Friday, October 22, 2010

Fire on Bay

Fire on bay
on a 4th of September day
2001 is the year

Onlookers are watching in despair

The wind blowing from east to west
Fire spreading without regret

Straw vendors are affected the most
the straw market is becoming a ghost

Sadness in the eyes of the affected
Hope of saving much is rejected

The straw market is now history
tomorrow remains still a mystery

Vendors are now without stalls
Concerns are on the minds of them all

The tourists' dollar will be missed
all because of an arsonist

The tragedy has united the nation
People coming together for re-creation

Bigger and better is the talk
the ghost of the market past has to walk!

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Fear Poem

Uneased slave of destiny
...alarmed about the inevitable
Events consume my dreaded energy
...fear's my miserable companion

Life without control of reality
...a soul in total denial
The realization of fearfulness taunts
...as panic brazenly flaunts

Distressed heart pumps against the chest
...the uneasiness of the emotions besets
Phobia about where it will lead
...complicates the panicking feed

An escape route's desperately sought
...away from that unfruitful monster of dread
A desire for peace, joy and tranquility
...in an atmosphere of frightened civility

Shyness about rewarding decisions
...an oasis' welcomely envisioned
A place of forgotten timidities
...where fear stands outside its boundaries

Copyright ©2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011-2024,2025...
Dennis Arthur Dames
Nassau, The Bahamas

Favorite Movies

Favorite Movies Poem

Dramatic pictures of varied experiences
...awesome acts to behold
Favorite movies of reality and fantasy
...unforgettable gold of portrayal

Stirring scenes that test viewing souls
...poignant lines lingers to the fore for more
Talks in romance and happy times
...and the outrageous end to stroke emotions

Favorite movies for sure allure
...seen again and again with no sight in end
Can't get enough of the lasting impact
...with all immagination's brilliant depictions

Compatible music fits the moving act
...sounds of sadness and joy so effective
Episodes of tears and mirth indeed profound
...even the aching soul's memorably serviced

Curiously contemplating my favorite movies
...reflecting upon, even when a distance away
Remembering life's mixed melodramas
...occurring faithfully - each and every day

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Fathers

Fathers Poem

A Tribute to Fathers in Poetry

Highlighting patriarchs of humanity

...with cheerful gratitude and respect

Children of men highly commendable

...gather to pay deserving tribute

Fathers’ salute of merit and honor

..family values of nobility maintained

Prays for admirable and modeled family-men

...encouraging ideal family life and care

Giving recognition to a priceless grace

...family embrace their sacred roots of life

Gifts of thoughtfulness with adoration

...honorably genuine and deserved

Dads of rewarding jewels of continuity

...living examples for sons and daughters

Men of justified recognition and praise

..society's fortified in the virtue of love

Fathers’ blessing we thankfully celebrate

...for we have a wealthy future, and security

God's truly great and divinely brilliant

...blessed seeds of rewarding deeds

Homeage paid to our dear fathers of faith

...to our regal patriarchs justified indeed

Dennis A. Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Family

Family Poem

My treasured relatives

…my esteemed kinsfolk

Linked by familiar kindred bond

..in valued membership and principle

Living as one people resolved in love

Family cohesive and strong all along

...continuing the legacy of blessedness

Our forbearers deserve the radiant examples

...togetherness in joy and divine support

One beloved kin

...destined to blend in blissful harmony

In encouraging concord and reassurance

...for the continuance of happy clan relations

Humble children of God

...preserve the worthy line

Trusting in the virtue of Godly hope

...dedicated to well-nutured posterity

Dear mothers and fathers

...precious brothers and sisters

...prized nieces and nephews

...brotherly buddies and neighbors

A realm of wholesome connections…

A sphere of bountiful lot

...with hearty stock - I've got

Dennis A. Dames

Nassau, Bahamas

Expose Love

Expose Love Poem

Love’s always worthy of kind expressions

...it's the generous soul of the mind and heart

...it's the devine stitch of peoples in bliss

...it's the endless source of the delightful life

Love's not a hateful character

Love's not a warring personality

Love's endless oneness in immortal rapture

...it's the root of real spirituality and rewards

Love's like the beginning of a new day

...it's always timely and faithfully energized

...with heavenly radiant and hopeful lights

Love's like eternity with no expiry date

Love's like the eternal flames

...which gracefully burn free forever

Love's uncompromising, and tastefully firm

Love's like a favorite song

...heart-warming and highly sought-after

Love's the sacred motivation of creation

Hate's its defeated foe from the go

Love more, and be loved forevermore

Embrace the virtue and value of loves' charity

...savor the essence of truly good life

...allow love to be our upright guide for keeps

Impart uncorrupted love sinless qualities

...expose love thoughtfully and kindheartedly

Dennis A. Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Emancipation

Emancipation Poem

Escaped from the wicked shackles of foreign force and enslavement…
Man’s brutal inhumanity and bondage now below my feet
Alive and free… overjoyed spirit dance to the sacred beat…
Never a slave again… but a man with the divine motivation to succeed triumphantly

