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Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Worry and crying last night night kept me up real late
In a tizzy because the list ran longer and longer of things
To do on my plate.You see folks all these problems
Have me throwing up my hands.
They'll either break into pieces inside or make you a stronger man
Any way that's the plan. Problems come to all of us , so don't let them
Blow your ever loving mind.Pick yourself up and keep on moving
Forward.Not giving in or bowled over by failure or defeat
For neither which you don't have time
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
The limping poet walks around with tablet always in his hand
Has a real way with words, wants the truth to always stand
He might write about the sunrise or the wonders of love seen
A child who will not grow up and treat other people mean
Compose words of the future or pull them out of the poet
Keeps an eye on on the keyhole of happening events
Because he wants his words to inspire and last
You might think that sometimes his words are spiteful
Even out of control, but if he's inspired or even made you think
Just for a minute or even more than know
Than realize my friend that was the limping poet's goal
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Woke up this morning the blues was in my way I said: you have to go
And surely can't stay. My baby's fine love will get you out of my way
I never have to worry fret or fear, my baby stays on track
Blues get on out of here.Everything about, my sweet lady knows
Promises made to her, I surely intend to keep
My baby's sweet love makes me stay on my feet
No matter what time of day, it's so good  nothing to ever lack
Or hold me back
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
How Do you mend a broken heart
   When love is no longer there
     You thought love would be an easy thing
        But watched it passing in the night
   Which just proves that no one
    Can teach another
     How to care
  Maybe another time or another dawn
    You'll come back to me
     So I'll wait here
       While you search out being free
         Though your leaving really mattered
         And left my once whole life shattered
           So now I say with tears
   Running down this sad face of mine
Woe is me
Jan 2016 · 273
I Believe By Victor Tripp
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Even a blind man could see
    That you belong with me
And this knowledge would even make any fool wise
  Each time I look into your eyes
   I get so soft and mello inside
Upside down is the way you touch my heart
    And every day I feel the same
Sunrise to sunset the very best is coming yet
  My love will faithfully remain
Don't ever want this romantic spark
Out of my grasp
  Want to always walk beside you
  And make these feelings last
  You know that some people only get that  one chance
    I believe we can be together
Despite stormy times on life's trying seas
     Baby  I 'll always believe in the strong love ahead
       For you and me
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I was blind and couldn't really see
  And your love opened up a whole new world to me
   Like never before
   Want to go running and knock on
  And tell the good news on every neighbor's door
Must confess that I never felt this way before
I remember looking at you my tongue used to freeze
Suddenly felt dizzy and weak in both knees
Told  both my daddy and mom
They said sit down and brace for a hard life lesson son
Now I'm fully aware of just what the power of love
Can do, not only for me but for you too
Never felt this way before
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Our time is now
    No need of anything
Knowing each joy
  Being in love can bring
    Gossips can't tell me
     That I'm too silly to really know
        I need you so
  And you love and need me
     Our time is now
      No need to longer wait
       No sadness of goodbye
          No need to ever wait
     Think of our love and smile
       Our dreams will always stay
        Stay the same way
     Our love is here to stay
    Our time is now
Jan 2016 · 257
My Prayer By Victor Tripp
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
When daylight is gone
  And stillness guards the coming night
You come into my waiting heart
Causing desire to sweetly stay
My prayer is to just be with you
    As twilight ends and softly departs
M y prayer is a whisper of your name
  As stillness is a light divine
   With our arms and lips entwined
   My sweet know our time must be aglow
Let me tell all the words you're longing to know
My prayer and the answer that you give
I'll prayer that they'll be the same
  For as long as time lets us live
  Want you to always be there
        As I whisper my prayer
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Victor Tripp Jan 2016
If were mine the wings of a dove
   I'd fly into your heart and find the sweet love waiting there
       There would be no rivers nor mountains
     To hold me back from you
          Nothing could ever keep us apart
     My love for you is unending
         For your hand in marriage on bended  knees
I ask now, with no pretending
  Let me reach you on the wings of a dove
