Now I have climbed the mountain high
And struggled there to touch the sky
I dreamt of visions I had seen
Somewhere above and in between
But all that time I found instead
These lofty thoughts lived in my head !
PERFECTION ( 2019 ) 2019/11/15
My heart so full, tis sure to pop
My brain’s elated, I can’t stop
I view outside, what do I see
This image God has made for me.
There’s such rare beauty to be found
From azure sky with its surround
Like all the joy He’s gifted me
His heaven, earth, His world to see !
HISTORY ( 2019 ) 2019/10/30
Wild animals that roam the fields
Are kinder than great power yields
For men may so much conflict feel
In conscience, kindness can’t be real.
The cruelties of their insane need
Of which the world pays little heed
Convinces all who’ve dared to see
Of what they deed to history !
LEARN TO COPE ( 2019 ) 2019/10/14
As one reflects on former days
When life seemed grand with love ablaze
To ponder all the many schemes
That filled our lives and were our dreams.
How sad that most did fade away,
Forgotten plans of yesterday,
Yet left some here still dreaming on
That long lost isle of Avalon.
While tales were told to bring us hope
And teach us how to learn to cope
Since most of life’s inequities
Are issues that we must appease !
INSANITY ( 2019 ) 2019/08/02
The fury rages overhead
Encouraging chaos instead
How long will their insanity
Assault this homeland of the free ?
NO REMEMBER WHEN ( 2019 ) 2019/02/07
I cannot bear this sadness
It tears my heart to bits
I need no cloak of gladness
This garment never fits.
There is no real contentment
I shall not rest in peace
I can’t forget resentment
Until I find release.
There is no happy ending
We’ll never meet again
No sense in my pretending
There’s no remember when !
HIS LAST CALL ( 2019 ) 2019/01/10
There’s a layer of frost upon the ground
A more glistening sight can ne’er be found
See how the light and the shadows collect
Mother Nature’s efforts, I do suspect.
There’s the feeling of snow now in the air
To promise us all it soon will be there
Oh for those days when the time used to be
We were all young and our freedom was free.
When life was a joy and so full of zest
Before we’d begun our own lifetime’s quest
As dew on the rose accompanied dawn
The birds begin singing come early morn.
God was right there when we opened our eyes
Depend upon Him, He offers the prize
For life without faith is no life at all
I’d rather be dust than miss His last call !
REAL LIFE IS HARD ( 2018 ) 2018/12/10
My life moves on, I’m still alive
And plan to think, react and thrive
I’m no fading bud on the vine
Nor am I some sweet valentine !
What e’er I am, there’s no mistake
I’m flexible, I will not break
The power in me comes from my God
Whose taught me this, real life is hard !
MOVING ON ( 2018 ) 2018/10/18
As I awaken each morning what do I see
But a room full of emptiness staring at me
And a page in a book that has not been writ yet
Like a chapter in life that I’ll never forget
As the dawn turns to dusk and the curtains are drawn
God give me the courage to just keep moving on !
BRAND NEW START ( 2018 ) 2018/09/12
The air is still, one feels the heat
This life we know faces defeat
The rule of law used as a pawn
Will disappear before too long
The change will come more silently
As we accept reality
Let’s bow our heads, pray fears depart
And beg of God a brand new start !
ONE LAST ENCORE ( 2018 ) 2018/08/22
Summer days are drifted away
‘Tis time for fall to have its say
Before the winter storms each door
And new year springs one last encore,
It’s the wee small hours frighten me
When I must face what is to be
I accept there is no recourse
And from this world await divorce !
BRAND NEW START ( 2018 ) 2018/07/10
There are these words that fill my heart
And bring each day a brand new start
With joy and love and common good
Celebrating life as we should.
Oh blessed Lord teach us to find
A better way to help unwind
Confusion and the sadness of
A world that is devoid of love !
SYMPATHY ( 2018 ) 2018/04/19
Unhappiness we cannot bear
Because of sadness we all share,
Please help us Lord to lift our wings
While searching for life’s sweeter things !
LIFE’S LAST SLEEP ( 2017 ) 2017/12/05
There’s been so many friends along the way
That have gotten lost or have gone astray
While their faces blur and the names escape
Memories get caught in the charged landscape !
As the past rolls by and the time moves on
I will wait here like an old mastodon
In a silence that I would like to keep
Until I close my eyes in life’s last sleep !
LIGHT YOUR STAR ( 2017 ) 2017/10/10
We know super heroes are not real
Still they do possess this great appeal
To boys and girls either young or old
Loving the action both brash and bold.
Make-believe can be a lot of fun
Perhaps not a dish for everyone
Let’s make room for reality here
To help us keep pace through every year.
