ANOTHER POEM

Jonathan Caswell

SUMMERING BRINGS GUYS CHEER,

SHE’S NEARLY NAKED HERE….

SMOOTH VIBRANT SKIN

SURE TAKES ONE IN,

BABE, CAN I BUY YOU A BEER?

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JONATHAN CASWELL

BUT COOL, GIRL, REALLY COOL!

Without change, he’s afraid,

Of losing the best in the trade….

And his witness

Already a mess,

Has a price he’s already paid!

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To turn character around,

He’ll get off shifting ground….

Christian values

Are the finest to choose,

When God helps him to solid ground!

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Thinking she’s biased toward him,

Allows expression at whim….

Access free

Intrudes privacy,

He emails quite often!

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He feels he can candidly say

Where others might not want to stray….

He’s crossed the line

More than one time,

And that’s not okay.

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Must keep his feelings and thoughts,

Away from being poetry draughts…

He cannot share

Just whatever’s in there,

Inappropriateness has a cost!

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His ardor for her, he dreams,

Up Manipulating by schemes…

To get through

What he wants her to do,

When she has the means.

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His aide helps with baths,

And certain household tasks…

His attitude,

Intrusive and rude,

Brings upon him frustrated blasts!

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Now that his brain has eyes,

Motives are less disguised…

Bring things around

On holy ground

Feeding on Godly supplies!

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Jonathan Caswell

Temperatures up and down,

Autumn then winter come ’round….

Those blizzard fears

Of other years

On the surface seem not that sound!

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Jonathan Caswell

People in ministry too,

Drastic measures are tempted to….

I had to block

A pastor whose talk,

Went beyond what normally would do.

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He found out somehow where I,

Was sending support and tried….

To persuade

That person to aid,

Giving him money on the side!

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I’m just going to shut my mouth,

The damage is done, news is out…

Some call it greed

Or desperate from need,

Money brings the bad in us out!

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Jonathan Caswell

She does it better than I,

Watching relationships die…

I can’t keep still

With a chance to reveal,

The joys of a common mind!

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She’s said hardly a thing,

While the death of love’s torturing….

But in her own way

She cries out dismay,

What good its nurturing?

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Jonathan Caswell

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The author has included words from languages other than English to describe certain emotional states that I found quite appealing. These words do not have a singular substitute in the English language but have been roughly translated.

Boghz in Farsi is ‘the physical building up of sorrow and pain in the chest/throat before crying’. Iyari in the Huichol dialect refers to “heart memory” that we are born with. The Korean word Han stands for “ache and bitterness” or “mourning and release” and can even mean “helplessness and dissatisfaction”. Lastly, the Urdu term tabeer, which is also the title of the last chapter, refers to “the interpretation of a dream”.

Siobhan shares, “On days that I can’t emerge fully, I try to offer my life to tabeer. A dream still unfolding, a rose unfurling the first of its many tongues. I teach myself a deepened vehemence: for chance, curiosities, pluralities. I don’t fight to belong in a world that beats me down. I start building a world of my own” – a beautiful elsewhere.

I came across a riveting quote by author Alain de Botton, “A healthy mind knows how to hope; it identifies and then hangs on tenaciously to a few reasons to keep going. Grounds for despair, anger, and sadness are, of course, all around. But the healthy mind knows how to bracket negativity in the name of endurance. It clings to evidence of what is still good and kind. It remembers to appreciate.”

The quote is a reminder that hope is the ember of life, even if others consider it as utterly delusional. Else is hope. If one thing doesn’t work out, something else will. Elsewhere is hope, it is another space of possibilities.

And that is what That Beautiful Elsewhere is, a book about hope – not just in clinging to what is evident but about unearthing and unwrapping and even creating hope to feel and to get better.

Apoorva Gairola is a psychology professional and former journalist who is passionate about mental health, women’s and gender issues.

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ENJOYING a bikini view (!),

A different view of you,…

Joyful to see

That flat belly,

And figure that shouts WOO-HOO-!!!!! 😀

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Cloth triangles above,

Part of the reason I love….

Looking at you

Bikini view,

Cool but hot like a stove!

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Alas, cold weather’s here,

You’re all covered up my dear….

Summer will come

And then I’ll see some

Bikini views to cheer!!!! ❤

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Jonathan Caswell

Trust and obey, but feelings

Often have their revealings….

Knowing what’s good

And doing it should

Come easier in your dealings.

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Exile for a good cause,

Should bring one pause….

Do what’s right

Day or night

Fulfills the righteousness clause.

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Thinking of those involved,

With only one answer it’s solved….

Giving in

To what’s real and then

Seeing how love has evolved.

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Jonathan Caswell

“Isn’t that enough,”

Already of this kind of stuff….?

Friends tiring

Of what’s inspiring,

Tend to be rather rough.

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Write whatever you want,

But don’t your troubles flaunt….

Honestly

Can’t you see

Your subject is over-put?

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Hecklers within and without,

Tempting one to shout….

Get out of my way

I’ll be the one to say,

What poetry I’ll put out!

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Jonathan Caswell

Enter bologna and Swiss

Cheese on wheat after this….

Bloggers get faint

Don’t know any ain’t,

With extra protein, how can you miss?

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A shopping delivery,

But unfortunately…

Two things not here,

Ketchup is dear,

And barbeque sauce unfortunately!

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Got on the horn to Wal-Mart’s service,

For customers (don’t be nervous)…

They rectified

Things in no time,

To refunds I’m not impervious!

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Jonathan Caswell