A true poet once said: (Rough translation): “I would only like to be one of the reasons for your smile, maybe a small thought on your mind in the morning, or perhaps a lovely memory on your mind before sleeping. I would only like to be a fleeting image before your eyes, perhaps a voiceContinue reading “Namesake: Gabriela Mistral”
Category Archives: Poetry
“Peace is always beautiful.”-Walt Whitman
“Peace is always beautiful.” Walt Whitman
Emerald Moonlight Pearl
By: Gabriela Yareliz Stolen glances, houses white under moonlight; emerald hills. Peace and angst in blend, golden shadows cast. The sky is a perfect shade of dark, a blue so thick it envelopes resignation. Trembling emotion, the kind that leaves you breathless and crying-all at once. It leaves you gasping for not air, not peace,Continue reading “Emerald Moonlight Pearl”
No me compares [don’t compare me]: Alejandro Sanz, Spain
By: Gabriela Yareliz Do you know a singer who opens a window into your soul? Alejandro Sanz is just the man to do that. /I am your soul, and you are my air/
This Week’s Picks: May 12, 2013
Hello Friends! Three exams down and one more to go + writing competition. I do have one thing to say: Yes. I am alive, like Mooshoo from Mulan. Thank God. God is good. It has been a rough set of weeks, but we are almost at the other side. My brain cells are a bitContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: May 12, 2013”
This Week’s Picks: February 24, 2013
By: Gabriela Yareliz Hey everyone! I hope this week will be better than last week. It was a frustrating week, last week. On the bright side, I slept like a boss. I have had a terrible sleeping pattern. Despite the hecticness, life has always granted me many lessons throughout. So, here is a melange ofContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: February 24, 2013”
Lift up your head
By: Gabriela Yareliz Lift your head, the crown may fall. You are a child of the Most High God. He is owner of all in the world, and will only give you His best. Fear not if you lose something or sparkles fade. He is standing by with Amazing Grace. Things won’t be perfect, someContinue reading “Lift up your head”
/I saw your sky/
Excerpts from Poem, “A Soldier’s Prayer” Look God, I have never spoken to you But now I want to say, “How do you do?” You see, they had told me you didn’t exist And like a fool I believed all this Last night from a shell hole I saw your sky I figured right thenContinue reading “/I saw your sky/”
This Week’s Picks: Nov. 26, 2012
By: Gabriela Yareliz 1] Dec. 1 THIS SABBATH (SATURDAY): DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER Adventist leaders call for December 1 day of prayer for two church members imprisoned in Togo “Join the Seventh-day Adventist world church in a day of prayer and fasting for two Adventists imprisoned in Togo. Pastor Antonio Monteiro and church memberContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: Nov. 26, 2012”
Sparkles
By: Gabriela Yareliz 1] A moment in a memory I still feel sparkles of it in my heart; like glitter left falling in the air. 2] Desire “Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Se’lah” Psalm 21:2 3] Shallow pursuits I think every woman has a beauty orContinue reading “Sparkles”
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