Higher Power

By Dirk De Bock

As I had mentioned before in my sixth book, I had already started my number 7. Writing becomes quite a habit, which I like very much of course. This seventh book feels rather fresh; many new ideas came up in my head. The poems are generally on handling lots of stuff.

It’s not particularly soft like the fifth book, Never Give Up. On the other hand, it’s not as fierce and heavy as number 6, Stay Strong, was. It’s a unique collection of many repetitive poems—a style that I have improved a lot because I like writing like that even though it’s not always easy.

The strength to keep on writing hasn’t left me even though bad experiences have been part of my life in 2017 and 2018 due to mistakes of other people who have robbed me in their smiling innocence. Writing makes me forget that many servicepeople aren’t good or willing to help you. But I believe in God.

This seventh book, Higher Power, is also being published by Xlibris, as all the aforementioned.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Mar 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543494471

Dirk De Bock

I was born the 4th of January in 1958. I became interested in writing, not just writing, ‘cause writing a book is only one story. I wanted to create, make new stories, over and over again. So I started writing poetry, not just a few lines but in a way nobody else does. A whole page with a whole new story. In a simple manner, poetry for everybody, where one doesn’t need a dictionary to understand, feel and recognize what the poem is about. Everywhere I was, just started writing a few lines on a piece of paper or on a beermat. Sometimes these lines came easy, sometimes it took me many weeks to complete a poem.

Book preview

And Along The

And along the long way

what did you really say

so along the lousy way

many made some sway

        We are the followers of good intensions

        that might lead to certain improvements

        like in the past with people’s inventions

everyone with that positive in movements

make this world better and eliminate bad

makes you the best friend we’ve ever had

And along the happy time

it all seem to be in rhyme

so along the cheerful time

we were actually doing fine

You make the sun shine all the way

through dark night into enlighted day

with your sweetest smile that we see

we follow you wherever you may be

when you go to Japan or somewhere

this we promise you, we will be there

And along the southern trip

we were all feeling very hip

so along this wonderful trip

to finally score, that was it

        What more can you give to the world

        than promoting more good in our lives

        wipe out who joined where evil curled

so that men live happy with their wives

you seem to have the power of an angel

stay true to God, allow him a brain cell

And along the declined night

everything felt quite alright

so along this peaceful night

it felt good to hold on tight

Yesterday & Tomorrow

                             I admit this really would be

                   a final grand answer for me

         maybe where I’m able to find

back the time I’ve left behind

in a scream I’ve tried so hard

         realizing the break-up and part

                   of a true love that was so tight

                             so soft and tender as the light

Any life without love is drastic

dolls are better off, they’re plastic

feel so lonely in the morning dew

are unhappy lives only for a few

Days have come in the color grey

        darkened as nights with no delay

                   dear future where have you gone

                            yesterday has past still it goes on

                            an emptiness has filled my heart

                   left my emotions in a deep smart

        will I leave behind all the sorrow

shall I live to see a new tomorrow

Where there’s a will there’s a way

isn’t that what people always say

not about go painting the town red

being used to work yourself in sweat

                            It causes such pain it’s indescribable

                   problems coming up that’s undeniable

        solutions are nowhere to be found

like being hammered to the ground

as an old tree frozen without leaves

        foolish people and their disbelieves

                   yet now try to keep the focus on you

                            God will guide us and tell what to do

Happy To Tell

        It can’t be seen from the outside

        though it’s there, no way to hide

any longer and why should I care

I’m feeling good going at the fair

it’s like almost all day and all night

feeling so fine just feeling so good

        everything is groovy and all is right

        just like all of us knew that it would

I have some foodstuff in the afternoon

want to drink and then do some dance

the gray evening comes back to soon