My First One Hundred Poems

By Robert Ernest Rhines

This is a poetry book Ive been working on for thirty-five years, and these poems are of real-life events, situations of day-to-day reality.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532047619

Robert Ernest Rhines

Robert E Rhines currently a carpenter and have been for thirty five years. I've built houses all over Washington state, Oregon state and California state. I currently reside in Arlington Tennessee and live with my two best friends which happens to be six year old German Shepherds named Thelma and Louise. I have been writing poetry for thirty plus years and have decided it was time to share them with the world. I was born in Mesa Arizona in May 1966 and grew up on the Oregon coast. My parents are deceased, though I have family members which are still living, I have always been a loner of sorts. I am however living at my Sister's house here in Arlington Tennessee USA. My girlfriend who I have been seeing for a few months and one of her son's stays with me and she has been a huge inspiration for me to write. We all attend church on Sundays all five of us, as far as being a father of my own children, I have three of my own two boys and they are residing in Washington state and they are ages 34 and 32 and both have children of there own and I am a grandpa six times, and as for my daughter she resides in Oregon state in my home town and the hometown where she was born and still resides, and wanting to be and studying to be a nurse.

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-4760-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-4761-9 (e)

iUniverse rev. date: 07/19/2018

Contents

52 year guy

1000 mile blind date

Abused

Altering change

A man, just a man

Answers

Beyond Damaged

Broken

Bullies

Busybody

Choose wisely

Close those Eyes

Countless

Cowboy

Deep Within

Depression

Devastation

Eternity

End of the Day

Everyday Peace

Final Rest

Fire Storm

For Love

Fourth of July

Going Through It

Grandpa

Gun In Hand

Hanging On

Hold your own

I Have Seen

Lost

I MISS YOU

Impact of loss

Independent

Innocence lost

I Stand

All Gone

J- Cat’s Everywhere

Jesus Say’s

Let Me

Little or Lot

Judgments a comin

Let me not Sway

Look down on Me

Love and loyalty

Love Strong

Made by you

My Mind

My Prayers

My Song

Next Life

Nightmare solutions

Not Made

Oh Father

On the Road

Our Lord, Our God

Over Again

Pointing back

Pretty Eyes

Rare Elements

Resolution of Grief

Sad but Truth

Satan

Seven letter word

Shame is Lost

Signs

Sleep Walker

Snowflakes

Songs about

Soldier Man

Spirit of the Mind

Standing Out

Stainless steel

Still Fake

Suffering

Take, Take, Take

The Police

The Story

There’s Many

Til Then

Time never ends

The Devil

The Voice

There’s day’s

The Struggle

Tiptoe or Run

Together

Troubled Past

Two Things

Two X girl

Unforseen Peace

Remember when

Ungrateful

We Fit

We lose

We pass by

Words

You and God

You Can’t

You can’t outwit God

52 year guy

52 two years, living a blind eye,-

Who am I, what kind of guy.-

Been places,-

Stared into the eyes of evil faces.-

From parking lot fights, to barroom brawls,-

Been there, done that, all.-

Collapsed lungs, from being stabbed with a knife,-

One inch longer, or a rib, boom out goes my life.-

Notice things, how they are, not as you see,-

A twist within me.-

I have lived…..

I have given…..

I have died…..

I have risen…..

Been thinking more and more lately,-

If women love me, and men hate me.-

Four knotches on my life, four times I’ve died,-

Some by accident, others I tried.-

Some thoughts, got me thinking,-

Free from drugs, of all kinds, and no drinking.-

I feel, I’ve been here, not just now,-

Just can’t put my finger on it, I don’t know how.-

To many deja vu,-

To many things, I know how to do.-

To many things, I still want to try,-

A bucket list, for a 52 year old guy.-

Diving from the sky, diving in the sea,-

Vacation in Australia, on a walk about, works for me.-

I can’t do everything this time round,-

And I won’t be lost, now that I am found.-

For you Father, of the land,-

Your return, is in high demand.-

We all sit and wait,-

Recollection, no set date.-

THE END

Written by: Author and Poet

Robert E Rhines

January 20, 2018

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1000 mile blind date

Tennessee to Texas, the longhorn State,-

On a 1000 mile blind date.-

Closer you get, heart races to its own beat,-

As the mile markers flyby, you lay back in your seat.-

Though we have lived in the same hometown,-

First formal meeting, live Friday as the sun sets down.-

On the walkway to the door,-

Meeting first time, of many more.-

Reaching out, ringing the bell,-

Door opens quickly, what the hell.-

Just a kidder you’ll see,-

Try not to laugh to hard, your pants you’ll pee.-

Hugs and kisses, let get something to eat,-

A pizza place right up the street.-

We giggle looking at each other, acting shy,-

A tear of joy, enters the eye.-

Laughter rolls, smiles are lit,-

A 1000 mile blind date, this is it.-

Eating a pie, conversation all the while,-

Definitely worth the wait, seeing your smile.-

The kiss, fingers in the hair,-

Ending the night, exchanges we share.-

After the night, morning we awake,-

Kisses first thing, the love we make.-

The timing was perfect, well worth more, than the wait,-

We pulled it off, on a 1000 mile blind date.-

THE END

Written by: Author and Poet

Robert E Rhines

December 6, 2017

Wheels rolling

~Expressing the Rooster~

Abused

Woman and children, everyday abused,-

No reason, no excuse.-

Called ugly, called a fool,-

Everyday verbally abused.-

Kept a prisoner, in your own home,-

He won’t leave you alone.-

No where to go,-

Abused little, by little it begins to show.-

You want to tell someone, but who’ll care,-

He slapped you around, and pulled your hair.-

Names are called,-

Your eyes have not just cried, but bawled.-

Hold it together, your the glue,-

Depend on yourself, your kids need you.-

Put down,-

Kicked around.-

He doesn’t deserve you, he’s mean,-

He’s lowered your self worth, your self esteem.-

Black shades, to cover your eyes,-

To hide abuse, to hide your cries.-

Is there nothing to help with the pain,-

Will you ever be the same.-

Think about running, Its no use,-

So you stay, you take the abuse.-

Trauma in the long run, has set in,-

Damaged, but repairable my friend.-

He’s torturing you still, from the grave,-

Don’t let him win, now your safe.-

You have people that care,-