The Phoenix metropolitan area, known as the Valley of the Sun, is home to almost 3 million people and includes the cities of Scottsdale, Glendale, Tempe, and Mesa. The area's explosive growth over the last decade has made it one the largest metropolitan areas in the country.

Choice vacation spot, the Grand Canyon.

Sunny days and comfortable temperatures are the rule November through April, making this time the most enjoyable and popular time of year to visit. Vacation resorts are plentiful throughout the valley.

Downtown Scottsdale has always been an entertainment and shopping center with a focus on art and things trendy, but now downtown Phoenix and the Biltmore area continue to offer more and more top rate restaurants, theaters, museums, shopping and sports venues. The Salt River and Verde River reservoir system east and northeast of Phoenix provides scenic mountain lakes.

The desert provides plenty of wildlife, beauty among the thorns. As you read the poetry you can get a sense of how surroundings intertwine to make beautiful flowing verse.

My name is Kari Shinal and I live in the Phoenix, AZ area with my two of my sons and a great deal of family nearby. I have been writing creatively for some time now, although until recently had not shared my work. Even my family has seen very little.

Some of my poetry confounds, some are just simply inspired. I am grateful to those here in Adlandpro for your encouragement and love. I hope that this month of March brings in the spring just as the saying goes, 'in like a lion and out like a lamb'. Perhaps my poetry presented during this month will bring along the same emotion and feeling that spring gives.

During this month I may present other poems as well and invite all to give their comments as I am considering publishing my own work some day.

  Enjoy!  Kari

If Kari is not your friend, please invite her:  http://community.adlandpro.com/go/mkshinal/default.aspx

Also, you might want to visit her Poetry in Motion Forum:

 http://community.adlandpro.com/go/mkshinal/myForums.aspx

Kari Shinal http://www.ShinalihnSuccess.com

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Time

It’s your turn to see the sun,
And watch the eagles fly,
It’s your turn to turn unto the heavens’
And look into the sky.

To see the beauty and the light,
That comes from up above
To see the beauty in the night,
That comes from truth and love

And always mindful of the world
You will remain to be
In order to bring a balanced life
For all eternity

And in so doing we rejoice
At your presence here
We hold you dearly to our hearts
And you know that we are here

We stand behind you, stand beside,
And stand above as well
We are the ones who watch you
And we see your spirit swell

And over time we know you’ll grow
Into what you shall come to be
A being eternal graced with truth
To those who wish to see

So reach out my youngest one,
Reach out and touch the stars
And know that you are welcome here
In a home such as ours

In resting places you shall dwell
And fly to higher ground
Like an eagle soars above the clouds
Your peace there will be found

So seek your love and seek your peace
Where ever you may roam
Just know this my precious one
You’re never far from home

The comfort of our open arms
You wish and daily seek
And body seems to fail you
When you have no will to speak

And only you can see these things
When they do come to pass
Like insect on the flower
Peering through a blade of grass

Nothing can hide from your view
As you can plainly see
This causes much pain in you
And makes you wish to flee

Yet you must open up to us
And feel again once more
The love the peace the harmony
That we hold in store

Hold fast to those you love so dear
As they will truly find
The wisdom knowledge and the love
Residing in your mind

*Be loved, give love, see love, know love, seek love.
Allow the love of others to seep into your heart and
all emotions keep to train you in what you need to do
and what you need to say to help all others in their
journey on their way.

Kari Shinal
Copyright Dec. 2006



On Our Own Wings

Far from the view of the hustle and bustle,
Of everyday life as the leaves do rustle,
I sit as the wind comes rushing by,
And ponder things as the birds do fly.

They come from the east, west, north and south,
And as I watched with gaping mouth,
They rode the breezes up above,
In circles infinite filled with love,

Of the currents upon which they fly,
Of the freedom they feel and as time goes by,
They appear to float so far above me,
Above the rustling leaves and trees.

And as they do I see myself,
Floating above and joining them,
Away from those things that bring me strife,
Away from the toils of every day life,

And for one brief moment I fly with them,
I see nothing but beauty without and within,
This earth on which we travel by,
And watch as those below do try,

To do as the birds do in freedom be,
Floating on air as we wish to be free,
Seeing all as a grain of sand,
Below and with others and as they land,

Upon tree branch, ground, and hill,
Our eyes they see and watch very still,
As they go about their merry way,
Their own lives to live on their own as they may.

We cannot see freedom in front of us,
When we stand upon the ground we must,
Beholden to others in life we be,
And so it has been for centuries,

Yet we are free within our hearts,
And as time flies with wings we impart,
Our love to others with our souls bring,
Like unto birds our hearts they sing,

If we but look unto the skies,
Unto the birds as they do fly,
Our hearts too can fly on Wings,
They too can float, If we let them sing.

Kari Shinal
Copyright Nov. 6, 2007