CJ Sutherland

CJ Sutherland 2d

If
              You
                           Do
                                 Not
                                 Believe
                                In
                      God
          Ergo
Jesus
Than
WHY
Do
You
Participate
Celebrate
Religious
Holidays
Christmas
And
Easter?
Ulterior
Motives?

To Get
Gifts.      Free
Stuff

My poem resembles
The Question Mark ?
I called this Word Art
While some people have indicated it can be distracting. I like the challenge of completing the picture.

Inspired song

1) Tell Me Why
The Backstreet Boys 1999

4-15-25

#whycelebrate #participate #christmas #easter #religious #free #stuffed #atheist

CJ Sutherland 3d

Mother At All Times Forever her child

Kind caring loving
Darling mother, heart of mine
Safe within her arms
No truer love I will find
She kisses away my pain
forever her Child

Tanka Haiku
31 syllables
5 lines
Pattern
5-7-5-7-7

Footnotes
There’s something that happens
between mothers and adult children.
No matter how old the child is
when they visit their mother
they always reverting back
to their child state.
Unspoken respect
The adult child
Dutifully places themselves
In a childlike state
Weather, conscious
or unconscious
The bond
Is real

#Mother’sDay, #Love, #InnerChild #Mother’sDay

CJ Sutherland 6d

Mother

Makes a house a Home
Woman, Wife Mother, for Life
Greatest of all LOVE

Inspired songs;
1) Let It.Be
By The Beatles

“Let it be” is an universally relatable message
Many interpreted as the warmth and peace of unconditional love from a mother.

2) You’ll Be In My Heart (mother)
By Phil Collins

3) Song For Mam
By Boyz II Men

Free Verse /Modern
Haiku
A modern haiku, like their traditional counterpart are short, focused on a single, a vocative moment or experience.
They often use strong imagery to create an impression on the reader.
While the 5 – 7– 5 syllable structure is often considered a starting point for traditional haiku modern haiku, poets are often experimenting with different line lengths and syllable counts. According to the haiku foundation and the poetry foundation. Traditional haiku have to do in nature..
While other types deal with human nature. It can be confusing, identifying the different types of haiku without, The poet.
Haiku is a wonderful expression of poetry.
English haiku differs from Japanese haiku as the language gives a different syllable count.
I call this poem a modern haiku in that it is using the theme of human frailty instead of nature,
even given the option of a different line syllable length as a traditionalist fundamental structure should not be altered.

Three lines
syllable count
5-7-5

5-11-2025 Mother’s Day

#warmth #peace #unconditionallove #mother

CJ Sutherland May 4

Sleuthing Through Life Convoluted People Will Talk

If you
Dress for success
Wear nice clothes
People will talk
Oh Your one of
Those
Putting on airs
Supercilious
Conceited
Egotistical
Know it all
High and mighty
Self important
Attention seeker

If you
Dress simply
People will talk
You’re broke
Have no money
Lackadaisical
Pitifully
Poor

If you are
Successful
Prosperous
Thriving
Flourishing
People will talk
Inauspicious
Show off
Rubbing
in our face
Purposely
Making
Us look
Bad

If you are
Struggling
Phlegmatic
Unsentimental
People will talk
You’re
Languishing
Weak minded
In
The
Wrong
Place

If you
Speak
your mind
People will talk
You are
Superannuated
Antiquated
Archaic
Obsolete
Rude
Various
Opinions
Willingly
Conclude

If you
Stay Quiet
Quiescent
Indolent
Languorous
People will talk
You’re sulking
Brooding
Pouting
Self-deluding
Tantrum

Life is
convoluted
Opinions
Are like
Elbows
Everybody
Has one

No matter
What you
Do today
People
Will always
Have something
To say

Don’t let
Negativity
Rule the day
Mind over matter
Nonsense
Should not have
A voice
A choice
Useless chatter

Ignorant
Inconsequential
Naysayers
Are
Irrelevant
Players

As long
As
God
Is pleased
With what
You do
And say

Who cares
What people
Say
In the
Light of day

Live
God’s
Way

Inspired songs

1) it’s complicated 2002
By Avril Lavigne
2) complicated 2004
By Joss Ross

BLT word of the day challenge
May 3 2025 sleuth, sleuthing
To Sloan is to carefully or methodically search for information, or to act as a detective
May 1, 2025
Convoluted
Something described as convoluted is very complicated and difficult to understand or has many curves and turns

#searching #wordchallenge #lifelesson #god1 #inallthings

CJ Sutherland Apr 18

Honored Traditions

Close
Your
Eyes
Imagine
This is your
First experience
Of Our Easter
Traditions

First
Time
Tasting
Turkey
With all
The fixing
Stuffing

Whipped Mash Potato
Green Bean Casserole
Taste buds wet yet
Smell the
Decadent
Aroma

Candied Yams
Cranberry Sauce Sauce
Hot Dinner Rolls
Pumpkin Pie
Whipped
Cream

All made
From Scratch
Two cultures
Converged
Enjoy

A
Family
Of Ten
Is A
Massive
Feast
To
Unfold
I’m told
Quite
Natural
For Me
You see

First
Hold hands
And Pray

Thank God
In what
You
Do and Say

Etiquette
Emily Post
At her best
No uncouth
Banter

Rather A
Splendid
Repartee

Use
the proper
utensil
Sit up
Straight
Posture
Is a
Big
Deal

Don’t
Be
Late
Napkin
In your
Lap

Manners
Pass the
Peas
Please
Thank you
You’re
Welcome

Life
Lessons
Start
At the
Table
Visitors
Apropos
If you’re
Able
Collaborate
Life
Is
Great

Inspired song;
We are family
By Sister Sledge official video 1979

BLT Webster’s Word of the day challenge
4-18-25 Collaborate
To work with a person or a group in order to do or achieve something

4-17-25 Uncouth
Uncouth describes things, such as language or behavior that are in polite or socially unacceptable. A person acting in a rude way.

