Life

Will Have to

Find it

For the End

Will Let me

Know

Not Too Late

If I Listen

To it

For Truth

Will Speak

Before I Do it .
2/15/94


A SCALE FOR TRUTH

Judge yourself against the Wrong

Than Truth will Come Right along

Look not to Others to See your Follies

Nor Look to Others to See Less Wrong

Compare not One against the Other

For Wrong Cannot be Less than Right

Do not Try to Add them

For no Equation Will Make it Right.
2/15/94


A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright @ 2009 Edgar Allan Prieto