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Isolation, Quarantine, And Sheltering In Place – haiku by Dennis Allen Lange

Posted in My Haiku, tagged bard on the hill, being careful, caution, Chinese, corona virus, crisis, Dennis Allen Lange, haiku, hunker down, Isolation, patience, pestilence, poems, poetry, quarantine, rapid spread, shelter in place, staying home on March 21, 2020| 1 Comment »

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Greatest need
In this present time
Is patience

And caution
As we hunker down
Till storm’s gone.

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/
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Waiting by Dennis Allen Lange

Posted in My Poems, tagged bard on the hill, Dennis Allen Lange, horses at the starting gate, making the most of one's time, nine months, patience, patiently, poems, poetry, pregnant, restrictions, smell of the rain, sweet blam of peace, the check's in the mail, waiting, whiling away the time on April 10, 2018| Leave a Comment »

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I’m here, and I’m waiting again
(Another will suffer the pain).
But as that’s occurring – away –
My minutes are whittled – my day
Is shortened, restricted. My view:
An office, a worker, or two.

Life’s filled with these moments we wait
Like horses to start at a gate.
A woman will wait for a child
Nine months, though it’s driving her wild.
The check’s in the mail – will it come?
Impatient, our fingers may drum.

I’m sitting here thinking of this,
And waiting is not far from bliss.
I’m turning these thoughts in my mind
To verses some others may find.
Thus, sweet balm of peace fills my brain
Like sounds and the smell of the rain.

Occurring to me is this thought:
Since waiting is often, we ought
Put weight in our waiting so space
Won’t sit on, like shadows, our face.
If silver, or if it is gold,
The wait will shine forth forty fold.

Our living itself is a wait,
For death, we hope distant in date.
And what with our lives will we do
While days whittle down till we’re through?

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photo by Robert Proksa at
https://www.rgbstock.com/photo/nj98RMe/Clock+01

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Try, Try Again by T.H. Palmer

Posted in O-R, Poems of Other Poets, ReligiousInspirational, tagged bard on the hill, conquer, fail, if at first you don't succeed, lesson you should heed, patience, perseverance, persevere, poems, poetry, prevail, T H Palmer, Try Try Again on February 13, 2018| Leave a Comment »

‘Tis a lesson you should heed,
If at first you don’t succeed,
Try, try again;

Then your courage should appear,
For if you will persevere,
You will conquer, never fear
Try, try again;

Once or twice, though you should fail,
If you would at last prevail,
Try, try again;

If we strive, ’tis no disgrace
Though we do not win the race;
What should you do in the case?
Try, try again

If you find your task is hard,
Time will bring you your reward,
Try, try again

All that other folks can do,
Why, with patience, should not you?
Only keep this rule in view:
Try, try again.

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Sailing Through Traffic by Dennis Allen Lange

Posted in My Poems, tagged bard on the hill, bumper to bumper, cheetas, Dennis Allen Lange, five o'clock, frustration, glacier, patience, poems, poetry, que, rush hour, Sailing Through Traffic, slow, turtles on January 10, 2018| 2 Comments »

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I’m caught in traffic – five o’clock,
…And everything is slowed.
The cheetahs now are turtles and
…The snails are nailed to the road.

I’m stuck behind the steering wheel
…And traffic’s like a clock –
It moves by sound: tick tick tick tick
…So slow to go just a block.

I’m sure there’re those who fume and curse
…To burn gas sitting still,
And long for home, an easy chair,
…And view, like mine, on a hill.

But there’s a way to rise above
…This glacier moving slow,
And some are very good at it –
…It’s what we all need to know.

It is a way to win the wait
…In each and ev’ry que –
Just find a something that you love –
…A ship to sail you on through.

Just study people; say a prayer
…Play games with all the signs.
There are a million things – and me?
…I sailed – I wrote all these lines.

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photo by Michal Zacharzewski at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/noDRdOY/Rush+hour

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We To Sigh Instead Of Sing by James Whitcomb Riley

Posted in O-R, Poems of Other Poets, ReligiousInspirational, tagged bard on the hill, complaining, darkest before the dawn" >, James Whitcomb Riley, murmuring, muttered, patience, poems, poetry, splendor, We To Sigh Instead Of Sing on September 10, 2017| Leave a Comment »

“Rain and rain! and rain and rain!”
…Yesterday we muttered
Grimly as the grim refrain
…That the thunders uttered;
All the heavens under cloud –
…All the sunshine sleeping;
All the grasses limply bowed
…With their weight of weeping.

Sigh and sigh! and sigh and sigh!
…Never end of sighing;
Rain and rain for our reply –
…Hopes half drowned and dying;
Peering through the window-pane,
…Naught but endless raining –
Endless sighing, and, as vain,
…Endlessly complaining.

Shine and shine! and shine and shine!
…Ah! to-day the splendor! –
All this glory yours and mine –
…God! but God is tender!
We to sigh instead of sing,
…Yesterday in sorrow,
While the Lord was fashioning
…This for our Tomorrow!

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Patience! by Dennis Allen Lange

Posted in Limericks, My Poems, tagged bard on the hill, dandelions, Dennis Allen Lange, flying, limericks, patience, poems, poetry on June 2, 2017| 1 Comment »

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I know that your life can be trying,
But you dandelions must stop your crying.
…E’en though you’re now grounded,
…By passing feet hounded,
The truth is that soon you’ll be flying.

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photo by Michal Zacharzewski at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mpqOmdG/Dandelion+meadow

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