Category Archives: Other Poems

261-Every Star Tells a Silent Story

Of
Reaching for scarlet skies
Searching for midnight blue
In times of sorrow
In times of sadness
Looking for times of gladness
Looking for times of happiness
Each constellation tells a tale
Of the north star that never fails
But !
To find contentment in your life
You must

Search far beyond
Before life and hope are gone
For!
On your journey’s end all you have is faith and love To depend up
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“The world is looking for spectacular happiness
While they snub contentment”
Doug Larson

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287- 65 Grove the street where old friends meet

65 Grove is the street where old friends meet
Memories collide as you walk side by side
Every step a step in the past
Half of our lives are gone
Yet, we cling to our youth to inspire us to move on
Lessons taught Lessons learned
Life does not lead us to the grave
We are told to let the dead bury the dead
WE walk with accomplishment and pride
And hope to meet again on the other side
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“True friends are those you have not seen in years,
but feels like you were never apart”
author unknow

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286 -Beware of the leaven of Hypocrisy

Beware of the leaven of the hypocrites
The more you feed them the more they grow
Whose masks grow to fit their faces
Creating your happiness on others opinions
Robbing your self-esteem
Playing on your emotions
Letting others control your life
Taking away your self-control
Identify the mask Identify the face.
The mask will soon fall off

Beware of the leaven of the masked people

Intelects: Who want you all to think alike
in a population not very intelligent
Teachers: teaching our precious resources they bow to others and follow the lead of the teacher’ unions under political pressure to keep their jobs
Religious Leaders: Who treat people like things this is the beginning of religious slavery
Politicians: no debate slander becomes a weapon stupidity becomes an honored virtue lies become truths
Others: Born without masks Children tend to wear them at play many are dropped at maturity while many see them as an advantage in life and are determined to keep them fixed until they as are identified as to whom they really are
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“I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party
and I attended with my real face.”
Franz Kafka

” We wear the mask that grins and lies
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes
This debt we pay to human guile
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouth with myriad subtleties”
D.L. Dunbar

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284-Slowing Down Don’t Come Easy

“Slow down you move too fast
Got to make the moments last
Just kicking down the gobble stones
Look for fun and feeling groovy”
Simon and Garfunkel

AS age increases slowing down is more like slow motion
Sometimes you watch the world like you’re watching a movie
De ja-vu Da ja -vu
Feelings of unrealness
Cherish the moments you make
Never try to forsake them

Find yourself time to unwind
Be in the moment
Let no one or something take over your thoughts
Follow no rabbet trails in life
Be anxious for nothing
Let exercise be your thing
Eat at your favorite restaurant
Whatever you want
Let life be your thing
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“Life I love you
All is groovy”

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283-The W’S in the Life of an Unsaved Person (The Preacher)

WHO?

Look into the mirror and tell me whom do you see?
Is that the Image you want others to see?
Is it the outside only?
Do you hide the inside?
Who do you pretend to be if not yourself?
Is your self-esteem a carbon copy of someone else?
By what stander do you identify with?
Are you living a myth?

WHAT?

What is in your heart?
Do you seek greatness in this world?
Is fame the name of the game?
What are your passions?
Popularity
Appearance
Sucess
Need to be in fashion?
Will a PHD solve the issue?
Or maybe worldly service
Or being a philanthropist
Is being visible based on accomplishments?
Does losing all make you nervous?
What is in your heart?
Ask yourself!
Who gave you these gifts?
Where does your greatness lie?

WHERE

Where does your greatness lie?
To whom do you owe your success?
Is your love mixed with vanity?
Is your life full of pomp and circumstance?
Willing to take chances
Dispite failures and faults
Climbing the latter of success
Ignoring all the rest
Or
Do you exhibit loneliness with humility?
Or do you take us for fools
When you speak the golden rule?

WHEN?

From birth till death
What is your life worth?
When you’re buried in the earth
The secrets that you keep
Buried in the deep
We can only guess
Will they ever give you rest?

WHY?

Why was your faith based only on what you see?
Is seeing believing
You never believed in blind faith
Do you believe now?
Has your faith given you eternal rest?
Did your life assure your destiny?
Are you where you belong?
Destiny is funny
When left to one’s discretion
Has lead you in the wrong direction
Where you are now, I can only guess
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“For he cometh in with vanity,departed in darkness and his name
shall be covered with darkness.Moreover he hath not seen the sun nor
known anything this hath more rest than the other.”


