Excerpts From My Poetry Collection'Dreams' By Ronald J Chapman January 2014 This is a selection of 20 of my favorite pieces from my poetry collection 'Dreams'. After the Rain All I Want Almost Forever Always Welcome Butterflies Dream of Sailing Emptiness Forever Looking For Love Goodbye Winter. Hello Spring! Ice Queen Imagination Lightning-Tiger My Dreams of "The Land of the Morning Calm” My Wondrous Journey (Reincarnation) Remember the Ghost Sunrise The Second Day We Met Valentines Day Visit to Jeju South Korea Words Beyond Love
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Excerpts From My PoetryCollection'Dreams'
By Ronald J ChapmanJanuary 2014
This is a selection of 20 of my favorite pieces from my poetry collection 'Dreams'.
After the RainAll I WantAlmost ForeverAlways WelcomeButterflies
Dream of SailingEmptinessForever Looking For LoveGoodbye Winter. Hello Spring!Ice Queen
ImaginationLightning-TigerMy Dreams of "The Land of the Morning Calm”My Wondrous Journey (Reincarnation)Remember the Ghost
SunriseThe Second Day We MetValentines DayVisit to Jeju South KoreaWords Beyond Love
Inside the meaning of ourselves, the poets and songwriters look.Just the thought of tears makes my spirit hurt!Always looking, never seeing the words through the rain.
After the dogs of summer stop barking the dreamers breathe,After the rain of the evening, the poets and songwriters learn.In the stillness and cool ness the dreamers rejoice!
All the ghosts have begun humming again.Beside the river of tears, my mind thinks.After the rain, sunny memories sing!
I am afraid of getting sick.I am afraid of having to stay inside all the time in my bed.I am afraid that I will lose all my friends.I am afraid that my friends will be scared of me because I am sick.I am even scared my friends will think they can catch this cancer from me.
I am afraid of losing my hair.I am afraid of all those chemicals the doctors are giving me.I am afraid that my life will end in pain.I am afraid that my brain is going to stop working.I am even afraid I will never have ice cream again.
I want to get healthy again.I want my hair to grow back.I want to go outside and play in the sunshine.I want I want this cancer to disappear.I even want to taste ice cream again.
I want to ride my bicycle down to the ocean pier.I want to have my twenty first birthday party.I want to go shopping for new clothes.I want to play with all my friends.
I even want to help others who have this horrible disease cancer.
Most of all!I wish this horrible nightmare of cancer was just a bad dream.
Even in thousands or tens of thousands of times like this,You do not have to say, "Thank You" to me.
In the moonless darkness of words, the dreamers seek.Beyond this moment of longing the song writers rejoice!Even in thousands or tens of thousands of times like this.I will never ask for a “Thank You.”
This Miracle the cold Bukhan Mountain of this beautiful,Seoul. The children seek to climb.On the cold mountains of this miracle the old ones dream.Even in thousands or tens of thousands of times like this.You do not have to say, "Thank You" to me.
No truth ever spoken was truer than this.Write your words of wisdom in song on the bathroom wall.Looking for any sign of shelter.This wisdom carved in to a brick of white and silver.Even in thousands or tens of thousands of times like this.I will never ask for "Thank You" to be said.
I have waited for you love two thousand years. IVow to continue to seek,To the end of time for you love. I willLive everyday for the both of us and continue to look,For the heart and soul of the love, I see in my dreams.You must be in the world of today love!
Please be here in the same time and place love!Wait for me love.For I will continue to search for you as you search for Me in the world of today.
In this world of today. I wish that,The fates will allow us to find love. If fate says no.Than in the Next thousand years ofLife if so.
Link to poem 'Forever Looking For Love' at Cosmofunnel.com
Lightning-Tiger strikes with a loud growl.Leaping fast down to the earth.
Loud as canon fire through the night.Falling to the ground in flashes of red light.
The Lightning-Tiger will not run away from you.The Lightning-Tiger will go into a rage.The Lightning-Tiger will chase after you.The Lightning-Tiger will pounce on you.The Lightning-Tiger will show it's teeth at you.
My Dreams of "The Land of the Morning Calm”By Ronald James Chapman
It began on a wonderful summer morning.It was the most amazing romance around.She was the most beautiful loving place I have seen.
She was my Seoul,My lovely "Land of Morning Calm,My Loving Korea.We used to love so well together.Back then.I wanted to smile together, wave to the world,I wanted to see it all.
But one morning, one great morning,We decided to smile too much.Together we kissed a Korean Magpie flying high.It was respectful, so respectful as a white tiger chasing evil away.
