By Charles Robert Lindholm
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March 10, 2022
HAIKU: CRAZY WRITER FRIENDS
January 31, 2022
LET THE WINDS CARRY YOU HOME – ENCORE
October 24, 2021
HAIKU: SHE SMILES WITH HER EYES
May 5, 2021
NOT MEANT TO BE
By Bree Leto – Secret Thoughts Within and Charles Robert Lindholm – The Reluctant Poet
There are many things you can’t control
Your heart
Another’s heart
no matter how much you might want to
It is a fact of life that
hopes and wishes
dreams and prayers
don’t always happen or come to pass
We may have relationships and love
that we have always dreamed of
but sometimes
happenstance
fate or luck
intervene and force a change
to our plans and choices
Not all relationships
are meant to be forever
sometimes they are only meant
to be for awhile
There may be many things you can’t control
but there are some things you can
Maybe it’s time to dream a new dream
It might be time to
move on
forgive and forget
let go
and follow your own pathway
into a new and better life
Copyright © 2021 Bree Leto – Secret Thoughts Within and Charles Robert Lindholm – The Reluctant Poet
All Rights Reserved – 03-24-2021 – 2:30 p.m
Many thanks to Bree Leto for the joy and privilege of writing together. It is always so magical and fun!
Please be sure to check out Bree’s blog and Her audio of this poem – Secretthoughtswithin
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April 30, 2021
I LOVE MY WIFE
I adore my wonderful wife
And I’m always telling her so.
When I tell her I that I am one lucky guy….
Her response is always “I know.”
March 16, 2021
LOVING IN GRAY
By Bree Leto And Charles Robert Lindholm
Blah Days
Gray Days
Thinking Of All The Ways
I Want To Spend These 
Stay Inside Days.
With Her
Soft Heart
Tender Heart
Beating Next To My Heart
As We While Away The Hours
Learning Ways To Share Love
We’ve Come To Love The Gray Days
With Rainy Skies Above
Sweet, Staying Here
In Bed Days
Copyright © 2021 Bree Leto – Secretthoughtswithin And
Charles Robert Lindholm – The Reluctant Poet
All Rights Reserved – 03-05-2021 – 1:45 p.m.
Chuck Lindholm and Bree Leto are an unlikely writing duo from opposite sides of the world. Chuck is from the USA while Bree is from Australia. With their shared love for words, they have immense fun creating passionate poems and stories that reach out to the hearts of their readers. Their collaborative style is full of rich emotions and fiery actions. Bree and Chuck jokingly call their creative processes ‘cooking’ as they enjoy adding their own favorite spices. You can enjoy more of Chuck’s work at thereluctantpoetweb.wordpress.com and more of Bree’s at www.secretthoughtswithin.com
February 14, 2021
YOU KNOW ME
January 22, 2021
LET THE WINDS CARRY YOU HOME
January 4, 2021
THE BEST OF 2020
A Look Back At The Reluctant Poet’s Best Of List For 2020
Thanks To Everyone For Spending Your Precious Time On My Blog In 2020!!!
Thank You for being a part of my life this year!!!!
I am so very grateful!!
Wishing You A Healthy, Happy and Prosperous 2021!!
