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 Jan 2016 J Ray
Joe Cole
Purely hypothetical

You spend hours manufacturing the perfect phrase
Sometimes hours, sometimes days
To gain recognition for your works of art???

But all of you still have much to learn
(Although I'm not the best teacher)
I say to you try not to hard
Because eventually you will be heard
But we the old who hold the flag
That you in time will hold
We, we your fathers won't criticise
For though growing old
We might prompt and guide
Your young pens are the future
Ours the old drying ink
Hopefully the guiding words of hope
You now write for us my children
While we now write for love
When I set my "write for me challenge we achieved six dailies)

But, now write for you, not for the fathers
 Oct 2014 J Ray
Joe Cole
Live for today,       tomorrow might never come
I've lived by this for most of my life
 Oct 2014 J Ray
Joe Cole
WRITING
 Oct 2014 J Ray
Joe Cole
OK writing
Most of what I write takes me about five minutes
a word or phrase come into my head
And within minutes a poem is born.
I have to be honest though
Creativity took me twenty minutes to write
But that was written on my phone in a tent
Under a tree with a ****** owl screaming its head off
Above me
Some of you take hours, days, weeks
To write the perfect prose
The unforgettable stanza
Punctuation and spelling absolutely perfect
I don't
I simply can't be bothered with stuff like that

Tell me what inspires you
Tell me honestly how long it takes you to write a poem...
 Oct 2014 J Ray
LovelyBones
I May
 Oct 2014 J Ray
LovelyBones
I may be young, but i know a lot.
I may be frail, but i'm strong.
I may seem really smart, but i'm not afraid to be wrong.
I may think i have it under control, but inside i'm a wreck.
I may seem like an "overachiever", but that just keeps me in check.
I may be a role model, or a success, when actually i'm a big, ugly mess.
So here's the lesson i'm trying to teach, it won't take much longer
It's perfectly fine to have off days.
They only make you stronger.
 Oct 2014 J Ray
lost girl
✖️
 Oct 2014 J Ray
lost girl
Be grateful for the darkness
that conceals your tears,
breaks your heart,
and brings forth your fears.

(a.d)
 Oct 2014 J Ray
NuurSeraph
You are Bigger than my Life
Within you I struggle and Strive
In Faith I've followed to keep me Alive
From your watchful Protection
Not one Journey do I Question
I feel no loss, not one thing to Fear
I understand why You led me Here
To gain from my Efforts
Let there be no Mistakes
Your Reason for every Experience makes
No use in suffering painful Regrets
I honor each Experience as
I've grown for the Best.
With Faith in my corner, I have lived through much and been able to look back at the bigger picture of my life and see how each and every event was pertinent to how I got where I am presently, knowing the things I do, feeling the things I do, and Celebrating the Success of It all one moment at a time....One benefit is that it makes those rougher times more tolerable cause I understand there is reason behind it, just something I am probably not aware of at the time...
 Oct 2014 J Ray
NuurSeraph
Thank You
 Oct 2014 J Ray
NuurSeraph
A Big Hug and Great Appreciation to my Fellow Poets who step out in them selves and share such Inspiring, Touching, Mind Blowing Poetry that gives me the Gift of Connection, Warmth and in particular Hope for a future so full of Love, so Evolved, so Free.... so Wonderful
I Thank You from the bottom of my Heart

NAMASTE
Much Blessings
From: Venusoul7
 Sep 2014 J Ray
Layla Thurman
Play me like a guitar baby
pull me by my strings
pull from me a melody
that makes other girls sing

Let me be the instrument
you use to win the fame
I don't care if you use me
Just let me be the flame

I want to be the microphone
that catches all your words
Let your breath flow through me
Like wind through wings of birds

I love your music baby
your lyrics are like poetry
Let me be your pen and paper
Because you've done enough for me.

Your kindness saved my life darling
if it was only once or twice
that was enough for me honey
my heart is your device.
 Sep 2014 J Ray
A Love For Hatred
Can't live without him
              
              
more

    
than I can't with him
My truth
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