#guyjennings

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Vibrant colors

Much cooler air

Shorter days marching

As if one should care

Seeking more clothing

Winds fan the drought

Stoking the fire

Smoke swirling about

Darkness comes sooner

A mist becomes fog

Turning towards the fire

Stacking more logs

Silence abundantly

Filling cold ears

Draining the last of

Oktoberfest beers

Fall, October

Gray filled sky

What summer created

No longer defies...

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When I was a pirate and roamed the hostile seas

The wooden deck beneath my feet

Was worn by souls like me

Standing at attention to, glimpse a distant shore

Waves would wash the weathered walk

As breaking waves there roared

Storms could shake a strong man’s heart

And drive him hence to drink

The calm returned with a shining sun

To save us from the brink!

Awe, the ocean blue and deep

Beauty intensely defined

Providing all a sense of strength

One otherwise might never find

And as I walk the stable ground

The rocking sea I feel

The movement of the ocean’s roll

My legs cannot conceal

A sailors choice to be at sea

To travel the unknown

Huddled with a daring crew

Decisions that I own...

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I once knew a lady seems she lived in a tree

Up so high, she could never see me

Daddy’s sweet money jacked her up so high

She couldn’t see the ground, but she was touching the sky

Being a mother wasn’t in her call

Unless it was a selfie out there for us all

Sweet, so sweet she was as smart as could be

But still she was living so high up in the tree

When falls comes around, it’s the fall time of year

Trees are losing all, that they can bare

Sad so sad, so high maintenance

Better go home with who brought you to the dance

Some say what goes around, comes around one day

And when the wind blows, the trees will sway

There once was a woman who couldn’t live in a shoe

Now she’s a wondering what she will do...

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On the edge I see their lights

Shrimpers work their nets at night

Grateful for the calm fall seas

Bring shrimp, I do believe

They take their chances, buy their gas

Work their butt off trying to cast

Down beneath the ocean glass

Hoping that the sources last

Always thought I’d want to be

A shrimper man upon the sea

Just one day and see the haul

Listening to the captain’s call

Now I sit and watch the lights

Drifting off into the nights

A shrimper man in rubber shoes

Working hard...making do

Hard life upon the sea

Catching food for you and me

I’ll never work a shrimper boat

I’ll only watch their lights afloat

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The shape of a heart will change, not completely

But seasoned with the passage of time

Some will still love, but others will falter

But all say, it's so hard to find

The way, the walk, the road that one follows

The loving, the giving, the prize

If anyone says that their way was easy

Look close at their life for more lies!

Loving is work

And encompasses the soul

When the youthful years vanish

And the hearts turn old

The trials of a lifetime

memories...regrets

Hands held so tightly,

the mind soon forgets

The shape of a heart

will change, not completely

But seasoned with the passage of time

Some will still love, but others will falter

But all say, it's so hard to find....

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This old house had served us well

Protected all our family

We laughed, we birthed, we dined in style

The time seemed eternity

But seasons came and changes grew

Good and bad, at times we knew

This old house, yet strong and tall

What we loved would fall

Circumstances took its toll

Mom looked tired, dad grew old

Family, once held each hand

Death became reality

As I now look upon this dream

Memories flow as though a stream

Words were spoken, love was seen

Never to be broken

I see my room I shared, this day

The bed, the pictures, words there shared

My family, so much I cared

Time has now taken

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Mountains, the ocean

Through those windows, I see

Otherwise claustrophobic

The world is for me

No fences, no hedges

Only sea oats there dance

Or the white pines go towering

With a vertical stance

Say I’m romantic

Say what you will

My happiness...derived from

This beauty instilled

I dive to the bottom

I climb there, high peaks

Ocean and mountain

Are places I seek

If I go missing

Seek and you’ll find

The beach or the snow slopes

For there I’m inclined

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Returning to, an autumn sea breeze

The scent of salt now confronts me

Horizon of Shrimpers dotting the dim

The long day concedes to light falling

Walking amongst the rolling white noise

The waves now cleaning the shoreline

The warmth of the sea as it covers my feet

Big Dipper is now a faint outline

I’ve traveled this day from towering peaks

To the dunes of the great wide Atlantic

Leaving the mountains is never that good

For its vastness of space so romantic

From here where I stand from what I can see

The calm of waters before me

Thoughts still remain, what this day attained

Driving from mountains to water

There are only two places on this earth that moves

A mind away from delirium

A hike on the peaks or walks on the beach

Speaks to the dead as a requiem ...