Your hurt in turn hurts me
You are not sharing your pain
But you willing share your anger
I am not in your team
I am the opposition
You have closed your self away
Put up a defensive wall
Say little and expect the world
I can’t help if you dont want help
I can’t listen if you dont speak
I can’t read your mind if you isolate yourself
I can’t predict what will happen next
But you are doing a good job of barely staying alive
A good job of protecting yourself and hurting others
A good job letting others carry while you stay away
A good job of breaking everything while doing nothing
They come in all sizes and all different colours.
Each breed has their unique look and personality.
But every last one is fiercely loyal to their master.
Dogs will always be looking to impress.
Throw them a stick and they'll run to retrieve it
wanting to show you how agile and valuable they are.
They'll respond to their name and given command
hoping to get a treat or be told they've been good.
They don't need a lot of attention, just a pat now and then.
Dogs show genuine love and excitement when you get home.
Show them a leash, they'll always be up for a W-A-L-K
or absolutely content to sit by your side at your feet.
So faithful, not a chance they will ever let you down.
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
In every pairing there is always the chance
Of mutation, pushing forward
Or genetically thrown back
To something now dormant
But still timelessly valuable,
Unintended consequences of evolution
Unlikely and even unwanted.
After all times change, values change
Yet human nature remains the same.
Every time someone is wronged
Murdered, assaulted, abused and cheated
Of course there are victims
And of course the fear/hate of revenge
Retribution and justice is stirred up,
But also in every harm is an opportunity
For insight and compassion
And true compassion embraces all.
Perhaps the greatest insight
Is that love, not hate, is foundational to Life.
And love is more mysterious and profound
And yet immediate and knowable
Than we can ever know.
In every act, loving or hateful,
There is a chance to see the play of Life unfolding.
(10/11/25)
Speak your melodies
and I'll dream of harmonies
that will someday be befitting of your artistry
Similarly
Voice your euphony
and I'll dream of poetry
that will someday be worthy
of your flattery,
and lure you into rhapsody -
pure ecstasy with each word
that breathes between the pages
from beneath those eyes
that never cease to critique,
and a breath that reeks of deceit
and deserted dreams that I still cling to
Anger breeds more anger.
A red gyrating storm.
Every outlook in its path, loud howls
Destroyed. Or will deform.
The same with minds of calm.
Skies, more gleeful, hopeful
Matching. Seen then, in its true light
This world. A beautiful!
BREEDS OF LATE LEGENDS
The soul of Bob Marley -
Tap it from the Caribbean reggae.
The ambition of Tupac Shakur -
Immortalize a generational legacy.
The mind of Malcom X -
A monument for all world's activists.
The dream of Martin Luther King -
Still holds the world's ear ransom.
The heroics of Nelson Mandela -
Voyage from apartheid to multiracial democracy.
The greatness of Muhammad Ali -
"Floats like a butterfly & Sting like a bee".
The world need not these monstrous men mountains
But most needing of a breed of our late legends.
Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP}
Copyright©November2022.
If laziness gets a fair chance
One can never at all advance
If health must be kept intact
Exercise must be the act
Prayer is the curing pill
Peace in mind it will fill
When a prayer is made
True bliss will pervade
If prayer is resorted to
The best God will do
When duty is pending
Upon you it is depending
First complete it soon
Make it a full Moon
Duty that fetches riches
Will surely remove hitches
If a work is available
Surely life is bailable
Work is indeed great worship
Creating with God a relationship
Always enjoy doing sacred duty
It connects you with holy Divinity.
In 'Joy Breeds Hope,' Connie wrote ...
"We have been blest with this beautiful Earth.
Let kindness prevail in me and you.
Harmony dwells with new hope in God's love."
Connie now knows the breadth of God's love.
October 5th, 2022
Tributes to Connie
Hosted by Andrea
Joy Breeds Hope
As my eyes look up to bright sunny skies
And I view soft shape shifting clouds float by
I feel hope instilled through my joyful eyes.
I take a deep breath, let out a long sigh.
Look at the trees how they've weathered the storms
They remain steadfast with beauty so fair
With outreaching limbs share shade in their forms;
Gifts for all creatures who breathe their fresh air.
We have been blest with this beautiful Earth.
Let kindness prevail in me and in you.
Souls need teaching from the on-set of birth
To respect others in all that they do.
Harmony dwells with new hope in God's love
As we connect Earth with heaven above.
2-1-22
Inspirational Christian Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Regina McIntosh
Joy, Hope and kindness Poetry Contest~First Place~
Sponsored by: Angela Tune
Kung Hei Fat Choy!: “Congratulations and may you be prosperous”.
Happy Chinese New Year of the Tiger to everyone.
Faith’s Lack, Breeds Fear
Written: by Miracle Man
4/5/2020
Gone are violins that usually play,
that can soothe a troubled soul throughout the day.
We are mired in a time that we can't see past,
and media coverage- leaves us downcast.
They paint a picture of innocent dying,
our future looks bleak and most horrifying.
As good hearted people reach out in support,
others parse words in a vile attempt to thwart.
*Prophecy teaches perilous times will come,
only God knows the day, the hour, and outcome.
*2 Timothy 3:1
“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.”
mostly great wealth makes
greedy blinded self for self
generous when broke
written: 6-5-2019
writing challenge 5
sponsor: dearheart
Craving is an arrow in the heart,
the poison of ignorance;
that spreads its toxins through desire, passion and illwill.
Bound with the bondage of craving,
our minds smitten with suffering
we are bound with the bondage of desire;
with no safety from this vicious cycle.
Beings going through the wandering-on,
headed for birth and death
While those who've abandoned craving,
free themselves and reach the ending of fermentations;
though in the world,
have gone beyond.
Craving is the cause by which breeds stress.
If its root remains undamaged and strong;
A tree,even if cut,
will grow back.
So too,if latent craving
is not rooted out,
suffering returns.
Encircled with craving,
people hop round and around
like a rabbit caught in a snare.
Tied with fetters and bonds
they go on to suffering,
again and again,for long.
For a person
forced on by his thinking,
fierce in his passion;
focused on beauty,
craving grows more.
He's the one
who tightens the bond.
But one who delights
in the stilling of thinking,
always mindful cultivating
a focus on the foul:
He's the one who will make an end,
the one who will cut desire's bond.
Political parties celebrating social improvement
could also grow organic system learning
to engage non-violent climates of health
and to bridge Win/Lose assumptions
of predative evolutionary commitment to differences
as more resiliently powerful
than resonant Win/Win living
natural/spiritual Allies,
Spirited theological heart-souls
and LeftBrain resilient ecologists,
red blooded creolizing missionaries
with green blended climate wealth-is-health objectives.
Optimizing wealthy eco-climates
requires feeding and watering cooperative relationships
among harmonically singing and swinging and swaying parts,
So sacred health vocations
could not be reduced to defending the autonomous Queen Bee
with predative supremacy
too often worshiped,
not so ParadiseToday rewarding,
extending tense pathological codependent climates
projected on, and felt within,
EarthMother's Universal Pregnant Womb
Where and why and when and how
Climate Wealth Breeds CoOperative DNA Health.
the water is in motion
its flow and a glow
of the ocean
its cool and a need
that
SUMMER BREEDS
through the flame cover me
in sound dignity
for with what one is willing to achieve
valiantly
feel the breeze
nestled through the trees
shaped through your dreams
a piercing of the skin
new hearts to begin
again
live a beacon of light to a much hurting world in need of love
draw strength from the joy you experience day by day
lay hold of a secure foundation never nestled in the grave
be
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