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
My body sways and moves
     To the pounding of the drums
      If you believe  the drums will bring a brand new day
        than dance and sway to the pounding of the drums
  Time will remember your name but dance and sway to the drums
     Success will touch the dreams inside
       While stepping into the future
   From the drum waves of sound
            Flying up into the air
As tapping fingers move
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
This is life and nobody leaves it alive
  so people face the fact
   We're all fighting to survive
   So be sure to love really hard
     And make your life really matter
You only get just what is earned here
   It's not handed out on a silver platter
Spread some love and understanding
   Before this day is through and just watch and see
       If they don't come back to you
Don't  spread strife and ill will
Whatever you might do
     Smile and share words of kindness
       Before night comes on through
        Mind your manners and say thank you and please
         And before getting in that warm bed
          Thank GOD on bended knee
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Singers on the Voice who can't sing
     TV stations showing cartoons twenty-four seven
      FIOS selling hearing aids
POPEYES  selling steak
       Cars running on soup
         Fencers with hockey sticks
Congress not padding their pay checks every year
   Puzzles that don't puzzle
      KFC selling burgers
    Archers with sling shots
Trees growing upside down
  Chickens in a conga line
A chess playing kangaroo
   Trees that hold leaves all year
     First class with no class
An eckco  that never comes back
    A bird that walks everywhere
       A tea kettle that cannot whisle
         Ducks that  skee
         Rain falling sideways
             Dogs that run backwards
       Cats that bark
       The Sun and Moon together
        Turtles that run fast
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I know you're wondering if my love
  Will stop flowering for you in time
   Never my love
You're probably thinking if you'll lose
   Your special place in this heart of mine
       Never my love
Why do you think this burning love will end
       Never my love
You think my feelings will change
     And become untrue
      Never my love
Why do you think this burning love will end
   When you know so well my need depends on you
     Never my love
I pledge to need you until time is no more
   Cherish you for now this life is complete
     Will I ever leave
         Never my love
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
In the deep green rain forest
    There is the elephant watering hole
     Huge snakes on the ground
      Cross your path so bold
           The hippo takes a mud bath to cool off
              The monkeys high in the trees
               Let out shrill laughs
                   Bullfrogs jump around in the water on lily pads
                     As the moon replaces the sun
                        Than your eyes open and you're safe in bed
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
High fruit on trees
   In easy reach
   Summer's incoming smile
     Running through piled leaves
      Faster than the mind thought it could
         Keep:
           Spring
         In memory's solid storage chest
                Inside
Jan 2016 · 197
The Time Is By Victor Tripp
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I have known the fire
     Of your yes
  And the ice of your no
   Also known the time when opposites separate
     In the silent blaze of up and down
      In the rain and wind of the last goodbye
        Do you know the hour
          It's always now
              And enough
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I speak your name and it bounces off the room's darkness
   The romance is long over
     Say no long goodbyes
        Just take your things and depart
           Memories are the only things left
              Lingering in the corner of my mind
     Although they break my heart
       To every one who asks I smile and say that I'm fine
     Taking a long vacation
Only packing necessities
  Some moonlight walks
        Romantic picnics
           Action packed movies
              Cuddling in bed on Saturday mornings
          And the sweet  Lingering smell of your clothes
             When you were here with me
              All of this was left behind
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Is it the same love that we're sharing
Or did you simply stop caring
Nothing right seems the same
Looks like love forgot my name
     Never was seeking fortune or fame
     Just my share of love to claim
     But instead of a wow
     Love forgot my name
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
We were both divers on the high board
Creeping toward the edge of adventure
Cautious; taking deep breaths of bravery
Very unsure;
Plunging into the unknown of love
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Love was just a brief pause
Like holding in your in your breath
A comma at the end of the love sentence
Like looking at the person next to you
