A Beginning in Smiles, an Ending in Tears
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Christian Powell
Chris Powell was born in Portland Oregon in 1958. During his early years he became an Eagle Scout and joined the United States Coast Guard(res) in1975. Following a honorable discharge in 1981 he started a career in sales. Retiring from the Automotive business in 2008 because of a disability, Chris started to write poetry. In June, 2012 he married Margaret Nimick, a decedent of the Mayflower, and moved to Sarasota, Florida. He divorced her in July of 2013 and started to publish this book" A beginning in smiles, an ending in tears" that is filled with love poems, breakup poems, plus just fun type poems.He now lives in Portland, Oregon.
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A Beginning in Smiles, an Ending in Tears - Christian Powell
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Contents
Knot
A Honey would
An Empty Picnic Basket
As one
Before
Behind The Red Door
Blue eyes
Bobby D
Build a bridge (get over it) 10/22/13 6:19 AM
Bundle of sticks
Checking the mail box late Sunday night
Clouds
Clown
Clues (to my blues)
Could be just a little bit happier
Time will tell
Empty box
E,D,A,G,B,E
Eyes of Potatoes
Free flow
Fantastic
Fork In The Road
Got a Clue to my Blues (version 2)
Got Time?
Got Two Bucks?
Night Shadows
Halloween
Have you ever been hurt by somebody? 11/12/13 11:57 PM
Hope for the future
How beautiful the wind sounds 8/29/13 3:26 PM
Wow
Yes?
$
Time
Drizzle
I’m Falling
Given Myself the Blues
Jasper
Jennifer
Just an observance
Let Me Know
Blonde
Broken Bridge
Me, Too
My experiment
My Mate
At one time
No one seems to care
Two of Them
Once We Had A Chance
Paper cut on my eyelid
Pilgrims
Pokie Dots
Polka Dot
Set me straight
Weight Vs Mass
What?
Sleeping Lady
I await
Tundra
Something
/
Song Of Sarasota
Sunshine
Tail of the ring
Taking a walk
For all that serve us
The Banana and Kitty Cat
Oh so pretty in pastels
The Spanish Gypsy’s Guitar
Those Tualatin Farm Girls
Three words
A dream?
Time in the middle
Florida
To Be Up, And In
Discipline
Us
We can be Happy
My Megan
Fine shoes
Hum Drum
What’s that I see?
You Know How To Train Me
Gal, pal
Knot
In the soil laid a small seed where the roots begins to grow, leaves of bright green colors reach the sky all on it’s own.
After seasons of many rainfalls and bright sunny days, a tree of many branches stands where that one small seed did lay.
But there’s a knot in the tree trunk where a branch grew out so strong, a reminder of a once mighty bough, which has taken a fall.
The sap surrounds it, as the bark tends to heal its open wound, and the branch just lay’s there dying, on the ground of morning dew.
Mighty branch, you held such promise, you were strong and fairly long, but now you just lay torn and strewn upon the ground as a log.
Though the tree has many boughs, as it sways braced against the breeze, new rings grow in its trunk each season, growing and shedding all sorts of colorful leaves.
Mighty branch, you held such promise, you were strong and fairly long, but now you just lay torn and strewn upon the ground as a log.
So now the knot, it heals yearly, like the branch really wasn’t there, just a part of the tree bark, a weakness it hardly bears.
On the ground where it’s dead branch, lies now almost completely gone, decaying and rotting, providing new soil as the years continue going on and on
A Honey would
Happy Birthday Jesus, on this Christmas Day
Thank you for your blessings. These past 2000 years and days
The Son of God, we championed and make our lives
Seem to be with you, for you, for ourselves
You showed us the ultimate of Love, dying on that cross
And for us that believe, we prepare the
Day you come back
Oh Happy Birthday, Jesus on this Christmas Day
An Empty Picnic Basket
I have an empty picnic basket
Just sitting ready on the shelf
It’s here all clean and neat as can be
All alone here with me here in my room by myself
I’m sitting alone thinking of you
Wondering why you an I aren’t enjoying
Nice weather, fine music and times
But all there’s here
Is an empty picnic basket, all-alone with me here in my room
Neatly folded is my blanket, plaid in blue, like I love you
Wanting to be out on a meadow, where you and I
Can gaze at the sky
And I can look into your eyes of blue while you look into my eyes, too!