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The World

To All The Nations Of The World And To Its People

"A Melting Pot"

I Will Help It Serve The Best It Has
I Will Hold It All Together
And Take From The Melting Pot
I Will Stir And Mix And Add To Flavor
I Will Turn It So I Will Know What Is There
I Will Take The Spices That Is In The Pot
The Flavor Has The Best Of The World
No Salt To Add To Change The Brew
No Vinegar To Ruin The Pot
The Spices Are Colorful In Themselves
They Add Uniquely To This World
Serving All Will Serve Each One
Mixing In Will Help The Pot
Holding All Will Keep It From Spilling
Bringing God Love And Caring
Will Help To Serve All Hearts
Adding All Will Help The Melting Pot
Just Serve The World And Know Your Neighbor
Bring Peace To The Table
And All Will Share In Giving Favor
All The World Is Mankind's Table
One Melting Pot To Serve Us All
No Sense Spilling It Over
Who's Going To Clean It Up?
No Ones At The Table.

Footnote
Say A Prayer To Give Peace A Start
And You Will Finish With A Friend
Give A Friend Your Heart
And You Will Have Peace To The End

Dedicated To The United Nations And Peace Around The Table

A Poetry Man
If I Thought Humanity Was A Dish
I Would Serve It To All
To Share In Its Goodness

Edgar Allan Prieto
1/13/92

A Garden of Love

Love Flowers, through all Seasons
Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
Pain, Sorrow, Care, and Tears
It Blossoms always, when Love is there
Today, Holds all The Garden Tools
The Days of Childhood
The Days of Youth
The Days of Adulthood
The Days, when there are few
The Days of Yesteryears
When Love was New
They were all in The Garden
When Love came Through
I Took my Cares, and placed them Where?
In Each Heart, I Found I Planted Love
That I would Have, a Flower Growing
My Garden, is The World to me
I will, Till it To Eternity
Care For it, Until it Blooms.

A POET'S NOTE
Care will Till it
Tears will Feed it
Sorrow will Wilt it
Love will Make it Grow
Heart will Hold the Ground
God will Bless it
If You Bring Him in To Shine

Dedicated To The World
A Poetry Man
The World is My Garden
Care must be Given
To all Who are there
Each Flower has its Place
I Cannot Pick one
Without the Others too
For There are no Bouquets
When Love is not For all
The Beauty of The Flowers
Is The Colors of it All

Edgar Allan Prieto
7/31/95

AN EARLY MORNING

An early morning solitude
has the beauty of the day

to find yourself where the sun
is cutting through the trees
and watch
the painting of the morning
by the sun's golden rays
to reach down and touch you
and feel the warmth of day
to think about what's coming
in this very special day
and meditate upon the light
that's shining through the trees
and reflecting like a prism
when it touched upon the leaves
to see all of God's beauty
when the morning breaks the day.

NO MATTER! WHAT HOUR I WAKE
I RISE TO HIS GLORY

EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO
10/27/78

WHAT WARMS MY WAY?

THE BREATH OF GOD
WHEN HE'S NEXT TO ME
THE SMILE OF A CHILD
WHO LOOKS TO ME
THE HUMANITY OF THE WORLD
TO LOVE EACH ONE
THE SUN WHEN IT SHINES
WHEN I AWAKE TO SEE
THE BEAUTY OF NATURE
WHEN I SEE ALL THE FLOWERS
THE DAY I WAS BORN
WHEN GOD GAVE ME AN HOUR
THE HEART THAT I LOVED
WHEN I FOUND I WAS FEELING
THE TEARS THAT FELL
WHEN LOVE WAS HURTING
THE HOPE THAT COMES
WHEN DARKNESS FALLS
THE TIMES I LEARNED
WHEN LIFE TAUGHT ME
THE SENSE I FEEL
WHEN I PRAY TO GOD
THE HOUR THAT I SPEND
WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR GOD

IF I SHARED A TEAR
AND TOUCHED A HEART
LIFE WILL HAVE BEEN PAINFUL
BUT OH ! WHAT CARES WILL I HAVE
I'VE SHARED A CHILD'S SMILE
AND GOD SMILED ON ME
I FOUND THE WORLDS TEARS
AND THEY CAME TO BE PART OF ME.

EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO
2/8/91

A Rose
A Symbol of a Rose
The Flower of Our Love
A Thorn to Pierce the Strongest Heart

A Petal to Feel Your Velvet Walls
A Stem to Care to See it All Together
A Rose to See the Heart it Holds
A Flower to See it Bloom Forever

A Rose That Takes My Breath Away
A Sense That Draws Me into Her
A Fragrance of Sweet Delight
A Rose That Finds Me in Her Spell
A Rose I'll Hold for Life.

A Poetryman

A THOUGHT!

A Flower Faced with Life
Will Surely Feel the Petals Fall
A Flower Faced with Heart
Will Surely Feel it All

Edgar Allan Prieto
12/11/91

LOVE BLOSSOMS

May the flowers of our love
be as bright as the daisy
and have the fragrance of the rose
may it be as soft as the petals
and as gentle as the rain
and as warm as the sun
when it falls upon our love
may it be as lovely as the violets
and as deep as the blue sea
to never know an ending
in this love we seed
may it always be in blossom
forever and a day
and as tear drops fall
it will rain on our bouquet
to bring forth life
like a flower opening up
and be as sweet as the honeysuckle
when it touches upon our lips
to taste the sweet nectar
of your kiss.