Seeing their back going out the goodbye door
The green light of moving along is on
And we transform both of us into strangers again
Departure I dislike the same as you
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Love proved to be a never ending lie, you left me alone
With never a moment's hesitancy now my mind is like a scythe
Cutting away in a lonely field of why, we both cut down
The mysterious tree that surrounded our love in life
In our leaving each other were secrets revealed
That caused both to say goodbye
The racing flag shot out: no second place
No third in show, sadness was the take all winner
Now its time for both of us to go
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I look at the face in the mirror and say
Do I really know him, just how much longer will he be around
And are his chances growing dim, but somehow I believe
If I give out to others real love  this man will live a very long life
And if I love God and believe in mankind and peace for everyone here
It will help me avoid both hate and unkind strife
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Its sad that there aren't any free samples of love given out
Today or any day.Anyway they're never really free
You always have to pay, so I don't open up the door anymore
My heart is not what it used to be
And I don't take chances ,no not me
My charity giving is done by mail
And I don't need a notice for any special sale
Jan 2016 · 221
Metaphor By Victor Tripp
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Today is an unwritten slate everyone can write on
No  matter what you want to say
All day, all night
Put in a place nearby
The happy words and the sad  ones
Are gone until the next day
A new one to compose anew
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
A mother's love will reach with tenderness to guard and protect
From physical or emotional storms, will go sleepless at night
Walking the floor if there's a fever on your brow
Warn you about no good young man that says that he loves you
But is more in love with himself, and even though your grown and single
While visiting home will still cook your favorite meals just when
You were a child, guard and protect your virtue so the devil
Will not steal, carefully explain con games and ***** tricks
So that you know life isn't  a romance movie , that life isn't a game of
Pretend if you slip or fall in a hidden trap
You might just get killed, a mother's love never fails
For she will spend her last single penny to get a son or daughter
Out of jail
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
You know this love given so rich and fully
Makes me dance around and I can't hold my peace
Its proper name has been called love by all down through
The centuries, got a hold on me now so dizzy I cannot see
Whatever else somebody would call this thing, its moving like fire
Inside of me, I get weak and don't have any strength
Think of you all the time , and to others not in love like us
They shake their heads and walk away because it really makes no sense
And its everything good one in love could think of
Yes , feels like fire slowly burning in my bones
Before it overcame me, I wanted to leave it alone
You know a manor woman cannot run while chained to a giant tree
Guess everybody in town know now
That it just won't let me be
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Your arms are the sweet and warm cradle where I belong
Took me in and forgave me of all my past mistakes
Your wonderful love showed me and the World at large
You have  just what it takes, no longer alone and wandering
On my lonely own, not since your love enbraced  and called me home
Each moment with  you love lifts me higher and higher
Than a cloud could ever be the warmest feeling
That keeps a man inspired, my life is a river of clear happy
My tears fall silently for those out on the streets
Not knowing this new joy, who have to roam
Keep loving me girl the way that you're doing
Because your love called me home
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I.m honored that you entrusted me with the sacred treasure
Of your love. One that I find rare in what can be a selfish World
Of me and mine, I may not always know where or sometimes even
How, But only know that I need you now, your love strikes a cord
Of rememberance of what real love should be, like I said before
Only know that I need you now
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Last night I couldn't sleep
After you took me home when we walked  hand in hand
Under the moonlight,  when morning finally came I felt so adrift
And my lonely heart just didn't seem right, looked over at the ticking
Clock on the nightstand and started to reach for the phone
Needed to hear your voice ,but fought my silly pride
Maybe you'll help me find all the dreams that I left so far behind
And pull them all back to get some piece of mind
Somehow you know your love will wash away all the pain
Of the coming days and sleepless nights
Want to see you again walk together in spring rain
Be with you for all time, which is the only reason
I couldn't sleep last night
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I want to be loved but by only you, I shouldn't be so madly in love with
