A magic forest story - Hansel and Gretel - start

Hansel and Gretel Grew and married and had many children who had children of their own and grew into two different families. in Hansel bloodline, the young king was born King Alaric and in Gretel's bloodline, two young children were born as simple farmers who their mother named them Hansel and Gretel after the story they were told of children of the mother Rapunzel. Ten years went by and the young Hansel and Gretel were playing in the forest when they came to a tent that had appeared overnight. They could see the horses outside of the tent and run up to them to pet the horses.

Then out of the tent came a man with long black hair and grabbed the two children and dragged them into his tent where there was a band of warriors talking. The children knew right away these were the Huns from the north and were told to run away if they ever saw them, but for them, it was too late.

Then Huns had them tied to a big pull in the middle of the tent. Although the children did not know when they were talking about. They were talking that they had not had the taste of meat for so long that they could eat the children. 

Rapunzel end

Rapunzel looked down at Ramus standing there with his now long beard and hair. As soon as he saw her he said " Rapunzel, Rapunzel throw down your long hair?" and she did.

He climbed up to see her a far more broken man then he was when he left and held in his scarred hands the gold strands of her hair. She looked at him and said" You fool, I never cared about you bringing back the hair only that you came back to see me" and she kissed him.

He got down on one knee and breaded the end of her hair into a ring, then pulled out his knife and cut it saying "Rapunzel will you marry me?"
"Of course I will Ramus, but, how will we ever escape my evil stepmother?"

He pulled out the ointment from the druid and said " This will remove all your hair forever and you will be free"

With that she breaded a piece of her hair and said "Yes oh yes, let us leave this place at once"

Ramus cut the ring as it turned to gold and put it on then he cut another larger chunk of hair off, not too big, but, enough that he knew he could buy a farm and hide forever. Then Rapunzel throw her hair out the window to make a slide and they slide from the tower and he poured the ointment on her head as all the hear fell off and turned to gold.

They slid down the hair and never looked back. They stopped at a small Roman outpost before leaving Gaul and he wrote a letter to his general about the large gold and a map of how to get there with one strand of gold and his salt for it to be delivered.

As Rapunzel and Ramus crossed the river Rhine into Germania knowing they would not be followed there. His General Germanicus found the gold in the name of Rome and there was an old woman trying to cut pieces off of it with an ax. When they approached her she swung the ax at the Roman guard who ran her through and as general Germania and Ramus's commanding officer Amulius stared up at the gold, Amulius said " What should we do about Ramus?" and Germanicus held his fingers over the bump where a chunk of the gold was missing and said " I do not believe we will be seeing young Ramus ever again.

So there Ramus and Rapunzel were able to buy some farmland off a Germanic tribe where they had two children a boy and a girl and to fit in with their new home they gave them Germanic names Hansel and Gretel.

The End...

A magic forest story- Rapunzel part 2

Remus fought hard during his time in Britannica and was promoted several times.  All he could think of was how he would trade the weight of gold of Rapunzels' hair just to be with her again. His final mission was to attack the island of Anglesey and home of the druids to break the will of the celts.

They stormed the island and the Druids found their magic almost useless against the new roman steel as it was able to absorb their magic. The Roman legion tore through the entire island and only one escaped a Druid by the name of Merlin.

Remus commanding officer Amulius called him into his tent and said " This week is your last week of service Remus so I will charge you with one more task. You are to track down this escaped druid Merlin and kill him before he causes Rome any more problems. If you are successful you will be discharged from the Army, however, if you fail you will have to serve in the army one more full year.

Ramus knew if he said no they would add two more years of service to his enlistment as they often did. "Of course Sir," Ramus said and rode off in search of Merlin.

Alone in the land of the celts, he found his way to Merlin standing on a cliff edge now cornered by him. Ramus walked up to him sword in hand.

 "I know who you are" he yelled
"Who am I then to you" Merlin replied.
"You are the rogue druid Merlin and I must kill you"
"Are you sure Ramus, that is what you want from me? Because I know there is more to your hart then just gold."
"What do you know about me, I am no one to you" Ramus replied.
"We are all something to someone and you are no exception to that. Now tell me Ramus what is it that you really want?"
"I want a potion that can turn someone bold forever."
"Then let us gather the herbs you will need and you will have your potion"

As they gathered the herbs for the potion Ramus asked Merlin what he would do if he let him live and Merlin replied his war is not this one and long after Rome is but a rumor he will be there for the wars of Arthur the true king of England.

Ramus not knowing of these lands of England did not care for the old man's ramblings and when the potion was complete he returned back to his commanders' tent and said that the Druid known as Merlin must have perished for he found no trace of him.

A year later he returned to Gaul and to Rapunzels' tower. As he stood at the bottom looking up he yelled "Rapunzel, Rapunzel throw down your hair" and she rushed to the window to see him.

A magic forest story- Rapunzel

One day a Roman soldier is in the market of Gaul exchange his salt for some copper coins as the price of salt always dropped on the soldier's payday. He took the coins and bought a loaf of bread some cured pork three apples and a couple of carrots and wandered into the forest hoping to ketch a rabbit or two during his time off.

The soldier spent two days wandering in the forest without ketching anything until he came across a tall stone tower that had no doors to get in. He tried to climb the wall looking rather silly as he fell on the ground and he heard the sound of a woman laughing as he looked up and could see a young woman with long blond hair. He asked the woman how did you get way up there? and she replied that she had never been down there! While the lady of the tower he said " What is your name as you must be an angel that has fallen from the sky and locked up in this tower and she replied " Rapunzel" and he said, "I am Remus."

They talked all day and night as the soldier told her all about the world and his adventures. Then the soldier had to leave and promised he would come back and visit here and everytime the solder got paid he would take his leave and go see her. One day Remus was visiting her and said to her I wish so much I could see you Rapunzel what if I were to build a giant latter so I can climb up to the heavens to be with you and Rapunzel said I will throw you down my hair and you can climb up it so that you can see me but you must promise you are a gentleman and will not hurt me. and Remus promised as her flowing hair came down the side of the tower and touched the ground.

Remus climbed the hair to see the beautifulest woman he had ever seen as her hair covered over her entire body. Remus came visit her again and again and at the bottom of the tower he would say Rapunzel, Rapunzel won't you throw down your hair and he would climb up to see her bringing her gifts and wine and food to share.

One day Remus came to visit Rapunzel and said " my unit is moving out and sailing to Britannica" "Oh Remus will I ever see you again?"
"I have only one year of service left in the army and when I return we will buy a cabin along a lake and I will make you my wife"

"Remus Please hurry back to see me and be safe"
" I will Rapunzel and he asked her if he could cut a small piece of her hair to remember her by.
She said yes and looked scared as he cust a small piece of her hair off and watched as it turned to gold"
"What it this?" Said Remus
"Please do not be scarred my stepmother comes to cut my hair and says that if anyone were to find out they will kill me for my hair and that is why she keeps me locked up here" But now that you know Remus will you take the gold and use me like she does?

Remus promised her that he would return to see her and have all the strands of gold when he returned. As he walked away into the forest she wondered if she should ever see him again?

To be continued...

A magic forests another day in paradise

So I wake up and do not even make it to the coffee maker before the baby starts screaming.

After 2 hours of the kids screaming and fighting I put them both in their car seat and strap them in at least now they are in one spot and we go to the bank to pay the credit card bill that is due tomorrow. Of course, the machine for paying the cards is not working.

