Maurice Harris - Poems
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Poetry Series Maurice Harris - poems - Publication Date: 2014 Publisher: Poemhunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive Maurice Harris(29 April 1971) I am a Logistics Manager, former USAF and USAFR Civil Engineer Officer, World traveler and all around good guy! I spent a lot of time traveling the world both before and during my Air Force active duty career! I have lived overseas, but I am back and not going anywhere for a while! I enjoy reading and writing my own poetry, I have a website with about 450 of my more than more 700 poems! Please let me know if you would like to read any of them and I will make sure that you have the opportunity! I care more than most for the simpler things in life and I always show as much respect for others as I feel I am due in return! I have 2 children of my own, Abigail and Gabriella, who I love very much! I love both participating in and watching sports of any kind, I am very into UFC/MMA! I am a diehard New England sports fan, I have been my whole life, good, bad and ugly times included! I was VERY briefly married once, technically...but it was a hopelessly futile attempt at nobility, I knew in my heart I could not do it, but I had to try for my daughter's sake! It lasted as long as the time it took me to end it,4 months! ! I do not regret having tried though, even though it cost me my best friend at the time! ! I am equally comfortable being the center of attention or left alone. I enjoy learning and experiencing new things and have a knack for being able to remember just about anything that I have ever seen! I have an Eidetic memory and have been compared to both Cliff Claven and Will Hunting! LOL I am very polite, to the point that others have become uncomfortable! I use the terms: Sir, Ma'am, Thank you, Please, etc...I guess that makes some people uncomfortable! I hold doors open for strangers, let others in front of me in lines and never raise my voice in anger! I am very intelligent and I know it, which seeems to make others very uncomfortable as well, perhaps it is a sign of their perceived inadequacies, I am not sure! Sometimes people mistake me as being condescending as a result of that! I am almost never wrong, but when I am I will be the first to let you know! www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 1 I have been called 'old fashioned' and idealistic, but I have also been called other, not so nice names! ! I have traveled extensively all over the world, so if you have a travel-related question, I may have the answer! I very much look forward to being able to continue that passion again very soon! A little bit of history for those that may not know me, or may not have been paying enough attention: I am a Mescalero Apache, Cherokee, Mic Mac/French-Canadian. I self loathe the French part; no, surely, I jest! I am a voracious reader; a sesquipedalian; amateur poet; historian and appreciant of all things beauteous. I am a world traveler, who has been to austere locales on deployment, to countries far afield; seen all the remaining Ancient Wonders of The World, as well as many other UNESCO WORLD Heritage Sites, but I have also been to many other places as well. I have learned a lot in each of these places, and have it all neatly catalogued in my eidetic memory banks; I owe a debt of gratitude to all those who have helped me along the way. I am a sort of modern day Renaissance man in both technical and artistic endeavors. I am a survivor of Earthly death; and, I mean that quite literally. I am an extraordinary man, with an extraordinary ability to persevere, adapt and keep battling through, no matter what the challenge. I relish any opportunity to help someone, but require nothing in return, but a mere 'thank you'. I am not afraid to cry. I am a former Civil Engineer Officer in both the USAF and USAFR, where I was discharged Under Honorable Conditions, from each. I am able to love completely, unabashedly and without apology all that which I love most ardently. My family and friends are my world, I come second. I will give you anything that you need, want, desire, like, etc., and only ask for your gratitude in return. www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 2 I value ideals, but I do not LOVE them. For example, I value, covet, and am enamored with things such as: Honor, Courage, Duty, Sacrifice, etc..; I LOVE My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; my Country; my Beloved, friends, and family, and, THEN, I afford myself some that is left over, because I possess a plentitude of same for all who need it, including myself. I am a Mormon, or, more correctly, a Latter Day Saint. I am all of this, but I am merely a vessel of my Creator, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, it is through Him that I may achieve such lofty heights and attain such lofty goals. It has been a long, long road just to get HERE. Now, the possibilities are endless. Anything else that you would like to know, please do not hesitate to ask! Thank you, -Maurice www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 