Poetry from a Lawyer: Collection Ii of Observations, Opinions, and Quips

By Jim Bill Keenan

With his second collection of observations, opinions and quips, James W. Jim Bill Keenan, the general practitioner of law from small Fayetteville, West Virginia (one of his home states coolest small towns), continues to pursue his passion and his ardently sought self-fulfillment.

As with his first collection, Poetry by a Lawyer, he invites the readers appreciation or criticism hereof and wishes that this humble composition will prove to, in some small way or otherwise, aid readers to live it well.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984543356

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‘OUR CULTURE’

By: Jim Bill Keenan

Our Culture,

We must endeavor to protect,

For our posterity it to nurture;

Fail of it and our children have

An endangered future,

Then for them,

Too little, too late,

For us to amend and

Become wiser, shrewder;

The task is

For us daily,

Abiding never to abdicate

To others later to come;

Let us then devote our effort

To preserving our children’s future,

To leaving this world the better

For our having been here,

Let’s do it now,

Not delay,

With urgency for, at any moment,

We will see the end,

See our departure.

Date: 2-11-17

Time: 3:15 AM

Place: Fayetteville, WV

‘A FRIEND IS’

By: Jim Bill Keenan

A friend is someone who

need not your apology

when all is not well.

A friend is someone who

can know your deepest thoughts and feelings

without your fearing

that the friend would ever tell.

A friend need to be summoned

to give a little help when needed,

for a friend will always know

if things just aren’t swell.

Such a friend should always be

cherished,

treasured,

held in such esteem

that double will never come

be the days and times of Heaven or Hell.

But to have such a friend in life means

being such a friend in life.

Haven’t we been there together,

Haven’t we seen it all come and go,

and thru it all

we had a Friend,

that Special Someone,

That One who gave and received

Our best as it was

and should have been.

And in the end,

it will be

because of each and the other

that it will be said

indeed

They helped each and the other.

To Live It Well

Date: 6-21-17

Time: 12:40 AM

Place: Fayetteville, WV

‘CHOICE’

By: Jim Bill Keenan

I am starting with the man in the mirror;

He said to me, to us all,

Any man can come to me,

He said let us reason together

And thereafter it shall be as it shall be.

As we go to his