Old Friends (Haiku)

There is totally

nothing in this universe

quite like an old friend

Their contribution

to your life extends above

and beyond the norm..

Their entire concern

for your total well being

- unconditional!

Moments In Time

If I could choose one moment in my life to ponder on

Eliminating everything that I depend upon

I'd probably take forever contemplating everything

And take more than one lifetime just in deliberating

My life has been a steady flow of insignificance

and never really changes much by fate or circumstance

However in the realms of everything that's possible

I still feel like I'm waiting for something incredible.

Meanwhile, while I wait, I think I'll just continue on

Meandering through each moment just in case it comes along

It's highly more than likely though I just might very well

Grow old and grey just sitting here - without a tale to tell.

Philosophicalish Me

Sky is overcast and grey but I’m alive and breathing

That makes it a good day and gives living it some meaning

Sometimes feeling very old, I’m past all expectations

Winter does this every time, demands self explorations

Quietly in contemplation looking down life’s journey

Wondering about the things that life decided for me

Considering the impacts from the mild to the extremes

Recalling distant yearnings and those unrequited dreams

Life and people moving on and so it will always be

Many touch my life then leave until there is only me

It’s all those little things in life that shape our universe

Accepting it is what it is - a blessing or a curse

Our destiny’s to roll with everything life brings our way

That has been my experience there’s not much more to say

Just live each moment given but just know eventually

Those moments have a cut off date - and so sadly do we.

My Beautiful (Ada Is Her Name)

 I had a dream and in this dream my beautiful was there

She said “I’ll see you later boy!” I said “You come back here!!”

She answered back “you got 10 others boy - we’re all the same”;

I said “there’s one my beautiful – and Ada is her name!”

She turned and took my hand and said “This thing is mine to do,

you know that when I start something, I always see it through”

You’ll be ok there’s 10 still there, you know we’re all the same!!”

I said “I need my beautiful – and Ada is her name!”

Then from the shadows just beyond two images appeared

One big and tall, the other small - both smiling, silver haired

My beautiful said “Here they are, I called out and they came”

They came to take my beautiful – and Ada is her name!

The selfishness, the wanting with my soul to have her here

Has lessened now I know she’s with our Mum and Dad somewhere

What lingers still and always will – the everlasting pain

That in this life I’ll never see my beautiful again…

My beautiful has always been so beautiful to me

As in this dream as well as life unto eternity

I know there are 10 others and she’s right, we are the same;

But none are like my beautiful – and Ada is her name!.

Leap Of Faith

Life is ever changing, always re arranging

And into its flow we all go…

We pause in our living of taking and giving

to balance the fast with the slow

Life unfolds its story, in all of its glory

It builds word by word, line by line

Each page, every chapter, each critical factor

Is always a personal design…

Like Genesis rising, it’s not so surprising

we all need a point to begin.

Our painful arrival, and length of survival

Is part of the mix we’re all in..

Life makes all the choices, it hears not our voices

Each book is a life that’s brand new

There’s tweaking and blending, right up to the ending, 

Life does all the editing too.

Each life that it’s giving, we’re meant to be living

So live it right down to your soul

Forget backward glances, there’s no second chances

There’s only one shot at the goal…

Wake Up Call

Dark thoughts enter uninvited, 

..yawning with disdain

Nonchalantly settle in 

to gate keep once again

Once again the challenge enters, 

like it did before..

Once again I’m unprepared 

for that knock on the door

Not much one can do about it 

but look on and sigh;

Hoping that a miracle 

may drop out of the sky

No-one’s bullet proof 

no matter what the expert says

Many of us know those bullets

come in many ways..

I like to get on with life 

- not worry what might be

There is always someone else

who’s much worse off than me

Faith keeps those who keep the faith 

be focused and you'll see

Friends will help to carry you 

through great adversity

Strategy I use when 

contemplating what to do..

Not the only one but it’s

the stronger one of two..

Open up my computer

let inspiration flow

Into my world of poetry

I confidently go..

Nothing is impossible

when I am in that zone

I can see forever 

with my friends or on my own

All I need is keep the faith

inside me every day.

Faith, my friends, my poetry

help take the dark away..

Ode To Aging

 

The process of aging can be traumatic

But then again for some not so dramatic

However there are things that come with the role

Impacting in some way on body and soul

We often forget what we no longer see

Memory seems shorter than it used to be

One time it was nouveau to memorise things

and take on forever what forever brings

Clear recollections of moments in spaces

Flowed with the pleasures of people and places

When quickness of sharp minds marked sweet days of youth

Shaping experiences from life’s constant truth

But aging like seasons within their own rhyme

Change slowly, inevitably over time

On our contributions we rise or we fall

And hope it’s the good stuff that gets the recall

When I reach that great state of maturity

Well - if it’s the will of the powers that be

I hope when I look back at all I have done

It will be enough to have life say “well done!”