Shakespeare In Love is a nice little romp in the what if category. It has enough charm to make it quite interesting. One night while I was watching it I was also reflecting on a discussion with a friend of mine when these words popped out at me. I stopped the movie and created the rest of the poem.

True Love Can Never Be Undone

In Shakespeare's verse there does remain

A romantic spirit of soft refrain

Where two hearts gather free and strong

Possessed of spirit, captured in song

To blend and join and meet as one

With fire so strong it blinds the sun

Yet soft tis as lambs summer wool

The cup runneth over, it is never full

One sound, one word, one simple glance

All can see the truth of romance

In evening skies where Venus does reign

On summer morns where sunflowers gain

Two hearts joined as one

True love can never be undone

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by Bill Ferguson

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All The Answer

Allegory

Prophetory

Crisis upon crisis

Storytelling at its finest

Manufacturing advantage

Creating damage

In efforts to divine

From innocence to sublime

Tangled moments that induce a shiver

Failing to deliver

Subverting promises

Airing grievances

Deny, deny, deny

Until you are blue in the face

One only has to ask why

And you answer 

Why not!

That’s all the answer

You’ve ever got

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by Bill Ferguson

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Life Just Keeps On Rolling

There was love 

There was laughter 

There was involvement

Dedicated

Committed  

Building on promises

Lifting hearts

In ways never known

It was good

It was right

Fit together so well

Built to last

Built to share

Giving together

Very aware

Showing that we care

There are hopes and dreams

There are plans and schemes

But in the end it all comes to naught

Life just keeps on rolling

Urging us to turn and bend

Building on its presence

Reminding us we are all pretend

Life just keeps on rolling

We can think we will mend

Life just keeps on rolling

Right to the bitter end

Heart broken

So destroyed

Taken when all was right

You are gone

I am alone

Picking up pieces

To build my home

In the unknown

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by Bill Ferguson

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Letting Go

We have to learn to let go

It happens everyday

We let go of the small things

The unimportant things

Things we barely notice we let go of

Yet our life is about letting go

Moving on,

Moving forward

And away from many things everyday

The last time we talk to someone

Away from love and loved ones

Away from our thoughts and feelings

Away from what we believe

Away from negativity

And hurt

And turn it into something new and meaningful to us

We learn to change,

To grow,

To become more of who we are going to be

We change dreams

Let go of expectations, 

And move away from the idea of immortality

We learn that we are really on our own

As we move slowly

Inexorably

Fatally

Towards our demise

Alone

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by Bill Ferguson

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Living

Patterns flow

We conceive

Seeing meaning in sequence

Understanding to believe

Transcending moments

To escape the now

Transporting 

and explaining

To grow beyond ourselves

We read

Create illusions

See possibilities

Explore ideas

Develop plans

Engage the mind

Make the present

Easier to bear

Giving hope

As we sense our future

Providing a stronger

Here and now

Helping us see beauty in

The world 

In which 

We live

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by Bill Ferguson

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There

There

There are you

Without a word 

All heads turn 

Towards you

You smile

And you wave

Aware

But not craving

The situations

Others are

Creating 

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by Bill Ferguson

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Love Is

Powerful yet fragile

Wanting to be at one

Passionate and intimate

Simple,

Honest,

Serene ,

Affection, admiration. sympathy,

Influence,

Self-sacrifice

Organic

Rightness and

Resilience tested

Love is deep and calm

Lacking in fear or control

A warm true heart

A towering intellect

A guiding light

It is this

And more

So much more

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by Bill Ferguson

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Why Do We?

Who are you?
Who am I?
In this thing called life
Why are we side by side?
Why do we walk down well worn paths?
Why do we dive into the sea?
Why do we sit by campfires?
Why do we feel cold in our feet?
Why do we laugh and sing?
Why do we inquire?
Why do we rise above?
Why do we inspire?
Why do we take the time
To notice all our thoughts?
Does it make any difference
To achieve all we have sought?

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by Bill Ferguson

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A Series of Short Poems

 

Sometimes short and very short poems rule the day. At times they are actually written that way and at other times you write something much, much longer but it doesn't really work out so you are left with something that has a couple of good lines in it. And that's okay.
A Couplet

When the circle breaks 

Fast money is not on you

So It Is

So it is

So it will always be

Unless you see

A need 

For change

Water Moves On

To those who know 

There is no doubt

Where the water flows 

There is an out

Slipping through cracks

Moving where it wants

Abusing, 

Absolving,  

Cleansing, 

Before it moves on

Disinterested 

In what has occurred

Finding new sources 

For its merriment

 And

Ultimate pleasure 

Regurgitation

Regurgitation is fine

For birds

But in life 

It shows a lack of creativity

Making one despise

The power of public praise

Pretty Much

Conspiratorial, 

Envious,  

Arbitrary,  

Jealous,  

Petty, 

Boring, 

That pretty much says it all

A Simple Spore

Once 
She sat
But she 
Sits no more
Violently felled
By 
A  
Simple  
Spore

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by Bill Ferguson

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A World Full Of Sounds

Words

More words 

And even more words

Poured forth

Issuing summons

Creating a path

As we wandered by the lakeshore

Listening to the waves 

And the leaves on the trees 

Ushering in a new day

You in your heals

On a slippery slope

Dodging the rain with every step

All in search of easing the mind

 For once someone was listening

In tune with the moment

Seeing equality 

In a world full of sounds

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by Bill Ferguson

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