Thursday, April 18, 2024

Because You Love Me

It’s in a scenic place

It’s written all over your face

Smiles among the cat tails

A grin that never fails

I’ve seen it

Many times

It is clearly defined

It stays within the lines

When you look at me

Baby I can see

What the world is suppose to be

All because you love me

Lifts me on a cloudy day

It catches my breath I’ve got to say

Fills me with a ravenous need

I am willing to concede

I’ve seen it

Many times

It is clearly defined

It stays within the lines

When you look at me

Baby I can see

What the world is suppose to be

All because you love me

by Bill Ferguson

Are You With Me?

Freedom

Inclusion

Growth away from

Societal delusions

Seeking answers

Building a new life

Changing old habits

Growing to make it right

Building an aura

Creating a sense of mystery

Exploring now options

Fulfilling inner destinies

Conquering thoughts

Never meant to be share

Becoming so

Much more aware

Living life

With intensity

Accepting conclusions

Moving away from density

Encouraging solutions

A new way for people to see

Can you be there?

Are you there with me?

by Bill Ferguson

Music

A diorama of sound

Supported by a steady beat

No vocal gymnastics

Echoed on repeat

Building

Steadily

Towards

Lyrical surprise

Filling emotions

Tears

In the eyes

Music lives on

The strength of the sound

Rooted firmly

On solid ground

Pounding footsteps

The heart does beat

Fulfilling life

It’s complete.

by Bill Ferguson

The Key

Glasses down

Point of contact

Discovering

Internal flame

Prodding moments

Black to white

Internal dialogue

Where thoughts are tamed

Don’t let the words

Deceive you

Don’t let the heart

Decide

Seeing is all

That matters

Insert the key

Turn aside

Open heart

Wonder often

Confusion

Has its own cost

Outlast silence

Cast a spell

Seize the moment

Nothing is lost

by Bill Ferguson

In Creativity

I’m just waking up

Opening my mind

Seizing the moment

Working out just fine

Grab a coffee cup

Settle on the bench

Playing with the keys

Feeling heaven sent

And the words flow

And the mind is free

It is time well spent

In creativity

Exploring problems

Exploring my life

Finding the patterns

Creating designs

Looking for the answers

Looking for words that rhyme

Searching through the masters

Inspired frame of mind

And the words flow

And the mind is free

It is time well spent

In creativity

by Bill Ferguson

Clinging To A Dream

There are moments

Of utter futility

Where thoughts fester

Like boils on my life

And there are moments of

Respectability

That cut me like a knife

There are moments where

Sense is lost

Waiting to be found

There are moments where

Seas are tossed

Among winds that do abound

But I am clinging to a dream

Fashioned in my life

I am clinging to a dream

That everything will be alright

I am clinging to a dream

That happiness will be found

I am clinging to a dream

That everything will be sound

by Bill Ferguson

Something New

Slow it down and be aware

That you have moved from there to here

Feel more eager to finally share

Visions from your dreams

Once where your heart was quite young

You often became quite undone

Always moving on the run

Full of empty schemes

But now you’re in a different phase

Wishing things you could erase

Finding things you had replaced

Or so it really seems

You have grown up to be you

You laugh you smile you have made do

You always looked for something new

You still wonder what it means

You have grown up to be you

Still a wonder still in tune

Wiser and lovelier too

You really are something new

by Bill Ferguson

Take Me To The River

Hoping the hands of time

Will see reason

Building thoughts from the obscure

Tis the season

Where snow is falling for sure

Take me to the river

Love set me free

Skate far on the frozen ice

Where open hearts

Are meant to be

Hoping the hands of time

Will move backwards

Reverse time do we endure

Silent moments

Living life is just a lure

by Bill Ferguson

Fool ‘Em

Experimenting with ideas

That poke at your soul

Creating new arias

That make you feel full

Venturing into avenues

Seeking a better fate

Being just who you

You can’t contemplate

When the season rolls near

Others judge your work

With such ageism now

Expecting you to be hurt

Sending dusty labels forward

Hinting a stronger past

Sending a message

You will never last

Keep on creating work

That embodies you

Seeing a new tomorrow

In everything you do

Fleshing out new ideas

Building on what’s gone on

Not feeling entitlement

Just happy with what you have

by Bill Ferguson

Being

Compacted

Visual

Tightly organized

Not deeply analytical

Capturing that moment

Seeking joy

Within its grasp

Being is

All it asks