To lighten the load, just remove the straw that broke the camel’s back.
4/19/2022
You look like death on vacation,
would it kill you to smile once in a while
Looking happy could be a good thing ---
more girls, for sure, it would bring
But the smile has to have warmth;
it can't be fake, can't be forced
Nobody likes to be around
someone looking down in the dumps
You got to lighten up,
you gotta raise a cheerful cup
You got to let your hair down,
can't always be wearing a frown
You got to lighten up,
let the sun shine in
Don't always have a dark cloud
hanging over you, following ...
If you're looking like death
three weeks warmed over
Then you need a spiritual four-leaf clover
Once you lighten up,
everything won't feel like it suck
Watch how it will change your luck,
transform your life, until you can't get enough
of happiness and such
If this is what you want, then I insist
you lighten up
Quit looking so down,
see all these bright clouds floating around
Lighten up and rise,
feel the love that everywhere abounds
Don't argue
Don't get upset at all the little things
Don't take things so personally
Lighten up and smile
Don't be rude
Don't respond to every little thing I write
Don't type until you think about what to write
Lighten up and smile
Lighten up man
The earth doesn't need more dullness
The earth needs more cheerfulness so lighten up man
There was a
beautiful woman
Too old for you
She lived
in the energy
Of lifes worn shoe
With things to plan
And thoughts to hatch
She stayed inside
Where it was warm
and grown...organic
Comforting and
surreal in
the reality
Of the old souls
leather
The walls behind her
every corner
She sipped her tea
and baked her bread
with pleasant thoughts
in her head
writing the
healing songs
along life's journey
She sat in her chair
the most comforting one
and thought to herself
this is all I need
for the moment
This old shoe
to live in
and these walls
of leather
with tea sipped
and bread baking
writing her healing
without venturing
outside until the
time when she
felt she needed
a breath of fresh air
and a lives completion
tears of sadness
tears of delight
fall from my eyes
pain and loss burn deep
whereas tears of joy
carry hope
soft voices spoken
in love and lust
may roar in anger
destroying the soul
tender touch of a hand
raised in wrath and hatred
weigh heavy on your heart
lighten up
push through to the light
make sense of your life
We went on a Lampoon vacation
Drove damn near across our great nation
We found Wally World
The rides made me hurl
(Can’t repeat Wally’s exclamation)
Submitted for: Carolyn’s contest
Lighten up! Don’t lose your mind, losing
Looking back, you've had lucky breaks
Learning lessons from mistakes
Letting loose with license
Leave early, come late
Live and let live
Love's losers
Leap then
Look
written September 26, 2013
Reason A. Poteet
Lighten up
You know those feelings come in waves
One day you'll be back on dry land
Breathing the sea air
Not
choking on salt water
Unless god forbid it's medical
In which case I prescribe
Reading or better still
Writing poetry
Until the pain
Subsides
Why not dance 'round in the yard;
so that life will not seem as hard?
Give thanks and hum a few prayers.
Now, just use these items through the years,
to lighten-up your burdens,crosses, and cares.
Copyright McCuen 2009
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