Discoveries within the stem glass,
strawberries are lemonade rubies.
Bellies are hungry to find riches,
stories deliver that meal with ease.
Eyes tormented by one another,
paradise seems within easy reach.
Dusk-rise now pales in comparison,
‘sky’s on fire’ is a figure of speech.
R-oaming
E-verywhere
T-o
Collect
H-appiness
E-xplores
L-ovely
L-andscapes
©bfa060825
Monocrostic (Birthday of Retchell A. Paiste)
The line that separates romantic and platonic feelings
Has always been very thin,
Very blurred
Believing it was supposed to feel like so
But when my best friend told me
she's never thought of girls in that way...
Something shifted
I realized
Under the influence of heartbreak,
The guise of embarrassment,
Blurred and thin lines
Are never straight.
My latest piece is too long the poem section - so it's in "Short Stories."
It's called "discoveries"
I could shorten it - but why? *shrug*
Here's the link:
www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/discoveries_10810
I hope you like it!
Do all things that happen to us,
Have an undiscovered reason behind them?
Or some things are just meant to be,
The way they are?
When a little child slips and falls while playing,
Does the reason behind him falling, ever bother him?
Or perhaps, when a man is fighting life's toughest battles,
Does he ever realise that these battles are meant for him,
To learn from his past mistakes and grow through the journey?
Are we really not thinking enough,
Or is it that we're just over analyzing?
Well, I'm not very certain,
For, I'm still a young learner,
Who is yet to unleash the concealed discoveries,
That Life has to offer!
All I know is every single step one takes ahead, counts!
If you wish for new things to discover...
Stop walking on paths that aren't new!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
12 March 2022
Every step
we learn.
Every step
we discover.
The things we never knew,
thought we would never know,
there it is !
Because we searched.
in amazement in front of us
was hidden all this time,
hidden only from those
uninterested.
But those among us
wanted
before we depart,
one more thing we learned,
one more step - we are
wiser. older.
(April 02, 2020)
A wee lad, tresses from a day's play tousled
Squinted up at a cavernous sky to find
Where the moon and stars were twinkling tonight
Mapping out bears and lions in his pint-size mind
Time's passed, he now employs a telescope
His stellar scientific maps delivering hope
Of discoveries to change the way grown men think
~ Yet to a wee lad's curiosity will they be linked
Discoveries
A child put her small hand
in my big hand.
Trusting me to show her
the world.
As we walked, she suddenly knelt
and stared with wonder
at the ant
crawling along the ground.
She put her little hand
back in my big hand.
And we continued
so I could show her
the world.
She froze and looked up
As the sound of far-off honking
heralding a flock of geese
coming our way.
Again we set off
hand in hand
to see the world.
She stopped and laughed
as she lifted her smiling face
to feel the wind softly blowing
through her hair and across her cheek.
I put my big hand
in her little hand
and we continued on our journey
of discovery.
DISCOVERIES
Along a summer street crammed to bursting point
By an indifference of brick walls -
I come across a suddenness of dandelions
On a bulding site after the rain falls.
A sea beach filled by desertion
And rock pools half-buried,
With a rusty shell casing abandoned
In retreat by ranks serried.
Rain and sea offer nothing
New, merely reveal near-forgotten
Implants in the stream of time sodden .
time, conflict
New Discoveries © Tanka
Ninety-nine bottles of beer
A discovery
Is learnt through out time
Cyclic changes one forever
Mind your P’s and Q’s!
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