tom
87 widowed since 2000. Write poems to save my sanity
5 children
16 grandchildren
18 great grandchildren and 4 coming
Volunteer at 2 Local Elementary schools
By tom on November 9, 2009
I’m in love with fall
I love the changes
That comes in the fall
With raucous cheering
While watching football.
The beauty of trees
Leaves so eye appealing
So eager to please,
Decked out in Jacobs’s coat
Fluttering in the breeze.
Crisp apples snapping
With every bite,
And cut out pumpkins glowing bright
The aromic odors
Of the baking pies
Tantalizing whiffs that brightens the eyes.
And of course
Turkey in the [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged breeze, change, eyes, love, Pies, Pride, Tree, Trees
By tom on September 8, 2009
A Matter of Luck
Luck is a special word
Usually meaning good fortune and fame;
However, many who are blessed with it
Are met with misfortune and defame.
Few who win large lotteries?
Know not how to handle wealth,
Because it is something they never had
That attracts many strangers bent on stealth.
The old adage, ”a fool and his money are soon parted”
Seems to be the [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Anger, Fame, Fool, Money, Tea, Wealth
By tom on August 2, 2009
Sail On
“Fair winds and calm seas”
A sailor’s lament
A bon voyage to shipmates
Who went
To a place of peace
And heavenly content.
All earthly chores
Fulfilled and complete
Now able to rest
In peaceful sleep.
Thomas Fenning
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Rating 3.50 out of 5
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Chores, Earth, Heaven, Lace, peace, Peaceful Sleep, Sea, sleep
By tom on July 31, 2009
Misfits
Many in life
Fall out of grace
Simply because
They speak out of place.
They say the wrong thing
At the wrong time
It seems that they do it
All of the time.
They are always
For this
Or against it
When others disagree
They rage in a fit.
Never satisfied with anything
Being said or done
When joining a conversation
Others all run.
Tom Fenning
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Rating 4.33 out of [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Lace, Life
By tom on July 31, 2009
Autumn has arrived.
Trees decked out in Joseph’s coat
Reds, yellows, orange, rust, green
And every hue in between.
Leaves dancing and fluttering in the wind
Drop to earth
In a dizzy spin.
This wonderful display
Is short lived.
Winters winds will soon move in,
Earth takes on a
Different glow
With the arrival of first white snow.
Bundle up and brave the cold
Use both hands
Your hat to [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Autumn, Blow, Bun, cold, dancing, dream, Earth, Fire, For you, Frozen Toes, Glows, Hot Toddy, Hue, Hurry Home, joy, night, Prayer, Prayers, Reds, scream, Shoes, sleep, Snooze, snow, Stairs, Toast, Toes, Tree, Trees, war, White Snow, Yellows
By tom on July 30, 2009
Fantasize
Let your thoughts go wild
Bring back your memories,
Your thoughts as a child.
Ride the range on a bucking bronc’
Drive a race car at Daytona Park.
Climb snow covered mount Kilimanjaro.
Fly high aloft in a gas filled balloon
Going higher and higher almost touching the moon.
Sail the seas in a four mast schooner
Circling the earth, catching large tuna.
Ride a [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged child, cycle, Earth, Loon, memories, Moon, Pleasure, pleasures, Sea, snow, Truth
By tom on July 30, 2009
Fortunate
Have you ever considered?
How fortunate you are
To gaze at the sky
And see a star,
And say to yourself
I wonder how many there are?
To walk through a garden
And smell the rose.
Skip through dewy grass
In your bare feet and toes
Before the sun arose?
Take long walks on
A crisp fall day.
Build a snowman
On a cold wintry night
Giving him eyes of [...]
Posted in Free Poems | Tagged Ash, Boat, cold, eagle, empty, eyes, Feet, Fish, Grass, High In The Sky, Moon, night, Prey, Rose, Sea, Sky, snow, Soar, Sun, Swoop, Toes, war, world
By tom on July 27, 2009
BANG
To watch a sunrise
And then see it set
In this harried life
It’s as good as it gets
God must know
The pleasure it bestows
To all His children
He created here below.
There are many
Who say
There’s no God
To whom we do pray
And without Him
Our surroundings
Would be here anyway,
Because
Worlds collided
There was a big bang
And from the din
And confusion
This wonderment sprang.
How utterly ridiculous
It [...]
Posted in Poems about Life, Religious Poems, Short Poems | Tagged Bang, big bang, child, Children, confusion, god, Life, Pleasure, S Child, Sun, Surroundings, Tree, world
By tom on July 25, 2009
We are told
Earth is eons old.
But
The world
As we know it is
Just about through.
Fossil fuels
Are doing it in
Earths atmosphere
Is growing thin.
Smog and green house gasses
are the reason why
However, cures are rather shy.
Temperatures on the rise
Antarcticas glaciers
On the demise.
Polar bears
Disappearing fast
Without ice
They cannot last.
The question asked
What to do
Without world’s intervention
There is no clue
- Tom Fenning
Sunday, March 16, [...]
Posted in Short Poems | Tagged Ears, Earth, house, Reason, Sun, Temper, We are told, world
By tom on July 18, 2009
Soaring High
I wish I were an Eagle
Soaring high in God’s blue sky.
Effortlessly flapping its wings
Taking it ever high.
Surveying the earth beneath
Sharp eyes taking all in
Searching a likely prey
A tasty meal for him.
Swooping swift as a bullet
Feathers fluttering in the wind
A hare, a fish, a bird
His talons soon will win.
Back to the aerie
Three hungry chicks to [...]
Posted in Poems & Stories | Tagged Blue Sky, Chicks, eagle, Earth, eyes, Feathers, Fish, Flap, Freedom, god, Life, Mouths, Nourishment, Prey, Sea, Sharp, Sky, Soar, soaring, survive, Swift, Swoop, Talons, Tasty Meal, Wings
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