Another beautiful day in the desert. 62° and sunny.
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
The brazen scorn of the desert
Can seem punishing
Although we must ask ourselves
Is truth a punishment
If we choose to look its way
There’s a certain beauty
Even in the face of shame
The sun’s wrath to some
May be seen as a curse
But to others it may be a gift
In our deepest hour of despair
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Color eases our perceptions
It reveals all truth o itself
Unlike a black and white photograph
That persuades us to analyze
What we have envisioned
Its message to be
Then when we are convinced of it
We awake the next day
Only to find that it has changed
While we were sleeping
In living Color…

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[by Donnaa Bowles (C)2014]
Alone I watch the desert skies
Wondering where you are and how you arrived…
I continue to wait for you to fly and rest from your journey
Like you used to when you were tired of flying against the wind
This time you’re really flying high
You have probably forgotten
where you are and where you’re going
I’m sure by now that you cannot find
Your way home
Yet I wait
Why…
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
He travels many miles.
He stops only to find the birds have eaten the crumbs he dropped along the way.
The countless meals he ate in silence.
He knows now that there is no map to return.
He finds a new road.
He finds himself as one with isolation.
Peace reassures him that,
He is on the right path.

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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
My arms are tired from holding up the sky
It’s falling and I can no longer abide
Earthquakes break like dominoes
Mountains shake and crumble in humility
I can no longer outrun the earths collide
Ships recklessly pollute our seas
The ocean had once washed our shores
But things have changed dramatically
As waves explode upon her chest
Infecting sand upon the land
As reckless captains do command
Purging toxins she now bleeds
Disease cries from sea to shore
Fierce winds fuel a world on fire
Our men are turned into war machines
I cannot look another day
For when I do my heart breaks in-two
It cracks and my faith pours out
I need a miracle this very hour
Take this cup from me I pray
Heal our scars
Cleanse our souls
And Lord, one more thing before you go…
The skyis falling and you see
This burden is too heavy
Will you hold it up for me?
Another night slips in with uncertainties.
A world on fire burning with lies.
A nation torn apart by greed.
Thunder rumbles… dividers they conquer.
Do not attend their battle.
Turn your head away.
Do not look to the left nor the right.
Look straight ahead and believe.
Winds will blow that you cannot control.
But you can adjust the winds in your sails.
It is only a distraction and a wicked scheme.
Its purpose is to steal your peace and love.
Then break your heart and steal your dreams.
Continue to believe in love.
This is of the utmost importance in this final hour.
Remember this night before you sleep.
Everything is going to be exactly the way it is supposed to be and, God has a plan for your life.
You are loved beyond measure.
And soon you will be set free.
Be still…
Believe…

