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    Unrequited Love
    Unrequited Love
    Unrequited Love
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    Unrequited Love

    By Lisa

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    Poetry for those who have or haven't found love. Poetry for anyone who never had the love they gave be equal in return.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateApr 2, 2013
    ISBN9781463435257
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      Unrequited Love - Lisa

      © 2013 by Lisa. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 03/28/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-3526-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-3524-0 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4634-3525-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011912603

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      The Prayer

      The Changing

      The Death Of Soul

      The Storm

      The Lady

      Times Bride

      In A Moment Of Thought

      The Veil Of Secrecy

      Whoever’s Listening

      Isa And Im

      Whispers

      No One

      The Homeless Rythem

      Loves’ End

      The Death Throne

      Gypsy Living

      Theiving The Heart And Challenging The Soul

      Hades Brave

      Stange Cadaver

      Junkyard Sam

      Lonely Places

      Released

      Taken It

      Indecision’s Decision

      Never Ending Torment

      Indecision’s Decision Never Ending Torment

      Up A Hogs Butt For A Ham Sandwich

      The Crackerjack Anatomy

      Into The Wind

      Throwing Stones

      The Chance

      Deep Down Baby

      The Truth Hurts

      Measure Love

      Man In The Moon

      The Sparrow

      Full Circle

      The Game

      The Season

      Honesty And Grace

      If Tears Had A Sound…

      Times Of Wine

      Barren At Sea

      Sweet Shadow

      Separated… By The Love In Me

      Suicied

      Face It

      Love The Ride

      Let It Ride

      Cruel John

      Angels Plead Our Case

      Take A Chance

      Dear Little Paper Clown,

      Paper Love

      The Brand New Day

      The Day Of The Rest Of My Life

      Hard To Hold

      Once Had A Daddy

      Big Daddy

      God Don’t Sing The Blues

      Butterfly Tears

      What You Want

      Life Is Written In The Dark

      Into The Life

      Life Is Written In The Dark

      The Mad Hatters’ Freedom Child

      An Angels’ Quest

      Door Bells

      At The Good Lords’ Inn

      Jehovah God In Heaven

      Between Jehovah And Me

      Yes God Loves You Dear

      Rainbow And The Ark

      Unity

      A Drink From The Well

      The Day

      Why Ask Y

      The Pain

      A Rock

      Lucinda Meadows

      Little One

      Soldiers’ Soul, Killer Hero

      Paper The Stage

      It"S Just Life

      Shall We Dance

      A Golden Ticket

      Honey Do List

      Hell Hath No Fury

      Psychedelic Blues

      Crazy Fan

      Now Go Away

      Just To Bleed

      Insanitarium Sanctuary

      The Unfathomable Love

      Love At Dawn

      The Legend

      Schadenfreude

      Cold Blue

      Crazy Horse

      Help Me (Song)

      Alkey Eyes (Song, Has A Smashing Pumpkin Sound)

      Let Him Down

      Make Believe

      The Ring

      In A Wonderland

      The Queen Ballerina

      Some Things Never Change

      Jacky Boy

      The Genius Of The Facade

      Dark City

      Fir Me Lal Boosh

      God Yes I Love You

      Unrequited Love…

      Unholy

      Fire Gold

      Little Red Writing Hood

      Letter Of The Heart

      Blah, Blah, Blah, So What, Whatever

      Bare Absent Minded

      Remember This One Thing

      Heart Broken Train

      (The Great) Babylon Bread

      The Bread Of Life

      Freedom, Beauty, Truth, Love*

      The Songs Of The Sirens

      The Levee

      Dreams

      Now

      Heart Of Fire

      Wha… . ?

      Mystical

      Stars Of Sweet Belief

      So Sad To Be Lonely

      Cages By Design

      To Love A Star

      The Queens Gems

      The Ethereal Universe

      Music Is Lovely

      Time Is Relative

      All That I Am, All That I Choose, I Did Already Lose.

