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177 · Aug 2023
Puzzle Box
Bill MacEachern Aug 2023
Puzzle Box

Emotions and memories
Kept in a box
Pieces of puzzles
Thoughts that we thought

Unpacking words
Fractured pictures
This one looks good
This one fits better

Write a short story
With so many words
Don’t use a thousand
Fifty will serve

Make a big picture
Show what you see
With plenty of feeling
Of life’s memories

Bill MacEachern August 15,2023
165 · Dec 2023
Ma’s Tree
Bill MacEachern Dec 2023
🎄 Ma’s Tree🎄

Bulbs, lights and tinsel
Ring memories
Each bulb a treasure
That went on Ma’s Tree

Unpacked with kid gloves
Like newborn baby’s
Kids dared not touch
Such fragility’s

Ma left the fun part
For all of us kids
Like licking the spoon
Us kids dug right in

Handfuls of tinsel
Were flung on Ma’s tree
Topped with her angel
High up on it’s peak

Bill MacEachern December 17, 2023
164 · Aug 2021
Foggy Day Ways
Bill MacEachern Aug 2021
Stayed in bed yesterday
Whiled the whole day away

Though idle
My thoughts went astray

Stayed in my head yesterday
Pondering possible pathways

How things may go
How they may stay

Made up my bed today
But not my mind

Stuck in a gray way
But certainly

Soon
Will find my way…
163 · Aug 2020
Instant Love
Bill MacEachern Aug 2020
Instant Love
1) 1 Part You(Must be soulmate to Me)
2) 1 Part Me(Must be soulmate to You)
3) A lifetime of waiting.........................
4)A forest of “Falling Leaves”🎼
5) A shared passion for Love,Laughter,Life & Passion
6) 60 years of music....................🎼
7) A shared uncontrollable compulsion to Sing,Whistle,Tap,Bang and most of all, be consummate Finger Snappers!!
8) 2 pair Dancing Shoes
9) A boat load of Destiny,Fate and Prodding from the Love Guru’s
10) 2 Hello’s

Directions;
1) Slowly mix all ingredients, this MUSTbe done SLOWLYYY and with high regard to each other’s feelings and capacity and styles of LOVE...if not , you risk causing LOVE to crumble and fall...
2) After all ingredients have been SLOWLY mixed...Dance,Rock, Roll, Laugh, Jump, Skip, Hop, Snap Them Fingers You Got and finally Shake On it.......Then LOVE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Warning;
If you rush in like fools and Love Crumbles.............
You will need
1) Stubborn Soulmate
1) Love Rock
1) Fool willing to surrender
“Falling Loves” references a Van Morrison song we love
“Love Rock” is a Boulder we sat on after a restaurant meet after breakup, made up while continued talk on rock!❤️
160 · Dec 2022
Furious Flame
Bill MacEachern Dec 2022
Furious Flame

I once knew a love
Of passion and pain
Mad for each other
A furious flame

Shouldn’t have lasted
The years that we did
Made for each other
So Hot & torrid

Epic chapters
In each others life
Never dull
Just, not always nice

I once knew a love
Much louder than thunder
I don’t miss that clash
Though do miss the wonder

By: Bill MacEachern 12/08/2022
157 · Oct 2021
Discover America
Bill MacEachern Oct 2021
Discover America
Come all aboard
We’re sailing to freedom
Like all those before

Leif Erikson, Columbus
Then CONQUISTADORS!!!!
They came, they saw
But noticed NO door

Discover America
Like all those before
It’s yours for the taking
Ignore the border
152 · May 2024
Town Full Of Sound
Bill MacEachern May 2024
Town Full Of Sound

I use to live in
A town full of sound
With Roller Coasters
And Merry Go Round
Horns would blast
To sound an alarm

I use to live in
A town full of sound

I use to live in
A town full of sound
Pinballs were zinging
And barkers would hound
Foghorns were blaring
A mournful fog song

I use to live in
A town full of sound

I use to live in
A town full of sounds
Salt water taffy
Came clacking on down
The bandstand was swinging
Those Glen Miller songs

I use to live in
A town full of sound

I use to live in
A  town full of sound
Where all sorts of music
Played all over town
Screech of the crowd
As the Comet roared down

I use to live in
A town full of sound

Bill MacEachern May 2, 2024
Growing up in a beach town with amusement park and many many beach saloons
151 · Aug 2023
August
Bill MacEachern Aug 2023
AUGUST

The brakes of summer
Slowly get pumped
August is here
Tomatoes are plump

Schools ‘round the corner
Autumn near by
August is here
Season’s collide

Gardens grow fruitful
Leaves look luscious
Soon they’ll be painted
With natures brush’s

