lindsay Dougherty Poems

The years gather around us as time passes bye
Each one that we live through has taught us such wisdom, and granted us treasures, more than we can behold.
The wisdom and treasures don’t come easy they are built with tear drops and born out of sweat
They come in the heat of the day and the bitter cold of the night
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They roll to the shore like a giant line of soldier’s line after line
They crash and smash them self’s with a roar like thunder upon the rocks and sand
The sight of such giant waves makes you marvel at the power of nature.
The hissing and froth makes a sight to behold.
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Shinning and gleaming she sits and waits.
Created with love and sweat of many she waits.
At last she is placed gently into the water.
She is at last where she belongs.
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Bumper to bumper a long serpent of brake lights
Moving inch bye inch
Joined together by fumes of diesel and petrol
This giant snake of vehicles creeps slowly forward egger to be gone
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The faces of people are many
Some beam with joy their sprit busting to get out
Some are trapped in their own world showing nothing of their inner self to the outside
Some have the look of purpose a mission to complete
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Wind rain and the bone chill of cold
Is this the anger of the weather god sending us merely made of flesh a warning?
A warning not to stand to tall in the order of things
A warning of how brick and cement hardened for a hundred years can crumble and be washed away in a mere moment
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I will be strong.
I will stand up and face life’s wind of thorns, with a strong mind and open heart.
I will accept life’s pleasures with gladness and glee.
I will treasure and learn from life’s lessons and share them if need be.
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Manawatu gorge

The manawatu gorge a place of solid rock or just natures toy
Of step bush lined gullies
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When life’s struggle got you bye the neck its squeezing the soul from you
Its choking the goodness and warmth from your body.
Its making you scream with the pressure and the pain
Its making you forget the good and look toward the in sane
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