POEMS AND THOUGHTS

Poetry, has been of importance to me, since I was a child when I first discovered it. (Both my Father and Mother loved poetry.) Below are some of the thoughts and poems I've enjoyed down through the years, some that friends have sent me, plus some I've written myself. Please, sit back, relax and enjoy yourself.

~~~From Shakespeare's play "AS YOU LIKE IT"~ Act II~~

This is my favorite saying, because it tells it like it is.


Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which like a toad, ugly and venomous
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,

~~~TO KNOW THYSELF~~~

Written by Johnan Kaspar Lavater


~~~Each heart is a world--
You will find all written within yourself
that you find without;
To know yourself you have only to set down
a true statement of those that have loved or hated you.

~~~IF HEARTS COULD FLY~~~

written by Corinne Britt- Oct. 2000


The time has come to face it,
the two of us have begun
a friendship through our poetry
and we've been having lots of fun.
I had you for a little while,
but you finally TRACKED me down,
Sweet, lonely, poet, I'm so glad,
that I've been finally found!

Thank you for the offer,
to let the world go to hell,
If I could, I would, believe me,
and then who could tell.
BUT, I'll hold you in my dreams
and you may never know,
just how much I wanted you,
but was afraid to show.

I've thought about how very nice,
being with you could be
in that frozen far off land
a wilderness man and me.
If hearts could fly I'd be there,
in a twinkling of an eye
in that far off land
where the land meets the sky.

Dreams of tall trees round us
we'd sit and write epic poetry
but then I stopped to contemplate,
sadly, how all this can not be.
Friends we'll have to savor,
because time is far from right
to be more to each other, although,
I secretly, wish we might.

I've chains of limitations,
to which I must comply,
but your words enchant my soul,
as well as delighting my eyes.
And in my heart, I'm wishing,
you were, that special one,
because you are so fantastic
and it's been so damn much fun.

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~~~CYCLE OF LIFE~~~


Written by Corinne Britt
I won a Golden Poet award for this poem in 1966 with the World Of Poetry


A bird flew from her nest one day
and landed oh so far away,
that everything was foreign and new
even the early morning dew.
To a bird so tired, who flew so long,
It seemed that nothing could go wrong.

So she nested down to rest a while
And heard the voice of a happy child.
She felt the wind among the trees
And smelled the aroma of Sweet peas.
So all seemed right and it should have been
Until that ill begotten wind;

That brought a hawk swooping around,
To search the trees and the ground.
His shadow fell upon the nest, and
you probably now, have guessed the rest.
She tried to fly to a safer haven
But was engulfed by the shadow raven.

Such was life for the bird and the tree
And all the things around you and me.
All pleasures soon do end,
In a cycle of life that begins, once again.

The happy child became a man
And shot down a hawk upon his land
Then the man grew old and one day died
And the birds sang and an old woman cried.

TRUE LOVE


Written by Sir Walter Scott


True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone, beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire
With dead desire it does not die;
It is the secret sympathy
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can truly bind.

FROM THE RUBIYAT OF OMAR KYAM

by Rudyard Kippling

The moving hand writes
And having writ -
Moves on!

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Below are some poems that might offend some people.
THIS IS A WARNING.
If you are sensitive to off color or odd ball humor, please refrain from looking at the following poems and thoughts.


~~~~~~And Now For A Little Off beat Humor~~~~~~

PHILOSOPHY OF A MAN


This was written by me in 1960, after a divorce


Pompous asses all men can be,
To think they are a puzzle to me.
For men are easy to scrutinize
They all were born with roving eyes.
They ply the unsuspecting gal
With the idea of being their pal.

If that won't work, they try another;
"Oh goodness, let me be your brother!"
Should they a wise woman find
Then they will pretend to be so kind
And speak of all their tender ways
Hoping to find a girl who plays,

Their silly--"Let's go to bed," games!
And then they'll leave her in shame,
But occasionaly, they aren't the best
At playing the game of conquest.
And the only way they can win the strife,
Is to take the woman for their wife.

Most woman, are to them, I fear
Someone to "screw", without a care!
There is no balance on their scale
It's ninty-nine percent for the male.
So girls be leery of any man,
He'll stick it to you, if he can

And to his friends he'll go and tell
Let's hope, they all end up in hell!!!

WILD BILL THE HORNY PROFESSOR

And NO, I never met the man, just heard stories about him!

All day he strive's deligently
To help his students to learn
While down deep within him
Such roaring fires burn.
With dignity and poise he walks
Among the campus walls
Knowing "that" longing waits
For release of nature's call.
To keep that calm exterier
Is always quite a fight
But he can do it gracefully,
Cause "Wild Bill" will ride tonight.
Wild Bill the horny professor,
So studious and strong.
Except when "sex" is calling him
He just can't wait to long.
On campus he's so scholarly
All proper and socially right,
Wonder what his students would say
If they saw Wild Bill, ride tonight!

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