A paradise for picnics
Beach goers too
Air’s not so humid
Or sticky like glue

August is here
Relax and enjoy
Soon we’ll eat turkey
Then kid’s get their toys

Bill MacEachern  August 11, 2023
Nature…Seasons
150 · Nov 2018
VOTE!!
Bill MacEachern Nov 2018
Today is the day
Where we all get to say
Who makes a change
And
Who won’t

Take a good friend
Or one on the mend
As long as they intend
To vote

It’s not just
Our right
It’s
Their hard fought fight
We owe it to all
So
LET’S VOTE!!
Politics
150 · Mar 2023
Solace Of The Willows
Bill MacEachern Mar 2023
Solace Of The Willows

"He flew the coop"
Was what they said
Though I knew
Better
Was we who fled
We who cried
We who hid

I lost a dad
A dad
I never had
A dad
Who never cared

I still recall
The willows
Tall
Weeping
Weeping for us all

Blowing to the wind
Giving
Swaying
Whatever comfort
It can

At the doorstep
Of our new home
Told
You’re not welcome
Told
We must go

Broken
To shattered
Then scattered about
"He flew the coop”
While we all bailed out

Bill MacEachern
03/24/23
149 · May 2020
Waiting On A Lyft
Bill MacEachern May 2020
I don’t have a clue
What I will write
It is not morning
Nor is it night

I’m at a junk yard
Waiting for a Lyft
Heading up north
To turn that, to this

Lyft got cancelled
Oh woe is me
What will I do
What will it be

Alas...
My ride is Mr. Jeffrey
I haven’t met him
Nor he, me

It won’t be till 5
But that is alright
I’m going up north
To make things all right
Scattered misings
148 · Sep 2024
Silence
Bill MacEachern Sep 2024
Silence

Silence speaks
It’s heard and it’s loud
Not saying a word
Says, I will allow

Silence wobbles
Unsteady it stands
Like a good ostrich
That blends with the sands

Silence is safety
With no point of view
Silence don’t matter
Until it is you

Silence is sneaky
It hides, it evades
It ducks and it weaves
Avoiding THEIR say

Silence is dull
No shine and no glow
Whoever said golden
Knows nothing at all

Silence risks nothing
No skin in the game
Don’t open the door
Just lean on the gate

Silence knows nothing
Don’t ask them the score
Three sleeping monkeys
Know nothing no more

Silence is guilty
Without a defense
The guilt will distill
In all their silence

Bill MacEachern September 21, 2024
148 · Nov 2018
No Words
Bill MacEachern Nov 2018
At times I’m at
A loss for words
And so I write
Some things
I’ve heard
Things that
May not
Be so true
But who
Would care
Would I
Would you

It’s not like truth
Is all that they say
It could be last night
As well as today
I’ve seen it go
Here
As well as go
There
But one thing is
Certain
It’s not always
Clear

And so I write
Nothing today
Nothing to
Share
Nor nothing
To say
But write
I will
Until
I fill
This blank
And
Lonely
Page

By:Bill MacEachern
146 · Dec 2023
Diem
Bill MacEachern Dec 2023
Diem

Diem Diem
Carpe Diem
Soak up some sunshine
Forget about when

This days your day
Seize it and grin
Diem Diem
Carpe Diem

Take a short walk
On a long pier
Look see some dolphins
Swimming out there

Today Today
Do something new
Something much better
Than watching the news

Diem Diem
Carpe Diem
Live for today
And do it again

Bill MacEachern December 8, 2023
142 · Sep 2024
New Swear Word
Bill MacEachern Sep 2024
New Swear Word

Tommy woke at 3 AM
To yelling, taunts and swears
This time Tommy heard his Ma
Use words he never heard

"Abuse” echoed through the house
Straight to Tommy’s ears
Cowering under covers
Tommy snored on every word

"I’m not going to be…
abused anymore!”
Tommy’s mother shouted
Sounding more like a roar

Tommy woke the next day
Then groggily recalled…
Is "abuse” a new swear word
He knew he had to know

Getting out the big word book
That Tommy always used
Tommy hoped to find
The answer to “abuse”

Tommy was dismayed
On all it had to say
“Abuse” was not a swear word
Though saw it everyday

Bill MacEachern August 23, 2024
141 · Nov 2022
Role Playing With Fire
Bill MacEachern Nov 2022
Role Playing With Fire

