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    Poems and Rhymes from Various Times
    Poems and Rhymes from Various Times
    Poems and Rhymes from Various Times
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    Poems and Rhymes from Various Times

    By Lester Peoples

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    A keen sense of humor and a love of life and truth are shared in a variety of poems that most can relate to. Personal feelings by the author are not meant to influence any personal ideas or to change set ways. I hope a smile or a feeling of comfort can be shared through these pages as I wrote them remembering a wonderful and eventful life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJun 26, 2010
    ISBN9781453502396
    Poems and Rhymes from Various Times
    Author

    Lester Peoples

    Born and raised in mid western small town then of about 3,000 during the hard times of the 30s depression by a factory worker parent and stay at home mom who provided wonderfully for 5 children. Les was the eldest, after completing 12 years of school and 4 credits of extended learning was drafted into the Custers Gerry Owen 7th Cav. Regt. (Army) and served 2 years in Japan. Returning home to the heavy construction field he left before service he retired after working in mechanics, welding and equipment operator, and instructor teacher in his labor union. Forced an early retirement for health causes he was motivated by childhood memories and a liking of poetry started sharing poems with friends who suggested they be saved to a book which is shared for you. A keen sense of humor and a love of life and truth are shared in a variety of poems that most can relate to. Personal feelings by the author are not meant to influence any personal ideas or to change set ways. I hope a smile or a feeling of comfort can be shared through these pages as I wrote them remembering a wonderful and eventful life. -les

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      Poems and Rhymes from Various Times - Lester Peoples

      Contents

      Humor

      Abbreviations

      Blind Date

      Bread Pudding

      Dreamer

      Dumplin’ Day

      Houseboy

      In the Eyes of the Beholder

      Mans’ Metamorphosis

      Missent

      My Poem

      Safety Awareness

      Skoolin’

      Smelling

      Strange Sounds

      The Tree House

      Visitor at Lunch

      What Did You Say?

      Where’s Tex?

      Experience

      Aah Retired!

      A Beautiful Summer Walk

      A Lake Walk

      A Sunset

      A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

      Bird-Watching

      Destination Unknown

      High Street

      I Am Who I Am

      Nightmares

      Story’oems

      The Coal Steam Locomotive

      The Dung Beetle

      The Last Rites

      The Sky

      Love

      Almeda

      Flo

      Grandma Sally

      Hello, My Darling

      Heroes Indeed

      Hey There

      Hmm, I Wonder

      Lonely

      Love’s Choice

      Rebel My Cat

      Scratch My Itch

      Political

      A Man of Change

      A Sad Reality

      Bad Times

      Our World Today

      Politicians

      The Leadership in Power

      Spiritual

      Awesome

      Fire, Water, and Air

      Give Me a Soul

      Harken

      Miracles

      My Daily Prayer

      Nakedness

      Promises You Can Believe

      Ragged Knees

      The Holy Names of God

      The Right Side of the Road

      Time for Examination

      Your Light—Candle

      The Fork in the Road

      Humor

      Abbreviations

      Today much more than in the past, you see that it is true

      Organizations that we talk about just aren’t in their full view.

      Instead of spelling out the name explaining what they mean

      We see a string of alphabet and enough to make you scream.

      It’s not easy to remember all, and too they’re not a few

      Even when in context they distort the reader’s view

      Because you have to wonder when so many seem alike

      Are they used for a good purpose or only a nerve to strike?

      Like a dash upon a tombstone with numbers at each end

      Or letters with periods after, are these meant to be our friend?

      I find so many in my world that are derogative to me

      Almost seen as cuss words with so much negativity.

      When they were first brought on the scene, we could easily see

      They saved us time in writing out words in their entirety.

      Some may feel quite proud to be part of an abbreviation

      I want to ask and be quite clear: is it for good—to help our nation?

      New associated terms using power to rule and reign

      Changing what has been our best, now only placing blame

      Are we to sit back on our heels without a firm fixation

      While we watch a minority few control the situation?

      We can look around from history past and see a devastation

      That has taken lives of the innocent leading to starvation.

      Man can devise and scheme, his plan deceiving true instruction

      While wasting everything he touches leading to destruction.

