Remember Me Smiling: A Poetic Journal About Life, Death, Love, Faith, Family and Friends………

By Debbie Weber

My poems are about issues people deal with on a daily basis; family, love, death, divorce, faith, hope, being a single parent and just life in general.

Poems have a way of taking our joy, love, faith, hope, fear, sadness and all our other emotions and preserving those moments forever. They help to lighten a heavy heart and warm a cold one.

I have enjoyed writing every poem in this book whether I wrote it with tears in my eyes, love in my heart or a big smile on my face. Each poem shares the emotions that were felt at that time. I believe that once you start reading them you'll be able to relate with many of them. Now go....get comfortable and enjoy reading!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 31, 2007
• ISBN: 9781467810579

Debbie Weber

My love of poetry began when I was a child growing up in Long Island, N.Y. and my mom would read me the poems she had written herself. I loved how she could take her thoughts and rhyming words and make me feel like I was right there experiencing what was happening in her poems. I started writing poems for family and friends when I was in high school and have continued to write poetry since then. My sons surprise gift of this publishing contract is the only reason I have finally assembled years of poems, into this book! Often I have sat back in amazement after feeling like some of my poems wrote themselves and I was only the hand that put the words down on paper. I hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing them!

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Contents

POETRY AND RAIN

LAUGHTER

BE HAPPY WITH YOURSELF

I CAN’T DIET

WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT!

HE’S SOMEONE ELSE ON FRIDAY’S

I HANDED YOU MY HEART

HAVE YOU EVER…..?

TWO HEARTS

IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR

ROOT CANAL

THE HONEYMOONS OVER

ROOM IN THE HEART

MOMENTS

LOVE

OPINIONS

MY CONSCIENCE

LONLINESS

I’M LONESOME WITHOUT YOU

COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS…

WHAT IS LOVE?

EULOGY FOR MY CAR

DIVORCE

DID MY DAISY LIE?

JUST THINKING

FEELING DOWN THIS CHRISTMAS??

CAN’T FOOL THE SCALE

WE WERE FRIENDS

REMEMBER THIS DAY

FEELINGS

HOW CAN THERE BE SUNSHINE?

GOD USES PEOPLE

TO ANSWER PRAYER

REMEMBER ME SMILING

SEIZE EVERY MOMENT

HE ANSWERED

COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

I LIVE ON

KEEP LOOKING UP

I WISH YOU RAINBOWS

LITTLE PRAYER - 4/1979

MORNING PRAYER - 1986

YOU ARE SPECIAL

GOD CHOSE YOU

CAN YOU FIND CHRIST IN ME?

AN UNEXPECTED ANSWER

MY PRAYER FOR YOU

MY GUARDIAN ANGELS

LOOK UP – WHEN YOU’RE DOWN

MR. RIGHT

KEEP ME CENTERED, LORD

MIRACLE OF LIFE

JEFFREY AT 1 MONTH

JEFFREY AND ME

JEFF TURNS 4

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY STORY

JEFF TURNS 5

HOW MUCH DO YOU LOVE ME, MOM?

JEFFREY AT 7

JEFF TURNS 8

SINGLE MOTHERS PRAYER

AFTER EFFECTS OF A MOTHER AND SON FIGHT

WHERE’S YOUR LAUGHTER HIDING?

JEFF AT SIXTEEN

JEFF AND BRENDA’S WEDDING DAY

TATUM NICHOLE

RYLEE MICHELLE

TO JEFF ON MOTHER’S DAY

POEMS FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

FOR MOM AND ARNOLD

WEDDING POEM FOR MOM & ARNOLD

LITTLE TRINITY

PRAYER FOR TRINITY

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

MOTHER’S DAY

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY - 1989

WHO IS AS SPECIAL AS ….. MY DAD!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOLLY

OL’ EARL

I CAN SEE YOU HURT BAD

IS IT HARD TO LOOK UP?

THE DISHES CAN WAIT

FOR PETE AND FAMILY.

WRITTEN FOR THE TULIP TREE FLOWER SHOP

AUTUMN’S SHOWER

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SID

TURNING 40!!!!!

ONE SOLDIERS WIFE WAITS

PRAYER FROM A SOLDIERS WIFE…

A SOLDIERS WIFE WONDERS…

A TINY SEED

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD

GOODBYE TUGS

FATHER’S DAY 1972

POETRY AND RAIN

THE RAIN FALLS SO GENTLY

FROM A GREY AND ANGRY SKY

AS I WATCH FROM MY WINDOW

WHERE I AM WARM AND DRY.

