YOUR STORY (c) By Polly Guerin

Each page in the book of life

Tells of heartache, love and strife.

How well will you tell your story,

Will it celebrate life’s glory?

And be glad of the choices made

Was it one of courage and comrade?

Inspiring others to greater achievement

Despite lost victories and bereavement?

Did you champion of the goals of others

Be a faithful steward we’re all brothers

Were you creative even in miniscule tasks

Inspiration and pride of work was asked

Someone imbued with a generous heart

A first responder before you part?

If disappointment came your way

Know there is hope in another day

Write a new chapter on a positive note

Reconfirm affirmations on what you wrote

Each day a newborn page unfolds

Inscribing your account and goals

Make life changes on each page

Learn from your story like a sage.

REACHING FOR THE STARS (c) By Polly Guerin

Sometimes our dreams seem curtailed

Review your faith, it never fails

Lasso your elusive stars

Fulfilled dreams are not too far

Live the life you imagined

Create it as you fashioned

Revel in each day’s re-birth

Give thanks you were put on earth

Recall the dreams of long ago

Create them in daily time and know

Thou life seems short changed

Remember happiness is within range

Start living your dreams, why wait!

Open the welcome gate

“Why reach for the moon

When you have the stars?


*Inspired last line in the film, "Now Voyager" (1942) when Bette Davis says to Jerry, "Why reach for the moon, when we have the stars."

Meaning: If you reach for the moon, or reach for the stars, you are going to achieve something great, or do something challenging.

SING A SONG OF JOY (c) By Polly Guerin

The Singing Butler by Jack Vettriano

Start off with a refrain
There’s wisdom to gain

Take life easy and grow
Sing a song pianissimo

Build up your courage and go
Keep upbeat time in fortissimo

When joy arrives you’ll know
Shout loud sing in crescendo

There’s more joy in life
So sing a new song

As joy bubbles up in laughter
It’s diminuendo you’re after

Sing, sing for the joy of living
Musical scales are so forgiving

They lift your spirits beyond the pale
Staccato notes never fail

Reveling in a sense of well being
Let me hear you singing.

GIVE ALL to LOVE (c) By Polly Guerin

Love by Pop Artist Robert Indiana

GIVE ALL to LOVE ©

Valentine’s Day 2/14/2011

Do not awake to find

That Love is gone

Other loves await us

You can right a wrong

Plant love’s forgiveness

Heartbreak abates

Never give up on love

It’s never too late

Mysterious and beautiful

Kiss a stranger’s lips

Take the hand of wanting

A world full of riffs

A lonely child awaits us

Famished and forlorn

A mother yearns to kiss

Cold lips just born

So many brave men gone

Deaf to a lover’s song

I am old with wondering

Why the reason Why

The world is full of weeping

Must love be denied?

Kiss the child take the hand

Send love across the land

Say ‘Yes’ to your hopes and dreams

Life is never what it seems

Open your heart to happiness

Spread the Gift

Eternal Love remains.

RE-ENCHANTMENT (c) By Polly Guerin

“Chanter” (French) sing out loud beyond measure
Follow your instincts give everyone pleasure

It’s time to fall in love with the simplicity of life again
Forget routine, the daily grind every itty bitty sin

Be enchanted as you never did before
Daydream and travel to distant shores

See the world let your imagination take flight
Gaze at the multitude of dazzling stars at night

Remember to make a wish upon a star
Answers granted are on their way, not too far

Count your blessing, taste life a little
Soften a disappointed heart that’s brittle

Suspend disbelief say, “Yes” help yourself
To abundant joys waiting on the shelf

Allow a deep sense of beauty to be your plan
Do it now!!! Just because you can

Seize the moment, let your hair down
Go barefoot on the grass wear a fairy crown

Forgive your shortcomings, clear your mind
Laugh until you cry happy, the joyful kind

Create time and space, go there and find joy
Become re-enchanted like a little girl or boy

Discover the secret dreams you let slip away
Thrill to the moment with delight, be gay

There’s no point in wearing a disappointed frown
Live life to the fullest and wear a magical gown

Dare yourself each day to be re-enchanted
Get carried away, a beautiful life is granted.

Inspired by the writing of Father Paul A. Keenan

YOU ARE CREATIVE, YOU HAVE IDEAS (c) By Polly Guerin

So you’re not the artsy type

Beware my dear of all the hype

So what…

You can’t write a poem, paint or potter
You’re probably doing something even hotter

Don’t give up cause you’re not a gourmet chef
And think there’s probably nothing left

It isn’t true…

You turn the ordinary into something special
You’ve got brains, imagination and metal

Creativity goes beyond the arts and crafts
You make the day fun and everyone laugh

You don’t have to be artistic to infuse
Your home and career with creative muse

Don’t lock your creativity deep inside
Release apprehension go for a wild ride

Re-invent yourself from the inside out
Let everyone know your creative, shout

“I am creative” and “I have divine ideas”
Let them spring forth freely through the years.

*Art by Gail/Shabby Cottage Studio

YOU'RE RICHER THAN YOU THINK (c) By Polly Guerin

Did you know that you are richer than you think?

Don’t just count up your assets in a wink

Count instead your talents and strengths

Go to your inner value, to all lengths

No matter how poor you feel
That evaluation is not really real

Discover the gift of family and friends
Your talent is abundant never ends

It outnumbers any obstacles in your path
Disappointments, I tell you, do not last

Whatever difficulties exist they are minute
They’re no match for someone creative and astute

No, my friend, intrinsic value is not the case
Nor a fortune, riches, real estate or place

So re-evaluate the cash value of your worth
You’re a unique talent placed on earth.

Image: Illinois Association for Gifted Children