Poetry
1. The Rainbow Bridge
2. A Poem For The Grieving
3. Untitled
The Rainbow Bridge
There is a Bridge connecting Heaven and Earth. It is called the Rainbow Bridge because of its many colors.
Just this side of the Rainbow Bridge is a land of meadows, hills and all of it is covered with lush green grass.
When a beloved pet dies, the pet goes to this lovely land.
There is always food and water and warm spring weather.
There, the old and frail animals are young again.
Those who are maimed are made whole once more. They play all day with each other, content and comfortable.
There is only one this missing.
They are not with the special person who loved them on earth.
So each day they run and play until the day comes when one suddenly stops playing and looks up! Then, the nose twitches!
The ears are up!
The eyes are staring!
You have been seen, and that one suddenly runs from the group!
You take him or her in your arms and embrace. Your face is kissed again and again and again, and you look once more into the eyes of your trusting pet.
Then, together, you cross the Rainbow Bridge, never again to be separated
- Author Unknown
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A Poem For The Grieving...
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die...
- Author Unknown
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Untitled
When God had made the earth and sky,
the flowers and the trees,
He then made all the animals,
the fish, the birds, and bees.
And when at last He'd finished,
not one was quite the same
He said, "I'll walk this world of mine
and give each one a name."
And so He travelled far and wide,
and everywhere He went,
a little creature followed Him
until its strength was spent.
When all were named
upon the earth and in the sky and sea,
the little creature said,
"Dear Lord, there's no name left for me".
Kindly the Father said to him,
"I've left you to the end.
I've turned my own name back to front
and called you DOG, my friend".
- Author Unknown
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