Fact and fiction
Role play with fire
Black is now white
Truth now a liar

Shall I be silent
Blindfold my tears
Bury my head
Dismiss all my fears

Shall I do nothing
Sit on my fists
Ignore all the hatred
That surely exists

Shall I be deaf
Cotton my ears
Block out the drumbeat
Of doom in the air

If I see something
Shall I say something
Or just walk on by
Ignore what’s occurring

Shall I self censor
Let truth expire
While Fact & fiction
Role play with fire

Photo & Poem By: Bill MacEachern
November 3, 2022
141 · Oct 2022
Rain
Bill MacEachern Oct 2022
Rain

Rain
Dripping wet
Tires spray
Drip drop drip

Puddles splash
Wipers swish
Colorform leaves
Stick stick stick

Signals shine
Mirrored roads
Raindrops fall
It pours n pours

Coffee brews
Slippers donned
Rain rain rain
All day long

By: Bill MacEachern
October 23, 2022
135 · Oct 2018
SHOUT
Bill MacEachern Oct 2018
SHOUT
I will not be silent
I must speak out
It is my country
So I will SHOUT

Silence gives strength
To the unjust
Silence is a noose
For all of the rest

So, let’s all SHOUT OUT
Against all that is WRONG
Let’s all SHOUT OUT
Right voices be strong
135 · Dec 2023
Rabbit Phone
Bill MacEachern Dec 2023
Rabbit Hole

I woke one morning
Everyone’s gone
We fell in that rabbit hole
In what we call phones

Gone is the laughter
It’s all lol
It’s not really funny
Not even giggles

Hello, Is that you
Or phisherman
You say you want
To be friends again

I miss the connections
That ring a ding a ling
Saying hello
With our voices again

I don’t want lyrics
I’d rather hear song
Volley’s of voices
Of words strung along

I woke this morning
Missing my friends
I’ll send you my feelings
In emoji sad grins

Bill MacEachern December 11, 2023
134 · Aug 2020
Time Spent With Diane
Bill MacEachern Aug 2020
Like traversing tracks
And jumping the cracks
My time
Spent with Diane

Like jumping some ropes
And sledding down slopes
My time
Spent with Diane

Like skipping some stones
And eating snow cones
My time
Spent with Diane

Like a childhood friend
That never will end
My time
Spent with Diane
133 · Feb 2023
No Distance No Time
Bill MacEachern Feb 2023
No Distance No Time

Their love
Had no distance
No paper
No time
Their love
Was a lifeline
To last
A lifetime

They knew
The moment
Their love
Drew them in
Two mates
One soul
Was what
Would begin

Bill MacEachern
133 · Sep 2024
Rainy At My House
Bill MacEachern Sep 2024
Rainy At My House

Torrents of rain
Flume for the gutters
Blankets of gray
Spread out above us

Treetops sashay
Swinging here and then fro
Like wild swing dancers
Commandeering the floor

Windows bead heavy
With water droplets
Some are seen racing
With weightful swiftness

Wrens still sing
With treetops for cover
It makes a great stage
As well as umbrella

Shhhhh of wet tires
Hog all the air
It's rainy at my house
But sunny somewhere

Bill MacEachern August 2024
130 · Aug 2022
I Believe In You
Bill MacEachern Aug 2022
I don’t believe in god
Though
Do believe in you
And hope someday
We’ll tolerate
Our different points
Of view

By Bill MacEachern
8/6/2022
128 · Aug 2023
Old
Bill MacEachern Aug 2023
Old
Old

Old

I feel it now
Getting old
I feel now how
It’s…not all gold

I feel it more
Since yesterday
I’d rather stay
Than go ’n' play

It’s not so bad
Don’t get me wrong
I’m really glad
I’ve lived this long

I travelled ‘round
By thumb 'n' car
Slept under bridges
In Florida

My pal Hohner
Tagging along
We’re always kissing
When blues come on

Been to rehab
Eyes wide open
We’re all in a struggle
We’re all a bit broken

I got to see
Niagara Falls
I got to hear
The lovebird call

I sweetly weeped
Obama’s win
And lived to see
Him win again

I feel it now
Growing old
All my memories
Just pure gold

Bill MacEachern August 9, 2023
Getting on…
126 · May 2020
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Bill MacEachern May 2020
I’ve always fought
This  “Higher Power”
It then...
Hit Me!
Like
A bell tower

Through out my journey
When **** SHOULD crash
Somebody up there liked me
And ALWAYS
Saved my
***

So if you could please
Look down on me more
I do need
The looking
To show me
Which door

I’ll get on my knees
To thank you
EACH DAY
For all of the lifting
And pointing
The way