Pretend is not a part of the truth
With which one hopes to imbue our youth
Learning early who you really are
Is the surest way to light your star !
WINDING STAIR ( 2016 ) 2016/11/19
Some place there is a winding stair
Where does it go I do not know
I’m only sure it will be there
When ’tis the time for each to go !
But what direction shall one take
For stairs descend or rise above
You have a choice, make no mistake
The coward’s safety or God’s love !
CHILDHOOD DIES ( 2016 ) 2016/08/15
When I was very young,you know
My special game was tell and show
There hidden ‘mongst so many things
Questions curiosity brings.
And thus I learned to query all
‘Bout wide or lean and small or tall
And always found the answer was
Like this or that or just because !
As I progressed along life’s way
I put my childish games away
Twas then that I did understand
All childhood dies in adult-land !
JOURNEY ENDS ( 2016 ) 2016/07/09
I’ve lived my life, its time has come
Some times were bad, some others fun
I’ve lived in shadows and in sun
The good, the bad, done and undone.
And now tis time to make amends
To heal the fences, speak with friends
We tarry on this road that bends
Until too soon our journey ends !
REALITY ( 2016 ) 2016/06/16
Repeated for hundreds of years or more amongst ourselves
Are stories of the jinn and little folk, fairies and elves
Reminding us that the mystery of life is just that
Charming and enchanted tales recovered from life’s magic hat
Teaching us morals and lessons of what our lives could be
Without losing attachment to our God’s reality !
GOD’S INTENT ( 2016 ) 2016/05/14
Times I have spent the lonely night
In front of fire by candle light
And watched the shadows on the wall
With quiet passion rise and fall.
I’ve felt the chill invade the room
Its fingers spreading cold and gloom
What mystery do we have here
I sense its movement growing near.
Beware my heart as truth can fail
And danger lurks beyond the veil
For what we seek as heaven sent
May be at odds with God’s intent !
A GREATER RANGE ( 2016 ) 2016/05/07
Tis true I have no faith in make-believe
Nor swayed am I by goals I can’t achieve
But live with hope that this old world can change
To give all lives and dreams a greater range !
UNREAL ( 2016 ) 2016/02/09
Tis long I’ve followed yon beckoning star
To seek I think what is the road too far
Since I’ve traveled long and I’ve traveled wide
And know the secrets that I need to hide,
Though all lessons taught were perfunctory
Yet each day held oh so much more to see
As the time wore on I’d begun to feel
What life’s all about is portrayed unreal !
DAYDREAM ( 2016 ) 2016/02/07
The afternoon light sifts through the curtain’s lace
I feel the warm shadows skirt across my face
While sunrays flood specks of dust into my space
And for one moment, I soar above life’s race !
THE RIDE ( 2016 ) 2016/01/14
The night is long it’s dark and cold
The dreams we’ve dreamt have all grown old
A burst of air rushed through the door
Life’s covers slipt onto the floor.
What would I give to capture youth
Well I’m not sure, to tell the truth
Perhaps nought’s left to grant me strength
Or add to life a greater length.
I think that we each must decide
How long or short will be the ride !
OUR CHOICES ( 2015 ) 2015/12/16
There is a heart that wells inside of me
And wonders where our lives may chance to be
What miracles will happen as we grow
What chips and cracks with time begin to show ?
How will we age and do our level best
To please our God and pass His greatness test,
What we do now decides what we’ll become
Fraud, hero, student, scholar, wiseman, bum !
ENJOY ( 2015 ) 2015/09/02
I love my life, the long and short
When I was young my heart was caught
Into a web fate spun for me
Out of the things I’d hoped to be.
The filament was light but strong
My wish was that I would belong
But sometimes dreams are overdue
And wishes cannot all come true,
Life teaches us accept the ploy
Learn to relax and then enjoy !
STORYLINE ( 2015 ) 2015/07/17
Somewhere in life, the curtain falls
The story ends, destiny calls
While out there in the wilderness
A voice is heard, it’s in distress.
And so at last, the hand’s been played
With pounding heart, no more afraid
For fear is but an empty thought
There in a teapot, tempest caught.
The winds that blow are all in vain
They howl and rage across the plain
We’ve heard it all, how will it end
Does a lover become a friend ?
THE SNOW FAIRY ( 2015 ) 2015/02/16
I’d like to think that there might be
A creature known as snow fairy
With streaming silver hair aglow
That blows and flows mid winter snow
And sails the clouds above the wind
Where storms and flurries do begin !
While frost that edges all around
And permeates most of the ground
Can have no mercy till the spring
When warming winds do comfort bring !
I must admit that I’ve not seen
Some cold and heartless icy queen
Clad in her cloak of ermine hue
It is no sight I’m psyched to view !
Claire V. Bogdanos 