Best At Times Poems
Are you one of life's many players?
Wearing a mask so others can't see;
Hiding feelings, won't let them show,
Absent from what reality might be.
Do you go through life supposing?
That you're the master of your life's all;
But when things in life are amiss,
It's then upon God you call.
Do you often reminisce things done?
Perhaps from a time when weak;
Because we've all worn this mask,
and of these things won't speak.
I've oft thought that I'm two people,
To most, my feelings I won't show.
The hurt that lies within,
I wear my mask so others won't know.
"At Times I Wonder"
By M. Taha Effendi
(Nazam)
At times I wonder what life would have been worth
Spent cloaked in soft shades of your sable tresses
If ill-fated darkness that shrouds my wrecked hearth
Was slayed by vigorous radiance of your eyes' recesses
Oblivious to earthly callings would it be so unfair
If I remained in your mesmerisms so eternally engrossed
Your heavenly allure my parched eyes would ensnare
On the fabrics of your existence my love I embossed
When plagued by the bitterness of life's onerous race
I would drink the glacé elixir upon your crimson lips
Bury my distresses within the calm of your embrace
Build my sanctuary in the shade of its eclipse
Sigh! This traitorous heart pounds even in such dismal state
I breathe with no hope of mirth nor a word of protest
My vacant eyes resigned to this inescapable fate
I stand unwilling to rebuild my plundered nest
Clasped perforce to my bosom the agonies my love bequeath
I heave my wounds through accursed corridors that adorn
Deathly shadows that loom, daunting horrors that wreathe
Where every step garlands me with camouflaged thorns
With not a course in sight, neither a goal nor any thrill
I trudge with bare feet across the scorching earths
Dreading the inevitable plunge from edge of sanity and still
At times I wonder what life would have been worth
(Finalist - International Poetry Soup Contest 2012)
easy comes and goes
never making a profit
no breaking even
I know a very special young girlie
Who's caught me by the short curlys
Known her for years
Much joy and some tears
I'll never stop loving her surely
Promised that I'd love her forever
From the first day knew that I'd never
Betray her not a chance
It's a lifetime dance
This love's a forever endeavour
Devoted to this loving relationship
Not a chance I'd endanger it must admit
This love is like gold
So precious to behold
There's no other to whom I'd submit
She's the absolute love of my life
Happy as a damn clam to be precise
It's a loving adventure
With this lady so tender
The dictionary calls it paradise
To end this story about treasures
Something should be added to my pleasures
Her lips are so luscious
My poor heart just gushes
At times I almost swallow my dentures
© Jack Ellison 2015
I'm on a roll, not a toilet paper roll
Methinks most would agree, if you took a poll
Mostly good limericks
At times just gibberish
Over the top silly, certainly not droll
At times I tell the most in mind
Thoughts escaping elapsing day to night
At times I close my eyes as blind
Absorbing sound vibrations passing by passing by
At times I spend inflicted intelligently gifted
Whirlwind words spin consciousness lifted collapse
At times I begin minds mend acknowledging indifference
Earthquake emotions humbly end recovered past
Left hearted half
Mind whole
Controller Spirit
Not my own
Life at times for me may be may be
Normal in a small scaled town world scheme
Life at times may be one day
Be a life worth leaving to travel far far away
Life at times just doesn’t seem fair,
When a loved one embraced just hours ago, suddenly is no longer there.
If only we could make life at times in retrospect, just stand still,
Then captured moments of joy, wouldn’t need decades for a broken heart to heal.
Life at times marches only to the beat of its self-proclaimed drum.
Life at times leaves us bewildered and dismayed at the sudden loss of a special someone.
Life at times creates an emptiness in our heart and soul, making it sometimes difficult to start anew.
The dark cloud of pain and sorrow will no doubt hover, until life at times naturally lets the radiance
of sunlight through.
With sincere sympathy, I am truly sorry for your loss and at times the piercing loneliness that may
engulf you.
We are thankful that life at this time lets us celebrate your loved one with you. It’s the least we can do.
Al Johnson
I wish to God that I could be
All things a Dad is meant to be
The Heart and Soul inside of me
Cries out in pain and misery
Your future happiness I vowed
I'd guide you through the endless crowd
How much I dreamed I'd make you proud
At night i scream my prayers aloud
Too often I've been overwhelmed
I'm not the captain at the helm
My life distraught, my past I've penned
Both judge and jury, I'm condemned
To hold you close and feel you breathe
Fulfil your hopes and every need
To love you, more than selfish greed
Shall be my one and only creed
Abound with strength, with grace, with poise
My faith in you might steer your choice
Above lifes screams and deafening noise
One day the world will hear your voice
At times the name of Christ is disdained
Yet the power of His sinless life has remained
He taught us all a loving way to live
And how important it is to forgive
His gospel's lived on for thousands of years
It's for you He sheds His tending tears
No greater love story has ever been told
No greater love has God before bestowed
Jesus conquered death, hell and the grave
No longer to sin would man be a slave
He offers the hope of life after death
He'll embrace us after our last breath
At times I just sit and I WONDER,
what is my MISSION?
What is my ultimate goal or in other WORDS,
what is my life’s VISIONS?
At times I sit and THINK,
what will people actually say about my NAME,
when I no longer BLINK?
What stories will be told about my LIFE,
to my kids, and my kid’s KIDS,
with the life I chose to LIVE?
At Times I HURT!
Wondering why, did God choose so MANY
of my loved ones to be carried in a HEARSE.
At times I pray it was I lying lifeless under a pile of DIRT.
At times I PONDER,
what is truly is out YONDER!
At times my eyes grow TEARY.
other times my body grows WEARY.
At times my mood CHANGES,
other times I think,
the ones we call the normal,
are truly STARNGE.
At times I consider even myself mentally crazy and DERRANGE.
At times I lie other times I ADMITT,
that at times I just want to QUIT.
At times I want to give back my LIFE.
At times I think I would have been better off WHITE.
At times I don’t know what to think at ALL.
At times even I need a friend to CALL.
At times I thrive for ATTENTION,
other times I just want one person to LISTEN.
At times I try to feel God’s PAIN.
Other times my tears flow more than a day’s worth of RAIN.
At times I want to call timeout from life’s GAMES.
Other times I feel too EMBARASSED,
holding down my head,
as I walk away in SHAME.
At times I even imagine myself is hell’s FLAMES.
Other times I imagine literally going INSANE.
At times I just want to FIGHT,
other times I just want to WRITE.
At times no thoughts comes to my head,
so I sit at my computer,
wishing I could TYPE.
At times I wish I was raising a SON
Other times I feel like,
squeezing a trigger of a GUN!
But all the time,
I’m thriving in everything to be second to NONE!
at times
grey clouds d
e
s
c
end
and life rains
down
on
me . . .
you are not here;
I am left with
only
longing
Recurrently I need
sail in my dreams
than living days and nights....
I'd rather talk to stars
than dialoguing with human voices...
Live less my body
and much further my soul...
be less real
and be instead mysterious...
At times we are tired of living
tired of trying
but not ready to die
At times we are ready to give up
so much weighs us down
but not ready to walk away
With the stress
at times we are ready to break
but still refusing to fold.
Try my darndest to brighten each day
At times successful, at times lay an egg
Two times outta three
No bad 'tween you and me
If I don't improve, you can dock my pay
At times I try not to think so much
But its the little things that make a big difference
At times I try not to notice so much
But its so difficult when everything is in plain view
At times I try not to talk so much
But I always tend to so you know how I feel
At times I try not to let it bother me
But its completely different because I care too much