My Heart My Mind and My Pen Combined

By Rita Ann Corrado

This book contains poems on all topics. It contains a Christian Gospel Section. It also contains poems about nature, parenthood, family, home life, love, loneliness, friendship, babies, poems about family members, and miscellaneous topics. Rita enjoys her writing. It is a healthy way for her to release her emotions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 29, 2009
• ISBN: 9781465332998

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Chapter One

Special Poems

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My Heart My Mind

And My Pen

Some people think I can pick up a pen

And simply just write a poem

What they don’t know is it comes from my heart

And not from my pen alone

As my pen glides along expressing each thought

Releasing each feeling inside

They are emotions I have all pent up

In my mind and my heart all combined

I want to leave words and feelings and thoughts

Behind when life comes to an end

I hope to help others if they read the words

From my heart and my mind and my pen

Rita Ann Corrado

My Unexpected Life

When I was young on the threshold of life

I wondered which way I should go

The future ahead was blind from my eyes

What was in store I did not know

I thought I’d go north but then I turned south

I thought I’d go east but went west

Although it was hard to make up my mind

The decisions I made were my best

If I could live my life over again

I think of some things I might change

It mattered not what my troubled lot

As long as I lived in His name

Things came to pass that shattered my dreams

And O how I wished I would die

It was out of my hands and into His plans

For He knows the reason why

Some things I did maybe I wouldn’t do

Some things maybe I wouldn’t say

But one thing’s for sure

Though we don’t understand

Everything works out His way

Rita Ann Corrado

Loneliness

If you’ve never had a deep heavy

Empty feeling throughout every

Inch of your body

And a deep hollow ache echoing

Inside what feels like a dark

Hole in your chest

With emptiness just weighing

You down—if you never

Had this feeling then you’ve

Never been lonely

Rita Ann Corrado

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Scripture Reading:

Jesus said to His friends: My heart is broken with sorrow. Remain here with Me. Be on guard and pray. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. He prayed to His Father: Father, if it is possible, take this cup of suffering from Me. Nonetheless, not mine, but Your will be done.

(From Matthew 26)

Sometimes when I am troubled I pray and I say.

"Jesus I’m scared and lonely.

At times when I’ve been

in most need and very much in pain the people

I thought would be there walked away."

When I feel this way I think of Jesus in the

Garden of Gethsemane the night before He died.

Suppose I had been there that night just passing

Through the garden. I don’t know what He would

Have said to me. But He could have said."

"Rita I’m scared and lonely. I asked my best friends

If they would watch one hour and pray with