Best Ordeals Poems

   "A crescent dahlia floats, birthed in decay ~
            midst emerald ferns,
    where scars dance upon henna leaflets,
    as lyrics float upon trembling lips,
  ...

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A sigh escapes still, immune to overt silence, unabashed...justified
Another teardrop enters the infinite pool of resilience, uplifting...reinforcing
   Another hand empathizes--
          touching, impulsively putting one's heart unto wounds, alleviating pain
    enfolding memories...

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when autumn’s last but long exhale
left mists of winter in its trail
her thoughts turned to the past to look
at greenway and the paths she took
where reading signs inside her skies
she'd dream up deaths and alibis
along the short cuts through the wood
with thoughts of stabbings and...

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Best in retirement.

There comes a joy, a contentment not had before in life.

The struggles in life about over, the ordeals mostly gone.

Sweet surrender it is called but it’s more like victory.

Victory over life not had years before.

New friends become familiar, old ones more dear.

For some...

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Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton Primary and Sea Point Boys Primary. His childhood gave him...

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I wandered the vastness of the universe
Just to meet you here
I considered many life times to glimpse
Your adorable essence
I explored the magical land of Atlantis
Even the technological Lemuria
I lived a couple of thousands of years in Sumeria
And learned to spoke magical words
I lived with the...

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Alone at the narrow and busy street
Waited promptly for a cab to stop a bit.

At last lucky one respond to signals
Rode calmly whilst have thought of things

As the cab traversed streets to bridges
Mind soared with the driver's ordeals

Spoke undated events which ruined his life
Special one...

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When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said “I have a dream,” we all nodded and shouted sharing our feelings because his dream was the same as all those who lived under oppression. When he appealed to our nation, “We cannot walk alone,” many...

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During the Second World War, people were panicking everywhere in the world.  And of all continents, Asia was one of the most devastated in the history of wars.

  So many people in Asia were victims of slavery.  Most of them are women....

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I yearn for when my troubles were as frost flowers; when the intermittent wresting
of my inner strings was natural , a part of growing up, and when, from tender stem , 
there emerged feelings of confliction that whirled into a strange collage-puberty's 
design. But whether...

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~  You  Are ~ 
( Diminished Hexaverse Reversed ) 
 




~O~




A 

True  Friend 
You  are 

You always 
Help me no 
Matter what. 

You are my Life 
You're my Sunshine 
My Inspiration 
True Happiness. 

Thank God You're with us 
You mean much...

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Nigeria. 
The country of my birth. Beautiful in youth. Wrinkled as the years pass by. Through no fault of hers. But by the doing and undoing of her children, consciously and unconsciously.
Blessed by God. Impoverished by mankind.
Struggling for self-liberation but incarcerated by wicked and egoistic...

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Freaking us out
Drones you know
There in the air
Just beware
Way up high
Spy in the sky
Cameras filming
Our secret lives
 
 
 
 
Trespass our land
And Cities too
Must get my gun
This drones’ through
Snapping away
Pictures of you
On the internet
Their loaded too
 
 
Well I heard a buzzing
Looked up high
Hovering...

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If this night you suddenly find
you have lost all faith in mankind,
need I say anymore, I care.
A resourceful comrade, I’ll be -a
friend in your dreadful green se-a.  

I'm willing to help guide your boat;
sailing wild, can we keep her afloat?
Right now, waves seem brutal,...

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Rappelez-Vous
(English translation below original French)

Rappelez-vous les petits fils 
Qui ecoutaient leurs grand-peres
Raconter des histoires d’ infanteries 
Et de battailles de la premiere guerre.

Rappelez-vous des braves garcons 
Qui s’imaginaient etre des soldats,
Qui plus tard servaient le drapeau American 
En tant que veritables soldats.

Rappelez-vous des pauvres parents
Qui...

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