Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Have The Time Of Your Life

Open the door

And let them in

Hang up the coats

Let the fun begin

Snacks on the table

Beer’s in the fridge

Turn up the music

Let’s cross that bridge

Spin the bottle

To your best tunes

Create a dance floor

Begin to croon

Let the music

Last all night

Laugh, sing and dance

Create delight

You’re in for the time of your life

by Bill Ferguson

Is This Love I See?

There is you

There is me

My knees are shaking

Like leaves on a tree

Is this love I see?

There is heat

There is passion

If I were anyone else

I would be cashing in

Is this love I see?

Open door

Closed mind

Competing thoughts

Cross the line

Working words

Blinding me

Filling darkness

What do I need?

There is warmth

There is caring

In our lives

It is rather daring

Is this love I see?

by Bill Ferguson

A Different World

Slowly you turn and ask

“Who are you?”

I hide my concern

As I answer

I am your son

Slowly it has been happening

Over the course of many years

Early on it evolved

Moved through the stages of tears

Moved into territory

Heartbreaking

And so sad to see

I want to show you so much

How much you mean to me

by Bill Ferguson

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Tricolons

Three Thoughts

Hope, dream, live

To realize life’s simple truths

Create, develop, give

Rise above expected views

Thought, spirit, reality

Live a life of truth

Activation, intensity, and persistence.

A task for exacting proof

Three elements

Earth, water, fire

Basic elements of how you live

Plot, setting, character

Become clearer when you give

Diction. imagery. Metaphor.

Defines what you do

Contemplative, advocacy, hedonism

To make a stronger you

Three wishes

Have peace, end poverty, create equality

End suffering, accept difference, enjoy all

Have, give, meet, be

Create opportunities, have positive thoughts, live love

Dignity, voice, compassion

Do all sufficiently

by Bill Ferguson

3 Short Political Poems

Politicians Pressing Pomposity

Weathered weasels writhing

With nightly newscast nuances

Gamely gathering gotchas

Unfactual, unproven, understandings

Corrosive complainants calling

Selfishly serving simpletons

Saying

To believe them

Because they said so.

Stainless Ties

Live their work

Or work their lives

Beg borrow or steal

In disguise

Messy

Structured

Living with

And above their lies

Wrinkled men in stainless ties

Not Big Enough

I hear you talk about the things you say and do

I know you want to believe them to be true

My world isn’t big enough to believe in you

There were so many stories that you liked to tell

Sometimes it is better to leave trees where they fell

My world isn’t big enough to believe in you

You keep talking about things both right and wrong

Makes me wonder why we can’t get along

by Bill Ferguson

Questions Asked, Answers Gained

In the forest deep

Where the winds go to die

The moments that they keep

Absorb a silent cry

As animals sit

Witness to such sorrow

The wind stirs for a bit

Leading us to tomorrow

Memories are left

Washed away by the rain

Will you return your depth

Will you ever be the same

Questions asked

Answers gained

Return to task

Remain maintained

by Bill Ferguson

Monday, July 1, 2024

Not On The Agenda

You begin a love affair

But are taken for a ride

Lost in love

You decide to let it slide

A revolving door

It’s not on the agenda

Not on the agenda

With words galore

An ancient voice

Lost in love

That’s heard no more

Fills you with pride

It’s not on the agenda

Not on the agenda

You keep losing track of time

Wondering if it’s eight or nine

Lost in love

But it’s not on your mind

You keep wanting more

It’s not on the agenda

Not on the agenda

by Bill Ferguson

The Road Less Traveled

We stand

Because we believe

No effort

To try to deceive

No soap box

To a journey’s end

No roads

To try to pretend

No accident

No broken path

Honesty

That is meant to last

Open eyes

No heart to mend

Just seeing

What is in the end

Take the road less traveled

Take the path to the truth

Be who you have to be

Live with providing proof

by Bill Ferguson

Now and Forever

Path was filled with thorns

Voices were filled with scorns

And still we moved on

Hearts that couldn’t share

Made sure we were aware

And still we moved on

Love kept us together

Trust kept us together

We believed

We conceived

Still we were together

Now and forever

We are together

Now and forever

by Bill Ferguson

Sunday, June 30, 2024

The Touch

Her curly hair

Frames

Her smiling face

As she reclines

Comfortably

Eyes closed

Sensing

The inimitable

Light touch

Of his fingers

As they trace

The curves

Of her body

by Bill Ferguson