Poet's Corner

[beautress]

Furnace in the afternoon lights the oily sweats of morning with an ultimate furnace of heat exhausting those of sunshine marching worse.
Air conditioning is so vital the electric company prospers in the days of fire.

So much for getting hot under the collar!

 

[lg325]

Nobel Prize

 

[lg325]

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It Ain't Easy

On the radio now I hear
A song that I once held dear.

The words, the music and the delight-
I feel as the notes fade into night.

Reminding me that when I was young
Life was like a song yet sung.

As I reflect on the time Ive spent
I realize that, truly, I have been blessed.

The dreams, the hopes and, yes, the fears.
How many came true over these years?

A life not easy is still well worth the cost.
For a life not lived fully is a life thats been lost!

Author- Moi - USMB member

 

[ScorpioRising007]

I am the Darkness
The Darkness is the Light
I saw her body and I had to have her forevermore
I tackled her and the Darkness overtook me
The Darkness took advantage of her till she could endure no more
My hands squeezed her throat and she breathed nevermore
The Darkness threw her body in the water and became the Light
The Light became the Darkness and the Darkness became the Light

--Happy Halloween

 

[lg325]

Bread And Gravy​

by Edgar Albert Guest​

There's a heap o' satisfaction in a chunk o' pumpkin pie,
An' I'm always glad I'm livin' when the cake is passin' by;
An' I guess at every meal-time I'm as happy as can be,
For I like whatever dishes Mother gets for Bud an' me;
But there's just one bit of eatin' which I hold supremely great,
An' that's good old bread and gravy when I've finished up my plate.
I've eaten fancy dishes an' my mouth has watered, too;
I've been at banquet tables an' I've run the good things through;
I've had sea food up in Boston, I've had pompano down South,
For most everything that's edible I've put into my mouth;
But the finest treat I know of, now I publicly relate,
Is a chunk of bread and gravy when I've finished up my plate.
Now the epicures may snicker and the hotel chefs may smile,
But when it comes to eating I don't hunger much for style;[Pg 39]
For an empty man wants fillin' an' you can't do that with things
Like breast o' guinea under glass, or curried turkey wings-
You want just plain home cookin' an' the chance to sit an' wait
For a piece o' bread an' gravy when you've finished up your plate.
Oh, it may be I am common an' my tastes not much refined,
But the meals which suit my fancy are the good old-fashioned kind,
With the food right on the table an' the hungry kids about
An' the mother an' the father handing all the good things out,
An' the knowledge in their presence that I needn't fear to state,
That I'd like some bread an' gravy when I've finished up my plate.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Pumpkin Pie.

 

[lg325]

Salutes to Shakespeares,3 witches are our desires Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are representatives of our mind and if we choose to heed to our desires and work towards fulfilling our desires then the outcome is much same. Macbeth is not bad; 3 witches are bad who seeds the desire in him. Desires are dangerous, don't run on it, is message of this play.



Author- Unknown

 

[JoeMoma]

Salutes to Shakespeares,3 witches are our desires Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are representatives of our mind and if we choose to heed to our desires and work towards fulfilling our desires then the outcome is much same. Macbeth is not bad; 3 witches are bad who seeds the desire in him. Desires are dangerous, don't run on it, is message of this play.



Author- Unknown

Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn and caldron bubble

 

[buttercup]

Point of View
by Shel Silverstein

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless
Christmas dinner's dark and blue
When you stop and try to see it
From the turkey's point of view.

Sunday dinner isn't sunny
Easter feasts are just bad luck
When you see it from the viewpoint
Of a chicken or a duck.

Oh how I once loved tuna salad
Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too
'Til I stopped and looked at dinner
From the dinner's point of view.