3 ...And You Are My Tomorrow Today is tomorow's yesterday, you are my tomorrow- Please become my today and wipe away my sorrow! Hear I do very little, yet what I do povides hope, Just when I think I can't go on, I am able still to cope! I look forward to re-starting my life, anew, Happier I shall be, each passing day, with you! Love, as our's, binds us, through our whole life- Take a road shall we two, making us Husband and Wife! I have faith in the truth allowing my redemption, Ne'er shall I fall prey again, to others' contemption! I know what it is to love another completely, Love, for me, fills my whole heart, repletely! I love thee, for all you are and what you do make me, Love thee do I for all of the 'places you take me'! Maurice Harris,3 March 2008 Maurice Harris www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 4 ...Because Of You As I gaze adoringly into your eyes, my heart, melodious with jubilation: I hold your hand, witness your grace-and it leaps with exaltation! Forever in your debt for the gift you did bequeath, Ne'er wane in your belief of such, I do beseech! Your emenence ever growing, with the passing of days, Though your beauty and charm, all the while-ever stays! Each day spent, more alluring than was the last- Until next I behold your visage, I keep memories fast! Separated are we now by many miles- Though responsible are you for each of my smiles! Look forward do I, to days spent together: When there begins our forever! Days ever more replete with love so true- My heart doth swell...because of you! Maurice Harris,13 October 2008 Maurice Harris www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 5 ...'In Him, There Is Justice' Constant is the struggle, betwixt truth and deceit- Whyest then do most tend toward belief Of largest of lies, until same crumble before their eyes? Why is that the world, for a time, believed your lies? More to the point, what were your reasons for such? Again, why would you stray from 'yourself' so much? Is not our family's import above all else? Why then would you leave Father, gravely wronged, by himself? What was so important at the time and since? Why also, would those better in the know, respect your nonsense? How many mistakes, lies and omissions need be there- For Justice to emerge out of the seeming thin air? Says The Good Book: 'in Him, there is Justice'- That said, soon shall we see, the edge of this precipice! Maurice Harris,23 December 2007 Maurice Harris www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 6 ...Keep Me Strong! Sing me a song, whereof I do belong- Vocalize a tune for me, keep me strong! Be my muse, I, the man you choose! Be for me, the offer I shan't refuse! Pay respect, yet homage; to mine own visage- Boundless are thoughts of thee-nary are they a mirage! Wondrous and magnificent; glorious and resplendent- The amazing, enduring search is over-you, is where it has ended! For you, lo, for me; this is what life is to be- We, as a family, the world, destined to see! Merrily, through life, we do now loiter- Ever thankful of our eternal reconnoiter! Limitless thoughts of thee do surely abound- Nary a place doth exist, extrinsic to us, around! Maurice Harris,13 December 2007 Maurice Harris www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 7 ...Yet So Very Close So far...yet so very close, Is the one I love the most: Though you are not near, Still, I hold thee most dear! Each night, as I do sleep, Promise of consort I do keep; Each morning, as I wake, The glory, reality does take! It is now mostly fanciful dream- Omnipotent, real it does seem! Each day, as I faithfully pray- Perhaps one closer to that day! Alas, as my dreams and reality do unite Nearer still to me, you, I do invite! Maurice Harris,24 August 2009 Maurice Harris www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 8 1 February 2012 (Happy Fifth Birthday Gabriella) 'Not one day has ever passed MY life, ...since your Blessed birth, Where I would not have traded my own life, for one day of mirth- Which I know our long-sought consort would bring to me again- As my heart's lament is never-ending, until this is what we win! ' This I would utter, if ever again I saw the Glorious sight I know to be My Beloved Daughter, Gabriella Enisi Harris-if God could show, to me For a brief fleeting moment, this vision of lovliness, and Her Sister- And I could impart the sorrow I have felt at her absence, that I missed her Each and every single day since last we parted- Each of which I have lied down at night, broken-hearted Both by her absence in my life, and that of mine, contrariwise- I could surely then lie down for an Eternal Respite, more the wise, Knowing I did all that I could, and prayed all that I could- To be there for her at each and every time that I should! Maurice Harris www.PoemHunter.com - The World's Poetry Archive 9 1,000 Nightmares, Since I Dreamed You were all I ever wanted, yet, fear was my nemesis; I stand now before you, undaunted, due the amorous armor that is the emphasis Of the ardor I do now feel, deep in my soul! For a second chance, I beg of you- With it, we may recompense for what time and circumstances stole.