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"Sorrow" 

Reality cries its tears
of grief and fear 
calling out to Love 

the song heard 

in all of human kind
beseeching Love
in self, 

the conscious 
collective 
Love in One

united mind,

poured deep 
from the remaining
cup of Love

held tightly
in the hearts 
and minds 

of all mankind

the silence unheard
they are not interested
listening to the music of this song

stealthy 
Darkness slithers
Darkness comes 

babies wrapped in tin foil

swaddled 
in place marked 
in the sands of Time 

babies wrapped in tin foil
placed next to boiling water,
a feast for war-worn tired eyes

the eyes 
that are tired 
cry and cry, then dry

no mother 
nor father holds 
their crying infant young 

their daughter or son, 
no mother arrives  
to soothe each little one

each little light 
goes out 
little light by little light

gaslit all, 

there is a battle 
with no earthly winners, 
to be won

yet, still the war inside 
each watcher turns 
to stand, or run, 

what side of the line wins
when childrens' cries 
are no longer heard nor sung?

the song 
of Reality's sorrow
in silence heard

the guilt 
in all 
of human kind

bodies holding tight
families like torches
burning bright

the song returned 
through smoke 
and shadows 

reflecting mirrors 
in all the resting 
souls of Light 

the anthem calls

long long 
throughout the 
long dark night

to stand and show 
the Truth held within 
their burning hearts, 

to grasp fiercely
the significance 
of their unfolding 

lives -
lost, 
or won, 

seen for who and 
what they are
in the existing light 

of their unfurling wings
eucharista, thanksgiving
courage eternal internal 

externally spreading 

to capture Reality's 
many sorrowful 
falling feathers 

released victorious 
to rest in the arms
of Peace 

to live joy 
full in the dreams 
and heart of One

the only One,

the strong, 
safe Home 
of all things -

LOVE

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)


