A Walk Through Life and Other Poems
By Jeffrey Scott Farr
Copyright 2001

A Walk Through Life I am the slowly ebbing tide Endlessly carving out my stake When trouble comes I shall hide Hidden in a frothy wake I am the calmly gurgling brook Winding my way through life When beauty comes I turn to look Eyes that have seen sorrow and strife I am the loudly gushing waterfall Plunging deeper into dark recess below When happiness comes I stand tall fighting the strengthening undertow What life has thrown me I have caught Leaving me silent, alone, and distraught TOP OF PAGE   A Battle of Words The flame flickers to ember As cool darkness closes in With fingers long and limber I wrestle with the quilted pen My words leap to creation With every nimble stroke Yearning for some revelation An outsider in a private joke Depart from me o heavy verse Alight on some unknown foe Only sorrow can become so terse Perhaps that is the final woe With hardness of heart and softness of hand Armed only with pen and paper, I take my stand TOP OF PAGE   Life's Journey What wayward strides are taken Ever marching toward the goal I travel humble and forsaken Searching the depths of my soul My feet trod down that winding path As my arms reach out for fame With an inner madness, a hidden wrath I search the land for those to blame On I press through this perilous time Stopping only to curse those who fall On I go, through thinning air I climb God save the wretch, God save us all I need not fear the battle ahead As my footprints, I leave, stained in red TOP OF PAGE   The One We Lost In the fading light of a passing day A beleaguered soldier hunkers down Uniform tattered, once proud flag in fray He sits alone on blood soaked ground In the early dawn of a day anew A woman begins her daily task With children inquiring what to do She sits alone with an empty flask No letter, no call, another night alone Without the knowledge of his safe return Her heart, she fears, is turning to stone While in her eyes a fury will always burn The once happy family now found in shreds A war that kills our bodies, our souls, our heads TOP OF PAGE   That Which is Your's Your's is a beauty that chills my soul Inciting my mind to summon your face In your loving whisper I lose all control With your soft breath, my heart you chase Your's is a sweetness no tongue can taste Making my lips long for your gentle kiss To be in your arms I travel with great haste For time with you envelops me with bliss Your's is a happiness one can never explain Causing my heart to leap out in fervent cheer While the world spins round in wretched pain Wrapped in your arms I am sheltered from fear Your's is a life from which dreams spring Let us journey together, my heart I will bring TOP OF PAGE               Copyright 2001

A Walk Through Life A Battle of Words Life's Journey The One We Lost That Which Is Your's