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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends How&#8217;s life treating you? It&#8217;s been not too bad up here. The weather has been fairly nice. It&#8217;s rained off and on, but for the most part, the temperatures have been cool. It&#8217;s 80F degrees right now at 2:15 PM and supposed to get up to 81. Tomorrow&#8217;s the same [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How&#8217;s life treating you? It&#8217;s been not too bad up here.<br />
The weather has been fairly nice. It&#8217;s rained off and on,<br />
but for the most part, the temperatures have been cool.<br />
It&#8217;s 80F degrees right now at 2:15 PM and supposed to<br />
get up to 81. Tomorrow&#8217;s the same then it&#8217;s back down<br />
to 69F degrees for Tuesday. It&#8217;s supposed to reach the<br />
80 degree mark one more time Thursday and then back<br />
to the norm of mid 70&#8242;s and upper 60&#8242;s. Yet, 80 degrees<br />
isn&#8217;t all that bad. Benny&#8217;s stolen my tennis shoe again<br />
and carried it into the living room LOL. How in the world<br />
was that little guy able to carry my big old size 13&#8242;s hehe?<br />
My shoes almost weigh as much as him LOL. He always<br />
steals my house shoes, but they aren&#8217;t that heavy and he<br />
doesn&#8217;t have any problem. He doesn&#8217;t chew them up. He<br />
just likes to have them near him in his little fortress of<br />
solitude under the coffee table hehehe. He&#8217;s silly, but we<br />
love him hehehe. I&#8217;ve been visiting with my neighbors<br />
off and on and they&#8217;re nice people. The ones behind me<br />
and beside me have little kids and Benny loves to watch<br />
them running and playing. I sure miss my old neighbors<br />
Brian and Rachel. We used to go fishing often and fly<br />
his RC planes so I could video tape them. Maybe some<br />
time this summer he&#8217;ll visit or Judy and I will manage<br />
to find their house to visit them. In any sense, I&#8217;m sure<br />
this summer will be filled with things to do. I&#8217;m sure<br />
that Judy and I will ever so often go for photo drives<br />
to find some good scenery. I thank God for all of the<br />
wonderful landscapes that God has given to photograph<br />
and enjoy. There are so many of us that will not see<br />
the beauty due to their own closed mindedness. If you<br />
are unable to get out and look then look for all of the<br />
blessings within. There are many days that neither<br />
Judy nor I were able to go outside and walk around<br />
and play with Benny, but on the days we can, we do.<br />
On those ailing days one of us will at least sit outside<br />
for a while with Benny. Benny loves me to get in the<br />
floor with him and wrestle with him. LOL I just need<br />
a crane to pick me up out of the floor when I&#8217;m done.<br />
He loves to sleep with us, but after a while hops down<br />
off of the bed and heads for his own little bed in the<br />
floor. There&#8217;s nothing much changed in the Pearce&#8217;s<br />
household. Nope, in many peoples eyes we might<br />
be a bit boring hehehe, but we&#8217;re happy. We play<br />
on our farms in Farmtown and we watch all of our<br />
favorite TV shows. We both got out yesterday and<br />
weed whacked for a while with our battery operated<br />
weed eater. It&#8217;s fairly light so we are able to use it<br />
for a short while. We at least got the worst of the<br />
weeds cut before the battery in it and us ran down.<br />
Hehehe we were both a tad worn, but happy that<br />
the weeds are cut. We might get out this evening<br />
and finish the job if we&#8217;re up to it LOL. Right now<br />
my legs feel like mush, but it won&#8217;t stop me from<br />
walking, but it might slow me from running hehe<br />
which I might add is something I don&#8217;t do well and<br />
as a matter of fact never have being an asthmatic.<br />
I try to semi run and play with Benny, but I look<br />
like a rusted robot trying to run hehehehehehehe.<br />
Yet I thank God every day for the gifts of which<br />
he has given us. God has given Judy and I many<br />
gifts which one of them is our little Benny. Neither<br />
Judy nor I can now visualize our lives without him.<br />
Benny has become our little boy that we love and<br />
thank God daily for. Some of our blessings might<br />
not be so pronounced, but they are there none the<br />
less. Be thankful for even the smallest gifts in life.<br />
Learn to look through praising eyes and see all of<br />
the miracles that God has put into your life. Often<br />
a disaster turns into a miracle, for it gives us the<br />
motivation to move forward or look elsewhere.<br />
Often disasters will pull many together that other<br />
wise would not of had anything to do with one<br />
another. Look for the blessings. Now with that<br />
said, I think it&#8217;s time for me to be taking my little<br />
stroll down words I&#8217;ve written through all of my<br />
recollection to try and find a good word or phrase<br />
that I can use for the title for today&#8217;s brand new<br />
poem. So it&#8217;s away I go to that little place I like to<br />
call RECOLLECT VILLE. I believe I might of<br />
stumbled upon a good title. Now let&#8217;s see if I&#8217;m<br />
able to put together some words in form of a poem<br />
using it LOL. Here goes nothing.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Miracles</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The weather phases<br />
into changes<br />
as each day just<br />
rearranges.<br />
All the pictures<br />
seen each day<br />
might be answers<br />
as we pray.<br />
All the seasons<br />
said and done<br />
are the miracles<br />
from God&#8217;s son.<br />
Through His Father<br />
Adonai<br />
all the miracles<br />
multiply.<br />
Look now daily<br />
and see true<br />
all the miracles<br />
in your view.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So, there ya go! Did I bore ya to tears with all of my<br />
rambling hehehe? Did you get anything out of the poem?<br />
If anything, I gave ya something to do hehehe and when<br />
you finish you can go back to whatever you were doing.<br />
LOL so I wonder which of you stopped reading before<br />
you ever got to the poem hehehe? It don&#8217;t matter to<br />
me <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  If I gave at least one of you a smile today then I<br />
did my job. Oh yea, I need prayer again for my friend<br />
Tiny/Donald. His cancer has returned active. Please put<br />
him in your prayers. Now I do believe it&#8217;s time for me<br />
to tell you what I tell you every week and that is, I wrote<br />
some more poems and haiku. 10 more poems with one<br />
of them being a Christmassy poem. Also I wrote once<br />
again 22 more haiku for all of my haiku lovers out there.<br />
I hope some of my writings bring you enlightenment<br />
and joy. Now it&#8217;s time for me to begin my search for<br />
that confounded off switch, but not before I wish you<br />
a most wonderful God filled week. Remember, Jesus<br />
loves you and we do too. Now to find that off switch.<br />
Found it making silly sounds in the blades of the fan <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10 and 22 hehehehehehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Withered Feelings</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seasons journeys<br />
there and to<br />
withered feelings<br />
give a view.<br />
Sometimes sadness<br />
in the seasons<br />
comes with minutes<br />
unknown reasons.<br />
Painted doorways<br />
that we see<br />
can be sometimes<br />
not happy.<br />
Let your feelings<br />
withered frames<br />
find some peace<br />
where God attains.<br />
Withered feelings<br />
might then turn<br />
to some good<br />
you can discern.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Peaceful Shadows</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Nows reflections<br />
might be seen<br />
as a shadows<br />
peaceful dream.<br />
Scented doorways<br />
in the light<br />
peaceful shadows<br />
make a sight.<br />
Scenes assorted<br />
with a hue<br />
oh so peaceful<br />
thereunto.<br />
With a shadows<br />
moments glance<br />
there might be<br />
a slight romance.<br />
Portioned lightly<br />
in the day<br />
as God&#8217;s blessings<br />
in a way.<br />
Peaceful shadows<br />
now and then<br />
can make blessings<br />
to begin.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Simplistic Value</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When you&#8217;re demanding<br />
more than your share<br />
see how your value<br />
might not be fair.<br />
Often our wantings<br />
are not so good,<br />
for we&#8217;re not seeking<br />
what that we should.<br />
Simplistic value<br />
is but a page<br />
written with lesser<br />
of center stage.<br />
Look and see truly<br />
how that you are<br />
with your own value<br />
now and afar.<br />
See how so simply<br />
you can achieve<br />
things so much better<br />
than wanting can weave.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Sky Above</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">While I was watching<br />
clouds floating by<br />
the sky above<br />
gave more to apply.<br />
Winds of change<br />
blew here and there<br />
the sky above<br />
a day so fair.<br />
All the scenes<br />
I searched to see<br />
the sky above<br />
gave free to me.<br />
Scented echoes<br />
in the day<br />
blew as winds<br />
of every way.<br />
The sky above<br />
gave me a sight<br />
that went on<br />
till dark of night.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How and Why</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Timeless journeys<br />
filled with clues<br />
how and why<br />
with different shoes.<br />
Many people<br />
walk each day<br />
with their will<br />
and in their way.<br />
How and why<br />
so many ask<br />
how ones do<br />
their daily tasks.<br />
Many questions<br />
that we find<br />
are but only<br />
in our mind.<br />
So now learn to<br />
not deny<br />
that we all ask<br />
how and why.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Dreamers Moments</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Found in a world<br />
of dreamers alive<br />
there are some moments<br />
that do survive.<br />
Scenes with raspberries<br />
on some ice-cream<br />
are but the moments<br />
of a dreamers dream.<br />
Found as sweet blessings<br />
painted on dew<br />
a dreamers moments<br />
gives a great view.<br />
Decked out with flowers<br />
sweetest to smell<br />
with every color<br />
that one can entail.<br />
This is a world<br />
that dreamers attain<br />
when they envision<br />
their Heaven to gain.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning&#8217;s Coming</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Soon I&#8217;ll see<br />
the morning light<br />
that will come<br />
from dark of night.<br />
Morning&#8217;s coming<br />
soon to see<br />
with its sights<br />
so fair and free.<br />
Even shadows<br />
given true<br />
morning will be<br />
so anew.<br />
Soon I&#8217;ll see<br />
that mornings passed<br />
with the shadows<br />
that it casts.<br />
Mornings blessings<br />
will be found<br />
after nighttime<br />
all around.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Because of You</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I found my thrill<br />
in now and then<br />
with what You<br />
helped to begin.<br />
I now believe<br />
that I can find<br />
peace within<br />
my worried mind.<br />
You my Savior<br />
gave to me<br />
sights beyond<br />
my own degree.<br />
Now I stand<br />
and look around<br />
and I see<br />
Your Solid Ground.<br />
Because of You Lord<br />
I now know<br />
I&#8217;ll be OK<br />
where ever I go.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Scents of Spring</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The stage is set<br />
as birdie&#8217;s sing<br />
with a page of<br />
scents of spring.<br />
Fragrant windows<br />
open true<br />
with the sight of<br />
morning dew.<br />
Scents of spring<br />
are all around<br />
in the air<br />
and on the ground.<br />
Flowers blooming<br />
colors sweet<br />
giving pollen<br />
good to eat.<br />
Birds and bees<br />
will dine each day<br />
within spring<br />
the month of May.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Some Say Christmas</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hope is a blessing<br />
given for free<br />
day to day surely<br />
from history.<br />
Today we have choices<br />
wrong also right<br />
from our humanity<br />
that some delight.<br />
Some say Christmas<br />
is just a day<br />
made to give presents<br />
or just display.<br />
Christmas is more than<br />
things just to view.<br />
It&#8217;s a special time<br />
that God gave to you.<br />
He gave us Jesus<br />
to help us to see<br />
a life that is better<br />
and so Heavenly.<br />
Don&#8217;t be so stupid<br />
that you lose your place<br />
forgiven by Jesus<br />
and saved by Grace.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Life is a journey<br />
that many will lose focus<br />
and fall to the ground.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Losing perception<br />
creates a doorway through time<br />
built on confusion.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Pouring emotions<br />
becomes an unending flow<br />
if not watched closely.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today&#8217;s memories<br />
come alive in the future<br />
as many echoes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Choices that we choose<br />
sometimes bring us much turmoil,<br />
but lessons are learned.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Because of shadows<br />
we see ourselves as we walk<br />
and can use those sights.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hidden skeletons<br />
can become future problems<br />
if they&#8217;re not dealt with.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Yesterdays problems<br />
can become tools for today<br />
if you will wise up.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Springtime awakens<br />
with the essence of flowers<br />
and flutter of birds.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Windows of today<br />
will often get clouded up<br />
with our own despair.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Leaves blow in the breeze<br />
as the wind rushes on through<br />
with its moments trail.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Venting your anger<br />
can prevent an explosion<br />
that needs not occur.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seeking tomorrow<br />
can lose sight of now today,<br />
so deal with right now.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Glassy eyed mornings<br />
can make the day to be bad.<br />
Look with clearer eyes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Becoming a helper<br />
needs you first to help yourself.<br />
Let Jesus help you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many see answers<br />
as more questions then to ask.<br />
Figure some things out.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Teaching one to fish<br />
will help him if he learns how<br />
and uses the tools.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">People will judge you<br />
no matter where that you go,<br />
so get over it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Deep under water<br />
many mysteries are found<br />
without an answer.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Baggage that&#8217;s carried<br />
can become a great burden<br />
preventing new things.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Glistening sunsets<br />
give a welcome to nightfall<br />
flavored with starlight.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Drinking your sorrows<br />
will guarantee you sadness,<br />
so find Jesus joy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>God By Our Side/Mothers So Tenderly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 20:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends and HAPPY MOTHERS DAY So how&#8217;ve ya been? It&#8217;s been fairly nice up this way with a lot of rain. Judy put Benny out this morning so he could go potty and he came in drenched LOL. She let him back in and he shook rain water all over the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends<br />
and<br />
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So how&#8217;ve ya been? It&#8217;s been fairly nice up this way with<br />
a lot of rain. Judy put Benny out this morning so he could<br />
go potty and he came in drenched LOL. She let him back<br />
in and he shook rain water all over the place hehehe and<br />
then came looking for me. I was in the bathroom at the<br />
time, but heard the epidemic and grabbed up the towel to<br />
dry him off when I came out. I finally got him dried off as<br />
much as I could while he laid in my lap, then he wanted<br />
to come up and lay with us. He&#8217;s such a cutie. He&#8217;s still<br />
laying in there with Judy, but Judy&#8217;s on the phone to her<br />
youngest daughter (Helena). She called to wish Judy a<br />
Happy Mothers Day. Not much has changed up this way.<br />
Judy and I are still doing our regular stuff. Playing with<br />
Benny and doing all of our Farmtown farms on facebook.<br />
Yes we still play our hidden object games from time to<br />
time as well as always watch our favorite TV programs.<br />
We watched My Ghost Story last night. That is one of<br />
our favorites along with Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures<br />
and many more. Wipeout is soon to come back on with<br />
new episodes. We both love to watch that. LOL Judy&#8217;s<br />
getting chewed up by Benny. I can hear her while she&#8217;s<br />
on the phone to Helena. It sounds like she&#8217;s fixing to<br />
come in here with him hehehe. You&#8217;d think it was too<br />
late to be in bed, but we don&#8217;t get to bed on most days<br />
until early in the morning LOL. Both of us are nightowls.<br />
Well her and Benny are in here now and I held him in<br />
my lap for a bit. I had to hand him over to Judy so that<br />
I could finish this freaking journal LOL. He loves to<br />
be held. I think I created a bond between him and I the<br />
day we went to get him from the airport. Benny rode<br />
the whole 2 hours home sitting in my lap. Now he feels<br />
like he belongs there hehehe. Now Benny is laying in<br />
his little bed in the floor beside me and Judy. Ok so<br />
it&#8217;s onwards with the journal. I wrote my mom a little<br />
Mother&#8217;s Day poem and sent it to her last night. I hope<br />
she likes it. She&#8217;s the greatest. I love to call and talk<br />
to her sometimes just about silly stuff. We both laugh<br />
and cut up on the phone. I wish I could see her, but<br />
traveling isn&#8217;t in our funds at the moment. I hope we<br />
one day manage to save up enough to make a trip to<br />
Texas one day. That would be great. I&#8217;d actually<br />
like for us to be able to drive there so I could bring<br />
my conga drums and play some music with some of<br />
my musician buds. Oh well, God only knows what<br />
the future will hold. Judy and I both miss our trips<br />
to Port Aransas TX. We both love it down there.<br />
Maybe one day. For now, Judy and I are happy<br />
to just have these great times together with Benny.<br />
God knew we needed Benny and Benny needed us<br />
and so He helped us find him and put him into our<br />
lives. Now neither Judy nor I can visualize our<br />
lives without Benny. He has become part of our<br />
family. Our little boy <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  He loves to ride in the car<br />
and look out the windows hehehe and when I role<br />
down the window he loves to feel the breeze hehehe.<br />
He&#8217;s another reason that if we came back to Texas<br />
we would prefer to drive. We wouldn&#8217;t want to<br />
leave him behind. So that&#8217;s about all from way up<br />
here in New Limerick Maine. Right now at 2:44<br />
in the afternoon it&#8217;s 49F degrees. It&#8217;s supposed to<br />
get up to 53 a bit later, but that ain&#8217;t bad. God<br />
has been good to us. Judy and I have had our<br />
share of problems, but nothing that we couldn&#8217;t<br />
handle with God by our side. I&#8217;ve lived through<br />
a lot worse times in my life. We had some major<br />
struggles that began the day we moved up here,<br />
but we survived. With God always watching over<br />
us, there is nothing that we cannot handle. Life<br />
might seem at times too hard, but looking back<br />
on all that I have been through, I can see that I<br />
have survived much worse times. You might also<br />
be able to recall some things you&#8217;ve been through<br />
that were a lot worse than what today presents.<br />
Use that knowledge as a tool to get you through<br />
today and tomorrow. Now, I think it&#8217;s time for<br />
me to once again take my lil trip back through all<br />
that I&#8217;ve written here to see if I find a good word<br />