Copyright © | Year Posted 2023




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Date: 12/29/2023 10:19:00 AM
Congratulations on being on the "100 Best New Poems" list for Soup. A powerful write. Life is in God's hands. He knows best. Prayers are always heard by God. We my not hear or like His answers. Have a great/wonderful day/2024 writing away.................
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 12/30/2023 3:06:00 PM
Let's hope 2024 eases off on the war-fronts, all around the globe and in people's lives at ho me - and sorrow can somehow in all people's lives have less of a presence; none at all would be the ideal, but this is not the way the world works. And to lack grief or sorrow, would be inhumane. Empathy is the quality aimed for...at least the focus. All the best for your writing and a good life in 2024 Paula. Much love, Leanne. xo
Date: 11/21/2023 7:27:00 PM
Son of Hamas Co-Founder Denounces Group at UN, Exposes 'Savage' Indoctrination of Palestinian Kids/CBN
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Date: 11/21/2023 7:27:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjOEJumoABg&t=6s&ab_channel=CBNNews
Date: 11/16/2023 9:14:00 AM
Former Hezbollah Fighter.
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Date: 11/16/2023 9:14:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upTofuSIcVM&ab_channel=CBNNews
Date: 11/16/2023 2:45:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTnt4f9QsrA&ab_channel=CBCNews
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Date: 11/16/2023 2:45:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANfn5mscjCs&ab_channel=TalkTV
Date: 11/16/2023 1:18:00 AM
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.
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Date: 11/16/2023 1:18:00 AM
You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
Date: 11/16/2023 12:55:00 AM
Superbly powerful - especially with the music. Gosh.
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Date: 11/16/2023 1:30:00 AM
Not Islam. This is powerful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb69Zqqiy-E&t=11s&ab_channel=AIJAC
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Date: 11/16/2023 1:20:00 AM
Hamas. How it began. 7/10/23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c2pYysSPWE&ab_channel=i24NEWSEnglish
Date: 11/15/2023 4:56:00 PM
Love is hidden in the sorrow of hate...why is it too hard to have love and peace and humanity
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Date: 11/16/2023 6:56:00 PM
"The Green Prince" ************************ https://youtu.be/llJxz1pAlQQ?si=ENJfHxH6I12I7zu7
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Date: 11/16/2023 9:11:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upTofuSIcVM&ab_channel=CBNNews
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Date: 11/15/2023 7:27:00 PM
It’s in our DNA. All the good, and bad stuff. Light and Dark. Love is what is meant to make us. Take producing a child for instance. The result of an act of Love, most would say. But many children are conceived and arrive into this world, outside the blissful realm of Love. If we were made from the “image of God”, something has gone dreadfully wrong, or God is both, Good and Bad/Light and Dark. Scientifically, we are “Lord of the Flies”. I do not have the answers, no one really does. All we can strive to attain is Christ Consciousness … call it whatever else you will, no matter what denomination; but children should never be “martyred”. Good souls should never be “martyred”... they should be "saved". No human saved the most famous martyr of all ... and the 'believers' around Him, should have; perhaps therein, is embedded the message/lesson. "Fear" of the consequences of "Love", having "Faith" in "Love". I do not have the answers. Love to you, Agt Schmidt. Reverend LoveJoyBe.
Date: 11/14/2023 11:50:00 PM
Congratulations. My very best wishes, and may I concur with your answer on Gina's comment. There is a place for unicorns and fairies, but a greater place for the pouring of real emotion. A poem such as yours that touches someone's heart is worth an orchard full of sugar plumbs and a bucket load of fairy dust. Lovely sentiments LL from SV
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Date: 11/15/2023 9:29:00 AM
Children need unicorns and fairies, magic castles, enchanted forests, princesses, Queens and Kings; but sometimes it's best to be honest with them, and ensure that they are aware of the Realities in Life. Add in some Wicked Witches, Ogres, Trolls, Demons. It's important for children to have joy and peace in their life, and most definitely Love, Safety and stability. But the realities, allow them to be aware of what is true in life (not fake, nor false) - and most definitely to be aware of others, to embrace Empathy to champion others, in all ways.
Date: 11/14/2023 3:24:00 PM
Congratulations on your POTD. An excellent poem! Many blessings.
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Date: 11/15/2023 9:28:00 AM
Xx. All one can send is Love, Peace and perhaps gratitude for the good things in our life.
Date: 11/14/2023 3:07:00 PM
Dear Poetess, Congratulations on your POTD. Your poem is powerful, and profound.
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Date: 11/15/2023 9:27:00 AM
Thoughts of humanity from a depressed heart.
Date: 11/14/2023 10:25:00 AM
Congratulations on POTD. God bless you, love, Gina
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Date: 11/14/2023 2:27:00 PM
It is incredibly difficult to say thank you based on the destruction of others' lives. But I feel these darker poems have to be considered above unicorns, fairies, romance and the scent of roses. People need to express their feelings of grief, sorrow, loss, wanting, in some way. Perhaps through writing and creating music and art and philosophying, the creative mind can find peace in bringing Love to the table to win in some small way.
Date: 11/14/2023 7:53:00 AM
Well said, LL. Seems like that song can be sung throughout history and forever. Unfortunately, that beautiful word "Love'" isn't in everyone's vocabulary. Neither is the word "Peace" Congratulations on POTD with this excellent write. ~Charlie
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Date: 11/14/2023 2:23:00 PM
True. Will these wars and destructions ever cease? What is the solution? Love and Peace require Empathy. The Empathy is sorely lacking in the majority. Can a true "collective conscious" that is pure good, Love and Peace be at all, achieved?
Date: 11/14/2023 7:21:00 AM
Congratulations LL on "Sorrow" POTD! There is much sorrow for the children predominantly, from both sides of the Hamas Israel war, ie Gaza children and the children in Israel in this nightmare war, as you said below. I too am witnessing. In war there are NO rules. The wailing Middle East sounds, they're heard all over the world! As William Tecumseh Sherman said "War Is Hell" I don't believe there are any rules in Hell, but that's me! Brilliant --Anaya
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Date: 11/14/2023 2:13:00 PM
