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  Apr 2018 Jeff Gaines
Ashly Kocher
We all can look at the same tangible object or picture
Yet we both see something completely different
Who is wrong?
Who is right?
Do we truly understand the beauty in which we both see?
Do we argue about who is right?

Just because we all don’t agree or we have are own opinions
Doesn’t mean we all can’t get along
Understanding everyone’s point of view
  Apr 2018 Jeff Gaines
Ashly Kocher
We all cry
Droplets of tears
That fall down our cheeks
Landing straight in our hands
Leaving an imprint on our hearts
Bottle up the emotions that fell from your eyes
Then you can look back years from now
You’ll be surprised
How many tears you’ve cried throughout the years
Making stronger of a person
Just by capturing your tears..
Just a thought ??
  Apr 2018 Jeff Gaines
Ashly Kocher
Happiness is all around
Time can be turned upside down
Love is everlasting space
When I’m within your warm embrace
To have and hold your heart forever
Since the day we said “I Do”
My life has been tremendously better
A poem I wrote back in high school but added and changed a bit to for my life now.
  Apr 2018 Jeff Gaines
Ashly Kocher
Pain
Is
Temporary

Love
Is
Always
Jeff Gaines Apr 2018
Every day, I bring her a flower.
Sometimes, more than one.

And if she asked me, I'd surely bring her
every flower under the Sun.

Every day, she makes me smile
and I always try and do the same.

But it's not hard when it comes to me ...
I need only hear her name.

Every day, I rejoice
just knowing that she is mine.

And every day that this gets older,
it ages just like a wine.

Every day is better than the last.
Every night, impossible to describe.

She is like an addiction I relish in ...
from which I'll forever imbibe.

Every day, I stare at her
just as the sun comes through our window.

Like watching an Angel, asleep beside me,
the greatest joy that I'll ever know.

Every day, feels like a dream.
Sometimes ... I fear I'll wake up.

And if this dream were some potion ...
I'd never set down that cup.

Every day, I love to hold her ...
feeling her breathe while standing by my side.

To have her look up, while in my arms
like being swept away with a tide.

Every day ... the greatest day.
The greatest I've ever known.

Every day ... the greatest love.
The greatest I've ever been shown.
This poem, from DEEP in my archives, is probably older than you are.
  Apr 2018 Jeff Gaines
Mister Granger
I know why the caged bird sings.

It's not because his song
is as vibrant
as his feathers, that he plucks away
each day because he doesn't
feel beautiful.

It's not because of the majesty
that exist in the freedom
of being able to spread his wings
though he knows
he'll never rise to the occasion.

He sings because he believes
that this cage
was made for a king
because he has never tasted
freedom with a side order of skies.

He's never flown past the sun
on a cool morning
or hung with the moon
on a warm night.

He's only ever known
the comfort of a prison
that his thoughts have
become accustomed
to calling home.

He would never venture
beyond the "welcome" mat
because what's beyond the threshold
holds no promise
the way these bars and metal locks do.

He sings because he knows
that no one is listening
so if he makes a mistake
he doesn't have to live with the regret
or embarrassment of knowing that he missed his note.

The caged bird
never believes that he's caged
because behind these walls
he's safe
and he prefers it this way.

I know why the caged bird sings.
A twist on a title by one of my favorite authors...
  Apr 2018 Jeff Gaines
Johnny Noiπ
I pray that may the sacred muses of *****
purge my soul of these malignant spirits:
a cartoon man has cursed the American earth;
O holy panderer & pederast who built
a financial empire in a world of mental
confusion where children
would be ever confused
by cartoons coming to life & the people
who don't exist being portrayed by purebred
people who are nothing like what they portray;
non-profit junkies & skanks & lantern flies
gush out of the fascist *** of corporate lanterns
marching rows of red, white & blue American
suffocating w/ the malignant unchristian spirit
with pagan cliches witchcraft of goth rituals;
brunettes broadcasting their line worldwide
confusing the feral children
with guns who grow up to go off to fight wars;
killing each other in rage as the corporate private
profits continue to rise & there is no room at the inn
for anyone & there the grapes & bees become
extinct so whole contours of bonfires of tires turned
to furnaces & ovens don't incinerate the dead
wholly so parts remain to be buried of course
it doesn't work out that wasted
way every day, it never does & never did.
so says the ancient writing of days of the daylight
host holy manna raining down
on the prophet's head like the shapely young girls
in their sunlit gowns that are spiritual crystal
butterflies of my own making & design
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