Poeming Life

By Larry Troxel

Poeming Life is a rhyming word scape for every you and mood. It is a collection of short reads crafted to uplift and provoke memories of the things of life both of time past and present. So, peruse these pages of literary good and find poems that will momentarily entertain or inspire the spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
• Release date: Dec 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781489726698

Larry Troxel

Besides Take a Thought...Wholesome and Good, I have publish five other books: Poums, Salms & Felosophy; Poems, prn; As a Pierian Spring; The River Rhyme; and In the End We are All Stories. Writing poetry has been an ancillary to my career as a criminal and civil investigator with the sheriff's department, the district attorney's office and a second career career as a private Certified Legal Investigator covering a span of 50 years. I've been a contributing covering a span of 50 years. I've been a contributing author of many professional publications and was honored several times by the National Association of Legal Investigators (NALI)'s annual Editor-Publisher Award. With NALI and Intellenet's Annual Conference, I've also been a featured speaker, as well as with California and Oregon's professional associations of private investigators.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

ISBN: 978-1-4897-2668-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4897-2669-8 (e)

LifeRich Publishing rev. date: 12/11/2019

Dedicated to

The Lord, who

has blessed me

with talent and inspiration sufficient

to write and rhyme the things of life

Contents

Preface

Addiction

Cloak of Deception

He is The Lifeline

My Name is Crave

Affection

Her Life’s a Caring Art

The Start

Christmas

Christmas Marbles

Legend of the Poinsettia

The Star

Timmy’s Secret

We Have Been Walking

Compassion

Beloved in Life and Spirit

Caregiving

Heartstrings

Culture

Impressions of Monet

Faith & Hope

A Hymn unto Him

Be Still and Know That I am God

Care of My Soul

Choice is a Blessing

Chosen

Eternal Felicity

He Rested on the Seventh Day

Heaven’s Language

Holiness to The Lord

I Am the Scars

Keep on the Covenant Path

O Come to the Feast

Seed of Divine Light

Sounding Brass*

The Angels Know

When Are Prayers Answered?

When Your Heart Was Pricked

Family

A Dream? I Think Not

A Light Seldom Dims

Clara

Elizabeth Joy Withers

Evie and Allie’s Friends

Pictures

They Are a Blessing

Humor

A Farmer’s Wisdom

A Mere Bard

Blow and Slurp

Bo the Stuttering Bull

Changes Are Coming…

Dirty Money

Double Homicide

Gus the Gnu

I Stand in Lines

Lottie the Lusting Llama

The Class Reunion

You’ve Got Rights, You Know

When I’m Mature and Older

Imagine

My Wish Book

Pencils

Inspiration

Care of My Soul

Consequences and Effects

Da Vinci’s Last Supper: Inferred Meanings

Eternal Beauty

Finding Room for Life

For Each There Is a Purpose

Handwritten Letters

Heavenly Tones

His Friend

How Long Can a Wrong Last?

Leo’s Obituary

Let It Shine

Memoirs

Miracle of Forgiving

Moral Governance

O Remember, Remember

On Earth We Barely Blossom

Poeming Life

Stand Alone If You Must, But Stand

The Earth Was Dotted

Those Elect Youth

To Believe, To Know

To Have and To Hold

Two Young Boys

We Are the Flowers

Weave and Weft of Dreams

What Is Said

What We Wish To Be

Your Reply Ought

Life

Two Peas in a Pod

Your Brother’s Keeper

Uli’s World

Goodbye Uli 2019

Memories

Blink

Clear Back to Once Upon a Time

Home Remedies

Leonard Slye

My Old Friend

The Corn Field

The Woods

Musings

Madelyn, Couture of Heavenly Robes

Senior Citizens

The Flyswatter

There Went the Judge

What Are Rainbows?

Who? Me? Contentious?

Patriotism

Epilogue to Sands of Omaha

Rank and File of the Marbled Sea

Thank You for Your Service

The Rock from Pointe du Hoc

Veteran

Politics

Absence of Tolerance

Flip-Flopping

My Fellow Americans

Situationally Honest

Stories & Yarns

As the Oak Leaf

Clare’s Easter

Fades to History

Manzanar

Revival Killings

Sunday Is for Going to Meetin’

That Drinkin’ Side of Me

The Wild Flower Bouquet

Unwritten Stories

Preface

Poetry is personal, usually. What I write about is, I suppose, the same as what and why an artist paints or a musician composes. This book’s 118 poems are indexed into 16 categories of diverse subjects. Each is based on one or more of the five human senses that puts life into in life, and on the whisperings of God’s Spirit. Poeming Life is simply that.

Poeming Life

The enjoyment of writing poetry

adds to the joy of living

Poeming through life’s

Dismays and delights

Gives a prospective

In setting objectives.

I’m prone to reflect

Occasionally inspect

Things and friends

On memories spend.

For when I do

Peace ebbs through

In verses well-chosen

As inspiration flows-in.

Poeming is cathartic

Like paintings to artists

On maxims I meditate

Then write to animate.

And the purpose?

Mentation in surplus?

Nay, likely for progeny

As a humble legacy.

Done well? Hopefully

For I am pleased

If prose and lays

Are liked or praised.

Addiction

Cloak of Deception

During the time I served as a facilitator in an

addiction recovery program, I wrote many

poems about addiction, this being one

about a man attending his first group meeting

With apprehension he approached the door

As he’d done elsewhere a few weeks before

Jim had chosen a life troubled and binding

Now he strove to be free from the hiding.

He wore a cloak of denial and pretension

And deceived others ways he’ll not mention

His clutching addiction gripping and strong

Weary, he longed for redemption’s song.

He came in his long-worn cloak of deception

An ecclesiastical leader to take his confession

Outside the office there was a coat rack

Where upon he hung his cloak of black.

He told of his life’s story full and complete

No more lying, his confession was replete

He sought to repent, his agency to mend

And counseled to recovery meetings attend.

He now came to the meeting’s door and paused

Raising courage to join others in the same cause

He saw the same coat rack where cloaks hung

And put his by the others on an empty rung.

Jim stepped inside and was warmly greeted

He chose a space in the circle and there seated

This and to future meetings he would come

Learning recovery from addictions he shunned.

He was as sick as his secrets he came to know

Whenever he hid them his recovery was slow

In a safe place he unmasked his commissions

With a spiritual awakening he offered contrition.

Today Jim is frank and open with his description

Of sin he once was a captive to in his condition

Ever guarded that he not yield to temptations

And in meekness he hopes for a higher station.

He is The Lifeline

Matt. 14:29-31; written in consideration and

hope for the struggling addict

Afraid and beginning to sink

He cried out, Lord save me!

From his addiction he would shrink

To burst his cords and be free.

Singing Throw Out the Lifeline

Warns someone is drifting away

Throw Out the Lifeline

A poor soul is sinking today.

Come to the end of your rope?

Discouraged by fading faith?

Lost with no escape or hope?

Yielded to an evil wraith?

Cry out. The Lifeline is there

Onto his stretched hand hold

That ye not sink or despair

His saving grace redeems your soul.

Christ our Savior is ever near

He is our lifeline, his hand reaches

E’er to rescue, your cry he hears

When a heart in peril beseeches.

The water may represent mortality