 I won't bore you this the details or our adventures in Toyland as I am sure everyone has the same experience going into any store with kids these days.

After an hour of walking up and down the same toy lanes with my 4 years old wanting to be just like Ryans words and getting to have every toy on the shelf. My wife is done grocery shopping and I by the 4 and 2-year-old a ball each.

Then we drive to the other bank on the other side of the city that I also cannot pay my credit card at. As we drive home my wife says to me can we get the freeking vegetables now and I reply back your made at the vegetables what did they ever do to you? She says back to me "No, I said fruit and vegetables" because living by an airport has in no way affected my hearing!

So we get the fruit as the kids scream and afterward I take them to the park and tell the wife to pick me up in an hour as I grab the only juice box in the car.

Right away as we walk into the park the kids want the juice box and want to fight over who's turn it is to drink some as they keep squeezing it all over the ground.

after that was over, they played with the ball for all but 1 minute as the youngest played on the slid and the oldest and I looked for treasure. While he found rocks and I picked up broken pieces of glass to throw away before the kids cut themselves on them.

then they decided they wanted to go on the swing and I put the two-year-old on the swing and the 4-year-old wanted to get on the swing himself. somehow the 4 year old falls off as he climbed on the swing and starts holding his special area and crying. Now these are those old mettle swings with chain. He wants to go home as he is crying and I am holding him I feel something worm and wet on my side and I am really worried he has ripped something off. But, it turned out he only bagged himself for the first time and we reached the parking lot of the park and mommie was not there. So we start walking home and by the time he gets to the back of the outside of the park he is fine again and wants to go play back in the park. While the youngest one keeps thinking it is funny to throw the ball onto the road.

We get back into the park and the oldest one is playing on the slide and the youngest one goes to throw rocks on the slide and falls face first into it. Thank god it was the plastic slide. Now he is crying and I a, holding him and wants to go sit on the bench in front of the magic forest. He finally stops crying and the oldest one now starts crying that he is scared and wants me to go get him as the youngest is starts to cry again. Now both on the bench they are calm for around 1 minute until they start fighting over the stones on the bench.

Finally, I bring the little one int the magic forest where he poops just as the oldest one also says he needs to go to the bathroom. I bring them into the bathroom dump out the hard poop thank god from the dipper and put it back on him.

Now the kids by the washroom have found a large metal pail of water that is used to scoop a bucket of water out of to flush the toylet and the and they start fighting over who is going to put their hand int he water as I try getting them away from it and at one point pick up the smallest one and carry him back to the park where he runs right back to the water. Finally the oldest one comes and sits down with my at the magic forest and I tell him a magic forest story and he says "thank you Papa" and then says I want to go home and I say ok lets go put your knapsack "Relf" on so we can go home as one kids have a monkey knapsack we call Gorge and the oldest has a dog one we call Relf. So I get Rrelf on the oldest because the youngest still has George on from the first time we tried to leave the park. just as I get Relf on the oldest one mommy shows up to drive us all home and I look to the sky and thank God.

A magic forest story - the magic ball

I took my children to the park today and the oldest wanted to go into the magic forest for a story. At that time he also found a rather large bouncy ball that had two different colours on each half. 

One day a small boy found a ball on the shore of the river that had two colours a yellow colour and a green colour. He picked it up and played with it until be became tired and put it in his pocket and brought it home. The boy played with his ball as he grew and had to go to school. One day in class he could not know the answers of a test and said I wish I could know the answers to the test. Then on the yellow side of the ball, it showed him the future and him looking at the answers to the test. 

The boy was so happy and got every answer right. 

as the boy grew he used the magic ball to get every answer right on all his tests and graduated from university with honors. 

Then the man got his first job, but even though the ball would give him answers to a test he could never get his work right and figure out how to do anything hands-on in the real world. The young man grew into a middle-aged man who could not hold down a job. 

One day he took the ball out from the drawer where he kept it in his small one-room apartment and walked back to the river where he got it. 

He looked at the ball and said how did my life become so bad when at first it was going so good. Then on the green side of the ball, it showed him asking for all the answers on his tests and the day he found the ball. The man threw the ball back into the river and that day he got a job as a janitor at a school where he worked for the rest of his life. 

Again years later the ball wound up on the shore of the river as an older man picked it up and he looked at the sky and said " I wonder if it will rain later today" then on the yellow side of the ball it showed the old man sunny blue skies for the rest of the day. 

The old man looked at the ball fascinated by what the ball had just shown him then said: " How could such a magic ball have been simply left here?" 

Then on the green side of the ball it showed the previous owner of the balls life and how hard of a time he had with it.   

the old man thought for a moment of all the things he could do with a magic ball the could show the future and the past and threw it back into the river. 

The end,

Phoenix rise 

First round of editing done

the first round of editing has been done and I have finished all the updates. Two months it took me to make the changes and now I am waiting for the editor to go through and make the final revisions before sending it back to me.

There is a huge difference between writing a story and publishing a book. All the formatting and grammar changes were amazing and the part that I found to be the most important was the lines where it said here is where you need to have the reader more engaged and here is where you need to explain what you mean more for the reader.

I am editing my first book to be published this is taking some time Sorry everyone

Time

The young boy 6 or 7 played in the park behind their new house by the pond. Not too far off there was a bench that an older man sat at. As the boy grew into a teenager he saw the old man and could see he had a little flask with him he would take a sip of while sitting there.

Some of his friends even robbed the old man as he was close to becoming a man.

His father and mother moved into a retirement home when he had his first son and he and his wife and newborn son moved into the house he had grown up in.

As his child grew and could walk on her own while they played in the park one day. The police came and arrested the old man who now walked with a cane for drinking in public sitting on the bench and he never saw the old man again.

The children he had grew and finished school to. As one by one, they moved far far away. The man retired at 65 and sat in his house all day. Then he found a bottle of scotch one of his sons had dropped off on a Christmas day.

He filled a water bottle and walked to where his feet would take him and sat on the bench in the park that day. As he took a sip his eyes turned red as he could hear the children laugh and play. One by one on his cell phone, he called his children that day. They were all so busy raising their children they did not have much time to talk anyway.

So there he sat day after day thinking back to when his little ones used to play.

A magic forest story - Curiosity

A terrible noise swept through the castle as soldiers kicked open the doors to the young prince and his new bride's chambers. For the first time ever a prince was going to be allowed to marry out of love.

The people had just overthrown their monarchy as the two were brought to the courtyard and executed.

But time did what time does, it went on regardless of any actions of mankind as people replaced one leader who they said stole from them with hundreds of them.


One day a small boy was walking with his mother and he noticed a beautiful women wearing all white and had a red scarf around her neck. He said to his mother "look over there mommy at the pretty lady and when the mom turned to look there was no one there.

The boy saw the lady many of times growing up until he became a teenager and did not see her anymore.


During a dark cold night on a cobblestone road, a man wearing a bowling cap pulls a young lady wearing all white off the road as a horse and buggy rides by about to hit her. She turns to look at him as she twists in his arms as though they just danced.

He looks deep into her eyes past her long blond hair and says " do you believe in destiny?" Why the women replies. Because I feel like I have waited for you my whole life and as he goes to pull on the red scarf around her neck. She pushes him away and says "if this were fate we will meet again". As she walks away the man says and if you believe in love I will be here every night at this time for the next two weeks waiting for you!

There he stood for two weeks on the side of that cold street every night waiting for her and there she stood just out of sight watching him stand looking up and down the street his face light up by the street lamp as you could see his breath from the cold.

