Poetry of a Lifetime

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Living With The Blues

The blues keep wandering through my life

Filling me with stories much to my delight

Lives filled with rapture and lives filled with sin

I love the blues won’t you please let me in

There are stories told living with such pain

There are stories I need to hear again

Men loving women and women loving men

I love the blues I’m begging to begin

Living with the blues I’ve made a new friend

We travel roads together to make amends

I love em and I leave em like I’m s’pose to do

Lord bless the blues I have my faith in you

by Bill Ferguson

Playing With Fire

Lay it on the table

Make it well known

I am willing and able

I am fully grown

I am living a life

That was meant for me

I’ll soon be there

You wait and see

Hearts have desire

We’re playing with fire

Love could win or

Love could sink in the mire

I walked to the door

I walked to the room

I covered the floor

I stayed until noon

She said take my hand

You’ll see the lay of the land

I ain’t too proud

I’ll do what I can

Now it is the night

Followed by the day

Love isn’t right

Love didn’t stay

I walked down the highway

I followed my dream

Love couldn’t capture

The essence of me

by Bill Ferguson

Friday, July 12, 2024

I Watch The Road

I watch the road

I watch the stars

I hope for you return

From afar

I watch the road

Hoping for the best

I soon will need

A lengthy rest

There is so little I can do

As I sit here yearning for you

Will you come home

Will you remember I am here

Will you hold the love

That I feel so dear?

I watch the road

I write in the stars

How much you are loved

How needed you are

I watch the road

Another darkened night

Hoping you are safe

Hoping you are alright

by Bill Ferguson

Love Is On My MInd

There comes a time

When love is right for you

There comes a time

You are sure in all you do

There comes a time

To love fiercely and with fire

There comes a time

You build on your desire

Your could say

Love is on my mind

Catching hold

Of the ties that bind

Building on

Feelings that I find

Gaining strength

In both of our minds

I love you deeply

I just have to say

I love you more

Each and everyday

I love you stronger

Intensity is at play

I love you with passion

That has come to stay

by Bill Ferguson

A Song Of Love

You’re on a mission

You’re building a path

Set for ignition

Creating a draft

A song of love

Can’t be wrong

In a world of dreams

A world of desire

Bursting at the seams

Lifting me higher

A song of love

Can’t be wrong

Moving so gently

I am about to explode

Lifting me higher

And higher I rode

Another explosion

Is good for my soul

Taking me where I

Really need to go

A song of your love

You made just for me

Building on it with

Such intensity

A song of love

Can’t be wrong

So much in love

So much in fate

A life to live

Without debate

So much for you

So much for me

All the rest just

Happens to be

by Bill Ferguson

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Because

Because of the smile I see

First thing in the morning

Because of laughter I

Hear in the pouring rain

Because of the look captured

On a moonlit night

Because of the words you bring

To make things right

So much in love

So in tune

So much in love

Over the moon

Because in silence you speak

More than words can say

Because each touch holds

Meaning beyond today

Because tender thoughts you share

Are deep with understanding

Because you love with strength

Your love is forever expanding

by Bill Ferguson

Preaching To The Choir

The road is dark and the road is long

Are you thinking of coming along

Set the night on fire

Preaching to the choir

All the things we once got up to

There wasn’t a thing we wouldn’t do

Set the night on fire

Preaching to the choir

Stories are told

Promises hold

True questions

Were never known

No one is a liar

We couldn’t get much higher

Preaching to the choir

Once we were asked about going straight

We loved and we laughed without debate

Then we set the night on fire

Preaching to the choir

by Bill Ferguson

A Precis Of Mindfulness

Our self

Our experiences

Our wants

Our needs

Our fears

Our desires

Our hopes

Our values

Our expectations

Our self identity

Based on perceptions

Awareness

Evaluation

Combined with

Inferences

Predictions

Self conditions

Are repeated

Until we find

Peaceful resolution

In mindful ways

by Bill Ferguson

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

I Want You

Two lonely hearts

A place set in time

Finding out about love

A meeting of the minds

Circling around

Knocking at the door

Until we discover

We want more

There is wisdom

There is courage

There is love

It is true

But I want you

To want me

The way that

I want you

With a love so strong

What could go wrong?

Every minute

Seems like a week

I get so tongue tied

When I try to speak

Working at the boundaries

Of loving you

Wanting your love

Wanting more it’s true

by Bill Ferguson