Journeys

By Peter Sterns

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jun 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664105140

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Rev. date: 05/06/2021

Contents

Alzheimer’s!

Autumn

Daybreak

Dues

End of a dream!

Hatred or love?

Midnight on the homestead

Mountain range

We are a rock!

Little dreams!

About a man on death row

On golden wings!

A carol

A child again

A gift!

A lucky country

A mystery of life

A new beginning

A new dream!

A new love

A prayer!

A soldier’s grave

A warrior’s soul

Abandoned farm

My father-in-law, the sailor.

Father Abraham

Accuracy!

News flash. Trainers and sportsmen caught with illegal drugs. Performance enhancing – what a sport.

Accusations

Addiction!

Old age!

Aging

Almost done

Alone

Alzheimer’s

Ancient history

Inspired from a song by Isla Grant.

ANZAC Ghosts

Apathy

Ashes of love

At the forest pool!

After seeing a documentary on Auschwitz.

Auschwitz

Australia Day!

Autumn of life

Autumn.

Awards

The baby.

Be happy!

Big bang theory

Birds

Blessings

Borrowed words

Bygone days

Written today, but thought of long, long ago.

Carers

Changing seasons

Charlie’s shoes

Cheers!

Childhood blues!

Childhood dreams

Choose

Christmas 2018

Christmas wish

Circle of life

Closer every day

Clouds

Colours

Coming home

The conflicts of the mind

Confused

Confused

Coping with life

Coping

Counting blessings!

A man burns his estranged family to death

Crime of passion or obsession

Daily challenges

Dancehall hero

Dancing moves

Darkness ahead

Dashing ones hopes

Dawn

Day dreams

Daylight saving

Death row

Destiny!

Destiny

Difference of opinion!

Different times

Disappointments in life

About John Laws

Dr. Democracy

Inspired by a TV show where

A person donated their heart before dying.

The donor

Dreams

Dreaming

Dreams

Dreams of tomorrow

Dreams

Drifting along

Drinking and driving

Dr Pepper

Drugs

End of days

End of the line

Endless

Equality of life

Evolution

Fairy land

Fairy tales

The fare

The farmer

Father time

Feeling blue!

Feeling good!

Fighting the blues

Finding love

Finding the way back

California is on fire, how sad the world

Fire in the canyon!

Follow the call

Food

Footsteps of the past

Footsteps of the past

For all lovers

For the defence

Forever lonesome

Forever love

Freeloader

Friday 13th

Friendship and love!

DA, our friend in the USA

Friendship

The future

Future and past

Future trends

Get even

Getting old

Getting old!

Glory day!

Go on

Going for PM

Going home!

Greatest story

Hanging on

Hans Heysen

Happy anniversary

Having it all

Heart of stone

Heaven

Highway of life

Hindsight

His own!

Homeland

Hope

How come?

In hope

In spirit

In the future

Is it love?

Jessica

Johnny Cash

Just add time

Kaw-Liga

I keep on singing

Keeping memories

Keeping the faith!

Knowing

Lazybones

Learning to love

Dedicated to my mother-in-law.

Rest in peace, mum.

Legacy

Lemon tree oh so pretty

Lest we forget

No Australian parliamentary representatives at the WWI site in France.

Let me….

Life

Life as such

Life in verses

Life!

Life’s highway

Limbo

Limited choices

A little prayer

Living it to the limit!

Lonesome dove!

Looking back

Looking ahead!

Looking back

Looking forward

The Loser

Love lives

Love’s token!

Luck

Make haste

Me!

Meaning of life

Measure of a man!

Memories and time

Memories of old

Midnight on the homestead

What next?

Union consultation fees?

Milk

Missing you

Mistaken identity

Modern days!

Modern times

Mountain range

My dog and I

My mate!

Mysteries

A child looking at the war memorial’s name plaques.

Names

News flash on TV:

Necessities of life

Never-ending love

New direction

New hope

New hope

New seasons

New wisdom

New Years wish!

News item!

No help wanted

No more

Noble knights!

Numbers

NZ massacre

Oh Donald

Old and new

Old memories

Old tracks

Once a dictator

Once!

One last time

One man audience

Opposites

Our blessings

Our destiny

Our future is what?

Outback!

Pages of life

Passing through

Peace of mind

Peace

Pearls

Perhaps

Pictures

Pieces of love

Pieces of my heart!

Pioneers

Pot of gold

Precious moments

Sing along to the tune of Obladee obladaa, life goes on

Product names

Reality

Reasons

Reflections of life!

Regrets

Remembrance

Restrictions

Rewards

Rhythm of life

Rich man, poor man

Riches

River of time

Road of life

Rodeo New Years wish

Suicide because of depression

Russian roulette

Sad truth

Sadly

Sailing through life

Salvation!

Scheming and dreaming!

Senior moments

Serenity!

The servant

Singing the blues

Sinners

Inspiration – Katie Melua – Blowing in the wind

Skin deep!

Smoking grass

So sad!

Some day

Song of life!

Political candidate is unable to give details of his policies or, if he has any. Confused? Who are you? What am I doing here? Anybody.

Son of Joh?

Stand tall!

Storms

Story time

Street violence

Stupidity at large

A true story

Style

Such is life

Suicide bombers

Sundown

Sundown!

Surprise

Take a chance!

Taking aim

Talk

Tall stories

Teddy

Terms

The Air disaster

The albatross

The Aussie look!

The Aussie spirit

The Bible

The big match

The big sleep!

The blame game

The blessing

The blessing!

