great barrier reef
a vibrant kaleidoscope
~ motley whimsy
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Nothing lonelier than being alone in a crowd
standing still in a bustling sea of aliens
they speak their dialects and look
right through me as if I wasn’t there
Feeling insignificant I don’t belong
and everybody knows it
like an imposter trying to fit in
but wearing the wrong camouflage
I try to merge with oncoming traffic
but they ignore me and won’t let me in
refusing to give me a chance
I am not worthy and they let me know it
Secretly part of me thrives in their ostracism
content that I have made my attempt
that like amber in layers underneath
there is more to be found in silence
Inspired by movie “Lost in Translation”
AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
A sweet coed from Kalamazoo
met a young man in Lima, Peru.
But her lack of Spanish
made him feel less mannish
and hand signs were all they could do.
A ray of light seeping through the ice. Touching gently on my barren face. Bubbles getting caught underneath this frozen wall that is trapping me inside this cold world.
Lovely day today
Sun dancing on top my skin
Super relaxing
Just meters away from the door's neon light,
Like an eternity in this dark place
A measurement of sighs past midnight,
The silence doesn't care about my face
The silence doesn't even glance at me
The silence is cold in all my ways
The silence condemns me to be free
The silence will be with me, all my days,
Despite the love, despite the burning flame,
Your radiance from my eyes must disappear,
From existence in the sphere of my frame
Your silence must cease to interfere
With the busy misery hidden in my smile,
I will never, to your grace, reconcile.
Apple sells some fancy watches
and so do other companies
But I'll stick with my 'extra-alarm,' ruby-red 'fireman's clock'
I just place it next to the bathroom door
~ when I need to go and the dang thing's locked
Flobodobba-dob? asked Bill of Ben
Dobba-flob? Ben asked Bill to repeat again
Ah!! Dobba-flobbing flobadom Bill confirmed with linguistic skill
Flobbing dobba-do dob do Ben wrote down with his Quill
Hadn't the flowerpot men heard of Google Translate
then they wouldn't have as much trouble to communicate
"Weeeeeed", "Weeeeeed" suggested their best friend little weed
but alas, the flowerpot men couldn't speak weed, so didn't take heed
Flobadobba dob dob flabba flob - they both whispered in the foyer
Dobba dobba flob - for they had come to see their lawyer
Today was an important day for both Ben and for Bill
Ben was there to witness the signing of Bill's Will
But who will inherit Bill's estate when he dies
Will the reading be full of mystery and lies
Maybe Bill actually had listened and used Google Translate indeed
for Bill's estate was all left to his friend little weed
So the morale of the story is to use Google Translate
if you want to make a deal behind the back of your mate
Bill used Google Translate to make sure he did succeed
and leave his wealth to his real best friend little weed
Tunes
I'll sing
Blasting empty barriers
Of broken hearts with
Sound
Border reopens
After a long long time
A tremendous flow of cars and people
Crossing the border
As though limitless
No more barriers
No more restrictions
No more ban
That doesn't mean you're totally free
As an invisible barrier does exist
We refuse violation of SOP
We refuse violation of laws
We refuse wars and terrorists
We lift the ban only for the people
But never the virus
Or the crimes
Bring on, Something new,
That is known to just a few.
Just start afresh,
But how could those thoughts suppress?
But this thoughts, I argued,
Are not letting you be you, I agreed.
Find your true virtue,
This thoughts you shouldn't chew.
Why am I here in a moment,
And there in another?
Why all of this movement,
When I can stay here happier?
How do you think should I stop it?
Maybe by stopping to ask it to other.
I will be able to bring something new,
When I leave everyone who don't bother.
Now I know that I am great,
In my own way I suppose.
All this time I was affected by me,
As only I would oppose.
It's true that you are your own barrier,
Everyone else don't affect you much like it appear(s).
You only let yourself affect,
And that's the reason for this impact.
Searching the shortest
path to earth
Elementary theoretical physics
Sat watching in wonder
the greatest show on earth
I just saw lightning strike the
mast of the north tower come
stroke of midnight
And even though it was covered in
low lying cloud from the 50th
floor up
It made it visible
by bathing it by it's
strikes violent afterglow
Nature's way of reminding
us the power it wields by
means of a common everyday
weather phenomena
Countless many times more powerful
than any passanger or war plane
“How hard it is for those who have wealth
to enter the kingdom even with stealth.
While a camel might wriggle
through the eye of a needle,
how can a rich man find heaven himself?”
Mark 10.23-27
more the merrier
hope are not a carrier
block by barrier.
the colour barrier
There is shooting every day in Chicago
many get killed by stray bullets shattered windows
but there are no headlines screaming
about these senseless crimes.
The gun-slingers are mostly black, and it appears
the police have given up patrolling a particular district
where the majority are dark.
we get headlines about murderous white men
and that is OK, as they fit the new narrative that
white is terrible; after all, they invaded America
and made it a powerful nation.
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