Best Delays Poems
As Autumn delays, I await
Winter's crystal snowflakes
With delight, I anticipate
Skating on frozen lakes
Golden leaves turning red
Bare tree limbs I will dread
But I will look ahead
To chillier days
As Autumn delays
Every morning, I work from home
I turn on the radio, if I'm unhappy and alone
You hear so much misery when the car jams are told
Make you feel happier, if you're mean and cold
The outbound George has a disabled tractor trailer
Some drivers now are cursing like a sailor.
On the inbound Holland there is police activity
Imagine all those slowed drivers, it's like captivity.
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There are people who like pulling tails of cats
Others freakout Grandma by attaching bells to bats
But me, I enjoy the misfortune of those who drive
Comparing our fates makes me feel more alive.
On the Pulaski skyway it's a waiting game
I bet Mr. Pulaski would have not delegated his name.
Its bumper to bumper after Passaic Avenue
I bet those drivers are steaming too.
At the exit ramp an accident partly blocks
That teen driver just learned life has hard knocks.
Heavy delays, so many drivers annoyed
But the traffic jams give me Schadenfreude.
The Lincoln backs into Weehawken tight,
They’ve been stuck in that tunnel since about midnight
Makes you wonder, and contemplate
Or if you're like me, you feel really great.
Add up all the lost hours of lives
No need for bombs, no need for knives
Time that could have been used for better things
All the waste, we should have wings.
If love delays any longer,
and I make up exscuses
to commit myself and settle down,
this name will not be carried on.
Gray, brittle hair to a hide a face of shame;
hands with brown spots to show my age...
face drowned in worries...that I could have prevented.
Feeling death before it comes,
makes every tomorrow bleak,
days will be lived without scope,
just living them as they had no meaning,
fearfully waiting for darkness to come...
and cuddle up in a blanked that hides moonlight;
no kisses tasting like petals of roses to leave their sweetness.
If love delays any longer,
I'll have no one to embrace,
to tell my feelings with trust;
anything I will do will be worthless.
Built castles will tumble down and disappear
in an ocean that has seen only tragedies;
tears and screams will avail to nothing, I'll be a forgotten being.
Staring through a rain-pelted window,
couples rush to get inside and watch it
with delightful eyes to appreciate and admire
what Heaven sends down for an abundant season...
with cries of babies being born from wombs
of young mothers, who thank their Creator with prayers;
my last wish is that some will also be mine and call me father.
Now is the time for us to receive
A great refreshing from the Lord
We breathe in Heaven's air
Feel its fresh breath, restoring life
As this season of big changes begin
The waves of glory come with the wind
The oil of joy erases our helplessness
Bringing peace, strength and joy anew
We thrive like a green house, our roots soaked
With stillness, peace and wellness,
The plans and promises of Heaven
Getting cultivated, activated and accelerated
As we soar like eagles, riding on the surge of Heaven
Moving into movements that never end!
God's delays are not God's denials
That more precious than gold be your faith's trials
Wait for your hope no matter how hard it seems
Though for now they may linger, remember your dreams
Write them down, make them plain, don't let them die
Keep them before your face, they shall speak and not lie
For God is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love
So work in faith with patience with power from above
Following those who obtain His promises in due season
God is a rewarder of the diligent for this reason
He which began a good work in you performs to finish
The good pleasure of His goodness, it will not diminish
So let patience have her perfect work that you may realize
In your heart on your lips with your ears before your eyes
He makes dreams come true, just have faith like a child's
For your vision... God's delays are not God's denials
Inspired by John Hagee
Nothing's ever certain
When relying on a flight.
You may confront delays for which
You're powerless to fight.
A little snow or fog or else
Mechanical concerns
Might get you where you're going late -
Departures or returns.
It's futile making solid plans -
They're bound to disappoint
And when they do, just try your best
To not get out of joint.
Flashing yellow lights
strategic lined red barrels
blocked off exit ramps