Best First Chapter Poems
Another lover's touch
There's never been a love,
that's ever been enough...
You keep searching for...
another lover's touch
Why do I even try,
I should stop wasting time...
You say that we are fine...
we both know that's a lie
Chorus
I can see the ending,
in our book of love...
Well I try and I try and I try,
but it's not enough...
I see the curtain falling
on our romantic play....
I never thought our love ...
would end this way
I remember that first look,
the first chapter of our book...
We thought we'd found a love that would never die
The days turned into weeks,
so many nights without sleep...
The love we felt was an unrelenting fire
Chorus
I can see the ending,
in our book of love...
Well I try and I try and I try,
but it's not enough...
I see the curtain falling
on our romantic play....
I never thought our love...
would end this way
Chorus
I can see the ending,
in our book of love...
Well I try and I try and I try,
but it's not enough...
I see the curtain falling
on our romantic play....
I never thought our love...
would end this way
There's never been a love,
that's
ever
been
enough...
You keep...
searching...
for another...
lover's...
touch.
John Derek Hamilton
November 22,2019
re-posted with music and vocals
January 27,2021
Copyright © John Hamilton | Year Posted 2019
An unhurried sun slides across the horizon
Preparing for slumber behind distant waves
And daylight’s last seagull rides thermals in search
Of a late night fish supper - the herring he craves
A paint shop explosion enlivens the skies
As the sun doffs its cap to the tail end of day
That silhouette seagull, against crimson, flys
Before finally veering and heading away
As one with the beach and the shoreline beyond
I watch vibrant heavens succumb
To a darkness profound although I stick around
And I wait for tomorrow to come
The night has its chills but no hectic-life ills
As I feed my small campfire with sticks
One deck chair, one fire is all I desire…
And a thermos for my caffeine fix
There’s no moon, no stars and there’s no beachfront bars
The surf is my soundtrack tonight
I’ve seen moons and stars work with Venus and Mars
To set all above me alight
But tonight is unpainted and I get acquainted
With shadows that flicker and prance
As I recline there, amused, I’m aware
That the fire makes my own shadow dance
I don’t truly doze and a distant bell knows
That I count off its chimes in the night
And as the world sleeps, somewhere near, a bird cheeps
And I know that it soon will be light
I’ll witness the day and then scurry away
Through the hustle and bustle, to bed
Inspired, I’m rewired, and yet, rather tired
With my first chapter clear in my head
My thermos delivers one last warming cup
As a new dawn blue-rinses the grey
A seagull, perhaps who went last night unfed
Circles early for breakfast today
You were always my best friend,..
Even if we didnt see each other as much as we did
Ever sense the day we met in 5th grade
I knew you were a great guy upon that day
You were a Leo and i was a capricorn
Together i felt we could conquer the world by storm
You were like my twin brother,
So many things we shared in common
Your humour though was better than mine, I admit
You had a way of making people laugh and smile
And you could sing man..
Your voice was awesomely sick
I dont understand why you took your life when you did...
But i just wish i could have helped you..
I didnt know it was getting bad for you too..
The news hurt my heart hard
like a lightning bolt that hit and hit
So many conversations and memories we shared
My friend i remember all of it
And you i while deeply miss..
You were the first to read the first chapter
of my developing fiction novel
I wish you lived to read the rest of it..
And for you someday it will be finished
il dedicate a character in your likeness
And forever you will be apart of me..apart of this
And whoever reads my book as they ponder and sit
Its hard to believe your gone my dearest friend
And harder to stop mourning
As my eyes burn into the morning
In my heart ..
Your spirit will forever be roaring
P.s.
I love you man
Please be in a better place..
Because when it's my time..like i know everyone will have..
if i have to go to hell and pull you out..
You know il do it
Il fight until there is nothing of me that exists
Love you my friend. Memories us i will forever cherish
This seems the question I ponder the most
Forgetting my manners and neglecting the host
I’m not really sure if this was all about me
Walking with sight yet I still couldn’t see.
When something is asked of me I try to respond
Perhaps sometimes I’ve taken much too long
I read the first chapter then take the first step
I’m not really certain of what I shall get.
I come to realize that this is not about me
I look at the beauty that God’s brought to me
The purpose of life is not at your command
The purpose lies beyond what we understand.
Purpose seems like it could be a utility word
Maybe just repeating something you once heard
But perhaps it can be much more than what we think
It could all disappear in the time it takes to blink.