Finally on the fourteenth night as he went to walk away into the darkness to never be seen again. He hears her say wait and she walks up to him. They spent an hour talking about nothing and he asks her to go to dinner with him the next night. She says to him we should meet again right here on this spot and he tells her he is a gentleman and will do as he should have that first night and escort the young lady home to make sure she is safe.

Winter melted into spring, spring sprang into summer and summer faded into fall. When he was with her all he could do was look into her eyes and when he was away all he could see is her white silhouette in a black background with the red scarf down a dark corridor.

Finally, the day came for them to be married as church bells rang and children sang. The groom and bride dashed off to their honeymoon night. They stood in the room and as he took off her jacket he looked deep into her eyes and unslipped the scarf that was tied around her neck as her head fell off and rolled onto the floor and the life left her eyes.

She and waited over two hundred years for him to come back to her arms and escaped death to do it. But it was man's curiosity that killed love in the end.

How was my experience with American airlines?

Murphy's Law

Due to extra construction at night on the entrance to the Airport in Toronto I woke up at 2am so that I could be driven to the airport at 2:30 and be there 3 hours before my international flight as it takes an hour to drive from St Catharines Ontario to Toronto.

As I stood in line to check and pay for my extra baggage the American airlines counter opened at 4:30 and not 4am. I then paid for my extra luggage bag and checked it Friday August 17^th for flight number AA1169 not knowing that I would not see it again until Thursday August 23^rd 2018 at 5:30pm.

I walked into the airport went through customs and looked around for a Tim Hortons and found nothing but Starbucks on both sides of the airport. Checking on my cell phone that battery was almost dead and I tried to find a plug but there was none so I turned it off and fell asleep.

I woke up around 7am to learn that my flight has been delayed and that they would be bringing out breakfast. I showed the lady at the counter that I had another flight to ketch in Dallas that did not leave until 6:45pm flight AA2313 and asked if there would be any problems with catching this flight? She said there would be no problems and I feel back asleep-ish. Then got up had some breakfast off the tray and sat there until 11am and had lunch again provided by you guys. To me, the day was not half bad so far!

Then 12:00 came and I went to the washroom and when I came back there was a line at the counter and I thought great the plane is ready. So not true and they said it was delayed longer and I stood in the back of the line to check that I would still ketch my next flight out of Dallas. You see I had a work trip in Dallas and although I had planned a trip to Canada just before my birthday when the plane tickets were half the price. Because my driver’s license and health card were going to expire and I needed to go home and have them renewed. Work had a last minute trip to a sales expo for me to present some new marketing tools. So by the time I received my credit card from work and paid off my plane ticket to Dallas, the price of a plane ticket to Canada had doubled and at least now I knew what flight I could book to go home to Canada and return. The travel agent insisted that I should take the plane trip back with a 12 hour layover in Dallas. 

So now on Friday the 17^th at noon waiting in line they announced that the plane was canceled and that they would be opening another counter on the other side of the airport to help with rebookings. As I walked all the way over there with some of the other passengers.

When I got to the counter the lady behind the desk said that I could take a flight from Toronto to Chicago to Dallas and would be there at 7:30pm as I explained to here that I would be left without a plane to fly back home and were they going to just leave me in Dallas? She said while it’s not a connecting flight I cannot help you with that. As I pointed out that one was paid for with a work credit card and one was paid for with a personal credit card. Making sure both were with your company and 12 hours apart to expect for delays. Then I told her that two weeks ago when I started this journey I had one promises to my family that I would be back home for my birthday to spend it with them on August 19th. AS she called her manager she said that she could get me a flight tomorrow and I asked will I be staying in a hotel and she asked me if I lived in Canada and I told her my parents lived in St Catharines quite a ways away from the airport. There I could see the empathy in her eyes as I thought of my wife and children who I had not seen for what felt like a very long time.

She booked me the flight to Chicago aa3080 and then the connecting flight to Dallas aa2501 that day and the next day August 18^th at 10:05am I would fly home by noon and my luggage would be waiting in Mexico.

Of course, my Mexican cell phone could not get service and I could not find an opened WiFi single to use to tell my wife of the delay. Even sitting on the plane in airplane mode on the plane's WiFi I could not use Skype. I was told when I got to Chicago I would need to check where to board the plane as that spot was blank. Also, the seat was blank as I did not realize the printing was under the little square where the seat number should be as the boarding time was in the right spot. They also had a line when I found where my plane gate was of people waiting for seats. At this point at was 4:25pm and I had been up since 2am. I waiting for the plane to board and asked if my name was on that list and she said I already had a seat and should hurry on the plane to Dallas, as I had to check my carryon luggage by that point.

At 7something I arrived in Dallas and a guy tried to pick a fight with me on the plane as I was getting off. There were 4 people staying standing in their seats not going out into the lane on the plane. So the lady beside me walked past them. I assumed they must be waiting for someone further back in the plane as that sometimes happens and since I checked my carryon I went to walk past them as the guys checks me and swears at me. While I was just trying to get away from the pilot sitting beside me so I did not get him sick from this cough I had already started to have.

Then I went and stood in line at the American Airlines counter to get my hotel room for the night. Very nice people behind the counter and the lady was, in the end, able to help me as I showed here all the tickets I had at that point. Where she said I had a complicated ticket and the lady asked for help from the other lady and I heard them say while what were we going to do just let him wander around this airport all night (again empathy) There I asked where to pick up my carryon luggage while I received my hotel room and 12.00 food voucher. I got my carryon and went to get on the shuttle.

When I got to my hotel it was 10pm and I called my wife who was still waiting in the airport to pick me up and I told her what happened and to go home. I asked the lady behind the desk at the Marriott how the food voucher worked and she said it would be 12.00 towards anything I ordered and I asked how much breakfast was and she said 12 or 13 bucks for the buffet and I had assumed that was what the voucher was for. 

I went to my room in the basement and fell asleep by 11ish pm until 6am where I went for breakfast and ordered the buffet and when my bill came in it was $23.00 for the buffet. See after staying at the Hilton where it was only 9.00 for breakfast buffet I had assumed 13 bucks was fine not 23 for the same crap.

So I gave my voucher paid the difference got my luggage met this nice blind guy going the same way as me and went to the airport for 7am to make sure to be there 3 hours before an international flight again.

As I waited for the plane there was another delay in the fight aa387 at 10am for 2 hours as they fixed the plane. There I sat waiting and over the announcements I heard that on that fight they were offering 650 USA dollars in flight voucher for people to take the 6pm flight and I thought to myself with that kind of money I could take my wife to that las Vegas trip she always wanted to go on. But no amount of money could keep me away from my children at this point!

Then when they said the flight was delayed another 3 hours I stared at my children on my cell phone and asked the guy if this was going to be like my last flight where it would be delayed until it was canceled and he said it shouldn’t be as they were fixing it right now.

When the snake tray arrived all I could think of was oh no I am not getting out of here and got a snack and before I could finish it the plane was ready to be boarded and by that time my wife was going to meet me at the airport after her third trip there.

So I got on the plane and sat down in the front for the first time in my life. As a flight attendant came to me and asked me if I was traveling alone and would like to move to the emergency exit and the guy behind the counter came to her at that moment and said he found someone and just not to bug me. Again empathy from the employees. Something lacking in everywhere.

