Day: November 16, 2021

THEY HOPE YOU WILL LOVE THEM – ENCORE

~ thereluctantpoet

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

My words
always wonder
and worry
if they are worthy
of your time 

They long to be loved
and looked upon
and valued
by those who have a need,
a hunger and thirst
in their soul and spirit 

Those who are not afraid
to let their heartstrings
be touched
or tears
fall from their eyes
or their imaginations
run wild with passions
that burn memories
on their soul

My words
wonder and worry
if they are worthy
of your precious time 

They lust for your eyes
to read them
and for you
to let them touch
your heart and soul
for a moment
and hope
it will be enough
to tempt you
to return again

like a lover
wanting more 

Copyright © 2017 Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved

I FUMBLED WITH MY SMILE

~ thereluctantpoet

By Charles Robert Lindholm

You’re supposed to be brave

You’re not supposed to cry

but I fumbled with my smile each time

I was forced to mumble, Hi!

Sitting in the airport

for a ten day business trip

I can keep the tears from falling

If I bite my upper lip

I was ambushed at the front door

with the truth about her lies

there were no hugs or kisses

when we said our last good-byes

She disguised the clues so cleverly

she didn’t want me to know

and now, no vow could hold her

she’s packing up to go

Overlapping Lovers

I found out way to late

standing in a line

waiting at the gate

I fumbled with my smile, again

offering up my name

as my broken heart reminds me

Life won’t be the same

© 2017 Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved

4-1-2017 April Fools Day  6:30 a.m.

Please visit – “Decisions” by Linda Rose of Scatterednotebooks!

This wonderful poem provided the inspiration for my poem here and I owe her a huge Thank You for the line – “fumbling with my smile”!!  This tiny inspirational seed grew into “I Fumbled With My Smile”.  Gold Stars for Linda who has now joined my “Inspirators Gang” (someone who has provided the seed, the spark that spawned a poem from me).

This is yet another example of the benefit of keeping a Word Bank when you run across something that hits you as Great!  I made a deposit in Linda’s account in my Word Bank for “I fumbled with my smile” and Boom, now it has paid dividends!!

Please go and visit Linda/Scatterednotebooks and check out her wonderful works!!

ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S – 6 WORD NOVEL – ENCORE

~ thereluctantpoet

COME READ HEMINGWAY’S SADDEST AND SHORTEST NOVEL

If you were sitting at the round table having lunch with Ernest Hemingway and his friends and fellow writer’s, would you be willing to bet $10 that Hemingway couldn’t write a novel in six words?  Well, apparently everyone at the table ponied up $10 each to find out.

 Hemingway then took a napkin and wrote out six words and it was passed around the table until it came back to him and without objection he claimed his winnings. 

 Hemingway has been cited as one of the founders of flash fiction and his six word novel proves it as far as I’m concerned.

 Please enjoy Hemingway’s six word novel!

 For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn

 No matter how many times I read this
I still get choked up everytime. 

Chuck
The Reluctant Poet 

I think the old cliche, “A picture is worth a thousand words” is a big lie told by artist’s and their industry friends who want to make their works seem more important!

PLAYING HOOKY FOR A FEW DAYS

~ thereluctantpoet

I’m going to be playing hooky for a few days so I’m going to post some Encores of poems of mine from the past that many may have never read before. I hope you will enjoy them!!

I’m going to be playing hooky for a few days so I’m going to post some Encores of poems of mine from the past that many may have never read before. I hope you will enjoy them!!

If you have read them before please come and spend some time in my early 2018 Archives, my Poetry = series #1 – #199: or any other archive month.

Or, Maybe you too might just need a break? LOL

See you in about a week!
Have a great week!!
Chuck