Wednesday

Wednesday marks the middle of the week.
It's getting closer to the days that I seek.
Leave all papers and abandon and every file.
For a moment be a vagabond, a marauding exile.

This afternoon means that it's all downhill.
Fabulous Saturday will soon fill the bill.
Maybe a game of golf in the afternoon
Proves that Wednesdays can't come too soon.

Even the thought that the weekend is now close
Makes the workdays a whole lot less morose.
As I sit at lunch in the middle of the day,
I can't help but be giddy now I made it half way.

Work's getting easier and paper piles less high.
Each grunt and groan is turning into a sigh.
There's less to befuddle me and less to beguile
As each hour passes by it engenders a smile

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When I Say ' I Love You

When I say, “I love you” this is what I really mean
A new life for you and me from that word in between.

Love is a delicate word, yet powerful just the same.
Practice it with pious virtue; betray it with sanguine shame.
A word like love flows easily, deeds must then follow.
Love sounds sweet, but in deceit, its ring is oh so hollow.

“I love you.” is the greatest thing that can be said or heard.
So without hesitation I share with you each precious word.
Thus every day in every way “I love you” so selflessly.
With you is the only place in this world I would rather be.
You’re my partner, my sweet lover and very best friend.
Our torrid love affair, so very rare, will surely never end!

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The Pendulum

The pendulum swings to both extremes;
Each side is unreal or so it seems.
Good times are too good and bad times too bad.
So both sides replace the spaces they had.

All that is sure is that change will occur.
Those who embrace it will no doubt endure.
Those fighting the pendulum and its change
Will flounder and falter in a life they estrange.

Opportunities abound as the pendulum swings.
For the advantageous there’s a plethora of things.
But the negative attitude will suffer a fall
When struck severely by the pendulum’s ball.

As stark as today’s events appear to be,
The pendulum’s equilibrium will set them free.
Look to the long term with unfailing hope.
Take advantage of the pendulum no matter its slope.

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Money and Success

How much money will be needed
For you to think you've succeeded?
A million, two, three or four?
Or does that still leave you feeling poor?
What'll you do to gain that wealth?
Be open, honest or use stealth?
And what'll you give for this take?
Family, friends, birthday cake?

Think hard and long. It's only once around.
So be sure you don't end up unfound.
Unfound by self and those dear.
You and your funds won't long be here.

While you toil to make your mark,
In life's flight please disembark
To stop and question what you've been told?
Your real assets spring not from gold.

Think first of love, joy and friends.

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Darling, Please Forgive Me

My darling, please forgive me for all the things I do wrong.
Bet you never thought it would be so bad first time I came along;
Especially during tough times when you needed a loved one there
To listen with an open mind and closed mouth and really care.

When I get mad and shout at you, please just consider the source…
I apologize for all the times I'm so nasty, inconsiderate and coarse.
I'm sorry for the many occasions I could have helped you out,
But sat at my desk shuffling piles of papers like a self-serving lout.

And for those other innumerable, thoughtless things I do
I beg your pardon, ask for forgiveness and please remember…
I'll always be deeply in love with you from every January through

Every December!

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Formula for Happiness

AS ANOTHER DAWN ARISES BE THANKFUL THAT IT DID ARRIVE.
WISH “GOOD MORNING” TO THE MIRROR AS IF IT WERE ALIVE.
THE FIRST PERSON YOU SEE, EMBRACE AND EXCLAIM, “I LOVE YOU! ”
THEN APPRECIATE THE REAL TREASURES AS THEY PASS YOUR VIEW.

THROUGH EACH DAY ALL IS BRIGHT AS A SMILE PERVADES YOUR FACE.
IT’S A POSITIVE ATTITUDE NO TRAGEDY OR TRAUMA WILL ERASE.
WHEN MISFORTUNE DOES OCCUR IT’S TIME TO CONSIDER ADAPTATION,
RATHER THAN FOCUS ON THE DEPTHS OF DESPAIR AND FRUSTRATION.

DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE IS OF ENDURING, GENUINE WORTH,
SO YOUR SPECK OF TIME IS PRODUCTIVE, YET CHRISTENED WITH MERTH.
ABOVE ALL, MAKE LOVE THE CENTER OF EACH AND EVERY ACTION,
AND AVOID ALL THOSE GREMLINS THAT CAUSE YOU DISSATISFACTION.

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Faith, Hope and Love

With faith, hope and love, let us we pray.
We believe in this new union today,
And hope that it will always display
Mutual love, respect and equal say.

There’ll be highs and lows in future years.
Many smiles though a few tears.
A wondrous future there’ll always be
If faith, hope and love are family.

Through tribulations this union will need
To be placed ahead of self wants and greed.
At times success will need a healthy shove
From large daily doses of faith, hope and love.

This union’s endurance for eternity
Depends on putting “you” in place of “me”.
And each day of every year
To say, “I love you, my dear.”
Faith, hope and love will then live

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Sixth Place and Sliding

Below children and grandchildren plus old friends,
My rank in importance continually descends.
Then ahead there's bridge and constant reading,
Which result so sadly in my sixth place seeding.
I find it appalling that I'm in the sixth spot and falling;
Slipping and sliding at the time of this writing.

Though my greatest concern is where it all will end…
How far down the depths will my position descend?
Now that I'm old, unhealthy and not very attractive,
Will the next level ahead be a person more active?
I don't smoke, can't drink and sex is just a concept.
Maybe sixth place is too high for someone so inept.

At the end no matter how far I sank or my final rank,
Her love made it worthwhile so I'll have her to thank.

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Oh Lordy! Now You're Forty!

Sweet Erikette, as they say…
'You've reached the big four oh today! ! ! '

As you climb life's great hill
Stress and strain will test your will.
Find strength to forge past rocks and trees.
Forget those aching, shaking knees.

More of your bod now starts to talk
As back, feet… legs seem to squawk.
One way to stem those mid life crises
Is to shop for modern medical devices.
Sadly, there's not much they can implant
When some parts simply scream, 'I can't! '

Though these stubborn parts may utter 'Nope! '
Your young, beautiful life is so full of hope.
A gorgeous family in so many ways
Promises a joyous life that only love conveys.
As well, your positive views and planned dreams

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Opportunity of Illness

No stimulus to awake and take hold.
To unfold and advance there's no chance.
Family, country and work justify this shirk.
No chance to change face with duties of this pace.
No time to wonder if life is a blunder.

Then strange fortune strikes; the likes of infirmity.
Pain that drains the body can fill the
A find that there's more that counts,
Really amounts to living.

Tragedy prevails when wails turn to self-pity.
Fear shears the mind of its flesh.
With no means to refresh, it will shrivel and groan,
Leaving the body to expire alone.

But from the darkness of disease
Can emerge the light of thought, bought with agony.
Enlightenment gained through sustained desire;
That fire that ignites the sparks of the mind.

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