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    Will You Help Me See The Green, Green Grass Again

    Old man said, I've a peso and one old penny
    Lord help me, my sad thoughts are far too many
    Will you help me see the green, green grass again
    Join me this new morn, as a long lost and dear friend?

    Old man said, yesterday I spent my last dollar
    I'm just a poor boy, uneducated- not a scholar
    But my heart sees this light, its gleaming beauty
    I feel hope and I know truth and love is my duty.

    Old man said, Lord thank you, I can see now
    Fields are fertile and I've got a brand new plow
    I hold on, hold on tightly, more love is coming
    Life is beautiful and new peace is a'humming.

    Old man said, I've a peso and one old penny
    Lord help me, my sad thoughts are far too many
    Will you help me see the green, green grass again
    Join me this new morn, as a long lost and dear friend?

    R.J. Lindley, March 26th , 1977
    Rhyme/lyric--
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    Last month , I talked to my good and dear friend
    Yesterday, that old man passed away
    And in this world came a batch of sorrows
    And I see dark a'laughing at our empty tomorrows…..



    Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2021
    18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

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    The Great Promise, The Sweet Hope

    morn's beauty, a new seed sprout
    illumination
    dawn's glow, whisper not a shout

    Robert J. Lindley, 8-01-2021

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    From The Fields A New Harvest


    high noon, soft radiant heat
    earth's titillation
    treasures set at mankind's feet

    Robert J. Lindley, 8-01-2021


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    Waiting For The Moon's Beauty


    red sunset, soft burnished rays
    waiting sensation
    harvest from another day

    Robert J. Lindley, 8-01-2021


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    Last edited by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot; 08-20-2021 at 05:22 AM.
    18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

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    Of Poetic Verse, A Heavenly Illumination


    As Seen By Heaven's True Light

    Vanity of shallow purple robe kings
    Dismissive of Heaven's true saving light
    Brutish and naked in darkness they sing
    Haughtily shouting of their shallow might.

    Robert J. Lindley, 70-?
    Quatrain


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    As Seen By Heaven's Soft Glow

    Glittering stars illuminating night
    As titans that vanished so long ago
    We imagine them in eternal flight
    And in distance merely a short stone's throw.

    Robert J. Lindley, 70-?
    Quatrain


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    As Seen By Heaven's Beauty

    Be softly calm and so quietly still
    Let the soft flowing winds hear no sad cries
    Tis love that eager heart so truly fills
    And Heaven's beauty that graces night skies.

    Robert J. Lindley, 70-?
    Quatrain

    Note: Three quatrains that were born back in the late 70's.
    I do so regret whenever I find my old poems
    with either no notes or else incomplete notes.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot View Post
    Of Poetic Verse, A Heavenly Illumination


    As Seen By Heaven's True Light

    Vanity of shallow purple robe kings
    Dismissive of Heaven's true saving light
    Brutish and naked in darkness they sing
    Haughtily shouting of their shallow might.

    Robert J. Lindley, 70-?
    Quatrain


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    As Seen By Heaven's Soft Glow

    Glittering stars illuminating night
    As titans that vanished so long ago
    We imagine them in eternal flight
    And in distance merely a short stone's throw.

    Robert J. Lindley, 70-?
    Quatrain


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    As Seen By Heaven's Beauty

    Be softly calm and so quietly still
    Let the soft flowing winds hear no sad cries
    Tis love that eager heart so truly fills
    And Heaven's beauty that graces night skies.

    Robert J. Lindley, 70-?
    Quatrain

    Note: Three quatrains that were born back in the late 70's.
    I do so regret whenever I find my old poems
    with either no notes or else incomplete notes.



    Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2021
    Just a little add on Tyr.. (dont know why I stopped and posted this video but just did..)hope you dont mind..IMO..it goes with your poem...

