Emma and Pippa

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Large as a pony

A joyful day for you is just lying around the house

You are so big, but yet so funny

Lying around quiet as a mouse

Except when your snores begin to roar

Cuddly as a kitten

Gentle giants are what they are called

Shedding enough hair I could knit a whole bunch of mittens

On the couch is where you sprawled

Gnawing on bones as big as logs

Drool dripping all around

Our wonderful pair of mastiff puppy dogs

So much love from them can be found

A part of the family day after day

Emma and Pippa Happy Birthday

 

Tears

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Tears falling to the ground

Tears you have shed all around

Tears you cry in the lonely times

Tears in the sad times too

Over the years so many tears

Times of trouble

Times of strife

Cried for times that you have felt alone

A heart filled with so many tears

Wishing I could hold each of your tears in my hands

Take them into the sunlight

Let the sun shine through them

Exposing the rainbow inside each of your tears.

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Ice Cream Cone

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Cold cool and delicious

Milky smooth to feel

Wrapping my lips around its tip

Licking longingly with my tongue

Tasty treat to my buds

Gathering all its flavor in a swirl

Such a delectable treat for me to eat

Licking, lashing all around

Nibbling it all on down

Savoring my luscious Ice Cream cone

One is good, a pair would better

 

Out of Darkness into the Light

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Purging the darkness out

Fighting back the void of night

Left with a hole so full of blight

Walking a path through a tunnel ahead

Towards the end and freedom’s stay

Often stumbling and falling to the ground

Arms of darkness trying to pull me back down

Trail ahead fraught with danger

Fighting furiously to save my soul

Alone I’m left lost to despair

Needing the help of the one who has conquered death

Pull me close oh Lord, fill me with your might

Lead my path ahead into your light

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On Top of the Mountain

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Standing on top of the mountain so high 

Telling the world look at me, full of my pride

World looks back and strikes me down

Knocking me off this ground so high 

Tumbling down among the rocks I fall

Bashing me bruising my very soul

Crashing amongst the trees

Busting me breaking my heart to pieces 

Falling all the way down to the bottom I go

Landing in the mud and the muck of this world so cold

Wanting to just lay down and stay

The valley of death stares my way

Slowly pulling myself back to my knees

I look to the only one who can rescue me

Lift me up Oh Lord upon the wings of an eagle

Heal my battered and bruised soul

Put the pieces of this heart so broken

Back to where they once did belong

Lord my Savior, Lord my God

Guide me back to the mountain top so high

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