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Please come and Spotlight you best recent work at the Go Dog Go Cafe! Let the patrons read your work!!!
Come enjoy this romantic love poem – FADED
tenderly
petals fall
backwards on forever
colors
once romantic
gently fade
as perfume worn –
a moment lay
soft against my shoulder
endearing
as a fleeting promise
made
. . .
Come see if you feel the same as Tosha in – WHAT LOVE IS
Love isn’t
a weekend in Belize.
It’s not flattery.
Rarely, the perfect fit.
It isn’t cake and schnapps
or a walk by the river
with Thoreau
Love is
a photograph cropped,
rearranged, often marred
It’s an arsenal of joy,
of pain, a loaded gun
Locked, fired, reloaded,
fired again.
It’s salty, gritty
rarely sweet, at times solid
at others, a noddle slip
off a chopstick.
It’s a Rorschach test
a complex algorithm
disordered thoughts
Films never get it right.
Songs sometimes do.
Love is
difficult,
a chalkboard lesson,
in Mechanics and
Special Relativity
Love is
a Dixie cup
full of gin
the brush of angel’s wings
horse’s hooves in hell
Love is
true.
Seldom,
but when it is,
it wears sensible shoes.
-Tosha Michelle
Come and enjoy these great life quotes – DOING THE BEST WE CAN
~ General George S. Patton ~
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
~ Sandra Day O’Connor ~
[Source: The Little Book of Positive Quotations compiled by Steve Deger & Leslie Ann Gibson ~*~ Pictures courtesy of Google Images]
By Charles Robert Lindholm
There is no demarcation zone,
no welcome platform
where we can greet
with fanfare
the arrival
of the newest
and next
moment in time,
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By Charles Robert Lindholm
Memories replayed
that were joyful
and exciting
and fun
stay
in focus
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Come read the thoughtful piece – SPEAKING OR NOT
I listen first.
I speak out
when I’m ready.
I won’t be forced
to talk
against my will
or take advice
from a person
who really doesn’t know.
I will talk
in my own voice,
in due time,
by my actions
or inactions,
just with my eyes
or with my hands,
whether with words
or a furrowed brow,
a nod of the head,
chest bumps or fist pumps,
smiles with a thumbs-up sign.
I know
that speaking or not speaking
is my choice.
Come read John’s elegant and simple wisdom in – CHOOSE THE ROAD YOU LOVE.
Choose the road you love
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
Life is simple. Find something you enjoy. Then do it.
Nirvana-The supreme happiness that according
to Buddhism comes when all passion, hatred and
delusion die out and the soul is released from the
necessity of further purification.)
A prayer for Nature
Thank you lord of life and death.
Thank you for the fresh water to drink.
Thank your for the clean air to breath.
Thank you for the green Earth that supplies shelter and food.
Allow me to protect and give respect to Nature.
Give me wisdom and common sense to do what is right.
Coyote
Come join Keith as he walks us through his beautiful poem – FOUR SEASONS
By Charles Robert Lindholm
If I Were Granted
Just One Wish, I’d Wish For You
And That’s What I Did
Copyright © 2017 Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved
The Reluctant Poet 