Poems About Life Love Friendship
Posted in Poems on Nov 1st, 2009
As those of you who have followed my poems know, I often write because of something in my life stirring me to comment.
Quite a number of years ago my life long friend married for a second time. Both he and his lady had grown children and I chided him how someone as plain as he [...]
Posted in Observations on Life on Jun 22nd, 2008
Who was it that said, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” I sometimes turn to the bard to express feelings that could otherwise be mixed and misunderstood. In a couple of week friends are moving overseas for a couple of years. The wife is a senior partner in a large, international accounting firm and is going [...]
Posted in Observations on Life on Mar 5th, 2008
I have mentioned a couple of times that I try to have at least one meaningful conversation with someone every day. The other day I was privileged to have just such a conversation.
His name is Aleks and he is a Sales Manager. I have trained and mentored him for a while now and we have [...]
A game I have always been fascinated with, but unable to excel at, is chess. I once saw two guys play a full game without a board. They called their moves and another guy followed them on the board. I was absolutely in awe of the intellectual capacity of these guys.
It struck me that [...]
Posted in Poems on Feb 12th, 2008
I was having dinner with a lady friend in a restaurant on the North Shore in Sydney some time ago. She is of German descent and, naturally, we were in a German restaurant. She is a life long friend and we know each other as well as brothers and sisters do. I noticed this young [...]
Posted in Poems on Feb 11th, 2008
It’s funny how the most disparate incidents can trigger emotion. Some years ago the Salvation Army had a TV ad running that depicted an old man in a torn singlet looking into a dirty, cracked mirror. He was looking at himself as a young man, wasting his life on alcohol and drugs. It touched me [...]
Noteworthy news this week is the closeness of the Democratic race for the nomination. The choices are clear and stark; or are they? Two firsts, one an unknown quantity to an extent. The other well known. It may be their strengths are also their weaknesses. On one hand, the lack of experience may tell against [...]
Posted in Observations on Life on Aug 5th, 2007
It’s funny how life keeps presenting us with lessons. I had gym workout this morning (Sunday) with an old lady friend of mine. (The friendship is old, not the lady) We had lost touch for a couple of years and, through a coincidence we spoke on the telephone during the week. But this story [...]
Posted in Observations on Life on Jul 23rd, 2007
Have you ever had a sequence of events happen to convince you the universe has united against you? It seems that, no matter what you do, the opposite to what you want seems to occur.
What about this for such a sequence. Firstly, my e-mail seemed to play up. It would send one message and not [...]
