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THE SHADOW ON THE WALL

The Shadow
of My Face
I Cannot Help

Yet
I Can Certainly
Help My Soul

For
it is Filled by
Me Myself

No
Other Can I Blame

The Reflections
looking back at Me

Like
the Shadow
on the Wall

For
it Covers
All My Being

Even unto Soul

The Reflection
of My Shadow

The Reflection
of Myself

The Reflection
of My Soul

I
Will Have
To All Face..
                               
A Poeatreeman

DEDICATED TO
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

MY FACE WILL SHOW
THE SHADE I AM

YET MY SOUL
WILL COLOR ALL I AM

WHAT COLOR AM I
IF MY SOUL IS BLACK?

A WHITER SOUL
I HAVE NOT SEEN

FOR IT IS
NOT COLORED
BY HUMAN GENES       

BUT HUMAN KINDNESS

BY HOW
WE TREAT
OUR FELLOW HUMANS.

Edgar Allan Prieto
1/15/89
Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto

THE SHADE OF TWO FRIENDS

Two Eyes

To See,

One Soul,

One Heart .


One Light

One Dark.


Two Loves

Can be,

No Shade Apart.


Two Friends,

Can See,

Each Others

Heart.


Not one is Light,

Nor is Dark.


A Friend

Who sees you,

As you are.


One Soul

Your Soul,

Light or Dark?


Two Friends

In a World,

Not a Shade Apart.

Dedicated to Bruce

A Poeatreeman

Edgar Allan Prieto
June 4,1985
Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto 

ROOTS

If I keep my Roots
Right in the Earth

I'll know my birth
From where I came

How
I grow up to the sky

Branching out
To touch life

What I am
is where I came

To take myself
From where I've been

To place myself
above all things

Is to lose myself
and all that is

I must grow
From where I came

Go through life
Knowing what I am

How I grow
Be it tall or short

Or reach heights
I can not climb

Is not a measure
of what I am

To keep my Roots
From which I came

My strength
will be which I made

My weakness
not to see myself

For which my Roots
Have sown themselves.

TRIBUTE TO ALEX HALEY

Dedicated To

Bill Madison

A Poeatreeman

Edgar Allan Prieto
Dec 24,1987
Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto 


 

A SHADE OF MAN

What Color
is BRIGHTEST?

LOVE           

For it COLORS
all of Life

What is
BLACK
and WHITE?

a MIXTURE
of God's Love

What is MAN?

The COLOR
of His Hand

What is
DARKNESS?

The ABSENCE
of Love

What is
The RAINBOW?

The COVENANT

HE
Drew with Love

What is
The SHADE of you?

The PICTURE

GOD
Painted For you.

To Bill Madison

A Poeatreeman

THE HUMAN RACE

WE HAVE DIFFERENT FACES

THOUGH OUR SMILES

WEAR THE SAME.

ONE WORLD

FOR HOPE TO LIVE IN

ONE WISH PEACE !

Edgar Allan Prieto
1/14/2005
Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto

THE CANVAS OF LIFE

 
One Stroke, One Color,
Not White, Brown ,or Yellow,
Black, and Red, are also True.

God's Hand,
A Multitude of Colors

Take not From This Canvas
Nor Try, 
To Spread One Color

God Painted
Each One,
To Reflect The Other.

Each One
Painted, by His Hand.

Each One
Placed,
Throughout The Land.

God's Hand Painted,
One Color Mix.
                                
A Poeatreeman
It is Darkness ,
Not Allowing you
To See The Light.

Only Light
Can Take You,
From Darkness.

Edgar Allan Prieto
7/7/88
Copyright ©2007 Edgar Allan Prieto



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