ARRRRRRRR!!!!!!

This one was written for a family reunion....we were pirates and we was lookin' for me treasure!!!!! We dug and big hole after a bunch of games and we found it!!!! But this is all that we found :-(

Alas ye've made it to all o' me friends
Imma sorry to tell ye but this ain't where this ends
Ye've searched and ye've plundered but to no avail
This is only the beginning of all yer trail

But I'll be tellin' ye only one thing...

The treasure ye need cannot be found
For as I's be seein' it it's on top o' the ground
I've lived my life with so many regrets
With too many lies, whoredoms and bets
Diggin' up gold with money to spare
I took on a hottey and selfish heir
And now as I sit here and feelin' incomplete
Me matie from long ago I's like ye to meet
His name be not important as the lesson he taught
The love of a family to my attention he brought
This matie ne'er be diggin' or holdin' a map
He says he knows where he's goin' what a crazy ole chap

"I's spent me time stealin' and findin' and such
Treasure I've found oh yes very much
I have me silver and I had me gold
Enough's to keep me's rich until I grew old
Me's had this feeling I be missin' out
About me riches I had me doubt
I then met me dear lovely wife
She's been makin' me realize I only had half a life
I've got me wife and me dear Sammy
There's be Liza, oh what a feisty one she be!"

This not be makin' much sense to me
So's I ask him more of this family

"I wake each moring to a smile and a kiss
Whether is be from Sam or Liza they ne'er miss
We's always be talkin' and makin' our plans
Discussin' our Lord and chillin's demands
There's be no place I'd rather be spendin' me time
Cuz this family, you see, is mine all mine
We argue and fight forgetting our love
But then we recieve guidance from up above
Supportin' is what we try to do
Each night sittin' and doin' a slight review
We set aside time to be all alone
Praisin' our God for we ain't been doin' it on our own"

The happiness we seek he says he already had
and for this he was always eternally glad
I's been watchin' him waste his life away
Playin' house and cleanin' and doin' whate'er his wifey say
And now as I's be burin' the end o' me treasure
I's finally realize this brought me no pleasure
Me life be unfulfilled, and empty at best
Dying lonely and hated just like the rest
I want a Johnny or Liza to be near to me
A tight-knit family me's would like to be
Me's wish me life woulda been spent laughin' enjoyin' me time
The treasures I had were GREAT but not prime
I's be envying me land lubber friend
But he's once told me that this life ain't the end

"You still have a chance to have all I do
Don't worry my brother you will make it through
There's a life after this and a treasure you'll find there
It's hard at times so I tell ye beware
Gold and silver can ne'er take the place
My family and God I'll ne'er replace
For I'll tell you thing beyond any measure
My family is my greatest treasure."

STARS

Warning: SOME OF MY POEMS DO NOT TEACH EXACT PRINCIPLE! I JUST LIKE TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND LET MY IMAGINATION GO. I LIKE TO PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE (or just in a different perspective).

STARS
When I lived in Heaven a while ago
A star being born God promised to show
Eager and excited I waited all day
"He's showing me how to make beauty today!"

I waited and waited til I figured He forgot
I started getting mad and bothered and hot
How could HE leave me here without a warning?
I've been waiting here for Him all morning

It was then that His voice, gentle and meek
Left me there alone, unable to speak
"My lovely young daughter I'll always be here
I hold you close to My heart so I'll always be near.

But daughter it is not I who created these stars
You see, they are reminders, happy little scars.
Each time a child, so dear to My heart,
Leaves My presence or is ready to depart,
to go down to Earth to live and obey
They'll do their very best as long as they pray

But as they leave, a mark is shown
For the world to see and their presence known
A sparkling star to remind them of Me
To prompt them to be all that they can be

The more good they do the brighter it gets
So my daughter live your life with no regrets

Yes, it's your turn to go and make your star
You're honest and faithful, you will go far

Just remember to look up and find the moon
Find out what it means, you'll do that soon
For as you know Christ once went to Earth
He had a mortal and human birth
And as you can see his star shines the brightest
An example to you to be the mightiest

I love you, I'll miss you with all of my heart
But it won't be too long that we are apart
Please my dear just remember who you are
And don't forget to look at your star

I've decided that I'm going to post some of my poems on here....either ones some of you might have read or heard already or just ramdon ones that noone has even seen. I don't keep track of them after I doodle so I figure it might be fun in years to come to know that they are SOMEWHERE!!!!! So it's just a heads up....they might get boring so just skip past them :-) Thanks!

One night during Christmas break I was keeping score for an intense game of HAND AND FOOT (I'm not part of a couple, hence the scorekeeper). I was a little bored so I got out a piece of paper and started jotting down some of my thoughts. This is what I came up with. Don't judge, I was running low on sleep and I'm not professional but this is one of the ways I can express how I feel about something.