So I pick up my pieces and try to go home
But it lies outside of my comfort zone
Life without purpose holds no meaning at all
As the bridges crumble and the castles fall.
At this hour ... without any planning I write because I got up to use the restroom, but switched on my text messages and saw one from last night. A great friend could not believe what happens in marriages when one partner chooses abortion (as CHOICE). Well, in short, I am still recovering from sin.
Please do not have sex before marriages, or practice "SAFE SEX" which is said to be more realistic advice.
No one regrets staying a virgin; almost everyone prefers their first sexual experience was with someone they had married for love.
If you have an abortion, it will NEVER go away. Some thing or some one's remark will flood your heart and spirit with the past mistake/sin/"murder of the unborn." Just as in slavery times, we denied Africans or the victims were human ... but our DIVINE SPARK refused to believe that lie. Politics may make things legal, never make things RIGHT. Romans 1 (first chapter, especially the last 12 verses) tells us that every tribe and nation, man and woman, knows what is right and wrong in MORAL terms by our conscience (or General Revelation, including Nature)/ Be blessed; Jesus will forgive any sin, every sin, even until our last breath and choice. Choose JESUS and HEAVEN. shalom, shalom siblings!
"Tsundoku Tower"
Bluebird windowsill
peers in, strange terrain
“Rain Rain Go Away”,
mysterious singing
eerie refrain.
Ghost Girl sitting still
tears falling
she is haunting
Tsundoku Tower
laying vacant
on Treeless Hill.
Looks up
her glow attracts
all the Tiger Moths,
are gathering ‘round
holds out her hands to them
She’s no longer bound -
so she gently kisses them
they are her new friends
In this, her newest ghost town.
Bluebird looks
While she builds
her tower full of
unused books.
Pages and Pages
of unread tomes
Are the walls
of her new home
she builds them extra high
around her like a womb
to keeps the Others out -
This is not their tomb.
Strong spines on their side
top one on top the other
to the Ceiling neat
so dark, so black noire
Jacobs Ladder for her
ascension climb
to her empty silent boudouir.
Wrips out the hearts
of useless books
all those blank white pages
all that wasted time
wallpaper to cover with colour
all her empty stages
with enraptured rhyme.
An antique fountain pen
dipped in pure ghost blood
so crimson dripping wet
from the cuts upon her wrists
she begins to scrawl
her new story, First Chapter
and it begins with this -
“I AM NOT DEAD YET”.
(Lovejoy-Burton/2017 Dec)
1. Ghost Girl - XavieRinato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=rkGeq65ejMA
Just a quick look
First chapter of a book
First verse of a song
Can’t stay overlong
A 50-yard dash
Gone in a flash
Not right, not wrong
Can’t stay overlong
A heat seeking missile
God blows the whistle
God strikes the gong
Can’t stay overlong...
*Dedicated to my brother Ivan who lost his life on an airline training flight in 1984. 'Hunter' was his middle name...
I'm not the greatest of all-times, but when I'm done,
I'll be an all time great in this lifetime of mine
Like the late great who came before my time
I will breed a new lifeline, that will breathe life like march of dimes
My story lines, will bring truth life; like troops who fight
Overseas, for rights of those who believe that death is life
Now that ain't right!
As the rich is getting richer, eating fillet me-non, while we barely feeding our appetite
Night after night
Survival has waged a war that gave us no choice but to battle and fight
Although, we'll be all right
They say we a dying breed, but that ain't right
Instead we're the light to a lying greed
That will enlighten life to a brand new seed
A man of God indeed
Freed from the Son that bleeds
Like the summer breeze
He's the sum that equals the amount of air I breathe
The air that please
A satisfaction like the birds and the bees
My word's words are the keys
That will fornicate with the mind and give birth to a seed
A seed of social change, that'll change our social economy
So shall our comradery
That will bring comfort to a struggling society
A synonym...similar to a civilization seeking for unity
Unifying the physics of theory
That seeks to explain the synopsis of a dying philosophy
Similar to the Cosby
X-cept my scrip-tic will speak more about our reality
Like life's calamity
And everything else in life that's destroying us systematically
However, I've discovered a system
That can mathematically destroy ignorancy
And turn our state of mind intellectually
I elect that He (God) selects me to be
And be that man who may lead this community
So that they (My Peoples) may commute with me
En-route to a destination, destine towards our destiny
Like we were destine to be
We were meant to be "Great" like the late great that came before we.
