Posts tagged life
A Dream Is Held Close To The Heart
A dream is held close to the heart,
And sometimes never shown,
How great a waste when that dream,
Is never acted on or known…
So we think when of the think
Of someones broken dream…
But before those words you say…
See if its what it may seem…
A man had a dream to rule the world,
As indeed had many,
Thankfully due to fo [...]
Poverty Makes All Things Possible
It was easier to fall in love when people were destitute.
- El Habib Louai
Faith in God, help of family,
They had a little home,
Then they had their family,
A world of their own.
Having nothing, anything
In its own way was good,
Everything was possibly…
Everybody could!!!
Faith in God is lesser now,
Family don’t want to know
Th [...]
The Walking People
In times past they were craftsmen skilled
But today they have no skill
That has a value in the modern world
As they head for the next hill
For over it is the wide world beyond
A road they travel until
Death in his time comes traveling
The road that they have long trod
And an angel says to them they can
Camp forever beside God
Elegy – Sweet Afton
It was just another brand
Just another cigarette
Nothing of which to be proud
Or noteworthy, but yet
To those who with up have grown
And those who it have smoked
Lament its passing in these tough times
And nostalgia it has provoked.
It was my mothers cigarette
For all the years when I was young
No filters for her, oh no, no way
Raw tobacco up [...]
You Are The Ocean
“You are not a drop in the ocean… You are the Ocean, in a Drop”
- Rumi
Atlantic Ocean – Morocco Fishing Village
We are but cogs in the great wheel of life
Keep your place, quiet, do not be bold
Everyone has their rank in the chaos of life
Keep to yours, be obedient, we are told.
But life is not machine, mankind are not [...]
To Have Love is to Have the World
To have love is to have the world
By some men it is said
But what when you lose it
And the passion is dead
And yet the person you desire
Is all but dead to you
You have the world but not your beloved
What then do you do?
So he is poor man who has it
His heart open unfurled
And believes that it is true
To have love is to have the world…
[...]
Dream the Painting, Paint your Dream
When resting, the idle mind
Images paints as the body sleeps
Waking, destroys the canvas painted there
Few, if any images it keeps.
The painter, van Gogh, him of the Ear
Said he dreamed his paintings, then
Painted his dreams, should not we
Try to do the same as men?
Each day we live, is a canvas new
Your actions, choices, the brush you yeild [...]
Pride, the False Friend of a Fool
Pride is the false friend of a fool
Who is but shallow within
Gives himself power that he does not possess
It is also a mortal sin.
It fuels both fools and Fuhrers
Though the difference I don’t see
For the Fuhrer was a fool, and proud people are bullies
That was all Hitler would ever be…
In the small world we call our lives
As we on ano [...]
All Things Pass As Does Time
A journey walked in olden times
Across the Western plains
Is little thought of today
Only the stories remains
In the minds of the young lost in play
Playing “Cowboys & Indians” they run around
Thinking none of the dead who lived there
Who fought and died for that ground.
As the West was tamed by farm and fence
And the redman c [...]
A Rose Is Still a Rose When Not in Bl...
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There Are No More Horses Here
Once horses trotted ambled and gamboled
As children in rags so plain
Begged for pennies and bread
In sunshine and in rain
Sometimes knowing success
More times in vain.
Today cars sleek roll by
And no horses between these houses trot
And wagon wheels are replaced by rubber
The horses are forgot
It is as if they were never there
The dogs take i [...]
Tullamore River Flows (Haiga)
trickle, ebb, flow on /we walk the path you flowed /more walk our footprints
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And Rivers Flowed Where Once Was Only...
(french sonnet)
And rivers flowed where once was only sand
And there was fresh water for all at hand
And all drank their fill and they splashed around
And fought fierce over this water they found
Though from where it came none could understand
None cared, good was the water of the ground.
[...]
On Open Hills I Have Walked
On open hills I have walked
And from their summits to view I stood
All that nature before me spread
As many others often would.
But I. not looking, often saw,
Only what was physically there,
Not the hopes and dreams and fears,
Of those that there dwelt, and did not care…
I cared not for the farmer in the tractor
Whose harvest was anothe [...]
We Know Nothing
“truth flitters across the screen
we know practically nothing”
- San Vincenzo “Vinci, Later” Morten Sondergaard
What we think is truth we see
And comment on on TV
Or in the papers, or on the net
We are informed, knowledgeable, yet
We know nothing – it is but a version
An impartial assertion
Of what one party sa [...]
Quiet Hours Passing Slowly
Read this poem in Croatian, translated by Sasa Vidic
Quiet hours passing slowly
Day that was young is getting older
And a day that was never warm
With a growing breeze is getting colder
As the sun circles the sky
And the day – once born – will slowly die
We lead our lives in the same way
Day to day, you and I
Each thing we do matt [...]
