Whispers Etched in Stone

By Elisa Morelli

Whispers Etched in Stone is a remarkable anthology of poems of varied, subtly different, yet simple reflections and personal thoughts on love, life, and faith. Elisa Morellis ardent wish is to share with others, through poetry, her understanding of goodness in its many forms. And to help others to know why we believe the way we believe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781973608516

Elisa Morelli

Uncle Freddy McGee found himself in a maximum security prison for 10 years. He had seen how many individuals used the prison system as a revolving door; repeating offenses that would later cause them to return to being incarcerated. He saw that to have freedom and remain productive he would need to invest time in making deep changes in his life. Today Uncle Freddy is married, father of a step son and two daughters, and three grandchildren. For over 30 years he has been on teams that provide mitigation, scholarships for education, mentoring, and community awareness. He has many hours in various training formats and has worked with some of the finest in the criminal justice system.

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ISBN: 978-1-9736-0850-9 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9736-0851-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017917765

WestBow Press rev. date: 11/29/2017

This book

is dedicated to my mother,

Mary Helen,

and her love of poetry.

Contents

Acknowledgements

BOOK I

The Building Stones

Lean to Light the Wick

A Proverb

Not a Problem?

Our House

The Noon Day’s Breeze

To Be In Position

That’s Why

The Race

Currency of Heaven

A Great Grief

The Hands of Time

Created Equal

Upon a Rock (Written in China)

Face Reflects Face (China)

The Heads of State (China)

Living in the Square (China)

Never Too Old

The Dreamer’s Remorse Responded

La Route de St. Jacques (Paris)

The City That Never Sleeps (Paris)

Age and The Sun

The Thorn

Change

The Freedom

The Dawning (China)

Lanterns (China)

A Child’s Reply (China)

The Great Ball (China)

Silk Worm (China)

The Regret (China)

Money (China)

Speak My Mind (China)

I Rest (China)

Beijing and Time (China)

Love Made Manifest (Britain)

The Little Yellow Bee (Britain)

Miracles and Wishes (Britain)

A Crest of Light (Britain)

The Trees (Britain)

Summertime Blessing (Britain)

Where Love Abounds (Britain)

Fall Changes (Britain)

Pilgrim

Lines Drawn in Pleasant Places

The Bad Day

The Bicycle Spoke

I Want

Our Motivation

Harvest in Abundance

The Plumb Line

The Impersonal Pronoun

On Manhood: Relating to ‘Sisters’

BOOK II

Brick Number 11

The Battle

Call to Greatness

Thank You to Service

The Battlefield: Our Mind

Greatly Loved

A Word on Grief

Things Out of My Control

The Winds and The Waves

The Potter, The Clay

The B-I-B-L-E Without Religion

My Own Way

Life for Good

To Commemorate

The True Man

The Line

The Conqueror

Today/Tomorrow

Clouds

The Face

The Old and The Young

Retirement

The Snowfall

Some Sports Poems

Determined Action

Getting into the Scrum

What Circumstances Dictate

In Life With Teens

Are We in the Habit

The Temptation: The Hard Times

The Parchment

A Realization

The Calling

What We Live

If God Be King

But If There is More

The One Who Speaks (China)

The Emotions

We Call, He Answers

On Contentment

The Complaint

Easter Message

Nails 4 U No. 1

Pentecost Sunday

God All Around

My Double Mind

You Saw and Rescued Me

The Cry of the Poor (??)

Childhood Dreams

Light Tomorrow

A Community of Strength

Prepared

Motivation

Unmotivated Love

The Pinterest Point

Liability

The Parable of the Sower

The Bible

Peek a Boo

Dependence

The Sound of Love Calling

BOOK III

A Place of Belief

Life Without Fig Leaves

The Driving Force

A Word to the Weary

A Leader’s Prayer

Little Put Downs

On Humility

The Great Commission

The Image Maker

The Building Foundation

Fashion That

A Marrieds’ Joke

The Worst of Times

Created Equal

A Leaders Prayer II

Shortcomings

What’s To Be Done

Thanksgiving

The Spirit

Look Ahead

A Veneer

Batting a Thousand

The Truth

A Protest

The Question

A Little Encouragement Here

The Bible: What It is Not

The Un-Changeables

The Contrast of Change

The Hard Line

Intellectual Property

God of Heaven

The Opposites

The Aroma Gospel

With One Play to Run

My Under Wear

The Dark Side

A Journal

Learned Obedience

Waiting Like a Lover

By Just One Word

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to my editor, Alan Highley, for helping with yet another book. He never seems to tire of the written word, and his editing gives a finishing touch to things. I am thankful for his encouragement, professionalism and friendship.

Also, a terrific addition to this book are the sketches of Miss Emilee Gallegos. Thank you, Emilee, for your thought provoking art. Your drawings have added so much to the black of the ink and the white of these pages.

BOOK I

The Building Stones

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(Isaiah 60:15 -61:12)

Lift up the banner for the peoples!

Go through, prepare.

Build up, and

take out the stones.

How many stones do you have?

Just a pocketful.

But if I use one of them to stone you,

Then I have one less