Arlyn H. Navis

North Fond Du Lac, WI, USA

Philosophical Statement in Verse: "Prayer Works"
Sometimes when I'm having a blue, blue day
And my mental sky is a foreboding grey
God Bless America for the freedom to pray.
Just a few precious moments to talk to the Lord.
Renewed enough to know I could run with the bulls
Without getting gored.
Those moments of fellowship with the Father above
And I'm no longer bored.
Friendship is so fickle, and romance needs a shove
A lasting intimate relationship would be
A gift from God above!

About my poetry:
I have been writing poems of some sort for most of my life. Four years ago, I suffered a stroke and 2 years ago I was placed on long-term disability due to temporal lobe seizures. Therefore, from the time of my long-term disability, I have taken what had been a hobby and developed it into a craft. I hope to publish a book of poems that are all written to, for and about the one special long lost love of my life to be entitled, "Those haunting Blue-green Eyes: The Adversity of Love in Verse." Then I should hope Clint Eastwood will direct and produce the movie starring Kevin Costner and Donna Mills. I tend to write best about particular situational events and/or people. I have 3 brothers: Earl, Glen, and Robert, and two sisters, Marlene and Carol. You can also find E-mail me at: poohbear@powerweb.net.

Troy

Happy Birthday Troy, I'm so proud to be your DAD,
from the first time I held and sang to you, you have made me very glad.

You have always had such a special way to sing the Blues,
I hope it's not because you feel, your DAD has been bad news!

I have loved you, and will love you, all of your life.
Now you truly are a lucky man, because soon Jamie will be your wife!

May God always bless you, and make you a star, then you
and I will sit
together in the Winners' Circle, and smoke a big Cigar!

Regrets

Jim Croce wanted to put time in a bottle, and I accomplished that fact.
It didn't matter, a bottle, a can or a glass, I drank my life away, and that's that!

It was so easy to pour another hour away, buying happiness covered with foam.
Now my REGRETS are all piling up, and it's a lonely life that I roam.

One for the road, One for lost love, and one for the courage to dance.
One drunken life now leaves me alone, when I should be sharing romance.

It's easy to say I never dropped a drink, but then again, how would I know.
God had blessed me with a special blue-green-eyed woman to love,
drunkenly, that did I blow!

My bottle of life floats down the river of time, the message inside short and SAD.
I could have been happy, her love left intact, thus my drunken life leaves me,
empty and MAD!

Shepherd's Chapel

Was Christ born in a stable, or in the cradle of the earth, a cave.
I guess it really doesn't matter, for what matters is the Wondrous Gift God Gave.
His cherished only Begotten Son!
To walk amongst us evil men, salvation has begun!

Parables he taught us, to make it easier to believe.
He was here some thirty short years, then God said,
"Son it's time to Leave!"
"I need you for my Holy Work, Your part is finished on the Earth."
We still all search for guidance, rather than trust and obey from birth.

There is no way where the Love of God ends!
For we are all God's Children and must pray to make amends.
Thought, Word and Deed, all the avenues of our Sin.
We humbly ask God's Forgiveness and wonder how and where will He begin.