Clothed in inner peace and freedom…
In lasting independence – so profoundly welcomed
Pleased in doing the soul’s wondrous desires…
All the way to enduring pleasure and satisfaction

Trusting in the gifted will; songs of inspiration fill my heart…
Ideas and dreams that are exclusively mine to follow
Opening the gates of unlimited and bountifully useful prospects…
No more master but God is mine

Daily Delivery of private choice and deliverance…
Always in accountable control of my personal liberation and destiny
Yes, the Lord is my sole light in all things graciously pursued and well done

Dennis A. Dames

2010,2011-2023,2024... Dennis Arthur Dames

Emails

Email Poem

Emails irritating continue to come
...emails annoying one by one
Some are curiously read
...most are fastly cleared

Email nauseating - who sent you?
...trash galore coming through
In the garbage bin without delay
...emails boldly litter day by day

Email emails delivered safe and sound
...email emails - harassing all along
Email emails spamming shamelessly through
...email emails trying for me, and you

Email emails, something's finally worthwhile
...email emails - this I shall file
Email emails how did you find me?
...email emails won't let me be

Email emails, who’s baiting me now?

Email emails- still tracking me how?
Email emails forever pestering be
Email emails - a culture recklessly free!

Nassau, The Bahamas

Democracy

Poem: Democracy

Democracy is used
it is abused
it is to choose
it is refused
it is confused

Democracy is dead
it is alive
it is revived
it is realized
it is whatever materialized

Democracy is naked…
it's whatever we make it!

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Death don't refuse

Death

Death is living beyond
the spirit remains
the heart's preserved
the soul's alive

Death is life eternal
Immortality is the fruit
doing well while in the flesh
a life of abundance awaits

Doing evil while mortal
Infinite's the punishment
Death begins life's road
the living depends on the past

Above is a scared place
for the good of heart
Below is a difficult future
for the bad nurtured

Our living is our reward
the road we choose
is win, or lose
Death don't refuse

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Death

A Poem about Death

We are souls on a journey

…in life so temporary

Making our exclusive marks

…for better or worse

We live for a purpose

…the reward’s on the other side

With our brand of meaning and function

We’ll be known by our works

Heaven’s a destiny

…hell’s a choice

Praise Yahuah!

…or otherwise perish

Death’s every second

…it’s real and sure

For me and you

…the judgement awaits

I want to praise my redeemer

…’til eternity withers

In praise and song

…all the days long

Death is the ultimate transformation

…for the rich and poor

…wise and foolish

…believers and skeptics

…and the heathens and atheists

So, I prepare to meet my maker

…one day at a time

And I’m happy about tomorrow

…as my soul is right in Yahusha’s name

Amen.

Daylight Saving Time

Daylight Saving Time Poem

It's about saving time and switching energy
...spring forward into the days of light
Where the nights have become lessen
...and the home energy suppressant

It's a time of majestic living
...as the great outdoors happily dominate
Swimming, boating, barbecues
...an evening walk... the list's endless

Daylight Saving Time
...let's have a picnic!

You bring the beers... I'll bring the chicken

You bring some rolls

...she bring the party plates
You bring some Cole slaw

...and let's delightfully relate

Play some cards

...a little dominoes or volleyball
We have the brilliant light to recreate

At home, the windows are opened wide
Welcoming bright sunlight with pride

More time for natural light
The switches appear obsolete for now

Life's abundant on the outside

...with a bonfire for the quick night ride

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Daughters

Daughters Poem

A Tribute to Our Dear Daughters of The Earth

Delightfulness and exultation fill our homes

...'cause of the blessings our daughters bring

Thank God for his kind givings and rewards

...queens of heaven valued eternally

Parents dutiful and admirable

...blissful treasures of their souls

Beautiful generations blessfully manifest

...promising girls today for sure

...and leading ladies of tomorrows’ core

Daughters of the paternal fountain loved

...wrought in nobel duty and principle

Upright sisters of the society’s foundation

...good children worthy of esteem nonstop

Female relatives born in supreme dignity

...valued legacy of faith and reproductivity

Sources of life’s maintenance admired

...princesses of the enduring resource

Laudable daughters of the firmament

...heartening angels so gracefully awesome

Mothers, sisters, nieces and all

...the precious host stands tall

Equal inheritors of justice true

...other half of the sanctified culture renewed

Dennis A. Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Dark love

A full moon night...
the heaven's bright
Barbecue smoking...
fluorescent lights

I couldn't resist
in the mist...
her lit bewitch

A dance asked...
a chance basked

Love blooming...
secure she held

Her lips on my neck...
felt so swell

Moved to kiss her...
blood lips dwell

Fell in love
with a vampire...
night love woo

Dark love forever
for us of the two

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Culture

Culture Poem

Cultured are you

Cultured is me
Cultured are we
Cultured is to be

Culture is what we do
Culture is living too

Culture is the songs
Culture is the rights
Culture is the wrongs

Culture is the masses
Culture is the classes

Culture is war
Culture is peace
Culture is the living feast

Culture for the rich
Culture for the poor
Culture is freedom's door

Culture is rich
Culture is poor
Culture is for evermore

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Cruise Ships Coming

Cruise Ships Coming Poem

Cruise ships approach the port
...tourists can't wait to resort
Straw vendors and hair braiders in place
..await customers to embrace

Merchants anticipate along the bay
...too they wait to earn their pay
Tourists from ships now free to roam
...taxi and surrey drivers are first to zoom

Walk, ride or drive - the city bustles
...as the day ends so does the hustle
Tomorrow some ships depart
...others come in looking smart

Leaving behind happy faces
...cruise ships in good graces!