You, but there's nothing else for me to do, this new feeling inside
Has me with gratefulness crying, my dreams of future sweetness
With you there is no denying , for I know that deep inside they
Will all come true' so glad  that you love me more than just a little
Because I want to be loved but by only you
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I would travel unafraid through both time and space
Run through the jungle empty handed just to kiss and hold you near
And look into that smiling face , let my love be a shout through out
The universe, when it will come to meeting your needs my dear
Just know that I'll always put your needs first
Put me down in your heart as your number one man  and with me plain
Get on board my love Rocket ship as we race together
As a mighty pair through time and space
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Embrace this moment and please be sure not to let this moment ever die
Because it was born into time just for you and I
So let us this time grasp or its a memory long past
And if we lose it sadness will make both of cry
Embrace this moment with me, love blooms so very tenderly
What have you got to lose my sweet one so dear to my heart
So let's give this romance our best try
Jan 2016 · 234
Nicole By Victor Tripp
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I sat on concrete porch with  enclosed porch watching my daughter
Getting ready  to venture to the laundry mat, twenty-one, wise  single
College educated the same college where I received my degree
Thinking just how thankful as her father I am for her
And that she's here with me, one so young  yet so accomplished
Any father would be proud. At thirteen she was a supervisor at local
Church ,getting a salary. At fifteen she was a founding member of the
Germantown \Settlement Choir and a cheer leader at sixteen for Ba

mtoms football team,also she started swimming in the Roxborugh
Doing  Cart wheels on our side lawn. So as you can see leadership
and also kindness to all have always been in her blood,
And I bless the day that she was born
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I can tell the difference between fact or fiction and so can you
Fiction would be if I said that I love you and didn't
Fact is that I love you beyond any great love that has ever been
Or has spanned the the years of time, you were there when lonely times
Came calling and reached out to me, when sad tears were falling
Thank you for my spirit being renewed, thank God  and Heaven for you
Jan 2016 · 218
My Senses By Victor Tripp
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
My senses reach out to embrace your spirit
But not with lust nor defilement
What a joy to know love born of no ill intent, that has slain pride of self
Enjoys the transparent happiness of giving to the person in need
With only the highest regard, taking a chance doesn't mean
That you have to fall
Jan 2016 · 249
Poem Seed By Victor Tripp
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Poems drop down from the sky of creation into hearts and minds
Of poets around the globe,illustrating on the canvas of the soul
The joy pain victory of living in the days of humankind
Poems are to be eaten like fruit by the spirit inside
Bitten into by the eager mind, the senses like mental fingers
Of probing lick the juice of essence that run down inside
Ready and ripe for the wondrous taking
One reading a poem needs no spoon fork or knife
Not even a plate  tablecloth or napkin
For the poem itself is the main meal and is all things to each  hungry
Reader, stem rind pit skin
To feed the inside
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Wake up each day by assuring yourself to keep it moving
With thankfulness and joy past all doubts and fears that would attack
Belief and  GOD given faith in yourself, know that you are greater
Than any problem or enemy that could ever undo dreams
Or unloose your forward stride of yes I can
Always bear in mind that you are the answer to any foe or fear
That could ever come across your path so keep It moving
And always know inside that victory and success are waiting on you
So keep it moving you are the answer to your problem
Keep It moving
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I want to love you like nobody's loved you , now or ever before
The Sun comes up and than goes to sleep
It's you I want to always adore
Doesn't matter if sometimes if our difficult days are not funny
But what we have in store in joy ahead is worth more than money
I want to love you for now and for all times
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Do Ants take lunch breaks? Do triangles have cousins?
Does a suitcase ever wear a suit? A compass ever get lost?
Do gorillas lift weights to build muscles? Do elephants ever forget?
Do fires ever go on strike? Do chairs ever lie down?
Why can"t a banana peel its self? Does fear really fear anybody ?
Why can't mice sing ? Was Walt dizzy when he made Disneyland?
Is a penny really money? Is carefree really free?
Is a stoop a set of bent steps? Is a trip really a getaway?
Is a raisin a grape that failed?
Are wrinkles wisdom lines or just annoying straight marks?
Can you be happy by buying a happy meal at McDonald's?
Do bald headed men have dandruff?
