A Poet At Heart

Comments on Life and Family with Poetry

Bill McNulty

Lyrics and Music in Your Being

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Lines from songs keeping echoing in your brain.

There’s something touching in that musical refrain.

Lyrics with a beat and a message you won’t forget.

Warm feelings created you will never regret.

Solemn hymns to say farewell to a friend.

When that treasured life comes to an end.

Some tender melodies just let sadness fade away.

Some lines bring back memories from yesterday.

Look for the lyrics that perfectly tell your story.

Letting you dream of the place you want to be.

Emotion in a voice gives meaning to every word.

You play again the lyrics that you just heard.

Update music to help you enjoy and celebrate.

Find the right song to help impress a first date.

There are lines that mirror what’s in your mind.

Music with meaning you just can’t wait to rewind

Nothing To Write About

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Look, there’s nothing new to write about.
There’s always a story you can do without.
We can always dream up a total freak-out.
Or pointless news reports that leave you in doubt.
Wasted stories on paper you never want to printout.
Lack of new material and you are in another drought.
There’s always the story no one wants to hear about.
How about views that always have radioactive fallout?
The critic’s review in the paper about dining out.
We can do without those pen jockeys too far out.
Of course, every author wants to create a knockout.
Please, please just let your words be well thought-out.

Your Holy Place

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This past week, I became Bar Mitzvah again. Until a week ago, I didn’t see that this poem of mine was on the screen on a monitor. I wrote this one four years ago. I share it again today.

What will it take to find your Holy Place?
You will have comfort and pray at your own pace.
Is it where you connect to a past generation?
Perhaps it must be one of your own creation.
Seaside where sunset lets you rest at peace.
Where concerns for an hour or so, just cease.
Or people with good times, you love to share.
Or those sad times, when you want to be in their care.
Something you hear, something you feel, something you see.
In your heart, you know it is where you must be.

Finding A Safe Place

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What would be your perfect safe place?
Where you can disappear without a trace.
From war or trauma or grief, you seek a place to rest.
A place where feelings don’t have to be expressed.
You don’t want to share the emotions shown in your face.
You need a little time to escape from the daily rat race.
Your country, your home, or maybe under an old oak tree.
You need a place to rest your mind  and be worry free.
Sometimes, we need and deserve the solitude
Where we can work and preserve our attitude.
Having the special place, with answers that you may find.
That safe place that you cherish, may be in your own mind.

Thinking or Napping

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Taking a nap so they say when my sleepy eyes close.
Maybe I’m just thinking about world highs and lows
Maybe each afternoon I like to lay down and meditate
Maybe there’s a line in a verse I am preparing to create.
Maybe I wonder exactly what it means to contemplate.
Maybe I am dreaming of taking you on a romantic date.
Maybe, I’m bowling, picking up the ten pin with ease.
Maybe, it’s a granddaughter, I am planning to tease.
Maybe it’s autumn and I can picture leaf colors in the fall trees
Maybe I am thinking about the Cubs and Sox in the World Series.
Maybe it is time to get real and cut the crap.
Yep, I am laying down for an afternoon nap.

Midnight Verse

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Middle of the night and there’s lines to write.
Will it be a worthy creation before first light.
Write it down because lines repeat in your mind.
Read it later, there’s a treasure you may find.
Dreams and visions and who knows what next.
Before you know it, there’s poetry in your text.
Sleepy inspiration for the next line in your verse.
Perhaps from a dream that you can never rehearse
Writing for fun or with a serious point to make,
Creativity, when you dream or almost awake.
Back to bed, need more sleep, close your eyes.
Dreams for another verse before your rise.