      Abbreviations all look alike when they’re written on a page

      We learn to signify them too as we can watch them age

      You can’t abbreviate the truth no matter how you try

      But men with these fixations will always use their ply

      No conscience found or good intent, but all we see prevail

      Is arrogance and slander with unruliness in their trail

      How can it be society has allowed this to come true?

      Complacency and comfort zones aren’t holding up for you

      Abbreviations are sometimes used to cut an object short

      Leaving out the vital nerves strengthening our support.

      Like a skeleton is all that’s left when life has lost its sway

      A pearl and meat taken from an oyster deep is also this way

      An empty shell just tossed about is something we should dread

      So take control and don’t be fooled by what you see ahead

      We have come too far to see it all go up in clouds of smoke

      Reality is at our door, don’t think it’s just a joke

      Your life is not the last there is, there is much more to follow

      A squirrel that’s in an old oak tree has a room that’s also hollow.

      But high above are limbs of strength to weather every storm

      Holding fast to things supplying truth will always keep us warm.

      Spell it out that all may see none hidden from our view

      With heads held high and conscience clear, I am one of you.

      The terms that plague society were all devised by man

      Many of these cannot last and be washed out by the sand

      Time is here forever while our calling can seem so short

      Stay vigilant and determined so to arrive safely at our port.

      Avoid UN, ACLU, NAMBA, LGBT, and all like-associated factions having ego, lust, and rule as goals for pleasure.

      Blind Date

      A so-called friend came bustin’ in to the local coffee shop

      Where I was havin’ breakfast and drinkin’ coffee that was hot!

      He recalled that I owed a favor, one I hadn’t paid

      He flopped down hee-hawin’ around, started talking ’bout this maid.

      Who, he told, would find a gentleman just right for her to see.

      So searchin’ around, none were found, so it might as well be me!

      I gulped and could not swallow, my bacon would not go down;

      Does he really mean to tell me I’m the only guy in town?

      Arrangements, he said, was already made, givin’ me an address,

      And told me she’d be wearin’ an orange polka-dotted dress.

      I only had five hours left so at once began to dread,

      What I had let myself in for and thoughts came to my head.

      She wouldn’t be a beauty queen, to this there was no doubt,

      Or she wouldn’t be datin’ blind or with just anyone, go out

      So suddenly the time arrived, I pulled up to her place, and before I

      got my car pumb stopped, she was starin’ me in my face.

      Grinning like a chelsea cat with thick lips a cherry red,

      I was stymied and so confused, couldn’t make out what she’d said.

      I was wondering if it was an accent or if she had a lisp but

      I sure didn’t want to smear that lipstick on those monstrous lips!

      She wallered in and gasped for breath, the seatbelt was too short.

      My poor car was leanin’, from the starboard to the port

      The frame creaked from the strain as she finally settled down.

      I think she said she worked for the city, in the nearby town.

      She could have been a sidewalk tester, from weight she carried aroun’

      I could picture them crack or buckle, as they’d sink into the ground.

      I was gonna ask her choice of where she’d prefer to go

      to an outdoor drive in movie or to an inside picture show?

      She said to buy a sack of burgers and find a place to park

      she was so hungry she could eat her weight, at least till it got dark!

      The onion smell might even hide the odor of cheap perfume.

      I could get in the backseat even, and [there would be more room.]

      I just finally had to break the news and tell her I have to go,

      my stomach was really upset, and I couldn’t sit through a show.

      I really strained to say it even when a fib is sometimes best

      If my friend ever mentions girlfriend, I’ll smack him in the chest!

      By right he should pitch in to pay for damages for car and springs,

      This could take dumb things off his mind, such as blind dates and things.

      Bread Pudding

      When I was at home and in high school many years ago

      I could hurry home for lunch if I didn’t walk too slow.

      The school was in our part of town, just five blocks away

      Leaves memories I love to share, remaining to this day.

      One day the rest of our household all took their lunch in sack

      but I decided to take a chance at leftovers for a snack.

      So home I came and in the door, much to my surprise

      The sight of hot bread pudding was there before my eyes.

      Mom had stood at the ironing board but bless her little heart

      She knew that I’d be

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