And so...
I BELIEVE
In a “Higher Power”
It’s good to
BELIEVE
In this waning hour

I hope you find yours
Don’t give up, geez
I’m now 64
And
Just down on
My knees

Bill MacEachern
05/26/2020
One afternoon, as a kid, I stopped to watch a movie that was on in the den with my mother, this was very rare. The movie was Somebody Up There Likes Me with Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano and Joanne Woodward as his wife.
Rocky at one point in the movie realizes that he’s been a very lucky man, many things in many ways could’ve happened to him, but didn’t... during a ticker tape parade Rocky shouts out...”Somebody Uo There Likes Me.”
126 · Oct 2022
Love Song
Bill MacEachern Oct 2022
Love Song

I want to write a love song
On what I feel inside
I want to say I love you
In ways that make us cry

I want to sing it out
All my working days
Until I head back home
In your arms again

I want to show my love
In ways you’ll know for sure
Just like a waiting puppy
Just sitting by the door

I want to write it all down
On all you mean to me
And it will be our love song
As long as love will be

By Bill MacEachern
October 11, 2022
126 · Feb 2021
Carpe Diem
Bill MacEachern Feb 2021
Carpe Diem

Top ‘O the morning to ya
How doodie do

I’m feeling well
Thank you

‘ N how ‘bout you

Oh
Just fine
Taking my time
Sipping on coffee
Working on rhymes

Well
Good day to you
Nice night as well
Live it up
Now
One never can tell

By: Bill MacEachern
02/28/21
120 · Oct 2021
Word
Bill MacEachern Oct 2021
Words have flavor
Though not eaten
Some are sour
Others sweetened

Words can darken
Teach true hate
Or preach love
And Illuminate


Words are sticks
And they’re stones
Can be bricks
In well read homes

Words can color
In many hues
Or make duller
And smear you blue
120 · Oct 2023
Bomb Baby
Bill MacEachern Oct 2023
Bomb Baby

How long how long
Can this **** go on
Born babies bombed
Who do no wrong

Born babies long
For their Mama’s song
Born babies bombed
No longer long on

Bill MacEachern 10/22/2023
119 · Oct 2022
Legacy
Bill MacEachern Oct 2022
I’ve never fathered children
To say or call my own
Though
Do Have many offspring
Of things
I’ve seen, then sown

I’ve fathered many words
Which fathered many more
Some grew into poems
Though none
We’re named…
"Lenore"

I developed many photos
Tweaking
Here and there
They may live on forever
I’ll leave them in your care

I’ve conjured many dishes
Some
I’ve written down
Other's
Will expire
They’ll go
When I am gone

I’ve never fathered children
Though
Leave this legacy
I know
It’s not the same
But…
Keeps good company

By: Bill MacEachern
October 13, 2022
118 · Dec 2023
Those Days
Bill MacEachern Dec 2023
Those Days

Those days
Those days
They come to an end
What was back then
Cannot be again
Bottle it up
Sip from it when
You long for
Those days
You thought would not end

Those days
Those days
Were just like that
Memorable times
We’ll never get back
That’s ok
Just dandy with me
Those days
Those days
Are now memories

Those days
Those days
My mothers baked bread
Still smelling swell
Just all in my head
That’s ok
For we all will see
Those days
Those days
Come back in our dreams

Those days
Those days
All those bygones
Treasure them well
They won’t last you long
Embrace what you loved
Forget all the rest
Those days
Those days
Were simply the best

Bill MacEachern December 6, 2023
115 · Oct 2022
Awakenings
Bill MacEachern Oct 2022
Awakenings

Waking thoughts
Fields are clear
Morning’s harvest
Reap idea’s

Grab a keyboard
Grab a pen
Or grab a ***
But start digging

Morning moments
Nurture notions
At this time
Our thoughts are potent

By: Bill MacEachern
October 14, 2022
115 · Feb 2021
Write This Way
Bill MacEachern Feb 2021
Write This Way

I write
To get off
While
I Get on

I write
To juggle
The right
And
The wrong

I write
To reach out
As well
As dig in

The what’s?
The why’s?
The Who’s
The when’s

I write to
Express
Happiness
Sadness
Regret

I write
To share myself
And that’s
What you get

By Bill MacEachern
February 19, 2021
114 · Mar 2021
Saturday Night Surf
Bill MacEachern Mar 2021
Saturday Night Surf

We use to Surf
On Saturday nights
The Surf Ballroom
Up a thousand flights

Didn’t Hang Ten
But did Tighten Up
Did the Funky Chicken
And built up buttercup

Blue suede shoes
Silk stripe pants
Looking like peacocks
Ready to dance

We had Utopia
The Pilgrims
Rockin’ Ramrods too

When The Technique’s
Played Shotgun
All understood

This would be our last dance
So do it now
And do it good

By:Bill MacEachern
03/29/2021
My old dance hall days
112 · Sep 2024
I Am They!
Bill MacEachern Sep 2024
"I am They”!

