Poems By Other Poets'

    This is where I will be posting the poems of Poets' who have sent me their works. Not all poems received will be posted, as space is limited for this page, the poems you find here are the ones that I feel say the things we all need to hear. The kind of things that make us laugh, and the things that make us cry. The things that help us through the hard times in life, and the things that make us think about the real meaning of life. William's World is not just about William, it is about sharing with others, and having them share with all of us.
It is about change, and sometimes what others have to say can change the way we see things forever.

All poems posted here are the copyright of their signed Authors



- An Era -
 

  I came from the era when love was generated in the heart and mind without

the help of seminars or words learned from books.

I came from the era when people knew who they were and where they were

going without being told by a degree.

  I came from the era when mothers, fathers, teachers & friends instilled
in your mind and heart, values, love, responsibility and respect.   These
things were given me as a child, not as an adult in the circle of   a hotel
conference room.

  I came from the era when once you were grown, you did not need lectures,
word games, exercises and other gimmicks to demonstrate your love for your
fellow man.

     I came from the era when a man was charged with the responsibility of
providing for the food, clothing, shelter and love of his wife and  children.

    I came from an era long since vanished.  Where material things were
secondary, where bonding was made through love, where you gave  thanks for
what you had and did not need to find yourself to know who you really were.

  I came from an era where hearts were true, the mind was clear and not
clouded by the persuasions of others who knew you only by the name  on a
roster.

  I came from an era when we were high on life, knot on a weed inhaled
into the bloodstream.  We danced on clouds of love not on clouds of smoke.

  I cam from an era where I lived, laughed, loved and was happy just to be
me, not to be one made over to fit an image desired by others.

  This era has ended with injustice, with artificial and man made desires,
with cold love derived from a class room, with empty words absorbed by a
naive brain looking for something better that we shall never find.

  We now spend our money, donate our time, to listen to the words of the
proclaimed wise, but these things are all in vain, as we still remain   fools.

    Therefore, look to your heart, feel your emotions, pour out your love
on others, share your good and bad, If you do these things, no matter where
you go or what you do, you will be loved and no man can ask for more.

                                                  By:  Webb C. Harris, Sr.


       - My Mother -
 

        Can you remember times long ago,
            40 or 50 years or so?
            Remember what your mother was like,
            Scrubbing clothes in the morning light?

            Carrying water from a pump in the yard,
            Frying food in pure lard.
            Living without electricity,
            Because it was considered a luxury.

            Never having a telephone,
            Or having a bathroom in her home.
            Using furniture that was second hand,
            Hoeing a garden in dry parched land.

            Living in a house where the wind blew thru,
            Never having money for anything new,
            Cooking meals on a stove burning coal,
            Making a young woman look very old.

            Giving her children all of her love,
            Keeping faith in God above,
            Doing the things  that mothers do,
            Never asking anything from you.

            That was times long ago,
            40 or 50 years or so.
 

             By:  Webb C. Harris, Sr.
                    (For My Mother "Lucille C. Harris)



 
 

When Our Hands Touched.

 The Day we met, right then I knew,
 I wanted to spend my whole life with you
 Then our hands touched and we looked into each others eyes
we just couldn't bring ourselves to tell each other goodbye

Our hands touched and we just couldn't let go
 So when you ask me to marry you, how could I say no
 We were so happy our lives was full of Love and Laughter
 But then just one short year After,

Our hands touched as we looked into each others tear filled eyes
 The Doctor told us, it wouldn't be long, and you were going to Die
I cried so hard as our hands touched, I was so very sad
 To know I would be losing my best Friend and Love that I have ever had

Our hands touched as you lay dying and I looked into your eyes
 But you couldn't look back in mine
 My tears fell like rain that day, for as our hands touched
 I had to say Good Bye for the first and last time

       I miss you so very much Hollis
From Your Wife, Carolyn

By Carolyn (Oswald) Savage



For My First Granddaughter Starlae

She said, Grandma, where is heaven? is it very far away?
I heard Mommy and Daddy saying you are going there someday!
Can I walk there to see you when you get all moved in,
and when I come to see you, may I please bring a friend.

Will you still bake me some cookies and brush my hair?
Will you read me my stories as we sit in your rocking chair.
Oh Grandma, How far away is heaven, if its far, please don't go
Because I want to be with you everyday, and I'd miss you so

Grandma said, When I go to heaven,Ii'll be watching you from afar,
You go out at night, look up at the sky, I'll be sitting on a star!
Always remember, even though you and I may have to part
Grandma will always and forever, be with you in your heart.

For Starlae
By Grandma Carolyn(Oswald) Savage



- The Impossible -

Here’s a little story
Wrote for you & me,
About things impossible
Of things we do not see

Of things we dream in daydreams
Of places we’ve never been
Of all the things we want to do
When our ship comes in

Just like a bolt of lighting
That flashes thru the soul
Or like a roaring thunder
That makes the heart grow cold

The things you think can’t be done
Are in your very grasp
If you’ll recall your teachings
And all your questions ask

If you’ll believe upon yourself
And emotions overcome
All the things you’d like to do
Will finally all be done

You can do all those things
And many many more
Your like a space ship launched from earth
That thru the solar soars

There’s nothing that’s impossible
If you will just believe
keep a faith within your soul
With a open mind receive

Take a look around you
At what others may have done
And you will find it’s not so hard
To have a victory won

No matter what your dreams may be
If you do your very best
You will attain all your goals
And settle for nothing less

All the things you want to do
Can become reality
If you never forget who you are
And use your ability
 

By:  Webb C. Harris, Sr.



