Best Situations Poems
Flattery lightens the mood
and turns black roses pink,
while hearts get carried away
when love is expressed in ink.
Sweet words when acknowledged
will make your mind blink,
but a pure soul
when duly ignored
in sadness it will sink.
Cheerful the heart would be
enduring its lovers pain,
and gloomy the mood would be
in dreams of sullen rain.
Sometimes the mind is stubborn
and unwilling to obey,
no matter how hard you try
in emptiness it will stay.
Words of love
when truly spoken
will hit you like a dart,
and newly couples
do seek romance
but don't know where to start.
Dust is rather teasey
on days when winds will blow,
and faults in rusty hearts
with time will surely show.
Being an honest person
the truth I always told,
but I only found solace
in hearts of solid gold.
Hard work and perseverance
did make my dreams come true,
but envious friends
without a doubt
would deem the facts untrue.
Plunging into an abyss
shall not resolve my day,
but flashing onto my worthy deeds
will help me find my way.
Today I may prevail
and set my own domain,
but one day I shall regret
good deeds gone in vain.
Saleh Ben Saleh
I am not retired, I am too young
And too broke with too many dreams,
I have promises I did not make hung
Around my neck, and often screams
At my potential to go ahead
But every thing I touch lies dead.
I paid my dues and went to school
Did it all right supporting common law
While gatekeepers invisible made the rule
Building walls and growing claw
It's not my fight for material right
I am better at watching hawks in flight.
I'm better at letting words seed my brain
With images of trees, a fight is worth more
For eternal things, even in the siorm of pain
That in the lonely night cries on the shore
Like waters in the wind. Water makes roots
But dead branches make no fruits
The best thing you can say about today
Is that you have the will to choose
How well you react to
Situations life throws at you
*Image of Rubik's Cube by DA Giphy
Situations and Solutions
Immature, Mickey said, unbalanced, you've everything,
That mindset left you with life choices, all, or nothing.
I take it in peace, query to me from Panama,
That I'm American, a native of Canada.
Idle hands are the devil's workshop; what does it mean?
Translate, the ungodly dig up evil; the unclean.
I love the confidence of those with holy graces.
'Tis great, watching the trusting Christian holding four aces.
I'm tasked by my dad, Albert Einstein, says, don't forget,
Trust nobody's quote that you read on the internet.
Ishmael was God's gift; why Abraham and Hagar?
The prophecy fulfilled that he'll be a great neighbor.
Individualism is like the fountain of youth,
Three things can't be hidden; the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Ice cream castles in the air, sand melting everywhere,
That's realistic, expecting without a prayer.
I cheer a wounding attack, and I think, well of them,
Though attacking me, shows I'm a publicity gem.
It's encouraging to be self-taught, ere all others,
That won't fill your mind with the beliefs of your brothers.
I like to know all there is of new friends and new trends,
Though I can't recall a single thing of my old friends.
I don't want to hear anything from you anyway,
Though I'll fight to my death for your right to have your say.
It's said, Disney liked the bright side of life, old master,
That in fact, no one lives happily ever after.
I turn disasters into an opportunity.
The people fear, and there's financial disunity.
It's always a good thing to want to be somebody,
Think it's best to be specific, not anybody.
I'm keeping properties and respect ordered review,
The passions of the more, prejudices of the few.
I think of love, mercy, and kindness and prove myself,
Thanks for our care and for our God, our true Higher Self.
I would like to be a friend of every working man,
That is what I like to have a friend, just rather than.
It is simple, just dot your "i"s and write a question.
Then end it by crossing your "t"s with a solution.
2022 August 13
SWISS CHEESE
The major connoisseurs of swiss cheese
as incredible as it may seem,
are not the Swiss basement rats.,
are the "voles" from the underground of the
politics....
THINKING OF BEING HAPPY
Just thinking of being happy, our hurried
friend tied the sorrows at the foot of the table,
he took a nap on the riverbed, and when
he woke up ... put his foot in the jackfruit, put
a jacket and went to party in heaven
mouth of the street ...