Ecclesiastes 6 1-12



“Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat
on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it.Their fists are
clenched,their teeth are clenched, their eyes are fast shut. First they
will not, in the end they cannot open their hands for gifts, or
their mouth for food, or their eyes to see,”
C.S.Lewis (1898-1963)



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282- What You Could-OF SHOULD-OF WOULD-OF at the TIME

What would you have done at the time?

Apologize for your behavior
Show mercy
Ask for her forgiveness
Forgive yourself
Show compassion
Action with meekness
Be truthful
Pay more attention
Never take her for granted
Show humility.
Be yourself
Leave in peace
Never have to regret doing nothing.
Words without action is the wrong reaction
You have nothing unless you have love
Love from your heart
Life without love is not very smart
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“Unless you have forgiven others you read your own
death warrant when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer”
C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)

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281-My Lost Youth

Where does youth go?
Must we depend on our memory?
Do we need to reminisce?
Must we depend on recollections?
Do old photos freeze us in time?
Does man’s mortality make it so?
No need to pretend
No! No! No!
For
I see my lost youth
In the eyes of my friends
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“You can’t go home again.
Your childhood is lost.
The friends of your youth are gone.
Your present is slipping away from you.
Nothing is ever the same.”

Heraclitus Of Ephesus

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146-IF You Could Read My mind

If you could read my mind
What would you be likely to find?
Words I would never use
Thoughts that I abuse
How and why I pretend
Why the longings never end
Why being so proud
Never lets me cry out loud
Spirits from my past that
Haunt me still
Why I’m held against my will
Why love has evaded still
By turning each page you’ll soon realize
That reading someone’s mind
May not be very wise

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062-Sowing with My TEARS

The tears that I sow
Are for the sorrows that I reap
The tears that flow remind me so
Of the memories I keep
The tears that stream across my cheek
Flow down like a river ever so deep

The taste of my tears that caress my parched lips
Each one satisfying a thirst
From the pride that has always been my curse
Leaving tracks so that others follow
Bitter- sweet A taste too difficult to swallow

I pray for oil to flow down my head
But all I’m left with are my tears instead
Tears that leave me deep in sadness
Tears that leave me close to madness
So, I’ll go on weeping sowing in tears
Waiting for the day when I’ll reap a harvest
Of joy and gladness

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280-What Ever Happened to the Christmas I Knew?

THE CITY

Snowflakes falling
It’s Christmas in the city
Shoppers Scurrying about
Winds biting
Breezed red faces
Frostbite toes a runny nose
Chestnuts burning their lips
OH, so many trips to;
Haynes,Bambergers,Orbachs
Salvation Santas with bells and a hanging pot
Collecting change for charity
Window shopping:
Dolls trucks games elves placed on
Decorated snowcap shelves
A Lionel steam engine puffing away
Waiting for children to take home and play
Take the number 60 PS bus home with bundles of joy
Merry Christmas to every girl and boy

CHRISTMAS EVE

The aroma of pine permeates the air
Bright colored lights surround the tree
Silver and Gold Silver and Gold
Hidden behind dozens of silver streams
Smells from the kitchen
Stimulate the senses
Antepast, fish, salads, hors d’oeuvres, macaroni
So much more to mention
Relatives and friends gather about
Joining the feast
Drinking the wine
That taste mighty fine
At midnight some went to Mass
While others continued to crash
Children with joy and anticipation
Falling asleep
With dreams they keep
ALL WAS WELL

CHRISTMAS DAY

Parents asleep
We silently creep
Passed their door
On to the parlor floor
Head straight to the tree
On our knees
Check the stockings filled with:
Figs walnuts chestnuts
Under the tree were unwrapped gifts
(No one wrapped presents in my house)
We were never disappointed
(Mom and Dad never
Exchange gifts)
We played with our toys all day
Neighbers stopped in for drinks
Hungry relatives came for Christmas dinner
Alwas giving us money
Before dessert(expresso and pastries) you can hear the
Snoring coming from the parlor
Soon the day was coming to a close
With no kisses or hugs all went their separate ways
Until next year
Those were happy days
The days I remember in my memories and dreams
Nothing today is as it seems
All are gone but the past lives on
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“Therefore the lord Himself will give you a sign
Behold a virgin will be with child and bear a son
And she will call his name Immanual”

Isaiah 7-14











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