As the flight took off and the man lifted his arms to the most undelightful odor that had some hang time I turned up my air and looked out my window seat, not a middle seat. So we landed in the airport around 5pm and I thought at least I will get out of the plane first and they opened the back door for the first time I had ever seen in my life and half the plane exited before they got the front opened.

I got off the plane sat on the bus for it to fill up and went into the airport to wait for my luggage that never came. So after everyone left I called my wife waiting for me and told her to ask someone at the counter what to do because there was no one at the help desk inside the airport for American airlines as she was trying to keep a one-year-old and a three-year-old from running away from her the whole time.

Finally, a man comes to the counter and when it is my turn I did the shuffle back and forth between customs and that counter and gave the guy my cell phone having my full address on it and went out to see my children and wife. We went home had a pizza, cake, and a 12 pack of beer party that took me all weekend to drink.

The next morning for the first time in my life I had a decade birthday as I turned 40 with my own family as we went to a waffle house for breakfast and to the Japanese gardens until being home for after 3pm on Sunday, August 19^th 2018.

Then Monday came around for work and I worked from home and Tuesday I could not stop coughing had a headache and went to the doctor for antibiotics that I have had to stay home from work all week to not get anyone else sick and cost 400 pesos. Everyday calling asking about my luggage getting the same call back in 4 hours. Wednesday they said it would be delivered by 11pm and when it was not I called on 23/08/2018 in the morning and asked what address was being used and they gave the city as real de valle when that is the name of my gated community that your planes fly over my house on every day. Giving the correct address he said they would be there between 2pm and 5pm as I needed to go for my next injection of antibiotic at 5pm and when I called they said it would be there in 10 minutes or so. So I waited and it did show up I had my bag.

So I went to the doctors got my shot and he said my blood pressure is 140 over 90 at this time. Why I cannot concentrate and stay focused at work right now.

The question is did everything go wrong? Or did everything end up right?

I stared into the sun

snakes and ladders

I've played the game and seen the pain
There are only snakes to be bitten from
While the ladders are painted on
and it is a slow crawl from the bottom

If chances in life are like a roll of the dice
Then plans are when you throw them
In the end you hit the wall
But you stand up and shake yourself off from them

Fairytales are happy endings
Because they do not continue the story
No one sees you
When you are already under the water drowning

Happiness is a thing that fades
While misery follows
True miserable people look at others
To take what they have worked for.

A magic forest story- the princes lesson in humility

One morning this week my son said I am ready for school and I asked him where is pants were and he said "Oh yea" so I continued that morning to tell him this story.

One day there were two princes who were destined to rule the kingdom of the sun because the sun always shone on their kingdom. The Queen mother of all the land had watched in her lifetime many kingdoms that had fallen into darkness and she said that her grandchildren were to go to school with everyone else and not be homeschooled as it was the way in the past.

One brother believed he was better than everyone else in that school while the other brother enjoyed being with the other children and learning as they did.

One day the children of the school were to have a parade through the town and were to all get-together and create their own clothes for the parade. One brother loved this idea and had so much fun decorating his clothes with the other children. While the other brother laughed at how ridiculous they all looked and ordered for the finest tailors in all the land to come and show him what they could make him for the parade.

The king and queen sat there for hours with the young prince as he rejected all the people until one came in with the finest silk in all the lands and the prince looked at them and felt them and said they were not good enough for him. Then just before the trailer left he said. " wait, my prince, I do have one last piece that I keep hidden from everyone. and opened a chest and when the prince looked inside he could not see anything and the tailor told him " That is because this is the only fabric in all the kingdoms like this for it is invisible". The prince said he must have this fabric and the best clothing made from it and the king and queen paid handsomely for the cloths to be made as the prince watched them hand the gold coins over.

So the next day the tailor's handmaidens came in and measured the prince and the tailor started up his sewing machine with his foot passing the fabric through the machine as nothing could be seen.

Finally, the day of the parade came and the whole town and come out to see the parade. The children walked and waved at everyone as though it was a big festival until the young prince walked out and everyone was quiet only for a second until they all started laughing and saying "look the prince is walking around in his underwear" The prince so ashamed when he realized he was tricked wanted to run away and hide. Then his brother came beside him and they walked down the street waving at everyone as the prince became comfortable not in his fake invisible clothing but in the decision he had made that lead him there that day.

From that they forth the prince felt closer to his people than he ever did before and they say he became King the people all talked about the great and wise king that was their ruler.


The end,

A magic forest story from Grandpa- God and the devil

One day God and the Devil where sitting around a table drinking
So the devil starts bragging about how mean and tough he was
How he is the destroyer of worlds and nothing can defeat him

So God sitting with this young creature
Who calls himself by many names one being the devil
God says to him "you think you are the meanest toughest thing in the universe
Although you have not ventured to far out in it".
"Yes," The devil replied.

Alright then, I have this little planet I have been working on for about six days called Earth.
There you go, Devil, show me your cruelty and make me what you believe to be the most destructive things in the Univers. So the Devil sat there a while with the clay of creation and he built this massive monsters called  Leviathan or dinosaurs and the T Rex and velociraptors and he made helpless creatures for them to feed on and just for fun put spikes on some of them to fight back.

Now god and the devil sat there for millions of years watching these creatures and God said " That's pretty good devil. But now it's my turn and hurled a mediator at the planet called earth and like an eraser wiped everything out.

Then about only ten thousand years ago, God said ok here is what I am going to do. I am going to put these little tinny creaturs. I will call then people, no spikes, no big teeth, no claws, just little tinny creatures on the earth and I will have the earth start peopling. Then let's see just how destructive your Dinosaurs really were?

forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors

We are all bent until we are broken
We see only what we are told to
Say nothing see nothing hear nothing
Nothing is all you will ever amount to

Put aside jealousy and you will ponder faith
But give in and you are giving everything
Take and you will have nothing
Give and you will have left everything

Leave and you will come again another day
Press and you will have pushed it away
Loneliness is far from grace
People are a hellish race

Driven only by how much they can save
While at the same time they see how much they can take
No one cares for yesterday
Except for the debts that tomorrow must be paid

A magic forest story- The boy who cried wolf

One day a boy went to visit his uncle with his father and when they arrived they found his uncle asleep under a tree in the field with his dog. The father asked his brother to come into town with him. But the uncle couldn't because he was a shepherd and had to watch his sheep.

"I will watch him, uncle"  the boy said excitedly
Uncle: I don't know son, it is a dangerous job to watch sheep
Boy: I can do it it looks so easy
Uncle: There is a wolf in these parts who could eat the sheep, he could even eat you!
Boy: I am not scared
Father: Let us watch the sheep brother while we go into town.
Uncle: Ok son but the dog will not be able to stay with you, for he follows me everywhere I go.
Boy: It's ok uncle I can do it.
Uncle: While just in case as we leave the village we will tell the people you are watching my sheep and will tell wolf if you see him.
Boy: OK uncle, you can count on me.

The father and the uncle left to town making sure they told the people in the village that the boy would be watching the sheep for him.

The boy laid down under the tree like the uncle did for about ten minutes before he got bored and began to throw rocks into the field, then he chased some of the sheep, then he snuck up and them and scarred them laughing until he finally walked back to the tree that was at the top of a wall that looked down onto the village. Finally, the boy yelled, " Wolf, Wolf, Wolf" and all the village people came running with their pitchforks and shovels. When they got there the boy sat under the tree and the people asked: "where is the wolf, where is he?" The boy said he ran off into the tree line on the other side of the field. Some of the village people went and looked as the boy thought he would be in trouble for calling them all there. Then the villagers returned and said, " he must be gone, I cannot even find any tracks."  As the villagers walked back to the village.

