Long Difficult to know Poems

Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the...

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A conversation that ends as you sweep through the door
I didn't quite hear, my position unsure
So I'll make idle chit chat on your return
Test the water, see what I can learn
Oh maybe I imagined it,...

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The hectic world is like a giant ocean.
Every day we wake up and dive in.
We dive into our work, activities, or 
errands we must do inside this great big world of blue!

Our friends and family,...

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The character trait I'm portraying is not those mentioned. It's the running narrative anxiety causes.

The secondary comments are lifted from things my friends say. So somewhere in-between is maybe the more accurate picture.

I'm not sure...

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I am an avid reader now, but when I was younger…years ago
In school my teacher admonished me because I read so slow.

It was there and then I learned words have the power to make one...

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Every part  is  good,
but nothing like  the  head!
it helps us  to  plan,
and  keep  the  knowledge we use.

The brain in the skull,
helps us to think,
although it's hard,
to...

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I am an avid reader now that I’m older, but not so long ago
back in school I was admonished because I read too slow.

For many years I did not read: no books…no prose…no verse
I’m reading...

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I’ve always wondered why people enjoy sunsets more than sunrises, I thinks it’s the same way people prefer the novelties of life, I reference myself to sunsets, I’m beautiful when gone and I shine the...

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Masks have different 
kind.
To know their motive, 
no one can find.
Carefulness,prudent,knowledge 
and wisdom
are require in any 
kingdom. 

Stoles put on 
Creator's mask.
Present prophet 
Elijah,who preach
to gain 
power,praise,money 
and bask.
They live different 
from their speech.

Demons come...

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Christmas years ahead...
holograms that come alive
standing in our midst;
Santa, reindeer, Christmas trees
come and go with just a switch.

No more shopping malls...
All gifts picked and bought online
delivered by drones,
that fly 'round the world in hours;
pickup for...

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Political and health epidemics
Are the topic of the news
It seems each day they intensify
Authorities all have different views

Normal carefree days are gone
There's tension and unrest
Solutions, often are hard to find
It's difficult to know what is...

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I suppose I would be considered shy
as I'm pretty reserved with folk
having a stammer effect that reserve
find it even difficult asking for a coke

Outgoing would never describe me
even without my stammer, I'd be reserved
some of...

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When searching for the key to happiness 
It’s difficult to know exactly what to do
Sometimes I wonder if we should be looking
into our sadness too…

We should look for someone who knows our sadness
who can see...

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Life doesn't always play out,
the way you want it to.
Situations leave us with doubt,
deciding the right thing to do.

I have made mistakes along the way.
Not always making the right choice.
It is difficult to know what...

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The tears are rolling down your check...
The storm is warbling in the sky...
The world seem so empty to you...
On you kneel you fall down and cry each night...
Your heart is broken into pieces...
You are forced...

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You left and went away and I took over
It’s been a hard cross to bear heavily on my shoulder
Everyone misses you and wants you back
I’ve tried my best to pick up the slack

To walk a...

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October manifesto 
 
I came across a paper on it was written” October document.”
no date, nothing at all.
This prompted me to look in the mirror at the face looking back at me
an elderly man with...

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Average intelligence is difficult to know
with running buffoons thinking they are more
in tight skinned pants.  The sole lagger
in basketball shorts is trying to keep up with them,
the wind pushing behind them while pounding him...

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You are too dark, 
too unimportant,
your stomach is bulging,
they said..
Thank God for this angel,
she didn't let negativity settle in my head,
Although I am a man,
I never thought the day would come when I would see,
myself...

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His first love

 No, it was not a dream there was a war going on
of which he understood little only that the German soldiers
that was camped nearby gave him chocolate.
He had met a little girl...

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Opinion can split us apart
As we contemplate a place to start
What is your opinion of it all
Or do you need one when they brawl?

In older generations the right seemed to brightly shine
Nazi Hordes were evil...

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And how did you end up in this,
what a life that you created yourself
and nobody can forge it for you.
It is your inspiration that led you
to this or perhaps the lack of it.
To create your...

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Everything needs to change
It hurts, it pains but;
Everything needs a change
It kills, it stings but;
Everything has to change.

Learn to forget the old past
It's difficult I know, but;
Learn to accept the new future
It's not easy I...

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Reading is a cinch, the lady bug said.
I plan to do it all day today and maybe tomorrow.
I don’t get it said five-year-old-Fred.
It brings me all kinds of anguish and sorrow.

Maybe you don’t do it...

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It is difficult to know what it is
Perhaps it is a billiard table
With a myriad of billiard balls
Each one knocking on the other

Perhaps it is not a billiard table
Because there are rational lives
Acting through irrational...

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