A Poetryman

ONE SHOWER FROM THE HEART
WILL POUR LOVE THROUGH
ONE CARE FROM YOU WILL HELP LOVE GROW
ONE BLOSSOMS WHEN LOVE'S WITH YOU
ONE GOD WILL SEE US THROUGH

EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO
November 10,1978

THE LONG ROAD HOME

I am one of God's Souls
Looking for the way home
It started when I was born
All was new, both good and bad
I have to learn, which one is true
The choices are there, what will I do?
I pray the right one, will get me through
I made mistakes and found wrong
I am trying to get back where I belong
The Road is narrow, when choices are few
The Road to Heaven is one way too
The Path to Hell has many ways
Take the wrong one to walk away
The Long Way Home is hardest yet
It takes a lifetime to reach your quest
Heaven! there are no short steps
I Tripped and Faltered all the way
Yet God was there to pick me up
The Long Road Home is in my sight
For I carried God, day and night.

Dedicated to Us All
Heaven help the Wayward Soul
To find a place with You

A Poetryman

The Shortest will not be true
Yet if you take it
Remember what you choose
There is no shortcuts to Heaven
But Hell I thought of Heaven
Too Late to say the words
My Soul spoke not to Heaven
There are shortcuts to Hell
Just pass Heaven
Don't give a damn
You'll be there in plenty of time
It only takes a day to reach
The day you passed Heaven

Edgar Allan Prieto
7/30/2000

A FRIEND

The Weight of a Friend
Is a Heavy Toll
It Bears on The Heart
Where Tears
Take Their Toll
The Soul is Torn
From Trying To Do Right
You Must
Follow Your Conscience
And Hope
Your Friend Might
The Way Of The Heart
Can Follow Through
Yet My Friend's Path
Is Not For Two
We Walk Down The Road
And Hope it is Right
We Both Need To Walk
The Path We Think is Right
For If We Should Part
The Road Will Not End
We May Meet One Day
And Be Together My Friend.

Dedicated to Ronald J. Kowan
Our Path May Differ
Though Our Friendship Won't
Unless The Value Falls Below Truth

The Price of a Friend
Can Only be Valued by Truth
For a Lie Will Tarnish it All
Love Will Feel The Sorrows
Yet Truth Will See it All
Keep it in Check
And it Will Balance the Scale
The Weight of a Friend
Will be a Measure of Heart
Try Not to Weigh Them
For you Will Lose Heart

Edgar Allan Prieto
8/16/2000

GOD'S FLOWERS

GOD'S FLOWERS
Are the Children of the World
Shining through Earth
Bringing Warmth and Love
Glowing to the Heart
Where Tears are Felt
Nourished by Caring
When Hearts Feel Loved
God's Love Pours through
To Shower His Children
Each time one is Cut
God Rains Tears from Heaven
One Flower has Died
Its Soul is Heaven's
One Child Lost
Who will Flower Never
One Child Lost
To the World Forever
How many Flowers
Will be lost Today?
Before we know it
They will be all cut away.

Dedicated to UNICEF
And all The Children of the World

Feed the Child
And the Flower will Grow
Feed your Heart
And a Flower will Grow in it
Feed it Love
And the Heart will open
Feed it Care
And Tears will be Awakened

Edgar Allan Prieto
8/12/2000

My Teddy

Dedicated To The Children Of The World

I Hope This will Find you
in The Best of Moods
For He is a Teddy,
Just For you
and When your Moods Change
as with The Weather
I Hope your Teddy
will Comfort you
and Bring you Love
as I want To do
For He is your Teddy
He Needs Loving Too
His Arms are all Open
and He's Saying To you
Come Here ____________NAME
And Cuddle me Too.

A Poetryman
If I Hug The World
I Give Love
To All Who Are Here

Edgar Allan Prieto

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
A POETRYMAN
EDGAR ALLAN PRIETO
3742 CASPIAN DRIVE
COLUMBUS, GA.31906

Copyright ©2003 Edgar Allan Prieto

A Father's Card
I Thank You For This Day When God Blessed Us Both

Even though you got me here
I am still trying to find where I am
I think it's Earth but you never know
I am just trying to find my space
Yet there is always room for you
Where do I keep you?
My Heart will have to do
With lots to do Loving you
On this Father's Day
The time has come to say these words
That may not be spoken often enough
I Love you more Today.
A Poetryman
I was First Born with God
Then you came along and gave me a start
Now I have a chance to show you Love
Each and Every Day

Edgar Allan Prieto

To A Father
Dedicated To Rev FR. Leo J Kettl,Holy Ghost Fathers

To a Father I never had for He understood my pains
He was there when I needed someone to blame
He has given me His love without any shame
He has shared my life and my pains
He has watched me grow when I was struggling
He has given me love when there was none
He has taken my life and tried to teach me what was right
He has touched my heart with his kindness
For without I would not have the faith
He was there when I needed someone to blame
He is my father that I love
For He gave me all the things above
and only asked that I love.
A Poetryman
To Our Father in Heaven

Edgar Allan Prieto

Copyright ©2003 Edgar Allan Prieto

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