Deborah L. Walliser Louisburg, North Carolina

Deborah Lynn Walliser Born: February 12, 1976 in Santa Cruz, California. Family: My father is Gary Walliser, instigator of inspiration. Brothers are Michael and David- the truest friend. Sister: Michelle-always ready for a vacation. School: Currently attending Wake Technical Community College and plan on transferring to North Carolina State University to major in Horticulture, my interest being hybrid engineering. Honors: received Editors Choice Awards in 1994 and 1996 from the National Library of Poetry. Graduated in 1994 from wake Forest-Rolseville High as a North Carolina Academic Scholar. Memberships: Member of Adventure Cycling and also the International Society of Poets. All Summed Up: Dreams only come true when they are transferred from the heart to the hand. God Bless!

Conocer de Vista Kind of like leather, stiff- yet pliable. Others are brittle and sharp.. outlined by dull passion in bright hues of make believe colors. Kind of like music... Heard by the deaf and sought by the blind. A rhythm...of time. Prominently hidden, simply intricate. All alive? Yes. But with life? Kind of like dew..glistening like diamonds. A rich man's dream. Yes, glistening. Hark! - the surface only. The surface only... Kind of like knowledge.

TORBELLINO Whirlwind Whirlwind In again gone again. Oh Whirlwind little Whirlwind. Memories of then Smiles of now, here again gone again Oh Whirlwind little Whirlwind. For an instant- A fleeting instant! Just to remember just to be- there again gone again Oh Whirlwind, little Whirlwind. Here again gone again My Whirlwind my little Whirlwind.

AMERICAN DREAM The American Dream is one of a kind, It's in the heart it's in the mind. You lay awake in the middle of the night, Wondering what it will be like Then tomorrow dawns, off to work you go Five o'clock comes, another days gone. Will you ever know what it would be like To make your dreams come true If all you ever do is dream?

All poems Copyright © 1997 Deborah L. Walliser. All rights reserved.