by Don Holmes | May 23, 2012 | Poetry
Oh what a journey is life Now full of joy Now full of sorrow And then perhaps full of strife How then to alter our fate Cast off the doubts Banish our ills Defer that defining date In life we all get to choose Who we should be Who we will love But never who we should...
by Don Holmes | May 18, 2012 | Poetry
Crammed inside their rusty van Keeping warm as best they can Hoping that a bump or jerk Will make the heater start to work On the road to some new place Where people didn’t know their face Climbing stairs with heavy amps Suffering with aching cramps P.A....
by Don Holmes | May 8, 2012 | Poetry
There’s a chicken in my kitchen With a really evil stare It watches me at breakfast And I wish it wasn’t there There’s a chicken in my kitchen I’ve tried to kill and pluck it But every time I caught the beast It jumped out of my bucket...
by Don Holmes | May 8, 2012 | Poetry
I pretend that I am sleeping In a peaceful pleasant dream Where I am slowly walking By an old familiar stream As it bubbles over pebbles And meanders through the land I pretend that you are with me And I reach out for your hand We wander over the meadow Where we cross...
by Don Holmes | Apr 26, 2012 | Poetry
The tree had stood in the park For as long as I could remember Majestic through summer and spring Golden in depths of September On hot summer days in its shade We sat near the park bowling green Discussing the latest events Or maybe a film we had seen We never had...
