Walking with Grandma Mary Through the Years 2010 and 2011: Through the Years 2010 and 2011

By Mary Hines

Heartfelt Poetry
Nature and family has always been one of Mary Hines' priorities in life, along with spiritual concerns. She has written poetry most of her life and decided to publish the her poems written through the years 2010 and 2011.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469153360

Mary Hines

Mary Hines She always love to right. She had a full live; she has five children, many grandchildren and many great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren Mary is now ninty-six and she is till writing poetry.

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NEW YEAR

TWENTY—TEN

A Brand New Year

It’s up to you to fill the pages:

The old year has come and gone.

The things that are past are past.

Lay your troubles down once more.

What is done is done at last.

Mistakes can never be made right.

They are now gone beyond recall.

We make them and we’re sure to pay.

’Tis a well learned lesson when we fall.

So thank the Lord for a brand new year,

swept clean by the Father’s love.

Forgiveness erases all those wrongs.

It’s a brand new year sent from above.

by Mary Hines

January 1, 2010

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That Pesky Squirrel

Of all the pesky little pests,

that feisty squirrel just irks me so.

He chatters there up in the tree.

He’s laughing at me there, I know.

He flips his tail and flaunts me;

as if to say, "I’m here to dare ya’,

I’m much too high for you to catch,

so just try to. I double dare ya’."

He daily steals the wild bird food

I place up in the tree each day.

He gently swings upon the feeder

and scares my lovely birds away.

That squirrel carries acorns

to the bed where flowers sway.

Soon I find an acorn tree

growing there, and comes to stay.

I set and hear the neighbor’s dog.

—It’s a very loud commotion—

That squirrel’s teasing once again!

It’s really hard on my emotion.

Now my heart softens as he says,

"I’m here, you have to love me.

God made me just the way I am.

I’m special, and I am free."

by Mary Hines

Jannuary 1, 2010

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Lillyanna

A little tiny pixie

fluttered down and touched my heart.

Twisted me around her finger;

became my darling from the start.

Her big eyes seemed to say,

"God knew I’d fill your life with joy.

I’m so glad you’re my grandma;

that I’m a girl and not a boy."

by Mary Hines

January 23, 2010

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Gadgets

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I can’t twitter. I can’t text.

Wonder what will come up next?

Modern gadgets vex my soul;

give me good old rock and roll.

Bobby socks became extinct;

changed to tights in just a blink.

Want to be just plain old me,

content at home, and just be free.

Don’t want my face on that Facebook.

It’s not because of how I look.

I’ll close my lips, shut them tight;

words on Bluetooth’s out of sight.

A G.P.S. guides anywhere.

Heaven maybe? Nope! Not there.

Nimrod built up to the sky.

The Lord told him not to try.

This story warns: Don’t outguess God.

He’s the creator. You’re Nimrod.

Don’t try for wealth or for fame.

Just thank God in Jesus’ name.

by Mary Hines

January 30, 2010

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Gems

"It’s not up to me to understand.

The painting is not complete

’til the last stroke from the brush

is done; and the master painter I meet."

. . . . Thought from Mary Hines.

"Yesterday’s gone.

tomorrow may never come.

Today is the day I live now.

. . . . Thought from the bible"

. . . . Matthew 6: 34

"My mistakes of yesterday

I can only give to God.

We know not what will be tomorrow."

. . . . Thought from Mary Hines

"Father,

may my life be

a Bible to someone’s feet

and guide them home

to walk the golden street.

May I print this within my heart,

use it as a shield upon my brain:

Speak only after thought,

and bring others joy, not pain."

by Mary Hines

February 1, 2010

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