POLLUTION
The noise pollution is so intense,
the sound volume is so loud that
soon, soon, soon, soon there will be
queues of patients wanting to do
ear transplant ...
WEDDING
Marriage goes through several phases until
that comes to ending ... or not ...:
Initially marriage is a love movie.
Already at home living in two, it's drama ...
In the separation, it doesn't matter who is guilty,
it's either a comedy, or a horror movie ...!
Life can bring many difficult situations!
Often, there’s really no explanation!
No matter how smart or how wise,
Things can take us totally by surprise!
We can often find our life off course.
Many times, being driven by a “dark force.”
I know that it’s hard to know what to do.
Especially with what you
may be going through!
I can’t think of all the right words to say…
To help you make it through another day!
But there’s someone, I can ask you to turn to!
He loves and is most concerned about you!
His name is Jesus! The almighty God is he!
He’s committed to you now! And for eternity!
He’s the one that you can trust and lean on!
And is someone that you can
certainly depend on!
Won’t you give him an opportunity to help you?
He reaches out his hand! Because he loves you!
He is the source with an eternal heavenly treasure!
He can completely fill you!
Beyond measure!
The decision is yours! A choice to be made!
There’s nothing for Jesus what’s worth the “trade!”
He’s everything that any of us can ever think of!
And can do more for you! Than you ever dreamed of!
He’s the alpha and omega! The beginning and the end!
Won’t you allow him to be your
savior and friend???
By Jim Pemberton
There was a woman with a heart of malice,
drowning her sorrows within a chalice
Weep not, brighter days are ahead
Truth sinks in as she lies in bed
The loud cries of her name echo, "Alice"?
wed for decades
retired, children grown
What have we in common?
ten committees
numerous meetings
What has been accomplished?
reunion time
hundreds will attend
Do you want to be there?
many in need
so much we could give
What are we waiting for?
princess kissed frog
then became--Ribbit!
Why do magic spells fail?
I did you wrong,
but you've forgiven--
Hon, is this wine ruined?
wiseacre kid
answers mall Santa:
"Good according to whom?"
distraught woman
on phone with pastor:
"I feel--are you still there?"
Hypnotized, the bare soul asleep
None of the howl could summon it
The morning stars fade in its existence
Engraved within two lives
Path lies but studded with shattered glass
A man came with the tears, voiced his pain
Spewing all the disappointments, lost in his escape
Just like a life that I ever had, stabbed
When everything stuck in a maze of shaft
We both have the same sun
But the sun with a miscellaneous face
Randomly it blasts our universe
But mostly it shines for the sake of itself
Roam in the world called wild, we walk with no guiding cane
We just walk, fingering the trail of remain shadows
Perhaps we are the most regardless creature on earth
For we are blind to the fragility of our own
“Situations”
In the morning when I rise
On Sundays watching the game with the guys
At the table when I eat
In the car bobbing to a beat
At the job on the paper chase
In a session with smoke in my face
In the church listening to the Word
In my notebook combining nouns and verbs
In the gym while making baskets
On the court hitting balls with rackets
In my bed lying all alone
On the field trying to reach the end zone
At the bar buying a drink
Under the stars just trying to think
At the board ironing my clothes
In the club throwing them boes
At the house just trying to chill
At Mama’s house enjoying a meal
At the track kicking up dust
On the corner catching the bus
On the couch taking a nap
In the circle trying to rap
At the mall buying some shoes
In the room feeling the blues
On the porch staring up at the sky
In the encyclopedia trying to find out why
In the yard manning the grill
Under the weather waiting to be healed
In a boat pulling fish out the water
Under the hood putting on a new starter
On the side of the road fixing a flat tire
On my knees saying prayers getting ready to retire
In the kitchen cooking it up for my lady
At Victoria’s Secret buying a gift for my baby
With my boys bragging on my girl
On the clock slaving just to give you the world
But regardless where I’m at and regardless what I do
The only thing constant is I always think of you
It's a complicated situation that I'm facing.
Between broken dreams and death planning conversations.