or phrase that I can use for the title of today&#8217;s<br />
brand new poem. So it&#8217;s away I go to that place<br />
of my recollection that I always like to call<br />
RECOLLECT VILLE. I think I found a title<br />
in something I wrote just a few lines back LOL.<br />
Hope it works. Here goes&#8230;. Oh yea, I might<br />
also write a Mothers Day Poem to go with it <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God By Our Side</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Limited vision<br />
that many perceive<br />
find ones to wonder<br />
to stay or to leave.<br />
Sometimes what&#8217;s seen<br />
is just but a phase<br />
painted in pictures<br />
of the coming of days.<br />
Let not your worry<br />
to tarry your stride.<br />
Much can be better<br />
with God by our side.<br />
Look beyond sadness<br />
and see what is true.<br />
Find all the blessings<br />
that live within you.<br />
With God by our side<br />
today can be great<br />
even through problems<br />
that many debate.<br />
Let your days always<br />
find Jesus inside,<br />
for things can be better<br />
with God by our side.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 13, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ok so as I said, here&#8217;s a Mothers Day poem<br />
for all the moms <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mothers So Tenderly</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In the beginning<br />
a mother of time<br />
carried a baby<br />
so wondrous Divine.<br />
Then as the pages<br />
were turned to today<br />
mothers still carry<br />
their love in that way.<br />
As time moves on<br />
then surely they know<br />
their little babies<br />
will most surely grow.<br />
Becoming people<br />
with personalities<br />
often that came from<br />
their own history&#8217;s.<br />
Mothers through time<br />
have carried this way<br />
giving their love<br />
saying that it&#8217;s OK.<br />
Kissing our booboo&#8217;s<br />
when we are in dirt.<br />
Mothers so tenderly<br />
kiss where it&#8217;s hurt.<br />
I thank God for moms<br />
that show us their love<br />
that was God given<br />
from Heaven above.<br />
Now all I&#8217;m really<br />
wanting to say<br />
is thank you dear mothers<br />
for then and today.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 13, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ok so there ya go. Two poems for this morning hehehe.<br />
There&#8217;s not much else to tell ya about. My sister in law<br />
Barbara is doing fine. The cancer has ceased and she<br />
is back at work and looking great. Her hair is growing<br />
back. My mom is doing well. She spends a lot of time<br />
visiting her grandchildren in Texas and playing all of her<br />
hidden object games LOL. I love you mom and hope to<br />
see you sometimes soon. Maybe this summer you and<br />
Peggy can make a trip up here. Peggy said she wanted<br />
to come up again and spend more time so she could see<br />
more of the scenery around here and visit with Judy and<br />
I. Mom and her also want to meet Benny hehehehehe.<br />
I know they&#8217;ll love him. Even Judy&#8217;s younger brother<br />
Ricky fell in love with him and he&#8217;s not a dog lover <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Benny loved him too. He whined until Ricky petted<br />
him LOL. Well, I guess it&#8217;s time for me to tell you<br />
what I tell you every week and that is, I wrote some<br />
more poems and haiku. 10 more poems and 22 more<br />
haiku. Nope, no Christmas poems this week. Maybe<br />
next week hehehe, but then Christmas is 7 months<br />
away. It&#8217;ll be here before ya know it HoHoHo hehe.<br />
So now it&#8217;s time for me to be searching for that old<br />
off switch that always loved to play hide and seek,<br />
but before I do that I must wish you a wonderful<br />
God filled week. Remember, Jesus loves you and<br />
we do too. Now to find that off switch. Found it<br />
in there with Benny piled up beside him snuggling.<br />
Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10 and 22 hehehehehehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Better Ways To Choose</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">If you&#8217;ve gone there on your own,<br />
God&#8217;s Son will be there too.<br />
You might think He&#8217;s disappeared,<br />
but He&#8217;ll be there for you.<br />
A simple prayer amidst the day<br />
will give to you a way,<br />
directions from your moments will<br />
that seemed to go astray.<br />
Lessons from our own mistakes<br />
will become tools to use<br />
helping us through now and then<br />
with better ways to choose.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 10, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Points Remembered</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Points in time<br />
connecting true<br />
are resolved<br />
to me and you.<br />
Things we&#8217;ve done<br />
so long ago<br />
help us now<br />
with what we know.<br />
Points remembered<br />
bad and good<br />
help us see<br />
what all we should.<br />
Yet it takes us<br />
looking true<br />
to see the best<br />
for me and you.<br />
Often sadness<br />
will be found<br />
when some times<br />
will come around,<br />
but then surely<br />
one day seen<br />
it will be just<br />
a bad dream.<br />
Something real<br />
another day<br />
that is now so<br />
far away.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Day of Prayer</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A peaceful evenings<br />
day of prayer<br />
helps to bring<br />
a breath of air.<br />
A simple moment<br />
kneeling down<br />
while then finding<br />
solid ground.<br />
The scenes around you<br />
will be changed<br />
a little less then<br />
so deranged.<br />
Through your prayer<br />
to God above<br />
you will find<br />
a lot of love.<br />
Let your anger<br />
fall from you<br />
as you seek<br />
a better view.<br />
A peaceful evenings<br />
day of prayer<br />
will then be<br />
God&#8217;s love and care.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Times Surmise</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Scenic wonders<br />
thereunto<br />
sometimes find<br />
a different view.<br />
Different days<br />
of times around<br />
all you saw<br />
might not be found.<br />
A day of clouds<br />
up in the skies<br />
might just be<br />
a times surmise.<br />
Scenes all changing<br />
with our gaze<br />
with times surmised<br />
of different days.<br />
Times remembered<br />
that we saw,<br />
now might be<br />
a different awe.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Moments Grey</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">As today<br />
comes to an end<br />
look for good<br />
around the bend.<br />
Don&#8217;t just find<br />
a moments sorrow.<br />
Find the best<br />
within tomorrow.<br />
Let not shadows<br />
of today<br />
to become all<br />
moments grey.<br />
See beyond<br />
the sadness seen<br />
and find goodness<br />
in a dream.<br />
When tomorrow<br />
does arrive<br />
try to see<br />
with better eyes.<br />
Look beyond<br />
the moments grey<br />
and then make<br />
a better day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Storms of Morning</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Minds of wonder<br />
glimmer on<br />
storms of morning<br />
found at dawn.<br />
New beginnings<br />
fair and true<br />
create mornings<br />
every view.<br />
Invisible links<br />
that we can&#8217;t see<br />
connect each day<br />
to you and me.<br />
Storms of morning<br />
can be seen<br />
as a blessings<br />
running stream.<br />
It&#8217;s our vision<br />
that might find<br />
storms of morning<br />
worried mind.<br />
Let the storm clouds<br />
that you see<br />
become good<br />
throughout debris.<br />
See the goodness<br />
to become<br />
storms of mornings<br />
shining sun.<br />
Peace will venture<br />
into sight<br />
giving views<br />
a different light.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Dreamers Dream</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When time falls away<br />
with only a sound<br />
found in the dreamers<br />
dream to be found<br />
scenes are described<br />
as times in a way<br />
the dreamers dream<br />
of another fine day.<br />
Within the depths<br />
of a time submarine<br />
many will find then<br />
the dreamers dream.<br />
Scented as dewdrops<br />
with mornings arrival<br />
the dreamers dream<br />
is there for survival.<br />
But often the dreamers<br />
without seeing true<br />
end up with sadness<br />
in an ocean of blue.<br />
Don&#8217;t end your dreaming,<br />
but also make sure<br />
you see the truth<br />
in life there and pure.<br />
Look for the goodness<br />
that&#8217;s found in a dream,<br />
but don&#8217;t be a dreamer<br />
in a lie submarine.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Every Time</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Distant sounds<br />
I hear each day<br />
seem to change<br />
in their own way.<br />
Some are cars<br />
just driving by<br />
and then others<br />
are in the sky.<br />
Birds just singing<br />
there and to<br />
up above<br />
in the sky of blue.<br />
Sometimes clouds<br />
will dawn the day<br />
with their decor<br />
on display.<br />
Every time<br />
I look to see<br />
I find a change<br />
a slight degree.<br />
Sights and sounds<br />
that I partake<br />
are the changes<br />
days will make.<br />
Sometimes changes<br />
in my view<br />
become seas<br />
so deep and blue.<br />
Some remembered<br />
things in time<br />
come to me<br />
as God&#8217;s design.<br />
Yet sometimes<br />
might seem as Hell,<br />
but they&#8217;ll pass<br />
in just a spell.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Normal People</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">There&#8217;s no thing<br />
which perfectly<br />
makes us all<br />
the best to see.<br />
We all have flaws<br />
as days go by,<br />
but so many<br />
just deny.<br />
Normal people<br />
are what&#8217;s found<br />
when I daily<br />
look around.<br />
Yet perspective<br />
is the view<br />
when ones say<br />
they don&#8217;t like you.<br />
Bad and good<br />
from you and I<br />
is discerned<br />
by Adonai.<br />
In His view<br />
we live each day<br />
some will lie<br />
and some will pray.<br />
Normal people<br />
need atone<br />
for each daily<br />
stepping stone.<br />
Troubles come<br />
that some will choose<br />
causing many<br />
different views.<br />
Yet forgiveness<br />
can be found<br />
through Lord Jesus<br />
Solid Ground.<br />
Don&#8217;t let anger<br />
drive your soul,<br />
for it might then<br />
take control<br />
and become a<br />
destiny<br />
leading to pure<br />
Hell to see.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today&#8217;s Shadows</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seasons of sorrows<br />
might be all you see<br />
coming from all of<br />
your history,<br />
but today&#8217;s shadows<br />
can become the view<br />
making some happiness<br />
to then come true.<br />
Today&#8217;s shadows<br />
only have power<br />
if you allow them<br />
a minute an hour.<br />
Let today&#8217;s season<br />
become what is true<br />
living and breathing<br />
right now so anew.<br />
Lies will be just shadows<br />
of yesterdays glance<br />
maybe if you give<br />
today now a chance.<br />
Surely some sadness<br />
from yesterdays ploy<br />
will beat remembrance<br />
that will annoy,<br />
but telling truly<br />
what all that is done<br />
you can find joyful<br />
with each rising sun.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Days will come speaking<br />
words in the essence of time<br />
with minutes to see.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Confusions stages<br />
come as pages that are read<br />
and not understood.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Alone is a time<br />
that we may each find sometimes<br />
as a mere blessing.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Journals are written<br />
when echoes are acknowledged<br />
as past that is done.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Left over dreams<br />
from yesterdays we&#8217;ve wished for<br />
can become a smile.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Temporary heartache<br />
can become an eternity<br />
if it&#8217;s not released.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning times flowers<br />
come with displays of colors<br />
that springtime presents.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wintertime&#8217;s dreamers<br />
think of snowflakes of Heaven<br />
falling down with grace.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Without a moment<br />
a timeframe might fade away<br />
leaving emptiness.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lessons sometimes hurt<br />
when they come from the mistakes<br />
we chose to repeat.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Because of today<br />
yesterday is just a time<br />
that has surely passed.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Scenes from our lifestyles<br />
can become as some nightmares<br />
with many regrets.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Peace is a value<br />
counted with our tomorrows<br />
beginning each day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Nobodies sadness<br />
can continue forever<br />
if you let it loose.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Trivial moments<br />
come as patterns we&#8217;ve perceived<br />
with many viewpoints.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Someone&#8217;s bitter pills<br />
might be imagination<br />
found only with fears.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wintertime&#8217;s snowflakes<br />
are but only a glimmer<br />
of dreams of Christmas</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A page full of time<br />
with minutes that are written<br />
can become a book.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today&#8217;s mere journey<br />
begins with a few footsteps<br />
that we each must take.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In a submarine<br />
the portholes are as hopeful<br />
to see passed the depths.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A visionary<br />
sees different colored styles<br />
with flowers and trees.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A meadowlarks song<br />
comes as serenading sounds<br />
that are filled with peace.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 12, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends How have you been? The weather up this ways has been rather nice here lately. Did you see the moon last night? Last night and tonight are supposed to be it&#8217;s closest view in 2012 with it 30% brighter. Judy and I went out and we took some pictures of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How have you been? The weather up this ways has been<br />
rather nice here lately. Did you see the moon last night?<br />
Last night and tonight are supposed to be it&#8217;s closest view<br />
in 2012 with it 30% brighter. Judy and I went out and we<br />
took some pictures of it last night, but due to a few clouds,<br />
it looked a tad hazy, but none the less big and bright. We<br />
took our tripods outside to try and get better pictures. Yet<br />
even with our cameras on them, the moon was still a tad<br />
hazy in its view. Judy got a great picture of Benny on top<br />
of his doghouse looking at the moon. Benny is sitting in my<br />
lap right now and it&#8217;s extremely hard to type around him <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
I let him out a while ago so he could go potty and when<br />
I let him back in just a minute ago, he wanted to sit in my<br />
lap. Ok, now I&#8217;ve laid him in Judy&#8217;s chair. He can lay<br />
there. Judy&#8217;s still in bed asleep. We didn&#8217;t actually go to<br />
bed until around 6 o&#8217;clock this morning LOL. It was one<br />
of those nights. We both spent a lot of time on all of our<br />
Farmtown farms in Facebook. They gave yet another<br />
enlargement to get as well as 4 more facilities. Yeppers<br />
it&#8217;s fun time at the Pearce&#8217;s hehehehe. Hehehe I just<br />
took some pictures of Benny sleeping in Judy&#8217;s chair.<br />
He opened his eyes after I was done as if to say, is that<br />
quite necessary. He hates the camera flash LOL and<br />
he&#8217;s not alone hehehe. I&#8217;m usually chasing flash dots<br />
after a good few camera flashes LOL. He just got up to<br />
go and wake up Judy hehehe. I can hear him whining<br />
as he jumps up and tries to wake her. He gave up LOL<br />
and is now laying in the floor on her side of the bed <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
I guess he&#8217;s gonna get some more sleep as well. They<br />
both may get up soon. OK so Benny just came back in<br />
here with me to lay in his little bed beside me. So it&#8217;s<br />
onwards with the journal. Today it&#8217;s supposed to get<br />
up to 61F degrees. Right now at 12:30 noon it&#8217;s 53F.<br />
It&#8217;s a tad cloudy right now. It looks like this is as much<br />
springtime that we&#8217;ll get LOL. I feel for those south<br />
of us with the 90F degree temperatures although it&#8217;s<br />
looking like Texas and some others might get some<br />
relief this week starting Tuesday. I&#8217;m sure my mom<br />
will be thrilled hehehe. I just looked and compared<br />
to our 53F at 12:30 noon it&#8217;s 84F in Texas hehehehe.<br />
Talk about a 30 degree spread LOL. Enjoy every<br />
day that God gives to you. It could always be worse.<br />
Look for the good within each second, minute, hour<br />
and day. Let not the glimmers of sadness to invoke<br />
their hold upon you and keep you down. Let Jesus<br />
help you to smile. I&#8217;m sure that if you search your<br />
surroundings enough you can find a happy thought<br />
to smile about. I know, we all lose loved ones at<br />
some point and time in our lives, but they are not<br />
gone for good, for Heaven awaits us all when our<br />
time is upon us and we will all be joined once again<br />
with family and friends. Enjoy what time you have<br />
here in your physical form on Earth. There is much<br />
beauty to be seen and much joy to be found. All you<br />
need to do is maybe look beyond a minutes moment.<br />
Let God show you many wonders that you might of<br />
not seen due to cloudy eyes. And now with that said,<br />
I reckon it&#8217;s time for me to be taking my little trip<br />
back through all that I&#8217;ve written here to see if I can<br />
find a good word or phrase that might work well for<br />
the title for today&#8217;s brand new poem. So it&#8217;s away<br />
I go, to that place of my recollection that I like to<br />
call RECOLLECT VILLE. I believe I may have<br />
found a good title, but the proof is in the pudding.<br />
So &#8220;Here we go&#8221; in my best Jackie Gleason voice.<br />
Hehehe not so good of an imitation though LOL.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Heaven Awaits Us</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So many people<br />
see never a day<br />
as a great blessing<br />
of God given way.<br />
So many only<br />
find in their view<br />
things of depression<br />
with nothing brand new.<br />
Heaven awaits us<br />
if we will just find<br />
Jesus Christ surely<br />
inside of our mind.<br />
Let lose of sorrows<br />
and see all the joy<br />
that can be moments<br />
your heart can deploy.<br />
Lose all the thinking<br />
of negative thought.<br />
Heaven awaits us<br />
which Jesus has bought.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 6, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ok, so there ya go! I hope that I said something that<br />
made you smile <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I hope the poem helped you to find<br />
peace in the moments. Yes, I too get lost in depression<br />
time to time being human as I am. I also have to take<br />
a breather and remember that it&#8217;s just a moment and<br />
not let it to govern every thought. I just tossed Benny<br />
a doggy treat. Hehehe, he&#8217;s apparently not hungry.<br />
Oh well, I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll eat it in a bit. OK, so before<br />
I get off in rambling mode again, I need to send out<br />
a few prayers to some of my friends that have loved<br />
ones in a bad state of health. My old buddy Gene&#8217;s mom<br />
is in bad health and may soon be with God. Also my<br />
good friend Emery is in need of prayer for his wife,<br />
for she has brain cancer. Please keep these in your<br />
prayers. Now it&#8217;s time for me to be telling you what<br />
I tell you every week and that is, I wrote some more<br />
poems. 10 more poems with one being Christmassy<br />
to go with all of my other Christmas poems. Also yes<br />
once again I wrote 22 more haiku for all of my haiku<br />
lovers out there <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I hope you enjoy a few of my poems<br />
