This document contains 3 poems:
1. A student prays to learn about nature, science, and the universe from God who is the source of all things.
2. The sea laughs as it reflects the sun's beams, thinking of joys it wishes to share, and sobs as it breaks on rocky shores, recalling the world's sorrows.
3. A poem about haunting a lost lover, saying the speaker will not be forgotten as they will come again with starlight, flowers, and rain, and dust will remind the lover of their presence.
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This document contains 3 poems:
1. A student prays to learn about nature, science, and the universe from God who is the source of all things.
2. The sea laughs as it reflects the sun's beams, thinking of joys it wishes to share, and sobs as it breaks on rocky shores, recalling the world's sorrows.
3. A poem about haunting a lost lover, saying the speaker will not be forgotten as they will come again with starlight, flowers, and rain, and dust will remind the lover of their presence.
This document contains 3 poems:
1. A student prays to learn about nature, science, and the universe from God who is the source of all things.
2. The sea laughs as it reflects the sun's beams, thinking of joys it wishes to share, and sobs as it breaks on rocky shores, recalling the world's sorrows.
3. A poem about haunting a lost lover, saying the speaker will not be forgotten as they will come again with starlight, flowers, and rain, and dust will remind the lover of their presence.
Copyright:
Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
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This document contains 3 poems:
1. A student prays to learn about nature, science, and the universe from God who is the source of all things.
2. The sea laughs as it reflects the sun's beams, thinking of joys it wishes to share, and sobs as it breaks on rocky shores, recalling the world's sorrows.
3. A poem about haunting a lost lover, saying the speaker will not be forgotten as they will come again with starlight, flowers, and rain, and dust will remind the lover of their presence.
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Prayer of a Student The Sea Why does the sea so
-Trinidad Subido -Natividad Marquez
To learn, dear Lord, about these peaceful, mother, em’rald leaves, Why does the sea laugh, These tender petalled blossoms laved As if it were fast asleep? in dew mother, From where they come, and how and why It would give our tired heart they lived; As it glints through the beam Or yet to know why ocean waters lash Their atomed selves against the dearest child granite rocks of the sun? That senseless lie along the shores; The comfort of the deep. to know Why rainbows filing their ribboned It is thinking of the joys, my souls athwart The eastern skies when sunrays flick child the west; Why lightning furies rage when storm- That it wishes everyone wind still The thunder that echoes through the Why does the sea sob so, dark; To learn about the earth, about the To a Lost One moon, mother, -Angela Manala-Gloria The sun and the lesser stars and other worlds As it breaks on a rocky I shall haunt you O my lost one, as That span through that cerulescent firmament; the twilight shore? To learn great facts about little Haunts a reed-entangled trail, things And then while knowing these, not to It recalls the sorrows of the And your dreams will linger strangely unlearn- with the music Never, O God to unlearn these child- learned truth world Of a phantom lover’s tale. That, Thou art in reality the source, The Why, the How, the Wherefore of And weeps forevermore all things. You shall not forget me, for I am past forgetting I shall come to you again With the starlight and scent of wild champacas, And the melody of rain. You shall not forget me, dust will peer into your Window, tragic-eyed and still And unbidden, startle you into remembrance With it hand upon the sill.