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Best Poems Written by James Haley

Below are the all-time best James Haley poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Your Not Alone

I know where you’ve been
You’re not alone
Walking through doors
Looking for signs
I know where you’ve been
You’re not alone
Room full of noise
Quiets the mind
I know where you’ve been
You’re not alone
Open your eyes
And you will find
You’re not alone
Anymore

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Religion Sex Origin Or Race

Did you ever feel out of place
Were you the only one in the room
Not faith, sex, root, or race
Had to do with this gloom

You say something no one heard
With eye’s staring through your face
You dare not utter a single word
Did you ever feel out of place

As if they want you to fail
As if they want you to loose
Such a feeling of utter pale
Is this the place that you choose

If you leave this situation
No one would even know you were there
But since you have no real temptation
You use valor instead of flair

Did you ever feel out of place
No place for man to be
No soul’s true space
Move on there’s more to see

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Sports

Sports is such a crazy mess
All that wasted time watching your team
But if they win you’ll feel your best
It's crazy how it can affect your scheme

Maybe four hours watching the set
at the game, in the arena, in the stands
And all these crazies are willing to bet
Their team will win so strike up the band

I don’t know why we scream and yell
Over effortless athletic moves
Do you think these guys would ring the bell
For fans eating hotdogs and drinking booze

With all the money these players get
To work four months a year
And everyone just spends and frets
Hey vendor “I’ll have a beer”

Sports is such a crazy mess but I like it anyway
Especially when we get a little older
Its easier to watch then play

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The Cabin

You can catch a fish at the lake I know
Or an aromatic breeze from the pines
Or chop wood if you must
Maybe you’d rather bask in the sunshine

Relax in the shade for a while then
With a cool glass of lemonade 
Listen to the loons on the water
Squelching their serenade

Try your luck with a pole on the dock at dusk
Hold tight—a big one out there
Reminisce at night over coffee by the fire
Telltales of the fish you spared

Snuggle in at night and take a deep breath
The air is always fresh at the lake
And hopefully by tomorrow morn
You’ll be greeted by a sun-filled daybreak

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Slivering Snake

Cold are the snakes that sliver thru the tall grass
Quietly patiently they wait
Unaware is the prey that walks through its fields
Carelessly open to it’s fate
They meet at the crossroads 
surprised is the prey
Then relaxed for the smile the snake gives
They speak for a moment then the prey gives a pet
SNAP!  A victim, a climax. the mood lives
Poor little person fights for the rights
To pick itself up from its lows
Others prepare and calculate the moment
For that’s how the story goes
The snake licks its chop, the victim runs away
It didn’t give blood this time
Ho hum says the snake there’s one born everyday
I’ll be waiting for you next time

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Autumn Mood

Autumn mood
Rustling trees
Leaves of brown
Scattering the streets

Soft melancholy
Lonely cold
Autumn mood
Standing bold

Seasons end
Shortened sun
Autumn mood
Chill mood begins

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Just For the Record

A record of how it is
May suggest how it will be
A record of how it was
Shape how you’ll perceive

In this world of information
In this recorded time of day
You can review the situation
And receive a little say

I’d rather not know how it would end
Even if history repeats itself once more
I’d rather create something new
Then bow to its rule

Don’t close your mind to its thoughts
Nor your soul to its dreams
For it creates what you have meant
And that’s been all to you and me

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The River Flows

The river flows
We follow its turns
Through rapids and rocks
Its energy burns

It takes us where
It mercifully goes
With calming straits
The river flows

Lakes are found
Their beauty grows
With shores abound
From rocky rows

From still to force
It roams to the sea
The river flows
Like you Like me

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Homeless

I’m a wanderer by design
I meander about the town
Not trying to refine anything
Just spreading my life around

Just looking for conversation
I smile to break the ice
For me that’s how it flows
I wander around in life

No path to trace me from
Or course to follow me from
I listen talk and laugh about
Anything that might become

Yes I’m a wanderer by design
And of course I drift away
I guess one day I’ll hang a sign
“Done wandering here to stay”

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Older

I’m older
Traveled well
Slowing some
I can tell

Appreciate
Compromise
Laughing more
Increased in size

Youthful pose
Playful style
Aching bones
Longer mile

Smart enough
Not to know a lot
Secure enough
With what I got

Chances are
It’s been spent
I’m older now
That’s where it went

Forward moving
Yesterdays done
Time for life
To bear me a son

Flowers rest
Where beauty glows
Upon your face
And soft eyes

I’m older
Traveled well
Slowing some
I can tell