and haiku which I might add are one of the same, just<br />
different styles LOL. Now it&#8217;s about time for me to<br />
be searching for that old off switch, but not before I<br />
wish you all a most wonderful and God filled week.<br />
Now it&#8217;s time for me to find that off switch. Found it<br />
making as bubbles in my Mountain Dew can LOL.<br />
Time for another <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10 and 22 hehehehehehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Life Is A Season</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Heart wrenching thoughts<br />
from decades now gone<br />
you might need let go.<br />
Memories of onslaughts<br />
from times other dawn<br />
you might need unsew.<br />
Timeless tomorrows<br />
of histories pages<br />
might need be turned.<br />
Let all your sorrows<br />
of momentous ages<br />
be lessons learned.<br />
**<br />
Life is a journey<br />
leaving footprints in time<br />
made by the echoes<br />
of an imaginary mind.<br />
Scenes that we see<br />
in the journeys ahead<br />
might be just visions<br />
inside of our head.<br />
So don&#8217;t let shadows<br />
of your yesterdays<br />
be all your seeing now<br />
within your gaze.<br />
**<br />
Life is a season<br />
we often will find<br />
when time is gone.<br />
Within our reason<br />
our time after time<br />
might need move on.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 2, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Limitations</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Standard moments<br />
situations<br />
sometimes have their<br />
limitations.<br />
Standard scenic<br />
places found<br />
limitations<br />
do astound.<br />
From the minutes<br />
that we see<br />
limitations<br />
are the key.<br />
Painted moments<br />
day to day<br />
see no limits<br />
in their way.<br />
Yet some scenic<br />
limitations<br />
paint a around<br />
investigations.<br />
Many looking<br />
for a clue<br />
for the limits<br />
in their view.<br />
So now when you<br />
time to time<br />
see some limits<br />
in your mind<br />
look beyond the<br />
moments scene<br />
and see all<br />
beyond the green.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Summertime&#8217;s Breeze</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When morning breezes<br />
come in each day<br />
I get the feeling<br />
it&#8217;s summertimes way.<br />
Summertimes breeze<br />
is an echo I find<br />
now within displays<br />
of days of springtime.<br />
Mayflowers grow now<br />
here there and to<br />
while they are joined with<br />
May&#8217;s morning view.<br />
June will soon be here<br />
with flowers and trees<br />
then will be the dawning<br />
of summertimes breeze.<br />
Displayed as windows<br />
that swing and then sway<br />
there will be the ending<br />
of springtime&#8217;s array.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">With Today</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Choices and voices<br />
said and then done<br />
share with today<br />
a new then begun.<br />
Signs of the times<br />
from here thereunto<br />
gives us the choices<br />
with all that we do.<br />
Amazing displaying<br />
minutes of time<br />
can often be what<br />
makes up your mind.<br />
Marking and barking<br />
at every little scene<br />
leaves ones not knowing<br />
what all that you mean.<br />
So don&#8217;t let moments<br />
to always seem grey.<br />
Look for the good<br />
that came with today.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lines Are Painted</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Disheartened people<br />
often will choose<br />
ways of decisions<br />
that often lose.<br />
The lines are painted<br />
as separation<br />
filled up with anger<br />
and devastation.<br />
Then with that thinking<br />
your bitterness grows<br />
leaving just sadness<br />
filled full of woes.<br />
Don&#8217;t let a problem<br />
that Lord God can solve<br />
become lines painted<br />
at moments resolve.<br />
Let God to help with<br />
what that you&#8217;re feeling<br />
before lines are painted<br />
with friendship concealing.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Oceans Away</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">An island remembered<br />
on some distant shore<br />
leaves me now dreaming<br />
and wanting some more.<br />
With oceans away<br />
are memories of mine<br />
of waves crashing in<br />
with a wonderful time.<br />
Now only pictures<br />
bring back that scene<br />
that is now only<br />
just a mere dream.<br />
While oceans away<br />
live on deep inside<br />
I find that those times<br />
shall always reside.<br />
As minutes paintings<br />
now hanging with care<br />
the oceans away<br />
are now a mere prayer.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Dreaming of Christmas</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">While time&#8217;s concluding<br />
what springtime prevails<br />
I see some dreams of<br />
Christmas details.<br />
Dreaming of Christmas<br />
while spring is here<br />
gives me a feeling<br />
of season sincere.<br />
Watching the seasons<br />
all changing on cue<br />
I find I&#8217;m waiting for<br />
Christmastimes view.<br />
Seasonal pictures<br />
each day now are found<br />
as many paintings<br />
that are hung all around.<br />
Yet still I&#8217;m dreaming<br />
of what all I&#8217;ll see<br />
when Christmas gets here<br />
as white as can be.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lessons From Then</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Learning lessons<br />
as we move<br />
through our lives<br />
each daily groove,<br />
sometimes is a<br />
pain in stride<br />
with the lessons<br />
not denied.<br />
Lessons from then<br />
and ahead<br />
come as tools<br />
so daily fed.<br />
Yet some people<br />
only choose<br />
not to learn<br />
but only lose.<br />
Use those lessons<br />
then and done<br />
to make better<br />
things begun.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Big Blue Marble</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This big blue marble<br />
round and true<br />
floats in space<br />
with daily view.<br />
Each day changes<br />
as a face<br />
while this planet<br />
floats in space.<br />
Sunshine shining<br />
then the stars<br />
with the views of<br />
Venus ad Mars.<br />
This big blue marble<br />
we&#8217;re upon<br />
shows us dusk<br />
and also dawn.<br />
Ones may see it<br />
as their view<br />
as a marble<br />
round and blue.<br />
Yet we see it<br />
on the ground<br />
as the Earth<br />
so big and round.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">With a Glimmer</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Single fractions<br />
on display<br />
might be found<br />
a shade of grey.<br />
With a glimmer<br />
they might grow<br />
to a time<br />
that might just glow.<br />
Just as starlight<br />
in the haze<br />
seen by many<br />
in the days,<br />
nighttime comes<br />
and makes them shine<br />
as such beauty<br />
so divine.<br />
So when sadness<br />
comes in view<br />
look for glimmers<br />
good and true.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Life might seem bitter,<br />
but gladness is to be found<br />
if you will just look.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Flowers awaken<br />
with the brushstrokes of dewdrops<br />
as morning arrives.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A puppy&#8217;s heartbeat<br />
is of love and forgiveness,<br />
the way we should be.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Miracles of time<br />
come as glistening blessings<br />
so often misread.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Some ghost of today<br />
are hidden in the shadows<br />
of all of our fears.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thinking too deeply<br />
can create an eruption<br />
inside of your mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Moments conclusive<br />
might need a bit more searching<br />
to find other clues.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today is a page<br />
that is needing to be turned<br />
from our yesterdays.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking down too long<br />
can leave you with much sadness.<br />
Look up for a while.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">By acting on now<br />
a choice that you decided<br />
could be bad or good.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Actions speak loudly<br />
leaving many wondering<br />
what&#8217;s really true.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Scenes of now today<br />
might seem sort of disheartened,<br />
but they&#8217;ll pass with time.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Saturday&#8217;s viewpoints<br />
come as fractions of sunshine<br />
sometimes as sunburns.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Blissful horizons<br />
take the shape of many prayers<br />
that God has answered.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Playing a fools game<br />
leaves life amidst much turmoil<br />
through stupidity.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Shadows of anger<br />
can come and destroy our lives<br />
if we do not pray.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Conjoining wrongness<br />
can start a life of its own<br />
if you&#8217;re not careful.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Living for today<br />
leaves yesterday as lessons<br />
for your tomorrows.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Moving a mountain<br />
is done with timeless patience.<br />
Don&#8217;t try to rush it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Fear of the unknown<br />
becomes an hindrance for life<br />
if you let it thrive.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Journeys throughout time<br />
become mysteries to see<br />
that time has prevailed.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wanting others things<br />
can turn into a disease<br />
that infects your life.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
May 5, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends April is almost over with and May is on it&#8217;s way. Our dear old weather though has been a little up and down. Thursday night it snowed a little LOL and when I put Benny out to go potty, he looked outside and back at me as if to say, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">April is almost over with and May is on it&#8217;s way. Our<br />
dear old weather though has been a little up and down.<br />
Thursday night it snowed a little LOL and when I put<br />
Benny out to go potty, he looked outside and back at<br />
me as if to say, what the???? Hehehehe being there<br />
was ice on the steps, he slipped a little going down them,<br />
but he made it OK. Of course the snow did not stick,<br />
being the ground was too warm, but our front steps<br />
were a different issue hehehe. Most that was there<br />
was just ice being it went from snowing to sleeting<br />
and then to rain. Today looks like it&#8217;s going to be a<br />
pretty nice one. Right now at 12 O&#8217;clock noon it&#8217;s<br />
41F degrees. It&#8217;s supposed to get up to 53F degrees<br />
or thereabouts today. The wind is blowing like the<br />
dickens. Benny is outside right now doing his thing.<br />
Well there hasn&#8217;t been much change in our world<br />
up here. Maine is still Maine and the Pearce&#8217;s place<br />
is still ummmmm goofy at times LOL. Since Benny<br />
has moved into our lives, Judy and I have changed<br />
a lot of what we do to involve him. He loves for me<br />
to get down in the floor and play with him, or to<br />
play tug of war with him or play one sided catch<br />
with him. Yet he loves to snuggle close to Judy<br />
and I. I&#8217;ll hold him in my lap and rock my chair<br />
and he&#8217;ll nod off to sleep just like a little baby <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Judy and I both totally love Benny. He has made<br />
our lives complete. He was definitely a God send.<br />
OK onto another topic. My mom&#8217;s PC is in the<br />
shop. She was complaining that she was running<br />
out of space on it, so I called my friends Ron and<br />
Mandy at Century Computer in Greenville and<br />
told them what my mom needed. Mom brought<br />
it into them Wednesday and when she walked in<br />
Mandy said Mrs. Pearce is here. Bill called and<br />
told us what all you needed and we have your<br />
new hard drive waiting for you in back. Just set<br />
your PC down. it will be ready in 3 days. Mom<br />
told me she loves having a computer tech for a<br />
son LOL. All she ever has to do is send me an<br />
email or call me about her problems and I can<br />
walk her through it to fix it or tell her what she<br />
is needing and set her up hehehe. I sure miss<br />
being able to see her and my friends, but I am<br />
doing well up here. I have a loving family up<br />
here. Often Judy&#8217;s twin sister Trudy and her<br />
hubby Dennis will come over with their little<br />
Parti Yorky named Fenway and Benny and<br />
him will run and play till they are both worn<br />
out hehehe. Judy just let Benny in and he came<br />
up to me wanting me to hold him as he drowned<br />
me in kisses LOL. Yeppers, we love that boy<br />
and me thinks he loves us a tad hehehe. Benny<br />
even has allergies just like Judy and I LOL.<br />
We still do our Farmtown farms on Facebook,<br />
but late at night. Now that we have 14 farms<br />
apiece, it really keeps us busy hehehehehe.<br />
We also still watch all of our favorite TV<br />
programs. Late at night we watch anything<br />
from Frasier to most anything else that might<br />
catch our fancy hehe. Yeppers, Judy and<br />
I were meant to be and Benny was meant to<br />
be with us. I had thought years ago that<br />
I would never find anybody that would be<br />
able to cope with my many health issues<br />
and also have many of the same interest in<br />
life that I have. God showed me different.<br />
He took my heart to Maine through a little<br />
poetry egroup and found my mate. There<br />
is nothing beyond God&#8217;s abilities. It all has<br />
to do with whether or not it is His will for<br />
something to happen. Often He will allow<br />
situations to arise to be as the lessons and<br />
growth that we&#8217;re needing at that time.<br />
Yes I have seen a few times in my past<br />
that I was wondering if God had taken His<br />
Hands off of me, but saw in later dates<br />
the reasons He allowed what He did. He<br />
didn&#8217;t cause the problems, but He allowed<br />
them to happen, because He knew that<br />
my growth needed me to move throughout<br />
those pages in life. It showed me all of my<br />
bad choices and helped me to make better<br />
ones. Without going through a few struggles<br />
we will never grow stronger. Don&#8217;t be angry<br />
with God for the struggles, but thank Him.<br />
Now I believe it&#8217;s time for me to be heading<br />
back through all that I have written here<br />
to see if I can find a good word or phrase<br />
that I can use for the title for today&#8217;s brand<br />
new poem. So it&#8217;s away I go to that place<br />
of my recollection that I always like to call<br />
RECOLLECT VILLE. I think I may have<br />
found a good title, but we shall see huh <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Here goes nothing&#8230;.Hope not thought LOL.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Problems</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When found with problems<br />
look up and pray<br />
and God will show you<br />
a much better day.<br />
Look passed the problems<br />
and see the view<br />
how many things are<br />
just helping you.<br />
When in the problems<br />
of daily affairs<br />
know that God loves you<br />
and He really cares.<br />
Sometimes the problems<br />
of daily accord<br />
are what&#8217;s allowed<br />
as help from our Lord.<br />
See all the past days<br />
that you have done<br />
and How God loves you<br />
through His Own Son.<br />
Jesus was given as<br />
strength to begin<br />
and see the lessons<br />
we learned through our sin.<br />
Now see the problems<br />
as what that they show.<br />
Tool times of lessons<br />
to help us to grow.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 29, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I hope that my rambling didn&#8217;t make ya fall asleep<br />
and you maybe got a little out of it if be it, but only<br />
a smile. Also I hope you enjoyed and understood<br />
my poem. I never really know if anybody sees the<br />
meanings behind the words unless they tell me LOL.<br />
Once in a while somebody will tell me, but not too<br />
often LOL. It don&#8217;t matter, because I am happy<br />
to help none the less. Oh yea, my mom passed<br />
out onto the floor at a TOPS meeting the other<br />
day. She says that she&#8217;s OK. She thinks she was<br />
dehydrated. I told her to get some more bananas.<br />
They don&#8217;t help me, but I&#8217;m sure they will help you.<br />
She used to always keep bananas in the house,<br />
but she said she ran out. Anyways, I hope and<br />
pray that she&#8217;s OK. It would kill me if anything<br />
bad happened to my mom and me being so far<br />
away unable to help. Yet this is the way things<br />
are. Thank God my sister Peggy lives fairly<br />
close as if Midlothian TX is close LOL. Ok it&#8217;s<br />
a whole lot closer than I am. I try to call my<br />
mom everyday or at least every other day to<br />
keep tabs on her and also cheer her up being<br />
she misses Judy and I. OK so before I get into<br />
rambling mode again, I need to tell you what<br />
I tell you every week and that is, I wrote some<br />
more poems and haiku. 10 more poems and<br />
22 more haiku. I hope you enjoy a few of them<br />
and they speak to you. Now with that said, it&#8217;s<br />
time for me to begin my search for that silly<br />
off switch that loves to play hide and seek from<br />
me, but before I do that I need to wish you<br />
a most joyful and God filled week. Remember,<br />
Jesus loves you and we do too. Now to find<br />
that confounded off switch. Found it in the<br />
floor with Benny making as a chew toy LOL.<br />
Boy was it glad to see me hehehehehehehehe.<br />
Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">P.S. I forgot, I wrote another poem last<br />
sunday evening. It&#8217;s a silly poem hence the<br />
title of it hehehe, Silly Thought. I&#8217;ll put it<br />
first in the list <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Enjoy&#8230;.God bless</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10+1 and 22 hehehehehehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Silly Thought</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A silly thought<br />
which came in view<br />
made me think<br />
of what I&#8217;d do.<br />
Things so silly<br />
in my mind<br />
become laughter<br />
time to time.<br />
A silly thing<br />
of thought up phrase<br />
sometimes helps<br />
the passing days.<br />
Yet sometimes<br />
my silly thought<br />
only displays<br />
what should not.<br />
Then my silly<br />
things I do<br />
need explaining<br />
through and through.<br />
A silly thought<br />
of pages turned<br />
might just come<br />
from lessons learned.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 22, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Windy Moments</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Minutes breathing<br />
moments seen<br />
into someone&#8217;s<br />
windy dream.<br />
Windy segments<br />
written down<br />
might seem as they&#8217;re<br />
all around.<br />
Times remembered<br />
windy flairs<br />
might be as some<br />
answered prayers.<br />
Some mere seconds<br />
in the day<br />
windy moments<br />
blow away.<br />
Sometimes good times<br />
counted true<br />
windy moments<br />
make the view.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ocean of Dreams</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In but a second<br />
a dream comes alive<br />
in an ocean of dreams<br />
that&#8217;s found with blue skies.<br />
Some waves rolling in<br />
in an ocean of dreams<br />
create the flavors<br />
of so many scenes.<br />
Painted with brush strokes<br />
fingers of time<br />
an ocean of dreams<br />
turns into sublime.<br />
Then as the hours<br />
pass by from my view<br />
the ocean of dreams<br />
turn into anew.<br />
With waves crashing in<br />
onto the dreams shore<br />
I find that I&#8217;m dreaming<br />
of wanting some more.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Shortsighted People</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes a blessing<br />
is just overlooked<br />
as shortsighted people<br />
see just today&#8217;s book.<br />
Often ones vision<br />
is just seeing sights<br />
of just emotional<br />
shortsighted frights.<br />
It takes some patience<br />
to sometimes look true<br />
and see what blessings<br />
that might be with you.<br />
Search beyond right now<br />