    Heavenly Light -




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    Quote Originally Posted by LongTermGuy View Post
    Just a little add on Tyr.. (dont know why I stopped and posted this video but just did..)hope you dont mind..IMO..it goes with your poem...

    Heavenly Light -

    Thank you my friend, your addition is a most welcomed gift. Fits in so very well!! -Tyr
    18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

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    Out In The Cold Dark-Lit Street Slow Trembling Raindrops

    It was past midnight and moon took away its glow
    I was dog-drunk, a bit ragged just so you know
    Out in the cold dark-lit street slow trembling raindrops
    Poor soul, crying and begging aching life to stop
    In that raging noise there was rambling and cursing
    Was it heart's moaning vengeance I was nursing
    Who knew, life was hell and getting no damn better
    I read, I read, I read that last goodbye letter
    Stained with falling tears, words- I once loved you
    Darling, too much fighting -I am gone we are through
    Now you go back, be hellraiser you want to be
    And I in my great sorrows, pack tonight to flee.

    It was past midnight and moon took away its glow
    Rain stops, I walked out into spiraling snow
    Heart throbbing, a loss I’d never get used to
    Those deep knife slashing words, " I am gone we are through"
    Then I heard that horn loud honking, tires hard squealing
    Her words had done their dark work, car did the killing.

    It was past midnight and moon took away its glow
    I was dog-drunk, a bit ragged just so you know
    Out in the cold dark-lit street slow trembling raindrops
    Poor soul, crying and begging aching life to stop.

    Robert J. Lindley,
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    No Choice Comes Forth But To Dress In Armor And Fight


    When darkness invades, life takes a very bad turn
    Heart and soul both hang on by the thinnest of threads
    One cannot help but for former happiness yearn
    Whilst living within the horror of ghastly dreads
    Thus comes a time when hope's fighting sword must be drawn
    In that discovery, rays flow from a healing dawn.

    Sword at the ready, power in each falling slash
    One must in an epic battle become engaged
    Newfound realization, cries out- "be not too rash"
    For purpose may defeat dogs of dark thus uncaged
    Thus comes a time when hope's fighting sword must be drawn
    In discovery, rays flow from a healing dawn.

    When cast into blacken abyss of darkest night.
    No choice comes forth but to dress in armor and fight.

    Robert J. Lindley, 5-20-2022
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    I really liked this, Robert
    Ecclesiastes 10:2 - A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him to the left.
    Wise men don't need advice, and fools won't take it - Ben Franklin
    "It's not how you start, it's how you finish."

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    Please, Raise High The Bar For Love's Gifts


    Please, lets' welcome light's dear return
    To water soul of those that hate spurn,
    Evil calls of world 's constant greed,
    Thus harken to help those in need.

    Please, praise those that welcome the light
    Those that in truth and love delight,
    Whilst striving to help fellow man,
    And thus seed the truth of God's plan.

    Please, raise high the bar for love's gifts
    For light and love truly uplifts,
    The hope and joy in daily life,
    Denies dark its sharp cutting knife.

    Please, let God's light onto life shine
    To water souls, both yours and mine,
    Growing life's flowers and much more,
    Lighting path to Heavenly shores.

    Please, lets' welcome light's dear return
    To water soul of those that hate spurn,
    Evil calls of world 's constant greed,
    Thus harken to help those in need.

    Robert J. Lindley, 5-28- 2022
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    Note:
    So comes the positive benefits of a pen inking
    The truth of light, love and future hope……



    Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2022

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    Thus was born this new poem, from reading the great poem by Yeats =


    A Dialogue of Self and Soul
    BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


    I

    My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
    Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,
    Upon the broken, crumbling battlement,
    Upon the breathless starlit air,
    Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
    Fix every wandering thought upon
    That quarter where all thought is done:
    Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?

    My Self. The consecrated blade upon my knees
    Is Sato's ancient blade, still as it was,
    Still razor-keen, still like a looking-glass
    Unspotted by the centuries;
    That flowering, silken, old embroidery, torn
    From some court-lady's dress and round
    The wooden scabbard bound and wound,
    Can, tattered, still protect, faded adorn.

