Images of Reality

By Diane Hicks White

My poetry covers things from personal feelings, to family, nature, God and Mystery (In mystery I mean arousing curiosity). I want to make a difference in our world. I dont expect to be famous but I would like people recognize or have heard of my poetry. If it can only make a small difference, I will feel as though I did something with my life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 12, 2006
• ISBN: 9781467823425

Diane Hicks White

I am an unknown author who has always enjoyed writing, especially poetry. Poetry fills me with so many emotions from happy to sad. I don’t write for the money it may involve. I want to have people enjoy my poetry for themselves and find meaning in my poetry for themselves. The enjoyment comes from the people I can touch with my words. I am just an ordinary person with an ordinary life. In my poems I speak from the heart. I fill my poems with emotions. I have a wonderful family of twenty-two years and three wonderful children; Joshua Thirty, Amy Twenty-one and Benjamin nineteen year old. They have given me strength during moments in my life in which I felt desperate. Depression has been one of my weaknesses that I am trying to conquer. I have learned to express those weaknesses through my words and I am given a good look at myself. Without my family and my God I wouldn’t be here today, sharing myself with all who read this story. My personality is not an exuberant one. I am rather shy and I think my shyness drives my poetry. I always look to people like myself and wonder what I feel and think. Can I show them hope? Do they have to remain hidden from others who show an enthusiasm for life? Being someone who holds in emotions for the most part, I have a heart that burns for freedom, a freedom of emotional awareness and expression. My poetry covers things from personal feelings, to family, nature, God and Mystery (In mystery I mean arousing curiosity). I want to make a difference in our world. I don’t expect to be famous but I would like people recognize or have heard of my poetry. If it can only make a small difference, I will feel as though I did something with my life.  

Book preview

Miracles of Life

Upon each day we awaken, is a miracle

Look upon a flower, its beauty, its aroma

Look upon the evening sky with the setting sun

Stare up to the mountains, to their giant celestial beauty

To the forest abundant with life, thriving daily

To the oceans, their waves, hitting the shore

So many things are miracles of life

Thank our God, the one, the creator

Thank you Lord for each day, a miracle

A Crisis

3/8/05

We all have crises in our lives

There are those of us that seek help

There are those who abandon themselves

We ask, Who is the stronger?

The one seeking help or the one giving up

Can we see it from another view?

We are told the strong seek help

The weak give up and say farewell

The Lord is there for the weak and the strong

Seek him we must, ask help of him we must

He is waiting to be asked, and answer he shall

He will fill our heart and soul with his strength

The energy to carry on no matter what happens

And thank him we must for each day we are given

A crisis does not have to end in crises

It can be overcome with the strength of God

An obstacle that no longer impedes our decisions

Complain We Do

3/1/05

This is a winter we won’t forget

Too much snow, we do regret

Snow is fine, if not too much

Cumbersome and fun it can be

Freshly fallen its beauty truly bestowed

So white and pristine doth the sun reflect

Memories of winters past, remembered so

Anticipate winters to come again

Complain we do of winters too cold

Complain we do of summers too hot

Complain it seems is what we do best

Compliments

3/3/05

How are most compliments taken?

It is like we do not want to awaken

We want to believe them, but cannot

Insecure, low self esteem have we a spot

Turn your thoughts around

Do not let yourself go aground

Accept the compliment completely

Be not submissive towards it, obliquely

Fill yourself with some pride

Do not just take it in stride

Compliments are meant to help you beam

Like a kettle of water releasing its steam

Is There Such a Thing

3/29/05

Is there such a thing as spring?

In New England I wonder

Beyond March and still cold

Snow on the ground bringing spring asunder

When oh when will spring bloom again

Or this year, do we skip into summer

The sun it is out high in the sky

Us New Englanders it keeps from a sigh

Strong, hearty, and free are we

The snow soon will lift and the daffodils spree

Isolation

3/11/05

Desperate choice is isolation

It brings upon depression, it feeds upon itself

Everyone, everything needs another

Without another we cannot survive

Stave off the company we mustn’t

As seeds need the soil, rain from the sky

So we need people, a hand to help

The cycle of life must continue

Watch and view the continuity of life

How it flows like the rivers and the oceans

And so seek out a friend, a companion

Do not remain like an abandoned ship

Rotting away; on the ocean floor

God is there, he will help

All you must do is plead your request

That closed in box will burst open

As a gift, being unwrapped

Overcoming Obstacles

6/30/2004

Many obstacles block our way in life

Like a giant fence

Does it keep us in or does it keep us out

Or it can be many barriers of different sorts

To overcome them we must, but how

With our mind obstacles can keep us blind

Thinking of ways to get through them we do

Try against all odds we do

No giving up will we allow

Sooner or later we may break through

Is there light on the other side?

Our mind is opened to all things

We are no longer confined or restricted

Before these obstacles took control

Never will obstacles impede our way again

Watson, an Inspiration

3/10/05

Watson, a friend with a debilitating disease

It cripples him in things we do daily

Handicapped yes, but so strong inside

He lets nothing oppose him

Attends school to learn with accomplishment

The more he engages in learning,

The more he struggles to succeed

He is an inspiration for many

If I could have his inner stability

The obstacles I could overcome

It would be as a miracle

Each day I arise, I think of Watson

Learn beside him I will,

Arise to the challenge does he

We All Need

3/1/05

We all need a respite at times

A rest among the internal storms

Things can become too overwhelming

Sometimes it’s just talking to a friend

Or being comforted by a loved one

Sometimes its solitude for your thoughts

Tears can flow and loosen the burden

Hold them back we mustn’t

For the pain and fear become tenuous

Like moss glued to a stone

They keep us down and hurting

Shed the overwhelming layer, we must

Let our mind burst free to see

To see all those willing to help

Keep heed and let the emotions flow

Soon the respite is needed no longer

Back to ourselves are we

Ready for another day to trek

I Beseech Thee

2/14/05

I am reaching out to the one

I beseech thee to take my hand

To guide me through this humanity

Daily have we many new trials

We cringe in fear, asking thy help

You will take our hand

And we shall not fear life any longer

A Home

2/26/05

Take a journey through a home

It’s a special place

To those who live within

A warm cozy place in which to feel