My grandsons new wife grew up
not celebrating our Easter tradition
When I was growing up for Easter, we used to eat ham until I was an adult and I realized Ham is not something Christians should be having on most sacred day of Easter
A ham is considered an unclean animal.
Although the Bible refers to it for Jews, if you look back to all the diseases came out from eating ham, that’s a good enough reason to stay away from it. Yes, that means bacon too…
so I reverted back to Thanksgiving tradition. We tend to think everybody does the same thing for each events, but how wrong I was.

#american #tradition #fromscratch #love #family #gathering

CJ Sutherland Apr 16

Identity crisis

It’s not talked about in Hollywood
Certainly not among the pretty people
I’m referring to when an actor actress in bodies a role so well you generally don’t recognize them

I’m referring to their acting being so convincing that you see only the character unfolding,
even if it was only for a minute before it clicked
I’m not talking about minimal physical transformation, not heavy, prosthetics or CGI for example which would obviously disguise a person.

When an actor immerses themselves in a character
They are taking away their character completely
In doing so they’ find myself in a paradox
When does acting end and their character begin

They train all their life to be a believable character
To personify little idiosyncrasies to define depth
Part of this training is believing you are
who you say you are

At gatherings and parties they try
to be themselves But who is that?
They’re celebrated for other characters
they became, does that character remain
Are there attributes that glam onto
their psyche soul that won’t let go.

They become more unsure of the real world and their part in it. People accuse them of acting.
A pugnacious member takes issue argument, transpire the actor in a quagmire
Fight or flight what characteristics to prevail

Is it any wonder why a significant number of actors actresses, run to psychologists or psychiatrists for years of therapy or psychotherapy?.Major decisions rehashed for other’s opinion what should I do?

Think of the movies where an actor changed himself so much for a character that
you did not recognize him. if only for a minute.
I could name a few.

Keith Ledger as The Joker( his last role)
Fellow Actors said he was so scary.
They couldn’t even say their lines.
The darkness that came out of him

There are others, but these readily come to mine

Heath Ledger in Batman
Dustin Hoffman in Rain man
Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade
Matthew McConaughey in, The Buyers Club

Christian Bale in Machinist
Jake Gyllenhaal and Brokeback Mountain
Sylvester Stallone in Rocky

People’s burning desires come to California
To become a star, follow their dream they’ll go far
Life is not what it seems broke, sleep in the car
Are you willing to sell your soul to become a star?

Can you survive The Harvey Weinstein‘
Movie Mogul type the casting couch slouch
Roofie, **** drug without consent
or The music scene P Diddy type Hell bent

I encourage you to watch some of these movies where the actors are so far above the rest

Inspired songs
1) Vogue live MTV awards YouTube1990
By Madonna
2) American woman
The Guess Who 1970
3) mama told me not to come
By Three Dog Night
4) The long and windingRoad 1970
By the Beatles
5) evil way
By Santana

BLT Webster’s word of the day challenge
April 15, 2025 pugnacious
Someone described as pugnacious shows a readiness or desire to fight or argue

Footnotes
Behind the wizards curtain
People put on their underwear one leg at a time
I was engaged to a VP of a film company. What I saw made me never want to become an actress.
Better to be behind the scenes as a writer.
you still maintain your anonymity
And have a better chance at keeping your integrity intact but it depends how bad you want it
Will you sell your soul to become famous?
because it really is about that
What would you do to become a star.
I had more than one man tell me “sleep with them and they’ll make me a star”
. I laughed. I knew how much money they were making on the picture and they were a C star
A nobody’s It’s all in who you know.
But Hollywood breaks people nervous breakdowns, drug overdoses. They’re not mentally strong enough to survive Hollyweird.

#hollywood #stardom #followthedream #becomingastar

CJ Sutherland Apr 14

Finding My Voice

I can think of younger days
My stories slowly fade away
Lessons learned how to love
How to mend a broken heart
Discern between the light and dark

I’m a simple poet a realist to the core
Youth Arguing fighting, keeping score
Impetuous, impatient, demanding
Stubborn opinionated long standing

Writing in the heat of a fight
When my wrath verbally take flight
All of my poetry comes from within
From the depth of my soul original Sin

How do you mend a broken heart?
That’s how I write how I start
As I age, I entered into another phase
Most of which for me a mazes

I have the grace and wisdom to hold on
A movie, A word, A sentence,, A song,
All day long these muse I choose
They carry me back to a simpler day
In a world, that believed in God we pray

Today, my life simplicity ever changing
Duplicity beliefs are constantly rearranging
I am 64 with 1 foot out the door
New styles of poetry I explore

Believe, hope, faith, pray
These are not just words I say
Just as poetry is the fabric of me
No time like the present to write poetry

Inspired song
How can you mend a broken heart?
By Al Green, 1972

BLT word of the day challenge
April 13, 2025 reminiscent
Too reminisce is to talk, think, or right about some thing that happened in the past.

#poetry #reminiscent #love #brokenheart #journeytoself #muse