Lots of Laughs and Lots of Tears

By Chuck Myers

My book is just to tell about people's lives, be they dead or alive. It's to make people laugh or make them cry. That's what my book is about, nothing more! Nothing less!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9798886548662

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Lots of Laughs and Lots of Tears

Chuck Myers

Copyright © 2022 Chuck Myers

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 979-8-88654-859-4 (pbk)

ISBN 979-8-88654-866-2 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

What Are Poems

Alexa (Oops, Here It Is)

An Angel Painted White

And Then There's Jeanette

Angels in Flight

A Silent Prayer

A Stranger's Funeral

A Token of Love

Baby Girl

Beyond the Gates

Blue

Blowing Sand

Breast Cancer

Broken Stem

Clinton Stoke 305

Clowns

Congratulations

Crime, We Must Pay

Dave

Double Role

Dreams

Drugs

Duh! Which Way Do I Go, Angie

Emma

F-A-D-D

Farewell to Little Bill

Final Words

Friends/Family

God's Little Grace

Goodbye

Grandpas and Grandmas

Greatest Gift of All

Help Me Understand

Harry

He Will Always Be Dad

Ice Age

Izzy and Eddy's

Just a Child

Just Once

Just Like Leaves

Kenny

Lady in HR

Lady of Stone

Life's Demands

Life, It's So Unfair

Let's Talk about Waitresses

Li'l Abby

Lisa and Jake

Little Miss Molly

Love of Life

Madonna

Mandy (the Little Nurse)

Mary and Willi

Mother Earth

Mountains Streams

My Dream

My Poor Back

Nature

Officer Down

One Last Round

Our Grandma

Our Little Retiree

Palm Trees and Sand

Parting of Friends

Patience

Precious Baby Girl

Race of Life

Rachel, Rachel

River of Tears

Roads

Roses for You

Sadness

She's Still There

Sister at Work

Stars

Stars in Heaven

Still Missed

Styles and Fads

Syble

Symbols of Freedom

Taken Away

Tasha (Chop! Chop!)

Tears

Tears That Fall

Ten to Life

The Call

The First Snow

The Happy Trio

The Man of Stone

The Man Had a Plan

The Miller Lite Man

Therapy: What a Thrill

Thoughts

Time to Go

Through the Year

Through My Eyes

Together Again

Torn and Tattered

Today's Kids

Troops Far Away

Violence

What a Lady

Waking Up

What Do You Do

What Is Blue?

When Snowflakes Fall

When Will It Stop

Where Do We Go

White Tail

Will

Words

Whispering Wind

You

You Have My Heart

9-11

Why Am I Here

About the Author

My name is Charles (Chuck) Myers. I have a son (David) and a daughter (Alesha) a stepdaughter (Tabbi) and a stepson (John Allen)

I am just a high school graduate. I like to write poems as a hobby. I'm sorry! My late wife Margaret used to love to read my poems.

I'm now retired and finally attempting to fulfill my dream.

What Are Poems

Poems, just words that tell about many things

Stories about rich and poor, about queens and kings

Stories about people and lives they've had

Lives that are good, some that are bad

Dreams about things we wish we could do

Others about the dreams that never come true

Poems can be about flowers, birds, and trees

Or they can be about people like you and me

They can be about family or even a friend

About life or death in the very end

They can be about strangers or about ones we love

Poems could be about the devil or God above

Poems consist of words that come from the heart

That can make us laugh or tear us apart

Words with feeling that can make us cry

Or just look amazed and wonder why

I write my poems in the same way

I don't try to hurt anyone with the words I say

So if I didn't make you laugh or make you cry

It's not because I didn't try

Alexa (Oops, Here It Is)

We walk through the door, who do we see

No other than Alexa, greeting you and me

She grabs a menu and tells you to follow her

Sometimes this I'm not to awful sure

She seats you and tells you who'll be serving you

One would think this would be easy to do

She makes cloudy days seem bright and sunny

'Cause when it comes right down to it, she is rather funny

But on those days that have bumps and ridges

She just thinks of her hobby, jumping off bridges

She is the hostess, she is a worker, and she's surely not lazy

But one does have to wonder, could she be certifiable crazy

I wrote this just for fun

So I hope she doesn't snap and come undone

But if she does, just because of what I wrote

Could someone please stop her before she goes for my throat

I wrote this not meaning any harm

So please don't get upset and don't break my arm.

An Angel Painted White

Just standing, facing