Always Be On the Lookout For Good But Still Able To Spot Bad
First and foremost
Always be on the lookout for the good
And seek to find the best in everyone
So long as that doesn't come at the expense
Of leaving you blind and unable to spot
The bad as well
Otherwise because they are able to
You will most definitely do for them
And at that point even you will be
Forced into realizing
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Categories:
lookout, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Sunset At Champlain Lookout
mirrored dying light of day rivers red blood veins dissect the scene
01/19/19
For Kim Rodrigues'
Bring Color Back Into My World Poetry Contest
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Categories:
lookout, river, sunset,
Form: Monoku
Blueberry Festival In Sioux Lookout
Blueberry Festival In Sioux Lookout
Travel north off the Trans-Canada
On Highway seventy-two,
And cross the Frog Rapid Narrows
Of the English River system
To enter Sioux Lookout,
On Pelican Lake,
‘Hub of the North’
And gateway to Lac Seul.
Legend has it and told by the elders,
That in days past,
A mountain
Was used by the Ojibway as a lookout,
To scan the horizon
For approaching Sioux
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Categories:
lookout, celebration, culture, joy, summer,
Form: Verse
Categories:
lookout, life,
Form: Free verse
He Stands Lookout
Sentinel Pinus never-ending guard
Hovering fog above mirrored fish pond
albeit wry through the years passed beyond
he stands lookout on deck for his reward
Weary years have gone by, but still proud to serve his
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Categories:
lookout, appreciation, dog, imagery, love,
Form: Quatrain
On the Lookout
ON THE LOOKOUT
native to the scene –
the yellowstone grand canyon -
this fat black raven
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Categories:
lookout, animal,
Form: Haiku
Lookout
LOOKOUT
From the very top of a tree
I watch what grounded ones can’t see
That meandering line in the grass
The hurry-scurrying tips of blades just stirring
You feel so a part of the sky
A breeze tickles your feet by and by
A tree upside down
Like a leafy merry-go-round
Far and wide Earth laid flat
A
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Categories:
lookout, life, nature
Form: Rhyme
The Lookout Point
Oh as the great Ernest Hemmingway once said ... If you can't live without hamsters, they certainly can not live
with you squishing it with a lemon!
This is one of the greatest sayings I have ever heard by any author...
OK... now for the poetry part...uggghhhhh.
Poetry Poetry... what is poetry
for no man should ever know what
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Categories:
lookout, black-african amer
Form: Free verse