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
The poem with an arrogant voice speaks and demands that the poet
Write of love pain life joy trees clouds over cities
And things both near and far away, golden discovered mysteries of love
And events yet to be born into time, a poem is a written gift by the poet
For you and me , a poet who walks the dog on cold or rain falling
Afternoons, who puts the mail on the hallway table,whose dreams stretch
High as the soft white clouds, whose memories reach as deep as tree roots
Whose feelings ring bells of tenderness in human heart
Whose tears and joys in waves come and go like the ocean tide
Who finds a mystery in each coming day and wonders what it will
Teach,the poem speaks in a loud matter of fact voice
That tell of trees cities sea Earth and sky
For man knows that life is an unexplained mystery that must be lived
Day by day,poem tells the poet that I have no voice
Until you the poet give me one
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Your love keeps me warm in a cold world
Even in times when things go wrong as they often do
I smile to myself think of no one else but you
It doesn't matter to me what I don't have or lack
As long as I'm assured that you love me faithfully
And at all times have my back. Every night your love
Pulls my body to sleep and the promises you made
I know that you'll keep
Jan 2016 · 199
Sweet Ride By Victor Tripp
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I'm more than willing to let go, if  translate  all the things
That I'm feeling inside, opening up the door of my heart to you
For all the years to come for a sweet ride, I know that you'll gently
Bring out all the emotions that I've been hiding
No longer afraid to be a man alone, because unto you all of me
Is finally sliding
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
I really don't know if I'll ever really learn
That love is a fire that warms the heart inside, but it can also burn
Guess it's just my time to learn, step out the giant shadow
That our love once cast, right now I'm feeling it
But in time as the saying goes, this hurt too shall pass
The darkest night turns into day usually
And oh how we curl up and mourn in tears
When love is taken away, I must get out in the world again
To find some happy moments that will last
For I really believe inside myself starting today
That this hurt too shall pass
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Love was a special place for us
It really had me dreaming
While you were pretending to be in love with me
There was no chance at all that this story would end with
A happy meaning,
I was walking in a fog and truth be known you never cared at all Questions of why I loved you like I did people posed
Now in the silence I have sought out the reasons on my own
No one could have loved you more
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Your goodbye will leave me with eyes that cry
Why do you have to go away, why can't you just stay
Leaving me all by myself
Don't you know by now that I don't want anybody else
You're taking all my dreams and silent prayers away
Please tell my crying heart, why can't you just stay
Love is a roll of the dice not a game lovers play
Honor the gift and better treat it right, or the chance will
Slowly fade away, I wanted one last try , one last time
But this really looks like your last goodbye
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Somewhere in my future, I want you there with me
Holding on so tight, naturally thrilling me
I see the vision of kissing such tender lips
A picture of love oh so sweet and so very fine
My heart flies around inside my chest
Because it's mine all mine
I was lonely and sad not so very long ago
You came ever so softly into my life one day and my every need
You seemed to know,
I know that I should have asked you to take it slow
For I've learned over the years that memories often come
And than quickly tend to go
But special moments last inside always
And their impression leaves behind a lasting glow
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
When love comes around again
I want to really make it last
And I resolve inside that I won't  make the same mistakes
And spoil my new happiness with the faultlines  of the past
Being hurt by love at any time is just to hard to  mention
But experience has taught me well and when the chance comes
Around again, my changes will be known for that's my intention
And at last, I'll find a new beginning with someone I can trust
And hold out my heart like a cup
To let my new love fill it up
Victor Tripp Jan 2016
Somebody please stop the sky from falling down on me
I've got tears in my eyes  and can't really see
Since you went away there isn't much to do or really say
Happiness just melted into the mist on that very sad and dreary day
Don't really have the will to get up or go on my friend
Since you've been gone
Victor Tripp Dec 2015
I want to love you for the next 100 years
Until than we'll remain young and silly thinking
Of far away places and things we have yet to see
Victor Tripp Dec 2015
The flowers rise up in the morning
Lifting their faces to the sun  wind combs the hair of the green leaves
Birds sing until the very day is done
Cows stand still grazing in the meadow
People go silently to bed with peace from daily cares
Lovers stroll in the golden sunshine
Sighing hand-in -hand with no fear
Church bells ring out tolling out the exact hour
And children on bent knees send up nightly prayers
Young love is a gift of the spirit  making you hear music everywhere
And you will hear sweet music each time your loved one is near
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