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 [...]
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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 and [...]
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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 cower [...]
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Posted in Poems on Sep 23rd, 2009
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 have a [...]
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Posted in Poems on Sep 14th, 2009
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. [...]
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Posted in Poems on Jul 14th, 2009
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 mood [...]
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Posted in Observations on Life, Poems on Jul 5th, 2009
The world lost a unique individual with the death of Michael Jackson. A brilliant dancer, singer, recording artist, he epitomized what it was to be a star. An incandescent talent, so brilliant he burned out long before what the world would have wanted of him could eventuate.
Unfortunately he wasn’t the first brilliant talent whose life [...]
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Posted in Poems on Jun 30th, 2009
When I was a very young man I was absolutely in love. She was a vision of loveliness and the intimate time we spent together still lives in my memory. She left me for reasons I still cannot comprehend. I wrote this poem to forgive her and wish her love in her life. She did [...]
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Posted in Poems on Jun 22nd, 2009
Many times I have contemplated what my real purpose in life is. I wrote this poem at a time when I realised that simply musing, whilst entertaining, was less important than actually doing things and that wasting time simply robbed you of life. Life that could be spent in getting things done.
Comes a Time
Comes a [...]
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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 be [...]
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