Inquisitive Child

Such curiosity from a child
Inquiring mind,unbound
To thirst to know the meaning of...
To take note of each sound

Inquisitor,examinor
Spectator for the truth
A hunger for the prying eye
Their thoughts,know not aloof!

You'd better tender all they thirst
However proud the daunt
Interceptor,listener
They shall return to haunt

By Christopher P Sly

This Poem Was Sent To me By My Friend Christopher P Sly Of Sherwood Forest, England.
You Will Find The Link To His Web Site In My Links To Other Places. Please Take The Time To Go Have A Look At His Many Works There, You Will Be Glad You Did!



I Have Been Loved

I have been loved and I have loved. I have found love and lost love.
I have been fooled by love.
I have loved others who did not even love there self.
I have been in love and I have been out of love.
The thing that hurts the most in being out of love is losing the one person that was your world your heart and your soul.
It is better to love and lose than to never have loved at all.
I am great full that I have had a chance to love.
Without love there is only hate and with hate there is nothing but pain and agony.
But where there is love there is also hate and where there is hate there is also love.
The need to be loved by someone is something that is very hurt full.
Laying in a  bed where there use to be two and now there is only one.
I reach my hand out to only find a empty pillow by my side.
There is no one there to share my dreams with when I wake in the morning.
There is no one there to talk to when I have a nightmare and wake up screaming.
There is no one there to wrap their hands around me and hold me tight and tell me it was only a nightmare and it will be all right.
How the days go slow when there is no one there to help fill your time with love.
I use to sit and wait and think of the person I was in love with and how the day use to go by slow until the person was with me once again.
Now that there is no one there the days even go by slower then before.
I wish I could find the words that would help express the way I feel about you.
The only thing I can come up with is I love you.
But the are so small little words compared to how I really feel inside for you.
I wish there were some other way to let you know how much I care.
The words I love you just seem to get used up so much that people forget that the little 3 words I love you is really something big great and most power full words that there are in this world.
The words I love you people use to get what they want .
they go around breaking hearts and crushing dreams.
What do they know about love? If I could I would pick all the roses in the world and put a ribbon of gold around them and lay them at your feet.
If I could I would take all the stars out of the sky and give them to you.
But if I could do that then no one else would be able to see the roses and the would not have any stars to light the dark midnight sky.
The only thing I have to offer is my love and my heart.
I love you so much that I give my heart to you now that you have 2 and I have none please be tender with my heart don't let it break for if it does.
I would not be able to find the tears to cry because you have all of my heart.
So there for I have no more feelings to express.
But if I don't have any feelings to express then how am I to tell you and show you how much I love you?
So I take back my heart and I will give you a piece of my heart the piece that holds all the love I have for yours please be kind and be care full and don't lose my love.
Because I don't know what I would do without you.
Because without you there is just no me. So with these words that I write to you.
I promise to always love you if you do the same.
I will always be there for you if you do the same
I will be kind caring sweet and honest with this promise I give myself to you with everything I am and everything I have I just have got to tell you my sweet love.
I LOVE YOU AND ONLY YOU FROM NOW UNTIL THE END OF TIME AND EVEN AFTER THAT I WILL LOVE YOU FROM THE HEAVENS AND BEYOND.

 By Shelly Kepner



 Mommie

When I was little my mommie always took care of me.
When I fell my mommie picked me up with a gentle touch.
She kissed my boo boo and I felt better.
When I got scared at night, she would come in my room, and stay with me all through the night.
Now that Iam grown, and moved away .
I miss my mommie in a very special way.
I will always remember the days she picked me up with a gentle touch.
Mommie would be so proud of me.
For now I am a mommie, and without her guidance what would I do.
When my daughter or son feels like I did when I was young.
I shall do what my mommie did for me.
When they get scared I will always be there for them also.
And when my child gets grown, and moves away I will know how my mommie felt.
I will feel the sadness and pain of not having my child with me.
But I shall also be proud of whom they have become, for I know my mommie is so proud of me.
A day shall not pass without me thinking of them as my mommie does me.
I shall see them as my little ones for that is what they shall alway's be.
But I shall also see them  as the person they are, and love them always
As my mommie does me.
 

 Dedicated to my Mother

Author Rachelle Kepner



 One Night

One night you didn't say goodbye.You didn't walk out that door.
And you didn't get in that car.On that night someone took your love away from me.
Please say it did not happen, for my heart could not take the pain of loosing your love.
Please please tell me I was only dreaming my love.
For without your love I will never have life or love again ,for you are my life and my love .
Please come back my darling so that I may breathe again.
God please return him to me .Please don't leave me in this world without his love.
I need to see his smile again and feel his warm caresses,for I shall surly die without him.
God if you cannot return him then please take me also,do not leave me alone without his love in this world.

        Author's  Rachelle & NadineKepner



I wish to thank all who share their poems with all of us on this page.
William's World is very proud to have your work here.

W. L. Kite

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