“They”
Are the Irish
The Black
And the Jew
“They’re
The innocent
All thrown
In the stew

"They”
Are your family
Your neighbor
Your friends
“They’re”
Used by bigots
As weapons
Again

“They"
Can be anyone
Anyone
You choose
“They’re”
Used as fodder
“They’re” an old
Racist tool

Bill MacEachern September 14, 2024
112 · Nov 2023
Wingless Bird
Bill MacEachern Nov 2023
Wingless Bird

I wasn’t taught
Reach for the stars
I never knew
It’s not too far

I knew to stop
Look both ways
And never touch
A burning flame

Encouragement
Was never heard
I left the nest
A wingless bird

Survival was
My only school
Doctorate in hit
And bachelors in *****

I left the nest
A wounded bird
Then found my wings
In written words

Bill MacEachern 11/28/23
106 · May 2020
New Leaf
Bill MacEachern May 2020
New Leaf

I’m on a new
Path today

A different kind
Of way

A way
just begun

A path
I know none

But the path
I will take today

I’m SixtySome
I’ve had my fun

But time
To turn a leaf

A side
I don’t know

But it’s
Where
I will go

I’m on a new
Path today...
99 · Sep 2024
Senior Serenade
Bill MacEachern Sep 2024
Senior Serenade

I want to be alright
For the rest of my life
Have no more fears
On my coming years

Just have a home
I can call my own
With my own kitchen
Do my own cookin’

Just to live carefree
As free as I can be
Not a care for rent
In my retirement

Just to be at peace
With no enemies
Be a caring friend
To everyone I can

Yes, I’m getting old
And my fate’s untold
But if I had a wish
My wish is just for this…

I want to be alright
For the rest of my life
Have no more fear
On the coming years

Bill MacEachern August 15, 2024
92 · Aug 2022
Road Trip
Bill MacEachern Aug 2022
Road Trip

I Love a road trip
With no where to go
Just hop in the car
And go with the flow

I love a road trip
That turns into more
Breakfast in Boston
Then off to the shore

I love a road trip
With ice cream and clams
A stroll on the beach
No cares and no plans

I love being out
With me and with you
I love a road trip
With all of its views

By Bill MacEachern
8/13/2022
88 · Sep 2024
School Of Life
Bill MacEachern Sep 2024
School Of Life

Never travelled
’Round the world
But been
Around that block

Never really
Finished school
But read a
Many book

Didn’t chef
Le Cordon Bleu
But surely
I can cook

Didn’t train at
Juilliard
But feet danced
All they could

Never been to
Prison
But did
My own time

By building up
So many walls
In my
Own mind

It isn’t where ya
Went to school
It’s all in
Where ya been

I’ve been around
So many folks
Who’ve taught me
How to live

Bill MacEachern July 8, 2024
86 · Dec 2023
Old Boy
Bill MacEachern Dec 2023
Old Boy

In the valley
Of my soul
Lives a boy
Who never grows old

The kid’s a keeper
Of my regrets
He holds the key
To all my secrets

He opens the book
Of shame and self doubt
Turning pages
To purge it all out

Chapters need reading
And read with a shout
Ones like
The Boy And The Older Adults

Deep inside
The young man resides
Living with scars
His needs unrealized

Gifts from within
Came with no guide
Art, words and music
So little applied

Outside now
He runs a lame man
Running as fast
As doubting feet can

Keeping his friends
At bay with his plans
Rarely giving them
All that he can

Same with music
And all his art
Never near finished
But boy what a start

Always the actor
Doing his part
Playing for laughter
With a sad heart

Bill MacEachern September 2016
75 · Sep 2024
Those Days
Bill MacEachern Sep 2024
Those Days

Those days
Those days
They come to an end
What was back then
Cannot be again
Bottle it up
Sip from it when
You long for
The days
You thought would not end

Those days
Those days
Were just like that
Memorable times
We’ll never get back
It’s alright
Just dandy with me
Those days
Those days
Are sweet memories

Those days
Those days
My mothers baked bread
Still smelling swell
Just all in my head
That’s ok
For we all will see
Those days
Those days
Come back in our dreams

Those days
Those days
All those bygones
Treasure them well
They won’t last you long
Embrace what you loved
Forget all the rest
Those days
Those days
Were simply the best

Bill MacEachern December 6, 2023

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