Happy Poems

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Topic: Birthday of Seth M. Paje (July 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...Read More

Church Today

The small church sanctuary was empty. 
Well, not really, that is never exactly true. 
There are always angels, 
playing in the rafters, 
tiptoeing across the piano keys, 
or chasing each other, 
back and forth among the flowers.

Sometimes they go...Read More

A Glass of Wine

In a box, 
a cake is hidden. 
I opened it slowly, 
and looked inside. 
All I found…
was a bag, 
and dust. 

Add this, mix that, 
be hopeful and hurry. 
The mistake, 
was in the flurry. 

Whipped topping,
everywhere,...Read More

White Angels, Glowing Lamps

When the wind blows, 
down from the great north, 
it brings a mighty frost. 
Do not be afraid. 
Just because something, 
makes you tremble, 
does not give it the right…
to win. 

Stand tall, all who guard the...Read More

Older Than I Remember

Things have not gone, 
the way that you believe they should. 
I have not said a thing. 
Things are not what they need to be, 
but that does not matter. 
I will stand beside you forever. 

Getting...Read More

The Winter Hours

Cold is not my friend. 
It loves me, 
but it is not…
a mutual affair. 
Slowly, artfully, cruelly, 
my joints begin to freeze up. 
They ache in the morning. 
They are soar in the afternoon. 
They are painful later...Read More

Melted snow forms a swamp in the yard
Pours down the sidewalks, into the street gutters
Children in slick yellow rain coats are jumping in puddles
Delighted that they can play outside again

We are two weeks past the ides of March.
Hopeful gardeners are...Read More

The Cane

Not made of candy, but real wood. 
It belonged to my father’s father, 
and his father, before him. 

No, they were all good man. 
all equally healthy and mostly happy. 
The one thing they all had, 
that was shared…...Read More

An Alliance

The world is calling out, 
for a time…
when things the are true, 
they are not, 
and they should be.
 
Undetermined, 
yet ordained opposites,
facts instead of dreams. . 

Lunacy. 
the normal…
mental…
path.

Bipolar…
got my scripts.
yesterday. 

The weak and the lost, 
a band...Read More

Far above skies,
Destined never to plummet,
Leaving earth's ties,
You've reached your summit.

As surely as I see you there,
You kept alive the flame;
Now in its sudden glare-
The whole world knows your name.

Sitting happy and proud,
In your beautiful clothes,
You wave to the crowd;
Someone...Read More

The water mark is still evident on the wall
You can still see where the rain had fall
The stain must have been there for many years
And every time it reappears 
Sending chills into my ears
It embraces an interesting story 
that will...Read More

It wasn't a memory as such but a story, 
Recounted time and again by parents loving and proud.
Young men are too occupied chasing visions and fleeing demons 
To remember.
Middle age concerns lean towards practicality, keeping or escaping it.
If there was...Read More

Abandoned



                 You used to read me!
                 Now you...Read More

On the first day of life, the heart wanted peace. 

On the second day of life, the eyes had to see happiness and peace.

On the third day of life, the ears wanted to hear words of praise, feeling happy and...Read More

Another Christmas Day will soon be here again,
It used to be my favorite time of year.
Now it's not as much fun 
Celebrating for one,
When the one I'd like to share it with's not here.

I still send out some Christmas cards...Read More

The Red Bag

Big and jolly, lots of folly, 
what do you have in the bag?
It is full of toys and gifts. 
It is full of mirth and laughter. 
It is full of all the things, 
that make us wish for…
and...Read More

New and Reused…Wrappings

Paper,
blue, green and red, 
yellow and gold together, with bells. 
I dream about all the holidays, 
that have passed by, 
since you left. 

They have been good, 
and bad, and hard and full.
Many were also empty. 
Some were...Read More

The Line

At the store, 
there was a sea of people. 
Not one or two or a thousand, 
drops from heaven, 
that never stopped
On a parched land
of holiday cheer. 

Shopping lists, 
wish lists, 
Christmas lists, 
and the like, 
none to show...Read More

An echo murmured back look at yourself, You see you'
Reflection – mirror image of me of my dreams
Staring all I see is me in you
Glaring and glaring with my reflection
Selfishly pointing in at my direction
The ephemerality brought such sorrow
My visage...Read More

The Snow Falls

Softly my love, 
I watch every flake,
come slowly from no where, 
outside my vision, 
beyond the window boundaries,
magical…even whimsical…
the white soft “above”, 
to the hard ground here below. 
soon a giant blanket of pure…beauty. 

You fell asleep in...Read More

What Party Are You?

Huh?
Does it matter?
Who I voted for? 
I am alive, 
so it was legal. 
I have not been dead, 
for thirty years. 
Surely that is enough. 

If I tell you this or that, 
you will condemn me
for the...Read More

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Dear Santa,

How you doing,
hope this message finds you well
I know it’s almost Christmas
and you’re busier than hell

I really hate to ask you
but I know I have been nice
Except for just a couple things
and maybe something twice

But if you could be...Read More

She’s taken to folding paper 
As a hobby 
It’s what makes her happy now ,  I think (?)

Spends hours 
Making sheet after sheet
Into this ‘n’ that 
Different shapes 
Things that sometimes move
Things that prove
It’s possible to block out anything...Read More

New Friends

High and low I have looked for you.
You are hard to find.
I talked to everyone, but they think...
I am crazy.
Where are you?

Low and high, I can not see,
me, with you.
I wish that you would love me back,
but you can...Read More

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