If we believe

  I

Through the door

the window

walk or fly 

nothing possible

until you believe 

Mother child

mother daughter

relationship 

frames this life

until you believe 

The athlete

practices long

hard or not

will not succeed 

until they believe 

House cleaning advice

let your spouse

keep the memories

until you believe

Two sides of the one coin

Two faces of one coin

Flipped still solid

Until you believe 

How do you 

tell someone 

about your dream

find the words

until they believe 

 II

I'm no stranger

to mystery

listening intently

until you believe

One step, one stride 

lengthens miles 

or trials, on a mission

until you believe

All around

every death

brings new life

gentle reminders 

until you believe 

Hearing deficit

Is separate 

From listening

until you believe 

Since oil is king

And change is hard

Our kids have 

no future

unless we believe 

Religion won't

Government can't

change for better

may happen

If we believe 

My full response to the "Believe" poem Jamele Adams read at the poetry workshop Apr 8, 2023. I shared part 1 of my response here  previously  https://www.quietpoet.com/2023/04/poetry-workshop-prompts-and-responses.html

Advice from the corner

 I

I bought a new basketball when I retired, planning to be ready to shoot

some hoops, yet it sits in its the box in the corner

Neighborhood natives will give you directions to go down a ways, and turn 'where such and such used to be' on the corner

You can save time cleaning by doing the visible spots first, if it seems to pass the white glove test, inspectors may not check in the corner 

I'll drink any beer the first time, after that, only the really good ones make it to the shopping cart, the rest will remain in the corner

MA needs more housing, especially that which is affordable, yet there are those that won't approve building something down on the corner

Plan, share the plan, talk about the plan, adjust the plan, many minds will do better planning together, otherwise you can end up in the corner

   II

You can get a book through the Minuteman library network, easy peasy, just like it was on the shelf, at your library, on the corner

He sang the song, as if he owned it, but finding out that his wife actually wrote the lyrics to the song blew me off the corner

The webinar shared insights on listening trends, some broken down by age group, some made sense, some could have stayed in the corner

She is such a breath of fresh air, yet some powerful men despise her so much, they work hard to keep her in the corner

The agenda was to plan for the event, which they found out as the meeting started couldn't happen, someone was not able to come out of their corner

There is a relationship between a thing, and the word for the thing, otherwise the concept would need to remain in the corner

Sherlock, those in the know need to share what they know, or folks will fill the void with anything else, forcing those in the know to dig out of the corner