NEW POEM - "The Strange Arrangement"

Merry Christmas (Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc) Everybody-

Hope that everybody is doing well and is done with any and all shopping that you have for the holiday season. For this entire month I've been working extra hard and got to the point that i got so bored at my second job that I had to write - anything! LOL!

So I decided that for the duration of the CD playing (Mayer Hawthorne - "A Strange Arrangement". Top notch CD! Check it out soon!), I decided to write in between helping customers as they approached me.

FYI: This is nothing more than me freestyling, so nothing needs to be read into it than surface value. As usual, all feedback is still wanted and needed. Sorry for not dropping "The Christmas poem", but that just hasn't come to me. While I get these final presents wrapped up, read on and enjoy. Enjoy the holidays, everyone!

The Strange Arrangement

We made a strange arrangement
So fast, still wondering where the days went
My head’s still spinning
Hope that this is the opposite of the beginning
Drawing a close to an odd couple
Time-stretch only leaves the door open for trouble
And I eschew drama
Old or new drama
Those plotlines are dry to me
Give me something cool, like breezes from the Bahamas
Setting the tone laid back
Progressing, rather than staying laid back
Looking for something new to work out
Getting all of the past pains and hurt out
Now I’m getting the word out
Exerting my cry for help
Keeping it real with me and others
Lifting burdens and simultaneously denying self
Finally looking out for self
Going from saying “yes” or “maybe so”
Putting my foot down and saying maybe “no”
The old pathways made me go
Leaving from the selfless to the selfish
Just for a moment
Refusing to remain sitting on faults like Memphis
Check your references if you don’t get this
The story is parallel to mine
Working to make it easy loving myself
Since now the task is down to myself
No plans to please no one or nothing else
At least in the current state

Looking outside, wishing it’d rain today
Contrasting the sunny days
Days when I was solo and on my way
Distracted by an ulterior motive
When the sun beams shot down
Seeing diversive beauty traveling slowly
Thinking of how to make her mine
Going with laser-focus
I’m dealing with a one-track mind
Thinking if I get her
This’ll be the one last time
No longer suffering the ills of love
Showered in the good feel of love
Making sense of the prior moves
Refined, as a result of how trial by fire moves
Hoping to report better moves
Bold and capital letter moves
Covered by shiny and new plastic wrap
Putting my new find on the map
Asking my admiration target to at least let me know
Or if it isn’t mutual, release and let me go
Stopping the premature arrangement from returning
I won’t look around jealous with green eyes
For proof, look deeper
You’ll see mine
But I’ll still love ‘em the same
No matter how strange it was all arranged

-W.A. Gordon

NEW POEM - "Why Love" - Part Three

Hey Everybody-

Just posting up the third piece to "Why Love". This poem has kind of taken a life of it's own, because if you would tell me that I would write anymore past part one, i can't say that I would've agreed. Nonetheless, these poems have helped me and I pray that they bring something good to your life as well.

As usual, be ready for any news and updates that I have coming up, especially on Facebook world.

Take care 'til the next time. Peace.

Why Love – Part Three

All I hear is “love this” and “love that”
I encourage you to put love where your heart’s at
Direct word from our Father
Right from Heaven, so there’s nothing above that
Too many times I wonder where the love’s at
This world’s getting cold
Getting so sick, we need a remedy
Proverbial chicken soup for the soul
True love is the goal
Love with no boundary or limit
A world where we’re all quick to receive love
And just as eager to give it
I personally take this dream and live it
Taking it beyond fantastic borders
Keeping it deep in my spirit
So that my heart can never be labeled “out of order’

To love one another is a mandate
True, there’s only so much that one can stand or take
As is the same with counterparts
But love is all that counts in hearts
It’s within each of us that it starts
In addition, the hate’s ending
Putting to better use the energy that we’re spending
And there’s no use in pretending
As I said before, real recognizes real
Making it important to love past how you feel
Using only words of kind intention
Compliments welcomed and mentioned
Negativity cast aside
Adding coals to the fire in the love train’s engine

True love is so, so special
I hope that you find it
Anything short is not the real thing
Take each imitation and bind it
Let me rewind it:
True love is so, so special
I PRAY that you find it
And it warms you up a little bit
Not only hearing these words
But effectively living it
Adding it to the routine
If you do, you will see
Love in all forms
As told to people in Corinth in chapter thirteen
So if you already have the faith
And you still remain hopeful
Add a little love to it
And your life will finally have met the grand total

-W.A. Gordon

NEW POEM - "Why Love" Part Two

Hey Everybody-

Thanks for the visit. Just dropping the sequel to "Why Love". As usual, let me know what you think of it.

