We are what we write
Whether joy or crankiness
Slings and arrows, bows and bits
Life, off the top of me head
One could never say it sounds so brutal
Just standing in line, next afternoon
There's no expense to it
Just enjoying each moment, like a surprise
We are familiar patterns
In different seasons, learning parts
So naturally, on the job training takes art
Learning by experience, so much this and that
More than a Puritan, who might have had a cat
But there's always a maybe, we hide Puritan tryst
Textbook Victorian England, collection of wigs
We are what we write, if you can dig
We are infinite in passage
Belief is precious like now and afterlife
Most every religion talks of mission
Love, caring for friend, neighbor, stranger
Mistake makers happen, smile you lion tamer
Let better Angels paint images and whisper
Love all, not just an issue, just saying this should
Form the fire and brimstone of a real preacher teacher
We lack wisdom in teachers
Adding coals to smoldering coals
Social friction, Sunday morning words crush
Why oh why so little focus on needs, on us
Children, brothers, sisters, the man in the ditch
We are humanity: God's message is not a pitch
Cameras, lights, TV shows, or most anything
Why do we avoid right: We are what we write


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I really think God likes humor and maybe He laughs. I felt like I should put generic after He, but that might be a needed trip to Father Paddy's Confessional.
Form the fire and brimstone of a real preacher teacher"
Amen.
I post my tribute to both of you William and Sheila
I love to be humble and gratefully thank you two !!!
But sometimes we get things wrong ... self-doubts come and we may perhaps also not even believe in God. Yet the gift of life is is wonderful - for God does not doubt us and regardless of what we believe, He believes in us.
Keep writing your truths, my friend.
Right on, dear William - and I simply couldn't agree more with your title! ;-)
Blessings and best wishes - S.
Are blank canvases awaiting
the brushstrokes of individual
artists. Some choose to paint
love and light while others paint
doom and despair. We are what
we paint.
still sometimes I side with Dr Seuss
or the meaning of Jabberwocky
of tick................................................................................. tock
that open space in-between
where the slots of words
cash out
upon my withdrawl to another place
and images run like
old spool movies
behind my eyeballs
and project onto
related matter
before the clock strikes again
Thanks for posting to my group, Anythingwriting
I am ! without the proper words for the moment...
Surprised,amazed and more... overwhelmed? Amaze..that is good...
You amaze,William.
For all those you touch daily or many times in the day with your unique ,insightful poetry,your exhibited zest for learning as you experiment with different styles,your frank,sometimes brutally blunt expression of belief ,your triumph over corporeal failing,
your love of words .....and life......so obvious in your thousands of stanzas and phrases
you are a compass point . You attract and keep this place still interesting,to me at least. You stand true to your expressions .A vanguard, if you will ,to those left here that wanted it to be so much more than a cyber-chatroom....now more so as many writing groups dissolve or disband.
Despite our past disagreement we've been able to patch and forge a better bond..
that is something...to me...
Stay true to what and who you are.
A man who loves words ,who loves to write ,and loves.
Thank you, my friend.
Your poetic words .....I am amazed...
I especially love your last five lines.
Wilma, dont you know that any Nurse that has worked around doctors get to write just like them. LOL.
Thanks for the wonderful poem.
Cheers William!
You my dear William write from the heart,, as well as Sheila, and I too write from the heart and experience,,, no question,,, we live, we learn, we help, we Love,,, God Bless all,,,
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In different seasons, learning parts"
These lines would stand alone so wise are they.
I love the comments here, WIlliam.
Only when we are writing truths.
I can not only debate boths sides, but I can write them too.
And then there is the stuff we just make up as we go.
My dreams have been so wild lately I've been thinking of writing them as stories.
Except when we write what we are trying to learn
When we write what we don't know
But hope to learn
Words penetrate when we write
Through eyes
Through fingers
Into our memories
*whistles and tries to took innocent*
Thank you, Shiela and William!