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My Head’s on Fire

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Motivational, Poetry, Thoughts

Those ideas,
Those thoughts,
And all those things that gang up on me in my head,
Those are my world.
My imaginary world that’s real
And my real world that’s imaginary
My head’s on fire
And I don’t know how to put it out.
And even if I did know how,
I don’t know that I’d want to
It’s where my creativity comes from
It’s the blinding madness that’s known my soul
For as long as I can remember it.
Sometimes it’s in charge
And sometimes I am.

Sometimes I worry about
Whether people will misunderstand and misinterpret what I’ve said.
And other times
I really don’t give a shit what they think.
That’s up to them to decide.
This is for me, and that’s for them.
They’ll have understand it
Or they won’t
Either way, I’m good
Because I did what I was supposed to do
And I will have done what I was supposed to have done.
That’s the amazing thing about living:
The thoughts inside your head are one way,
And the life outside of it is another.

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Be Amazing

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Motivational, Poetry, Thoughts

Sometimes I worry too much
What people think
What they don’t think
What they do
What they should do
And what they don’t do
That’s the part that really gets me –
When I know they should be doing more,
Doing something to help
The starving, poor people around the world
But they don’t do a damn thing to make a difference.

Instead they’re concerned about their cars,
Their hair, their bank accounts, and their houses.
It’s not like they’re gonna take any of that stuff with them when they die.
Nope,
They’re gonna stay right there in the box, dead.
And the starving children
They could have helped
With all their money that went to estate taxes?
They died, too.

Don’t be like those people!
Do something good with your life!
Do more than just worry about your 401K
And how many times your gonna go to the movies this month.
Life is MORE THAN THAT!
YOUR life is more than that.
You were put here for a purpose.
Find out your purpose
And live out your purpose.
Find out why you were born
(If you haven’t already figured that part out)
And then go do something amazing
With the years of your life that you still have left in front of you.

You can only live life in forward motion.
There’s no reverse on the controls
It wasn’t built into the game plan.
Sort of like those video games on a tape drive
You could only move forward or to the side
Not back.
No going back
Only going forward
Only going on
Learning from what you’ve done and been through in the past
And turning that learning into wisdom.
Yep – you are wise
And you just didn’t even know it.
Be amazing.
You ARE amazing,
So be that way.

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Actively Swim!

Posted on by martyjreep in Motivational

Stop waiting for the world to find you.
Go out, find the world, and tell it what you’re doing!

When you want to succeed badly enough, you’ll find a way.  A way will appear to you.  When you get too comfortable in your life and in your circumstances, you’ll simply drift along in the water like a dead fish.  Live fish actively swim.

Actively swim!

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Diamonds Break

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Poetry, Thoughts

Diamonds are beautiful
But brittle across the façade of darkness.
Light breaks across the bow of morning
And shines into the crevices
That creeped full of blackness
In the night.
Ned stands with his back against the wall
In hopes that the light will find him
Before the diminishing darkness does.
It’s in his hopes
That we have an accomplice to our dreams.
In them we make the boldest statements
To the light of the room
In the moments that darkness comes
To squeeze out the last bits of favor that exist.
We find the hope,
We find the belief,
And we find the method
To persist.

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Books by Marty
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Dreams Alike

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Poetry, Thoughts

Words may appear upon the page
And dream in wary days,
But the worlds that stand on Eustace’s land
Are but a dream away.

Through time and thoughts and dreams alike,
The passing has its joy
And in the after morning bliss
The trials shall bear no more.

There is a truth that hides itself
There is but one and more
They lie within the mind and heart
And stand upon the door.

They lie within the mind and heart
And stand upon the door.

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Books by Marty
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Heartbeat

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Motivational, Poetry

Down goes the beat
Of the heart that stands
In time before the end

Down goes the beat
Of the very heart
That beats within my hand
And softens me

Down goes the stirring
Of the head that turns the beat
That ends the strife and ends
The winding down.

Up goes the beat
The beat that turns the head
That causes hope to flourish
And waltzes into heaven
With a smile upon its face.

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Books by Marty
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Of Water and Sand

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Motivational, Thoughts

A simple lunch at the beach becomes a symphony picnic choreographed by God in the details of nature.  Birds flit back and forth at the water’s edge.  The strong smell of seaweed and saltwater storm my nose and remind me why I love the shore so much.  It’s a perfect blend of sounds and smells.  The fish leap out of the water, breaking faith with the moisture below to become part of airborne groups above.  Although for just a moment, they transport themselves from the world of water dwellers to that of air breathers for an instant in time.  Therein lies the beauty of God.  Therein lie the answers to many of life’s questions.

From the grains of sand under my feet to the countless droplets of water that form the crashing waves, the Lord God has put his mark on them all.  His blueprint stands behind each iteration of a wave rolling into the surf making white foam in its coming.  The times in between each wave – the count – they too represent the finery of the majesty that stands in all.

There is a marked pristineness to an empty beach.  In the moments that it’s unoccupied by human eyes, it’s still appreciated by the countless other creatures residing in and around it.  The water is alive with life: teeming with fishes and monsters of the deep that live in retrospect to our finite knowledge of their existence.  Even though we don’t see them nor know their names, we still appreciate that they’re there.  We count it good even in the eyes of the vultures that glide by in air scouring the ground below for the beginning of a feast.

Pelicans have just passed overhead.  They steered out of the way, as if to avoid me.  I wonder if it was out of fear or because of an innate nature to steer around.  Either way, their change of direction gave me great pleasure in the appearance of their forms.  Now again, seven more flew over the other direction.  This time they were straight overhead.  I was able to see and appreciate another angle of their magnificent flying.  They’re amazing creatures.

Sadly, I have to return to another part of the world for now.  However, soon I will come back to this empty stretch of beach and touch once again that part of my being that is of water and sand.

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Books by Marty
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Wayward Fashion of Hope

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Poetry

A candle stands against
The impending storm
And raises its flickering light in contrast
To the coming darkness.

It is through the leaping flame
That the light gains its brilliance
And casts out its power
For miles around.

Almost imperceptible to the rest of humanity,
The candle gives an abundance of reassurance
To those nearest it.

When standings come to be
A wayward fashion of hope,
The light will shine forth even
In the darkest of nights.

Its light will go forth
Reminding people of better times
And never lessen,
Even in the seemingly final days.

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Books by Marty
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Looking Well

Posted on by martyjreep in Creative Writing, Poetry

The roundness of a person’s face,
Caused by the roundness of a smile,
Reaches far back into the heart of my mind
And touches that part of humanity
That needs reminding of its purpose.
From that viewpoint
Does the rest of the world
Look well again.

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Books by Marty
www.amazon.com/author/reep