If'...read it...live it!

If you have doubt
Of where you’re going
If you have little pride
In what you’ve done

If you have not the faith
That once defined you
If you’ve lost the way
From whence you’ve come

Then read the poem “If”
By Rudyard Kipling and…
Come from the darkness
Back into the sun

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Passage

It was crystal clear
At first

Then developed a haze
With the passage of time

Things remembered … clearly before
Now recalled quite differently

Time itself changing
Tilting forward…leaning back

Smokey film draped
Upon time silvered webs

Time weathered memories
…Slowly fading…

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It's only two a day

If you could stop two young boys
From dying today
Would you?

If you could share the fear
that they do feel today
Would you?

If you could bring
Them home today
Would you?

If you could take
Their place today
Would you?

If you want…you can make
A difference today…

But Will you?

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Yet We Love Them

Not all women be sweet
Nor be all women Tiny…
Some seem to me,
To be fresh and beautiful
as the sea…
And others…E’en a tiny bit briny.

Some speak smugly
Others speak whiny
While some be as Ugly…
as a monkey’s heinie
So, why do we love them?
…Beats the heck out of me! ! …

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Sensual

Fingertips
That brush my lips
That graze across
My closed eyelids

And tingle-dance
down my spine
In tactile touch
So damned divine

Fingertips
That brush my lips
Caress also
My mind

Like feathers touch
Breath held…too much!
So fiercely soft…like fingertips
dipped gently in white wine

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Root Beer Float Afternoon

It was one of those
kind of afternoons
When ball games were heard
From open windows

And houses had porches
And porches had swings
Where voices murmured softly
Into velvet humidity

It was the most precious of things
In the most treasured of times
It was a root beer float…
Kind of afternoon

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A wish...and a promise

Stay honest…stay true
And I’ll always be there for you

Be loving…be kind
And I will… forever love you

Be there always…for all of my life
Be my partner…in hard times,

In happiness
And strife

I’ll place no one before you…
And I’ll be always… the one

…..there for you….

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Relics Now

Gentle poems
Simple rhymes

Relics now
Of bygone times

Gentle words
Simple phrases

Of temperate times…
Pleasant places

Whispered phrases
Words I like

Soft sighed goodbyes
Like crystals in the night

Out of date
Behind the times

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Ugly!

I hate to talk
about ugly kin
But I had the butt-ugliest
lil’sister
We had to tie a pork chop
round her neck
Before my daddy
would even kiss her

Not only was my sister ugly
Even more so was my baby brother
When he was born, the doctor slapped his butt
Then turned around
And slapped my mother

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Upon You

Try to see,
what others see
When their vision happens
Upon you

Try to conceive
Of what they perceive
When perchance they cast a glance
…upon you

Try to be
What you wish them to see
When their eyes alight
upon you

For you can become
The focus of someone
Whose eyes you wish to fall
…upon you

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