FORGIVENESS REWIND

When relationships get complicated
And we continue to grow apart--
Let's press the reset button of Forgiveness
----And Rewind back home to Start.

When harsh feelings take over our senses
And at others we try to throw dark darts---
Let's press the reset button of Forgiveness
----And go back to Love's fresh Start.
2011 by Douglas Raymond Rose
Grand Prairie, Tx.
Member Academy of American Poets

If My Pet Could Talk

Like Charlie the Star kissed Tuna, Sorry Charlie, you're Done!

Charlie Sheen at the Plaza

If my pet could talk it would say:

SORRY CHARLIE!



Charlie Sheen your tV series;

Has enjoyed a ten year run;

But like Charlie the Star kissed Tuna

We think with you we're done.

Your wisecracks are exhausting

Your antics have had a long run--

But like Charlie The star kissed Tuna

Dude---take a hint---you're Done!

Right now you're acting like Half-a-Man

Come on--you're Martin Sheen's son;

But like Charlie the Star kissed Tuna

Sorry Charlie---us cats all say "you're Done!"

GRANDEUR OF GOD

Oozing like fresh oil
From between the earth's cracks
Comes the Grandeur of God

Breaking through the sunrise
With every sizzling sunlit streak
Comes the Grandeur of God.

Like a mother's warm breast
Offering solace to mankind
Comes the Grandeur of God

Like lightning flashing
And thunder-clouds rolling in
Comes the Grandeur of God

Dazzling the night with stars
Making the moon a shining ball;
Comes the Grandeur of God

Out of the Virgin Mary's womb
Into my vacant, waiting soul---
Comes the Grandeur of God.

2011 by Douglas Raymond Rose
Member Academy of American Poets
Member Texas Historical Society

A Favorite Game Show

Around the World I search for you---Everybody Sing!

Traveling from mid-America to New Zealand seemed like 'Around the World" to us. We first changed planes in Los Angeles---then Hawaii----then Figi Island--and then on to Auckland, New Zealand. We took a tourist fairy boat from the North Island to the South Island and then back up to New Zealand. It was truly a trip of a lifetime since we were able to visit with over 40 relatives of ours.

One of them is a member of Parliament.

ANGELS ON EARTH CALENDAR REPRINT: Feb.22,2011

Our daughter, Aimee and her husband were expecting a baby (on NFL Super-Bowl weekend 2001)---a boy.
They had chosen the name Joel, wallpapered his room in blue and filled his dresser with baby clothes. Family members had contributed toddler Texas Rangers gear as well as Dallas Cowboys blue and white jerseys.
As Granddad, my gift was a Bar Mitzvah angel--a young boy dressed in Jewish vesture. This little angel would remind Aimee that the seeds of her son's faith would be planted in his infancy.
Or HER infancy, as it happened.
Surprise!
Avaree Rose Hosford was welcomed with all the love and joy a little boy would have been. She looks adorable in the tiny sports jerseys, surrounded by Dallas Cowboy blue. I know that angels watch over her as God does all of us, helping us to greet the unexpected with grace, a thankful heart, and most of all, a sense of humor.
Rev.Douglas Raymond Rose
Grand Prairie, Texas.

A VALENTINE HEART

Slow down my hasty heart
Slow down and in Him wait;
God often lingers longer-
But He never comes too late.

Slow down my hasty heart
And travel on in peace---
Conform your will unto God's
And your soul shall have a feast.

Slow down my hasty heart
God guides the future as the past;
Let nothing shake your confidence
All shall be bright at last.

2011 by Douglas Raymond Rose
Grand Prairie, Texas
Member Academy of American Poets

LIKE MELTED SNOW

Make me Lord like Melted Snow
Forgetting all about myself;
Realizing I came from you--
And back to you I must go.

Melt my thoughts into yours Lord
Melt both my heart and soul---
Merge my life with yours Lord
Make me like Melted Snow.

2011 by Douglas Raymond Rose
Member Academy of American Poets
Super-Bowl Weekend of Monster Snowstorm