Because we are...
The reflection where perfection gave birth to the definition of greatness
Where great means Competent, Skilled, Well Informed, and Tremendous
Our potentials are endless
And only we not even the enemy can put an end to this
So it's time we put a stop to this
The biggest enemy of self
And that's envy and jelousness
Cause after this is Heaven or Hell and that's all there is
A promised made sealed with a kiss
Knowing this
Is the next best thing since "In the beginning"
In the first chapter of the first verse in Genesis!
Someone Asked Me About Marriage…
Someone asked me about marriage, as a matter of fact…
I thought; “what kind of questions is that?”
“Let me ask a questions… If I may?”
“Do you read what the God’s word has to say?”
Marriage is still and will always be one woman and man.
I don’t care how many laws we have in our land!
No matter if many churches and people claim; “civil rights.”
Anything different than a man and woman is NOT right!”
The first chapter of Romans makes it pretty clear…
The days of wickedness have drawn ever near!
God’s wrath revealed against all ungodly living!
Think about the garbage our country is giving!
It speaks of men and women leaving their natural affection.
Burning in lust toward one another
with an ungodly attention!
For this cause God has given many over to a reprobate mind…
Many get involved with perversions of many kinds!
Professing themselves to be wise, many have become “fools.”
By not obeying God’s word… But their own “set of rules.”
Marriage is something designed many years ago.
It was Adam and Eve in the beginning… This we know!
My question to you is: “Why not give God a chance?”
His truth remains the same! Whatever the circumstance!
No court of law can change what God has established!
Everything that’s not of God is simply a lot of “rubbish.”
Jesus is coming back for a bride without “a wrinkle or a spot.”
It’s time we come clean and become
“blood bought!”
Being the bride of Christ is the most important thing!
He is the bridegroom and eternal love he brings!
By Jim Pemberton
***
I saw a bouquet of flowers.
Hung on a tattered door.
The old house where it hung,
was decaying, dwindling and worn.
If a house could whisper its story,
It would utter a lifetime of trials.
A young, newlywed couple,
shall face the unknowns of life.
The first chapter of their lives began.
The moment they step through the door,
In love, they'll walk hand in hand.
Placing faith and hope in God.
God blessed them with ten children.
Within these walls, laughter and life.
The house was filled with love
But with life, there were some heartaches.
Sickness struck the youngest child.
And God did call her home.
In tears, they clung to each other.
Placing faith and hope in God.
Years have passed, the children are grown.
They have children of their own.
Once, a newlywed couple,
now celebrating their 50th.
Now, in their late nineties,
Their love is very strong.
Sick and frail, they lay side by side,
Their memories began to fade.
They placed their faith and hope in God.
Holding hands in eternal love.
They walked across the threshold.
Of heaven's golden shore.
3/25-26/22
A BRIAN STRAND 1097 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand 3/27/22
~ 1st ~
~ When you see a wreath or flowers on a door,
it’s also a way to show the community that the
family is in mourning. This could encourage neighbors
and family to bring forms of support~
The beginning tell the end,
One day we are born into a world of the unknown.
This is were our lives take note a place in history a vote.
The first chapter of the starting of life is the pages of our
revival a place, a story of survival.
We start as infants to toddlers this is when we become followers to the cause of
fault, to the day we pray for the way we make a choice, a word, a place of our
own, a choice between right or wrong.
The day we become an adult we make our decisions as an assault.
We are out for one thing it's not a place or thing it's a person, a way to take
everything. To gain fame, success, to be better then the rest.
The days have become long and we start to see where we have done wrong.
We ask God, what do we do to make sure we join you.
God sent his son to absorb your sins to forgive you.
Just ask, just pray, just follow the book I wrote to save you.
This will lead my children to the heavens were I will bless you.
There's two things in life we don't control is the day of our birth and the day of
our death. From the first to our last that one breathe.
This is the story I will remember from the present to the past from the beginning
to the end. A story that will get me into the gates of heaven, the words of the forgiven. Just remember it's not to late to take the Lord in to your heart and ask him to forgive you from the start.
By
Rowdy
Yates
Another lover's touch
There's never been a love,
that's ever been enough...
You keep searching for...
another lover's touch
Why do I even try,
I should stop wasting time...
You say that we are fine...
we both know that's a lie
Chorus
I can see the ending,
in our book of love...
