Tuesday, October 9, 2018
at war with
at war
with the world
fighting
this flesh
striving
with self
struggling
with sin
only God
knows about
this troubling
conflict
within
and only
by the grace
of God and
by God's grace
will win
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we are all
we are all
like a lost
small pale
spark of light
our lives are
just a fast
flash in the
dark of night
some are drawn
to the great
and good holy
arc so bright
some are called
by the word
and are made to
hark made contrite
some are shown
eyes opened
to see the
stark and might
some are His
forever
made by His
mark upright
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018
i was the plant
i was the plant
that you put in your window
you watered me
with such admiration
i raised my arms
toward the sun and you
wanting to hug you
in loving adoration
then you left me
to go with someone
without any roots
on a long vacation
from your window
i watched for you
to return to me
with so much anticipation
all alone without
water or affection
so in love with you
i died of dehydration
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not loved
not loved
nor wanted
in this life
or this world
by anyone
i long for
and want
this life
over with
and done
in heaven
i hope
to be loved
and wanted
by some One
©2017
Thursday, August 30, 2018
in a field of flowers
in a field of flowers
i falter and fall
in love with the most
beautiful beauty of all
with a voice so sweet
as soft as it is so small
as the fair fine figure
i know i thought i saw
i heard her singing
as if in a heavenly hall
and followed her voice
as if a longing lover's call
only to find before me
an insurmountable wall
between me and nothing
and nothing at all
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you
you
a billion
times too
so much
beautiful
and me
a billion
times too
so much
blue
because
i love
a billion
times too
so much
beautiful
you
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Monday, August 13, 2018
this world
there is nothing
in this world i want
there is nothing
in this world for me
the only thing i want
of this world
is of this world
to be free
©2017
appearing
appearing
always
awakening
afar
away
apart
astray
alone
abandoned
alienated
anxious
apprehensive
anguishing
agonizing
aweary
awfully
afflicted
abiding
aching
and
awaiting
an
answer
acquired
above
©2017
the new policy
the new policy
implemented by
the politically
correct police
is the penalizing
of us plebeians
for peccadillos
and punctilios
with punishment
by imprisonment
©2017
Friday, July 20, 2018
why
why
i feel
words
from
within
need
so much
to be
written
i don't
well
know
yet
feeling
compelled
on to
paper
the
words
go
© 2017
Monday, July 2, 2018
gloomy rooms without a wall
gloomy rooms without a wall
a window a ceiling or a door
shadowy stairways that lead
neither up nor down to another floor
dark corridors that seem to lead
endlessly from corridor to corridor
i feel that somehow i have been
in this horrid place before
am i the doomed occupant or
just some unwelcomed visitor
what is it that i'm running from
what is it that i'm searching for
i don't seem to know at all and nor
can i be certain or even sure
that this is only a dismal dream
a dismal dream and nothing more
and yet whether i awake or sleep
what is it that i'm living for
is it not only to dream
and dream forevermore
of the one and only lovely one i love
that i will be with nevermore
© 2017
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
love
love
what of
love
love
i know
nothing of
i know not
the signs of
nor the designs of
the why for
the where of
how to try for
nor the the care of
i know not
how to begin love
nor be in love
never shown love
never known love
was never loved
nor ever loved
love
what i know of
love
is that i know of
no love
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what of
love
love
i know
nothing of
i know not
the signs of
nor the designs of
the why for
the where of
how to try for
nor the the care of
i know not
how to begin love
nor be in love
never shown love
never known love
was never loved
nor ever loved
love
what i know of
love
is that i know of
no love
copyright 2017
Thursday, May 3, 2018
were i but the poorest poet be
were i but the poorest poet be
with what words would i not
attempt to paint a portrait of thee
the bountiful beauty of your lot
with what words would i try to trace
every delicate delightful detail
and form of your perfect fine fair face
yet i fear mere words would only fail
to yield a picture of your perfection
wanting words would not but flaw
and blemish your beauty upon reflection
worthless words would not begin to recall
what God created with such grace
your most immaculate and so beautiful face
©2017
these things i know
these things i know
that love has left
and gone long ago
i have not the hope
for life nor love
i could never reach
nor ever rise above
these chains that bind
torment and torture me
hold me fast firm and confined
to my hideousness
and deformity
©2017
Monday, April 23, 2018
i set my sight
i set my sight upon a sparkling solitary star
shimmering silvery in a somber sky of night
fathoming it was far away much too far
still of all the stars shining most sublimely bright
brilliant beauty beyond my able reach to touch
sorrow and sadness are mine much way too much
© 2017
Thursday, April 12, 2018
a poet i am not
a poet i am not
nor could i ever be
i have not a poet's observant eye
with which to look and also see
i have not a poet's attentive ear
with which to listen and also hear
i have not a poet's predilection
nor talent to find the words to express
the overwhelming sadness of beauty
nor the beauty of tender sadness
nor the persistent longing inside
that leaves one so lonely and unsatisfied
where can one so base find words
to describe the unceasing sorrow
of love not requited and wasted youth
passing so swiftly into tomorrow
i have not the gift nor ability
to transform mere words into poetry
© 2017
the mad materialist
the mad materialist
can never rise above
that with which he is made of
he is defined and confined
by the mere matter
that makes up his mind
he can never be sure
that his treasured thoughts
are nothing or nothing more
than the chemical results
of a by chance accident
that can never be self evident
© 2017
Thursday, March 22, 2018
sin again snake
sin again snake
the scold gutless bleeders of the fall lowers
over spent by the overly stealthy
unseemly go host beblind the seen
so shall i sing of the unsighted fakes
no lip or see intrust us for law
liars in the art ruins mocking a laughing
by blood letting fillers go fray
to still the low residing see it agains
by patting these back on the straights
to lute fame the hardly waking
by realizing of facts a benders
to rip more of them in a know sense
fairy tale us weep resolved frame the asp
a sure revival of the witless
as the inhumane sinks sow he is
slower than crawl the minimals
the snake
©2017
Thursday, March 1, 2018
angel for Dolores O'Riordan
the face of an angel
the grace of an angel
the voice of an angel
the place of an angel
©2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
songbird for Dolores O'Riordan
the so beautiful little songbird
has flown away heavenward
her very beautiful euphonic voice
God willing again be heard
with all the angels to rejoice
in the foreverhereafterward
©2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
dmeo
dmeo
too dark
too dismal
too dolour
today
nothing more
to do
or
to say
no words
to express
the sorrow
and sadness
her slipping
so suddenly
and silently
away
disbelief
and grief
heavyheartedness
and emptiness
mercy and love
may God above
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