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tribute to gratitude

I never thought of it as more than a side stream
a rivulet of minor proportion and influence
until the miracles and blessings appeared

always about me and more and right now
centre of the universe deserved pole position
up to the time disaster struck hard and fast

today I have resolved to take nothing for granted
am grateful for the privilege of being alive
for food water sheltered abode and love in abundance

an inner war has abated and peace has arrived
sobriety in body mind soul and great spirit
grant me the vital force of existential existence

what cannot be changed I am able to accept
that which can be I try to alter and amend 
and I am beginning to know the difference

in the here and now of today
I am thankful to feeling gratitude
now life flows on its own appreciation

A Moment in Time

As the music played, eyes strayed,
She moved; she grooved...On fire!
Her hands explored, own flesh adored,
She read then fed my desire.
 
Together we danced, eyes romanced,
Lust slipped its script to her.
My body baked, hunger ached,
Lips brushed, blood rushed, a blur.
 
We left the hub, the seething club,
Outside my stride was strong.
Her pad was near, intentions clear,
Clothes ripped, she stripped to a thong.
 
Fingers dived, on fervor arrived,
Keen hands took command of me.
Fell to her knees, desperate to please,
Die cast, hard and fast her plea.
 
My hands found hair, torrid affair,
My mind was blind from bliss.
She pulled away, a game to play,
She crawled then called for a kiss.
 
Clothes were gone, two became one,
Inside my pride did swell.
Hard and deep, heat's tempo we'd keep,
We'd fight for the right to excel.
 
A war was waged, a battle raged,
Our cries the prize we shared.
I felt it build, almost fulfilled,
Not yet, her threat, eyes glared.
 
I did respond and went beyond,
I tried, we cried and won.
Together we came, eyes aflame,
Enraptured we'd captured the sun.

my dice answers all questions

My dice answers all questions; just take a roll.
Absolutely right; do not doubt yourself
You are looking under the wrong rock
Your heart is in the right place; keep going

Run hard and fast, do not look back.
Is that really your question?
I chuckle a bit when someone gets that one.
You have the answers; this die cannot help you.

People keep running up to my table begging me for help.
I hand them the die, and smile.

October 30 2024

October 30/2024
Miracle Man

With age came the realization, 
that most good times lay in my past.
Often these become a temporary fixation,
and I cling to these both hard and fast.

My want to do useful things has remained, 
but ability no longer shows its face.
My mobility today is now restrained,
and I dream of life in a better place.

Desire and Ability are two horses
with different pedigrees.
Tom

Visions

"Visions"

Poetry must speak to you
you must listen
not to what the mind speaks
but to what the heart delivers

some have the vision 
some do not
this is truth 
sometimes the truth is too hot

you think you are getting close

too close to the other who is touched
you are not for getting that close
to such insanity to be touched
by a poem that holds no rhyme

and so the story goes
life is a never-ending poem 
with no hard and fast rhyme  
the soft valued curves come and go 

there, in that place of listening
time has drawn no hard line 
you will feel 
that you must bargain with reason 

logic in that place
holds no importance
you will feel, and 
you must  listen, 

not to what the mind speaks
but to what the heart delivers  
Poetry must speak to you 
the better part of you must listen

some have the vision 
some do not
there in that place of listening
logic, like the mind, holds no importance


Candide Diderot. ‘24

Pools amassed

I formed in the heavens; they built me in a pure overcast
Concrete looks far too weak to break my fallings contrast
All flower petals decreed a landscape grown to everlast
I will nurture them; in Sun to Moon, this time lines passed
Are you the reapers breaking their stem via fatal dismast?
I will defeat you with relentless moisture unsurpassed
Nourishment is my very gift to the fortifying fibroblast
I am not one, I am Legions found in the storms forecast
Absorbed, watering them and feeding until all are colorfast
From springs Allium till autumn's Zinnia falls hard and fast
I am raindrops acting out the script for which I'm typecast
Draw me in my friends before we are just pools amassed

BEULAH MARIE

This time I'm doing it
Release...out from me
Snag, pivot, swirl
Up, over, next to,
....around

Where am I found

Lost in the dark
Or maybe the light
Following hard and fast
After LOVE's guide
 
...REVELATION

Void, pain, agony
Tomorrow, again
Sick of it all
Can I die, already, please
...hope

Film removed
Like the optometrist's lens
Fear, doubt, unbelief
Removed in the cleanse

...BEULAH born

Open and pure
Let all things be
Growth will come
Shedding judgment
...restoration

In the BELOVED

Written by Trudy Schrader on 04-03-2024

Note: Beulah (House of God) Marie (Beloved)

world I never imagined

I have never seen children who cannot listen as hard as these students
They could if their mouths ever shut, but they are perpetually open.
Words coming hard and fast, for they may have never been listened to.
At home, or anyplace else. And now here they are, babbling away.
Thinking their opinions are more important than the teacher’s.
I feel like I have fallen upside down into the Twilight Zone.
It is a world that I as a child could have never imagined or fathomed.