There are no "winners" in war, globally and personally.To win a war is a bitter loss in some way,there is expensive collateral,most commonly,soul-gutting losses.I agree,in War there are no rules.I came across an article last night I was reading about a Gazan Poet (also journalist and peace activist, who's son (and extended family) were killed in a targetted IDF attack in Gaza.There are good souls both sides of this war, experiencing immense loss and sorrow. The grief carried,soul-destroying or making of something stronger.I've been trying to find his poetry,will keep looking.There are poets in all wars,who will write until they can no longer.His name is Ahmed Abu Artema, there will be many other poets in Gaza,in Israel (in Ukraine) and around the world, expressing their grief through the strength of writing and sharing with others.There will be poets,artists, musicians, philosophers,authors, writers,born from the minds and hearts of the children that survive this war, all other wars.
Date: 11/14/2023 6:58:00 AM
Congratulations on your POTD win. WOW!!! What a powerful write. DeShannon's hit "What the World Needs Now is Love" is a wonderful song. Yes, we need Love but we also need Prayer. Have a very blessed day with your win..............
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Date: 11/14/2023 2:02:00 PM
Are prayers being heard? One has to retain hope and faith that there is divine purpose to all this and that everyone's God is the same God. Many will disagree. Many will now say, there is no divine purpose and that everyone's God is not the same God. If God is Love, one would hope that children and babies are not God's martyrs in War.
Date: 11/14/2023 4:38:00 AM
Thought provoking and inspiring. Congratulations on potd!
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Date: 11/14/2023 2:00:00 PM
All wars are tragic. This one, commenced so totally barbaric with the Monsters of Horror butchering the innocents in Israel; those monsters, now slither in tunnels beneath the hospitals, schools of Gaza, using the most innocent as shields to deflect their own demise. This one even more frightening in the most prophetic ways.
Date: 11/14/2023 3:41:00 AM
Back with congratulations on POTD, for this outstanding work, LL
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Date: 11/14/2023 1:58:00 PM
Can Light be achieved in all this darkness? One has to hold onto faith and hope that the good in this world will step up to the lines drawn by Love.
Date: 11/14/2023 12:33:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LVb9eomksY&ab_channel=GlobalNews
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Date: 11/14/2023 5:21:00 AM
"Gaza’s prematurely born babies in precarious condition as al-Shifa hospital runs out of power"/Middle East Eye ************************ https://youtu.be/qNKYBoPfom8?si=P5CxStM1Yo6y0Sdl
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Date: 11/14/2023 2:12:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7U-CHlrfPo&ab_channel=AIJAC
Date: 11/14/2023 12:18:00 AM
"What the World Needs Now"
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Date: 11/14/2023 12:31:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZLKX5nGk4w&ab_channel=JoMama
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 11/14/2023 12:30:00 AM
"What the World Needs Now" (Tom Clay/Abraham, Martin, John) ****************************** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36L2EIYlMQ&ab_channel=lolfox99
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Lady Labyrinth
Date: 11/14/2023 12:24:00 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_World_Needs_Now_Is_Love
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Date: 11/14/2023 12:18:00 AM
"The song's success caught the two songwriters completely by surprise, since they were very aware of the controversy and disagreements among Americans about the Vietnam War, which was the subtext for David's lyrics."
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Date: 11/14/2023 12:18:00 AM
"In addition to the DeShannon hit recording and the numerous cover versions, "What the World Needs Now is Love" served as the basis for a distinctive 1971 remix. Disc jockey Tom Clay was working at radio station KGBS in Los Angeles, California, when he created the single "What the World Needs Now is Love/Abraham, Martin and John" (combining with the top 5 hit, in 1968, by Dion), a social commentary that became a surprise hit record that summer. The song begins with a man asking a young girl to define such words as bigotry, segregation, and hatred (to which the girl says she does not know); she says that prejudice is "when someone's sick.
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Date: 11/14/2023 12:18:00 AM
Following that is a soundbite of a drill sergeant leading a platoon into training, along with gunfire sound effects, after which are snippets of the two songs – both as recorded by the Blackberries, a session recording group. Interspersed are excerpts of speeches by John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, the eulogy given (by Ted Kennedy) after Robert's assassination, and Martin Luther King Jr., and soundbites of news coverage of each assassination. The ending of the song is a reprise of the introduction."
Date: 11/13/2023 9:54:00 PM
Dark, stark, real. A fav
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Date: 11/14/2023 12:10:00 AM
I have been watching vision and thoughts from the ones whose pleas matter the most in this nightmare war, the children (predominantly, from both sides of the Hamas Israel war, ie Gaza children and the children in Israel). The news that hit me this morning, relaying the message of the babies in the Gaza hospital, truly horrific, as if what has gone before, to both sides of the religious war, not inhumane and monstrously horrific enough.
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Date: 11/14/2023 12:10:00 AM
Humans, all round, have the choice to end this war and all war, to make life in reality, peaceful. To 'create' peace and a stable, safe world for ALL children and their futures. The atrocities commmitted by Hamas in the Israel massacre of innocents on October 7th 2023, evil at its most cruel, savage/barbarious. One could understand Israel's stance in this war. However, the genocide occurring in Gaza at present, pure Hell, for the innocents in Gaza. Hamas is Darkness' slithering hellhound in all this terror. So far. But both sides (the religions and humanity overall, including alliances) have the power to stop this destruction of humanity. But there is no empathy, no Love. What the world needs now is Love, to quote Baccarach/David, but no one in leadership or in legions, seems to want to truly sing that song.
Date: 11/13/2023 7:20:00 PM
"Doctors race to save newborns as Israel says it’s battling Hamas around Gaza’s largest hospital"/CNN, 13 November, 2023.
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Date: 11/13/2023 7:20:00 PM
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/13/middleeast/gaza-babies-incubators-al-shifa-hospital-israel-intl-hnk
Date: 11/13/2023 7:19:00 PM
"Sorrow"/Lisa Gerrard, Hans Zimmer
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Date: 11/13/2023 7:19:00 PM
https://youtu.be/uc1Or26VoB4?si=Xc4Rg2Y-JnNd4tpT

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