What madness has pursued us here
Instilling each one’s greatest fear
Of life and limb or illness known
That by the air is being sown ?
What must we do to save our world
From all this grief that has been hurled ?
TAKE CARE ( 2020 ) 2020/01/17
The breaking dawn moves through the trees
Snowflakes do fly on chilling breeze
It’s time to bundle up today
And find a place that’s warm to stay.
The winter winds are brash and buff
And all made of God’s icy stuff
The season has turned rough and cold
As each day chances to grow old.
We all need keep our feet quite dry
If we are hoping to get by
Each day does bare it’s hoary breath
Take care, none dare to challenge death !
WE CANNOT MEND ( 2019 ) 2019/01/28
Of all our days now passing by
That bring us closer to the end
With standards that our faith apply
To witness and to be a friend,
This is the method each must try
To God above, a message send .
What ere Your will, we shall rely
Upon You Lord, we all depend
For all are Yours and as we cry
Without Your love, we cannot mend !
SPECIAL WORDS ( 2018 ) 2018/01/03
Sometimes the pain is so intense
I cannot aid my own defense
The only drug I wish to find
Is what’s propelling my own mind.
No complicated opioids
Nor any “cillins” or steroids
I’m so much stronger than that crap
Who needs to fall into the trap ?
There are some words we all should say,
“Please help us Lord get through this day
Grant us the strength to overcome
The evil that this world’s become!”
CLEAR THE VIEW ( 2017 ) 2017/11/28
I get so tired of all the pain
How I wish that I could start again
What I’d give to have a chance to be
Someone who lives in a world ache free
But that concept will not fly right now
I need learn to struggle through somehow
While faith in the Lord, a prayer or two
May part the clouds and help clear the view !
TAKE CARE ( 2016 ) 2016/10/12
There is a chill it’s in the air
From tingling toes to face and hair
And warns that winter’s on the way
But doesn’t say how long she’ll stay.
Oh please old crones that rule the wind
Be kind to those who are thin-skinned
Take care they’re safe from all the cold
Though winter’s force be ever bold !
NOT SIN OR STRIFE ( 2015 ) 2015/10/20
Once was, I wished that I had wings
So I could fly, discover things
Right now I need to find a way
To help me get through day by day.
Just how it happens, I don’t know
I can’t decide, where do we go ?
I’m sure the Lord is always there
I am convinced that I’m prepared !
I seek His strength to follow through
And do the best that I can do,
The impetus of my whole life
Is love of God not sin or strife !
OVERDUE ( 2015 ) 2015/08/18
Tis harsh to think that all I’ve done
Returns to me as one by one
Each injured ligament or bone
Calls out to me and not by phone
But loud and clear I hear my name
I’d rather do without this fame.
My body creaks, each inch an ache
Sometimes I think I’m gonna’ break
Oh how I wish that I’d been smart
And taken care to do my part
To keep my body free from harm
Protect my shoulders, back and arms.
I wish I hadn’t fallen down
Thank God I managed not to drown
There is no message I can give
I can’t advise you how to live
Except to tell you this today
For what we’ve done we’re bound to pay !
THE WAY IT IS ( 2014 ) 2014/06/18
I’d love to skip down to the sea
With salty air caressing me
The shifting sands under my feet
Were soft and warm and wet and sweet !
There was a day when I could run
Along that beach under the sun
Though age and time have had their price
Reclaiming youth would be quite nice !
It’s hard to keep my balance now
I try and try and wonder how
If there’s a way I might restore
My strength to where it was before !
But you and I are realists
We know these acts do not exist
And as our lives are winding down
Let no one dare embrace a frown !
ONE DAY ( 2014 ) 2014/02/05
As danger raps upon the door
To warn me of times settling score
I face the fact that fate won’t wait
Until a more convenient date.
I chuckle now and make a joke
Why must I go, I don’t feel broke ?
A bit of pain just here and there
I won’t complain, I grin and bear.
But time and I have got a date
I know the rules we can’t be late,
To come the day I’ll close my eyes
And it will be one big surprise !
SAFE ( 2013 ) 2013/04/30
The dark of night envelopes me in clouds of pain I
cannot bear
Pain that’s like an old companion whose ugly fashion
I won’t wear
Or bow beneath its will to tame me or yoke me
in its wide scope
I’m not a hostage in its grasp who’s doomed
to suffer without hope
I’ll fight the way that God has shown
with prayers of faith that my lips sing
While angel arms save and guard me
and carry me upon their wing.
Claire V. Bogdanos 