Well I try and I try and I try,
but it's not enough...
I see the curtain falling
on our romantic play....
I never thought our love ...
would end this way
I remember that first look,
the first chapter of our book...
We thought we'd found a love that would never die
The days turned into weeks,
so many nights without sleep...
The love we felt was an unrelenting fire
Chorus
I can see the ending,
in our book of love...
Well I try and I try and I try,
but it's not enough...
I see the curtain falling
on our romantic play....
I never thought our love...
would end this way
Chorus
I can see the ending,
in our book of love...
Well I try and I try and I try,
but it's not enough...
I see the curtain falling
on our romantic play....
I never thought our love...
would end this way
There's never been a love,
that's
ever
been
enough...
You keep...
searching...
for another...
lover's...
touch.
John Derek Hamilton
November 22,2019
The Illuminating path's Serenade my Vision,
The Blindening Rays of faithful horizon leap into me,
Our Memories of togetherness clasp me to the loop of life,
still I am lusting to cross-over and meet the Chaismatic-End!!
After which,our souls will intertwine and remain in enlightened glory forever!
Life had been an autumn full of blossoms,
My love lay in my arms in unrequited glory,
life was a maze of puzzled quotes,
the dooming evil recruited you into its gloomy shadows,
and i learn't my first chapter about death.
DEATH is a slow poison gushing through time
and seeping through seconds,
Blistering a thousand souls,
abandoning a many infants,
sucking away the more needed ones,
Thwarting pain and inflicting illicit wounds.
BUT losing hope means losing "US"
At a jerk,our infancy angel crosses over with warmth,
And the hallucinating illuminating paths fade away!!
And i realize my quest in this unfarthomable journey,
TO LIVE,LOVE AND SUCCEED DEATH!!
Inspired from the first chapter of the prophet Esaias....
Among the Living and among the remnant you are...
No , the people don't need other heroes.....
The fury road has led to this moment
Where the Giant of Gath....GOG himself
And MAGOG ....the Norman's of France stand to assert.
Stand to assail....ride as triumphant and humble...
Seize the moment, the moment is here and God Christ
Who you have trusted as Master has placed the moment before you.
In His Eternal Name March forward to the victors crown
Yea, the fury road goes on for thee, for thou art amongst the remnant.
Yet Christ be the Master and Leader...victory THROUGH HIM
is thine, o servant remnamt
Is it the truth that blinds us
If They say God is Love then how can Love blind us
How can lies remind us> minus trust
It takes years to build it and only seconds to destroy it
And as I let ideas fall out into thoughts, that are like drops of rubbing alcohol across the countertop
There is a smell of a hospital that reminds me of newborn life and then death flashes and i lose my sight
Its untrue that the definition of the first person that hesitates here, really converts over and spills positive enrgy into the rest of his life
Cause its like you stall and the lightening strikes
The tree falls down and your a second behind it
The dark barks that it hates the light
The light shines and its basically the truth that blinds you
The brillance of the the giantest star draws you like a bug to the lighjt
you get suck in because its your time to die
You cant change it, its evrymans destiny,\
thats why you must be in the postion that god places you
Work on earth to be done and men are lazy, they dont even want to be a family provider
i seen this i didnt understand it was truly overwhelming
Its like i knew the veiw you see is a little different
you say hes just goin through hard times are you any better
I was like damn i help the man by leading him to water
And he was like id rather sleep than feed my daughter
Thats why mommy goes to work and on the face of the earth men are dying
Little boys are born to suffer this woe of society
Woman are supernatural acts of kindness
But you bring out the dormant side and the one who gave life becomes a destroyer
No matter woman or man God is my employer
I work for virtually nothing but to see a hurt soul rejoice and i smile in satisfaction
Im like the truth never blinded me it set me free from the darkest whitest lies
That are actually darker the this side of what you think is compatible
couples marry and then they hate each before the first chapter of the story
and unfaithfulness derives out of the unsatisfaction of dissatisifaction
Then the children suffer from the lack of harmony in a family inviroment
NoW truth come take the blinds off the mouth that sugarcoaTS THE DECEIVING TONGUES
OF THOSE WHO DONT LIKE YOU
THERE LIKE ITS OKAY TO SIN BUT DONT LET THEIR LIPS COAX NOR ENTICE
The zenith is exactly crossing the horizon
The lies blind and basically the Truth is silent