No Warranty

Please Welcome My Friend Vivian Zems of Smellthecoffeweb.blog ! Vivian has given us an excellent piece “No Warranty” that presents the eternal truth of Time to us in a very personal way that we can relate to these days! Please visit Vivian’s blog and check out her poems!

Smell The Coffee

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Give me my roses

While I’m still alive

Tell me I’m wonderful

Whilst I still thrive

This day was never

promised me

There was never

a guarantee

As I open my eyes

And see the skies

I seize the day

And begin to improvise

Turning a new page

Of memos and plans

Savour every second spent

I don’t waver, I don’t relent

This day was never promised me

It came with no warranty

Love trough? That’s aplenty

Bank balance? Kinda empty

But this doesn’t worry me

I had no idea

I could not foresee

That life was such a potpourri

I’m ever so grateful

I’m ever so thankful

That He has extended

My Warranty

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of love and dust….#2

Here is a lovely and touching poem from Our Friend Gina – Singledust “Of Love and Dust #2” and was so inspiring! I hope You all like it!! Please go and visit Gina’s blog and the Wonderful works she has posted there for your enjoyment!

STARDUST IN MY EYES

By Charles Robert Lindholm

She was a comet
in my eyes
a blazing light
across my skies

MY TOUCHSTONE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Why is it that Love hurts?
Even when things are going right
Being apart puts a hurt on your heart
that’s like being held underwater

Being “In Love” makes silence painful
a crushing need and desire to hear the voice
of the one that soothes your soul

Is it the inner fear,
that feeling of anxiety
from childhood when the lights go out
that we are really alone?

Why do I long to hear Your Voice?
yearn for Your touch
desire to be with You
wrapped up in Your arms 

You are my Touchstone
You are home to me
being with You
reassures me
that I am not alone

I have faith in our love
and it is strong
but sometimes
in the darkness
without a light
in the middle of the night
I need to touch my Touchstone
so I know I’m not alone
or in a dream 

You are My Touchstone 

Copyright © 2017 Charles Robert Lindholm – The Reluctant Poet
All Rights Reserved – Please Come View My Archives!!

I HEAR THE SECRETS YOU WHISPER —————————————————————————————— RESPONSE POEM TO “Of Love And Dust #2” By Gina – Singledust

As a “Hopeless Romantic”  I wrote the script for the responder
to the question asked in “Of Love And Dust #2“

By Charles Robert Lindholm

If our hands touched
I could hear the secrets
your skin whispers to mine,

THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT YOU

By Charles Robert Lindholm

there’s something about you
that even a blind man can see
there’s a joy in your soul
that even the deaf can hear

CONCURRENT CHOOSING

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I can choose you
but what does it matter
unless you choose me too 

D’Verse Form For All – Ottava Rima

Here is the Poem from My Friend, Gina – Singledust, “The Lighthouse On The Hill” to which I wrote the Response Poem – “The Lover Of The Light”!

As You will see in this Lovely and touching piece Gina’s words can move You! They moved me!

Please enjoy this and the other works on Gina’s blog!

THE LOVER OF THE LIGHT ————RESPONSE POEM TO SINGLEDUST’S ————— The Lighthouse On The Hill

By Charles Robert Lindholm

She stands high upon the bluff

a silhouette of one

lonely on the shore

It’s what she’s always done

She is a lonely beacon

that beckons all to come

unnoticed by the multitudes

but cared about by some

SHE HOPES FOR MORE

—-MEMORIES OF THE PAST—-

By Charles Robert Lindholm

she’s so loving
and yet unloved
so caring
though she’s neglected
she’s giving
but never given to
a beautiful lady
who lives life unadmired