www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk AGAINST A STORM You know When you’re in a storm at sea You do better in following seas Plowing through walls of water Only brings damage to your ship Yes I’ve stood on deck Watched the giant waves Heard the howling wind and not felt a thing Yet my men got washed down the deck When I went the other way… (more…)
From Mark’s Picasa Web Album THE AFTER LOOKOUT I stand back aft Not knowing what time it is Not knowing where I’m at Its been some time I don’t know how much further Don’t know when I last Had a chance To rest My insides empty in the dark of night God is here I’m scared to death Ice flows… (more…)
The After Life I’m dreaming of butchers on their knees Abusers and Accusers down and out in the gutters While the caring, shy and meek have wings and fly Nobody is hungry Nobody tired None hurt Beauty is loved and worshiped not used and tossed out I’m dreaming of the after life That place Atheist mock You gonna be there… (more…)
Seeing Outside A candle burns in the middle Burns to the bone Alone And the rain falls out of time Waiting for that dry place No longer a race In a distance I see a face And realize it’s mine I see I’ve been out of place A pen speaks what lips cannot An expression misunderstood A foot slip The… (more…)
IN THE ECLIPSE OF THE DAWN Surrounded by sophisticated bob wire In the eclipse of the dawn circling overhead is a bat and a dove They send their love I’m not understanding why I’m here protected Across the fence is life destructed I know I should feel so lucky I can’t knowing that there are lives in destruction Can somebody… (more…)
A Stone Is All You Got Just agree with everything you see Believe everything you hear The stone is your reality But the life you aint got Until you are brave enough To Disagree Then inside that rock you will see It isn’t that hard to be By: Roger Harkness 7/25/10
Follow That Man Who Taught A Rainbow Acting like a clown I found as I looked around I had fallen down Just wanting to be Someone you’d like to see When I just should have been me A gray sky the lies and the mask And when you can’t put it in words It’s time to put it to an… (more…)
I need to try to get to my email more often. These were sent to me on the the 3rd in time for Mother’s Day and they are very good, so I have still have to post them the day after. From Del “Abe” Jones. enjoy. Military Moms This year on Mother’s Day We should think of offspring lost And… (more…)
To Love Your Enemy Don’t make an enemy your friend Enemies you can’t trust To be betrayed by a friend Is to become very hateful and bitter Let your enemies be enemies They will never disappoint you Because you will never trust them By this, love your enemies As enemies By: Roger Harkness