Welcome to the Weekly Coffee Table GUEST BOOK Review in tribute to those friends who are keen and skillful writers, and have laid out their hearts on this guest site this week. I am astonished by the talents of so many writers whose words have moved and affected my week, just as I hope they did yours. Enjoy a refreshing review of this week's poems. Feel free to submit one of your own at any time to: vanneg423@gmail.com.
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me."
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Folds of colour, soft and fragile,
Fringed with common green,
Atop a plain and woody stem,
Along its length, thorns plainly seen.
They will always crush it,
Who recklessly seek it to grasp.
For those impulsive, heedless ones,
Those thorns across palm will rasp.
Who seek to try and preserve,
So blind and unthinking are those.
Who have plucked and pressed,
A now rudely altered, lifeless rose.
Can we not yet comprehend,
This wondrous, fragrant show?
Is it really so hard to enjoy
While left on it’s bush to grow?
In border boldly expanding,
Riot of colour and enveloping scent.
On trellis adventurous climber,
Free and renewing as was meant.
Yet when we rip it from its setting,
Surprised are we at the shiver,
That now cold runs through us,
As we watch it slowly wither.
The rose, it does not deceive.
Oblivious the one while in this flower delves.
For hurting loss or thought betrayal,
We must look honestly inside ourselves.
Fergus Carty
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues".
~Cicero
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R U E G S O O G
G _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Yesterday's word was: MANEUVER
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'Twas the night of Thanksgiving,
But I just couldn’t sleep.
I tried counting backwards,
I tried counting sheep.
The leftovers beckoned,
The dark meat and white.
But I fought the temptation,
With all of my might.
Tossing and turning,
with anticipation.
The thought of a snack
became infatuation.
So I raced to the kitchen,
Flung open the door,
And gazed at the fridge,
Full of goodies galore.
I gobbled up turkey,
And buttered potatoes,
Pickles and carrots,
Beans and tomatoes.
I felt myself swelling,
So plump and so round.
‘til all of a sudden,
I rose off the ground.
I crashed through the ceiling,
Floating into the sky,
With a mouthful of pudding,
And a handful of pie.
But I managed to yell
As I soared past the trees
Happy eating to all,
Pass the cranberries, please!!
May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey be plump.
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious,
May your pies take the prize
And May your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off of your thighs!
Lauren
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, Thank You, that would suffice."
~Meister Eckhart
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E A M U R V E N
M _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Yesterday's word was: FRAGILE
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Courage and integrity are wondrous things to see
In your eyes I see them both looking back at me
Courage and integrity before were simply words
Vowels and consonants, sounds that I have heard,
Visions from old battlefields, heroes standing tall,
Yet now I see them in your eyes in writing very small.
Courage and integrity at last I understand
The beauty of the meaning behind the open hand.
Courage and integrity are wondrous things to see
One day my love I hope you see them looking back at thee.
Craig Norris
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul."
~John Muir
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G I L A R F E
F _ _ _ _ _ _
Yesterday's word was: TERRIFIC
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There is a frozen heart
Inside a very warm body
There is a pale soul
Contrasting with a colorful eye
There is an empty mind
Under her blond hair
But she is just a figurine…
So I went out of that store
After that very frozen moment.
Suddenly, I see a girl
Made of pure angel material
-Go for her! -cried out my heart in desperation
She is walking on the streets of my city
She is promenading away from me again
She is getting away from my tired eyes
-Go for her!
Being a little shy I approach
She glanced at me with a very distant sight
Frozen heart and pale soul
Magical eyes and beautiful lips
Vague mind facing me
-Heavens! She is just another figurine...
Alessandro Lopes
"A picture is a poem without words."
~Horace
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T I I R E F R C
T _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The previous word was: FACETIOUS
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Through that enlightened feeling in my mind
Not straying from the brightness I desire
By those who've shed through beauty of a kind
I long to grow by those whom I admire
To be much more than my mere mortal frame
and bid beyond my capability
If I'd conceive my thoughts to share their aim
Then I shall truly have nobility
What can it be to stand in time alone
If I maintain my ways throughout this thought
Much more within my life by righteous tone
I may create that ripple I have sought
But nothing in my soul does indicate
That I am surely meant to be as great
Robert Anderson
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts;
they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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E T E F B R
B _ _ _ _ _
Yesterday's word was: CHERISH
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You know you are lonely
When the spiders make their webs
When the ghosts pass by your hallway
As you lay asleep in bed
When the moon no longer shines
Upon your carpeted floor
And the wind no longer whistles
Through the cracks in your door
When the coffee in the morning
Has lost its sugar and cream
When the night is unimaginative
Because you lost your will to dream
You know you are lonely
When there’s no reason to believe
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
~Gustave Flaubert
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C H S H I R E
C _ _ _ _ _ _
Yesterday's word was: INFINITE
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You try to be someone you're not
at times this can be apt
but sometimes it isn't suitable
and yes this idea should be scrapped.
Being who you are is important
everyone will respect this in you
when you're happy people will notice
but don't try it when you're feeling blue.
Wearing two hats is difficult
especially when you have to pretend
your head can only fit one snugly
don't force it to fit trying to bend.
In this world you are noted for your honesty
so be true to yourself and to others
for everyone will notice the difference
especially your sisters and brothers.
"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A V A R I E C L
C _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Yesterday's word was: RENEGADE
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Welcome to the Weekly Coffee Table GUEST BOOK Review in tribute to those friends who are keen and skillful writers, and have laid out their hearts on this guest site this week. I am astonished by the talents of so many writers whose words have moved and affected my week, just as I hope they did yours. Enjoy a refreshing review of this week's poems. Feel free to submit one of your own at any time to: vanneg423@gmail.com.
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
~Plato
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