Jasper the Artist

Kenya’s Goddess came in hard and fast
With wind that ruffled the grasses of the savannas
The trees felt her presence and cringed
Wondering if she would uproot them
She is all powerful they warned the animals
The lions stayed to watch, but the meerkats hid

Kenyas Goddess

Kenya’s Goddess came in hard and fast
With wind that ruffled the grasses of the savannas
The trees felt her presence and cringed
Wondering if she would uproot them
She is all powerful they warned the animals
The lions stayed to watch, but the meerkats hid

Young Love

She met him when her heart was young,
Fell hard and fast, but it was a feeling unsung.

Time would take her down so many roads,
Where life seemed so hard as darkness explodes.

Breathless prayers led her to stop her mayhem,
Her road turned narrow, but life wouldn’t condemn.

When she met him again, so many years later,
Her heart was improved by love from the Creator.

Together, they shared a journey – memory’s elation,
Promised to write their story of love’s amazing sensation.

As time passed, for them, the story grew more perfect,
Bonded by love growing wild in hearts who know respect.

She met him when her heart needed a friend,
And, he was certainly her feelings greatest godsend.

Although I can’t tell you if and when their story might end,
I know that their love story is one my words will forever defend.

I’m thankful that I know this story, which was grown by my soul,
It is a story built by God’s great gift, love that makes hearts whole!

Advantage of Being Childlike

What is that? I asked staring into the rainbow mist.
There was movement, and it was coming hard and fast.
Others did not see, but I ran toward the rainbow.
Determined to see what I thought I saw.

No one ran after me; people consider me strange.
Pixies, elves, faeries and a leprechaun greeted me.
Where are the others? The leprechaun asked.
He handed me his pot of gold too.

I kept it a secret for years and years.
Being childlike has its advantages.
Not only did I meet pixies, elves and faeries.
But gold comes in handy.

The only downside is that the leprechaun lives with you.
He moves in and does not move his feet when you vacuum.
He does not bathe, and his teeth are decaying and smelly.
But the gold was nice while it lasted.

Attitude Determines My Day

Attitude Determines My Day
Miracle Man
3/7/2023

My day always starts out Robin Egg Blue,
But soon life’s nagging problems will ensue.

I begin each day running in high gear,
but I quickly slow as dark clouds appear.

Pleasant things in life I have oft looked past,
to the raspier I'm bound, hard and fast.

Sometimes I think, I ‘ll recall forever,
but these thoughts from my past I must sever,


“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort”.
Herm Albright

The Coldest Winter In Michigan

It was the coldest winter I have met and survived to speak about.
In Michigan, at a friend’s house, only maybe she was not a friend.
I had no idea she would turn on me, and become ugly with words.
There was no place to go; this was a country home, and I was on foot.
The snow was piling up hard and fast. The wind chill was ridiculous.
I tried a few times to apologize, without knowing what I had done.
Di did not return to school. In silence her mom drove me back.
Di seemed depressed and despondent. I never heard from her again.

Willburger Zee

Willburger Zee never felt like he fit in with his family.
How much unalike as them could he possibly be?
His accent was different, his language was a new way.
None of them understood him at the end of a day. 

It’s not like he felt disrespected, just misunderstood.
How could these people relate? He wished that they would.
When he aged out at thirteen, he understood at last.
For memories of his planet came back hard and fast.

He had been sent in a space ship pod, all by himself.
From a planet in the next galaxy named McZigger McElf.
He discovered his space ship pod, and found his way back.
What do you think? Asked his daddy. Do we need to attack?

Earthlings can be awful, Willburger Zee readily admitted.
But before you get the armies coated and outfitted,
Know that there are a few who are kind and loving and nice.
So, the king spared our planet on his sage son’s advice.

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