Great Read0Ride!

For my fellow "reading" friends out there (you know who you are)
I am VERY impressed and pleasantly surprised by
Stephen King's novel entitled "Under the Dome"...
He is underrated, I feel, and this novel is a brilliant masterpiece
of english literature!

Fine Day

Kinda quiet around here today, but GORGEOUS outside...73 degrees F, not a cloud in the sky...I'm gonna go out and plant something!

Today

Today
Like Yesterday
Day after Day
after day
after day
get up
up outa my comfy warm bed
get going
do my "chores"
All day, This and That
That and This and
This and That
Again and Again the endless cycle
Anchored here in this space
although, it is love and loyalty that binds me
And I would never shirk
The duties of love that I perform
And helping others, thanks to my upbringing,
(and some is a gift from the Spirit) has always been my nature
And I say this not to brag, it's just a fact
I was raised under the "Do Unto Others" Rule
And I suppose it stuck!
Still arise those  moments when I feel imprisoned
God, the Guilt I carry is palpable and heavy
When these moods envelope me
I Feel What I Feel, it simply erupts
I cannot deny them
but I hate myself for feeling it
Sometimes I Hate Myself
I fear
I will become "unstable"
(is that the politically correct phrase for being off your nut?)
And then I remember...A Ha!
My spirit soars in secret spirals in my soul
when I steal away for a private moment
I take these nasty, selfish thoughts
and round them up into a ball of bitterness, tangled in self-pity
And toss them away
Into the pit they go, dissolved
And then, step back,
take another look at life,
no longer clouded by the bitter stench of resentment
After all, I do live in a prison willingly
I can clearly see the truth!
Many of us have no one,
Spending days and nights alone
(that's what you thought you wanted!)
nights stretched out in an empty bed
waking up, in the same state
Whereas now, when I awake, I can begin
Climbing that rainbow ladder
And appreciate my life full of light
And be oh so grateful for 
What my life really is about
And the chance to live it
Therefore heavy moods and somber thoughts
Move in and go out like emotional weather
The trick is, how you prepare for those emotional storms
And, most importantly, enjoy the Moment
Smell Those Roses, my Friend, Your Moment is Now!
       ~Christopher Hughes    3/17/2011

Mom

Orie, My Mother-in Law
She was in charge
She lived her entire life her way
She called the shots
for so long
and kept us all in line
She kept the family together with love,
outrageously delicious food
Bringing us all together, the Glue of Togetherness
That's what she was
Fantastic conversation, quick as a whip
in any situation,
She kept us rolling and feeling
At home, REALLY at home,
The pusher of the ball, (actually, she WAS the ball)
that kept us all rolling
It is now our turn,
to keep HER ball rolling
as best it can
ROLL, ball, roll!
It's not fair
Someone who brought such happiness to others
Is now so helpless,
So dependant on us, US, it's our turn to repay
the goodness bestowed upon us
without thinking
Dear God, Can't we even do that?
Help me God, I pray, To bestow upon her a mere fraction
Of the love bestowed upon me and my peers
And fill her life with love and family now
When she needs US
God Help us in our endeavours
to do at least as much.

Poem Number Two

POEM NUMBER TWO

(the Muse)

Whence cometh the Muse?

I suppose She comes when She wants

To toss my Brain and Heart around

She comes from a place

That knows how to stir the

Passions in my heart to boil

While constantly reminding me that

False and empty hope

Are my enemies

I know now I should

Tend to and

Cultivate and listen to

that graver, wiser voice

But She, the Muse,

Always gives the spark of hope that

Makes me knowing of the larger image

And I see and I sit,

Now quietly knowing the Truth

~Christopher Hughes 9/11/2010

Poem Number One

Number One

I look around for a moment,

Enjoying the Peace and Quiet

Soaking it in, for

I know it will be shattered all to soon

By the fast and furious goings-on

That have become my life

Activities and obligations that must be performed

Not out of duty or requirement

But rather out of Love

Which makes it all the sweeter to relax

If only for a moment, and reflect

Upon the fruits of my toils and trials

Regardless of the tolls upon my Physical Being,

The Higher part of me rejoices

In the chance I have now to love

I would do nothing else.I would have it no other way.

 

~Christopher Hughes 9/10/10

I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing
                        flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so
                        lightly round his or her neck for a moment,
                        what is this then?
I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.

There is something in staying close to men and women and
                        looking on them, and in the contact and the odor
                        of them, that pleases the soul well,
All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.

                                                                          ~Walt Whitman
                                                              Leaves of Grass, "I Sing The Body Electric", Chapter 4