Short Rhymes

Riddle me this said the tailor
riddle me that said the beast
riddle me right or riddle me wrong
riddle and weave with another song

 

Wow, I had totally forgotten that I wrote this. Reading it now it doesn't even feel familiar.

 

It seems fitting to be real.

I've done similar in times past, forgotten I've written something, then come across one and remember. It's crazy cool how things change, our mindsets, our realities, our quality or state of being. I've written so much dark stuff from times past, then I've written some pretty fun and warm and hopeful things as well. It gets cold sometimes, as if a frost is biting the entire hand, or arm and sometimes toe's. It'd be nice if a little warmth was applied. I enjoyed your muse.

 

Like this one, written in the early to mid 2000 era from current date (2019).

Living Out Loud

The bold don’t live forever,
but the cautious never live at all.
Try not to be in the latter,
always too scared you’ll fall.

Never look back on life
with dismay in your eyes,
and never let the lows
override the slightest highs.

The wars you must fight,
fight them with pride,
and never be something
you feel you must hide.

You gotta learn how to live
because you can’t get it back.
Experience each moment
as if it’s fading to black.

Live with great passion.
Sometimes slow, sometimes fast,
like there’s no tomorrow,
because today never lasts.

It will pass you by
like a quick, fleeting breath.
If you live without heart
you’re just existing till death.

To never live at all
is the worst of all shame.
Take this life by the horns
and ride your best game.

It’s another “Tree of life”
and this advice I will give...
Don’t stay stuck on the bench.
Find some courage and live.
Copyright © James P. Belt

 

All day I sit and wonder, - Is there more to life?
Why there's so much adversity, all the trouble and the strife,
I toil with dedication, hard graft,- I do not shirk
Another day with not much dollar, another day of mundane work.

 

At one time I was the same
I guess that's part of life
get up, go to work then
you come home to the wife

and then the years went past
no wife, no car and gas ...
well, there's not much left in me
for the future or from the past

but then I think of all as if,
as if all there ever was
and if all there ever was - is still
then it's still the same because

No matter where I came from
no matter where I end
There's still today to enjoy
or to live as mundane back then.

 

Cold I know it seems
the words I write seem mean
but if you only knew
the cruelty that I've seen

and if you had a dollar
for every life I stole
or from the ones I've saved
then you could never know

as in a thousand lifetimes
as if each were your own
life is what we offer all
as it is life that we've sown

and if we sow for life
and if we sow for death
then as above so below
both exist in every breath

 

Everything appears empty and hallow
No more dreams to follow
The person i thought i was slowly fading
Emptiness pervading
Indifference in the mist of confusion
Perhaps its all an illusion

 

Refusing to sell my life for minimum wage
That's like trapping yourself in a cage
Watching life slip by as you age
How can one not go rampage
I guess there are endless distractions to keep the mind engage
Numbs the mind and keeps the herd on the same page
For that become an escapist and live like a sage

 

SHIMMY

Shimmy the silk
Across your milk
White skin
You and your ilk
Almost always win.

 

Once Again In Love.

Sleepily she looks at me
With love lustrous eyes
Skin damp and glistening
Breasts rising and falling
We have come together
Once again in love.