Poetry by Patrick N. Kramer
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Poetry by Patrick N. Kramer
deadiam@tnttech.us

A CHRISTMAS STORY
A HEART OF GOLD
A KISS
A PARDON WAS GIVEN
AS LONG AS I LIVE
A TALK WITH GOD
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
DO NOT FORCE THE WORDS
DO SPEAK OF THE THEM
DUNCES
EVERY DAY
FOLLOW THE ONE
HEAR THE ANCIENT WIND’S STORY
HE IS EVERY WHERE
I AM
I am what I am
I SAW IT, DID YOU?
I SHALL GO ON
IT IS ALL UP TO YOU
IT IS THE TIME
IT’S COLD OUTSIDE
LEST WE FORGET
LETTER NUMBER FOUR
LIKE THE BEAR
LOVE AND COMPASSION
MORE PRECIOUS THEN GOLD
MORNING HAS BROKEN
MY FRIEND
MY VISITOR
NATURE QUESTIONS
OF CHRISTMAS SONGS
OF THE LIGHT
OH WHAT A NIGHT
ON THANKS GIVING DAY
OPEN FOR ME A DOOR
REGRETS OF THE DAY
SILENTLY THE SHADOWS WATCH
SNOWFLAKES
TAKE TIME TO HEAR
THE FEELINGS OLD TOYS
THE MISTS OF TIME
THE TEMPTER
THE WORDS AND ME
THIS DAY OF SORROW
UNDER AN OLD OAK TREE
UNDER PAST CLOUDS
VALENTINE’S DAY
WHENEVER I STRAY
WHY A MEMORIAL DAY
WHY I WRITE AS I DO
 

About the Author:

This is what I believe is the best way to tell others about who or what I am. After giving the question on my Biography great thought and finding it hard to just write about me, I realized my answer to a prior question truly speaks more than anything else I could put down to be read.

On the site where I started leaving my poems inspired by the Bible there is a section requesting 100 interesting things about the person who leaves their words there. #18 there says "I believe in order to be happy first you must learn to smile" It is from this simple statement, that Bio, that I give you now, came to be, as I truly know no better way to describe the reasoning of what I am and why I write as I do. The poems in themselves have been about me and those who I know or have known. With that allow me to give you the answer I gave to a reader's statement of it is hard for me to do #18 in your list of 100 things. Note I have only completed 31 items on that list.

Why I smile

Learning to smile has always been difficult for many. At one time I too found this to be difficult. I myself have lived through things most have no desire to live through. I have made the decision to allow my own father to die in stead of placing him on a machine with a hope of his surviving. I accepted that I could not be near my mother as she died and yet I am able to look back on my life and say it has been good to me. I have felt the pain of loosing a child, dew to premature birth. I have pulled my Nephew from a tube of water in which I found him and started CPR to no avail. I have come within inches of my own death. I have lost many friends to death and yet I live on and find it is through the memories of the good times that even I can find a reason to smile. I believe there is no reason to fear; not death, for it brings you closer to the Lord. I believe it is best to “Live life to live, and love those who you can”! “No matter what anyone says, you are an important part of life”. So smile at all things that are worthy of smiling at and know you are worthy of having a smile. As for me I have lived as a soldier a medic an Infantry man and even a generator mechanic. I have spent countless hours in the cold doing my duty there. I have worked with the elderly and watched their struggles of each day. I have seen the change that comes over them, when they know the Lord has sent for them. I know the feelings of loss, hope, love, desire, and pain. I tend to see and hear what many it seems fail to see or hear, and it is through this that I am what I am. It is also here that the Words and me have come together. It is also why I write as I do.

Here also you will find two more poems. Both of which speak of me. I am what I am and the other is Why I write as I do. May you and all who reads them enjoy them knowing a bit more about where they come from.

I am what I am
WHY I WRITE AS I DO