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A birthday wish to Natasha (sister, 05 September)
 
May the Lord protect and guide you
Grant you happiness from within
May all your frets be triflings
That only scrape the skin
 
May all the gifts that you receive
Be of the lasting kind
That warms you to the very soul
And grow a gentle mind
 
May all the friends who come your way
Be sent from up above
May spring reside inside your heart
And seal upon it, Love.
                          
by Dalene West (amendment to original by DJWest)
 
Velvet Vice
 
I've heard some say that in this life
Nothing is guaranteed
Except for death and taxes we,
Cannot of those be freed.
 
And yet in retrospective pause
I marvel as I muse
A force floods in I cannot shake
Nor can I it refuse
 
It speaks in tongues all humankind
Can understand at ease
Its voice resounds through walls of ice
Yet whispers on a breeze
 
It's might can sway a mighty vice
Or still the cries of war
It whips you with a velvet whip
And titillates the core
 
Its LOVE that rocks the Milky Way
It WAS and IS, will BE
Forever it dwells on our way
And lives for you and me.
                                   by Dalene West.

Petal on the wind
(A poem for Gerhardt Oct '69 - July 05)      10/08/2006 D.J.W
 
And then, just as sudden as it came
I felt the breeze upon your name
And quiet, softly, gently still
A field of blossoms bloomed at will,
The sky, a coloured canvas gleamed
As time stood still, or so it seemed.
The day, the wind blew you, my way
Ironing the creases of my day.
Without the needs for words at all
Life's walls of ice had melted, small
And in the beauty of your hands
We shared a space of times on sands
When just as quick as life can be
The wind enticed you - gone, from me.
 
(A poem for Gerhardt, whose friendship and love God has graced me with until your earthly time was spent.)