Christmas
What does Christmas time mean to me?
Baby Jesus and shepherds on bended knee?
Candy canes, snow, and presents too?
This Christmas season, what will you do?
Do we remember our Savior and what He did?
Or do we just buy gifts for the lowest bid?
This holiday season I will dedicate to Him
The light of mine will not be dim
For our Savior’s birth we celebrate now
I will remember Him; but how?
Remember the legacy He left behind

These thoughts at the forefront of your mind
Think of His life and the gifts that He gave
He is kind, gentle, loving and brave
Teaching and leading, walking through the towns
Showing nothing but of how much his love abounds
Preaching in the temples and healing the sick
Using the priesthood, now that is the trick
The most precious gift given to you and me
Is the pain that He suffered in Gethsemane
He bled from each pore for each one of us
Tremendous pain but still in the Lord He did trust
Carrying His cross, not murmuring a complaint
"Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews" marked in paint
His mother stood by watching as people spat and yelled
And slowly, ever slowly our Savior surely paled
He never quit believing or praying to our God
In our Savior’s footsteps we should always try to trod
Every year we have reminders of the lessons He taught
Christmas isn’t about the candy or the presents to be bought

IT’S ALL ABOUT OUR SAVIOR, LORD, OUR BROTHER JESUS CHRIST

So today I got to hang out with Abby and her two youngest girls, oh and the babysitting boy Tyson. Emery and I went and ran some errands because Abby had some work to do and she needed to go to the same places as me so she just made a list and off we went. While driving it was sprinkling a bit and Emery asked,"Is it raining?!" "Yeah, can't you see it?" "No I can't see it, just the water on the windshield." Well Emery....HERE'S YOUR SIGN!!! But I thought it was cute anyways. We continued to talk about the weather and she said,"I know why it rains." I was curious to hear what she had to say. "So all the dried up, dead plants will grow green again." I was a little surprised to hear how close to right she was. Then it was like she was in her own world thinking so I had some time to think about the rain too. Why does it rain? To water the plants, clean out the air...I was having a hard time thinking about other reasons. To make people happy, but then I've heard so many people complaining about it that I had to cross that one off my list. Then I remembered that this was MY list.
-It cleans the air
-It water the plants
-Makes for some great photography
-There's a steadiness of the pounding on the roof
-Mystery :-)
-Romance
Okay these all seemed like fine answers but I wanted to find the answers for ME!! Then the song that I sang at my baptism popped into my head so Emery had a little duet while stopped at a stop light.
"I like to look for rainbows whenever there is rain. And ponder on the beauty of an Earth made clean again. I want my life to be as clean as Earth right after rain. I want to be the BEST I can. And live with God again!!"
How wonderful is it that God sends rain to remind us of how we can be and what we should do to be that way!!! I LOVE THE RAIN!

"In our lives there is bound to come some pain, surely as there are storms and falling rain; just believe that the one who holds the storms will bring the sun.”

AND sorry to everyone!! I have tried to post but at the last second I deleted it and then it saved so....ya you can only guess how angry I was hahaha but I'll post a few more before Christmas :-)

Kisses

I've been thinking of kisses lately. Not so much of the ewww gross kinds but of the tender ones, special and unique. But NOW that I'm thinking about it there are quite a few different kinds. So, you can't talk about something unless you KNOW about it so I have done some research on kisses. These range from the simple but sweet kisses that are blown to the kisses that shouldn't be talked about...ANYWAY, I just love kisses. How sweet is it to get a butterfly kiss from a little one? When your cheeks get so close and you can feel them breathing. Then their little eye lashes intertwine with yours and suddenly your heart beat matches the batting of your eyelashes as the little one giggles and backs away. Or the tender eskimo kiss. This is one of my favorites, although very simple. Tiny noses rubbing back and forth, with a innocent little smile. But looking into their eyes you realize that you didn't need to see the smile because the evidence of their love is looking you straight in the eyes. Thinking about these kisses, I thought how wonderful would it be to actually get a letter signed with X's and O's like it seems to always happen in the movies or in songs. I guess the best kind of kiss is the kind of kiss I recieved today :-0 Yes I know you are ALL so interested now!!!! The little boy I work with was having a rough day. When I say rough, I mean he was crying all day and looking outside and running out of the room and everything that goes with being a little boy. So when 5:00 rolled around I was at the door and ready to leave!! But with him, I make sure I get down to his level so we're eye to eye. I tell him it was great playing with him and I can't wait til next time. I need to make sure that he knows that I am talking to him and then I expect a response. Well the normal response is bye with a nod and if I'm lucky he'll actually look at me when saying this. So today I grabbed his little hands and said," Bye Tyler, I can't wait to see you on Wednesday!" All the sudden before I know it he had puckered up and put a wet one right on my lips!!!!! He then said bye while looking me straight in the eyes! Talk about going from one extreme to the other! His mom thought it was so sweet but I was thinking "What the world have you been letting him watch???!!!!" But on the way home I got to thinking about it. I can only imagine him having a conversation in his head with himself. I am grateful for the little blessings like this that let me know that he does care and appreciate me being there. I LOVE KISSES!!!

"I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss." ~Shakespeare