APROPOS OF DING DONG DITCH AND PALS
Literally, AI pranks
Have caused suicides:-
One while on the computer;
The other by a back shot:-
This may sound funny,
But death is no silly joke;
Neither should pranks be:-
Putting all in perspective,
In half of a month,
Check out “AI Psychosis”
And its friend, “Sycophancy”!?!
As must be with war,
Let us crack down on greed and
Its collateral damage:
At least give this all some thought:-
Friends are for life,
Burning bright like stars,
Sun like steady,
guiding through
storms of doubt
and decision.
Darkness deep,
Shimmering distances,
faint pinpricks
that appear
deep enough
to need them.
The childhood friend:
of memory never fades,
winter after winter
rising in the
same place and burning bright like pole star.
New friends
cluster like the stars,
seven sisters dancing,
each light distinct,
yet bound by
invisible threads
of shared laughter.
Some have
wandered
beyond my horizon,
their glow
A question mark
against
unfamiliar skies.
But on clear nights,
when loneliness
spreads its black cloth,
I trace the lines between us
this one who held my hand through grief,
that one who celebrated my small victories,
another who simply
sat in comfortable silence.
Distance is nothing to starlight.
Love travels at the speed of memory,
arrives intact
after years of traveling
through the dark.
Tonight,
I map the constellation of us:
each friend a fixed point
in the turning world,
their collective brightness
spelling out my name
across the endless
sky of belonging.
IN CAPABILITY GARDENS
There’s ability,
And there’s disability;
Let’s garden both:
Ability’s seeds fruiting
Disability’s healing:-
foreboding omen
bumblebees on the decline
the worse yet to come
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
he's a seriously troubled soul
dwelling on regrets
they're eating him alive
things he can't forgive
hurts he can't get past
dreams he left afloat
cobwebs in his mind
his rambling thoughts
will drive him off the cliff
and sink him to despair
it's bordering insanity
i see him surely drowning
and there's nothing i can do
if he won't grab the buoy
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Come closer to my beating heart
Your concern for me is quite enough
I thank You that You care for me
I thank You that You give me love
I'm strong when in Your presence
Those that are weak can only hope
That some day they'll be in Your arms
No longer feeling without hope
To whom it may concern; I don't have a memory of being afraid of the dark, from the youngest of age never fearing angels, demons or anything with a spark.
Eight-legged critters seem more like a friend, but anything with a heartbeat and most without, I will always defend.
Some of the worst things people can experience: heights, claustrophobic, loss of a loved one, death, has no concern on me, I’m living life to the fullest of every breath.
There's not a monster in the world that’s scarier than any with-in, spent twenty years in religion to come out more confused, humming a hymn.
More than a fear, more like scares the hell out of me, the acts humans can do to other humans and jus act like let it be...
To whom it may concern fears couldn't grip me with titans power, I have lived my life with no regrets I have seen death it's not bad if your life wasn't sour.
What is to be expected? Mr Trump finally was elected.'
Before was Biden.' Yet there were forces behind him
Holding gold? And other riches.' Influencing this world
By almost un-seen stiches.' Garnering power destroying
So much reveling and disporting.' Deploying much lust'
Of world the apperatus, the opperating machine just how
Much did they own? Seventy percent? Or thirty? Unknown
Or so it seems.' Yet they could give a racehorse as a gift
I would guess a dozen yachts, small armies of influence
You get my drift? On whats what? So would they go easy?
Into an unfriendly night.' Or would they hold onto their levers of might.? Might they not consider? We shall appear
To do less.? And any in power we'll hand some real stress
Along with an advisory' on just how much they can do.!
To instill a charade of difference.? Just a thought now mind
You!!)
I often wander from life's rules,
flounder thru issues days will spool.
At those times, you gentle my view.
I am blessed to be loved by you.
If I hide when morning arrives
renewed strength comes from your blue eyes.
Your presence stays my spirit's hue.
I am blessed to be loved by you.
I sometimes bruise when life turns tough,
void of humor and light mood fluff.
From your touch warm healings come through.
I am blessed to be loved by you.
Your heart tendered concern and care
gives our companionship sweet flare.
Just loving memories accrue.
I am blessed to be loved by you.
I pray to steer your life complete
as our love is a two way sweet.
Joy is life viewed as just we two.
I am blessed to be loved by you.
BEFORE
bands of fleeing lovers
tumble from your dusty room
to their real lives and relatives
those hours with you dissipated
dispensed with the innocence
of Before
now, you must return unclean
to others who thought they knew you
to things pure and untouched by Life
smiling with the innocence
of Before
C2024 Thomas Lee Rhymes April 2, 2024
Standing at the brink of our new world
I gaze into the majestic landscape.
I see a novel synthetic fraternity
Shining lights of discovery –
Teetering on the edge
Of a blazing dystopian inferno.
Saving our only home
The world should be clean.
The world should be green.
Throw the waste in the dustbin.
And the world will come one step closer to being clean.
Day by day it is getting worse and dirtier.
Holding up the pain of being untidy
The earth carries a lot of people.
The earth wanted to be a planet where humans could live forever.
Earth wanted to have humans, however
Humans are not willing to be earthians now.
They only want to leave the planet. How?
Humans are fed up with the planet they destructed.
They are finding the planet where new life could be constructed.
The earth is worried about its health and ours too.
And this responsibility begins with you.
Before Mother Earth forgets its purpose.
Taking care is a responsibility that begins with us.
Lasting peace since time began, was never won nor made by man.
Treaties are made, then hastily broken, like cheapened, tin cans.
Israel was just offered to capitulate to all inhumane, demands of Hamas?
Those antedeluvian, October genocidists~are our leaders in DC smoking
fetid grass?
Our own USA, is sadly, way out of political, educational and moral control.
While empty brains in DC, obviously hostile to Israel, are made of mushy
Jelly- Rolls?
DC does not have a clue that body parts from the Nova Festival are still not even identified?
Sadly, this adminstration supports Hamas, and wants all Jews dead and their freedoms…..petrified!
10/20/2024
Oddly, I had no news on, at all today,
I just heard about your city’s early morning’s sway!
Having lived through earthquakes, I know that fear…
You wait for those afterschocks, that’s so very clear!
Keep flashlights and all electronics charged.
God watches over you, he is your best guard!
I do remeber building swaying to and fro.
But there really was no place at all to go.
And when an afterschock comes in the night,
It rolls you in bed, from left to your right
From your NoCal neighbor.
Love and Prayers, gear piets!
Pangie
9/12/2024
@ Panagiota Romios
When the others say to you
In their blissfull ignorance
Anything what you should do
But it doesn’t stand a chance
Cause you know the subject well
Better than they could’ve fathomed
Do you send them all to hell,
Or you’re lenient to others?
You consider what they are
Taking care of their concern
You don’t want them be too far
And it’s easy to discern
Others and myself, because
I’m afar, and they are here
Very different from those
From another side of sphere.
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