Start with your heart to love with cheer,
Let joy now start to live right here.
Live with clear mind that joins with heart,
Watch faith in kind work happy art.
Love starts to grow the way you walk,
Hope as you know frames how you talk.
Be a wise soul that finds the way,
Know cheer makes whole the messy day.
All in good time is how life moves,
Seize space that mimes a spicy groove.
Know that joy knows the way love lifts,
Prize path that shows life's faithful gift.
Heart owns the mind as soul meets grace,
Live body kind that sculpts fond face.
Come and go well as rhymes now tell,
Cast your fine spell just where you dwell.
Live happy days as grace moves fest,
Love's charming ways seeds well warm zest.
Forge peace of mind with happy cheer,
Be a sage kind right now and here.
As love goes round to light the day,
Glimpse sacred grounds as wonder plays.
Upon the way of festive good,
Look to this day as love frames mood.
Leon Enriquez
24 February 2019
Singapore
When the sky is gray
I wish I could stay
with you and comfort the day.
When the sky is blue
I wish I could flew
back and celebrate with you.
You and you and you
It's you for my day.
Younger, brighter, and more luminous
Than before, in an evolutionary process of happiness
Knowing you, communicating with you
Just being there
Paradoxical life holds many juxtaposed nuances
Whereby the truth rests in between the parallel
Waves that flow out from the organic forms
Of human dance
Just knowing you in time and space
Heals the pain that intertwined with
The pleasurable waves
When I dreamed of the future that would come
I hoped you would have lit the candle
By the time two chords would have been wound up
Into one colorful, twisting rope
On the day of our reunion
Desiderata, with her nuances,
Will have represented those desires that we all have,
Those of the wisely chosen love pangs,
Those of the spiritual chords that intertwine
Across space and time
Noises abate
I celebrate
This blissful state
A silent song
So now I go
A muse in tow
My heart to show
Sweet slumber long
nette's contest- Desiderata
"Remember what peace there may be in silence."
12/8/14
Barbara Gorelick
CLOUDED SUNRISE
clouded sunrise
shielded red eyes
endless tears cried
cannot erase
a sunbeams glee
at being free
to warm for me
life's frozen face.
John G. Lawless
DESIDERATA – Poetry Contest
12/5/2014
Theme number three –
*“With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.”
*Max Ehrmann - DESIDERATA
Beside the wood
long have I stood
in pensive mood
and reveries
Silence prevail
as thoughts set sail
along the trail
of memories
Nudershada Cabanes
5th December 2014
for "DESIDERATA" contest-Theme 1
Sponsor: nette onclaud
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