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 [...]
Posted in Poems on Oct 29th, 2009
Many years ago I used to attend meetings of poets. At one such meeting I heard a Russian called Yuri tell a story. He insisted the lights be turned out and he then lit a candle. He really created a mood and then told his tale. It struck me that so much of our history [...]
Posted in Poems on Oct 18th, 2009
I am sometimes disappointed at the way we set up barriers to prevent us reaching our true potential. We lose courage and daring as life buffets us about, never realizing that it’s the struggle that is the essence of life. We should celebrate our triumphs and learn from our tragedies. Yet so many of us [...]
One time in my life some people took me for gay. I was divorced, had no lady in my life, yet seemed happy and sociable. In fact it was a period where I had resigned myself to being alone. I try to help people anywhere I go and sometimes this has been misconstrued. When I [...]
This poem was written as a wish for how life could, or should be. I am happy with many aspects of my life, but it still rankles at the waste of life I see all around me. The loss of love, the spirit of co-operation and charity that should abound, rather than be the exception. [...]
We all have demons from our past who revisit from time to time. During a particularly difficult time in my life I wrote this poem to simply recognize how we all try to get away from time to time. Away Sometimes I try to get away to live again another day. To start my life [...]
One day I was thinking about my failed marriage and came to the realization that it was my lack of honesty with myself mainly that caused the failure. The lady had the misfortune to enter into a relationship that was doomed from the start. Ah, how we play vicious games in the name of honesty. [...]
Introspective cab ride – cell phone pic, originally uploaded by Kamal H.. Like us all I sometimes wonder on what might have been if I had done things differently in my life. I currently have no lady in my life and I sorely miss that. I wrote this poem when I was in a pensive [...]
Posted in Poems on Jun 16th, 2009
I wrote this poem after a lady friend of mine went through a difficult time in her marriage. She was torn between staying with a dominating husband or starting a new life with someone she had just met. I don’t know the final outcome, but I felt for her in her doubt and insecurity. Pensive [...]
Posted in Webmasters Favorite Poems on May 26th, 2009
I found a great short inspirational poem called Don’t Just Give Up by a lady who goes by the handle of C5. She is writing her day to day life as poetry. One poem for each day for one year. The poem was written as a personal message to herself, but I found it to [...]