From that moment, our relationship changed.She grew so modern with bright lights everywhere.
Then it happened:Oh no! Oh no!We slept under a cherry blossom tree.Alas, a cherry blossom tree!I fell asleep under a cherry blossom tree.So beautiful, so entertaining my Korean dreams.
The next day I thought my mind had broken,I thought my dreams had burst into flames,(But I was actually overreacting a little.)But still, she is in my thoughts.I think about how it all changed that morning,That awesome summer morning.
My Wondrous Journey (Reincarnation) Page 1 of 2By Ronald James Chapman
In my eighty second year of life,On this wondrous blue planet Earth,I lie here in my hospital room bed,Waiting for life to end in dread.With my minister, family and friends,Surrounding me with love, on this day of dread.To see me off on my journey,To the golden gates above.As I look around this dreaded room.I see a familiar face in this scary, sad place!With an amazing smile,And a dazzling glow around her face.This familiar figure and face,Walks to my bed side space,She takes my hand,I get up to stand,I felt this must be my angel Grace.Don't worry she softly whispers.Look to the future, not the past.We're going on a wondrous journey.We fly up through the ceiling,Into a beautiful sunlit blue sky.Though the clouds, into space, We fly...On past Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.We move into the darkness of deep space,At a faster pace,Then fly towards a very bright star.Brighter than anything I've ever seen!We then pass into this wonderful warm, soothing light.This must be the doorway to heaven. I exclaim!Even then, I begin to see glimpses of a.,Wondrous blue world at the end of this warming light.We fly toward this wondrous blue and white world.My angel Grace and I begin to fly down,
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Though cloudless blue skies, at a slower pace.Into a room with many angels dressed in blue and white,Surrounding a beautiful figure and face lying,On the bed. With one angel yelling, “Push dear Push!.”My angel Grace then says, “Your new wondrous adventure of life is about to begin.”Then my angel Grace releases my hand,And says, “Always remember to look toward the future and forgetthe past.”My Wondrous Journey never ends...
The End
Link to poem 'My Wondrous Journey (Reincarnation) ' at Cosmofunnel.com
It is early Sunday morningat St. Luke's Hospital. In the paternity ward.,
Where I adored this beautiful face ---What a wonderful, amazing, astonishing place.,With such a pretty smile and face.,
Before I could cry out to your pretty face.,An angel in a blue coat took you from our place.,
I began to cry out:Where are you taking this pretty face?
I cried, cried and cried.,
Next. The angel in the blue coat. Took me from our place.Can this angel be taking me back to your pretty face?
But no!
This angel took me to another pretty face.,Everyone kept calling this pretty face, “Mommy, mommy, mommy...”
For the next twenty-three years.,While I did my growing and learning.,Mommy was my only pretty face.,
It is early Sunday morning at,St. Luke's Presbyterian Church.,Sitting there, in the church pew.,I see a pretty face.,I cry out, “Have I ever met you in another place?”,The second day we met!
Link to poem 'The Second Day We Met' at Cosmofunnel.com
The Juju-do endures like a dreamy beer,Never hate a Jespi,Seas endure like big beaches Loveland,Love is a cool breeze.
Never pull a haenyo divers fishing net,The small girls roughly commands the sea,The haenyo divers Mermaids endures like a warm ship,Desolation, life, and endurance!
Clouds wave!Why does the highest mountain hide?Where are the lively grandfather stones?
Adventure, faith, and love,Unreal, sunny and chocolate candy too.
All mainlands fight rough, misty winds,Dreamy shore roughly loves the sun.
Adventure, courage, and life!
Jeju Pony 'Hidden Treasure.”
Sails fall like lively Olle walking trails.Travel roughly like an island reef,The sunny ship calmly views the trails.Sunrise from a volcanic crater.
Sunny fields of barley.
The sun waves goodnight, like a sunny gull,Sun falls!
Courage, dreams and faith,Oh! The wonders I have seen!Jeju-do
You are my first one.Are you ready for some fun?The beating of our hearts is as one.
Only you are in my life,One day I hope you will be my wife,For always and forever.Me and you in love.
I wish there were words beyond the words of love. I couldGive to you. “I cherish you and every moment I'm with you."You are the only one in this world for me.My eyes "Adore" you. MyHeart idolizes your soul. I
Keep trying to think of words that mean “Love greater than love.”It always comes back to your strength, patience, intelligence.Safe to say, “You define the words “Love greater than love.”
Link to poem 'Words Beyond Love' at Cosmofunnel.com