Friday 17 November 2017

Home



Home

Leaving my job
I race
With my heart athrob
To the place
I feel loved, safe and secure
My home

© Phil Renaud 2017
Photo courtesy Maricris Cabrera

Tuesday 14 November 2017

Alone


Alone

Abandoned and afraid
Lonesome labours
Overwhelmed
Neither naked nor nomadic
Eternally enduring

Always alone
At work

© Phil Renaud 2017

Friday 27 October 2017

Flickers of Flame




Flickers of Flame
We are the brave lost souls
Our lives taken violently
By mortar shell and grenade
Too soon we had
To leave this world

To you we pass the torch
The last flicker of flame
Representing eternal hope
For peace and tranquility
In this lovely world

Keep the flame
Alive and burning
And hope will not
Be lost

© Phil Renaud 2017
Stock photo: ©dogstock 

Flame of the Unknown Soldier, Arc de Triomphe, Paris France 

40's What and Where

40’s What and Where

Hey Phil, now you’re forty
Bet you’d like to trade places with your sister “Shorty”

“What day is this?”, you can’t remember?
No, it’s not the month of September!

What’s that, you can’t hear me!
No, I didn’t say I had to pee!

Where are you going, that’s not your car!
Oh boy, this doesn’t look good so far!

What are you doing? You can’t go there!
You’re supposed to go to the bathroom so people won’t stare!

Oh, oh Pat you’d better come here,
Somethings wrong with Phil I fear.

It’s all because of his age you say!
And it only gets worse with each passing day!

Well Phil, I’ll wish you Happy Birthday anyways.
Even though you’ll forget in a few days.

I’m sending you a kiss, ok honey!
Oh, no Pat tell him I didn’t say money!

© Michelle Renaud-Toupin 2017

Used by permission

Halloween

Halloween
Haunted hijinks on
All Hallows Eve
Leads to
Lurid laughter
Or ominous
Wailing wraiths
Eeriness ensues
Everywhere encapsulating a
Nightmarish night


© Phil Renaud 2017

All Hallows Eve


Thursday 12 October 2017

Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks
Thank you for my life
And my beautiful wife

Thank you for my job
And my friend Bob

Thank you for the food I eat
It’s a wonderful treat

Thank you for my Mom and Dad
There’re gone now and I am sad

Thank you for my family
We are so mannerly

Thank you for this glorious day
Hurray

Thank you Lord for everything
To you I cling
Offering thanks and praise
For all my days


© Phil Renaud 2017

Monday 25 September 2017

Goodbye



Goodbye
Stop
Look
Go
Screech
Crunch
Bang

Our little red Juke
Is no more

© Phil Renaud 2017

Friday 15 September 2017

A Distant Rumble


A Distant Rumble
A distant rumble
Forebodes the advancing storm
Rain dampens the ground

© Phil Renaud 2017


Wednesday 13 September 2017

Morning Tea

Morning Tea

Dew wets the grass
Birds chirp merrily
Welcoming the dawn

Mist swirls about
Obscuring trees and flowers
Giving the world an eerie luminescence

The rising sun
Cracks the horizon
Beginning another glorious day

Steam rises from my cup
Wafting the pleasant aroma
Of green tea past my proboscis

Welcoming a new day
Enjoying morning tea
In the backyard


© Phil Renaud 2017

September


September
Summer is
Ending
Preparing
The way for an
Early fall
Migration
Begins
Exploding colors
Rejuvenate the forest

© Phil Renaud 2017

Music Is In My Soul


Music Is In My Soul
The music is pounding
Reverberating, echoing, booming
Coursing through my veins
Like a wildfire

The music is soft
Gentle and sweet
Like drizzling rain
Falling delicately
Onto the ground

The music is wild
Crazy, enthusiastic, demented
Akin to a ping pong ball
Bouncing and ricocheting
Around my brain

Music is in my soul
It permeates my entire being
Bringing floods of emotion
In waves, buffeting my spirit
Until I succumb to the beat
In my head
Floating on a river
Of eternal bliss
Lost in the euphony

“Life without music would be bland and plain.”

© Phil Renaud 2017

Artwork “Music Was My First Love” by Nikki Smith

Thursday 31 August 2017

Love Is...(2)




Love Is… (2)
…Like a rose. First it is a small seed. When it is planted and nurtured, love grows. Eventually blossoming into a beautiful flower.