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Creatures in my backyard

Creatures in my backyard Poem

Creatures of day, and night roam my backyard
It's a soulfully happy sight - not sad
Heaven's kind and splendorous offerings
...the butterflies are elegantly fine
...the birds sumptuously dine
...the lizards majestically climb
...the bees sublimely mime
...the wasps delightfully bind
...the ants gracefully realign
...the cats pass shyly from time to time
...the dogs quickly sneak to release their slime
...the snakes say, 'the tasty rodents are mine'
Creatures vary in my backyard all the time

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Cousins

Cousins Poem

The blessed generation lives

...in honored offspring of blood rewarding

First, second, third and more cousins

...a brilliantly big family fruitfully expands

Children of aunts and uncles impressive

...grandparents gladly welcome the newborns

Cousins of happy memories galore

...no complaints about good kinfolks for sure

Who’s having a baby this year?

...only time will truly reveal

Boys and girls of the glorious lot

...budding contentedly in noble virtue

Durable family structure of upright foundation

...with new members on arrival to the fore

Cousins of graceful love

...the bloodline's proudly cherished

Multitude of rewards in family oneness

...a living vine of bountiful favor

Productive and hearty spirits

...harvesting strong in divine harmony

The creator’s welcomely present

...to guide the dear kindred in abiding devotion

We’re one humble soul in one Godly house

...with the peacefully endless urge

...to settle in the jubilant light of eternity

Dennis A. Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Christmas Love

A Christmas Love Poem

Reflecting on salvation's occasion…

Man’s redeemed because of the holy birth

God’s promise of the lasting covenant…

His only son for us imperfect souls

Christmas of the greatest gift forever…

Liberation from death celebrated

Son of a virgin and the king of kings…

Royalty of royalties, and the faithful shining star

Emmanuel of harmony and love…

Songs of praise welcome the bequest of life

Singing to God - master of compassion…

The season illuminates thankfully

Sharing in joyful appreciation…

Peoples believing gather in accord

Christ for the longing hearts - tears of the living light shine…

Christmas of jubilance dominates fine

Reflections of sinners’ fate rescued…

Jesus the true promise - Jesus the savior

Christmas tribute of sacrifice adored…

Love of heaven evermore replenished

Dennis A. Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

When the wars have ceased

When the Wars have Ceased Poem

Cease war!

Our glorious world of madness and terror
...between losing and deranged factions

Who's really right?
Who's wrong outright?

Every day’s the same confusing song
...someone seeks fame or honour to belong

Crying sadly for the sacrificed lot
Rejoicing tearfully

...for the miserable many who're not

A universe of constant betrayal and fear
...a planet of startling warfare and scare

Spirits of mixed values and treasuredness
...a globe of tragic despair and weariness

Profiteers are meanly joyous and motivated
...suffers are spiritually somber - yet hopeful

A world we've had with all the warring same
...is still the old and wretched bloody game

Living together's firmly an ideal dream
...yet split life drives still the active stream

A world of guaranteed eternal peace
...when the warmongers ceased to finally be

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Capricious weather

Capricious Weather Poem

Nicely relaxed and chilled outdoors
...on a glistening sunny day
My old friend dutifully visits

...with a lot in mind to say

Suddenly, the sky turned eerily dark
...the breeze from nowhere starts to spark
Rain out of the clear pours-in
...and windiness boldly joins-in

Again, all's sweetly calm and sunshine
...moving refreshingly through the line
Not for long as cool air blew-in strong

...as meaningful links flowed unbroken along

Capricious the day's weather
…doesn't stop happy birds of a feather
My unbothered old pal
...lifted-up his chilled glass

...as we toasted to the great life with class

We merrily moved to a shed
...from nature's occasional wild tread
The good day after all
...was agreeably unchanging instead

Dennis Arthur Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas

Brothers

The Brothers Poem

Brothers Together Forever

Intimate relations so humbly valued

...with brothers lovingly keep

Souls anointed of the brotherhood

...sound and robust kinship for good

Fraternity of eternal blood and peace

...society of lasting treasure increase

Sibling rivalry intermittently release

...as amity prevails ceaselessly

Family of praiseworthy equality

...nourishing on exulted togetherness

Occasional sidetracks in the tent

...breaking dishonorably the brotherly flow

…unbreakable fraternal bond warmly aglow

Brothers forever in unified dedication

...family people of undying devotion

Affiliating peacefully in sacred oneness

...divisive battles un-tolerated and un-welcomed

A brothers' song celebrating divine unity

...souls in positively enduring light

Models of genuine fellowship and respect

...fortified pillars of Godly design

Dennis A. Dames

Nassau, The Bahamas