She emerged from the wavy and tranquil waters of the lake:<\/p>\n
Glistening, limpid, sanguine,<\/p>\n
It seemed that she had come for an interlude of fun,<\/p>\n
Not in any disappointment with the world,<\/p>\n
But with a vision of having fun with herself.<\/p>\n
This is an aspect of a woman:<\/p>\n
Self-involved, controlled, romantic.<\/p>\n
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God created man and woman in different images<\/p>\n
To satisfy the design of life,<\/p>\n
Man is an outsider but woman has roots in earth,<\/p>\n
He is a challenger and a searcher,<\/p>\n
She is an absorber and nurturer.<\/p>\n
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Man likes to explore,<\/p>\n
But for a woman everything is a rediscovery of herself,<\/p>\n
She is what she is<\/p>\n
But he is what he would like to be,<\/p>\n
A child is his mother\u2019s extension<\/p>\n
But his father\u2019s reflection,<\/p>\n
Woman possesses but man occupies.<\/p>\n
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In love woman does not give herself to man<\/p>\n
But absorbs him within herself,<\/p>\n
While a man gives a part of himself to her,<\/p>\n
So when love breaks woman feels empty,<\/p>\n
But man feels diminished,<\/p>\n
Woman prays to God to absorb his message,<\/p>\n
A man prays to become his message.<\/p>\n
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Life is not divided between absorption and radiation,<\/p>\n
Between being and becoming,<\/p>\n
Between reflection and action,<\/p>\n
But it is a juxtaposition of many indispensable gems.<\/p>\n
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A woman endeavors to live within nature,<\/p>\n
To her a lot of the architecture of politics<\/p>\n
And business woven by man is irrelevant,<\/p>\n
If it were left to her the world would be more peaceful,<\/p>\n
Like a lake she is self-contained,<\/p>\n
While man raids, she assimilates,<\/p>\n
Her world is her universe.<\/p>\n
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If man is the searing energy of sun,<\/p>\n
Woman is the soothing shade of an evening,<\/p>\n
If man is the creator of the world,<\/p>\n
Woman is the relief from its excesses.<\/p>\n
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Time is till moist with woman\u2019s tears,<\/p>\n
In her bosom lie compassion and tenderness,<\/p>\n
She is the long-awaited shore for her tempest-tossed lover,<\/p>\n
A sane instinct for life over its destruction,<\/p>\n
Woman\u2019s genius for life has yet not been appreciated,<\/p>\n
She is a ray of light which has yet not been given<\/p>\n
A chance to fully illuminate the canvas of life.<\/p>\n
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Suffern, New York, Oct. 14, 2010; Sept., 2018; March 16,2019<\/p>\n