Constantly asking myself why I feel out of Gods hands into the arms of satin.
Praying for life after death but deep down questioning continuation.
I weary from all the back stabbing and sins and it mostly generates from my
family and friends.
Please lord tell me will this pain every end.
Can I ever walk with you and make Amen’s?
Cause only you can ever know where my soul really been.
The devils getting closer and he is coming in the forms of many men.
I hate to say it but I opened up the doors and let them in.
They pass me the weed and beer to through off my concentration.
Go to job interviews the next day say words but don't know the pronunciation.
By DNA have a father but mentally there is no relation.
It's sad to say it's darker by the day.
It took two buildings to fall before the nation united and prayed.
After the fact Mr. Bush send eighteen year old to Iraq to be living in their last days.
These are my situations
Spray faith all around you lest you should go astray
Clinging to and clutching shells of emptiness
In your conformance to the spiritual and moral ray
That stresses naughtiness and pettiness
Hoping to raise standards
Steeped in diligence and excellence
To keep all stakeholders and guards
On their toes as they strive for diligence
To urge you make up your mind
To lift spaces and times
Friends and foes grind
Into the plasticity and elasticity they like in their climbs
To fancies and fantasies they hold dear
With their eyes, ears and brains
At the ready to deflect fear and tear
From treasures and pleasures teeming in trains
That fly high the flag of achievements
Friends and fiends score as they pore
Over strategies and techniques that catalyze developments
In mining opportunities concealed in the main role
You surmise mean well
For further progress and friends and fiends digress
Energy, synergy and strategy in a groundswell
They believe feeds and favours the tigress
Who plays cards too close to her chest
Assuming you’d fume
Puff and bluff over silly stuff gone to waste
When you determine there ain’t no point in dwelling on gloom and doom
As you make the last ditch effort to stitch
Worn and drawn out palaver
You believe no longer can teach or preach
Fidelity, certainty, loyalty and humility to your estranged lover.
Flights of Human Fantasy
They come to each of us, at times, in our deep dreams.
And they speak to us of possibilities that address and
echo certain events and situations:
The Time,
The Place,
And the “If” and “When,”
And they give each of us, at times,
A “Soul’s View of Our Earthly Life,”
And what to do, what to dream of and hope for
As each of us seek to confront and to understand
Our Human Moments of fear, doubts, and strife.
And our conscious abilities to overcome them all.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
June 6, 2023 (Verse)
Flowers festoon the streets of pain
The media is saying here comes political gain
There are ‘situations’ and ‘incidents’ so they say
They wheel out a spokesman who ever is flavour of the day
Try to deliver bad news with a celebrity sparkle
Doesn’t help the ‘situation’ from becoming a debacle
Promises are made in the debris of life
Cuts very deep like a social knife
‘Heard it before’ shouts a voice from the crowd
Another joins in social justice got loud
Sometimes I sit back and Wonder: What If I only married that dude I thought was so special
Will I be in this situation? (My situations im in as of today)
Answer: Probably Not
But I’m Glad that it ended when it did
Because I’ve would’ve been unhappy trying to be happy with that decision.
True the heart is far more treacherous then any other.
But at that point my heart knew who it wanted, where it wanted to be, and why it felt the way
it did.
Who would’ve known that the happy I feel more now then past would’ve been caused by this
Other that seems too compatible.”Daydreaming but I can’t let this moment pass”
Only time will heal all are past wounds
Who would’ve known this one I felt I never end up with would’ve been the one that makes
me slip a smile
Even on my worst of days knowing good and will I don’t want to smile you still manage to
make that happen.
Maybe deep down inside you knew all the time.
I must admit I feel you was the one that saw me when no one else did (I can be wrong)
I can only imagine. Because you saw me when I was Invisible knowing my flaws.
Differences, mistakes, my past and all
Yet you still see the best and potential in me. I guess anything is possible at this time.
I question this new found thing; were we ever meant to be or did a twist just happen?
Infatuation or Love? Could it be both?
Did lives really change? Confused?
To be continued: