June/July 1997 and Jonathan is 17 Be gentle. Be gentle to your own heart. Don’t let the guide of the world be the one that you follow. Take your own path.
Poem: All I Could Deposit
All I Could Deposit by Jonathan Kraft Written 26. July, 2009 I want my body my mind my soul To be empty when they use my ashes to fill an empty space They’ve dug to be my resting place so…
Poem: The Life That Children Bring
July 12, 1996 Jonathan is 16 (Idea came before, but finally wrote it down this day.) What if the world had never know a child? It would never know a smile It would never know the simply joy that can…
Poem: Voices to Vices – What Is It?
Voices to Vices by Jonathan Kraft Written July 8, 2008 What is it That causes us to self-destruct? To turn our inner voices into our inner vices? To listen to the grim instead of the great? What is it That…
Poem: Potential (Tools to Aid the Soul)
It is July of 1994 and Jonathan is 14 Potential (Tools to Aid the Soul) by Jonathan Kraft I look at people, and see in them so much potential. Potential to do whatever they want Potential to make good things…
Poem: Just For What It Is
Just For What It Is by Jonathan Kraft Written 3. June, 2008 It’s become more difficult to take the time to capture the moment and appreciate the thing just for what it is. But in not taking the time… The…
Poem: Even Ice Cream
Even Ice Cream by Jonathan Kraft Going to school, you’ll learn lessons that will stick: Science, reading, and writing, and some arithmetic. And good grades are important, That’s definitely true, but grades are a small part of what makes you,…
Poem: Let’s Eat Ice Cream
Someone hired me to write this poem for them. Here is the information I was given in order to write this poem. okay the poem is a love poem… it has to be a modern day version of the passionate…
Poem: A Mountain Of Thought
by Jonathan Kraft Written 17. May, 2005 A mountain of thought is what I have got And I’m thinking I can be much more than I currently am I seek and I search Even looking in a church Ultimately finding…
Poem: By the Beach
By the Beach by Jonathan Kraft This was a poem I wrote in response to the following request (he actually asked for 2 poems… one will be published in a couple of days): i want a poem a bit serious,…