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[by Donna Bowles (C)2014]
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
I’m not sure if I can express what’s in my heart. All I know is that it feels like broken glass and it ripping me a-part.
A-part of me wants to be set free. Yet a part of me is afraid.
I read and search beyond the scenes, behind the stage where lies are practiced to deceive. A media without consciousness, lusting for blood, death and power, for anyone who might interfere.
Many are willing to be sacrificial lambs. Eager to please, in exchange for popularity and exceptance. Willing to slay their own, for monetary gain. They sleep well, and moan in their secret dreams.
Many are unaware. They are trapped, and are intimidated into sharing a feast with hungry wolves that duel upon their breast, and leave them feeling defiled.
Many know, as I, but do nothing to stop them. We write, read, paint, create, and photograph to excape. The ugliest truths that were ever told.
We read political propaganda, and know it’s a lie, as it eats like a cancer into our consciousness, and rapes our minds. Creating a great divide, between the truth, and the red tides of death that crush our hearts and silence our screams!
I hate how I feel! I just want to run as
long as it takes, to stop feeling, and knowing all that I do. It is so sorreal!
Why am I paralyzed?
Why are you?
Why do I wait for the slaughter?
Why do you?
When will I stand?
When will you?
When will I fight?
When will you?
When will we take back our land?
When it’s too late?
The time has come and…!
Very soon it will be gone…!
Wake up and take a stand!!!!
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
I went to bed last night
And I fell asleep
I fell…
And fell…
Into my dream absent of time
When Your heart was free
Your spirit was kind
Serenity and peace
Set you apart
I was frightened
I tried to escape
I screamed…)))))
And when I awoke
You were standing over me
Holding a mirror so I could see
Dreams…
What do they mean…
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Burn our books,
Limit our freedoms
Deny our inalienable rights
You will never possess
The wisdom of our minds
Nor the freedom of our spirit’s
We are not bound by this world
Our allegiance is omnipresent
A light you cannot see…
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
If I cry out in Your Name
Would You hear my burden
And take away their pain
Only You know what they’ve been through
Will You hold and protect them
Your mercy I know it’s true
I need a miracle this very hour
Grant them a vision
So they might see
The love they long for is endless in Thee
Touch their hearts and heal their minds
The price You paid was not in vain
You conquered death
So that they might live
I cannot watch them die another day
Father I lay them in Your arms
With my one last breath
I turn my head and walk away
My thoughts…
“I understand now how You felt…”
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
As I consider the heavens in my sky
I ponder as to where
This place is we call heaven
My thoughts propose
Surely an impossibility
I sit in silence for a moment in why
Aware the greatest distance
Is between my head and my heart
Awaiting an answer…
An aura of heaven confirms it is real
Peace encircles a doubtful heart
The breath of angels wisps
In a breeze caressing my soul
Heaven is how you feel
When everything else is so unreal
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Moon beams a bequeath of vision
As the night unfolds
Elimination of fears unknown
A colored space of light
In a blackness of time
Do not be fooled by what you feel
Sometimes our fears are so unreal
Perceptions of dark maybe
Is an absence of light
Dark is only a limited reflection
Of its ability to absorb
A mirrored perception
Do not fear in the darkest hour
Faith is the substance of things unseen
Follow
Him
And
just
believe
It’s
Time
Can you see…?
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
This is by far the biggest ant hill I have ever seen. Just goes to show that in fact, hard work pays off. They have built an ant castle:)
Amazing!
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
~Henry David Thoreau~
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
A photograph is a feeling about an awareness of something inside you that you always wanted to know, yet the more you feel it, the less you understand it, but long to…
And you continue to capture particles of time and awareness of the moment
Your photograph is a reflection of who you are, or maybe what you want to be, or where you can go…
At times you get lost, and you are glad because if you didn’t, it wouldn’t be worth the journey…
Time has come and gone…
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“Watson, … if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound speech.”
~Alexander Graham Bell~
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
My heart descended into
A fourth dimension in time
Bursting into a thousand pieces
A supernova leaving only remnant
To be swept up by a dark matter
My core ceased to exist
Gravity collapsing inward
Under the force of my own will
Denying illumination embracing a
nebulous atmosphere of space and time
Where your heart was no longer
mine
Leaving
Behind
A
black
hole…
Infinity…
Absent
Of
All
Rhyme
…
By Donna Brown Bowles (C)
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[by Donna Bowles (C)2014]
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
* Albert Einstein*
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.
Harvey Mackay
Live free…
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
Profiling isn’t a good idea
Do you know why
It could change the way humans identify
I am not St. George’s horse
As referenced in the book
“Folklore of the Dragonfly.”
I never even knew him
They would have you believe
I am a devil horse that flies
Oh my…
The romanian word for devil is “drac” but “drac” also means dragon in romanian
Because of all this mixed up stuff my name translated as Dragonfly
Confusing right? Just another way to stereotype
Now I cannot tell you how many times this made me cry
Blue Dasher a preferred name of I
But I had no say in scientific decide
My kingdom is in Animalia
I have class of Insecta
My family is Libellulidae
I could go on
but why
The simple truth is this
My mother loves me
She named me Blueray
I am known as the blue dasher
I help with insect control
Especially mosquitoes as some of you already know
Now that you know the truth maybe next time before you stereotype
You’ll think twice…
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]
I used to scream so loud in the dead of night but no one could hear me
I would never turn out the light in hopes that someone would find me
Memory of a winter’s night my heart was so cold it had turned to ice
In summer it thawed but it had been hardened so long it turned to stone
I would tell you my heart was so sad and that it hurt so bad but that would not be true
My heart was silent for my spirit had died
And the only thing I know is
Stones can’t lie

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[by Donna Brown Bowles (C)2014]
Sometimes I hide from what I know to be true for it frightens me
My journey insists I cross a bridge that I rather not cross
Like a child’s uncertainty walking by the light of the moon
So my thoughts intrude in my clouded mind persuading me to higher ground
I must cross or I will surely die
A bitter death of a spiritual kind
Intuitively I am painfully aware that I mustn’t haste
A day dream becomes my reality
demanding I move from my comfort zone
I am afraid…
What is on the other side…
Can you tell me
Or maybe I could continue
To hide…
…
…
…
No
I
Want
To
Be
Alive
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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]