Thursday, October 15, 2009

World Poetry Day

Today is World Poetry Day. We thought it would be fun to celebrate this day with some poems from CFCA staff members and Marlon, a 15-year-old young man served by the Managua project in Nicaragua. Enjoy!

La esperanza y el amor

Por Marlon

En todo el mundo

Las personas se

Deben tener entre

Sí un amor profundo

En su corazón siempre

Debe existir la ilusión

Y la esperanza de vivir

Un nuevo Amanecer

En la vida para crear

Un mundo mejor, todos

Debemos tener amor

Un mundo donde día a día

Se respire el aire de la

Felicidad y la armonía

Si todos practicamos

Los buenos valores

Éste mundo crecerá,

Como crecen los grandes

Amores, como florecen

Las bellas flores.

Hope and love (translated into English)

By Marlon

In all the world

The people

Ought to have between them

A deep profound love

In your heart always

Should exist the dream

And the hope of living

A new dawn

In life in order to create

A better world, all of us

Need to have love

A world where day after day

You breath the air of

Happiness and harmony

If we practice

Good values

This world will grow

As the greatest love grows

As the beautiful flowers blossom.

Sponsorship Haikus

By Sheila Myers, Communications Department

Mission Awareness Trip

Getting off the bus

I look for you in the crowd.

Our eyes meet. Smiles. Hugs.

Relationship

Your letter arrives,

Telling me of the mudslide.

I send you a prayer.

The Letter By Larry Livingston, U.S. Outreach Department

Today the mailman brought to me a gift as good as gold.

A letter from my sponsored friend, a wonder to behold.

Her hopes and dreams she shares with me, and what is this surprise?

A brand new picture! Grace and joy are captured in those eyes.

I never thought I’d care so much for one I’ve never met,

Or that in giving I would come to owe a happy debt.

I thought myself quite blessed, and so it seemed to me quite odd

When a child that lived in poverty revealed the face of God.

A CFCA Limerick By Larry Livingston

If God’s love is always in fashion,

Acts of kindness are nothing to ration.

So what do you say?

Join CFCA,

And help us build a world of compassion!

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