ONLY FOR A SEASON

Excerpt from ONLY FOR A SEASON

What do you do when your dream dies,
When falsely accused and everyone believes the lies?
When your reputation has been tarnished and stained,
When your credibility is destroyed, your name profaned?

Don’t dwell on your situation, pity yourself and cry;
Quit discussing what you wish would die!
can’t allow ourselves to let this tear us apart in all its commotion,
our testing ground is what qualifies us for promotion.

BEING A PARENT

Excerpt from the poem "Being a Parent"

Being a parent teaches you how to treat your own;
How you grieved your parents with things they didn’t condone.
You see how much it means now to do gestures of kindness;
Your love for your child, Overpowers the bad – love can cause blindness.

So now you can love your parents the way that you’re supposed to;
Even after mistakes they’ve made because you realize they were fallible too.
Now that you see how difficult it is and the challenges your parents went through;
I would hope that you forgive them, just like your kids may need to forgive you.

PAPER AND INK ARE MY WEAPONS OF CHOICE

an Excerpt from Paper and Ink Are My Weapons of Choice

My weapon has been drawn, dipped in fresh ink;
Crisp white canvas with blue stripes, that link
The things that pour forth from this furious war,
Spill like blood on the page, score after score.

There’s no writers block, only a cease fire;
Then the call back to battle after being inspired.
Whether writing history or solely ...for entertainment fix;
You can change more perceptions than with politics.

Trying to Please

Excerpt from Poem "Trying to Please"



Trying to please, I masquerade as someone else;
Am I ashamed of who I am, cannot be myself?
Why do we get consumed with what other people think?
To have fun or take the edge off some feel they have to drink.

Why do we get all wrapped up like that, I don’t think it’s just
To stake our whole life’s happiness on one made of dust.


Photo by Amy Ward (AWARD Studios)

OFFENCES

Excerpt from the poem "OFFENCES"

I won’t permit myself to be offended for I know where it leads; Because of my desired harvest, I refuse to plant those bitter seeds When they grow they are like weeds that come up to strangle; I will avoid wholly that, entrapping my fruit into that tangle. Release what’s been done to you, it’s black and white;Never is it true that two wrongs make a right.

Doubt Your Doubts

Doubt Your Doubts


Renew your mind, change what you think
That just may be your missing link
Don’t focus on what your fault’s about
Now is the time to doubt your doubts

That voice that says you can’t achieve
Is one you really shouldn’t believe
The one that tells you that you can’t
Isn’t seeing straight but at a slant

The one that says you’re unworthy is lying
So ignore that voice and keep on trying
Reasons they say you’ll fail can’t be listed
But hold onto your dreams double-fisted

Do not quit when you hit a snare
That usually means you’re almost there
Staring ahead at rough ground or large hill
Is surely not the time slow down or be still

Soon tightly woven secrets will be unraveled
Continue boldly down the road less-traveled
So not to hear of supposed calamity on these routes
Keep your fingers in your ears, and doubt your doubts


Katherine Norland © 3-1-07 All Rights Reserved

Boo Hoo or Try Again?

Got my second rejection letter when I asked for quotes for my second book... people say they don't give quotes anymore because they get too many requests so they automatically say no to every author who asks?