Gentle Days and Castaways
With a gentle day,
Comes a nice sunny sky,
With no clouds to the eye,
A careless whisper,
And a time for fun,
With a castaway,
You’re never done,
They watch them simmer,
Under the rising sun,
A chance where they need to run,
And go through the gentle day,
But still be a “difficult”,
Cast-a-way.
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Categories:
castaways, child,
Form: Free verse
Castaway Memories On Distant Shores
Over the horizon,
on distant shores
lies my message in a bottle
cast askew on the beach
with other remnant memories
and hopes in tatters scattered
strewn among the drift wood debris
dead soldier memories lying face down
castaway sailor survivor sobs long gone,
in the debris fields of dead memories, silent
On distant shores
turtles hatch
alligators bask in the sun
seagulls argue and caw
fishermen love
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Categories:
castaways, beach,
Form: Free verse
Human Kindness In Extraordinary Ways
Oh great protector
Of all the worlds human sectors
Rain falls on the erector scale
It came down without fail
So many of us left out to bail
Without anything to sail
Human kindness
People helping people
Without blindness
It's things like this that remind us
We will be able to put this behind us
America's spirit will get through it
The water just blew
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Categories:
castaways, anger, beach, community, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
castaways, beautiful, butterfly, paradise, rainforest,
Form: Haiku
Christmas Castaways
Christmas Castaways
My good friend Jerry’s unemployment had run out
I feared print journalism’s future was in doubt
But while we commiserated on Christmas Eve
A disheartening report was broadcast on TV
Local law enforcement had been busy that day
People found living in the woods had been cast away
These homeless families had set up tents on state land
And police had
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Categories:
castaways, christmas, friend, holiday,
Form: Couplet
The Castaways
the castaways walk alone.
down the many allies, roads.
looking for someone to take,
them in, for a meal, for rest.
for a kind hand to hold them.
to heal their wounds,their
scared,broken,straved bodies.
to be loved,cared for,a home.
thrown out by irresponsible humans.
who thought they were cute once.
kicked to the curb to fend alone.
their cries go unnoticed by so many.
such devastation,
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Categories:
castaways, animals
Form: Free verse