Matthew R. Stitt // The Writer’s Archive

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  • My notes from decades ago… The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz

    I. Belief

    A. Faith can move mountains

    B. If you believe you can move mountains, move them!

    C. Don’t just wish, Do it!

    D. “Belief, strong belief, triggers the mind to figuring way and means and how-to”.  “And believing you can succeed makes others place confidence in you.”   MTB

    E. “Disbelief is negative power.”

    F. Respect a leader, but don’t worship him.  Believe you can go go beyond him.

    G. “No one else will believe in me until I believe in myself”

    II. Developing Belief

    A. Think success.  Don’t think failure

    B. Remind yourself that you are better then you think you are

    C. Believe big!

    III. Fear

    A. Action cures fear

    B. Indecision, Postponement, etc … fertilizes fear

    C. Ask yourself “What kind of action can I take to conquer my fear?”

    D. Fear of what other people may think or say

    E. Make sure that what you plan is right.  Then do it.  No one ever does anything worthwhile for which he is not criticized

    F. Take action promptly, be decisive.

    G. Deposit only positive thoughts in your memory bank

    H. Withdraw only positive thoughts from you memory bank

  • Change

    Every time my life is changed; it changes all the time

    I come up to my book and put it to a rhyme

    When I think of change; my heart it skips a beat

    But every time I stop to think, I think it’s all to right

    Because I’m scared of defeat, I tend to lean away

    And into the darkness I will come

    Where no one see’s the way

    But every time I think I’m lost

    There is always someone there

    With change behind me and a hand stretched out

    I will slowly begin to realize the time I lost to change

    Was shorter than the time I won

    When love had caused the change.

  • A pair of poems from a military deployment

    Fading Flame

    Why is love too much for a man to handle

    Why do I extinguish it like the flame on a candle

    What’s so hard about telling her what I feel

    Why do I want a heart that other men may steal

    Will the one I love be willing to love me?

    What is this mind trap that will not let me free

    What internal mechanism hold me

    Why can’t I see

    She can love a man like me?

    The Birds

    As I watch mechanical birds in the sky

    I sit and watch and wonder as they speed by

    What if one day they can’t fly

    What if one day they don’t rule the sky

    What would be the world if the birds didn’t fly now

    If all these birds they didn’t know how

    It would be harder indeed

    It would leave nothing easy for me

    The birds will be flying from now till then

    They will be from now till past my end.

  • A Shadow

    A silhouette standing alone above the water.

    His black overcoat blowing in the wind.

    A large black hat tilted to cover his face.

    He stands alone on the rocks above the ocean.

    With his haves in his pockets he stands quietly.

    Grabbing his hat when the wind blows, as the rain falls.

    Living in a world that will never falter,

    He listens as if the water calls.

    Disappearing as the walls of water break over the rocks.

    Raising his head, he’s engulfed in the mist.

    The skies clear and the shadows gone.

    Has he gone over the edge?

    … or was he ever there?

  • A Poor Man’s Dreams

    An unwanted man sits in a corner,

    Thinking of the love he has lost.

    With every minute of life gone by,

    This lonely man’s thinking, “Lord, Just let me die.”

    Beautiful woman pass him by each day,

    They drop change in his hand, but have nothing to say.

    He is offered a shelter, but to proud to sleep under it.

    Eats a meal in a homeless shelter.

    Reading letters he never sent her.

    He dreams of the day he can treat her,

    Like the princess she is to him.

    He dreams of a life secure,

    In the arms of a woman like her.

    To him she’s a princess.

    To her he’s just like the rest.

    He plans out the day they’ll meet .

    She walks on the same old beat.

    Dressed up in a suit of blue,

    She doesn’t have a clue,

    That this bum’s heart is true.

    With every step she makes,

    She’s always in his sight.

    What a safer walk it takes,

    When he don’t walk with her at night.

  • My Angel in the Sky

    I seen my angel in the sky

    Bright blue sparkle in her eyes

    Seeing within her an Amazing Grace

    To brighten up my grey face

    I once had love upon my heart

    Till from this world she did part

    Eyes that sparked, hair that glowed

    and Love to me that always showed

    I hate the man who took her from me

    I wish I’d been there, I wish I could of…

    Then I would of stopped him.  Yes, I would of…

    Then my angel in the sky

    With that sparkle in her eye

    Looked upon my face

    And started to sing Amazing Grace

    Then she looked to my departed

    And upon her face a smile started

    The angel faded but pointed downward

    And she disappeared as I looked onward

    To my loved ones face of grey.

    Her eyes were open and she did say

    “I can see the sparkle in your eye.”

    I replied, “I got it from the Angel in the Sky.”

  • With Wings (Red vs. Blue)

    With Wings (Red vs. Blue)

    This project imagines World Wars through the eyes of fantasy. The medium is Sharpie pens and Hash-mark shading.

  • How do Adults Make Friends?

    How do Adults Make Friends?.

  • A Child’s Christmas

    In the eyes of our children

    Santa Claus is the man

    Who flew over the hills with his reindeer in his command

    He lands on the rooftops and slides down the chimney

    Putting presents under the Christmas tree

    As he finishes, he looks up and giggles, for on a table

    Sits cookies and a glass of milk all sitting on a Christmas note.

    Hello Santa,

      These are for you.

                  Love,

                  Mandy, John and Paul

    was wrote. 

    Santa laughed and his belly jiggled

    As he put his finger to his nose, he giggled.

    As he vanished in the air

    To another house somewhere

    Don’t you wish sometimes,

    That you were a child at Christmas time.

  • Quotes

    I found an old notepad.  Inside the notepad was poetry and quotes.

    These are some of them….

    1. “The mind is it’s own place and in itself can make a heaven or hell or a hell of heaven” – Milton (Paradise Lost)

    2. “There is nothing either good or bad except that thinking makes it so”  – Shakespeare

    3. “If I joined the military or make any bad career choices in my life.  That’s fine.  But if while I do those things I make a man or woman feel good about themselves. It was well worth the small pain.”

    4. “If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off then if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded”

    5. “If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want”

    6. “Never Explain! – Your friends don’t need it, and you enemies won’t believe you anyways.”

    7. “He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well is not so apt to get the dollars, as he who climbs a tree and hollers”

    8. “Don’t ever give up on yourself or your dreams because to chase a dream is the have life; To give up is to slowly die”