Stepping Stones to Love Honor and Respect

By DM Yates

Stepping Stones to Love Honor and Respect is a collection of poems written by author and poet, DM Yates. The poems are divided into 11 categories: Love, Honor, Respect, New Age, Eclectic, Pain, Tales, Religious,Fun,Collections, and Earth. Each category is comprised of 5 different easy to read poems, most done in rhyme, many are short but all are meaningful.

DM Yates writes in a classical simple style with the goal to allow the reader time to enjoy each poem. From heartbreaking and sadness, to wishes and dreams, to fun and whimsical, this is a poetry book anyone can appreciate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DM Yates
• Release date: Jul 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301285501

DM Yates

I write fantasy/romance stories and new age/spiritual/fantasy/romance poetry. I'm also addicted to reading and am an obsessive crafter. I dance in the clouds where my stories take shape and then I weave them into imaginative and loving tales. Dream above the clouds and believe in yourself. I do and I believe in you.

Book preview

LOVE

Give me but a Rose

Bubbles of Love

If Wishes Were Realities

Always

A Mother is Love

HONOR

Love Honor and Respect

A Warriors Call

The Mighty Roar

Never Again

Joshua of Olden Times

RESPECT

Love Forever True

Sister Friends

A Single Rose

The False Treasures of Life

Apples Oranges Pears

NEW AGE

She who Rides the Wind

All Hallows Eve

By the Moons Tender Light

At my Little Altar

Calling Home

ECLECTIC

Upon the Clouds

I Used to go a Wandering

Blanket of Love

If I Were a Mountain

The Gentle Butterflies

PAIN

Alone I Walk This Earth in Chains

A Phoenix is Born

There is a Distance

Mother Willow Weep for Me

Silent Tears

TALES

A Mighty Dragon in the Apple Tree

Isnt Live Amazing

Coffee Cookies and Friendship

Life Without

Religious Twist Three Little Pigs

RELIGIOUS

The Garden of Gethsemane

Little Lamb

A Lesson From Jesus

Letter to my Savior

Take a Quiet Moment

FUN

Little Black Poodle so Blue

Drinking Spree

Virgo Counselor

How Strange

Summer Is

COLLECTIONS

Angel in the Sky

The Dance of the Fire

I Give to You

The Last Leafs Abscission

The Message of Love

EARTH

The Waterfall

Hurt not the Animals of our World

The Falling Snow

San Francisco

The Glory of the Seasons

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cover images courtesy of:  jsnover, rozum, & canstock

Cover by Joleene Naylor

Clip art courtesy of OCAL: http://www.clker.com/ and Roger Lawrence

I want to thank Joleene Naylor, Roger Lawrence, and Elizabeth Maginnis for their dedication in editing and supporting me in my effort to publish a book of my poetry. I would never have finished this project without their assistance.

I also thank all the many Poetry Groups that I've belonged to for the members' support and encouragement, along with a special thank you to April, who believed in my poetry.

This is a collection of simple poetry written by me to warm the hearts and souls of the readers.

My heart belongs to writing, but my soul belongs to poetry. DM Yates

There should always be

the fun side of poetry. DM Yates

I am who I Am

I’m molded from three factors:

energy, spirit, and flesh.

I can be wholly as one

when the triad me does mesh.

In human form I’ve a name.

I’m called Donna on this earth.

Like my brothers and sisters,

I emerged mortal at birth.

I’m a Cancer—it fits me.

I reside within a shell.

In Chinese, I’m a tiger

and my enemy I’ll fell.

I’ve a father and a mom,

I’m a twin, also a wife.

I’m a thinker, friend, and bard,

and I tell you, I love life.

I walk a spiritual path,

a child of the divine.

I’ve lived for eternity

and towards Home I sometimes pine.

I’m a kin to all who live.

We are God’s daughters and sons.

Whatever species you are,

I believe we are but one.

When I connect to Heaven,

I abide within His care.

I’m joined with the Other Side

through meditation and prayer.

I’m basically energy;

ethereal, one might say.

I’ve seen my essence sparkling

in silver atoms arrayed.

My beliefs are strange to some,

I exist outside the norm.

Now, please don’t try to change me.

It’s you I’ll aim to transform.

LOVE

The earth sends her words of love in the winds. DM Yates

Give me but a Rose

You ask what you can give to me

to show your love divine.

Give me but a rose, my dear,

and this will be your sign.

It must have grown