With letters like S, T, and V,
Triumph and Victory, you'll see.
If they take their leave,
Success can achieve,
But without "U", where is the glee?
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I've plugged it in
And turned it on
Checked the cable
Won't take long
Allowed access
Downloaded files
Installed drivers
Wait quite a while
Clicked the links
Agreed to terms
Ticked the boxes
Start to squirm
Updated versions
Tried other ports
Looked at Google
Had grumpy thoughts
Changed the settings
Tried troubleshoot
Turned it off
Done a reboot
But the printer still won't print.....
Next day, try again
To get the gist
See straight away
The link I missed
If no one will, who will?
Share joy don’t hesitate!
A smile can do so much;
Give out ten thousand hugs;
You can soothe with a touch;
If no one will, who will?
Been helped? Pay it forward;
Look out for each other;
Pour when your cup is full,
kindness is the reward;
If no one will, who will?
Be brave step in a fight;
By all means rock that pink,
knock out with boxing gloves;
Your vibe’s the missing link.
A nap is a very good thing, I think
Better to nap than to take a drink,
Or stand in front of a kitchen sink
Filled with dirty dishes to the brink,
Some of them beginning to stink,
Others are turning a strange pink
I think I’ve found the missing link!
August 5, 2022
When it seems a connection between two, doesn’t fit or work. Can the pieces of a friendship be salvaged and built from pieces of a past relationship. When slept with, traveled with, shopped with, dreamed with, and laughed with. Able to trust with the heart, money, and life. A friend one is not afraid to lose, because they”ll always be there. Loyalty is what is so valuable, and lucky if found and earned again, when life tells us a connection won’t work now, and loyalty doesn’t seem worth investing. Do we ever search and acknowledge again, building blocks, for why it could work at a future date? If some factors change for the better? A Friend and receiving loyalty is automatic, to find,have, or recover one, is a great gift.
Missing Link To Being Extinct
Even after it had been extinct,
We may look for missing link;
Never sure;
Still endure,
And we would found a big kink.
Jim Horn
A step ahead
A step behind
The motion foreign
The distance blind
To look then forward
While looking back
The moment flounders
The line goes slack
The past—the future
Regret and hope
A sun now darkened
Your shadow gropes
A step ahead
A step behind
That missing link
—still yours to find
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2015)
Lo, the Missing Link has been found
Caught by the Net, he is fast bound.
Seeking to keep his privacy
He lost it to trade piracy.
As partners share nation to nation,
Identity goes on chain migration.
Raising Stink About Missing Link
Source of Course
Even though some were raising a stink
Accepted priest when eyes would blink;
Is an innovator,
And poem creator;
To God's love he might be missing link.
Jim Horn
What should happen that is the new priest
should say that he is profound source of
these
poems.
At times through the day, seems I've had too much to drink
Never touch the stuff but drunk with love, I'm on the brink
Of falling real good
Like never thought I could
At times, seems I've finally found the missing link
All around us
It’s an epidemic
Man-induced plague
It’s a conspiracy
To hook people
To non food foods
Eats that should be
Technically inedible
Anything to grease the wheel
Of factories and consumerism
Nothing grown naturally
Nothing from a farm
Heavens no
Promoting foods whipped up
From powders and chemicals
None of those
Vegetables or fruits
Or other live stuff
Let the population thrive
On plastic derivatives
Deceitfully charming
Taste buds everywhere
Inducing dependency
Decomposing corpses wandering
Like loose time bombs
Waiting to explode
AP: Honorable Mention 2023
You promised to move along with me in my life
And committed to be my soul mate
Though you stand by your words by doing the good deeds
Still sometimes I curse my fate.
For that you want me to walk along with your pace or walk ahead of you;
And I just want to hold your hand and rest and see the beautiful world with you.
What do you call an Emotional state
Within a Mental mind
How would you stop a Pysical urge
When Emotions are hard to find
What is when a Mental dream
Can Physically become real
Now that your Emotional state
Is not sure how to feel
Then sometimes our Spiritual self
Will Emotionally heal inside
Mentally convincing our Physical state
The troubles will slowly die
A Physical form of life we are
Created from a Spiritual state
Emotionally equipped to sense and feel
And Mentally decide our fate
So what you see we Psyically are
Mentally is what we think
Emotions are what we feel inside
Is Spiritual that Missing Link
Mfs speak the same story.
Trophey kids right?
We settle for the same glory.
Statistics growing up.
We've never seen the same jury.
But no father growing up.
Excuses be the same cornies.
Living life asking why he didn't want us.
Way before Fresh Prince even played a part among us.
But as a youngin.
Knowing forever wasn't promised.
Truth like David Blain.
It just appeared among us.
So it was hard showing feelings all over again.
Halloween jokes.
Steady getting tricked by a rubber hand.
But that's how the treat goes.
When you put ya hand all in.
One for all.
But none for you in the end.
My Missing Link
After waking up I did start to think
Maybe the Lord is my missing link
Who I forgot about and had ignored
With Him should strike up a chord.
If the Lord and I were on same track
And nothing would I ever have to lack
Found out that He and I are related
Learned many things and became educated.
Treat God with respect and be dignified
Realizing that all of this has signified
When in music we are on same sheet
Singing is simpler and easier to complete.
You should not go on a round about way
On straight and narrow path always stay
And if life from you too much does demand
God and Jesus are there to hold your hand.
Now that on same sheet we now are all on
Our misery with music will finally be gone
Which will easily flow when in right meter
And let Lord in my life start being leader.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
RiverSea Plantation
Bolivia, NC
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