…Like a blanket. Wrapped in your favourite one has a sense of warmth and security. Love warms the heart and secures the spirit.

…Meant to be shared. When love is shared it expands and deepens, becoming more expansive than the universe and deeper than the dark depths of the sea.

…Healing. When a heart is broken, love can mend the sorrow closing the wound like a seamstress sewing a torn dress. Love becomes the thread that binds the wounded soul.

…God. For he so loved the world that he sacrificed his only son to redeem us. Through that redemption we are saved. God showed the world how to love and now we can love and cherish our fellow humans.

…Sacrifice. Forfeiting our own life to save another is the ultimate form of love. Being willing to give all to help another person comes naturally when in love.

Love was given to us as a gift by our Lord and Saviour above. Cherish love and love will cherish you.


© Phil Renaud 2017

Tuesday 29 August 2017

Solar Eclipse



Solar Eclipse

It is noon
The world is dark
How can this be?
Superstition abounds
Fear rise correspondingly
Chaos ensues

Then a glimmer
Hope returns
With the light

The moon and the sun
Have had their meeting
The darkness is over

Until we meet again in 2024

© Phil Renaud 2017
Photo courtesy of David Palmer

Perchance


Perchance

To sleep, perchance to dream
That is the question
Should we take the plunge
To fall into a dream world
Where things are not what they seem

Perchance do will you drive
Risking life and sanity
To travel from here to there
To be alive

Perchance will you eat
To sustain your life
To remain healthy and strong
Up on your feet

Perchance will you live your life
Living life to the fullest
Or is life full of maybes, perhaps,
Ifs, ands, buts
What would life be
If we never took a chance

Live life
And perchance something
Good may come your way
Easing your pain and strife

© Phil Renaud 2017
With inspiration from Shakespeare

The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room

Glary lights give the area
A surreal glow
Antiseptic aroma fills the air
Giving a sense of sterility
People scurry back and forth
Dressed in scrubs

Coughing and hacking
Noises fill the room
Casts, splints and slings
Adorn the waiters
Wheelchairs are a
Favourite mode of transport

These are the sights and sounds
Of a hospital waiting room
A dreary place
Filled with sick and ailing multitudes

A place I visit
All too often lately


© Phil Renaud 2017

Tuesday 22 August 2017

The End

The End
Olive Ridley Turtle
Black Rhino
Leatherback Turtle
Indian Elephant
Vaquita
Indus River Dolphin
Orangutan
Narwhal

spEcies driven to oblivion
eXpiring on a daily basis
Total annihilation
our world Is a poorer place
when they are goNe
mostly Caused by man
This has got to stop
let us lIve in harmony
with Our fellow creature
Namaste



© Phil Renaud 2017

A proper acrostic first verse with an alternate acrostic second verse ☺

Monday 31 July 2017

Heartache

Heartache

Heavy hurt feelings
Edging out happiness and joy
An aching deep within
Raging
Through the mind and soul
Agony and anguish
Cruise relentlessly in the mind
Holding me hostage
Evermore


© Phil Renaud 2017

Wednesday 19 July 2017

My Bane

My Bane

Is Mary Jane
I used to love thee
Now you’re just a bane
On me

Smoking was such fun
Have a toke
And get spun
It was sad
A loke

Now it messes
With my life
Causing stresses
And strife

I pray
Everyday to our Lord
Begging him to take away
This discord

However, I know
Mary Jane you are
My woe
My scar

The only way
To beat you
To hold you at bay
Is to see through
My addiction
To rid myself of this affliction

© Phil Renaud 2017

Friday 23 June 2017

All The World's A Stage

As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world’s a stage]

William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616

Jaques to Duke Senior          
                          All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Tuesday 20 June 2017

Adrift

Adrift
Adrift
A vagabond
Wandering through my life
Searching but never finding peace
Befuddled by cannabis sativa
My life story is a shamble
Grasping for leverage
Failing I stay
Adrift


© Phil Renaud 2017

Thursday 15 June 2017

Early Morning



Early Morning
It is dark
Dawn is imminent
The only sounds I hear
Are chirping birds
My laboured breathing
My pounding feet
And my heart
Thumping in my ears

An early morning run
Is an exhilarating way
To start the day

© Phil Renaud 2017

Photo from Internet, no claim of ownership