True Friendship

image - quo-tes-wall-pa-per.blogspot.com

 Friends will be friends forever

‘til the night ceases to dawn

They will hate each other never

Cannot bicker long

Today I tell you this

You must not forget

If someone you do miss

Be happy that you met

Sometimes it’s hard to say

Love isn’t clear as day

True friends will never leave

You have to believe

They may be half the world apart

But they will care for you from the start

Never will they go

Ask them. They will know

They know your deepest desires

They’ve seen your darkest fears

To them you are a fire

Your love, it sears

Scars you may have given them

But two things they won’t forget

The fact that you love them

And the day you met

(2004)

The Tiniest Bead

image - www.nwfsc.noaa.gov 

Although in winter’s day we sit

And talk of stories yet untold

Of friends and foes we have not met

Of life and future to unfold

When waiting storm begins attack

And sitting there we are afraid

Of howling winds upon our back

We pay a debt that’s yet unpaid

Of house and home and family naught

The sea has claimed all these to it

Without a chance we stood and fought

But win the sea would not permit

But now that all of us are gone

And you were not completely right

To say that what we did was wrong

To stand pig-headed and to fight

Now with the generations past

So that our children won’t forget

While growing up so strong, so fast

The ancestors they never met

We always dream of what’s to come

And with this dream we become hooked

Although we think that we have none

These simple pleasures overlooked

Of life and love we have a lot

But to this we have no regard

What we need is not sold or bought

Its only found if we look hard

Just live the life that you have now

The future will be what it wants

Just remember to take your bow

And to make your dreams more than thoughts

From deep within ourselves we need

To find the peace the world can give

As small as the tiniest bead

It is all we need to live

(2004)

On Rhyme

I have heard many a time

That poetry should be in rhyme

But how can this be, the words you see

Must be selected one at a time

But of this I do not fret

For I do now make this bet

That free verse when used instead of rhyme

Will not be a crime

Although the first I prefer

Your style of writing do not deter

For what comes from the heart, must be a part

Of any poem I refer

(2005)

The Race

image - www.visualphotos.com

The water is cold

A mighty clamp

To you it holds

Wet and damp

Adrenaline surge!

The mighty chase

You have the urge

To make the race

Flip! And Push!

You’re out of the flags

Your legs and tush

Feel like heavy bags

You’re almost there

The wall’s in sight

He won’t dare

Come up on the right

Slap! The wall

Grip it tight

You hope that all

Has ended right

Point of View

Terrorist or Patriot?

Point of view makes a difference

Euthanasia or putting an end to misery?

Think about it.

Human life is short

A minute in the life of the Earth

Don’t always be a judge rather

Live, live YOUR life, not theirs

You may still disagree with some things

But never jump to conclusions

Capital punishment or torture?

It’s not easy is it?

(2005)