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    Bleeding Heart
    Bleeding Heart
    Bleeding Heart
    Ebook128 pages48 minutes

    Bleeding Heart

    By Elizabeth Rawls and Rachel Rawls

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    Do you have moments when you’re feeling down? Lost as to where your life is headed, or if there is any meaning? Struggling with the concept of “faith” and what does it really mean? This collection of faith-based short stories, poems and riddles seeks to uncover the answers.

    These heartfelt and spiritual poems, short stories and riddles from the author deal in a wide range of topics: faith and hope, the realm of fantasy and imagination, dreams, silliness, and the hardships of life. If you feel like reading something short with a message behind it, browse a variety of poem titles. If you want funny, the “hump day” poems will make you laugh! If you want to delve into something deeper, a story that touches your heart and makes you think, peruse the short stories. If you want to challenge your mind, the riddles are like a fun puzzle for all ages to enjoy!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElizabeth Rawls
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9781311846518
    Bleeding Heart
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    Elizabeth Rawls

    Elizabeth grew up within a traveling lifestyle where “home” moved frequently to new places and environments. However, the countries and cultures she experienced, and the people she met along the way, made the lifestyle’s hardship worthwhile and broadened her view of the world—Influencing and inspiring what would be her future work in writing and art. Now, keeping the past within her memory, she writes and illustrates novels, and dabbles in watercolor painting. "Since the time I was a child and first learned what stories were, I loved them. But reading wasn't always easy for me in the past. Up until 6th grade I would listen to people telling stories and watch TV because I was too slow a reader for books and couldn't keep up with my peers. That changed when, one day, my 6th grade teacher learned of the trouble I'd been having. She told me: "Don't worry about keeping up with everybody else. No one is the same, and no one can always work at the same pace. You just read at your own pace and at a level of reading that suits you." She gave me a child’s version of the Time Machine book to start with, even though it had nothing to do with what we'd been reading in class, because she knew I loved fantasy and science fiction stories. She explained I should begin with topics that interested me—not the boring stuff class assigns you—and that I could take as long as needed until I finished the whole book. And so, I took her advice and began my strange, new quest of learning how to read a book from beginning to end. Doing this opened the whole world of books into my life and opened up countless possibilities! There were more and better stories than TV had to offer, and I loved it. Ever since that day, long ago, I have been reading thick and heavy novels, and now, I am publishing books of my own for other readers—both new and old—to enjoy and come to appreciate the art in story-telling that is the book."

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      Bleeding Heart - Elizabeth Rawls

      A girl in poverty pauses on her trek through the field

      Full of hopes and dreams despite low health and wealth

      Desiring to learn, to travel God’s world!

      But suddenly feeling faint, she slows her walk

      —heart beat fatigued, but nobody is around to care.

      In a land a world away, a pretty girl sighs, sitting

      At her desk in the classroom, rich jewels on two fingers.

      "Why must I be in boring old school, I say? Who cares

      About learning, says I—Big deal! I’d rather go play!"

      As the poverty girl gazes up at the infinite sky above,

      "There’s lands beyond here kids from the school speak of.

      Wish I was one of them—so smart and so learned.

      To do things like ‘reading’ and writing word’s patterned-lines

      —But I could never afford school. No, never…."

      The pretty girl passes by a table of water bottles for sale,

      "Gross, who would want that ol’ plain, bitter stuff…?

      Get me that fine-tasting soda over there, I say!"

      Then drinking one sip, tossing it away without-a-care.

      As the poverty girl falls suddenly to her knees, roughly.

      Dizziness spinning like a rotating wheel in her head

      Around—around; fingernails digging into the earth

      Around—around; can’t make it stop!

      Water…

      That cool, life-giving drink…where is some?

      The pretty girl strolls outdoors with a frown on her face.

      See the sunset, with the seagulls soaring above it, my dear?

      Says her mother, staring up at the sky high above, with

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