The other side of breaking up. Getting over it. Moving on. Seeing the reality and no longer investing in the dream.
“Embrace your fears,” I wrote, in the footnote to an old diary entry. “They are what will make you whole.” I don’t think so. So long…
Autobiography
I actually wish I was famous, but it’s just as well I’m not…....
Said a maiden to a strappin’ lad / “Do you know any poetry, ev’n a tad? / Remarked the fella, ‘Are ya mad?....
A winsome bit o’ poetry all ‘bout po’try – ckikins included? hmmmm / Was there romance in the air?
Does a tear of joy have less mass? / Does a tear of sorrow outclass? / Does a tear of anger overfill a glass?
Contemplation of the ‘weightiness’ of a tear – measurable?
Her name by meaning is beautiful, / Her beauty lay within and without. / She shows that beauty in her bearing, / Her life shows a christian …
Written in dedication to our Pastor’s wives…they are a divine gift of God’s sweet hand.
My voice cried out, My God He sought me, / Heard my earnest plea in His Holy Hills. / Spread His light of countenance about me, / My spirit…
Sweet Spirit… :)
Oh the love we feel for Him, / For a God who loved us first. / Who fills our days with joy and peace, / Who quenched our spirit’s thirst! / H…
Written in hopes to encourage those who have seen the passing of loved ones…may your eyes be filled with the sight of your beloved serenading the King! =O) Our thoughts and prayers are with you! =O)
All this certainly can make us sad / But you know it can cause you to be glad
A limmerick/diddy I used to ‘supplement” W. J. K. ’s Gone 2
A dark remembering, or re-membering Occurs.
Thoughts In The Flowing Tide Of My Consciousness…..
and love and hate coexist…
...and what are the words one uses to describe a compilation?, works from my entire life?, fifty years of carrying around a yellow pad?, fifty years of writing and rewriting, changing the words, as their meanings change for me? These pieces are extracted from my book of prose, “50 truths and 50 lies, the first 50 years.” Available Here
and now i miss you for it…
...and what are the words one uses to describe a compilation?, works from my entire life?, fifty years of carrying around a yellow pad?, fifty years of writing and rewriting, changing the words, as their meanings change for me? These pieces are extracted from my book of prose, “50 truths and 50 lies, the first 50 years.” Available Here
first it robs you of your smile…
...and what are the words one uses to describe a compilation?, works from my entire life?, fifty years of carrying around a yellow pad?, fifty years of writing and rewriting, changing the words, as their meanings change for me? These pieses are extracted from my book of prose, “50 Truths and 50 Lies, the first 50 years.” Available From: http://www.cafepress.com/byrongates.26516064
before you can…
...and what are the words one uses to describe a compilation?, works from my entire life?, fifty years of carrying around a yellow pad?, fifty years of writing and rewriting, changing the words, as their meanings change for me? These pieses are extracted from my book of prose, “50 Truths and 50 Lies, the first 50 years.” Available From: http://www.cafepress.com/byrongates.26516064
they know that special place…
i have lost some of those qualities…
...and what are the words one uses to describe a compilation?, works from my entire life?, fifty years of carrying around a yellow pad?, fifty years of writing and rewriting, changing the words, as their meanings change for me? These pieses are extracted from my book of prose, “50 Truths and 50 Lies, the first 50 years.” Available From: http://www.cafepress.com/byrongates.26516064
when life is as worthless as death…
...and what are the words one uses to describe a compilation?, works from my entire life?, fifty years of carrying around a yellow pad?, fifty years of writing and rewriting, changing the words, as their meanings change for me? These pieses are extracted from my book of prose, “50 Truths and 50 Lies, the first 50 years.” Available From: http://www.cafepress.com/byrongates.26516064
Bring a little sunshine
Some examples of my Winter collection.
My heart is crying in the cold…
You deal with all my faults or troubles / And make my stress float away in bubbles, / You always make me smile from ear to ear / Whenever yo…
This poem is written for my dear friend Monique Walters... nobody could ask for a better friend than her… My Unique Monique Love you always cowgin… :) Featured In On Youth / Midnight Ramblers
You Have No Idea How Glad This Makes Me / / I went to this special place that had many hidden memor…
Do you have childhood memories? We all do, I’m sure and this poetic short story just brings back a time of innocense and if you have a chance to read it you will be reminded of your own past. Feel free to tell me your version, sharing is a gift and I would appreciate how you see your past.
Dear 2009,...Sincerely, Me
A little haiku for an awful year. Looking back, sure there were good things that happened, but the bad seemed to outweigh the good.
Some examples of my Winter collection, with the latest additions..
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