The boy sat there again after they left thinking of how funny it was to see them all come running and again yelled: " Wolf, wolf, wolf" and all the villagers came running. This time the boy was smiling as they asked where the wold was and he said: " he ran off".   Then again after they left the boy yelled Wolf, wolf, wolf, and they came back as this time the boy could not stop laughing at them while he rolled on the ground pointing at them. Furious the townspeople left and the boy sat board trying to throw stones into a broken basket he found.

As the sun began to set he heard a noise in the distance and when he looked he could see a big wolf. He cried out to the people wolf, wolf, wolf. But this time no one came running and he started running as the wolf chased him down and ate him and all the sheep.

" You see the townspeople whether they came or not did not matter. It was going to be the boy yelling wolf that scarred the wolf off" But the wolf already knew where the boy was and that he was alone without the dog that sat under that tree and knew he could attack when the time was right.

You see there is always a wolf hiding in the bushes out of sight and it only matter is you see him first or if he sees you!"

A magic forest story - White or black?

This week y son and I were at the park and he was pushed by a bigger kid and came to me crying. There is this little-wooded section with around 20 trees and I call it the magic forest where I sit with him and tell him a story. As I sat on the bench he would not stop crying and I carried him to the magic forest and said.


There once was a white knight who was always picked on by a bigger knight they called the back knight. he would push the white knight around and call him names. One day the white knight stood up to the black knight and said I will not be picked on anymore. He pushed the black knight and stepped back. As the black knight charged at him the white knight ran away and the black knight was filled with rage and chased after him.

The white knight ran through the forest and held onto a tree as he ran between the two trees and the black knight tried to follow but when he tried to run between the two trees he couldn't because he was running too fast and hit his head on the second tree and was knocked out cold.

When the black knight woke up he stood up and walked out of the forest to where the white knight was standing there waiting for him. The black and white knight stared at each other and the white knight was holding a small thin stick and drew a line in the dirt with it and said you shall not cross this line.

( By this time by 3-year-old son and stopped crying and was listening to the story)

The black knight laughed loudly at the white knight to intimidate him and charged at him with all his force. When the black knight came lose to the white knight he fell into a small hole the white knight had dug days earlier and covered it with sticks and leaves.

The black knight in a rage clawed with his fingers at the sides of the hole trying to get out but couldn't. The white knight stood over the hole and said "if you are truly sorry I will let you out of the hole". The black knight in rage said " When I get out of this hole I will kill you"! and the white knight left him there and walked away.

For three days the white knight came to the hole and looked down at the black knight who everyday yelled at the white knight when he saw him that he was going to kill him.

Finally on the fourth day when the white knight came and looked down at the black knight the black knight said" I am sorry for everything I have ever done to you for today I will die and before I do I only wanted to apologize for the way I have treated you".

The white knight threw down a rope he had already tied to a tree days before he even dug the hole and the black knight to weak to climb out himself tied it around his waist as the wight knight and townspeople helped pull the black knight out of the hole.

That night the town had a feast as they welcomed the black knight to it and for the first time the black knight became a part of the town and from there on out the black and white knight became the best of friends.

After that I asked my son if he wanted to go back to the playground and he said yes. I held his hand and we walked back to the park where he started playing with the boy that lives across the street from us at one of the climber sets. The boy that pushed my son and the group of kids he plays with at the part were running around and tried to climb the climber set up the slide my sone and his friend were sitting on with a smaller child and his dad that was standing beside it.

My son jumped down the slide head first to stopped the crowd of kids yelling no, go and pointing away and kept doing it until they left to play on the other toys. Not quite the message I had ment to send but he did learn to stick up for himself and more importantly he thought he was protecting the other two children.



If you think this story was racist because white meant good and black meant evil. You need to look in the mirror at your eyes and your soal all eyes are white but many soals are black. Skin colour is never purely white or black anyways and those who look skin deep will never know the story behind the cover. It is meant for white being what is right, not good and black is meant for what is wrong, not bad.

People who think they are good are more capable of doing so many wrong things to so many right people.

A magic forest story - the fisherman -fin

I lake my some to a park around the corner and there is a small part of it with about 20 pine trees and I have started calling it the magic forest where I tell him stories.

So I thought I would start writing them down

The young fisherman like to go fishing, he would go every day and ketch lots of fish. So many that he would have extra to sell to people walking past the bridge he would fish under.

One day he caught the biggest fish he ever caught and when he tried to reel it in the fish's head poked out from the water on the shore and said " I am a magical fish, if you let me go I will grant you one with". "any with?" The fisherman replied.
Fish: Of course whatever you wish for you will have forever.
Fisherman: Ok fish, you have a deal. I want to be king of my own land with my own kingdom
Fish: Your wish will be granted as soon as I am free.

The fisherman released the fish and it quickly swam away

The young fisherman looked at his hands and around him but nothing had changed. So he packed up for the day and went home to bed.

The next day when the fisherman woke he rolled over to get out of bed but did not reach the side of the bed. He rolled three more times and sat up at the side of the bed and looked around.

He had servants to help him get dressed his meals were brought to him every day and he never had to worry again about anything.

Anything except everyone else's problems in the kingdom. His whole day was filled every day with meetings about foreign affairs, military strategies, Tax rates, all the way to what flowers to plant next year in the gardens. 

One day he was returning from a foreign meeting and wished as they traveled along the ocean that he could fish for just for a minute. Then on the way home, they happened to cross over his bridge where a person around his age and build was selling fish at the side of the road as he was fishing.

The king stared into the fisherman's eyes and asked if he would like to be king for a day. The fisherman replied that he was a simple fisherman and would know nothing about being king so he would stick to fishing and as the king left the fisherman took a nap under the shade of a tree.

When the king was old and gray and about to die his last words were I wish I had gone fishing more in life.

Canadian eh

The show of power

If not for one there could never be two
Two by two they march to you
lines and rows like gravestones
Weapons of mettle held in their hands

Over time the shapes might change
But the intent stays the same
Each one like the one before
Each one to settle the score

The great equalizer of mice and men
To pull together and tear apart again
The lines are drawn on maps and oceans
The world is smaller then one remembers

When the curtain is drowned the fiddler plays his fiddle
The dancers dance while the actors speak
We all have our part even those who do nothing
So when the curtain closes do you find yourself standing?

the nameless soldier

Sweat, blood, and tears lets empires rise and disappear
Old mean talking at the table has young men dying in fields
Truth be told that only the winner knows
How the story will go once it unfolds

No one ever knows the nameless soldiers when they grow
The years of childhood awaiting for the bullet to find him
He does not know the day will come
As he lays his head in the field to look at the sun

While the clouds paint pictures for him
The nights stay calm and tranquil
For every day is not his last
But the last day did come and pass

With his hand on his chest
He laid his head in the field for rest
His angle now by his side
He sheds his body to fly

Anxiety or depression the blue pill or the red?