A City Slowly Comes to Life
A city slowly comes to life
As the morning has begun
And I the task for to bask
I have started in the sun.
The world goes by in from of my eyes
All in a rush and frantic
I, the poet, prefer to take my time
I like it slow, more romantic.
Its not what you have that you enjoy
Its what of it you make
And I shall enjoy the day
Purely for its own [...]
From Death – New Life
起死回生 (kishi kaisei)
Literally: Wake from death and return to life
Meaning: To come out of a desperate situation and make a complete return in one sudden burst.
Its not until man
Has lost all that he has had
That he sees his life
For what his life is
Collection of good times
And of bad times
Woven together
By the love of family
And the love of [...]
A False Smile Is Worse Than a Sneer o...
A false smile can be seen to be a smile
And friendly the offerer may look
But abusing your trust and thwarting your judgment
He you for a fool took.
He who sneers with hate you can see
Though its horrid its truth is plain
And them you can avoid and not be fooled
And so each party can gain.
So if you hate me at me sneer
I’ll respect you [...]
Treat People Like People
When you see another as the enemy
That is what he will be for you
And his children for our children
Shall see each other that way too
If you treat people like people
Hatred and suspicions shall end
And the other will be a person
And you who treated them so maybe a friend…
Remember, the only ones who see all others as enemies
It is the b [...]
Verses Written Before Going to Birr
I said that I would write a poem today
On what? I do not know
Before pen and paper I put away
And off to Birr I go.
And so quick and short stanzas here I write
Upon nothing at all
Poetic equivalent of graffiti
Scrawled big upon a wall
Perhaps when I return back here from town
And all is quiet and still
The great epic poem that I seek to write [...]
Walking in Rain on O’ Connell S...
In teeming rain I walk the street
As the clouds drench all beneath
And through my runners the rain soaks my feet
To my bus I run
Faceless people in the town tonight
Shall sleep on the sodden streets as is their right
And I shall be dry, ignorant of their plight
Sleeping, or having fun.
A faceless person I hope never to be
Without power bills [...]
Two Birds Felled With One Stone
With one stone cast two birds fell dead,
The act, how did he do?
Was his aim all that great
He who by the stone was threw?
And of his skill should he be proud?
Such a thing to do?
What was the secret to his skill
Of which he boasted he could do?
Ah, no the faker, it was not so
The truth must be confessed
The stone was thrown from a meter high [...]
And None Had Passed That Way Before
And none had passed that way before
At least not for a while
And for the walker these trees and fences
Prove a challenge and a trial.
As the way through was battered by kicking limbs
As to bother walking was wondered why
The effort, the discomfort and the pain
By the walker who was I.
And upon clearing a path
I picked up the dropped matches
T [...]
The Sleeping Sentry
The dog sleeping on the doorstep
Keeps the cats away
For they cant enter while hes there
And upon the couches play.
So to torment birds the cat set
And to slink around the garden
Maybe climb through an open window
Without as much as “beg your pardon”
The dog sleeping on the doorstep
Who tries to keep cats out
Fails when windows are open
To s [...]
Woman with Baby Sit Neath a Vardo
‘Tween wheels of her vardo
Infant in arms
This girl has all the luck she needs
No prayers chants or charms
Can make her life better
Or gold rings or necklaces
With a childless spinster with gold in a castle
Shed rather go hungry than change places…
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As Pilgrims
As pilgrims in life we walk alone
Sins committing for which we later atone
Some we confess, other up to which we dont own
But confess to our God without speaking.
As pilgrims we move in life together
Storms we cause, and storms caused by others we weather
For life is a wind, and man but a feather
That a place of peace on the ground is seeking [...]
Poison Dwells in the Best of Hearts
Poison dwells in the best of hearts
In the purest of the pure
Hatred exists for someonme somewhere
Of that we can be sure
It tells who really is man
Who turns away when hatred does beck
He is the one who is pure
For he holds his hatred in check.
He with much less venom
But who is not content
Until he spreads his poison
Against those of whom i [...]
Lady Godiva the Good
Lady Godiva the Good
Decreed that ride through town she would
As sure as that on the ground she stood
Unless her husband ceded
The taxes high that he extracted
For the king that benefited
And made the laws that were enacted
That the kingdom needed
Being of one deep of faith well known
And being the wife of the Lord his own
Her concern to him [...]
The Stray Dog & The Tramp
Unknown, unloved, he walks alone
His hair in patches bare has grown
Human care he has not known
For many the day
Though once him someone did own
Before he was a stray
Passing by some drunken chaps
He sniffs bin bags for scraps
And runs, when one man raps
The bins with a stick
Causing to fall out kebabs and baps
And of liquids, on the street [...]