The chase

The circle of life

The circle

The classics

The conclusion

The convert!

The day

The difference

The dragon’s dream!

The dream!

The echo of love

The end of the line!

The final dream!

The final score

The final step!

The forest pool!

The future

The Ghan!

The gift!

The good times

The hobo song

The journey

The juice of the grape

The last man

The lily pond!

The mystery

The old apple tree!

The one

The paradox

The puzzle

The question why

The question

The road of life

The rose bush!

The search

The search

The shadow on the wall

The virus

The way it is

The window!

The winner

The word

I make a nuisance of myself.

The pain

Three words

Ties!

Today’s prayer

Today’s youth

Travel plans

Travelling

Undercover

Visa cards

Was it you

Waste not!

The weather forecast

The wedding day

Weeds

What future!

What if

What if

What is it

What is love

What is real?

What is real?

What is the answer

What is the difference

What lies ahead?

What matters!

What next?

Ariel Sharon is critically ill.

What now?

What to do?

When love dies!

When love has died

When love is gone

When time is up

Where are you now

Where did tomorrow go

Which way up

Which way

Whiskey dreams

Who am I?

Who cares?

Who I am

Who is king?

Why

Why, why, why

Will you think of me?

Willy

Wings

The answer to roadrage.

Wishful thinking

Wishful

Wondering

Wording

Working man!

World crisis

Worries

Worrying!

Worth

What are wrinkles?

Wrong direction

Years and years

Yesterday

You’re not alone

You’re the winner

Yule time

Alzheimer’s!

When into the mirror I look

Just who is it that I see?

Someone from a story book

Or is that someone really me?

I think at times I know this face

But mostly I wish that I knew

So I will just watch this space

For someone that I call – YOU!

Autumn

Summer’s gone and autumn’s come

And all the leaves will fall

It’s like a half forgotten song

Whose words you can’t recall

Winter winds are drawing near

But soon your heart will sing

For all the colors you hold dear

Will reappear again in spring!

Daybreak

Fog seems to cover the land like a shroud,

till the first ray of sunshine bursts through the cloud.

The forests that were so quiet and dark,

echo with the sounds of a song by a lark.

Flowers and berries, that quietly grew,

sparkle in the sun, heavy with dew.

Some people go to work, while others will pray,

this is the start of another lovely day.

Dues

The rush of silence to my brain

stops me from quietly going insane.

Songs of country music, especially Johnny Cash

stop me from doing something that’s rash.

You can lie down and as at the sky you stare,

if He doesn’t answer, doesn’t mean He don’t care.

It’s true, that no matter how you strive,

you never manage to get off this world alive.

And as you lie there and think about your past,

the Good Lord has made His blessings last.

So think about it as you ponder the blues,

what did you do, to pay your dues?

End of a dream!

My heart it sings, sometimes it cries

My love has wings and than it flies

Than all my tears fall into the sea

And now I pray she’ll return to me

But as time goes by, year by year

Gone is the love that I felt for her

I’ve lived on dreams that I can’t forget

Once tears of joy are tears of regret

Now daylight comes with a golden gleam

Gone is my life, gone is my dream!

Hatred or love?

All this human suffering touches this heart of mine

As I would hope that it touches thine

No matter how we plead and pray to the Lord above

I believe that hatred has replaced the word of love!

Midnight on the homestead

Moonlight shines across the land

Distant hills can still be seen

Silvery sheds silently stand

Where once a town has been

Nothing there but barren ground

The town folks long since gone

No laughter here, not a sound

I wonder what went wrong.

Mountain range

Dark clouds in the sky above

I hear the rolling thunder

My grandson’s eyes so full of love

I look at him and wonder

Will life to him be hard or kind

Will he have someone to love

We can plan, but we will find

It’s in the hands of God above!

We are a rock!

The news we watch each day it is rather dire

Houses and lives are lost in a raging fire

A retired newsman and his wife, the only names I know

Both have lost their lives in the fire’s mighty glow

Seven thousand people have lost all they ever knew

And it is said some fires were started by but a few

But we must go on and we must dry our eyes

We are a rock, we are an island, and an island never cries!

Little dreams!

Now there’s a moon in the sky

Wish friends and your neighbours goodbye!

The moon and the distant old stars

They quietly shine from afar

The sandman he carries your dreams

Down on a silvery beam

Sleep now my darling, good night

Sleep in the star spangled light

Let dreams carry all your little cares away

Tomorrow is another lovely, lovely day

The moon and the distant old stars

They quietly shine from afar

The sandman carries your dreams

Way down on a silvery beam

So sleep now my darling, good night

Just sleep in the star spangled light

Let dreams carry you away

Tomorrow will be another day

Let dreams carry all your little cares away

Tomorrow is another lovely, lovely day.

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About a man on death row

On golden wings!

For thirty years I sat and slowly waited

For the hanging man and for his rope

But now my soul it feels just so elated

As the Lord has given me so much hope

Even if the hangman comes tomorrow

In the morning sun around five

I’ll end my life today without much sorrow

For God has promised me a brand new life

And as a child of six or maybe seven

I wanted to live my life just like a brave

But now at one and nearly sixty seven

I give thanks to God for what He gave

And I will give thanks today oh my Lord

For my heart today it truly sings

And in the sky I can see the eagle flying

As he soars along on golden wings

And I regret now the life I’ve taken

I’d like to atone for all my sins

For my soul now it has awakened

Once it flew around just like the wind.

And I give thanks today oh my Lord

For my heart today it truly sings

And in the sky