Perspective

By Dorothy Lott

Finger prints of love
are colored in creation

Finger prints from water
lifted when love flowed

Finger prints of love
Raised heights of mountains

Finger prints of love
grew the tallness of trees

Finger prints of love
Created mans identity

Finger prints of love
Will never cease to be

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504970198

Dorothy Lott

Miss Dorothy Lott has been a lover, reader and writer of poetry for many years. Most of her works are contained in poetry anthologies that have traveled around the world. She has received numerous awards for her poetry. This is her second book. Her first book “PERSPECTIVE,” was published in January 2016. She is in the process of writing a non-fiction novel and a book of short stories. Miss Lott is a U.S. Air Force Veteran. She attended Los Angeles Southwest College and the University of Southern California. She is a Licensed Ordained Evangelist and currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

1. CRACKING THE HAPPY CODE

2. HAPPY SCRIPTURES

3. THE LANGUAGE OF SMILES

4. IT’S HARD TO STAY DEPRESSED STARING AT A YELLOW ROSE:

5. HANDS…

6. A POEM SPOKE TO ME

7. WHEN WE SEE A NEED

8. BEING SINGLE! THINKING SINGLE! ACTING SINGLE! BETTER KNOWN AS FREE-FEMALES.

9. WHERE PARADISE LIVES

10. THESE THINGS

11. ADVERSE CONDITIONS

12. BLACKBERRIES

13. ELIJAH! ELIJAH! WHERE DID YOUR RAVEN GO?

14. EAGLES DON’T FLY THEY SOAR!

15. BIRD AT MY WINDOW

16. MISS BUTTERFLY

17. RELISH GOD’S VISIT TODAY

18. A LITTLE TAKE ON CREATION

19. WILTED WATER TILTED ENVIRONMENT

20. UNINHIBITED

21. LAZY DAYS BRING SUMMER

22. HEAR THE WHALES SINGING

23. A DAY AT THE BEACH

24. SOUL, SOUL SALVATION

25. MY SOUL SET SAIL ON A SHIP FOR AN UNKNOWN SEA

26. GOD NEVER FAILS

27. LEARN TO USE GOD’S LIGHT

28. HIS LOVE IS..!

29. GOD IS LIKE!

30. STANDING BELOW THE CROSS

31. BROKEN BODY (VS) A WHOLE SPIRIT

32. I ASKED

33. DO YOUR VERY BEST

34. A LIGHT FROM HEAVEN

35. AIRPORTS

36. AFRICA

37. TRAVELING AMERICA

38. CARMEL

39. JUST AS I REMEMBER!!!

40. SPRAWLING CITIES

41. OLD DUSTY ANTIQUE SHOP

42. FAMILY RE-UNIONS ARE!

43. LIFE!!!

44. A SPIDERS’S WEB

45. LIFE GOES: LIFE GOES ON

46. OF TIME!!!

47. THE DEATH OF MY FRIEND TERES, HER FRIEND ELVIS PRESLEY AND A SAGA TOLD BY MRS. KAMAKAWA

48. WHAT ONE WONDERS!

49. DR MARTIN LUTHER KING

50. COLUMBIA

51. SEPTEMBER 11

52. THE INDIAN’S CHANT AND THE BUFFALO’S ROAM

53. WHERE THE FOREST LIVES

54. SPREADING POSSIBILITIES

55. A STOPOVER WITH THE MASTERS

56. A GRAND DEBUT

57. THE WONDERMENT OF NATURE

58. THOUGH I DARE TO SAY

59. CAUSES

60. ME, ME, AND ME

61. ME AND THE LADY

62. IMPORTANCE

63. I SO OFTEN

64. REFLECTIONS!!!

65. NEVER REMEMBER TO TRY AND FORGET

66. A TINGE OF GOLD

67. THE MCDADE-GRAND-TAPESTRY

68. WOMAN

69. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE OLD?

70. WHEN YOUR BIRTHDAY IS THANKSGIVING

71. INAUGURATION DAY AND CELEBRATION

72. THERE’S A TERRORIST AT THE GAS TANK

73. IF YOU FIND A TERRORIST UNDER YOUR BED!

74. THE FEET TREAD THE CRIES OF THE UNREST AS THE VALLEY HOLLOWS

75. FUMING TWISTER

76. THE UNTOUCHED TREASURE

77. STRUGGLING THROUGH YOUR FIELD OF DISILLUSION

78. A DAY AT THE MALL

79. WHO TOLD YOU THAT YOU NEEDED A MIND?

80. MARRIAGE IS A LOADED WORD

81. GENIUS (VS) MAD-GENIUS

82. AUNT NIG

83. HOSPITALIZING

84. A POEM FOR MATTIE

85. ELNORA (1912-2003)

86. MISS MAYA ANGELOU

87. MISS MAYA ANGELOU (1928-2014)

FOREWORD

Poetry as defined by Webster is writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound and rhythm.

Poets have for centuries found the art form of poetry to be a great way of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, dreams and experiences. They try in various ways to make sense of the world in which they live through the written form of poetry.

Sometimes poems can suddenly appear out of the unexplained and unexpected. A poem can bounce around the mind through a spurt of the imagination. I often think some as appearing like pop-corn. They can start the popping process and if the lid is raised the corn (words) can fly in many directions.

The need for the process of getting it out on paper may only consist of a verse or a four line stanza as in the poem Mr. Pennycomequick by P. M. Stone, or it can be as long as the poem The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats. However the end result appears… there’s no doubt in the mind of the poet that the urgency of expression is all encompassing.

Reading I The Happy Code

I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord.

- Psalm 122:1

CRACKING THE HAPPY CODE

Happiness is pretty much decided. I have decided to be happy.

"Don’t sit around and wait for the arrival of happiness to happen.

Instead, you have already happen, arise to the occasion."

Being happy may seem a small matter in the minds of some, but

In the minds of others it may seem a big matter.

Happiness is trivial in the mind of an unhappy person.

"Don’t exit an unhappy setting so soon; you may be the one they

get happy about."

Try being happy for one hour; and see what the other 23 will be like.

I like to enjoy the happy in being happy.

Imagine yourself the gift of happiness and enjoy it all year long.

A happy person may create a happy home.

A happy home may create a happy family.

A happy family may create a happy neighborhood.

A happy neighborhood may create a happy town.

A happy town may create a happy state.

A happy state may create a happy country.

A happy country may create a happy world.

Imagine a happy planet… possibilities… possibilities…possibilities.

Some may think happiness is like cracking a code to some mathematical equation. (H2A³P1P⁴I3N⁵E3S⁴S2). Try cracking a baby code for (GA-GA-GOO-GOO). Can you solve the mystery? Is there one?

When I wake up each morning… I decide to be happy.

HAPPY SCRIPTURES

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places, (Deuteronomy 33:29).

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty, (Job 5:17).

For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee, (Psalm 128:2).

Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord, (Psalm 144:15).

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone that retaineth her, (Proverbs 3:18).

He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he, (Proverbs 14:21).

Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? (Jeremiah 12:1).

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered, (Malachi 3:15).

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them, (John 13:17).

Hast thou faith? have it to thy self before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth, (Romans 14:22).

"Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of