and see tomorrow<br />
filled up with lessons<br />
not just your sorrow.<br />
Shortsighted people<br />
will often just see<br />
all of the troubles<br />
amidst the debris.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Having A Friend</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When you are walking<br />
seeking an end<br />
you might be needing<br />
to get a good friend.<br />
Yet it takes truthful<br />
for friendship to grow<br />
while being also<br />
a friend to and fro,<br />
but don&#8217;t be stupid<br />
and just speak away<br />
telling ones always<br />
your own day to day.<br />
Having a friend<br />
is greatest by far,<br />
but it takes time to<br />
see how they are.<br />
Let God to help you<br />
with what you need<br />
and a true friend will<br />
plant as a seed.<br />
Then as time blossoms<br />
so will your view<br />
of your own minutes<br />
with friendship so true.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Picturesque View</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Silently moments<br />
find ways to be<br />
a picturesque painting<br />
that we can see.<br />
Pages we&#8217;ve found<br />
of books day to day<br />
display the pictures<br />
of God on display.<br />
A picturesque view<br />
is found in a scene<br />
such as the waters<br />
of a slow moving stream.<br />
Then in some moments<br />
time can be found<br />
with many pictures then<br />
all there around.<br />
A picturesque view<br />
in such great detail<br />
that is of Heaven<br />
with ships found at sail.<br />
Silently moments<br />
can become true<br />
as God awakens<br />
your every view.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">An Island Away</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sometime long ago<br />
on an island away<br />
time was just minutes<br />
of oceans at sway.<br />
All of the scenery<br />
found in my sight<br />
changed with its beauty<br />
of each day and night.<br />
Seconds passed slowly<br />
as time moved along<br />
on an island away<br />
where I did belong.<br />
Beaconing sunrise<br />
shined on the waves<br />
across the island<br />
of my distant days.<br />
Right now is flavored<br />
with all that I&#8217;ve seen,<br />
but now it&#8217;s only<br />
found in a dream.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Life&#8217;s A Mystery</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When morning comes<br />
we wake up to see<br />
all that is found<br />
in life&#8217;s mystery.<br />
Life is some pages<br />
that&#8217;s waiting for words<br />
with every mystery&#8217;s<br />
flock full of birds.<br />
God gives us chances<br />
for each day to find<br />
better tomorrows<br />
inside of our mind.<br />
With every minute<br />
a mystery&#8217;s found<br />
and then we begin<br />
to just look around.<br />
Look for the blessings<br />
in all that you see<br />
and be real happy<br />
that life&#8217;s a mystery.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Summer&#8217;s Breeze</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Springtime&#8217;s stages<br />
come as seas<br />
with the waves<br />
blowing trees.<br />
Windy portions<br />
give and take<br />
all the displays<br />
that they make.<br />
Springtime&#8217;s minutes<br />
soon are gone<br />
then comes summer<br />
with its dawn.<br />
Moments counting<br />
then in phase<br />
are the minutes<br />
summer days.<br />
Then there&#8217;s stages<br />
in the trees<br />
found as moments<br />
summer&#8217;s breeze.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Finding An Echo</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When searching valleys<br />
of distantly heard<br />
you&#8217;ll find an echo<br />
of maybe a bird.<br />
Maybe even voices<br />
of ones long ago<br />
will be the sound of<br />
then to and fro.<br />
Heard as a minute<br />
that maybe has ceased<br />
you might find signs<br />
of an echo released.<br />
So often people<br />
will speak of there minds<br />
making an echo<br />
of troublesome times.<br />
Let not your echoes<br />
to become your voice.<br />
Try and make sure that<br />
you&#8217;ve made a good choice.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Blue Skies of Time</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">As clouds blow through<br />
I watch and wait<br />
to see designs<br />
I can debate.<br />
Blue skies of time<br />
are changing each day<br />
while I am watching<br />
the clouds swish and sway.<br />
Fluffily floating<br />
up high above me<br />
I see the clouds<br />
all moving so free.<br />
I find at times<br />
that I drift away<br />
while I am watching them<br />
day after day.<br />
Blue skies of time<br />
are changing their sights<br />
with the transcending<br />
from days unto nights.<br />
Night is then ended<br />
with such a great view<br />
found with the dawning<br />
of sweet skies of blue.<br />
Yet many clouds may<br />
cover the day<br />
blue skies of time<br />
will still come display.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Tomorrows journey<br />
begins with today&#8217;s footsteps<br />
so watch where you step.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Through a puppies eyes<br />
there is always forgiveness,<br />
for they love truly.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many see journeys<br />
while not finding the beauty<br />
that&#8217;s along the way.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Learning our lessons<br />
often comes with a high price.<br />
Be a cheap learner.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning awakens<br />
with hope found throughout the day.<br />
It just takes choices.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Heaven in the mind<br />
can be found as Jesus peace<br />
where your prayer resides.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking too quickly<br />
can cause a misconception<br />
of what&#8217;s really true.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Anger brings trouble<br />
if it is held in too long.<br />
Find a good outlet.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking up skyward<br />
you can see the formations<br />
of God&#8217;s Own artwork.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Breathing a good breath<br />
needs release of the bad one,<br />
so don&#8217;t hold it in.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Some flower type weeds<br />
give beauty for a moment<br />
and then turn ugly.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When springtime arrives<br />
it brings glimmers of summer<br />
with each passing day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Reflecting on then<br />
you might see a few moments<br />
that now look stupid.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">White lines on a road<br />
separate different ways.<br />
Actions do also.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seconds in minutes<br />
are often counted as time<br />
found in a hurry.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today might seem glum,<br />
but you can change the moments<br />
with a little smile.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Nobody is perfect,<br />
for we all have our problems.<br />
Don&#8217;t get a big head.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">As daylight ceases<br />
nighttime comes with its darkness<br />
with shimmering stars.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Don&#8217;t let your wisdom<br />
to overload your brain cells.<br />
You may not be right.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When wintertime&#8217;s gone<br />
it leaves traces of itself<br />
found during springtime.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I hear birds chirping<br />
as I sit watching the sky<br />
with changing of clouds.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Passion of dewdrops<br />
lands on the morning flowers<br />
as kisses divine.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 28, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends It&#8217;s another week gone by huh. Yeppers, and here I am once again with more rambling. The weather up this way has been rather nice, although it did rain a tad last night and this morning. I put Benny out to do his duties and he was soakin wet when [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It&#8217;s another week gone by huh. Yeppers, and here I am<br />
once again with more rambling. The weather up this way<br />
has been rather nice, although it did rain a tad last night<br />
and this morning. I put Benny out to do his duties and he<br />
was soakin wet when I let him back in. I toweled him<br />
off real good, but before that he went to Judy&#8217;s side of the<br />
bed and jumped up and gave her a good licking hehehehe.<br />
She said, ooooooh kisses and his paws are cold and wet.<br />
I said I know, I&#8217;m looking for a towel to dry him off real<br />
quick and he couldn&#8217;t wait to kiss ya good morning LOL.<br />
Benny&#8217;s such a sweetie, but he&#8217;s a picky eater and thinks<br />
he can choose what he will eat, LOL and that seems to<br />
be working. Yet I&#8217;ve found ways of making him take his<br />
medicine if he wants to be stubborn. I&#8217;ll mix it in his food<br />
and even sometimes feed that portion to him by freaking<br />
spoon. He&#8217;ll take his Angel Eyes medicine one way or<br />
another hehehe. He loves to watch TV with us, but I do<br />
believe he likes the commercials best LOL. Onto another<br />
portion of my thoughts. Judy&#8217;s eldest daughter came down<br />
with the kids Thursday and Rylee and Chance had a blast<br />
playing with Benny and I could tell that Benny was also<br />
having a blast playing with them. Indoors and outdoors<br />
they romped around. Benny hated to see them go, but<br />
they came back down yesterday/Saturday and they came<br />
with their dad along with their mom this time. Tom had<br />
not met Benny yet. Benny&#8217;s gradually meeting all of the<br />
family up here. I&#8217;m hoping that my mom and sister can<br />
make it up this summer and meet him and also so I can<br />
see them again. I miss seeing my family and friends<br />
from Texas ways and thereabouts in surrounding states.<br />
We&#8217;re seeing a few signs of spring up here. Benny saw<br />
his first butterfly and chased it all over the place hehe.<br />
He also was busy focusing on blades of grass that he<br />
had not seen since he has been up here. Yes of course<br />
most of those blades were actually just freaking weeds.<br />
Anyways, it&#8217;s 40F degrees right now at 2:30 PM and<br />
the high is supposed to be around 47F degrees. I know<br />
it&#8217;s not any spring that you would ever have thought<br />
to see if you&#8217;re somewhere down south hehehe. but<br />
it&#8217;s the way it is up here. Tonight&#8217;s supposed to drop<br />
to around 34F degrees which isn&#8217;t all that bad hehehe,<br />
but to answer your question, yes we are still having<br />
to use our heaters LOL. We let Benny sleep up on<br />
the bed with us. He usually ends up sleeping at the<br />
end of the bed between Judy and I. He has barked<br />
a few times now. Even this morning when I let him<br />
back in the house from doing his duties, he was so<br />
excited to see Judy, he barked a couple of times <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .<br />
Yes, Judy and I are still doing our FarmTown farms<br />
in Facebook. All 14 of them hehehe. They give us<br />
something to do late in the day after Benny has wore<br />
us out and we have worn him out hehehe. There&#8217;s<br />
not much news to report from up here at the Pearce&#8217;s<br />
place. Nope, we live a pretty much peaceful life<br />
up here as we watch the days pass by with artwork<br />
of clouds that paint the skies. God gives us a lot<br />
to look at and experience with the passing of time.<br />
It&#8217;s when we close our minds to the beauty around<br />
us that we do not see what God has given us. Open<br />
your eyes up and your mind and look for the good<br />
in the moments that God has given. Don&#8217;t let the<br />
dark clouds of emotions to rain on the God given<br />
beauty that is maybe right in front of your face.<br />
Now, with that said, I guess it&#8217;s time for me to<br />
begin my little venture back through all that I&#8217;ve<br />
written here to see if I can find a good word or<br />
phrase that might work for the title for today&#8217;s<br />
brand new poem. So, it&#8217;s away I go to that little<br />
bit of space of my recollection that I like to call<br />
RECOLLECT VILLE. I believe I have found a<br />
good title. Now let&#8217;s see if I can form a few words<br />
into the makings of a good poem using it LOL.<br />
Here goes&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Dark Clouds of Emotions</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Within our tomorrows<br />
we might find our sorrows<br />
filled as with oceans<br />
of dark clouds of emotions.<br />
Scenes of black and white<br />
might seem as a fright<br />
as billows of worries<br />
come in with some flurries.<br />
Within our yesterdays<br />
we might be amazed<br />
at the timeframes that passed<br />
that we thought would last.<br />
Dark clouds of emotion<br />
only cause a commotion<br />
if we allow minutes<br />
of timeframes within it.<br />
Let Jesus help you<br />
to see passed your view<br />
and find peaceful oceans<br />
through dark clouds of emotions.<br />
Life will then be<br />
a good sight to see<br />
as oceans transgressions<br />
becomes many lessons.<br />
For then what is viewed<br />
won&#8217;t be misconstrued<br />
as just but a pain,<br />
but truly a gain.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 22, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Well I hope you were not bored to tears with all my<br />
rambling hehehe. Also I hope the poem at least made<br />
a little sense to ya. If it didn&#8217;t, Oh well hehehehehehe.<br />
Judy has been playing with Benny in the living room<br />
and I think they tuckered each other out LOL. Benny&#8217;s<br />
panting a tad hehehe. He just got him a little drink of<br />
water and headed off to rest. Judy&#8217;s on her computer<br />
behind/beside me goofing around Facebook. Hmmmm<br />
I wonder if there&#8217;s anything good on TV tonight hehe.<br />
As I said before, there isn&#8217;t much new to tell ya about<br />
that I have not already told ya about. We did get<br />
a lot of pictures of the kids and Benny playing which<br />
I might use a few in my stationery. So I reckon it&#8217;s<br />
time for me to tell you what I tell you every week and<br />
that is, I wrote some poems and haiku. Yeppers 10<br />
more poems with 1 of them being a Christmas poem.<br />
Also 22 more haiku to fill your minds up with hehehe.<br />
Ok, so it&#8217;s time once again for me to begin my search<br />
for that evasive off switch, but not before I wish you<br />
a most joyful and God filled week. Remember, Jesus<br />
loves you and we do too. Now to find that off switch.<br />
Found it hiding in that darned reflection that Benny<br />
keeps looking at in the Surge Force furnace glass <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10 and 22 hehehehehehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">This is Daily</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Signs of summer<br />
come and go<br />
up here with<br />
the rain and snow.<br />
Certain days<br />
might seem insane<br />
when it&#8217;s snow<br />
and should be rain.<br />
With the seasons<br />
there and to<br />
certain stumbles<br />
seem in view.<br />
Signs of summer<br />
might arrive<br />
seeming winter&#8217;s<br />
still alive.<br />
This is daily<br />
how I&#8217;m found<br />
here in Maine<br />
and time goes round.<br />
Signs of times<br />
that shadows cast<br />
sometimes seem<br />
it goes to fast.<br />
For when summer<br />
finally comes<br />
it seems winter&#8217;s<br />
setting suns.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Springtime&#8217;s Magic</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Springtime&#8217;s flowers<br />
come and bloom<br />
April, May<br />
and also June.<br />
When their blossoms<br />
come alive<br />
they help others<br />
stay alive.<br />
Sharing pollen<br />
with each day<br />
when some critters<br />
come their way.<br />
Taking pollen<br />
from the flowers<br />
they move on<br />
to other hours.<br />
Springtime&#8217;s magic<br />
can be seen<br />
as the sight<br />
of a rushing stream.<br />
Dragonfly&#8217;s<br />
across the way<br />
display springtime<br />
day to day.<br />
So as springtime<br />
comes in view<br />
let it live now<br />
within you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning Shines</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning comes<br />
with its daylight<br />
as it shows<br />
the end of night.<br />
Minutes blessings<br />
come in view<br />
as the days start<br />
so anew.<br />
Morning shines<br />
with its own way<br />
time to time<br />
and day to day.<br />
As a picture<br />
hanging true<br />
morning comes<br />
with its own view.<br />
Painted surely<br />
with God&#8217;s hand<br />
every place<br />
of which we stand.<br />
It&#8217;s our choices<br />
daily stood<br />
that which paints<br />
our neighborhood.<br />
Let the mornings<br />
display signs<br />
of the sights<br />
of God&#8217;s designs.<br />
Don&#8217;t let self-will<br />
choose your path,<br />
for you&#8217;ll find then<br />
aftermath.<br />
Start each day<br />
with solid ground<br />
waking up with<br />
God around.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many Lessons</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many lessons<br />
daily seen<br />
might seem as<br />
a bouncing spring.<br />
Some might seem<br />
a bouncing ball<br />
giving lessons<br />
all in all.<br />
Yet with bouncing<br />
there and to<br />
you might find<br />
a painful view.<br />
Many lessons<br />
find a place<br />
found in others<br />
time and space.<br />
Often lessons<br />
that we find<br />
just live on<br />
inside our mind<br />
leaving no one<br />
ever knowing<br />
if you&#8217;re ever<br />
really growing.<br />
Let the lessons<br />
within you<br />
be the good<br />
you say and do.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Yesterdays Found</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seen as illusions<br />
often are real<br />
sights that our hands<br />
can touch, hold and feel.<br />
Sometimes a view<br />
that&#8217;s seen from our eyes<br />
is just denial<br />
and filled up with lies.<br />
Yesterdays found<br />
might surely just be<br />
things we&#8217;ve envisioned<br />
hopeful to see.<br />
Yet of course moments<br />
that we wish true<br />
might end in crashing<br />
with sadness to view.<br />
Search through the then<br />
that surely came round<br />
and find the lessons<br />
of yesterdays found.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Stages Set</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now in April<br />
I can see<br />
sights and sounds<br />
in front of me.<br />
Robins chirping<br />
in the sky<br />
as they sweetly<br />
just fly by.<br />
Tree to tree<br />
I hear the day<br />
blowing briskly<br />
in its way.<br />
Tree limbs swaying<br />
in the breeze<br />
with the glimmer<br />
of new leaves.<br />
Sights are changing<br />
as I stand<br />
holding out<br />
my reaching hand.<br />
Seeking for to<br />
catch the wind<br />
and then own it<br />
as my friend.<br />
Time is paging<br />
stages set<br />
with a time<br />
I&#8217;ll not forget.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It Is Christmas</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Some write Xmas<br />
I do not<br />
for it&#8217;s Christmas<br />
I have sought.<br />
If I let ones<br />
change my view<br />
then I might then<br />
be them too.<br />
I am me<br />
and always will<br />
love dear Christmas<br />
oh so real.<br />
Not a change<br />
in how I say<br />
Merry Christmas<br />
day to day.<br />
It&#8217;s not Xmas<br />
that I see.<br />
It is Christmas<br />
history.<br />
Found through blessings<br />
Jesus born<br />
I find Christmas<br />
Him adorn.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes Dreams</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Having a dreamers<br />
insight mind<br />
helps me see a<br />
better time.<br />
Looking passed this<br />
now today<br />
I can see a<br />
better way.<br />
In a dreamers<br />
point of view<br />
hope can live then<br />
within you.<br />
Yet let dreaming<br />
find its place<br />
not to always<br />
be the case.<br />
For a dreamers<br />
point in time<br />
needs a special<br />
frame of mind.<br />
Let your dreams to<br />
live and breathe<br />
only if they&#8217;re<br />
meant to be.<br />
Sometimes dreams<br />
of other places<br />
are just meant<br />
for other faces.<br />
Yet let dreams to<br />
live in you<br />
for some peace<br />
to daily view.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes Then</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now and then<br />