THE PLANTS SOAK UP THE MOISTURE

AND TURN A DEEP DARK GREEN

AND EVERY SO OFTEN A DROP OR TWO

FALLS AGAINST MY WINDOW SCREEN.

I SIT HERE IN THE KITCHEN

AND SMELL THE MUSTY AIR

I WONDER IF IT’S REALLY TRUE

THAT RAIN IS GOOD FOR YOUR HAIR.

I LOVE TO WALK THROUGH SHOWERS

AND SPLASH PUDDLES WITH MY FEET

THE REFRESHING RAIN, CLEARS THE AIR

AND COOLS OFF ALL THE HEAT.

AS I SIT HERE WRITING

WATCHING THROUGH MY WINDOW PANE

I THINK NOTHING GOES SO WELL TOGETHER

AS…….POETRY AND RAIN…….

LAUGHTER

EVERYONE THINKS IT SOUNDS SO REFRESHING

TO SOAK IN A BUBBLE BATH

BUT TO ME NOTHING SOUNDS AS GOOD

AS A GOOD, OLD FASHIONED … LAUGH!

THE KIND THAT MAKES YOUR EYES WATER

AND MAKES YOUR STOMACH SORE

THE KIND THAT … AS SOON AS YOU STOP

YOU WANT TO LAUGH SOME MORE.

THERE’S THAT LAUGH THAT’S QUITE CONTAGIOUS

AND STARTS OUT WITH A GRIN

NO ONE KNOWS WHAT YOU’RE LAUGHING ABOUT

BUT EVERYONE JOINS RIGHT IN.

THEN … THERE’S THE LAUGH THAT HAPPENS

WHEN EVERYONE CAN TELL, YOU’D RATHER CRY

BUT SOMEHOW IT SEEMS…YOU’RE LAUGHING INSTEAD

AND SO EMBARRASSED…YOU’D RATHER DIE!

STOP AND THINK … WHEN DID YOU LAUGH LAST?

WHEN YOU GET TO FEELING BLUE

AND IF YOU CAN’T REMEMBER … TELL YOURSELF A JOKE

…‘CAUSE A LAUGH’S LONG OVERDUE.

USE LAUGHTER AS A CHALLENGE

TO SOFTEN ANY HEART

EVEN THE GROUCHIEST PERSON CAN’T HOLD IT IN

ONCE HIS LIPS BEGIN TO PART.

I’VE NOTICED HOW EYES SPARKLE

AND HOW BAD MOODS SUDDENLY CHANGE

WHEN LAUGHTER IS PART OF A CONVERSATION

…EVEN STRANGERS…DON’T SEEM STRANGE!

SO …TO ME ANY LAUGH IS BEAUTIFUL

AND THE REASON FOR THIS POEM

IS JUST TO SAY THAT … "LAUGHTER, LIKE SUNSHINE…

CAN BRIGHTEN ANY HOME"!!

BE HAPPY WITH YOURSELF

WE ALL NEED SOME TIME TO BE ALONE

SOME TIME TO GET AWAY

FROM THE PRESSURES THAT ACCUMULATE

AND ADD UP DAY TO DAY.

WE ALL NEED SOME TIME FOR OURSELVES

TO PONDER OVER WHAT WE FEEL

TO SEPARATE WHAT’S FALSE ABOUT US

AND REALIZE…WHAT IS REAL.

SO MUCH GETS PUT AWAY INSIDE

INSTEAD OF BEING SAID

WE NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME EXPLORING

WHAT GOES ON INSIDE OUR HEAD.

I KNOW THAT MANY TIMES WE IGNORE

OUR NEED TO SIT BACK, RELAX AND UNWIND

AND WHEN WE NEGLECT TO UNTIE OUR THOUGHTS

OUR KNOTS BEGIN TO BIND.

TILL FINALLY….IT’S AT A POINT

WHERE, WE’RE FEELING QUITE DISTRESSED

AND REALIZE THINGS GOT OUT OF HAND

AND SEEMS LIKE ONE BIG MESS.

SO….TAKE TIME TO SORT OUT QUESTIONS

THAT WE OFTEN ASK OURSELVES

TAKE TIME TO RELAX AND DO NOTHING

IT’S BENEFICIAL TO YOUR HEALTH!!

YOU’RE ALL