Hallelujah Hidden Treasures

This poetry that I''ve written is non-fiction and is based primarily on parts of my personal life the lives of family members as well as lives of my love ones. I began writing poetry doing a period of condolence during the lost of family members beginning in 1996. In less than one year in 1996-1997 I lost three love ones that was very dear to me including my mom. I did not realize I was actually writing poetry at the time until one day my sister Patricia called me and asked me to write a poem for a deceased family member for a funeral. I sat still after receiving the telephone call and encountered all of my emotion and I allowed the Holy Spirit to take over. I called Patricia later during the day and read what was given to me by the leading of the Holy Spirit. I delivered this poem to her and later during the day she called me and told me her son wept after reading it because it was truthful and emotional. When I was a child I loved poetry and I was fascinated with the lyrics in poetry. I tried to rhyme words but I couldn''t put two words together that had rhythm. In 1996 I found myself writing about my deceased love ones during my grieving period. I also wrote about a man and a woman that were former church members that got married this in 2005. I was elated for the both of them and I wrote a poem especially for them while in a moment of stillness. It is amazing how God will give you a spiritual gift and if you do not recognize that what you have is a gift then you will miss it. However I did recognized the gift of drawing that God had given me as a child. There''s an old saying If you don''t use it you will lose it. Well I don''t think I am as good in my drawings as I was in my adolence years but I don''t think I have lost it either. I wanted to use drawings because I believe when people are reading about certain events especially in poetry they can get even a greater visualization of the picture of events. I like tr