our when and where<br />
leads us to<br />
a then and there.<br />
Sometimes then<br />
our wantings laid<br />
lead us to<br />
mistakes we&#8217;ve made.<br />
Now and then<br />
our how and when<br />
search to find<br />
ways to begin.<br />
Scenes confusion<br />
find a view<br />
that is made<br />
from things we do.<br />
Now and then<br />
our when and where<br />
ends up in<br />
a slight despair.<br />
Through illusions<br />
that we&#8217;ve sought<br />
there is often<br />
what should not</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sounds of An Echo</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Throughout the valley<br />
some sounds reverberate<br />
the sounds of an echo<br />
just seeking its mate.<br />
Echoing passion<br />
with true love in sight<br />
I hear the calling<br />
real late in the night.<br />
Sounds found so sweetly<br />
as echoes of love<br />
heard across the valley<br />
and trees up above.<br />
The sounds of an echo<br />
are sweetness to hear<br />
painting a porthole<br />
that is so sincere.<br />
With coming of springtime<br />
those echoes all grow<br />
that once were covered<br />
with wintertime&#8217;s snow.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lies will grow larger<br />
as the truth is buried deep.<br />
Truth will set you free.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Leaving a shadow<br />
of yourself in yesterday<br />
is not prevented.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The buds of flowers<br />
live under wintertime&#8217;s snow<br />
awaiting to bloom.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A breeze of summer<br />
comes as a moments blessing<br />
to cool off the day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Beyond now today<br />
are tomorrows not yet seen<br />
that today can change.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Stuck in yesterday<br />
can leave today unprepared,<br />
so deal with today.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Having true passion<br />
gives chance for carnality.<br />
Let true love reside.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking beyond now<br />
only shows shadows of time<br />
that might not be true.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seasonal values<br />
come as glimmers of a time<br />
differently seen.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When reading a book<br />
many get way too involved<br />
and life falls away.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Loose fitting jeans<br />
are like a life that&#8217;s not you.<br />
You will be exposed.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The face of Jesus<br />
lends a smile for a moment<br />
when sadness is found.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Only a second<br />
is the importance that&#8217;s found<br />
as hours collect.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Braving the rapids<br />
might leave ones that care for you<br />
with many worries.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thinking you&#8217;re not seen<br />
is just a mere illusion,<br />
for God can see you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Kindred spirits thrive<br />
when love is held so truly<br />
as angels of time.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Finding a needle<br />
in a haystack of trouble<br />
might stick your behind.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mornings arrival<br />
comes with glimmers of hope<br />
just needing some time.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wars waged on others<br />
could be due to not knowing<br />
who they really are.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many mysteries<br />
arrive as merely shadows<br />
we don&#8217;t understand.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When fighting someone<br />
step back to see the reasons<br />
and see if they&#8217;re good.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now spring has sprung<br />
with its many famous sights<br />
such as daffodils.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends How was your Easter? Did you do anything special? You know, like hunt Easter eggs hehehe. Judy and I just stayed at home and enjoyed the God filled day that He had given to us. We went outside and played with Benny in the snow. Actually Benny did the playing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How was your Easter? Did you do anything special?<br />
You know, like hunt Easter eggs hehehe. Judy and I<br />
just stayed at home and enjoyed the God filled day that<br />
He had given to us. We went outside and played with<br />
Benny in the snow. Actually Benny did the playing LOL.<br />
We just watched. My old body has been giving me heck<br />
the last few days, but I guess that&#8217;s to be expected huh.<br />
Judy and I still went out and played with Benny none<br />
the less. He has barked 4 times now. Hehehehe Judy<br />
let him back in this morning after she put him out to go<br />
potty and when he came in. he was all excited. Judy<br />
said, go find daddy and he barked twice and ran in to<br />
find me LOL. He is so cute <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  So that adds up to four<br />
barks in all that we&#8217;ve heard out of the little guy since<br />
we got him a month ago. He loves to play with me in<br />
the living room floor. He has all of his favorite toys<br />
all strewn about in the living room LOL. Judy and<br />
I love him as our own son. Hey I&#8217;m an animal lover.<br />
What did ya think from a guy nick named ANIMAL?<br />
Judy&#8217;s an animal lover as well which made us perfect<br />
for little Benny. God had His Hands in us being united<br />
with Benny. It&#8217;s perfection. Well onto anther topic.<br />
Yesterday was a beautiful day and today is also. Right<br />
now it&#8217;s 64F degrees. Tomorrow and Tuesday are<br />
supposed to be in the mid 70&#8242;s. Yet after Tuesday it&#8217;s<br />
supposed to get a little colder. The rest of the weeks<br />
highs are supposed to be in the mid 50&#8242;s and 40&#8242;s F.<br />
There&#8217;s no rain predicted for this week. That will<br />
give Benny some good outside time. He&#8217;s gotten to<br />
where he loves sitting in the balcony on top of his<br />
doghouse. He also loves me to toss him things to<br />
go fetch, but he hasn&#8217;t yet gotten the bring back<br />
to me part down LOL. I&#8217;ve usually got to go and<br />
get it back from him so I can toss it again hehehe.<br />
Maybe he&#8217;ll grasp the idea one day <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Until that<br />
day arrives I&#8217;ll just keep doing what I&#8217;m doing <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Judy put him outside a few minutes ago so he enjoy<br />
the sunshine and play. There&#8217;s not much else new<br />
from this part of the world. Either Wednesday or<br />
Thursday Judy&#8217;s eldest daughter is coming down<br />
from Caribou ME bringing Chance and Rylee. It<br />
will be great seeing them. Rylee had a blast playing<br />
with Benny the last time they came down. Chance<br />
also spent a long while in the floor playing with him.<br />
Oh yea, Farmtown has added some more levels<br />
as well as another farm along with new facilities <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Judy and I were at level 310 with 13 farms, but<br />
now we&#8217;re both at level 335 with 14 farms hehehe.<br />
Judy made her farm 14 a large lake with a beach&#8217;<br />
all around and I made my farm 14 a large ocean<br />
with an island in the middle. I put a train track<br />
circling the island with a locomotive with some<br />
passenger cars attached. It looks pretty cool.<br />
Hey, we&#8217;re both disabled and retired so it gives<br />
us something to entertain us that doesn&#8217;t cost an<br />
arm and a leg hehehe. Judy just now put some<br />
clothes on so she could go outside and play with<br />
Benny. I&#8217;m trying to hurry and finish this so I<br />
can join her hehe. So to get to the basics of our<br />
lives, Judy and I have been blessed. We found<br />
each other through God and God put Benny into<br />
our lives. If you&#8217;re having hard times today, then<br />
take a little step back and look to see a larger<br />
view of the picture. Maybe you&#8217;re just focusing<br />
on the small stuff. Let God show you a bigger<br />
much more beautiful picture. Find the blessings<br />
in a cloud floating over or the raindrops that<br />
fall. Search through the leaves on the trees and<br />
find the new tomorrows. Let Jesus live within<br />
you as you seek only what He provides. Now<br />
I believe it&#8217;s time for me to be taking my little<br />
walk back through the minutes in time of which<br />
I have written here and see if I can find a good<br />
word or phrase that might work well for the<br />
title of today&#8217;s brand new poem. So it&#8217;s away<br />
I go to that place of my recollection that I like<br />
to call RECOLLECT VILLE. I think I may<br />
have stumbled upon a good title, but time will<br />
only tell hehehe. Here goes&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Small Stuff</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In the minutes<br />
of each day<br />
many see<br />
but only grey.<br />
It&#8217;s the small stuff<br />
many find<br />
when they look<br />
inside their mind.<br />
Yet that small stuff<br />
that they see<br />
at that time might<br />
largely be<br />
things so big<br />
that they can&#8217;t find<br />
peace within<br />
a time to time.<br />
Don&#8217;t let small stuff<br />
become large<br />
and be all that<br />
then takes charge.<br />
See it clearly<br />
then enough<br />
and don&#8217;t sweat<br />
today&#8217;s small stuff.<br />
Let God help with<br />
now today<br />
and watch the small stuff<br />
fade away.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 15, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So I guess that&#8217;s it. Not much else to tell ya about.<br />
I hope you enjoyed my rambling and maybe even the<br />
poem. I&#8217;m trying to hurry and finish this so I can go<br />
outside with Judy and Benny. Judy came in a moment<br />
ago to grab her camera hehehehehe. Benny was right<br />
behind her <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I&#8217;ll put a few pictures that we&#8217;ve taken<br />
in the stationery so that those of you receiving this in<br />
the stationery format can see what our world looks<br />
like today. The snow has all melted away and the<br />
grass is trying to start growing. Even a few leaves<br />
on the trees have begun sprouting. Now if the next<br />
few days don&#8217;t kill it hehe we should be seeing some<br />
signs of a belated spring. Well, I guess it&#8217;s time for<br />
me to be telling you what I tell you every week and<br />
that is, I wrote some more poems and haiku. 10<br />
more poems with one of them being Christmassy.<br />
Also 22 more haiku for all of my haiku lovers out<br />
there. Now with that said, I reckon it&#8217;s time for<br />
me to be searching for that old off switch, but<br />
not before I wish you a most wonderful and God<br />
filled week. Remember, Jesus loves you and we<br />
do too. Now to find that off switch. There it is<br />
parked in front of the door just waiting to go<br />
outside. Gotcha, see ya CLICK wheeeeeeeeee.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">P.S. I also wrote a poem about Benny <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
It&#8217;s the last poem in the list hehehehe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10 and 22 hehehehehehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Deepened Thoughts</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Detailed minutes<br />
found inlaid<br />
often are<br />
what seem to fade.<br />
Seconds counted<br />
time to time<br />
sometimes detail<br />
what we find.<br />
With the scenic<br />
minutes seen<br />
some might fill<br />
a submarine.<br />
Deepened thoughts<br />
of where we&#8217;ve been<br />
detailed as<br />
some out some in.<br />
Often pages<br />
that we read<br />
turn to detailed<br />
minutes seed.<br />
Planted as<br />
another day<br />
as some detailed<br />
fade away.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 14, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Find A Big Smile</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When found in sadness<br />
a smile can revive<br />
if you will find ways<br />
it can arrive.<br />
Even if falsely<br />
you&#8217;re smiling true,<br />
maybe that smile then<br />
will live in you.<br />
Sadness will only<br />
live if allowed<br />
within a moment<br />
you have endowed.<br />
So do not let those<br />
frowns on your face<br />
become the only<br />
thing in your space.<br />
Let Jesus help you<br />
to find a big smile<br />
that will most surely<br />
help in a while.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 14, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Christmas Flare</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Smoke now billows<br />
in the air<br />
with each fireplace<br />
Christmas flare.<br />
The smell gives the<br />
day a flavor<br />
that which I will<br />
always savor.<br />
Daily beauty<br />
page to page<br />
as the billows<br />
Christmas stage.<br />
Though the weather<br />
will change soon,<br />
I&#8217;ll still be seen<br />
as Christmas soon.<br />
Each day searching<br />
finding true,<br />
Christmas blessings<br />
in my view.<br />
With each glimmer<br />
that I see,<br />
Christmastime will<br />
be with me.<br />
Living in each<br />
sight and sound<br />
for in my heart<br />
it&#8217;s daily found.<br />
Christmas pictures<br />
I remember<br />
are now as a<br />
burning ember.<br />
Christmas flare<br />
with things I see<br />
that will always<br />
live in me.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 14, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Simple People</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A simple person<br />
with simple views<br />
might be found<br />
as simple news.<br />
Yet those simple<br />
people found<br />
might be what<br />
we each astound<br />
as we wonder<br />
simple things<br />
how they live<br />
with plated rings.<br />
A simple person<br />
only seeks<br />
what they&#8217;re needing<br />
in the weeks.<br />
Simple people<br />
that we find<br />
only seek<br />
their peace of mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 14, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Yesterdays Thought</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The essence of now<br />
is just but a view<br />
sometimes just living<br />
deep within you.<br />
Sometimes the essence<br />
of what we see<br />
is but a moments<br />
own history.<br />
Counted as pages<br />
filled up with words<br />
now is an essence<br />
sometimes obscured.<br />
Not seen too clearly<br />
each essence in time<br />
might become only<br />
an uncertain mind.<br />
Seen through the clouds<br />
of yesterdays thought<br />
sometimes the essence<br />
displays what not.<br />
Filled up with lessons<br />
as time goes its way<br />
now gives us chances<br />
to better today.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 14, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">White Days of Time</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Making some wishes<br />
for some white snow<br />
lives as the moments<br />
of Santa&#8217;s HoHo.<br />
Seeking for Christmas<br />
through memories<br />
as now I&#8217;m seeing<br />
leaves on the trees.<br />
Springtime&#8217;s upon us<br />
so slowly it comes<br />
as it beats rhythms<br />
of seasonal drums.<br />
The snow has all melted<br />
leaving on cue<br />
the change of each day<br />
with a wonderful view.<br />
Yet now I&#8217;m wishing<br />
for white days of time<br />
filled up with snowflakes<br />
inside my mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 15, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Dished Up</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning&#8217;s coming<br />
hours fly<br />
while the minutes<br />
pass on by.<br />
Mornings blessings<br />
held in hand<br />
are what Jesus<br />
gives so grand.<br />
With each shadows<br />
passing day<br />
times become<br />
a different way.<br />
Maybe likeness<br />
sort of seen,<br />
but each morning&#8217;s<br />
God&#8217;s cuisine.<br />
Dished up surely<br />
oh so great<br />
to become a<br />
different date.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 15, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Flavored Dream</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In the sunshine<br />
I can feel<br />
life with Jesus<br />
oh so real.<br />
Scenes around me<br />
far and wide<br />
display Jesus<br />
deep inside.<br />
In the tree limbs<br />
that each blow<br />
I can see Him<br />
to and fro.<br />
In the sunshine<br />
I am filled<br />
with what I can&#8217;t<br />
keep concealed.<br />
My face gleaming<br />
in sunlight<br />
shows ones truly<br />
all that&#8217;s right.<br />
Words not spoken<br />
yet they&#8217;re seen<br />
as a heartbeats<br />
flavored dream.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 15, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Being Blessed</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Night is ending<br />
as day shines<br />
with its daily<br />
scenes designs.<br />
Nightfall&#8217;s leaving<br />
its own stage<br />
with the turning<br />
of a page.<br />
Still the darkness<br />
is displayed<br />
as what God has<br />
surely made.<br />
Giving moments<br />
time to rest<br />
and find peace<br />
in being blessed.<br />
Night has left its<br />
shadows cast<br />
in the daylights<br />
of the past.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 15, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Little Benny</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I hear footsteps<br />
in the night<br />
with a jingle<br />
I delight.<br />
It&#8217;s our puppy<br />
white and tan<br />
as he prances<br />
passed our fan.<br />
He seeks only<br />
company<br />
so he comes for<br />
us to see.<br />
I hear footsteps<br />
coming near<br />
of this puppy<br />
so sincere.<br />
He&#8217;s our baby<br />
thick and thin<br />
with name Benny<br />
or just Ben.<br />
Little Benny&#8217;s<br />
fast asleep<br />
with just footsteps<br />
dreaming feet.<br />
He&#8217;s now running<br />
jogging true<br />
in his dreaming<br />
sleepy view.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 15, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for Apr 15, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thoughts from yesterday<br />
can make today good or bad.<br />
It&#8217;s all how they&#8217;re used.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today&#8217;s persuasions<br />
often come in form of time,<br />
due to impatience.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A little raindrop<br />
becomes much more powerful<br />
combined with others.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today has a chance<br />
while yesterday is long gone.<br />
Learn from yesterday.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The fear of darkness<br />
comes from all the unknown things<br />
that we cannot see.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">As today subsides<br />
we will find nighttimes pictures<br />
displayed as starlight.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking passed now<br />
could find self will run amuck<br />
with many worries.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Linking a flower<br />
real tightly into springtime<br />
could just confuse you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The weather changes<br />
while weathermen will attempt<br />
to predict its view.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Guessing ones feelings<br />
could leave you with only lies<br />
that you had believed.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Having and holding<br />
often brings about sadness<br />
as wanna goes mad.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When seeing sunshine<br />
you might be a bit misled<br />
as storm clouds appear.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Keeping a friendship<br />
needs a little bit of work<br />
at being a friend.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Letters on paper<br />
only spell out a few words<br />
which might be just lies.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lessons of flowers<br />
are found as time moves along<br />
through winter and spring.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wisdom of ages<br />
might be stupidity found<br />
of which gave lessons.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">With someone&#8217;s answers<br />
could also be many questions<br />
displayed throughout time.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking for the truth<br />
could end in tons of heartache.<br />