I missed the kiss the taste before the end
The time we sang and the times you gave
The way you swayed with the wind
The times we showed everything

The one you were once before
The years showed all the scars
The taste of blood, mold, and decay
The feeling that there were no worries anyway

The cares we cared are no longer there
The only guaranty is that things will change or disappear
If you are stuck in the past then you are depressed
To  look towards the future then anxiety is your mess

Stay in the present it is a gift
Reflect on the past to make today's decisions
To change the future and not fall into yesterdays mistakes
 Until the day we sleep the sleep of our ancestors

Bad times

Like a cloud in the sky that drifts on by
Without a care without a hope without anyone to come home
It never sits there never stays still never knows more than air
After the rain it disappears

There is no one right answer, only pieces to the bigger picture

So you're lost out in space, trying to find yourself again
You know there's a better way, If you can only find the beginning
Life is so short anyways, but there as still so many days
What path should I take they all look the same

In circles is this game, religion is its name
What if every city had its god and all gods had their children
In time that city would look the same, all the children with that gods face
So we are not all the same and there is no one god that controls everyone

We are children of earth from the seven mothers of the stars
The heavens are out of reach to our technology today
If we knew we were born again would we stop only living for today?
To build a better place for tomorrow to be born again

When the gun was first invented how long until we fought each other with it?
To have the power to go to the starts, first, we need to work together to go to mars
The border is a line an idea of the mind do not pass mine and stay on your side
If religions have no borders then why do they not agree with one another?

A cheeseburger in Paradise

My carnivorous appetite craves such succulent delights
Vegetarians live in the same houses as you and I
Where farms and trees once were for the world to survive
Every day in life something must die for you to thrive

 I'll leave you alone if you let me be
With my cheeseburger in paradise
My spatula barbeque and cold beer on ice
On a hot summer night eating that cheeseburger in Paradise

Extra pickles and a mustered stane on my white t-shirt
Bluejeans and sandals are my way of life
When the work week is done it's time to have some fun
And the radio plays all night long

The hypnotizing songs that ketch my eardrum
Bringing me back to those simple days of fun
While my children run and laugh and play
Like I did at their age remembering

Writer's block

That is it, I just did the over 2 months of work in 7 days. I have noticed after that my time at home I am drained

The key

Give it your all and what do you get
 A lot of doubt or a lifetime of regret
All or nothing all in this time
I've been fooled before but never again

The road to hell is paved with good intentions
The road of life is a beaten path
If you want an intelligent answer
Keep your questions to yourself

Never leave a rock unturned
More for less more often than not
Pay it forward or pay a lot
Pay attention to this little spot.

The world ways heavy on the shoulders of the living
While in their graves the dead dance the nights away
As a baby is born without caring
Of all the problems that lay before him

Like a Marker without a lid

The dog days of summer

The fly finds a piece of pie
Sitting on the windowsill cooling in time
The neighbor sends a friendly hello
A walk on by in his afternoon stroll

The bird's chirp and the bees work
To spread honey on morning toast
The little warm sits in the ground and grows
To feed the fish when the rain falls

The dog days of summer will soon be upon us
While the ant and the cricket take notes
One will sing its nights away playing in the moonlight as it strays
The other focused with its head to the ground no time to look up or around

Either way to work or play the days go by anyways
You can`t stop the clock even if you try
Days turn into weeks and nights slip into years
Until the face in the mirror one-day disappears

Fear

If fear is nothing but fear itself
No reason for it but the unknown
The unknown is an adventure so far from home
So far from the safety of what is known

Afraid of what we cannot see in front of our eyes
Afraid of the dark and under the bed
Afraid of being alone or a lifetime with someone else
Afraid of fear itself

What is real is pain itself
Antidepressants and painkillers are the most pills sold
Cocaine and heroin the most abused drugs
Everyone has their addictions to love

So what is your place in life
In the bigger picture the globe on a desk
What are the thoughts spinning in your head
Does it matter when we are dead?

it is or is not

A second for a moment just a minute to think
What is the answer or what question to speak
Where does it stem from and how does the apple taste
When does the wickedness lie and who could it be

Tangled is the web we weave with the pull of each little string
Ask me no questions and I tell you no lies
Step out of bed and your walking into a fight
Choose what is best to live or survive

A journey begins with the first step out the door
A great big world with so many locked doors
The feeling of fright found only when alone
It is a scary thing to be lost on your own

Never again means one more last one again
A circle has no end and yet a beginning
common sense is one person opinion
History is written only by the living

What do you do in a day?

A hundred thousand years from here
Where will we be and will anyone remember right now
Actions we take the decisions we make
What is right or wrong and what is a mistake

A four letter word is nothing but the word
Can it change water can we believe what we heard
A call to action or a call from a friend
A lifetime that one day we think comes to an end

A fleeting glimpse or a shimmer of hope
A moment that will change that old dusty road
The time before time or a moment is fine
a little goes a long way if we do not mind

Face to face would we face the facts
The more people there are the more likely we are to attack
The simplest song is only song when we are alone
The time has come and one day it will be gone

Round and round we go

The wheels go round and round the car goes up and down
Everone has a destination a time to be there
No flow only come and go work and go home
Pay a bill, buy a thing, pick up something to eat

The gas burns and disappears never to be seen again
At least the plastic can be recycled over and over my friend
Someday we will print our toys, our dishes, and even the kitchen sink
You can fork it over or fork it all, but in the end, its what you think

A penny for your thoughts
A quarter for the call
A dollar for an idea
Or a way to change it all

Next time you change your clock ahead
Remember its when most suicides happen
Why not change it a half an hour for good
Then say to the old folks this is the end

cold knight

I do not remember what I said
When you did what you did
Run from what we had done
No one reminds us unless it went wrong

Tears stream down your cheeks at night
I ask if everything is alright
That wall is bricked so tall and tight
There is not a crack to see any light

Should I ask for you to let down your hair
Or is there a password or secret prayer
Something to tell me you are still there
Your eyes are dark your secret I can bear

Lead on me and I will be there for you
Just tell me what it is you need me to do
For me to find my way back to you
I will be your sword, your shield, you bow

Poem I wrote for my wife a long time ago

And I was up so high until I came crashing down Swirled through the lust of the underground Caught in the undertow I became a man I do not know Climbed up my mountain to where I stayed Fell back down to earth when you prayed Demands of the bottle trapped in my head Demands quickly become man’s best friend The mind finds devices it does not mind To give its self its own piece of mind Forgiveness is a word that does not say Things said in anger on unfaithful days Falling from grace where glory stays Falling from your arms slipping away Brought back down from my mountain again to where I stayed Back to the simple man's peaceful ways Upon the dirt my house I build In the fields my hands I worked In the night my mind slips away Through the fires light when my eyes are glazed In the morning when I awake It is in your eyes that I now stay

in another lifetime

Mark my words with red ink
It does not change what they say
Find a line that has meaning
To no one else but what you've been thinking

Dreaming of the sky so blue and red
as the ocean waves like old friends did
finding their way to the beach shore
never missing what they were intended for

The sun is shining the gray clouds are gone
With them go the hard times and sorrows
No longer living waiting for tomorrow
The day is mine that is the moral

Black ink to paper on a desk before
The lamplight dims and it is time for bed once more
To dream of what life may come
And in the morning may I awake once more

I'm late, I'm late for a very important date

To put forth but not put in front
Give not for what it is but what you want
When you find the spot it moves a lot
So quickly it is that time is lost

Never knowing always showing
Never telling always allowing
leaving so quickly you are falling
staying still one is rotting

Finding not from what once came
but where it was when it began
Life is not a simple game
But it begins and ends all the same

No one knows what's been forgot
Pages are burned on the spot
Find it in your hart to look for what is locked
And when that door opens be careful for what it is not

One foot first

I stop for a moment and a shadow only follows 

Patiently staying pressing down heavily 

Foreign contributors so close to me

Decisions have past but now is the waiting game

What move is the right one and where is it landing

Love thy neighbor they say but I love my family 

God is watching but how much does he see 

Every small piece or the picture the puzzle makes

The clock spins so much slower than the fan blade 

Time never understands it only ends things

It is only from an ending that there is a beginning 

As a new seed grows so does its nurturing 

To take a step you must first learn to crawl

To take a breath you must exhale first

to fix something it must be broken first 

To take that journey you must leave your house 

Tao te ching

The tao is life where there is no life
death where there is life
Love where there is hate
and hate where there is too much love

People look up high for the tao because it is there
but it also pools at the bottom where no one wants to go
It is strength when you have fallen
It is the weak part of the rock that allows it to crack

It is you and I now and when we die
it is neither here nor there but everywhere
It is so complex it is in the move you make next
it is as simple as a step

To control it, it will overtake you
to flow with it, it flows to
it is the door to that other world you seek
the one right in front of you that you cannot see

how far down do you go?

