pop's poetry

Category: philosophy

  • sinking

    the inability to feel
the beauty of a sunset
or feel calm when evening
peacefulness
is laid before you
lets you know that
the sinking feeling of
depression
has a foot hold
pulling you under and
making even the smallest
hope
of a better day so far away
that nothing will let you
escape from the tyranny of
despair
There's no middle ground
you understand or you don't
that without hope there is no
tomorrow
and without help
you'll find with the sunrise
just another
today

  • walking into 2014

    Come walk with me, and learn to live
As we go through this year.
Come walk with me and learn to laugh
With joy and without fear.
Come walk with me and learn to love
Unselfishly as we teach each other
to love as we have never loved
And laugh as only joy can give.
Come walk with me, let's learn together
To savor each moment we live.

  • pointed life

    hanging on to life
the way it was
at some point in time;
who gets to choose the point?
creating life
is more than the result
of intimacy experienced
at one appointed time.
life is not a line,
starting and stopping.
circling without end,
there is no point at all.
growing life
should be our daily task
in a world where death
seems to be the point.

  • contentment is the key

    To unlock the chains
That have me fettered
To this complicated life

If only I had searched
Many years ago
I would have found this key
Where I have been

Under a rock near the shore
Or in a tree on the hillside
In the middle of a grassy plain
Or on the path leading to the park
Inside one of my children’s books
Or held in my mother’s hand
Inserted in the lock on my front door
Ready to be turned

I could have seen so much
Of life that has passed me by
As I rushed headlong
In my race to become

All the time, I was
And I didn’t know it
Underneath it all was
The life simple

  • how do i love you…

    ...let me count the ways:
I love you by listening more and talking less.
I love you by giving more and taking less.
I love you by whispering more and yelling less.
I love you by serving more and lounging less.
I love you by smiling more and frowning less.
I love you by praising more and mocking less.
I love you by playing more and working less.
I love you by agreeing more and arguing less.
I love you by trusting more and fearing less.
How do I love you, let me count the ways...all my days.