Try and be prepared.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Love from a puppy<br />
has no room for resentment.<br />
He loves without end.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Speaking of blessings<br />
can often make them smaller<br />
due to a big head.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning will begin<br />
as nighttime passes from view<br />
leaving us sunlight.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Right now this minute<br />
is a blessing in disguise<br />
that many do not see.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 15, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>A Beautiful Sight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends and HAPPY EASTER I hope you are having a blessed day. It&#8217;s snowing again up here. Yeppers, it had all melted away and was not but a few spots with snow left, but now once again there is white as far as the eyes can see. Which I might add [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends<br />
and<br />
HAPPY EASTER</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I hope you are having a blessed day. It&#8217;s snowing again up<br />
here. Yeppers, it had all melted away and was not but a few<br />
spots with snow left, but now once again there is white as far<br />
as the eyes can see. Which I might add ain&#8217;t far, being that<br />
stuff is really coming down LOL. I took my camera outside<br />
along with my tripod and got a few pictures of me and Benny<br />
or is that Benny and I hehehe. Either sounds OK to me LOL.<br />
Anyways, I took Benny outside to go potty and he was like,<br />
Hey, that fun white stuff is back hehehe. He ran off into the<br />
snow with a gallop LOL. By now, it should be a little bit<br />
deeper. I&#8217;ll take him out again when I finish. Right now<br />
he&#8217;s warming up in his blanket hehehehe, but every time he<br />
hears me open the front door, he comes running <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  LOL.<br />
Judy&#8217;s still in bed. I think she&#8217;s waiting for me to get done<br />
with my journal. I bet she&#8217;s gonna be ready for something<br />
to eat when I do get finished hehehe. I know little Benny&#8217;s<br />
gonna be ready to eat. Life up here in Northeastern Maine<br />
is pretty much the same as last week. Yet last Sunday, all<br />
of the snow had pretty much melted away. Oh well, now<br />
we are back to our regular seasonal schedule hehehehe.<br />
Benny has moved from his blanket to his little bed beside<br />
Judy. He has a bed on either side of our bed, so he can<br />
pick where he wants to sleep LOL. We&#8217;ve ordered him a<br />
doghouse that I&#8217;m sure he will love. It has a latter that<br />
goes to the top of it with a balcony. Of course he will<br />
still sleep in the house with us hehehehe if he wants to.<br />
I&#8217;m thinking he will still want to, being he doesn&#8217;t like<br />
to be away from us. We&#8217;ve given him the car test and<br />
he was a good boy. When Judy and I went to WalMart<br />
he waited patiently for us to return while sitting in the<br />
drivers seat LOL. I&#8217;m sure he may have whined a bit,<br />
but he didn&#8217;t tear up anything. Of course when the<br />
weather gets warmer, we will have to leave him at<br />
home in his travel house, but he doesn&#8217;t seem to mind,<br />
being that&#8217;s what he was shipped in. Well as I said<br />
before, there isn&#8217;t much new to report from up here<br />
at the Pearce&#8217;s Place. It&#8217;s still snowing pretty heavy.<br />
Yes, I love snow. It&#8217;s a beautiful sight. It reminds<br />
me of the forgiveness that Jesus gives to us as He<br />
washes our sins white as snow. Easter is all about<br />
Him dying for our sins. Always remember, that we<br />
always have a chance to change as long as we are<br />
breathing. Let today be filled with the best changes.<br />
Leave yesterdays transgressions as lessons learned.<br />
Let Jesus cleanse your soul with His Blood as you<br />
ask for His forgiveness. Now, I believe it&#8217;s time for<br />
me to be searching for that word or phrase of which<br />
I may be able to use for the title for today&#8217;s brand<br />
new poem. So it&#8217;s away I go to that little place of<br />
my recollection through all that I have written here<br />
that I like to call RECOLLECT VILLE. I think<br />
I might of stumbled upon a good title, but we shall<br />
see huh hehehehe. Here goes!!!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Beautiful Sight</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When in my sin<br />
forgiveness is near<br />
when I see Jesus then<br />
oh so sincere.<br />
A beautiful sight<br />
is found then that day<br />
when my dear Jesus<br />
takes my sins away.<br />
He is my Savior<br />
and greatest of friends<br />
for He gives blessings<br />
with moments He sends.<br />
He&#8217;s the beginnings<br />
of a beautiful sight<br />
when He shows Heaven<br />
that we can delight.<br />
He has the wisdom<br />
beyond what we see<br />
and He can make good<br />
of both you and me.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 8, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I hope you enjoyed the poem and maybe even my rambling.<br />
Well. there&#8217;s not much to add to what I have already said <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
As soon as I finish this, Benny and I might go outside and<br />
play some more in the snow before we wake up Judy LOL.<br />
Then of course I&#8217;ll fix us all something to eat. So I guess<br />
it&#8217;s time for me to be telling ya what I tell you every week<br />
and that is I wrote some more poems and haiku, but this<br />
time I only did half of what I normally do hehehe being that<br />
I didn&#8217;t write anything until this morning and being woken<br />
up to snow tended to distract me hehehe. We&#8217;ve already<br />
been outside 3 times this morning playing together. Benny<br />
is like his dad/owner hehehe. He loves the snow. Judy and<br />
I consider him more of a little boy than a dog. He&#8217;s our lil<br />
baby <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  and we love him. Well as I said, I only wrote half<br />
of what I normally do which means only 5 poems and 10<br />
haiku hehehe. I hope you enjoy some of them. It&#8217;s time<br />
once again for me to be searching for that old off switch,<br />
but not before I wish you a most joyous Easter and a<br />
wonderful God filled week. Now to find that freaking<br />
off switch. Found it staring at me in the window just<br />
taunting me saying, &#8220;you know you want to play in<br />
the snow, admit it&#8221; Mwahahahahaha hehehehehehe.<br />
Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">P.S. Judy was awake when I went in and Benny<br />
was trying to get on the bed to give her a kiss and<br />
so I gave him a boost. They&#8217;re both now laying<br />
in there asleep again hehehehehehehe. So cute <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
This time 5 and 10 hehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Moments That Survive</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning brings<br />
a pleasant sight,<br />
a new day<br />
from dark of night.<br />
Minutes blissful<br />
seconds seen<br />
as a mornings<br />
own cuisine.<br />
Seasons shadow<br />
each detail<br />
as each moment<br />
then sets sail.<br />
As a page turned<br />
in a book<br />
for another<br />
seasons look.<br />
Bringing values<br />
fast alive<br />
from some moments<br />
that survive.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 8, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Easter in Maine</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seen Easter morning<br />
is snow coming down<br />
painting its pictures<br />
right there on the ground.<br />
Easter in Maine<br />
makes ones understand<br />
why they paint Easter eggs<br />
colors by hand.<br />
For if you&#8217;ve ever<br />
sought in your sight<br />
some eggs in the snow<br />
the color of white,<br />
you would then also<br />
see why they do<br />
paint all the eggs<br />
the brightest of hue.<br />
This might just seem<br />
a little insane,<br />
but it&#8217;s my view<br />
of Easter in Maine.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 8, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Paintings of White</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Snow is now falling<br />
down from the sky<br />
while now in April<br />
I wonder why.<br />
I sit just watching<br />
snowflakes of white<br />
making a wonderful<br />
scenic delight.<br />
It&#8217;s now a blizzard<br />
and I can not see<br />
not but a short way<br />
in front of me.<br />
White snow of morning<br />
time and again<br />
finds its way surely<br />
in Northern Maine.<br />
Scenes all around me<br />
seem to just say<br />
I am the colors<br />
of now and today.<br />
Paintings of white<br />
as April&#8217;s begun<br />
show me that winter&#8217;s<br />
maybe not done.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 8, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Foreseeing</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Often foreseeing<br />
might just conclude<br />
that many people<br />
are really rude,<br />
yet often people<br />
that which we see,<br />
might be the shadows<br />
of you and me.<br />
We might be seeing<br />
our daily hue<br />
in many things<br />
that ones say and do.<br />
Often our anger<br />
is just a phase<br />
painted by pictures<br />
found in our ways.<br />
Let today&#8217;s venture<br />
be not so bad<br />
seeing but only<br />
the things that are sad.<br />
Look for the goodness<br />
found here and there<br />
as you continue<br />
some moments of prayer.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 8, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In Front Of Me</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now I look<br />
outside and see<br />
Christmas sights<br />
in front of me.<br />
White snow falling<br />
from the sky<br />
as it seems that<br />
seasons fly.<br />
Seasonal pages<br />
sort of seen<br />
as the today&#8217;s own<br />
magazine.<br />
Now I search<br />
for sights to find<br />
that which look<br />
just like springtime.<br />
Yet the only<br />
things I see<br />
are snowflakes<br />
in front of me.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 8, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for Apr 8, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A moments minutes<br />
might seem as many decades<br />
through our impatience.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The length of an arm<br />
determines what ones can grasp<br />
if just standing there.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Bitter yesterdays<br />
can form some bad tomorrows.<br />
Let yesterday rest.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Pitfalls of today<br />
can be tomorrows lessons<br />
that are well hidden.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Judgmental people<br />
often see only the bad<br />
and not what that&#8217;s true.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Snowbound tomorrows<br />
leave tracks that today can see<br />
as wanted ventures.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Living in sorrow<br />
only guaranties your sadness,<br />
so search for a smile.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Temptations eyesight<br />
brings wanna into today<br />
that can destroy you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Is now illusion,<br />
or is it your reality?<br />
Do not seek facade.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lessons in today<br />
are often written real clear.<br />
It&#8217;s us that confuse.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 8, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends How have you been? Has springtime sprung where you are? It&#8217;s sort of looking like it up here, that is as much as it ever has looked like springtime up here. The snow is all gradually melting away AGAIN. It&#8217;s 41F degrees right now with the high supposed to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">How have you been? Has springtime sprung where you are?<br />
It&#8217;s sort of looking like it up here, that is as much as it ever<br />
has looked like springtime up here. The snow is all gradually<br />
melting away AGAIN. It&#8217;s 41F degrees right now with the high<br />
supposed to be 50F degrees. Tonight&#8217;s supposed to get down<br />
to 34F degrees. There&#8217;s not much that has happened up this<br />
way other than our hot water heater springing a leak. Judy<br />
and I had noticed the water in the walkway of our bathroom<br />
and we thought it was Benny using the potty. Now we really<br />
feel bad about scolding him, but I would never hurt the little<br />
guy. We apologized to him for the mistake. He&#8217;s still happy.<br />
He loves it when I get in the floor with him and wrestle with<br />
him. He also loves an old belt that I never use being that I&#8217;ve<br />
sort of out grown it <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . Benny and me play tug of war with it.<br />
Ain&#8217;t that about right. They always like the things that were<br />
not meant as toys the best LOL. Anyways, Benny&#8217;s laying<br />
down on the floor beside me. I took him outside early this<br />
morning so he could play and potty. He had fun. I left him<br />
out there for a bit and came in and wrote a few poems. Then<br />
I went to check on him and saw he was still running around<br />
having fun, but when I started to go back in, he also wanted<br />
to go back in. He doesn&#8217;t like to be alone much. Love that<br />
boy. He&#8217;s exactly what Judy and I needed, being we are<br />
both retired and disabled. We&#8217;ve nothing but time to spend<br />
with Benny. He does though wear us out time to time <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  I<br />
sprained my ankle trying to run with him as best that I can<br />
and play with him. LOL, an asthmatic running. I&#8217;m sure<br />
the neighbors could hear me breathing hehehe. My old<br />
legs are telling me now how stupid I was to try to run,<br />
but I&#8217;m sure I will do it again when I am able hehehehe.<br />
I spend a lot of time with him in the living room floor<br />
wrestling with him. He loves us to play with him. Yet,<br />
he too gets tuckered out hehe LOL. The little guy was<br />
pooped last night after me having a tug of war with my<br />
belt. LOL he laid down in the floor and looked like a<br />
dead dog hehehe. I held the belt over his head and he<br />
just raised his head as if to say NO Way Jose hehehehe.<br />
Judy&#8217;s still asleep. After I finish this, I&#8217;ll head to the<br />
kitchen to see what I can fix us for brunch. I&#8217;m sure<br />
Benny&#8217;s hungry. He loves his little Cesar dinners <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
I usually mix in some puppy chow are something with<br />
it so he gets a good balanced meal. Gotta take care<br />
of our little blessing. God gives us all blessings, but<br />
we may not see them due to our own distraught sight.<br />
Sometimes it helps to step back from the moment and<br />
see all the blessings that you have gained throughout<br />
time. Then look to find the good in the moment that<br />
is there with you. Let a smile find your face even if<br />
you do not feel like smiling. Sometimes that smile<br />
can change the whole outcome of the day. Search<br />
your heart for God&#8217;s Grace, for it is there. Often<br />
we&#8217;re just needing a time out for a moment. Take<br />
a breather and then let Jesus help you to find your<br />
footing in the day. Now I think it&#8217;s that time once<br />
again for me to begin my little venture back through<br />
all that I&#8217;ve written here to see if I can find a good<br />
word or phrase that might work for the title for<br />
today&#8217;s brand new poem. So it&#8217;s away I go to that<br />
little place of my recollection that I like to call<br />
RECOLLECT VILLE. Found a good title. Now,<br />
let&#8217;s see what I can do with it. Here goes!!!!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Let A Smile</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Scenes we find<br />
from then and there<br />
could be our own<br />
answered prayer.<br />
Let a smile<br />
to shine on through<br />
in the things<br />
you say and do.<br />
Mornings flavors<br />
can be seen<br />
as a moments<br />
running stream.<br />
Let a smile<br />
to shine today<br />
in your moments<br />
will and way.<br />
Leave the sadness<br />
that you&#8217;ve found<br />
in God&#8217;s Hands<br />
of solid ground.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">OK, so there ya are once again. Hehehe my old brain<br />
is tired. I hope you enjoyed my rambling and maybe even<br />
the poem. I guess rather than me begin rambling again<br />
I need to be telling ya what I tell ya every week and that<br />
is, I wrote 10 more poems and 22 more haiku and all of<br />
them this morning. 1 of the poems is a Christmas poem.<br />
Yes, I begin writing new Christmas poems each year at<br />
the end of the year passed. I send them all to my friend<br />
and publisher in Holland. He has a Christmas site that<br />
he keeps up all year round and he has all 500 plus of my<br />
Christmas poems published there. If you love Christmas<br />
as much as Judy and I love it, take a visit to his site.<br />
His link is at the end of the poems and all along with<br />
many others. Ok, so it&#8217;s time for me to once again be<br />
searching for that freaking off switch, but not before<br />
I wish you a most joyful God filled week. Remember,<br />
Jesus loves you and we do too. Now to find that silly<br />
off switch. Ahhah, caught ya riding piggy back on<br />
Benny hehehe. Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Also another Thoughts To Use</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10 and 22 hehehehehehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mornings Sunshine</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning&#8217;s risen<br />
with it&#8217;s flare<br />
come from nighttimes<br />
own night air.<br />
Sunshine&#8217;s shining<br />
now I see<br />
as God&#8217;s blessings<br />
oh so free.<br />
Now I sit back<br />
watching true<br />
mornings sunshine<br />
and its view.<br />
The stage is set<br />
for now and then<br />
mornings sunshine<br />
to begin.<br />
With my curtains<br />
now not drawn,<br />
I can see<br />
the mornings dawn.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Minutes Whisper</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Within the seconds<br />
counted in frame<br />
a minutes whisper<br />
does then attain.<br />
It finds its moments<br />
counted so true<br />
as it continues<br />
on with its view.<br />
A minutes whisper<br />
may not be seen<br />
while it will sometimes<br />
just be a dream.<br />
Often the minutes<br />
whispers in time<br />
are just a seasonal<br />
moments design,<br />
for with the minutes<br />
of whispers detail<br />
there are some fragments<br />
of seconds set sail.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Birdies At Play</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seen in the distance<br />
a little black bird<br />
sings its sweet song<br />
that springtime has heard.<br />
High upon a treetop<br />
it chirps away<br />
with the beginning<br />
of every spring day.<br />
Yet there&#8217;s confusion,<br />
when it looks down,<br />
for there is still snow<br />
found on the ground.<br />
This little black bird<br />
is not alone,<br />
for there&#8217;s a red breasted<br />
robin in tone.<br />
It sings then also<br />
while stood in snow<br />
wondering where all<br />
did springtime go.<br />
These are the seasons<br />
up here each day<br />
as I just watch the<br />
birdies at play.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Creating A Sunrise</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God brings together<br />
mornings of time<br />
creating a sunrise<br />
scenic design.<br />
God makes the morning<br />
from shadows seen<br />
coming from nighttimes<br />
minutes cuisine.<br />
The sun slowly rises<br />
up in the sky<br />
as God then maybe<br />
makes clouds to fly.<br />
It&#8217;s God&#8217;s Own artwork<br />
that which is done<br />
as He makes morning<br />
with each rising sun.<br />
Creating a sunrise<br />
is not complete<br />
until God says so<br />
and has a seat.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Windows of Heartbeats</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Windows of heartbeats<br />
is but a story<br />
displayed as patterns<br />
sometimes so gory.<br />
Time can be rhythms<br />
beating in tune<br />
as but a heartbeat<br />
morning to noon.<br />
Sometimes one heartbeat<br />
might become loud<br />
with all the seasons<br />
it has endowed.<br />
Windows of heartbeats<br />
can surely find<br />
ways to enlighten<br />
your own very mind.<br />
Let not the rhythms<br />
with every heartbeat<br />