I Want To Offer A Very Special Thanks To the Wonderful Poets
With Whom I Had The Honor Of Collaborating With This Year!! I Am So Grateful
For Having Had The Opportunity To Write With These Great Writers on WordPress.com:
Christine Bolton – Poetryforhealing
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Keza – Spriitedsoul
Nichole Sulpizio – Glitzyritzy Mommy
Secrets – Secretthoughtswithin
Chuck Lindholm
The Reluctant Poet
BEST OF LIST FOR 2020
WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN
I DROPPED A PEBBLE IN A POND
BOOK REVIEW: I LOST SUMMER SOMEWHERE – BY SARAH RUSSELL
WHEN I MISS YOU
ON BECOMING A WRITER: CHUCK LINDHOLM
HER DREAM OF HIM
I WISH FOR ANOTHER DAY IN LOVE WITH YOU
STRAWBERRIES AND WHIPPED CREAM KISSES
IN LOVE WITH A MUSE
LOST IN TIME
IN SEARCH OF A SOULMATE
NO LONGER A FOOL
FAR AWAY BUT ALWAYS BONDED
‘TIL WE DANCE AGAIN
THE COMFORT OF QUIET
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
YOUR WORDS MADE ME BELIEVE
HIS MIDNIGHT PRAYERS
I CARRY THE SCARS
A TWO FACED LANDSCAPE
AN INTIMATE KISS
THE LOVER OF THE LIGHT
COME STAND WITH ME
THE MOON KNOWS ALL MY SECRETS
I WANT A GOOD SAMARITAN GOVERNMENT
THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE- A MESSAGE FOR AMERICA
LET THE WINDS CARRY YOU HOME
UNDER HER BRANCHES
A PAINTER AT HEART
HER EYES
HER MOSAIC HEART
OF ALL THE POEMS IN ALL THE WORD
A THEIF IN THE NIGHT
PLAYMATES AT MIDNIGHT
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January 2, 2021
LONGING FOR YOU
December 31, 2020
HER RESOLUTION
December 1, 2020
INTIMATE INTENTION
November 16, 2020
THE BITTER END
November 11, 2020
SMOKE SIGNALS
November 10, 2020
SURRENDER
November 7, 2020
#72 POETRY =
November 7, 2020
THE BEST OF 2018 – REPRISE
November 3, 2020
A HOPELESS LOVE AFFAIR
November 1, 2020
HAIKU: THE SEA CALLS TO YOU
October 28, 2020
THE SHANGRI LA OF US
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Life Is So Fast Paced
Anymore
And Time Seems So
Fleeting
With Us
Rushing Around
In Our Own
Little Whirlwinds
The Roses
Go Unsmelled
Along With The Coffee,
Too
We Are Always
Leashed Up
To Electronics
And The Whole
Wide World
Around Us
While The Important
And The Lovely
Are Left Unattended
And Not Admired
I Want To Stop
Our World
From Spinning
Around Us
In A Vortex
I Need To
Hold You
In My Arms
And Look
Into Your Eyes
For You Are
My Anchor,
You Are My World
And All That
Really Matters
To Me
We Need To
Protect
The Shangri La
Of Us
So We Can
Grow Old
Together
And Still Be
In Love
Copyright © 2018 Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved
Inspired by a comment to my friend – Beth of Midwest Fantasy
September 21, 2020
HER SMILE ANSWERED
By Charles Robert Lindholm
When
He Whispered
In Her Ear
She Answered With A
Smile
Copyright © Charles Robert Lindholm – The Reluctant Poet
All Rights Reserved -09-18-2020 – 4:30 a.m.
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September 1, 2020
‘TIL WE DANCE AGAIN
December 27, 2019
Magic Flows in the Wounded Places
Magic flows in the
wounded places,
brings new life,
growing pains,
new patterns,
new hope.
But the risks…
it’s hard to take the risks.
We’re surrounded by
unfinished things,
always taking the present
and turning it into the future,
over and over and over and over…
it doesn’t end until we do.
Creating courage never ends,
is never perfect,
always full of doubt,
always becoming
—but only through risk.
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February 23, 2019
3 LINE TALES – WEEK 159 – LETTING GO WAS NEVER EASY FOR ME
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Letting Go Was Never Easy For Me
I Believe In Happily Ever After
And My Heart Hates My Mind Telling It What To Do!
Copyright © 2019 Charles Robert Lindholm – All Rights Reserved
Inspired From 3 Line Tales – Week 159 On WordPress.Com
January 20, 2019
A HOPELESS LOVE AFFAIR
January 20, 2019
THE WOLF MOON – ENCORE
January 9, 2019
HAIKU: I CAN’T HELP STARING
January 1, 2019
Poet's Corner 