The dying day
The coming night
The smell of trees
The waterside
The fishers’ talk
The minutes go
Exquisite art
Common Corot
Category: Original Poems
One Answer
She said:
“The only people
Who ever tell you
Not to try
At allAre people who failed
Who therefore think
There’s no way over
The wallSo hang around
With those who do
Not those who say
You can’tThen go and live
The life you want
And dream big –
End of rant”
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(… the daily post …)
To share is human:
FaceThink
Too many people daily wait
To be proscribed their views;
They won’t believe its raining if
It isn’t on the news
So maybe poets see the strings
Or maybe they ignore them;
But people who choose not think –
Its hard to show decorum
It isn’t they just give up thought,
They attack with a passion
Full anyone who won’t believe
The latest thing in fashion
So call me an iconoclast
Who feels “the end’s upon us”:
To me, Facebook’s a pool of blood
Whose members
Are piranhas
To share is human:
A Career Limerick
Because I work all day with numbers
I’m liable to frequent slumbers
I want a new clef
So I’ll be a chef
And take all my cues from cucumbers
To share is human:
The ‘Like’ Button
I’m not saying I like what’s happened to you
I’m saying I admire you for being in the battle
And soldiering on in spite of everything
I’m also saying I’d probably like you if I ever met you
Which I almost certainly won’t
But know this:
Somebody reads you
Somebody cares about you
Even if that somebody
Doesn’t know you
To share is human:
Fair State
You are the crowd I’m always lost in
You are the place I want to be
You are the Spring, the sky, the sunlight
Glad of your heart’s
Suzerainty
To share is human:
The First Thing On My Mind
A funny story on the radio
You were the first thing on my mind
I saw the sunset, red and indigo
The day and night were there entwined
But in the moments glad and glorious
The things so good you have to share
You are the first place that my heart turns to
It’s not the same when you’re not there
And when the day’s been dark’ning readily
And morning hopes grow hard to find
I find where you are love burns steadily
You’re still the first thing on my mind
The days where bad news comes like hand grenades
When there’s no place to run or hide
When life throws all it has at you or me
I want to be there by your side
And now the years go by in miracles
We don’t know what all we will find
But in whatever’s there in front of me
You’ll be the first thing on my mind
Whenever glory’s there in front of me
You’ll be the first thing on my mind
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