Somewhere Over The Rainbow

When all the world is a hope-less jum-ble
and the rain-drops tum-ble all a-round,
Heav-en o-pens a mag-ic lane, ____

When all the clouds dark-en up the sky-way,
there's a rain-bow high-way to be found,
Lead-ing from your win-dow pane.
To a place behind the sun,
Just a step be-yond the rain. _____

Some-where O-ver the Rain-bow way up high,
There's a land that I heard of once in a lull-a-by,
Some-where O-ver The Rainbow skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream real - ly
do come true....

Some day I'll wish up-on a star and wake up
where the clouds are far be-hind me.____
Where troub-les melt like lem-on drops,
a-way, a-bove the chim-ney tops that's where
you'll find me....

Some-where O-ver The Rain-bow blue-birds fly,
Birds fly O-ver The Rain-bow, why then, oh why can't I?

Some day I'll wish up-on a star and wake up
where the clouds are far be-hind me.____
Where troub-les melt like lem-on drops,
a-way, a-bove the chim-ney tops that's where
you'll find me....

Some-where O-ver The Rain-bow blue-birds fly,
Birds fly O-ver The Rain-bow, why then, oh why can't I?
If hap-py lit-tle blue-birds fly be-yond the rain-bow,
why oh why can't I?

WATCH YOUR SELF GO BY

Just stand aside and watch yourself go by;
Think of yourself as "he" instead of "I."
Note, closely as in other men you note,
The bag-kneed trousers and the seedy coat.
Pick flaws; find fault; forget the man is you,
And strive to make your estimate ring true.
Confront yourself and look you in the eye-
Just stand aside and watch your self go by.

Interpret all you motives just as though
You looked on one whose aims you did not know.
Let undistinguished contempt surge through you when
You see you shirk, O commonest of men!
Despise you cowardice; condemn whate're
You note of falseness in you anywhere.
Defend not one defect that shames your eye-
Just stand aside and watch yourself go by.

And then, with eyes unvieled to what you loathe,
To sins that with sweet charity you'd clothe,
Back to your self-walled tenement you'll go
With tolerance for all who dwell below.
The faults of others then will dwarf and shrink,
Love's chain grow stronger by one mighty link,
When you, with "he" as substitute for "I,"
Have stood aside and watched yourself go by.

Strickland Gillilan

Landscapes Of Life


Like patterns in a landscape are the dreams I left behind;
a tapestry of memories that never more will bind.

A freedom from that tight control that once imprisoned life,
now open minded abstractness releases me from strife.

The colors of the world are imprinted deeply on my soul.
So why feel black and dismal when peace can be the goal?

To hold a rainbow in your hand, to feel the colors glow;
deep down within your heart,
let the feelings flow...

The red is so flamboyant, and it cannot be restrained,
but without it, no excitement,
and the heart is sorely pained.

Warm orange is a balance that combines the best of all,
the promise of a fresh new spring;
the calmness of the fall.

Then yellow bursts into full bloom,
and happiness bursts free,
chasing out those phantom ghosts that dwell inside of me!

Fresh green of new born thought buds,
so virginal and pure,
new in it's simplicity, so comforting and sure.

At times moods come that are painted blue,
but balance is the thing... mysterious depths of indigo
will send blues on the wing.

Then violet, oh sweet violet, your color does enthrall!
It fills my very essence, and invades my all in all.


You see; life is just a canvas on the landscape of the mind,
and the way in which we paint it is ours solely to decide...

So fight your way out of the mud, and keep the colors clear...
and when you've won that battle,
you will see God is very near.

Author Unknown

pages by Sally