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    Out of the Darkness into the Light
    Out of the Darkness into the Light
    Out of the Darkness into the Light
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    Out of the Darkness into the Light

    By Maudie Louise Green

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    This book is of life experiences written in the form of poetry. It is from the heart, the feelings of what I am feeling at the time. It is a God-given talent that only He could give. I have been writing poetry since I was 10 years old and I am now 64 years old. I was the fifth of six kids. I was born September 23, 1945 in a small town in Colorado two months after World War II ended, in Las Animas, Colorado, a town 83 miles southeast of Pueblo, Colorado, where everyone knew one another and probably all related. My poetry became a part of me and I feel it's worth reading.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 3, 2010
    ISBN9781449068158
    Out of the Darkness into the Light
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    Maudie Louise Green

    She has been writing poetry since she was 10 years old. She was born September 23, 1945 in a small southeastern Colorado town where everyone knew everyone and possibly related. A town called Las Animas, Colorado two months after world war 11 ended. She was the fifth child of six and the youngest girl. She had five children but, only raised two. She came from a family of abuse, drugs and alcohol.

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      Out of the Darkness into the Light - Maudie Louise Green

      AuthorHouse™

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.authorhouse.com

      Phone: 1-800-839-8640

      © 2010 Maudie Louise Green. 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.

      First published by AuthorHouse 1/11/2010

      ISBN: 978-1-4490-6815-8 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4490-6816-5 (sc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2009914313

      Bloomington, Indiana

      Table of Contents

      The Eagle

      My Testimony of Love

      The World

      The Answer is So Easy

      The Hand

      Technically, An Inspiring Poem

      You Gave Me Strength

      Not Enough to Go Around

      God Smiles

      The Light

      Angels Unaware (inspired by Edward Torres)

      A Friend

      Childhood Dreams

      The Journey

      Thrown Away

      Christmas Bells

      My Special Friend

      Jesus

      Come Go With Me

      The Crucifixion

      Giving

      Tombstone

      They Scorned Jesus

      Jesus Caught Me When I Was Weak

      Your Light

      Jesus, You Are My Life

      Looking to Jesus

      Wondering Why

      Open My Eyes

      Let Me Be Free

      A Native American Prayer

      I’m Free

      Praising God

      Don’t Let Me Fall

      Bus Stop

      Jesus Suffered

      Look Up

      Jesus Loves Us

      Hungry for God

      Right Here Jesus

      God’s Glory

      Witness

      When We Cry

      Hurt and Pain

      Heaven

      The Past

      Abandonment

      Empty Words

      Safe in Jesus

      Jesus My Lord

      Protect Our Children

      Jesus Our Friend

      Jesus Suffered and Died

      We Cry in the Night

      Rejected by Others but Not God

      Jesus, Son of God

      His Temple

      He Can Set Us Free

      God’s Children

      Friends

      Cries in the Night

      Jesus Loves and Cares

      He Takes Us Under His Wings

      Listening to God

      I Lift My Heart to Him

      Jesus is Coming Soon

      Somebody’s Little Girl

      Hearts Aching and Breaking

      The Wayward Son

      The Birth of a Child

      Success

      Moving On

      I Have a Dream

      Brush Arbor Days

      About the Author

      A special dedication to my friend Dianne Rose Patterson for typing my manuscript, for without her this book would not have been possible. Also, to my friends Linda Gaetke, Carole Good, Christy Benson, Cheryl McEachron, and all my friends from Gravity Church in Lodi, California who encouraged me to book in my poetry. And a very special dedication to God for giving me the talent for writing poetry. And a dedication to my five children: Crystal, Melissa, Kevin, Nathan and Timothy Green, my sister Irene Estabrooks, and brothers, Vernon and Larry Gilliland, brothers Bill Hedges and Glenn Bradford and my mother Maggie Bradford who is with the Lord.

      The Eagle

      The eagle is so free.

      Oh, to soar the skies with the wings of an eagle.

      Oh, to be free and go to the hiding place

      In the mountain walls

      And to fly away to the blue horizons out and beyond.

      The sunset shows

      The eagle in silhouette.

      If I had my wish,

      I’d rather be an eagle

      Than be me.

      Go eagle! Eagle soar the sky

      And be free, free as the breeze.

      You are my destiny,

      The eagle is so free,

      He soars through the heavens

      And soars through the skies;

      He and I are one.

      Eagle, eagle, pick me up, take

      Me to your world

      In the mountain walls.

      As you are my destiny,

      You are my life.

      My life, your life are the same.

      You and I are God’s creation.

      So we are free, free as the breeze.

      So eagle, eagle, soar the air.

      But Lo! My destiny

      Is beyond the sunset, beyond the glow.

      The eagle and I soar

      To the sky and beyond

      To that world that is only for you and I.

      So eagle, can you teach me to fly?

      You, eagle, the wisest of all birds,

      Smarter than the owl

      And wiser than your young,

      Fly to your Creator, God’s only son.

      You are my destiny, you and I,

      The ones to soar together is my wish

      As together we worship God’s only son,

      You in your way, and I in mine.

      So fly, eagle, fly and be free

      As someday, I would like to be.

      My Testimony of Love

      Lonely days and lonely nights,

      Children flying to deadly heights,

      Sickened by the city sights.

      Alcohol had control of me,

      Blinded, it was hard to see.

      Alcohol was my feed

      Nothing else did I want or need,

      Broken inside, shattered mind,

      Trying to hide, feeling left behind.

      Outward laughing, inward sad,

      Calling good for bad.

      One way drive, no way to win,

      Decaying from my shower of sin.

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