Long Time – No Poems
By larry r Linville

A good friend complained the other day
I’d done no poems for a while.
“He’s correct”, I said to myself
but how long it’s been I cannot tell.

Was I lacking the discipline
that would make me do the hard work
as I settled back in laziness
trying all my writing to shirk?

I became busy at Easter time
and was tired when it was ended.
So I seemed to take a mental rest
as my poetry was suspended.

During the time things went unnoticed
which would earlier have caught my eye
so I will try to pay attention
and not let those things pass me by.

I'll try again to post a poem and see if it ends up in prose form.

Enduring a Bad Sermon
By larry r linville

What do you do when you’re setting there
as the preacher speaks and you must be fair?
His subject you are ready to hear
but to that topic he isn’t near.

It’s like eating only the pizza crust
and the center leave like it was rust.
When he begins to come near the point
he slips like a bone in a sprained joint.

You feel like you have been on the road
which bypassed the town and never slowed.
The topic he chose sounded real good
but it’s been so long I’ve lost the mood

My calendar I begin to check
I’ve wasted my time but what the heck
I haven’t even made a peep
and I couldn’t even go to sleep.

It makes me wonder what others think
when I preach a sermon that might stink
But I don’t think it could have this smell
Even if it was as bad as hell.