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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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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My September article for The Sussex Newspaper Online (thesussexnewspaperonline) was all on Help for (our) Heroes after the loss of a third of their raised funds due to this Covid Curse. Please check it out….
JOKE TIME :- Oh yes it IS..
1) Tragically the news has filtered through that Uncle Ben has died……. SO no more Mister rice guy….
2) During Covid I have been sipping brake fluid, but I can stop at any time!!!
3) My dog started to be aggressive, so I played him classical music. Now his Bach is better than his bite…..
Quick Laurie another poem. Headlight 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 hopefully amusing and interesting Blog. My concentration this time is actually that 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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The photos:- Left to right, are Lead photo, hands reaching, The Four Tops who sang “Reach Out”, me with bears in studio broadcasting out, Eastbourne seafront looking out, The Bears Friends Gang reaching out for bear hugs. My good self, singing out for charity last year, Magic FM that from Lynn kindly & regularly mentions and reads my poems out, & lastly again me, but out in Australia in 2009.
There we are then, done, BUT as always a massive thanks for you being there, supporting and encouraging as ever. THANKS AGAIN…
A quick mention that for any of my 8 books, only from £5 up to larger later books at £9.99, please contact me on here, Facebook or email = lw1800@hotmail.co.uk remembering that EVERY sale donates to the excellent Help for Heroes, so please remember THEM who remembered US….
With much love, light and peace from myself, Ted n Beth & Bears,
The Journey Continues REACHING OUT
Laurie xx
Love the new blog. Your poems are just amazing!
Thanks SO muck Kelly, and yes I changed the latest blog a bit too…. Who knows what will come next, LOL, but many thanks, L xx
As always loving the poems and the reflections of life in them xx
Many thanks Kelly, so pleased you continue to like the poems🤗 xx