Ollie Lind Poetry

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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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.
Life
How [...]

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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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I’ve posted Ollie’s latest poem Journey on poemhunter.com and it already got 2 reviews. This is a great site with thousands of poems from poets all around the world. Like it? Please leave a comment on poemhunter too.
Here is what Ollie said about Journey:
I have found much of my life to be a two edged [...]

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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 Lady
I [...]

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I wrote this short poem during the short, brutal war in the Balkans. I was particularly touched by the tragic love of a Serbian girl for a Croatian boy. They both died so unnecessarily. This poem is my protest at mankind’s brutality and stupidity. There can be so much beauty and love in the world, [...]

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