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APW Group Poem

Completed 10 January 1999


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View with a Grain of Sand


We call it a grain of sand

Just a little part of life
Kristin
Friendswood, TX USA - Mon Oct 26 16:47:07 1998
tiny particles like seeds
Wanda
NJ USA - Thu Oct 29 09:07:24 1998
finely crushed and buried deep inside
Sheila Ferguson
Winter Haven, Fl USA - Mon Nov 2 17:56:45 1998
hidden to the naked eye.
Rae
USA - Tue Nov 3 18:16:08 1998
We call it the germ of life, the seed of a new beginning
Cheryl Higgins
Clinton, CT USA - Tue Nov 3 20:20:03 1998
first irritant, then accepted, pearled into wisdom,
Diana
Stamford, NE USA - Tue Nov 3 21:30:39 1998
then funnelled to mark the passage of time,
Elaine
Fairfax Station, VA USA - Tue Nov 3 21:52:22 1998
the seed must root and learn to climb.
Charlie
Hillsdale, NY USA - Fri Nov 6 18:18:04 1998

Buried in the past...stretching to the future,
caroline
USA - Fri Nov 6 20:09:03 1998
it is the present that awakes us--the mercenary of reality.
Don
Bronx, NY USA - Wed Nov 11 13:01:28 1998
This ancient story, told once more
Richie Millennium
Indianapolis, IN USA - Thu Nov 12 20:30:02 1998
in the garden with a twist -- it has been done before
Karli
Lawrence, KS USA - Fri Nov 13 01:47:16 1998
removing unwanted seeds letting them prosper,
Shelden R.L. Wisher
Fairborn, OH USA - Fri Nov 13 16:45:55 1998
each grain alters the new pathways ahead.
Sheila Ferguson
Winter Haven, fl USA - Sun Nov 15 05:57:58 1998
Yet given to us - instead of our bread
Mac Barron
Ames, Ia USA - Sun Nov 15 21:10:58 1998
AND STILL PLANTED DEEP INSIDE YOUR HEAD.
jaime
USA - Mon Nov 23 13:21:02 1998

A legacy heard by deaf ears never seen by naked eyes,
Dave Kang
Kelowna, B.C. Canada - Mon Nov 23 20:56:55 1998
a longing felt with tears but never satisfied.
David Loomis
Anchorage, AK USA - Tue Nov 24 13:16:29 1998
The sand blows and the beach grows and God knows...
Elise
Sedona, AZ USA - Fri Nov 27 17:20:57 1998
that someday the idle seed will bloom int a rose.
Kristin
Friendswood, TX USA - Mon Nov 30 17:28:14 1998
But, for now, it waits
A.S.
Denver, co USA - Wed Dec 2 19:13:57 1998
pearled or hidden from the tongue.
Ian Wilson
Los Angeles, USA - Thu Dec 3 15:04:50 1998

Yet to be dicovered in its beauty
Rella
Portland, OR USA - Fri Dec 4 08:06:47 1998
and to unfold when time beckons nature to dance its dance
Martha Lynn
Dawsonville, Ga. USA - Fri Dec 4 21:36:10 1998
apon the slumbering shores of distant lands,
cheryl wiemann
GGa. USA - Sat Dec 5 05:52:04 1998
on a beach or under the fingernails of a child
Robert Y. Hood
Albany, CA USA - Sun Dec 6 06:46:12 1998
who shovels this grain into her bucket of sand
Scott Reid
Healdsburg, CA USA - Thu Dec 10 10:00:55 1998
as the cold december waves splash upon her tiny ash white feet.
garth
Clearwater, Fla. USA - Thu Dec 10 13:24:40 1998

Such a tiny grain of sand, one can only imagine its destiny now
Martha
Dawsonville, Ga. USA - Fri Dec 11 16:45:25 1998
to spit on, and gather with hands realize how small built upon small is grand.
Ronald D. Istivan. Jr.
Binghamton, NY USA - Fri Dec 11 18:56:25 1998
Like the mustard seed, small leads to great,
John
Brisbane, Qld Australia - Fri Dec 18 01:51:28 1998
always with new begginings mixed with love and hate.
Laura
Houston, TX USA - Fri Dec 18 23:34:32 1998
So if you worship a grain of sand, don't be surprised if it lends a hand
Diane Cessna
Mitchell, IN USA - Sat Dec 26 08:19:38 1998
and adds to your life a mixed blessing of love and hate
Martha Lynn
Dawsonville, Ga. USA - Sat Jan 2 18:24:00 1999
bringing mixed blessings to your life some good, some bad.
Martha
Dawsonville,, Ga. USA - Sat Jan 2 18:29:00 1999
And helping you forget all the pain you once had
Kristin
Frsw, TX USA - Sun Jan 3 18:45:00 1999
in a fleck of time swimming in the ocean of that moment
Paul Schunemann
Martinez, CA USA - Tue Jan 5 02:51:04 1999
comes that which will help you along in the journey of your life
Martha
Dawsonville, Ga. USA - Thu Jan 7 13:11:29 1999