HAIKU: MYSTERY OF LIFE

 

By Charles Robert Lindholm

 

Mystery of life

HAIKU: SAY YOU NEVER WILL

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

 

Do you get tired

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HAIKU: HER HEART IS TENDER

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Be gentle with her

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THE HURT

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

the hurt
in my heart
has ended 

HAIKU: HEAVEN TO ME

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Waking up each day

LIGHTENING ROD

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

I don’t really understand it

this gift or curse from God

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YOU LIE TO ME

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

You lie

to me

with your words

 

but your eyes

cannot

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MY FINAL JOY

 By Charles Robert Lindholm

when I think of dying

my mind just pictures you

and all the ways you loved me

and all that you would do

 

I dream of lying in your arms

as the sweetest resting place

YOU SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

You say
that you
love me 

But your
eyes
betray you 

AS HE WAS

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

tie ‘em
leash ‘em
train ‘em 

and fence ‘em in
because

OUR LAST DANCE

By Charles Robert Lindholm

We started our Last Dance
five years ago
when we got the final diagnosis
we were dreading to hear 

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OLD NEWS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

How can he be so deaf

when my heart is crying?

Why can’t he see

the tears that fall as I cry?

MY HEART FELT YOU BELONGED TO ME

—A Response poem to “GUILTY” by Myra on shadesofpoetry—

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

I unlaced my fingers
from your hand
not the choice
that I had planned 

My head demanded
and I let go

THE SUNNY SIDE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

I write about
the you I love
though in truth
I know it all 

the twinkle in your eyes

I SHALL KEEP MY EYES ON YOU

A RESPONSE POEM TO “Look Not On The Thorns“

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

I shall keep my eyes on you,
you are the prize for my heart
the joy of my soul
the lover I seek for my forever 

I cannot look away from you,

PRISON BREAK ?

 

wanting

to be

free

DEEP INSIDE OF ME

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

why do you inspire me
like water quenching thirst
filling me with so much joy
I feel like I shall burst 

you fill me up with feelings

NEXT TO ME

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

I see you with the children
your heart is filled with love
your voice is soft and tender
like the cooing of a dove 

your smile is like the sunshine

POSSIBILITIES

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

it could have been . . .

someone else

but it wasn’t

 

it should have been . . .

forever

but it ended

I HEARD AN ANGEL WHISPERING – A RESPONSE TO “RAIN ON ME”

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

I heard an Angel
whispering the words
of Her poem in my ears 

tempting me
with the words
off Her tongue 

DON’T LOOK BACK

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

It’s the hardest thing to do
when you still love them
and you wish you could
recapture the magic
that used to be 

NESTLED IN MY ARMS

By Charles Robert Lindholm

 

When I wake-up in the morning

and look upon your face

nestled in my arms

Only Words

The words are only words.
Only fools love the words.
What counts is the heart and soul
behind them.