Ricochet

My love rises steaming, tenderness brimming
Your usual stodginess, sends it back recoiling

Ruefully, my mind searches for another tack
To revive the tender love that we once had

I make another venture into my bag of tricks
Wishing to recapture old magic this impasse fix

I devour cookbooks for your favorite meal
You enjoy it, licking fingers, then fall asleep

Chagrined once again, I fish out another bait
Wearing your choice of clothes for our date

You return from office harried and in a blue funk
Quietly I shed my party wear showing false spunk

Still determined, into my bag of tricks I foray
Pull out old fun photos and videos for display

You sit down and together we relive moments of our love
We hold hands, cuddle, when suddenly albums you shove

Office work deadlines and laptop beckon and fluster
Woefully I make strong coffee, enthusiasm lackluster

 

 Biting the bullet I try once more playing romantic lyrics
You croon along and gleefully I surmise that I hit a six

Finally, I am sure my brimming hope and love did not ricochet
You rise then fall into a jig, sing along then promptly fall asleep!!!

I still have hope that our love vibrations will unite after they collide
No matter how many times they recoil, bounce, carom or backslide

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If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off
 so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian Eno British, Musician

Loving And Caring

Unlikely Buddies- a dog and a kitten

Vagaries of destiny has
Thrown us oddly together
We have to forge friendship,
Our instinctive dislikes tether
Caring, sharing with one another
Being true buddies forever n ever
Love Shared by Grandpa and Grandchild

I am an unopened bud biding my time
You are a bloom well past your prime
We are bound together having
 Sprung from same tree of life
I am your pride and your joy
You the anchor of my ship n buoy
Aged Parents and Offspring
When I was helpless and dependent
You took care of me, your love ardent
You toiled day and night for me, to provide,
And demands made by me, you judiciously complied
Now I have to do right by you, take good care
Give respect, ungrudging ear and love to spare
Dad and baby Bonding
I see the proof of our mutual love in you my son
I sing you to sleep on my heart when day is done
Our hearts beat as one as our lyrics are the same
You will be clan torch bearer with same surname
We belong together bound by your sweet innocence
And my tender love, and for god my thankful reverence
Love n Care- In Sunset Years
At the CROSSROADS of our lives pop
we have to keep both our spirits up
we have to stoke the embers of love
Create mystery and meet and greet
with renewed vigor and dancing feet
prop and care for each other for keeps
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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others,
 daring for others, sharing with others.- William A. Ward 1921-,
 

Hope

Life is just a game
Loosen your grip
Make us not lame
Make us grow to be
Strong, independent
Let this be your sole aim
 
 
 
I am your joy, you gave me life
With constant tending, bending
Backwards and forwards hard
Toiling to give my life a jumpstart
 
 
 
A Gardner too sows a seed in soil
Diligently tending caring vigilantly
He also lets nature and elements have
Their say besides his own personal way
 
 
 
Together thus the seed learns to grow
Strong and upright, maturing gradually
At its own speed and inclination
Flowering when ready, of own volition
 
 
 
The end product is a lesson
In collective upbringing
Nature and nurture joining
Hands to fructify new HOPE
 
 
 
Future end products- children
Cared and tended judiciously
Evenly guided and neglected
Will turnout independent minded
 
 
 
 
Life is just a game
Loosen your grip
Make us not lame
Make us grow to be
Strong, independent
Let this be your sole aim
 
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I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.
David Soul
American, Actor Quotes

 

Fate

Fate, Fado, Fortune, Kismet

What is in a term or a name,
The end result is your game

With finality, they bid adieus in churches, at the gate
Weeping happily, they declare honey this is your fate
Now always love and obey him as he is your soul mate
Lifelong conditioning precluded questions or stalemate

 

Love or arranged marriage, when two bodies reside as one
A tug of war ensues before mutual respect n dues are won
To make this bond work requires ingenuity and love, a ton
Hustle bustle harried lives strain n fray new bonds woven

 

Make or break, your fates are in the palms of your own hands
Lines aside, deft maneuvering of mind’s masterstroke wands
Magically resolves tangled balls of misunderstandings spawned
Salvaging n honoring vows made in good faith with a new dawn

 

On the other hand, if banked simmering fires of daily tiffs are stroked
Bonfires of eternal vows’ cinders are easily scattered and revoked
Relationships are broken, offspring like bones of contention are yoked
Tug of war between warring spouses make all unhappy as love chokes

 

Happy folks are divorce lawyers, as they rub their hands in glee
If you are wise, you will attempt to resolve and give in, not flee
Practical horse sense, love of children demand rethinking decree
It is easy to break vows, kill love but much wiser to reclaim it sagely

 

Make or break fate, fado or kismet
Fate is in no ones hands but your own’
The end result is the real game
Fate, fortuna, fado, kismet-What’s in a name

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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
Thomas Mann German, Writer Quotes

Fate, is an excuse for why we end up where we do! Our ‘Actions’ predetermine our Destiny, our ‘Reactions’ seal that fate!
Carl Stoynoff ,poet/philosopher

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka Austrian, Poet Quotes

  

Life Encapsulated

Infant
A newborn adds impetus to parent’s lives
Giving meaning, direction, a goal to strive
Unfulfilled dreams now hopefully passed on
Progeny will achieve them for all, thereon

Toddler
Sandcastles near the ocean get cheerfully   made
Harbingers of  happy future homes are portrayed
Weaving dreams in spontaneous joy with childish spades
A happy family enjoying sun and sand, without shades

Old Age
Life encapsulated like a perfect cameo
A single entity transitioned from a duo
Rewinding their journey from its onset
Hoarding moments, treasured vignettes

 

 The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer , German, Philosopher Quotes

 

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s.
 The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt , American, First Lady Quotes

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the
next generation  the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because
cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.
Gregory Bateson, “Mind and Matter”

 

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