Life Often Plates Things
That We Don’t Like
Written: by Tom Wright
2/10/2018
Sometimes life plates more than can be eaten,
And results don’t reward our feint and “duckin.”
By rebuffing thoughts that perhaps we’re beaten,
Jesus makes a way for us to keep on “truckin.”
Being incapacitated briefly brings no undue shame,
For Jesus is the one who appears in our corner.
Through Him we keep rising and continue life’s game,
Disinterested in becoming the Devil’s chief mourner;
Keep on “Truckin”
Or
Try Till You Die
Thoughts of Miracle Man
On 10/5/2018
As my tomorrows lessen,
My today’s find me mired in a sea of pills,
Which extend life, while inhibiting my living it.
Others utter the words, can’t, shouldn’t, and don’t,
But these words only incite me to be more determined.
Idle talk, idle time, and being cautious have never been me; why begin now?
Most thoughts are of things locked away in my past,
While I crave those things that now are memories,
My focus is on eternity.
Revise?
What a waste of time
Get your message out to the masses
as soon as is humanly possible!
Make a living from poetry?
Almost impossible
Except if you are Rupi Kaur
or the late Rod McKuen
We poets love the genre
so we keep on "truckin…"
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