Just for Joy
Although we were created to have happiness, feel peace, and experience joy, as flawed human beings we have trouble fully letting go, destressing, and laughing at ourselves and life without outside help. Personally, I didn’t truly experience these joyful emotions until I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior.
Contrary to what many people believe, faith is not boring, non-controlling, and where we can feel full freedom being open to happiness and peace in our lives. I discovered that there is a higher level of freedom and peace and that is called joy.
No matter what trials and challenges I’m going through, it doesn’t rob me of my inner joy. I believe this feeling of full joy “can’t be reached” without God in our hearts. This type of joy can’t be suddenly taken away. Sometimes I write poems that are just for fun, possibly silly, perhaps whimsical, and may even have a message embedded in the daftness of the verbiage.
For me, the key point is they are fun to write and fun to read. I’m unburdened both in the writing and in the reading. The poems may not always make complete sense, but that’s OK, they aren’t necessarily supposed to. The poems included have no logical order or level of importance.
I hope you enjoy them; you smile, maybe laugh, and even chuckle silently to yourself.
—Marsh
I don’t always know when my creative spirit blooms, sometimes blossoming so fast as if on a steroid fertilizer. This happened at a neighbor’s home the evening of June 18, 2021. Suddenly, my muse kicks in and I scribble down as fast as I could poems based on ideas suggested by our hosts. Some of the words and topics were optimism, shortcake, plants and flowers, and prescription drug side effects.
When in this zone I don’t think about what I’m writing, just scribbling as fast as I can. Within a few minutes I’d written seven poems and surprisingly several of them made the cut for Cancer Conversations. The first poem is titled “Optimism or Positiveness?” and the second one just “Optimistic.” My favorite is “Optimistic” because I roar out of the gate firing words like a machine gun.
Optimism or Positiveness?
Which is better?
I don’t know but
does it really make
a significant difference?
Two positives make a negative
Or two negatives make a positive
Or maybe two minds make a brain
Or possibly two hearts make a beat
I don’t care which is better,
optimism or positiveness
It really doesn’t matter
An “O” or a “P”
That’s the
formula
Einstein’s
theory slightly
condensed
Agree?
Concur?
Don’t care?
Optimistic
Optimism sucks
It’s muck and suck
A classic cerebral
standoff
I’m optimistic but
stuck in a cancer bog
I suspect optimism will
abruptly disappear,
running into a
a rat hole
I’m optimistic the
dust of my death will cover
the Earth with flowers
How do I know?
I don’t
I just believe
Shortcake
A cake is a cake
Cocaine cake
Pee cake
Dry cake
Moist cake
Or fruit cake
So, are these cakes
truly a cake?
Depends on your perspective
Depends on your pre-suppositions
Maybe your genes confused
by a sugar-infused high
Cake
Bake
Grate
Emancipate!
Cake is good if it
satisfies your
cravings
Sweet
Sweet
Sweet
Sugar is king,
Sweets are royal
especially to God’s
anointed
and sweet earthly
minions
(Written 06/18/21—A neighbor’s home.)
Seeds
Seeds or beads
Beads or seeds
Which comes first?
The seed or the plant
The turkey or the egg
Chicken or the embryo
They both come first
Simultaneously created
and designed
as a seed for future growth
Growth emerges from a tiny
seed planted in leafy world
Hmmm. Sounds like
the Garden of Eden
What do you
think?
The poem “What’s Behind the Door?” is a spoof on the 1963 TV show “Let’s Make a Deal” where the host Marty Hall asks the contestant which of the three doors he or she wants to open. One of the doors has behind it a BIG prize and one of them is a “zonk” or prize of little or no value. The show was a huge hit for many, many years and is still being broadcast.
I’m not necessarily happy yet with this poem. What do you think, and do you have any suggestions for improvement? You can email me at mensgrouptopics@gmail.com.
What’s Behind the Door?
Door 1 - Cure
Door 2 - No Cure
Door 3 - Maybe a Cure
Door 1 - Drug A, Cured
Door 2 - Drug B, Not Cured
Door 3 – Maybe Yes, Maybe No
The problem?
The doors and what’s
behind them is theoretical
They appear to be real and
trusted alternatives
but the reality, they’re not
The doors are just illustrations
of potential outcomes
Theoretical results
imagined carefully
in human minds
The true reality of the doors?
Door 1 - Cured physically but mentally challenged
Door 2 - Not Cured and lost acceptable lifestyle
Door 3 - Maybe cured, maybe not, but living
in the hell between—not knowing
Door 4? - A surprise door not previously
revealed by the Host, explained by the
Doctor or expected by the Patient
What’s behind Door 4?
Faith
Pick a door as if your life depends on
it because most likely, it will
The “Fourth Door.”