      Poet And The Peep

      My Deepest Love

      In Love’s Crescendo

      The Battle Of Evermore

      Paradise Garden

      Thank You Jehovah

      The Revelation To Come

      The Prayer

      About The Author

      The first poem in this book is a three dimensional poem. It is one poem with two other poems contained therein. The inspiration for having the privilege to be the writer of such a poem could come only from the author who so connectively weaved together the lines of such. The author of which is Jehovah God. This poem is a prayer I prayed one day through Jesus Christ that he would ask my father Jehovah for me. Scriptures were shared with me just before I prayed for such a thing as love. These scriptures were about Gods holy name (Psalms 83:18), the one in whom I should pray too, as well as to pray all things through Jesus Christ because he is our mediator between us and God. I was also shared the scripture from John 14:13,14; Also, whatever it is that you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the father may be glorified in connection with the Son. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. This particular scripture made me believe that I could ask God for the right man for me. In my heart I secretly prayed that God would use me as well, for his purpose, and I had faith that he would answer me.

      When I found that this poem contained another poem that quoted my fears about such a thing as love and then it also contained an answer to that prayer for love; I was scared to death and I tried to hide in the back of the garage behind some cases of product that were to be sold at the gas station where I worked, and was working when I found the time to write my prayer out in a poem to God. I was terrible with grammatical punctuation and felt that the comma was needed everywhere. I guess just so you could pause and reflect on what I was saying. I got bored at the gas station because the computers were down and I could not serve gas to anyone, so I decided I would separate each line at the comma point into two different colors just to make my prayer poem pretty to Jehovah.

      It was when I was done and I got to looking that it really was too many commas so I was looking to take some out. Just for fun I would read the words that were in their own color. And there it was … God had written me back … me … why me was all I could ask now. I was scared of it and scared of God and I spent the next fifteen years denying that it was Jehovah who had answered my prayer, I said it was Jesus. But it was not Jesus. It was Jehovah. Every once in a while I would build up the courage to tell someone about the prayer truthfully as it was written and say Jehovah’s’ name, but most of the time I lied and said I prayed it to Jesus.

      Well I’m not holding back now. I don’t know what to expect out of people except the worst now in life, so, if that’s what happens I can’t say I’m not used to it. It has been fifteen years now that I am one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and I am proud to declare his name in all the earth. I don’t know what to expect since I know it is a unique writing. It is the only 3-dimensional writing I have ever heard of. And then my son goes and draws his impression of his mother after all these years that would turn out to be 3-dimensional as well. It is similar to the portrait he drew of me when he was three years old but now it captures my pain and sorrow of un-re-quited love. They say a picture is worth a thousand words; I guess I have a thousand words and a picture. In this book I could not afford the color red to show you this poem in color so I had to use Arial Black and Calligraphy. My artwork within this book should have the color red in them as well just like the cover. In order to understand the 3-dimensional poem you first read the prayer poem as it is written and then you read the words in Arial Black only, these were my fears of what I prayed for. After that you read the words in calligraphy only, this is the answer to my prayer.

      THE PRAYER

      Jehovah

      Somewhere in my world,

      Is this man in my dreams.

      His eyes are of understanding,

      His smile of appreciation,

      Hands so gentle,

      And body so sweet.

      Trust in me.

      Faith in me.

      Love for me.

      This man in my dreams,

      Will he stay in my dreams?

      In Jesus name I pray, amen.

      Just the words in Black Arial:

      Somewhere

      Is this man

      His eyes

      His smile

      Hands

      And body

      In me

      In me

      For me

      In my dreams

      Will he stay

      Just the words in calligraphy:

      In my world

      In my dreams

      Are of understanding

      Of appreciation

      So gentle

      So sweet

      Trust

      Faith

      Love

      This man

      In my dreams

      Lisa

      1985

      THE CHANGING

      My heart must withstand a wound for my soul to bare,

      Only alone.

      Slowly made deeper to cloud my judgment of the good I’ve been

      Shown.

      Each experience stabbed sharper than the latter,

      Emotions and morals bled and scatter.

      A silver dagger with a silver blade.

      Within the strength of a gentleman’s hand,

      A dagger of pain lay.

      Intuition screams RUN!

      I know this man and know what he holds.

      A fear in me that burns as the fire in the sun.

      Blinded with charms, a scornful mask.

      Offering all—that I’d so easily ask.

      I feel, but I cannot

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