Poetry of a Lifetime

Monday, June 3, 2024

Words Won’t Make It Go Away

Take a walk along that gently sloped hill

Summon the courage to develop your skill

Fashion and fancy lead to a dark night

Sometimes two wrongs end up being right

First you shiver

Then you shake

An attack of nerves

You hesitate

Find the source

Blow it away

Time has come

To learn today

Words won’t make it go away

A downward trend is inevitable

Says a man dependent on a pill

Decent and moral and full of decay

Deciding life has to have its say

First you shiver

Then you shake

An attack of nerves

You hesitate

Find the source

Blow it away

Time has come

To learn today

Words won’t make it go away

by Bill Ferguson

Saturday, May 18, 2024

To Love Someone

There is love left in here

I may be old but I’m not dead

There is nothing better

Than feeling warmth of someone’s caring

There is love left in here

I will find it again out there

Our mutual needs will be met

There are things that I can share

There is love

And there is need

There are emotions

Left to feed

Thoughts and ideas

To be shared

Felt deeply

To be be aware

To love someone

There is love left in here

No need to hurry times not at play

Spending time sharing the warmth

Feelings good chase away the blues

Once it was urgent

Felt the need to rush

Had to have

Filled with lust

Be aware

Of what others shared

But now

It’s about us

About feeding the need

About being involved

About the need to see

Contentment

As we age

Contentment

At a different stage

To love someone

by Bill Ferguson

Caught

The expectation was clear

You will do what your dad did

You will work in a factory

You will marry young

And raise a family

You will follow

Your families structure

In thinking

Your thoughts will not

Stray to areas

Ot thought about

Caught

How to honour that

But still be true to me

Caught

How to develop

A thinking mind

Without all the trouble

Having one possessed

Caught

In an eternal cycle

Of the dutiful son

Versus

A direction

Not established

Caught

In a crossfire

Of destabilizing statements

Caught

An interest in learning

Thoughts and growth

But trying to maintain

A harmonious environment

Caught

In a world where dreams were crushed

Or a price was paid

The only mistake

Was not moving far enough away

by Bill Ferguson

You Can’t Go Back

The spark never caught

The flame all but died

What’s going on inside her head

I never could decide

Bitten once

Bitten twice

You’d think

I would learn

You can’t go back

To the source

Once the page is turned

No one forced my thoughts

The internal struggle was real

I was never quite in tune

With how I really did feel

by Bill Ferguson

A Heart Gone Astray

Cobwebs flung

With gentle despair

Words forming on her lips

Dinner is sung

With tender flair

On each of her trips

Her pace was set

Many years ago

The tide never turned

No need to fret

It passes you know

Lessons may be learned

There was the scent

Of the woods

It’s easy to discern

Her love was meant

As if it could

Return with more concern

A heart is heard

A heart is felt

A heart falls away

Her heart is her word

To thaw or melt

A heart gone astray

by Bill Ferguson

The Act Of Protest

The act of protest

Has lost its meaning

It has lost its cue

By those who lack power

Who never had their due

It’s been co opted by big business

Politicians too

No longer a means of dissent

No longer antiwar

It is hard to hear its statements

From the senate floor

And when people use their pulpit

To encourage protest

As a tool of war

One has to wonder

What it is

This world is longing for

by Bill Ferguson

Circling

Returning once again

To the same spot in my life

It seems I have always been

Circling

Despite efforts to move on

Continuing with past thoughts

Visiting places I have seen

Circling

I am alway circling

Never moving on

How my heart embraces

How my heart does seem to long

For something new and different

For something which shows my growth

For now I am circling

Who knows what I have found?

Circling

Yearning for something new

Stuck in an endless loop

Until I acknowledge what I have seen

by Bill Ferguson

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Where Does It Go?

Through the ages

Through the tears

Through the park

Through the fears

Through the mind

In arrears

Through all time

Through the seers

Through the tv

And the radio

Through the newspapers

That had to go

Through the council

Through the fields

Through the dreams

What they conceal

Through the moments

Of the heart

Through the feelings

They impart

Through the ideas

Once self made

Through the years

Through the pain

Where does it go?

by Bill Ferguson

Could It Be?

Could it be you are near

Could it be you are here

Walking down a fine line

Crossing over into mine

Could it be the words were right

Could It be a true delight

Smiling eyes, laughing free

Sidling right now up to me

Giving love in the night

Giving love in full delight

Say you’ll stay here with me

Say you’ll stay it’s meant to be

by Bill Ferguson