become so shallow<br />
that time can defeat.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Winters Weather</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Time is breaking<br />
scenes each day<br />
as the winter<br />
goes away.<br />
Winters weather<br />
is soon gone<br />
with beginnings<br />
of new dawn.<br />
Dawns of seasons<br />
sort of seen<br />
as northeasterns<br />
sign of spring.<br />
Ages displayed<br />
as a stage<br />
with the turning<br />
of a page.<br />
Winters weather<br />
soon moves on<br />
as dear springtime<br />
comes to dawn.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wonder Wander</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many wonder<br />
wander too<br />
where there lives<br />
are going to.<br />
Many see the<br />
days ahead<br />
as but only<br />
pain and dread.<br />
Many wonder<br />
wander when<br />
time&#8217;s conclusions<br />
then begin.<br />
Stages wages<br />
turned too soon<br />
might make life<br />
a saddened tune.<br />
Many wonder<br />
wander days<br />
while their mind is<br />
in a daze,<br />
Let those moments<br />
wonder wander<br />
be what&#8217;s learned<br />
from over yonder.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Without Christmas</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Our forgiveness<br />
would not be<br />
without Jesus<br />
then to see.<br />
Without Christmas<br />
we would lose<br />
all our chances<br />
Heavens dues.<br />
Jesus gave us<br />
ways to find<br />
peace and love<br />
from time to time.<br />
Without Christmas<br />
we would die<br />
without chance for<br />
Adonai.<br />
Jesus gives us<br />
ways from sin<br />
and new life<br />
we can begin.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking Forward</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">While in motion<br />
we can strive<br />
better ways<br />
to stay alive.<br />
Looking forward<br />
and not back,<br />
you can find your<br />
way on track.<br />
yet use lessons<br />
from the past<br />
as the ways<br />
to find contrast.<br />
Looking forward<br />
to today<br />
you can find a<br />
better way.<br />
It might sometimes<br />
take some time<br />
to make forward<br />
peace of mind.<br />
Yet it&#8217;s glimmer<br />
can be found<br />
through Lord Jesus<br />
solid ground.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God&#8217;s Creations</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When staring out<br />
across the way<br />
God&#8217;s creations<br />
paint each day.<br />
Seasons painted<br />
here and there<br />
are the artwork<br />
none compare.<br />
Moments glimmer<br />
in each sight<br />
during day<br />
and also night.<br />
God&#8217;s creations<br />
find a place<br />
as a smile<br />
upon my face.<br />
So I wake up,<br />
look and see<br />
all that God has<br />
given me.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Opportunities<br />
are the doors opened and closed<br />
with choices to choose.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mornings remembered<br />
as the shadows of nighttime<br />
with light upon it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Beginning each day<br />
needs a little prayer to God<br />
before stepping out.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Watching birds sing<br />
can bring you great joy each day,<br />
but listen also.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Welcome some changes,<br />
for changes can bring you growth.<br />
Beware bad changes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Doorways we&#8217;ve entered<br />
can often lead to nowhere,<br />
but a dead end road.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The leaves on the trees<br />
blow briskly in the morning<br />
as winds come and go.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today&#8217;s beginnings<br />
come with some glimmers of hope<br />
as Lord God provides.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Angels of mercy<br />
shadow us throughout each day<br />
as watchful blessings.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A minute in time<br />
might seem as if it&#8217;s hours<br />
through our impatience.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A flowers answer<br />
is decor and aroma<br />
when springtime arrives.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Useless arrogance<br />
might just be your own downfall<br />
which ends in sadness.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking across time<br />
you might find your reflections<br />
in other people.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Waiting for patience<br />
could lead you down a sad road<br />
that ends in despair.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Don&#8217;t lean on because,<br />
for it&#8217;s not a good answer<br />
for what that is truth.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The lines on a face<br />
paint a picture of ones life<br />
and how it was done.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning times venture<br />
can be a whole lot better<br />
if you choose to smile.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Paving your walkway<br />
needs be done with solid ground<br />
or it will just sink.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Effortless people<br />
will sit back and watch others<br />
rather than to help.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Beginnings in time<br />
are the fragments of each day<br />
that God&#8217;s provided.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Leaving yesterday<br />
and not dealing with the past<br />
can destroy today.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Without some flowers<br />
life would just be a few weeds<br />
that we would mow down.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Apr 1, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thoughts To Use<br />
by Bill Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A True Friend</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">is someone you might disagree with<br />
from time to time. You may even have<br />
yelling matches from time to time with<br />
them and maybe even say the words<br />
&#8220;I hate you&#8221; time to time, but in the end<br />
you&#8217;re still best of friends with forgiveness,<br />
because you know it&#8217;s all just a moment.<br />
Let true friendship live in your heart<br />
as time goes by and don&#8217;t let the mere<br />
moments to take that away.<br />
See the love!!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill<br />
©Mar 30, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends So how&#8217;s life treating ya? It&#8217;s doing pretty nice up here. Most of the snow has melted away, but guess what LOL? It&#8217;s snowing again right now. I put Benny out to go potty and he was catching the snowflakes when I looked out a little later hehehe. He though [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So how&#8217;s life treating ya? It&#8217;s doing pretty nice up here.<br />
Most of the snow has melted away, but guess what LOL?<br />
It&#8217;s snowing again right now. I put Benny out to go potty<br />
and he was catching the snowflakes when I looked out a<br />
little later hehehe. He though a little later wanted to come<br />
inside, because he was wet and cold LOL. Benny was on<br />
the top of the steps. I unhooked his leash and he ran right<br />
in the house and was ready to play with me hehehe. I said<br />
OK Benny go in the PC room and he made a mad dash to<br />
say hello to Judy. He&#8217;s now in our bedroom chewing on<br />
his favorite rawhide chew bone <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Well, it seems that the<br />
ground is turning white once again, but I don&#8217;t think it<br />
will stay that way for long if the temperatures hold out.<br />
Judy and I had a great visit from her daughter Mandy<br />
and the grandkids Chance and Rylee. Little Benny had<br />
a great time playing with them. They loved him and he<br />
loved them. Rylee tried to carry Benny and was doing<br />
a fairly decent job of doing it for a 4 year old hehehe.<br />
Rylee&#8217;s and Benny&#8217;s birthdays are just 3 days apart, but<br />
of course Benny is just 8 months old right now and will<br />
be 1 year old in July hehehe. Yeppers, he&#8217;s our little boy.<br />
He lets us know if he&#8217;s gotta go out by heading for the<br />
door. He don&#8217;t bark. He barked once the day we got<br />
him when I went to the bathroom, but that was the end<br />
of it. I guess he figures he ain&#8217;t gotta bark to get our<br />
attention LOL. It&#8217;s still snowing. It&#8217;s supposed to snow<br />
tonight as well. Oh well, this is Northeastern Maine.<br />
Judy&#8217;s over there playing on her Farmtown hehehehe.<br />
We live such an exciting life hehehe! It&#8217;s 32F degrees<br />
outside right now. For some reason it don&#8217;t feel like<br />
spring. I wonder freaking why LOL? Hehehe I was<br />
reaching for a Reeses peanut butter cup and Benny<br />
heard the rattling of the bag and came running fast<br />
thinking I was gonna give him a doggy treat hehehe.<br />
Judy reached and gave him one of his Tiny Bones<br />
and he snatched it and ran in the other room with it.<br />
He&#8217;s so silly LOL. Judy and I thank God every day<br />
for giving Benny to us. We sure needed him and it<br />
seems that he also needed us as well. God works<br />
His miracles every day, but we may not be aware<br />
of them, because we cannot see them. A lot of His<br />
miracles are hidden inside blessings that we often<br />
overlook. Benny is back in here with us trying to<br />
fix his bed to his liking LOL. Yep, I&#8217;m glad we<br />
found Benny. He&#8217;s made a big difference in our<br />
lives. Gives us a reason to get up and go outside.<br />
Whoever said being retired on disability was the<br />
greatest needs to get their head examined. I&#8217;m not<br />
a homebody. I hate being stranded at home due<br />
to my illnesses, but now that we have Benny, it&#8217;s<br />
not as bad as it was getting for me. I still would love<br />
to be able to take off driving and visit my friends<br />
and family or even be able to fly, but I cannot,<br />
so I thank God for Benny. I know that there are<br />
many out there that have it a lot worse than I do<br />
and I pray for them every day. If you think you&#8217;ve<br />
got it bad, then take a good look around. You<br />
might just see a person that makes your ailments<br />
seem like the common cold. Thank God for the<br />
good things that you find in your life. If you don&#8217;t<br />
see them, it&#8217;s only because you are not looking.<br />
We each have blessings every day, but we might<br />
be letting our focus be but only on the bad stuff.<br />
Now I believe it&#8217;s time for me to be taking my lil<br />
trip back through all that I&#8217;ve written here to see<br />
if I can find a good word or phrase that I can use<br />
for the title for today&#8217;s brand new poem. So, it&#8217;s<br />
away I go to that place of my recollection that I<br />
like to call RECOLLECT VILLE. I believe I may<br />
have stumbled upon a good title. Now let&#8217;s see if<br />
I can write a poem worth reading using it hehehe.<br />
Here&#8217;s goes&#8230;.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now I Believe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Found in my purposes<br />
I&#8217;ve found some places<br />
that I believe that<br />
hold smiling faces.<br />
Now I believe that<br />
timeframes I see<br />
are but an echo<br />
of my history.<br />
Many circumstances<br />
fall into view<br />
changing the pages<br />
of both me and you.<br />
Turning each corner<br />
now I believe<br />
I have found blessings<br />
that God did conceive.<br />
Giving me reasons<br />
for everyday<br />
by giving choices<br />
within His Way.<br />
Now I believe that<br />
God gave to me<br />
blessings on stages<br />
of ages for free.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 25, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So, there ya go. Oh yea, it&#8217;s still snowing, but not<br />
as heavy as it was earlier. Yet, it is supposed to snow<br />
again tonight LOL. Life goes on. It seems as normal<br />
up here hehehe. Judy had to go to the other room and<br />
Benny was right behind her like a shadow hehehehehe.<br />
We had some nice weather last week. A few days that<br />
got up to the mid 70&#8242;s, but that&#8217;s gone hehehe. Now<br />
it&#8217;s back to the regular schedule for us up here LOL&#8230;&#8230;<br />
There&#8217;s not much else to report from us at the Pearce&#8217;s<br />
Place hehehe. Just hanging waiting to see if and when<br />
springtime will arrive. I thought it was here last week,<br />
but it was just an illusion <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  as winter teased us hehe.<br />
I guess it&#8217;s time for me to be telling you what I tell you<br />
every week and that is I wrote some more poems and<br />
haiku. Yeppers, 10 more poems with yet another one<br />
being a Christmas poem. Also I wrote 22 more haiku<br />
for all of my haiku lovers out there. I hope you enjoy<br />
them. Oh yea, one of my poems is about Benny hehe.<br />
Ok so now I need to be searching for that old off switch<br />
that loves to try and elude me, but not before I wish<br />
you a most wonderful God filled week. Remember,<br />
Jesus loves you and we do too. Now to find that silly<br />
off switch. Hehehe found it hidden among some of<br />
the burdocks that managed to get on Benny when he<br />
went outside. We&#8217;ve decided to started calling him<br />
Benny Burdock LOL. Anyways, I see ya hiding there.<br />
Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">P.S. I once again wrote some more<br />
Thoughts To Use. They&#8217;ll be at the end<br />
as usual hehehe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10 and 22 hehehehehehehehehehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Tomorrows Journey</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Tomorrows troubles<br />
begin with our worries<br />
often in place of<br />
unneeded hurries.<br />
Patience is gathered<br />
when we&#8217;re in places<br />
found as remembered<br />
in yesterdays traces.<br />
Tomorrows journey<br />
begins when we move<br />
leaving our footsteps<br />
in today&#8217;s groove.<br />
Often some troubles<br />
will follow through<br />
into tomorrows<br />
things that we do.<br />
Don&#8217;t let those troubles<br />
to be all you see.<br />
Find all the lessons<br />
from your history.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wintertime&#8217;s Methods</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wintertime&#8217;s methods<br />
come with a breeze<br />
blowing transitions<br />
of leaves on the trees.<br />
In the scenario<br />
of wintertime&#8217;s days<br />
I&#8217;ve seen white snowflakes<br />
in so many ways.<br />
Coming down softly<br />
and then with a gust<br />
also some patterns<br />
that it does adjust.<br />
Maybe just snowflakes<br />
lightly to see,<br />
and then some blizzards<br />
seen so wintery.<br />
Wintertime&#8217;s methods<br />
soon fade into spring<br />
leaving remembered<br />
its own everything.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Wonderful Times</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Right now my heartbeat<br />
beats memories<br />
things from the fragments<br />
of deepest of seas.<br />
Swells of the ocean<br />
coming ashore<br />
right now my heartbeat<br />
seems to just soar.<br />
Watching the seagulls<br />
flying away<br />
within my memories<br />
of day after day.<br />
Right now my heartbeat<br />
is but a dream<br />
beating of blessings<br />
found in a stream.<br />
Sweet rushing waters<br />
found long ago<br />
after the raindrops<br />
made them to flow.<br />
Right now this instant<br />
I can remember<br />
timeframes from childhoods<br />
found in December.<br />
I can remember now<br />
those very days<br />
as I just dream on<br />
now in a gaze.<br />
All of those memories<br />
distant designs<br />
are now remembered<br />
as wonderful times.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Middle of March</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The March winds blow<br />
as scenes surmise<br />
while the clouds<br />
just paint the skies.<br />
The middle of March<br />
is found and seen<br />
sometimes as<br />
the wondrous dream.<br />
Spring awaits us<br />
as March thrives<br />
with its daily<br />
scenes surprise.<br />
Sometimes raindrops,<br />
sometimes wind.<br />
Sometimes snowflakes<br />
will not end.<br />
March in Maine<br />
is sometimes found<br />
still with bits of<br />
snow around.<br />
Springtime&#8217;s doorway<br />
might come through<br />
when it sees it&#8217;s<br />
time to do.<br />
In New England<br />
March might be<br />
just a little<br />
wintery.<br />
Yet then springtime<br />
might be found<br />
with its raindrops<br />
on the ground.<br />
Pitter patters<br />
of the rain<br />
will make flowers<br />
soon in frame.<br />
Maybe soon the<br />
winters cold<br />
will be just a<br />
day of old.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Show The Blessings</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Show me blessings<br />
found from God<br />
seen as not just<br />
our applaud.<br />
Show me glimmers<br />
of His name<br />
found within<br />
what you attain.<br />
Show me not just<br />
your desires,<br />
but what all that<br />
God acquires.<br />
Let your blessings<br />
be not found<br />
standing in just<br />
sight and sound.<br />
Show the blessings<br />
within you<br />
in the things<br />
you daily do.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">My Sweet Puppy</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Footsteps frolic<br />
on the floor<br />
with the sounds<br />
that I adore.<br />
Tiny footsteps<br />
tiny feet<br />
stepping lightly<br />
oh so sweet.<br />
It&#8217;s my puppy<br />
walking true<br />
here and now<br />
within my view.<br />
While sometimes<br />
I might not see<br />
him just walking<br />
silently.<br />
Little footsteps<br />
he will make<br />
when I sleep<br />
or sit awake.<br />
My sweet puppy<br />
is my friend<br />
which is surely<br />
a Godsend.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Dusty Trails</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Because a journey<br />
falls apart<br />
does not mean<br />
it&#8217;s not God&#8217;s art.<br />
Sometimes lessons<br />
dusty trails<br />
are what&#8217;s found<br />
with winds of fails.<br />
Dusty minutes<br />
trails of time<br />
sometimes might<br />
seems full of grime.<br />
Yet some dusty<br />
trails we find<br />
might be there<br />
to change our mind.<br />
Dusty trails<br />
of thereunto<br />
could just be<br />
a time to view.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mornings Days</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The day awakens<br />
with the sun<br />
and what all<br />
that God has done.<br />
Time is minutes<br />
counted true<br />
in the things then<br />
so anew.<br />
God&#8217;s Own artwork<br />
starts each day<br />
without ending<br />
in His Way.<br />
There are blessings<br />
in the skies<br />
sometimes as a<br />
bird that flies.<br />
The days ending<br />
then starts night<br />
with God&#8217;s blessings<br />
to delight.<br />
All the stars<br />
that twinkle true<br />
God has placed<br />
for me and you.<br />
Scenes to see<br />
as moments gaze<br />
until time for<br />
mornings days.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Ocean Sky</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Waves of days<br />
come clouds of white<br />
with some more<br />
to then unite.<br />
The ocean sky<br />
is seen above<br />
with God&#8217;s Hands<br />
and filled with love.<br />
Waves come crashing<br />
to and fro<br />
with the scenes of<br />
rain and snow.<br />
The ocean sky<br />
is found complete<br />
with the paintings<br />
none compete.<br />
God&#8217;s Own paintings<br />
waves of days<br />
depict journeys<br />
He displays.<br />
As a portal<br />
to a stage<br />
with the turning<br />
of a page.<br />
Ocean sky<br />
of Timeless glance<br />
is God&#8217;s blessings<br />
song and dance.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Yesterdays Christmas</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">While holding memoirs<br />
of yesterdays past<br />
you might just miss<br />
the shadows that cast.<br />
Yesterdays Christmas<br />
might live inside<br />
as a great river<br />
that&#8217;s so deep and wide.<br />
Yet for a moment<br />
yesterdays view<br />
might need to be<br />
just living in you.<br />
Let the new Christmases<br />
coming to town<br />
be seen with joy<br />
of all there around.<br />
Let all the yesterdays<br />
Christmases be<br />
joyful thanksgivings<br />
in your history.<br />
Don&#8217;t let your Christmas<br />
to just fall apart.<br />
Share it with Jesus<br />
deep in your heart.<br />
Each day you breathe<br />
no matter the day<br />
keep Christmas living<br />
