The Poetic Diary of My Mind

By Canfield Rangel

I keep on trying,
To myself, I am not lying,
So that one day,
I will be flying, and not crying,
Because I would rather be flying, than crying,
And to myself, I am not denying,
The fact that I keep on applying,
So that the one day will come,
When I am flying,
And that is why I keep on trying.

Canfield Rangel is an enthusiastic observor of life, both in his profession and in his daily interactions.

In a debut collection of poems and other writings, he shares insight into his experiences during his workdays in airport operations and personal time as he witnesses a variety of behaviors, snafus, and challenges. His poems reflect on a variety of topics that include why one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure, the power of lies and the truth, the choices we make, a presidential inauguration, friendship, and much more.

The Poetic Diary of My Mind is a collection of poems and writings that depict one man’s personal observations and comments about his diverse everyday experiences.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781665717830

Canfield Rangel

Canfield Rangel first began writing ideas, poems, and stories as a hobby. He is currently retired from airport operations. The Poetic Diary of My Mind is his first published collection of writings.

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Archway Publishing rev. date: 2/28/2022

CONTENTS

Chapter 1       Don’t Hate, Create, Communicate!

Chapter 2       My Proclamation While working at the Airport Station

Chapter 3     vI Can See The Light

Chapter 4       NFL NBL

Chapter 5       Totem Pole

Chapter 6       Screen that cannot be Seen

Chapter 7       If you Choose

Chapter 8       The Lights are not Helping

Chapter 9       Bagroom Belt Bumpers

Chapter 10     Chock Bin Upgrade

Chapter 11     Sage

Chapter 12     Skills put to the Test

Chapter 13     One Man’s Garbage

Chapter 14     The Main Brain

Chapter 15     Stress Ball Poem

Chapter 16     Stress Ball Poem II

Chapter 17     Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way

Chapter 18     If I Knew

Chapter 19     Just Because …

Chapter 20     The Question Is …

Chapter 21     If you See Something …

Chapter 22     The Can will no Longer …

Chapter 23     The Beast Board

Chapter 24     A Chain is Only …

Chapter 25     How are You to Know …

Chapter 26     If you want to know

Chapter 27     It is what it is

Chapter 28     The belly of ‘THE BEAST’

Chapter 29     Because it isn’t always there

Chapter 30     Refuse to use

Chapter 31     Today is the day

Chapter 32     Just because they don’t care

Chapter 33     What secrets conceal

Chapter 34     Explanation

Chapter 35     The B.E.A.R.

Chapter 36     The Choice

Chapter 37     Because it is you

Chapter 38     For you, this, I will do

Chapter 39     Give me a reason

Chapter 40     Nothing is done

Chapter 41     Does it matter?

Chapter 42     They don’t know my name

Chapter 43     The mind is truly

Chapter 44     Living together etiquette

Chapter 45     She Inspired Me

Chapter 46     Make the call

Chapter 47     To do or undo

Chapter 48     Making it better

Chapter 49     Cope Covid-19

Chapter 50     Think

Chapter 51     Hit Em Wit Da Bip

Chapter 52     Expect the unexpected

Chapter 53     Her little acorn

Chapter 54     Exceeding your limitations

Chapter 55     Hurricane

Chapter 56     Psoriasis

Chapter 57     Walk in the park

Chapter 58     Online

Chapter 59     Around the block

Chapter 60     Because I wanted to

Chapter 61     I think I can

Chapter 62     Financial fee

Chapter 63     Rash

Chapter 64     Covid-19 Etiquette My three demands

Chapter 65     How we met-Her story

Chapter 66     How we met - his story

Chapter 67     A little luck

Chapter 68     Displace

Chapter 69     My Aim

Chapter 70     If you continue

Chapter 71     Win from within

Chapter 72     A better way

Chapter 73     The Non Believers

Chapter 74     That’s my thing

Chapter 75     Would -A, Could-A, Should-A

Chapter 76     I should have listened to you

Chapter 77     I tried

Chapter 78     My Bionic Wife

Chapter 79     You will pay

Chapter 80     Personal space

Chapter 81     Do your part

Chapter 82     Just because I can

Chapter 83     Done that way

Chapter 84     Heed the bead

Chapter 85     The White House Insurrection

Chapter 86     Bent out of shape

Chapter 87     It comes to me

Chapter 88     Off my chest

Chapter 89     Vaccination frustration

Chapter 90     You created a monster

Chapter 91     Queen bee

Chapter 92     No deal

Chapter 93     It must be fixed

Chapter 94     Celebration

Chapter 95     It’s called off hand band

Chapter 96     Solar powered Mikey

Chapter 97     You will not win

Chapter 98     Valerie

Chapter 99     Set the date

Chapter 100   I will not stop

Chapter 101   Strong Like Bull

Chapter 102   Three Times Infinity

Chapter 103   M.Y.O.B.

Chapter 104   Me

Chapter 105   Question Why

Chapter 106   Never Say Never

Chapter 107   I Sew

Chapter 108   Pain

Chapter 109   I keep on trying

Chapter 110   Story behind Solar Powered Mikey

Chapter 111   Story Book Titled, The Simple Mind of The Bus

Chapter 112   Crochet At Night

Chapter 113   That is what I do

Chapter 114   Mask Adapters

Chapter 115   Bahama Mama

Chapter 116   The Aruba Zone

Chapter 117   Bahama Mama Video

Chapter 118   The Block Clock

Chapter 119   Go Away -Covid -19

Chapter 120   The Shot

Chapter 121   The Board’s Dictation

Chapter 122   The jingle

Chapter 123   The no trip, grip, strip

Chapter 124   Retiree engineering order

Chapter 125   Stop the hate

Chapter 126   Retired, not expired

Chapter 127   Crazy idea

Chapter 128   Red, white and blue angel pin

Chapter 129   I write

Chapter 130   Solution, not an illusion

Chapter 131   Think positive

Chapter 132   The shot, part 2

Chapter 133   The peacekeeper

Chapter 134   Six feet under