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Blessed With Good Fortune

From way up high looking down on Earth Living up on some clouds to the west Is my guardian angel watching over me Not allowing hard times and unrest Blessed with good fortune and a happy life Pretty lucky when I hear people mutter Bout this and that, bout all kinds of sadness Yet my life's been smooth as butter Makes me smile and I count my lucky stars For this charmed and trouble free life Relatively calm, and good fortune was mine Uneventful and free from strife Must've done something to deserve this life Was once kind to little old lady Helped her across a real busy intersection It was just for a matter of safety Humbly I accept this great honour with pride Sure don't want to rock the boat One day, think I'll just sail off into the sunset And be remembered by what I wrote © Jack Ellison 2014

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Gwen Benita Mason Gibbs

Date: 3/23/2014 9:42:00 AM

Such a great poem Jack, how do you do it?

Jack Ellison
Date: 3/23/2014 5:44:00 PM

SIMPLE Gwen... a basic positive attitude toward life! XOX

Juli- Michelle

Date: 3/17/2014 10:26:00 AM

love the rhyme!!! Beautifully penned poem. Glad I stopped by today. Great write :) Have a good one. -Juli-Michelle

Jack Ellison
Date: 3/17/2014 10:32:00 AM

Thank you my dear sweet Juli-Michelle for your kindness! Hope yours is a good one too! Loving hugs, Jack XOX

Carol Eastman

Date: 3/17/2014 9:44:00 AM

Dragon is remembered by good deeds, too. As when he helped an old lady across the street. He landed beside her, as the wind from his wings, blew her off of the road and into a tidy heap! Or when he helped at the hospital, and accidentally blew up an Intensive Care Ward. The oxygen tanks went off with a bang! The hospital had let him go in there, then bed pans hit the ceiling with a clang! Dragon is quite famous, of sorts! Tho they're undoubtedly wishing his sunset would take him to other parts!

Jack Ellison
Date: 3/17/2014 9:47:00 AM

LOL "his wings, blew her off of the road and into a tidy heap" I can honestly say, that's NEVER happened to me! XOXOX

Paul Callus

Date: 3/17/2014 9:27:00 AM

I have oft heard it said that we reap what we sow...isn't this, perhaps, what you're reaping now? As fluent as ever :) // paul

Jack Ellison
Date: 3/17/2014 9:35:00 AM

You are always so kind, my good friend! Hope your day is/was filled with an abundance of sunshine and good cheers! Jack

Russell Sivey

Date: 3/17/2014 7:44:00 AM

This is beautiful my friend, a very creative and ingenious write Jack! I surely enjoyed reading this delightful and truthful poem here this morning! You deserve every part of your life, any peaceful and loving part is yours to enjoy because of the way you are...a loving and wonderful person! What a grandiose piece, Great Work!!

Jack Ellison
Date: 3/17/2014 9:34:00 AM

YUP! Been one of the lucky ones all my life, my friend! Thanks for the kind words, Russell!!!