More of what harms for, looms up through
Day's and night's
Good's and evil's, civilized, wild
Border frights.
Veronica did nuclear research in Blackfoot, Idaho
Went to a Walmart one day, with her two-year-old in tow.
Kid reached into her bag, pulled out her gun
She was shot dead by her two-year-old son.
Sergey researched superconductive vortex lines.
One day men invaded his town, death on their minds
They killed all pedestrians: fear by design
Shot Sergey from his yard to free Palestine.
Louis used a screwdriver to keep halves of a sphere apart
Contact goes critical, not a task for faint of heart.
The screwdriver slipped, the halves came too close
The room glowed blue, he got a lethal dose.
Samuel was an A.I. engineer, pushed a frontier
He brushed past Rakeem, came too near.
Rakeem punched Sam so hard that in two days Sam died.
You don't expect that on a subway ride.
Four scientists dead, acts of God, acts of man?
Such random tragedy, only one was a plan
Can we blame the victim? It doesn't seem right.
They chased the truth, fought the good fight
Who of us knows if we'll be alive tonight.
Earthbound, beneath the dark sky above,
enduring a empty endless night,
I first gave my heart over to love,
and my spirit suddenly took flight.
Illuminated by this newfound light,
what had for long been a dormant seed,
nourished by astonishing delight,
was, at once, fortuitously freed.
What followed, then, with surprising speed,
a sleepless child, who would fuss and cry,
prompting me to find a story to read,
and forever asking, "why, why, why".
It seems life's best changes do appear
when embarking on a new frontier.
First he went into the Ukraine as there he'd remain
This man being so vain grown from a separate grain
Now he's in the Middle East and arguing with the U.S.
Trouble to say the least, for it has become a big mess
Now there have been threats, deals have been broken
And even still Obama lets, barely a word ever spoken
He was out on the golf course while Putin was moving
Setting about his Trojan horse to Obama's disapproving
But now here we are as a hungry Putin seeks to devour
How quickly we've come so far with this shift in power
The U.S. no longer in the lead in so being pushed aside
For the things you now concede many others have died
Not being here anymore but now that spirit's departed
A long unsettled score with a people now disheartened
As there he sits and waits but he won't wait very long
Holding all of our fates, the beginning of what's wrong
Only Prayer is powerful enough to change this World!
For by not praying is how we got in this predicament.
To see through eyes of a child
is to be a pioneer...
and each new God-given thing
a discovery
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1/15/16 Syllables of Wisdom 2 Contest: Sponsored by Silent One
With mental acuity to be aware
Forgone the beauty of your looks
A daring life ahead you fare
But nothing you could find in books.
Blush I will abide, active and aware
Even if life seems long and bare.
At last inside my ears a golden call
To know no darkness forever to fall
Your thoughts so active every day
To plow and crop amongst the fields
And fall and rise in every way
In daylight you won't always yield.
Long and hard your thoughts arise
And play a part within my eyes.
8/29/2015
Everyday another moment wakes me.
My love hunts like a wildebeest around rusty corners
Craving lost memories.
I am the coward and the hero.
You are the wizard and the one and only angel.
We will traverse this corrugated truth,
Gliding upon our own wits,
Feeling our elbows milk into singularity.
And all this on the same day flowers
Uproot themselves
And go door-to-door
Knock-knock-knocking.
And then my wife comes in.
We talk and laugh and whatnot in tired waves.
And I re-read everything before she entered my soul
And it’s all rubbish.
I never went on that frontier.
Frontiers are unlimited. Some are physical, others are mental.
Sometimes, you limit yourself with your mind.
Barriers only exist if you think in their existence.
Unleash all the potential you had hidden for many years.
Dare to try new things you had never tried before.
Renew the old concepts and beliefs that actually are not useful.
Expand your knowledge with good books and music.
Nurture your mind and spirit. You would become a better person.
Develop a positive mind set frame with good thoughts.
Conquer your fears. Fear is the opposite of love.
When you love yourself, your life begins to change.
A new you would be the result of this transformation.
8/17/2015
Twelve Place
Screwed VI poem contest
New Frontiers
8/14/2015
If new frontiers are what you seek
Are a TV freak or computer geek
Just look outside and there will be
New frontiers for you to see
There is a world not on flat screen
Not make believe on TV seen
It's waiting there you should partake
Just leave your house for goodness sake
The Homeless hungry you could aid
They will not bite don't be afraid
Talk to them and lend an ear
Cross into this new frontier
Another frontier you might try
Is to look your neighbors in the eye
Shake their hands and say hello
Might be someone you'd like to know
Imagine other new frontiers
That you might find throughout the years
These parting words I have to say
Technology's not the only way
For years our ancestors built a wall
they thought would protect us from a Fall
that would hurt our future and generations,
but it was the opposite. Nations fought nations,
for they were divided in culture and religions.
Let's all throw away our past
and re-build a divine present
where everyone is part
of the Divine testament.
Date: 12/08/2015
There are things in life that we understand
With our limited human insight
In time, our knowledge range may expand
And things, once obscure, may then come to light
Yet, this may point to other things obscure
Which our prior knowledge could not show
It seems that in the quest to discover
The more we find out, the less we know
Knowledge of things that seem mysterious
Also beyond human comprehension
Perhaps can only be made known to us
Through an act of direct intuition
Such things may possess a special beauty
That lies hidden within their very core
The unravelling of their secret mystery
May help us to understand Nature more
Things that are impenetrable to us
Have a most radiant beauty of their own
So said Albert Einstein, the genius
The greatest scientist the world has known
(To know that which is impenetrable to us, really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty – Albert Einstein)
7/20/2015
The sun beats mercilessly.
A coastline invites the violence
of the great lake.
A sinking feeling of a boat. The battle
of tides and limbs. You can see
the colors, the dragons
flying. The blasted sky
and blackened clouds. A shriek
sets the lake on fire, as the dusk sets in.
A tribal instinct to burn
the fences, set the horizons
free for a new comet, landing from
unknown space. You want to touch
the lips of a mute, blotted moon.
Fireflies start dotting the night.
You move inward; find a dark
niche to graze the wounds. The hurt
brings the words. You pick up an
axe and start chopping
the dead wood.
Satish Verma
Crystal snowflaked peaks,
kaleidoscoped blue heavens,
majestic purples
deep, dark, cold caverns,
mingled green trees, gold landscapes,
indigo raptures,
clouds of white angels,
refreshing white waterfalls,
cold ice palaces,
slick, green, mossy slopes,
yellow flowers in green fields
ALL BECKONING COME!
By Marty Owens 7/06/12 for Mountain contest
**NOTE***
I need to explain that this is not your typical Haiku ...all verses are describing and leading up to the last line where the Mountains are beckoning everyone to come. Thanks
I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this reality behind, far behind.
Unknown horizons beckon,
Logic defying adventures await.
With one final gaze
Toward my unknown destination,
On a quest to find my father.
Mom said he left before I was born.
He won’t be hard to find,
‘Cause she said I look just like him,
But I hold the key of returning.
The ball of yarn he should have used,
To find his way, back to us...
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For Constance's 'A Magical Journey' Contest
“If looks could kill they probably will
in games without frontiers,
war without tears”
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