Also, I've got some more news coming up soon. Keep your ears and eyes wide open ;-)

Peace.

Why Love - Part Two

Let my love stretch wide
I'm talking 'bout Agape size
A love without limits
More real than the one sung by Miss Blige
Won't let my eyes
Overlook my opportunities to love
Friends, family, and otherwise
Still continuing to turn other cheeks
But I'll love 'em even better this time
Letting old faults fall in time
Get lost in the past
Since I'm far from perfect myself
Slow to stop my love and opt to outcast

Gotta keep my love levels up
I know that I'll be challenged
In the case of a love stalemate,
Love will tip the scales in my advantage
No longer allowing hate to do its damage
That's the easy thing to do
Now putting love out for foes to have?
There's no telling the reward that'll bring to you
Not everyone will be into you
Feeling or even digging you
But this is about being the best possible inner-you
Making the action of love even more visible
Showing people the best of you
Because when it comes to love
Nothing short of the best should do

Let the love flow like waterfalls
Drenching us all like when water falls
With no sign or warning
Love clouds pierced and now storming
Let these words be heart-warming
As an unction of love starts forming
Encouraging cold hearts to heat up
Not yet kicking our feet up
Since there’s so much more left to do
Revealing the infinity of love
And that it shouldn’t only rest in you
Indeed, it should be dressed in you
But like wealth it needs to be shared
Transitioning from “love and war” to a “loving war”
Leaving no casualties to be spared…


-W.A. Gordon

NEW POEM - "Why Love" - Part One

Good afternoon, Everybody -

Thanks for stopping by to the site. There is so much going on right now and the time for the book release is coming soon. I have a couple of projects that I am working on that are in line with the book, so still be on the lookout for when they are done (which will be VERY soon).

The piece that I am posting today was actually requested by a friend of mine. It was cool to have someone ask me specifically to write about love, in the general sense. To be honest, it was even more cool to be asked to write about anything, LOL. I called this piece "Why Love" and there will be a sequel to it coming soon, because I feel much more that has to be written about it in my spirit. I hope that you all like it and find something in it that connects to you in some way.

Before I drop the poem and get out of the way, I want to thank everyone who has joined or has invited someone to join my Facebook group, "Flawed Thoughts". The total is close to 200 and I am thinking of doing something to commemorate when that happens ;-)

Ok, here it is...

Why Love - Part One

If I have nothing else, I must have love
Love for self and love for others
Of course, I’ll love myself
And show more love for others
Make myself slow to get into arguments
Reduce ‘em down to discussions
And so we talk more and argue less
It’s not too hard to guess
That this love thing should be the norm
Bringing peace to calm the storms
Lightning and thunder subside
Nothing but sunny days outside
And the birds get to chirping
Funny how things change when our love gets to working

We’re so quick to point fingers
Fast to blame each other
Without first self-examining
Analyzing ourselves, sisters and brothers
And so I say, sisters and brothers-
Remember the saying from way back:
If you start pointing a finger,
Expect at least 3 fingers to point right back
And we don’t like that
So let’s love and not judge
Speak highly of each other and cover
Staying away from anything that’s not love
I’ve got love
Which is why I want to share it, right
Aiming these words directly to your hearts
Praying that you read it and hear it right

Getting our love right is a steady test
Always checking if we’re ready yet
Striving to be a product manifest
Constant life exams to see if we’re better yet
And better yet,
We should use these times to prove the haters wrong
Kill ‘em with kindness
Proving through actions that, yes, hate is wrong
And love is right
All right, to be exact
To love is to be divine
And there’s no greater feeling than that
Only to be succeeded by your test results
Seeing what happens when love results
Aiming to live these words written
Gotta go well and above average
These tests are given everyday, non-written
Changing up, leaving no room for usual or average
So if I’m gonna get tested in my love
I’m going for the honor roll
Top of the class and above
Magna cum laude placed on my soul
Listed at the love commencement
Please don’t allow these words to be distant
Love yourself and others more
First Corinthians thirteen is insistent…

-W.A. Gordon