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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? Login to Reply 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 Login to Reply 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! Login to Reply 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 Login to Reply 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!! Login to Reply 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!!!