Best Sayin Poems
cutting corners to let the cat out of the bag feeling under the weather adding insult to injury Break a leg A piece of cake costs an arm and a leg killing two birds with one stone Speak of the devil hit the nail on the head Once in a blue moon You can’t judge a book by its cover
When you get to the point
Your soul bleeds
Pain ...
You will write
Like I said
I'm just
Sayin.....
James ...........
You’re hiding in the shadows,
your voice is full of scorn,
your thoughts fragmented windows,
your life a chess master’s pawn.
You think you know the answers,
you very seldom concede,
you never accept the equation,
you don’t notice when you bleed.
You laugh in the face of discretion,
you constantly refuse advice,
you shut out the people you know,
you roll their worth with dice.
You’re the solution to the problem,
you’re the knife to the steel,
when will you finally understand
your scars will never heal?
Written: circa 1993
Time and Opportunity
God’s vehicles,
Which provide us the means to excel.
God’s Painter
Each day comes to me as a blank canvas,
God holds me accountable for each brushstroke placed thereon.
Apathy
A brain awash with good ideas becomes a parking lot,
When the highway to the tongue has a bridge out
Perception
If you think badly of me, so be it,
I shan’t waste the words at my disposal
Endeavoring to change your mind
Positivity
Some people are successful because of
While others are successful in spite of
Hand in Hand
One cannot be unwilling to accept risk
Without settling for mediocrity
Positive Thinkers
The vision that we maintain of ourselves
Is what we invariably become
I hear folks sayin' they have the right
To determine what goes into their bodies,
They are putting up an audacious fight
While scarfing down alcoholic toddies.
We have no idea what’s in the foods we eat
Chemicals and preservatives are so prevalent,
While inking up our skin, thinking it’s so neat
While performing a most dangerous stunt.
We don’t like being told what to take
Especially when it comes from Uncle Sam,
But we eagerly turn to the government
When we get ourselves into a financial jam.
We take the pills our doctor prescribes
And, frankly, some that our doctor doesn’t
So why are we writing all these diatribes
And taking medical advice from a cousin?
If I have a question, I’ll trust Doctor Fauci,
Who’s studied immunology his whole life
Suffering through a tiny jab … an “ouchee”
And cut out all the phony-baloney strife!
writen October 19, 2021
When the light comes, and my land is bright,
that's when people want to stand by me.
Where they at when I'm struggling?
Coencidentely, as far away as can be...
I've got so much to say, So much too say!
Nobody wants to hear my struggles portrayed.
Not when their days aren't gray.
I might be contagious,
it might rain on their parade.
I know I can. I Know I can...
Get over it.
Whatever it is....
I'm tired of the suspense.
Not knowing what to expect...
With the faith of ZIon.
I've got the heart of a lion.
Hard as two diamonds.
With a voice as strong as a choir.
Always writing fire.
That can't be extinguished.
That will burn every page you lift.
Trust your eyes and ears.
Open up.
Listen to it.
I'm just sayin'...
a Tesla driver placed a note over the emblem on its hood ... it reads
IDENTIFYING AS A CHEVY TODAY
Do not park
Under a tree
And then bristle
About bird droppings
Atop your car
I'm just sayin'
Date written and posted: 10/27/2017
Setting on a park bench going nowhere
when a blind stranger taps me on one shoulder
he opens his newspaper, then says Right-There
look at that, would you, I say: I'm talkin' to a solider
Wait till I'm off this phone please
without another word he sets beside me,
opens a lunch box with a squeakie lid, sneeze
being that man I am, handing him a tissue, see
Ya know, feelin' imposed upon, yet he seeming friendly
I really wanted to be alone, though your here now said I
please make yourself comfortable, while I finish-calmly
saying Good-Bye
Waistin' no time at all to strike up a chat
he stated please Mr. did you read this mornin' paper
have you heard it's a funeral, an what people are sayin'
our king of Rock & 'Roll' passed, on his way to his maker
No-way, not today it's a beautiful day
are you sure it says that
have a look for yourself said he-ay
read it to me I'm blind, I thought as I set
I'd love to help you, only I can't read
Oh! I'm sorry I asked you
living in this park, what do you need, are you homeless,
Not at all kind Sir, stood-up with cane-I'm a little blind too
We said a small prayer, Thank you! Good-Bye Elvis
I know there's nothing I can say to you
that will change your mind, you say
it's the end of an era and a new one
has just begun but listen to me as I
leave this echo in your head 'cuz you
will never get away from me no matter
how far you run...
I'm JUST SAYIN' my love for you will
go on and on long after you're gone
and I'm JUST SAYIN' you will feel me
like the cold and icy winter wind as
the moon moves across the blue ridge
mountains and shines through the bare
trees...
I'm JUST SAYIN' nothing can change
what we had when we had it all no oh
so I'm JUST SAYIN', I’m JUST SAYIN'
and I ain't playing, JUST SAYIN'!
I'd like the light throughout the tunnel and blessings undisguised.
I don't want the silver lining but a day of cloudless skies.
Closed doors for opened windows shouldn't have to compromise.
And grass growing greener would look better on both sides!
Ain't Playin just Sayin,
it is what it is.
Life is a gift,
we gotta and let live.
Don't care what it's not,
though I know what is.
Life is a Gift, thank GOD, and live.
If we open our ears and our minds
truly listen to each other
We might be startled to find
that we're all sisters and brothers
I'm stayin' up too late again
but wanna say this to you, my friends:
Your presence to me has more value
than champagne soaked diamonds coated with all the tea in China
pixie dusted to oblivion's paradise paradoxically coated with
olive oil and sweat pheroming gruntingly
grudgingly
boisterously beautifully
to somewhere.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thank you. Very much.
At three years old
he pushed open the bathroom door
informed me that
"Monsters don't have eyes".
John G. Lawless
5/8/2020