Levels of Concern It occurs to me in recovery From illness, or from surgery That there are levels we discern About the things that do concern So first of all please dull the pain Do what I can to avoid and gain Distraction or a pill or two Whatever works for me or you Then […]
A Little Advice Showing up they say is half of what it takes You’ll never be a huge success or even mistakes make If you’re not there, not here, nor anywhere in sight It matters not how smart you are nor if you’re wrong or right The second part of life it
Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department Can we say it one more time to make perfectly clear Did you get it on the first or maybe by the second And if not I’d say it over once again my dear Just enter in your name and account number if you please Twill make it
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Holiday reflections Life passages move us on Sunrise to set we greet the dawn Sunset to rise the days are gone And ours it is to think upon The ways our days are spent with care For passages will bring us there Before we even know or dare Old age will creep up unaware At
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Acrostic A rhyme will come and flow along Cross the mind and into song Right here where it belongs On the page not right or wrong Still it lies not weak but strong To ring as with a bell’s ding dong I am rhyme I am verse I belong Come listen come sing the song
A Circle’s Complete Life goes on day by day The clock marks time the usual way The calendar tears from page by page The circular file it tells our age As on we go from year to year ‘Till someday comes we feel the fear That what’s before is likely less Than left behind and
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Reunions come reunion go But memories do live on I know For friendships with reunions grow While we still here remain below Fifty years may seem too long Memorialized in this short song But like a flash the years go by While you grow old and so do I Those were the days of Rock-N-Roll
The title of this poem is Encouragement Every now and then I find Nonsense reigns before, behind Causing many things unkind Operating on my mind Until I know I must unwind Rather than remain entwined And by circumstance defined Greater is the good refined Each time I can be not blind Move within the cruel
Our Instinct Our instinct tells us fight or flight The one relies upon our might The other rests upon our speed They help us in our time of need Yet there are times that put to test What we assume must be the best When reason says another way Might in the longer run hold
Bath New York, My Home Town There is a fondness for the place Where I and others had the grace To grow and learn to share and play Till off to school or war away And now a life time later we Who left look back again to see The memories we left behind And
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