to not go away.<br />
Yesterdays Christmas<br />
needs not your sorrow.<br />
Live as it&#8217;s Christmas<br />
today and tomorrow.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes a moment<br />
just needs a little breather,<br />
so have some patience.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">March winds may blow strong,<br />
but they give way to some peace<br />
ever so often.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A letter from spring<br />
says flowers are soon to come.<br />
Get your camera.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today has begun<br />
with breezes blowing briskly<br />
which soon will subside.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Springs budding flowers<br />
are seen as shadows of time<br />
just awaiting to bloom.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today&#8217;s a blessing,<br />
Tomorrow&#8217;s a mystery,<br />
Yesterday is gone.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Venturing footsteps<br />
can go in the wrong places.<br />
Take Jesus with you.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lessons from others<br />
are sometimes real hard to grasp<br />
due to our egos.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A sweet child of God<br />
brings forth the blessing of love<br />
that is often missed.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Changes in people<br />
often misinterpreted<br />
lead many astray.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">While counting ones flaws,<br />
search to find your own failures<br />
and then find the good.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A forest of thoughts<br />
are found with many tree limbs<br />
sometimes misleading.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many views in life<br />
are gathered by bumpy roads<br />
that led to heartaches.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A glimmer of hope<br />
lives in everyone of us.<br />
Jesus put it there.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mind blowing moments<br />
will sometimes bring fear alive<br />
found as excitement.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The sound of breathing<br />
is the wind as it pulsates<br />
as the day goes by.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hearing a heartbeat<br />
means not only life is there,<br />
but hope is alive.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Being a good friend<br />
won&#8217;t get you into Heaven,<br />
but it&#8217;s a good start.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Looking in mirrors<br />
you might see your reflection<br />
as just a facade.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">While bringing flowers<br />
let yourself also be found<br />
as a true blessing.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today has begun<br />
with chances for tomorrow<br />
if we do our best.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many write letters<br />
leaving true feelings aside.<br />
Don&#8217;t write empty words.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 24, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thoughts To use<br />
©by Bill Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The painting of a heart<br />
is the beating found inside.<br />
The artwork is one brushstroke<br />
after another as time moves along.<br />
Find the many paintings inside<br />
one another and try to make<br />
them not just a drawing,<br />
but a masterpiece.<br />
Let God help.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill<br />
©Mar 20, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Memories are a blessing<br />
so don&#8217;t let them be soured.<br />
Keep the good memories<br />
as smiles for another day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God shows us miracles<br />
that occur often through<br />
the unexpected which<br />
turn into our memories.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill<br />
©Mar 22, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS Hello my friends So how have ya been? We&#8217;ve been busy trying to teach our little puppy what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong. It&#8217;s been quite a chore, but he&#8217;s slowly learning LOL. He has only barked one time since we got him. That was a time that I went to the rest room [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">ANIMAL&#8217;S GREETINGS</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hello my friends</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">So how have ya been? We&#8217;ve been busy trying to teach<br />
our little puppy what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong. It&#8217;s been<br />
quite a chore, but he&#8217;s slowly learning LOL. He has only<br />
barked one time since we got him. That was a time that<br />
I went to the rest room and he couldn&#8217;t follow, but so far<br />
that has been the only time he&#8217;s barked. Whines a little<br />
when he doesn&#8217;t get his way, but he doesn&#8217;t even do that<br />
much hehehe. Now if we could just get him to understand<br />
where he&#8217;s supposed to poop and pee. In time I guess <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
We&#8217;ve only had him a week. Right now he&#8217;s sleeping on<br />
the floor right beside Judy and I. We just ate breakfast<br />
and fed him. As soon as I finish this article, we&#8217;re taking<br />
Benny outside for a little walk to do you know what hehe.<br />
So, what else is going on up here? Well it was raining<br />
pretty heavy this morning. I listened to it as it beat its<br />
rhythms on the roof. It&#8217;s a serenading sound. Judy and<br />
I took turns walking Benny after it stopped raining, but<br />
he didn&#8217;t do anything, so we&#8217;re hoping that now that<br />
after he&#8217;s eaten, he WILL do number one and two when<br />
we take him out in a few. So, what else is there to tell<br />
ya? Not much! Judy and I are still playing Farmtown<br />
on Facebook LOL. Since Benny&#8217;s gotten here, we&#8217;ve<br />
not had much time for our hidden object games hehehe,<br />
but I&#8217;m sure that will change in time. Thursday, Judy&#8217;s<br />
sister and her hubby brought their little puppy named<br />
Fenway over to play with Benny. Those two ran and<br />
played so much till both of them were getting tuckered<br />
out LOL. Benny was panting hehehe. Fenway is a<br />
Parti Yorky. He&#8217;s about half the size of Benny hehehe.<br />
Benny became very sad when they had to go home and<br />
took Fenway. Yet as dogs are, he soon got over it.<br />
I&#8217;m sure though he will see Fenway again, being that<br />
Trudy and Dennis are moving up here soon from their<br />
home down in Southern Maine. I&#8217;m glad we were able<br />
to get Benny. He was a rescue dog and if nobody ever<br />
bought him, then they were going to have to put him<br />
to sleep. Thank you God for giving us to him and him<br />
to us. God knows what we each one need. Often we<br />
though will think we need other, but God knows the<br />
truth. Our humanity usually steps up to bat as it<br />
tries to tell us we need something when in actuality<br />
it&#8217;s just simply something we&#8217;re wanting. Are you<br />
caught up in your carnal human wants or have you<br />
taken into realization that what you want might<br />
not be good for you? Let God help you see passed<br />
your carnal instincts and see the truth. Now I believe<br />
it&#8217;s time for me to be taking my little venture back<br />
through all that I have written here to see if I can<br />
find a good word or phrase that might work for<br />
the title for today&#8217;s brand new poem. So, it&#8217;s away<br />
I go to that place of my recollection that I like to<br />
call RECOLLECT VILLE. I believe I may have<br />
found a good title. Now, let&#8217;s see what I can do<br />
with it if anything at all LOL! Here goes!&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Our Humanity</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seemingly wanting<br />
times that we find<br />
shows our humanity<br />
and state of mind.<br />
Sometimes our moments<br />
wanting so true<br />
are really no good<br />
for me or you.<br />
It&#8217;s our humanity<br />
that&#8217;s sometimes showing<br />
places we should not<br />
ever be going.<br />
When our own will<br />
has just run awry<br />
we each need Jesus<br />
to help us get by.<br />
It&#8217;s our humanity<br />
that brings us troubles<br />
sometimes as minutes<br />
seeming as doubles.<br />
Let not humanity<br />
to take its stride<br />
wanting all the things<br />
that should not abide.<br />
Jesus can help with<br />
our humanity<br />
showing us Heaven&#8217;s<br />
greatest degree.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Well, there ya go. Did that make any sense to ya? I&#8217;m typing<br />
as fast as I can so that we can hurry and take Benny outside<br />
for a walk. Hopefully there&#8217;s not too many faux pas hehehe.<br />
I reckon it&#8217;s time for me to be telling ya what I tell ya every<br />
week and that is I wrote some poems and haiku. 10 more<br />
poems with one of them being sort of Christmassy hehehehe.<br />
Also I wrote 22 more haiku for all my haiku lovers out there.<br />
Oh and I wrote all of the poems and haiku this morning after<br />
I traded places with Judy on watching Benny outside LOL.<br />
So, you&#8217;ll notice all the poems and haiku dated today hehehe.<br />
Ok, with that said I guess I need to be searching for that<br />
old off switch that loves to elude me, but nt before I wish you<br />
a most wonderful God filled week. Remember, Jesus loves<br />
you and we do too. Now to find that freaking off switch <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Hehehehe found it hunkerd down with benny on the floor <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Hehehehehe. Gotcha, see ya CLICK zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy Pearce</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now on with the poems and haiku<br />
10 and 22 heheheheheheheheehe <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Find Times of Smiling</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Times are found<br />
with minutes counted<br />
with some troubles<br />
times surmounted.<br />
Times remembered<br />
then and there<br />
sometimes need<br />
a little fresh air.<br />
Try to remember<br />
all the good days<br />
that with an instant<br />
Lord God you praise.<br />
Times might echo<br />
the things we&#8217;ve seen<br />
sometimes a nightmare<br />
and sometimes a dream.<br />
Let not your sadness<br />
from times long ago<br />
to fill your future<br />
with only just woe.<br />
Find times of smiling<br />
of echoes from past<br />
that help the future<br />
to take on that cast,<br />
Maybe not like them,<br />
but surely a way<br />
to help you find smiles<br />
right now in today.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning Beckons</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Morning beckens<br />
with its view<br />
sometimes found with<br />
drops of dew.<br />
Winters window&#8217;s<br />
closing fast<br />
leaving only<br />
shadows cast.<br />
Scenes around me<br />
found with snow<br />
slowly melting<br />
to and fro.<br />
Springtimes window<br />
is soon found<br />
with its blossoms<br />
all around.<br />
Morning beckens<br />
with its way<br />
to bring sights of<br />
a brand new day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Raindrops</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Raindrops falling<br />
from the sky<br />
seem with rhythms<br />
in my eye.<br />
Beating patterns<br />
moments scenes<br />
that can turn to<br />
rushing streams.<br />
Raindrops falling<br />
can be found<br />
as some patterns<br />
on the ground.<br />
With the raindrops<br />
things revive<br />
as they surely<br />
come alive.<br />
Drop by drop<br />
the moments time<br />
display raindrops<br />
own design.<br />
Sometimes flowing<br />
going through<br />
while some might just<br />
be like dew.<br />
Landing softly<br />
on some leaves<br />
while it somehow<br />
interweaves.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Seek His Peace</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Soon our chances<br />
will be done<br />
and the ending&#8217;s<br />
then begun.<br />
Don&#8217;t let chances<br />
pass you by<br />
to find peace in<br />
Adonai.<br />
Let Lord Jesus<br />
find you true<br />
before chances<br />
then are through.<br />
We&#8217;ve no vision<br />
when we&#8217;ll cease<br />
so we need to<br />
seek His peace.<br />
Right now chances<br />
that we see<br />
might be all that&#8217;s<br />
you and me.<br />
Let Lord Jesus<br />
thrive in you<br />
as you face each<br />
day anew.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Tomorrows Found</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Nows a doorway<br />
to tomorrow<br />
through the pathways<br />
sometimes sorrow.<br />
Tomorrows found<br />
we might just see<br />
as the same as<br />
history.<br />
Our tomorrows<br />
on display<br />
are built on our<br />
now today.<br />
Tomorrows dreams<br />
of false and true<br />
are built on<br />
the things we do.<br />
It takes actions<br />
often done,<br />
yet some times just<br />
God&#8217;s Own Son.<br />
Jesus will give a<br />
helping hand<br />
when He sees we<br />
can&#8217;t withstand.<br />
Tomorrows found<br />
from day to day<br />
need God&#8217;s blessings<br />
Will and Way.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Christmas Shadows</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Like a shadow<br />
Christmas time<br />
paints remembered<br />
scenes design.<br />
All the fragments<br />
we remember<br />
that were found<br />
amidst December.<br />
Christmas shadows<br />
glimmer true<br />
right now in my<br />
inner view.<br />
Beating in my<br />
heart so sweet<br />
Christmas shadows<br />
do accrete.<br />
Blooming attuning<br />
songs I&#8217;ve heard<br />
while concluding<br />
every word.<br />
Like a shadow<br />
it will come<br />
as remembered<br />
then and some.<br />
Christmas blessings<br />
shadow play<br />
as remembered<br />
then that day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Your Dreaming Door</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Nighttime brings dreamers<br />
some time which to sleep<br />
given with blessings<br />
of seasons to keep.<br />
Yet sometimes sleeplessness<br />
is but the scene<br />
preventing the dreamers<br />
from finding a dream.<br />
Nighttimes own segue<br />
sometimes might just be<br />
only a pattern<br />
of your history.<br />
If you have let your<br />
anger be fed<br />
and not sought peace before<br />
going to bed<br />
all of your dreams then<br />
might then compare<br />
to a horrific<br />
moments nightmare.<br />
Let peace be found<br />
in forgiving and more<br />
before you seek sleep<br />
through your dreaming door.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Pour In Jesus</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Making faces<br />
smiles and grins<br />
can make better<br />
outs and ins.<br />
Sometimes people<br />
just need you<br />
to smile big<br />
with things you do.<br />
Also smiling<br />
might then be<br />
found then living<br />
true to see.<br />
Let not frowns to<br />
take control.<br />
Put smiles in<br />
today&#8217;s big bowl.<br />
Pour in Jesus<br />
and then find<br />
your smile might be<br />
a real design.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Lessons Stirring</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">While we are moving<br />
in right also wrong<br />
lessons are stirring<br />
in where we belong.<br />
So often pathways<br />
so bumpy in stride<br />
lead us to Jesus<br />
to surely abide.<br />
With lessons stirring<br />
sometimes might just move<br />
seemingly as an<br />
uneven groove.<br />
Yet often pathways<br />
we&#8217;ve stirred about<br />
lead us to places<br />
we see no way out.<br />
But in those instances<br />
God is awaiting<br />
us to let Him then<br />
make storms abating.<br />
He can make better<br />
from what that is done<br />
with the beginning<br />
of each morning sun.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God Sent Puppies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A little puppy<br />
can love without end<br />
even if you don&#8217;t<br />
think it a friend.<br />
A puppy&#8217;s love<br />
is greater to view<br />
than anything that<br />
many can do.<br />
A little puppy<br />
loves without doubting<br />
as when it misses you<br />
it begins pouting.<br />
God loves us more<br />
than a puppy can do,<br />
for He will never<br />
change in His view.<br />
God gave us puppies<br />
to help us to see<br />
that one can love you<br />
to greatest degree.<br />
Sometimes a moment<br />
might cause despair<br />
thinking that no one<br />
can ever care,<br />
but God sent puppies<br />
to show us so sweet<br />
that He can love us<br />
with its tiny feet.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Haiku<br />
for Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Life&#8217;s sometimes bumpy<br />
as a street needing repair.<br />
Let God repair it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Winter snow will fade<br />
as springtime comes with flowers<br />
blooming in sunshine.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Notable changes<br />
in decades that have gone by<br />
are often by us.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Playing a fools game<br />
leaves open doors to moments<br />
that you might regret.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Yesterdays success<br />
is just a mere memory.<br />
What does today hold?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Painting a picture<br />
without use of any paints<br />
will show no picture.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The sight of today<br />
gives us glimmers of hopeful<br />
with a little prayer.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mornings arrival<br />
comes with seeds for our heartbeats<br />
watered by Jesus.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A minutes folly<br />
shadows determination<br />
as many mistakes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Being a bungler<br />
does not mean you are stupid,<br />
just incompetent.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Things heard in the night<br />
often are taken wrongly<br />
as we decipher.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Pitter patters sound<br />
as raindrops fall on the roof<br />
with a drummers beat.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Tomorrows pathways<br />
need today&#8217;s many morsels<br />
of which to survive.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Because is a word<br />
often heard as the answer<br />
to what that&#8217;s done wrong.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Glimmers of Heaven<br />
can be seen in a teardrop<br />
of love in a day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The wet soggy ground<br />
gives way for flowers to grow<br />
as sunshine provides.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Too many people<br />
seek for their own happiness<br />
and not for others.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">With expectations<br />
comes sometimes mere illusions<br />
of what one can do.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Windows to today<br />
are often seen through yesterday<br />
and what all we thought.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Having can destroy<br />
when what&#8217;s had is not needed.<br />
Seek not to just have.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Walking through doorways<br />
can find you in much trouble,<br />
so make sure it&#8217;s right.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Marking territories<br />
is sometimes unconsciously done<br />
as we move through life.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">©By Bill Pearce<br />
Mar 18, 2012</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">God bless from Bill and Judy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">http://www.drawingart.net<br />
Ben Geurts Drawing Art site<br />
and Old Fashioned Christmas site</p>
<p>http://www.anoldfashionedchristmas.com/</p>
<p>My new site below</p>
<p>http://www.animalsgreetings.com/</p>
<p>One of my friends sites below</p>
<p>http://christianpraise.net/</p>
<p>and once again the poetry contest at<br />
Whisperpoetry</p>
<p>http://www.whisperpoetry.com/</p>
<p>http://www.blueturtlecrossing.com/</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Free_Style_Poetry</p>
<p>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poets_playwrights_prophets_pixies</p>
<p>Me on UTube</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/poetbill</p>
<p>Your frosty friend Bill <img src='http://www.animalsgreetings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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