call me a fool cause
I'd rather be called a fool
then called a liar
Tony Dean Driskell
% I've been known to do some very foolish things
in my life and that I can live with.
% I can't say I've ever been labeled a liar though
and that I am very proud of.
A fool can out grow they're foolish behavior and redeem him or herself but
a liar, once labeled a liar must constantly be on the
move like a virus avoiding being exposed to the the cure.
God's kind of poetry, wow where can I begin.
God's kind of poetry, I only know it stays honest till the end.
I can't envision or even fathom explaining perfection through God's eyes but describing his brilliance brings me much pleasure and glory and for that I'll gladly compete for this prize.
If exposed to his complete creation, I imagine atheist would spend their entire lives looking for a single hint of a flaw.
I said their entire lives, cause it would pass them by in amazement of what they just saw.
God's meaningful messages can flow through you gracefully and with timely understanding.
God's important lessons can even bump into you if you was busy and not closely listening.
I imagine God's art is so complicated yet premeditated, it can't be traced or ever forged.
If with hate or even simple disbelief in your soul, reach out to Lucifer and become forever heavenly purged.
God's kind of poetry, I'm so glad I began.
God's Kind of poetry, I pray through life's obstacles, it remains instilled in me till the end.
Contest Poem
Tony Dean Driskell 9/27/2014
Seven gun shots, three of them taken by me!
Now and forever, I sit permanently here in this uniquely customized chair today.
I can't feel ****, I'm paralyzed from my hips down to my toes today.
If I could somehow miraculously go back in the day, today.
I'd take back all my thuggish ways and glamorous days and gladly walk rite back here
with you today.
It saddens me to know though that the truth is if we went back in the day, today and
you explained to me my life's situation today.
I would have told you to go to hell, I can live no other way today.
Seven gun shots, three taken and all of them could have been avoided by me!
TONY DEAN DRISKELL
this poem's message can be heard in infinity different ways
(YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GOT UNTIL IT'S GONE)
* (KNOWLEDGE is POWER) & I'm just a pawn with a vision to someday be KING *
even a bum can teach us something *
Days and nights napping to sleep.
Night after night to day again, life is becoming shorter and shorter.
Day time naps seem to be getting longer and longer.
Naps so deep, they lay parallel next to only endless sleep.
Naps that protect from the bedbugs and welcome all sheep.
Naps so stuffed and suffocating, you won't even smell your favorite home cooked
plate.
Naps that are dominating and so in charge that they only give you permission to wake,
under strict circumstances of suffering caused by the urgent pressure to urinate.
Naps so dark and black they devour they're pitch rite from beneath home plate.
Naps so intimidating and scary that even a yawn will make you weep.
Naps so determined and dedicated, its only guarantee is to eventually transition into
forever, permanent, endless sleep.
Nights and days napped to sleep.
Tony Dean Driskell
Our flag crumbled the fell crushing its HONOR.
We the people felt humbled, not swell lusting new power.
TRUST finally gave way, now tragically lost.
For more dust we pray, even knowing the cost.
Confused because facing two separate ways,
RESPECT was desperate and left in a maze.
MORALS were abandoned, now new trends left free to spark.
The moon's royals became short handed it only stays dark.
In the end our PRIDE, it was drowning.
As we the people cried, ( please no frowning ).
PRIDE - * HONOR my TRUST & RESPECT my MORALS *
this poem of the future should be read in a chant form.
TONY DEAN DRISKELL 2nd
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