    My Soul. Why should the imagination of a man
    Long past his prime remember things that are
    Emblematical of love and war?
    Think of ancestral night that can,
    If but imagination scorn the earth
    And intellect its wandering
    To this and that and t'other thing,
    Deliver from the crime of death and birth.

    My Self. Montashigi, third of his family, fashioned it
    Five hundred years ago, about it lie
    Flowers from I know not what embroidery—
    Heart's purple—and all these I set
    For emblems of the day against the tower
    Emblematical of the night,
    And claim as by a soldier's right
    A charter to commit the crime once more.

    My Soul. Such fullness in that quarter overflows
    And falls into the basin of the mind
    That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind,
    For intellect no longer knows
    Is from the Ought, or Knower from the Known—
    That is to say, ascends to Heaven;
    Only the dead can be forgiven;
    But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.


    II

    My Self. A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
    What matter if the ditches are impure?
    What matter if I live it all once more?
    Endure that toil of growing up;
    The ignominy of boyhood; the distress
    Of boyhood changing into man;
    The unfinished man and his pain
    Brought face to face with his own clumsiness;

    The finished man among his enemies?—
    How in the name of Heaven can he escape
    That defiling and disfigured shape
    The mirror of malicious eyes
    Casts upon his eyes until at last
    He thinks that shape must be his shape?
    And what's the good of an escape
    If honour find him in the wintry blast?

    I am content to live it all again
    And yet again, if it be life to pitch
    Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,
    A blind man battering blind men;
    Or into that most fecund ditch of all,
    The folly that man does
    Or must suffer, if he woos
    A proud woman not kindred of his soul.

    I am content to follow to its source
    Every event in action or in thought;
    Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!
    When such as I cast out remorse
    So great a sweetness flows into the breast
    We must laugh and we must sing,
    We are blest by everything,
    Everything we look upon is blest.


    W. B. Yeats, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” from The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1933 by Macmillan Publishing Company, renewed © 1961 by Georgie Yeats. Reprinted with the permission of A. P. Watt, Ltd. on behalf of Michael Yeats.

    Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats (1989)
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    Amidst Swirls Of Twinkling Stars, Love Yet Flies

    Above the soft gasps of night craving skies.
    Amidst swirls of twinkling stars, love yet flies.

    Outward, and onward through silence of marching time
    Away from earth and ticking of clock's midnight chime
    In veiled galaxies, hidden from mortals' view
    Lie love' gems glistening as if morn' rose in dew
    Memories and treasure in vaults lined with gold
    Rarely seen except by those lovesick and so bold
    As to dare voyage beyond earthen life and sad state
    Fleeing worldly kingdom of death and seething hate.

    Above the soft gasps of night craving skies.
    Amidst swirls of twinkling stars, love yet flies.

    There the dark worries of life are taken away
    Admission is precious hope of that future day
    When those departed unite in heavenly bliss
    With prayed reunion of touch and eager kiss
    Together in dreams and longed for paradise
    Brief the dear moment but for now such will suffice
    And hold each other until coming of dawn's glow
    With wedded love just as pure as fresh falling snow.

    Above the soft gasps of night craving skies.
    Amidst swirls of twinkling stars, love yet flies.

    Robert J. Lindley, April 24th 2022
    Romanticism



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    Those Radiant Rays, Soothe Both Heart And Aching Soul

    When the dark overcomes the dawn's radiant light
    And sun is blotted out by far too early night
    Remember that the light of hope always returns
    Tho' in darken world, again the evil seas churns
    Those radiant rays, soothe both heart and aching soul
    To conquer misery, vanguish evil's great tolls.

    Robert J. Lindley, 6-07-2022
    Rhyme, ( Seeing Beyond The Purple Veil )


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