Nothing To Hide: Summer Poems

By Lynn DeLong

Nothing To Hide: Summer Poems Volume 2 covers numerous subjects and feelings using a daily word provided by twitter hashtag #vss365.

These poems were written in the summer months of 2021. Inside these pages you will find positive poems the world needs now. Nothing To Hide: Summer holds hope for the future

• Language: English
• Publisher: 4HeartsEditing
• Release date: Sep 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798985861037

Lynn DeLong

Lynn DeLong's writing journey began in middle school. After winning a trip to see "Cats" on stage for writing a poem about cat's eyes, she didn't really pick up the pen again until she was serving time in the military. At that time, she began writing her stories. In 2010, she had a small collection of stories bound in hardback for her child. That was self-printed/published/bound under Lynn's maiden name with a total run of 1. It wasn't until 2020 that Lynn felt the urge to pick up the pen again. She began studying the publishing market, joining social media, and beta reading. Eventually the beta reading shifted into reviewing and editing books. To date she has edited 10 books. In May of 2022 she published her first book. A short poetry volume titled "Nothing To Hide: Spring Poems Volume 1". Lynn wrote a poem a day for an entire year. Each poem was inspired by #VSS365. She is now working on publishing the results of her yearlong journey into poetry. The Spring volume contains poems written from March 2021 through May 2021. The next volume, Summer, is in the works and expected to be published in August of 2022, with two more volumes on the way to complete the set.Lynn DeLong met her husband in 2008. They got married in 2018. They live in Ohio close to both their families. They have a cat, Pony; and a dog, Toby. Pony and Toby both have starring roles in Lynn's blog "PonyTale" which can be found on her website. Links below.Twitter : @Delong252LFaceBook : www.facebook.com/lynDeLongEmail : [e-mail]: https://lynndelong252.wixsite.com/website4Hearts Editing FBpage : fb.me/L.DeLong252

Book preview

Nothing to Hide: Volume 2 Summer Poems 2021

Summer time has come again

By: Lynn DeLong

ISBN: 979-8-9858610-

eBook ISBN: 979-8-9858610-

Copyright 2021, Gwendolyn DeLong

All rights reserved.

Intro

By the time I got finished with the publishing process for volume 1, Spring, I swore I wasn’t going to put myself, or my family, through that again. Whoops.

These poems were written in June, July, and August of 2021.

Traits

Traits

Strength, ability, confidence

Traits that empower¹ without pretense

Traits that help us to grow

Traits that keep us in the know

Seize the day, don’t be afraid

Show the world what you have made

Shout your success to the Earth

Show them all your inner worth

I know you have these traits inside

Let them out no need to hide

This world has room for everyone

To succeed and have fun

There’s no need to be depressed

When faced with another’s grand success

Your turn will come it just takes time

Center your soul, rest, refine

Having goals is a way

To stay on track every day

The fight, the struggle, fear of failure

Don’t let them change your behavior

I know you have the strength, you’ll see

Overcoming obstacles is the key

When you can’t believe in yourself

When you’re ready to clear the shelf

Please remember, setbacks are common

They happen to all and way too often

Things that come easy don’t matter as much

It’s the struggle, the fight, that brings the rush

Love

What can I say about love that hasn’t already been said by others; smarter, and more well-known than myself. Probably nothing. But, I’ll try anyway.

Arrows

Eros² I’m calling, Eros please come

We need you to make the world fun

Without love life is dismal

We need it to feel blissful

Love and hope, a promised future

Companionship, and lots of humor

I found all this and now it’s time

To shoot your arrows, make love chime

Find the pairs that need each other

Fill their lives with peace and color

Help out those that are alone

To find their happy, to be in the zone

This world needs you now more than ever

We need love that lasts forever

People are struggling, hurting, in pain

The love of another will take some of the pain

To have someone to rely on

Makes me want to awaken each dawn

It gives me a reason to continue

With all the love I have to give you

Baset

My cat is a little glutton

Acting like a little sultan

Full of hunger, she lets me know

She wants food, and I’m too slow

When we walk by her room she yowls

Begging for food she winds around

Rubbing my ankles in anticipation

Pony kitty has a food fixation

When she can see her blue bowl

She lets me know it’s time for more

Princess Baset is lurking around

Begging for food with every sound

She’s the smallest cat I know

Full of love she lets it show

Always jumping in our laps

Rubbing on us and taking naps

She loves to get our sole attention

Making the dog feel the tension

They’re both jealous of each other

Though they are working well together

Ridding my house of flying pests

Pony finds them and Toby’s the best

He eats cicadas like crunchy treats

Searching them out, he never retreats

Bound

No one can break the chain

Binding us together again

It’s stronger than ever now that you’re here

I can keep you safe there’s nothing to fear

A chain of love stretches and grows

Made of understanding it’s not meant to impose

It’s goal is to give you love and support

Not lock you away in an impenetrable fort

Chains of love shouldn’t hold you down

They should be helping get your crown

Supporting you to be your best

To show the world how you impress

Chains that bind and lock you away

Will be destroyed by my love daily

I’m always here if you need me

Full of love this is my plea

Just get out there; you do you

My love will help when you are blue

Know my love is unending

Know that tons of love I’m sending

Drowning

I feel condemned to watch you drown

To watch you flail and splash around

I reach out my hand, I can’t get through

You won’t hear my words, they can’t touch you

Your voices are screaming drowning me out

Filling you up with stress and doubt

No words from my mouth can make it better

While you sit there frustrated and fettered

The only time I can reach you

Is when you start to break through

When you fight the