Yes, just like that great Four Tops song, “Reach out I’ll be there”, we have to reach out to each other in these crazy times and still try to (even virtually) embrace and engage with others and also this strange new world…..
But we, and certainly “I”, are still largely, (lol sorry some may literally be larger), the same? And as I oft times say “I am often imitated, but NEVER duplicated” so hold on.
Yes hold on because I have suddenly had a totally new idea that a dear friend unwittingly prompted for my Book NINE, but relax as it’s not aimed until October 2021, but I’m now ON to that!
Meantime some great messages of encouragement and compliments have kept me going during the frustration of cancelation of nearly all my Help for Heroes fundraising gigs, promotions and events etc. The poems WILL keep flowing though, so thanks to all those kindly supporting me.
Meanwhile it never fails to amaze me how my “Poetry World” and poems reach out to so many, in loads of different ways, with questions, appreciation, contacts, fed back “comfort and appreciation” messages, so I am chuffed and ecstatic to “Reach Out” (good a? lol) to so many and get so much reward. Thank you and like some of my poems allude to, you just never know where life and people will take you.
From my latest and eighth book comes very aptly “Reach Out and Words Will be There”…
Reach Out, and Words Will Be There
In many times of upset or distress
People will seek comfort from words,
That can bring them solace and release
From pain or a conscience unheard.
So funerals, wakes and some memorials
Will feature words of farewell and peace,
That can celebrate and remember lives
Of those we have seen decease.
For the pain on so many occasions
Coming from losing someone close,
May take people into a depression
And a countenance quite morose.
So thoughts and endearing memories
Can be put into words that cheer,
Your inner soul and lift the mood
When recalling someone once dear.
Now people can’t always manage
To get these crucial words just right,
In an attempt to capture exactly
That loved person now out of sight.
But any nicely written remembrance
Will uplift your mental health,
So maybe get someone to write them
Like I do for people myself.
Thus you’ll have your comfort words
And perhaps put them into a frame,
So that whenever you feel you want to
Can read those special words again.
Which is a very nice way to remember
Someone who was a special treasure.
But don’t forget your own needs too,
So retain any thoughts you treasure.
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National Poetry Day was on 4th October this year and I sent the wonderful Lynn Parsons of Magic FM another of my poems called “Eye Line Smile” that had got to National Finals and had also been published in Forward Poetry’s book of finalists.
Lynn kindly said some wonderful things about my poetry and read out the last 8 lines as it was a bit long for her programme.
Eye Line Smile
It doesn’t take much to lift a heart
Or cause our head to swoon.
Just loving words or chaste kiss,
Can lift us round the moon.
Whether eyes are dark or light
They can twinkle and bewitch,
Causing a thrill right through you
As if someone clicked a switch.
Seeing can makes hearts flutter
With pulses racing with a touch.
There is no magic spell for this,
Just that we love so much.
Contented sighs descend on us
Like some heaven sent cascade.
And nothing will keep us apart,
Even rivers, hill or barricade.
Any plain face can cause sunrise
When it breaks into a smile,
And when that beam is loving
Joy will fast flow like the Nile.
Whether eyes are dark or light
They can twinkle and bewitch,
And if they sparkle just for you
Your whole life will enrich.
For in a world that’s tough at times
Where you strive hard for reward,
Being drawn to loving eyes
May bring ecstatic life accord.
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Another poem then, andHeadlight is from my very first book and was written in late 1990’s
Headlight
I have observed you much of late
You may have felt my looking stare,
Perhaps you knew the reason why
Or merely how you seemed to care.
Whilst others queued to build my load
You saw I walked a lonely road,
Rejection can taste an acid pill
That even survivors blood will spill.
So when light invades consuming dark
Flames can rise from a smallest spark!
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Nearly at the end then of another offering. My concentration this time is that actually we must both look, and reach out for each other, in these strange and restrictive times, for as my last poem here suggests who knows what may happen when we “reach out”?
Coincidental Chance
You spoke to me out of the blue
And I didn’t know who you were,
But like Pitney’s “24 hours from Tulsa”
Such happenings can occur.
For I had felt an instant shudder
That I couldn’t quite control,
Also a strange realisation
You had touched my very soul.
We did the awkward introductions
That two strangers muddle through,
After your identity mistake
That I was someone else you knew.
So I tried to cover your blushes
And embarrassment so clear,
Though again I felt compelled
By the need to hold you near.
Thus we both stood quite flustered
By clearly felt sensations,
Running through the two of us
Defying all explanations,
As to what had just happened
In an amazing heartbeat,
When people blend together
And their very souls now meet.
Now you look at me and say my name
And I go shaky at the knees,
But when I felt your touch
I thought my blood would freeze.
So now we need to decipher
Just what we can understand
About this, and further actions,
As we walk off, hand in hand.
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So a nice ending there which may show that all is possible if we attempt to “Reach Out” to each other and embrace life…….
All eight of my books :–
Poetic Views of Life
More Poetic Views of Life
Reviews of Life in Verse
Life Scene in Verse
Life Presented In Verse,
Poet Reveals All (in your world).
Poet Reflects Your World
Poetic Seeds to Fruition
These all ensure my donation to the excellent charity I support, promote and donate to, that being Help for Heroes.
My first 3 books are only priced £4.99 each, with my 4th and 5th bigger books at £6.99. My new 8th and sixth & 7th books, all bigger are still £9.99. and all are for sale on Amazon, book stores or preferably from me ………….. lw1800@hotmail.co.uk Or 07967 355236
I can now also write a “Personal Poem” for you, your family, any event or your business too…….
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