BE POETIC

Where you go when lost in your mind 

In those corners, what do you find

Into this depth of forgotten life

Be poetic your thoughts a portrait painted colors not found in this life

A feeling a moment put to words are chosen from the heart

Searching for a brand new start, why is life so hard

Listen to you, the soul speaking, read those words of feelings

Mentally mystical words that come together with influential 

Our emotions speak louder thought these words

Be poetic in the way you walk; let it be the way you are

Overemphasizing your words doesn't make it art

Say something that will inspire to tickle the mind.

Find those words to understand this world

Cheating the genetics with only boy or girl

Is it the attention you try to find guided by what is inside

©Copyright 2021 Thomas J. Dooley 

 

 

ALL FROM WITHIN

Is there a place? was the question asked

A place for all the pain All the tears and suffering

A place for the difficult

She found it within a poem

With in the ground, in all of nature

She found it... Within the banks of a river

In a river that has gone by so long ago

As she stepped in to bathe

This river wasn't the same

She wasn't the same

This was her time of self discovery

She found the answers to her questions

She found them within herself

The joy has been found

The words still survive in her heart

Our mother's gardens still bloom

She has survived the difficult

She found it all from within

©2009 Thomas Dooley

This poem was inspired by the book The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult (1996) by Alice Walker.

WORDS ARE LIKE PICTURES

Words are like pictures

Let me write a picture for you

A sent sweetly whispered in the air

Candles fill the room

Now the mood

That would be just you and me

Words are like pictures

The window to many dreams

The soul is set free

Words are like pictures

Let me write a picture for you

A blue sky, the smell of pine

Only nature to make us high

As we walk on the back roads

Our conversations is all about dreams

The more dreams we reveal

The more we hold inside

Just walking hand in hand

Words are like pictures

The window to many dreams

The soul set free


©Copyright 1993 Thomas Dooley

WORDS

What words I have
Are lost in the shadows of the past
Trying to understand what I once had
A pen a pad no words from the hand

What words I had
Inspired by a thought, a sound, a look
The unread book only bought because of the cover
Never to open never to read

What words I hide
In my mind on down to my fingers to the tip of my pen
Never to write never to type
The word I will never find

©Copyright Thomas Dooley