Drip drop make it stop the pounding in my head and the water goes on
One more one less one little one will not be noticed
A piece of the pie a piece of the puzzle a piece of cake the pieces crumble
Give it all give it up give in give something

Something for nothing when nothing is nothing got to find something amongst all this nothing
Flavor is a taste but taste is a tease one little squeeze one more please
Share with me your secrets but keep your pain within
far behind your window pain no ones looking in

Skeletons in your closet skeletons under the bad skeletons behind flesh and skin skeletons when we are dead
Rivers of blood the river of Styx rivers are polluted rivers we are drinking in
Here to there there to here I have been here before what is it that you hear
Why are you here why were you there why is it that we ask ourselves why do we care

 The pin drops in precisely the way that you find it when you are not looking that day
One mans garbage is another man's treasure one person's pleasure is another one's disaster
If money is greed and greed only takes where does it go and how do we get it in the first place
If I were to fall would you still stand would you help me up or just walk away

I feel sick

I am sick of being sick
but the sickness is not sick of me
The soul rots the body
While gravity ways heavy on the mind

The brain becomes numb from the hum
Without a drink to ease my tong
I find myself questioning myself
To find what it is I believe

Like a curse leaving the body
Sometimes rest is all that is needed
But rest just leads to more questions
and answers only leads to more questioning

The forest seems so far from me
I am detached from where I want to be
Roaming through the desert
What does it mean to be free?

There once was a good man

The problem lies
And that's is why the solution is hard to find
Around the corners of the mind
Time and time again needs more time

Everyone knows only what they want to know
The deception is denial as the river flows
Through the words of every mouth
That creates so many roads

But with every path to choose
One too many right turns
And you are going in reverse
From what it was you wanted to learn

Left with nothing but breadcrumbs to follow
While everyone picks apart their own version of the story
Until what was once so straightforward
Becomes so bent and out of order

I will be there on that rainy day

Like a marker without a lid, I was dried up and not working
no more colours or pretty things, just a black and white canvas I was walking in
I felt like a rose on a grave that's always given to someone way too late
I'd  have one too many drinks they say but my place always seemed so far away

And like a marker without a lead, there was only one destination I was heading
Dirty places and that candy dish I always seemed to find my hand in
Every s your friend when there's money in your hand
But when its all gone you've hit that dead end

Then I met her one rainy night and the colours came pouring in my life
We'd hide under the covers during rainy days as the wind sang and the drops played
We turned that old house into a home and the pitter patter could soon be heard
Like a marker without a lid I am nothing without my kids

They love their momma and their poppa writes too much we argue and work it out
When they put their tinny hands in mine I would do anything to keep them alive
I'm no longer scared of lions, tigers, and bears
But if you go near my kids I will make sure you meet your maker


If someday someone was to ever says the kind of man I am
I hope they say I was a father to my sons
The kind of man my old man was
And if they ever look astray
I will be there on that rainy day

The winds of time blow their own way in the end

I'm just sitting here staring at the clouds in the air
Wondering where the time disappears
There was that moment with the person in mind
We spent on the beach until the sun peaked

Where did it all switch and what did I miss
Who says we never forget that kiss
What is it you wish when that coin flips
And falls to the bottom of the well with a dip

The trails we took
had been walked for years before my foot
The trials never stop going on and on
But who knows what it means when there done

Now I have been wrong more times then I have gone right
I watch the videos of my memories dancing in the firelight
All I can leave is this simple warning
Everyone ends with their name written in the sand

Tired these days

Drained like a battery in a toy that's been too much played
Strung along as though a puppet on a string
Dancing for the organ grinder in the streets
No one wants to trade for peanuts these days

Lemonds make lemonade but just as bitter without that sugars sweet taste
Honey straight from the hive comes with a sting
The rose has a thorn that will make you bleed
Hevan or hell waits for everyman between a woman's legs

The air is fresh on a cold crisp day
Patience is a virtue until it's your turn to wait
All answers can be found in the apples taste
What do you give when you cannot pay

Leave it alone and it will come back one day
Stare at the stars for a moment to escape
Lend a hand but never give it away
Smell a flower on the first spring day

Hello

Find what is lost that you do not even notice is gone

Look deep inside for that thing that hides from itself 

Give away everything but you still won't find anything

Search for a thousand years and when it is your grasp it will fade away

As small as a grain of sand as tall as a mountain 

Strong as a pillar and yet like a blade of grass

A branch will break and many will stay 

Rain is but a drop in someone's bad day 

The sun is great except on a hot desert day 

A fine cigar is free when its the match that costs money

Wishes are like dreams they only stay until the memory fades

More often than not black and white fades into gray

If you say stop, the world just keeps moving on anyways

Lines are drawn and its the eraser that gets paid

If you find the time you will find the day

In a lonely place, a hello goes a long way  

Scard?

The morning breaks and the sun takes
It's tole on the night's mistakes
One drink too many in the morning
Is one more is never enough the night before

Only because of the word responsible
Do this don't do that do what they say to be a better life
If one beer a day is good then better make it ten
Care not for my mistakes when you hide yours under your bed

The place you're scared to look when trapped in your head
The spirits whisper in your ear when you have drunken their liquor
The only person you become is the person you are deep inside
Those who are scared of themselves are scared to try

Scared to die and scared to live is a prison you are in
A wall of fear a stage of fright what gets you through the night
To give in to give up to be controlled by everything
Or to break free break thee brake one day from everything

The seed is planted

A taste so sweet it must be free
Nercruer of song and life and love
Flows like the bee the birds the sea
Sits up high far from you and me

Leaves that fall and rain and snow
Give way one day for what will grow
Time is time and time will be
Time will tell almost everything

Trees of might were once seeds so small
Trees in a group grow straight and tall
Trees along grow wide and windy
One is knotty the other is used for building

Shade of shades and colours of flags
Prayers of years and days gone by
Boots and shoes one walked in for miles
Are so quickly changed when they become worn

Your Dime or mine?

Care not for the not for me not for what is what to be
where it is at where it sat where it was when it was free
show the sign show the line show yourself in due time
give not not enough if enough is not enough
bring yourself in your most purest form if you dare to try

if an angle is closer or further then a straight line
find the time to walk a line
where we sat and where we are at
close and yet so so far from that

gifts and giving taking and leaving
one does not side the same
share a word share a thought
share a time one forgot

see nothing but everything
close your eyes and open them again
you are you and I am I
we will find time to set aside

Now is only now because of then

If it were to be would it see does it say anything
Would it stay in the fold or wrinkle its noes
To find the cause it's been sold
One foot in front of the other is the way it goes

Driftwood would never stay and never go
It only flows with the flow
The trees only dance when the wind blows
The sun shines when the clouds go

Stare into the air of what is not even there
as memories take hold you watch the show
Of places and people so long ago
Stuck in time while the mind travels there

The first kiss the first wish the first time we did this
The last dance the last song the last one before it was gone
Days before nights hard we've learned from
A moment that made you smile makes it all worthwhile

Stay or go, what action would you take?

