blue boats, barnacles brown
bumpy beetles, boolean blots
baked bold, blended bravery
boats brown, barnacles blue
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March 9, 2021
Barnacles
February 19, 2021
For Pops
Look at me now Pops, I’m an older man now
I’m past sixty, the years have flown by
That slap in the face
has long turned to grace
yet still on this day I will cry
Nineteenth of February nineteen seventy-four
etched in my mind for all time
The day that you left
leaving family bereft
although all these years later we’re fine
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February 14, 2021
MY BELOVED VALENTINE
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Will
You Stay
My Beloved Valentine
Now And Tomorrow And
Forever?
Copyright © 2020 Charles Robert Lindholm – The Reluctant Poet
All Rights Reserved – 02.14.2020 – 8:00 a.m.
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February 14, 2021
Forty-three Valentines
Forty-three valentines I have now sent
to my one true love every year
Our love it grows stronger
and may it live longer
I trust as I hold her so dear
And we have been wed forty-two of those years
Soulmates, we two are entwined
So here now from me
here is forty-three
Will you please be my Valentine?
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January 24, 2021
When it’s safe
When it’s safe I will be out there
in the Sussex I hold dear
on the byways and the beach
where the air is ever clear
When it’s safe I will have music
live and loud as it should be
with songs that sing of life
which will then be Covid-free
When it’s safe I will be hugged
and will hug my loved ones too
replenishing that feeling
of the love I long to do
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January 19, 2021
WHEN YOU COME TO ME
January 12, 2021
TEMPTED
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
Jeanne – Womentwhothinktoomuch
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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December 25, 2020
MY HOLIDAY WISH FOR YOU – 2020
To You, My Dear Friends and Followers,
I’m sending Happy Holiday Wishes to you wherever you are in the world and however you celebrate this
time of Year!
May Love, Peace, Joy, Health and Happiness fill your heart and make you want to share it with family, Loved ones and everyone else!!
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!!
Chuck Lindholm
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December 24, 2020
WISHING YOU PEACE, LOVE AND HOPE
Please Do Your Part To Help Keep The Spirit Of This Holiday Season In Your Heart All Year Long
And Share It With Others You Know And Meet!!!
Chuck Lindholm
The Reluctant Poet
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December 21, 2020
HAIKU: SHARING MEMORIES
December 21, 2020
HAIKU: THE BEST HOLIDAY
December 21, 2020
HAIKU: YOUR CHRISTMAS LOVE
December 21, 2020
HAIKU: CHRISTMASES PAST – REPRISE
December 14, 2020
mother
mild manners, mellow morrow
mumbles, masks, murmurs
margarine, marmalade
mist, memo, maple
melt, microwave, mild
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December 1, 2020
Constant
orange nails, tiger’s last dream
red smoke, blues, wafered puns
age in its one piece monologue
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December 1, 2020
IN BETWEEN THE LINES
November 18, 2020
Sounds
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
If Yesterday Were a Door
if yesterday were a door
would you find her hand
where the sunset slid
if yesterday were a door
would you hold her smile
where the memories hid
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October 21, 2020
MY SWEET AUTUMN – REPRISE
October 19, 2020
