One Day Two Parts

 

Welcome to my blog.  I am an older guy living near the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia with my wife.  We are dealing with present day challenges like everybody else.  Writing and photography help me to do this. 

I have not had a successful life but I am doing well now.  Took a great fall ten years ago but have not given up. I explore this with poetry.  This is meant to express a positive message to anyone who has had major struggles especially in the areas of alcoholism, prescription meds, restless legs syndrome and ADHD.  I went from living up high on Virginia Beach to being homeless and sleeping in the Walmart parking lot in my car.  I bought a nice house for someone and her husband in the past.  These are issues many have dealt with and all I have to say is that God is great.  Not religion, not isms, not any of those things.  Just real faith in the face of destruction.  Watch for this in my poetry.  I am doing fine now.  This is for those who still struggle. I remember and think of you.   

One Day Two Parts

Two time spans upon the sea

the first was full of storms

memories collected

of every thing done wrong.

Wretched clouds and tides took out

all the things were knocks

leaving homelessness decay

and flesh down in the rocks.

But then each day the second part

took over from the first

every time a mourning briefly

then afternoon desserts.

The seas fulfilled their mission

then blew away the storm

and the many parts of it

were in the mind no more.

While the birds began to play

or settled in their nests

someplace new

well who can say?

This day were no more tests.