Best Planning Poems
To try out a new poem form.
To give more than to receive.
To make calls to the lonely.
To envision peace, not unrest.
To forgive and to forget.
To joyfully encourage others.
To take a needed news vacation.
To really be attentive with my pet.
To honor and embrace my past.
To welcome the future with joy.
To enjoy all my earthly days fully.
To welcome and embrace any and all tests.
To one day, go in peace, to my final rest!
9/4/2024
Poem 2
@ Panagiota Romios
You’re the woman I see in my heart
On this day I finally know I can honestly say
That all my prayers have been answered
In such a big way
My girl is coming home
Now, at last, we don't have to roam
Because soon baby you won't be alone
So many odds against us
But it's our love that has grown
I am your king whose heart always sings
For your love with that familiar ring
You are my queen up on a thrown
Who I feel I have always known
Not able to talk face to face or on the phone
I wake up every day
Feeling the sugar you send my way
Dreaming of the moment you were here to stay
Loving you right from the very start
Nothing could come between us or tear us apart
You’re so beautiful funny and smart
You’re the woman I see in my heart
I waited for this to come to be
As I can already see us talking and planning
As we sit under our family tree
As we begin to see how much this love
Was meant to be
It's our understanding
That has been so demanding
As our walk to be closer to God is for all to see
Together at last living our destiny
In China, they’re delighted
For the government just said
They could have a second child –
The old policy is dead.
Though there must be celebration,
There is silence there instead.
Streets are practically deserted –
All the Chinese are in bed!
Donald Trump opposes abortion
The President favors extortion
"We must keep them dumb
And under out thumb
To grope the greatest proportion"
Planning
Set realistic goals: be realistic
Practice it: Practice in the mirror
Zoning by micro-climates my
Yards' spaces, and then
Xeriscaping them to conserve
Water because of the drought, I can
Visualize neat straight furrows
(Under colorful vines
Trailing red, green, and purple grapes)
Saturated with various seedlings:
Radishes, squashes, sprouts, etc.
Quietly absorbing sunlight, and
Pushing roots deeper into my
Organically amended soil.
Nasturtiums, previously planted,
Misdirect insects away from my plants.
Ladybugs, and other predators, help
Keep down the hostiles that got through.
Jumping forward from Spring to Fall,
I can imagine picking tomatoes from the vines,
Harvesting football-sized zucchinis,
Gathering various root vegetables, and
Fruits from bushes and trees.
Eating unwashed sweet peas
Directly from their pods.
Cooking pies from mixed berries I grew;
Baking pumpkin bread or zucchini bread.
Agonizing again over what to plant next year.
PLANNING ADULTERY
Heard his footstep spring upon the stair and stop--
Heard his hand upon the cold brass knob ...and click--
Held her arms as open as her wandering heart could bear--
Heralded her fall...
Victoria Anderson-Throop
Dec 25, 2012
It pays to be prepared for possibilities
None of us know what the future brings
Some of us may face unwanted setbacks
Before the proverbial "fat lady sings."
Things we never could've imagined
Unforeseen illness, a sudden accident
Things happen that we least expect,
Things happen that seem never meant.
Preparation for the unexpected can soften
The hurtful impact of a knockout blow
And, if we have made contingency plans
We have a pre-planned direction to go.
Written October 13, 2021
Christmas comes with planning,
who are you buying gifts for.
What to get them,
what to eat.
Oh well I took the batteries out of my scale,
one problem solved, hooray!!!
Gardens, houses, metaled roads, no tractor and mower
Speed limit grows in reverse, bigger and slower
Brick and concrete slowness teks ower
Sixty, forty, to thirty, where does it stop ?
Down to twenty wi’ houses on top
The infrastructure is little
Planners and government fickle
Greenbelt is pointless and brittle
Farmers berated for removing hedges and trees
Yet with urban spread, it’s the accepted disease
Tyres, bottles, wire, bricks and stone can’t be mown
Poisonous garden waste and domestic rubbish thrown
Working farms overwhelmed, engulfed and surrounded
Unworkable as animals are regularly hounded
Mechanical and vet bills compounded
Abilities and patience are seriously tested
However much time money and effort invested
rubbish knackers machines and kills animals when ingested
It matters not how well the farm is managed
Gates left open, animals and boundaries continually damaged
Old farmhouses swallowed up, all out of place
Invaded by alien architecture, right in their face
Greenfield sites with scant protections
Built-up outline grows more projections
New estates in all directions
Exponential town growth,
Ribbon development, conurbation sloth
gradual creep, sudden crawl
Houses and industrial units, landscape awl
Removes the countryside whole, urban sprawl…
He, as a young man did aspire,
To early in life retire.
A savings plan he began,
To which he continually ran.
Better planning this did require
I will not go for collagen,
I'll just stay away from halogen.
Wake Up Excited
Wonderful Lesson in Mind
It’s Gone By Coffee
a carriage ride dream
historic sites glistening
the tears fall within
Planning Better
The goal line is high,
and it will take most of my life,
to climb to the top.
That is okay,
as an objective needs to be tall enough,
to challenge self, daily...
on the road to a life worth living.
Put your mind on what matters.
Stay to the course,
walk the line.
Time, is running...
out.
A clock on the wall,
the one in the hall,
by the watch the phone
the ticket...
punched out, hit in the face,
but most of all traveled.
Your life in a circle,
that needs to be enlarged,
by stretching the radius...
to its limit.
Then letting go.
A new decade,
leaving the teens behind.
Now we are grown up,
and need to clean the planet,
fight for peace,
demand tolerance...
and know that free will,
is a gift of choice.
Soon all will find a reason to kneel,
to one god or another,
but the truth will shine,
high above the rest.
Brighter than the sun,
"He" will come!
It is written in the book,
It is seen on the land.
It is felt in every heart,
those that accept,
and even those that do not.
Many that fought for darkness,
will be brittle in the shine,
of all things reflective,
of our past, present, and future...
forever.