A small rock sits in a little place
So still awaiting the day
It does what, it does not even know
So there it sits and stays

So many years has passed
So many more await
To be like a rock
Or be the water that escapes

Always in motion, always flowing 
Searching for the place
It does not even know where it will go
Or what it will do that day

Is one like the other or can we relate
Do we need to choose one or is it our fate
Could it be time stacking upon us
Could we break free one day

Who knows?

What was sacred now is missing
What was known now is lost
What was right now is wrong
What was sung now is gone

Stay to the path of the old
Let the new stay in the cold
While the light is slowly sold
Speak your mind and stay bold

You follow the path that you have chose
Those who are lost follow their toes
Those who are unsure travel in bows
Do not follow those who say they know

Mind the mind as thought goes
Dig past what you have been told
Stop for a moment to smell a rose
After all, no one knows

Smile

The pace of the place is set by the face
A smile can change someone's entire day
The frown sits down pointing at the ground
Keep your chin up and everything will turn around

Sounds so simple until you add people
The most complicated thing is one to another
Show a horse and it will be made into a camel
Tell a story comes back on you double

Find a place to make some money
Put down roots and start a family
Go to work and go home when it's finished
Do not mix them both together

Life you will find is never easy
Days are stacked and they weigh heavy
Night are lonely when they are empty
The children grow as we pray they stay healthy



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All or nothing

Give a moment for a second
but leave it behind and lose the chance
put it all in that second glance
do not stop in that stance

Hate it but own it
the game is set
no second chances
when the dice is set

Let yourself roll
with the punches
know it all
when you admit you know nothing

Round and round
in the fishbowl
snakes and ladders
sit on the fishhook

Waiting for the day

The stars twinkle in the sky
The light so old it will die
How many other planets are there
Staring so far in the air

The moon sits so high
Watching our little lives
As humans grow with time
To put a footprint in the sky

Billions and billions of eyes
Millions of species that try
To put the pieces in line
Maybe it only takes time

To travel between the stars
from one planet to another
How can we ever get to their
Pinching pennies here. 

Will we grow with strength?

It is what it is
There is no changing
The past stays the same
Looking forward to things

Care is to give or take
Lives learn from mistakes
You or I to can fall from grace
We are only human based

Put in our place
We excel to the tast
Out of place we have a sour face
Will we make it

The young mind

Light that shines from time to time
through the cup of the divine
While the looking glass sits way up high
mirrors on the ceiling don't let you see behind

Stare and stare oh way up there
all you will find is space and air
Rain falls with no care
as it goes anywhere

Clouds collect in the sky
Showing shaps only to the imaginary eye
Cracks in the concrete as we walk by
give way for nature to grow up high

|The seed is planted in the mind
for it to grow within time
Youth is wasted on the young time
They know it all until its gone

Can you read what you cannot see?

Tossed and turned awaiting to learn
The things that can never be written down
Where to find the piece of pie
Of a taste that can never be found

So simple it is to look about
Until your eyes are closed to see
Listen to the sound when no one is around
Understand the words they speak

Find what is lost under a rock
Without kicking it with your feet
Drink the water from a well that cannot be found
And always keep your thirst

Satisfy your hunger with what you sink your teeth into
But be careful when you open your mouth
A sense of smell to know when trouble is about
Then it is time to turn around

behind

Lost in a time lost for the find
Still searching for what is mine
Where do I fit is this square hole it
Does a circle no longer come to mind

Words are so bleak no longer with meaning
Yet people talk all the time
Feelings and distractions my piece of the action
To feel important is the goal to life

We are all individual snowflakes on a big ball rotating
In our own little spot in outer space
Find your place in it to melt with the rest of them
Then the spirit travels back into the ocean again

It is but a small speck of time along the big line
As people work harder to take from one another
In the end you can buy your way into heaven
After all when you die you will leave everything

What direction do you find yourself going these days?

That is my mind is blank

Not a single drop in this old fish tank

The bookworm looks for thoughts to read

While I ponder thoughts to think

The poet reader reads the lost arts

So that he can find thoughts that are torn apart

Of what were was once with but where are they now

Talk of simple lives and small little towns

The minstrel now plays his guitar loud

The bass, drums and singer are the new quartets sound

As though they screaming off the rooftops

Can you hear me now?

But I regress and digress and prefer to back down

Every push forward is a step to hold your ground

To step backwards you need to look around

A step sideways always takes you out of the way

To stick the knife

Fine l said so leave it be
Don't try and fix something
That is not broken to me
You see only what you want to see

Who want's to put in the time for nothing
Run in circles or race to things
Second is only the first place losing
So what words are encouraging

You only live to die
You only have once chance to make it right
You can't touch the sky
The ocean is filled with the tears from lies

It's not words that make things right
It's the silence in the calm of night
A pat on the back
Is just someone looking for a place

Rock or Sand?

The mouse and the fly try and touch the sky
One goes up the clock well the other runs on by
The tiniest crumb or scrap of cheese
Always searching for something to eat

Outside is so big and hard on the feet
Wheat fields fill the land where houses soon will be
Money rakes upwards while trees make way
For new farmland as we run out of space

How do we learn from our past mistakes
What do you find when you look another way
Where do we sit after all your days
When is it the time for the times to change

Who are you to question things
Why does it matter when things stay the same
One small stone can ripple into waves
As it spreads in all directions is it in a puddle or a lake

Dead of winter

Awake asleep it is time to think
The birds sing every morning
the wind blows across the snow
Only a few more month to go

Gray as the sky is the spirit that does not fly
Grounded by life from time to time
In the afternoon the sun sits high
while everyone under walks on by

In the evening the sun is setting
The cold can be felt by everyone wandering
By one another all heading home wondering
Will tomorrow bring better times

As dark as the cole that once light the fires
The blanket of night surrounds all light
We stay worm by one another
and sleep as the time expires

To be immortal

To be immortal and live forever
To walk on earth that extra mile
I see it every day in the eyes of my children
in each lesson they learn that I learned with them

A million years to get to this pinnacle point
a billion bodies hidden in the bloodline
Now it all rests in their little eyes
to live on forever through a thousand lives

With the good graces of the earth and skies
I will stay to raise them until it is time
When I am old and gray and can smell the dirt soon to arrive
The earth will take my body one more time

To sleep the sleep of my ancestors
Knowing I never fit into the mold of life
When the paper is burned and the coins are melted
There is only one thing in life that really mattered

The new year has begun

The new year has begun
What will change what will stay the same
Who will come and who will go 
Who will say they do not know

Time will tell and in a year we will be here again
Each one so long when it begins and so short when it ends
Bills are the only thing we really know
Go to work to pay them and go back home

Television is there to star at lives other than ours
Books on the shelves to remember minds we once explored
To understand something new it takes two years
Two years is too long as each one disappears

All inclusive vacations and cruise ships for those with a good year
Road trips with the family for parents who care
A hit a bump a simple trip for the mind to escape
When one can't afford the going rates.