In a world of growing uncertainty,
whenever there's a great emergency,
Doctors Without Borders
alleviates disorders
with profound humaneness and urgency.
You found me fighting again...
sword drawn in burning battles.
At war with heavy words,
raging against my weakness.
You saw me dragging, dragging
my battered soul, my armored heart,
through blackened fields, razed to the ground.
Places where humaneness fled
and left barren, futile feelings instead.
Neither fragile peace nor hollow victory
could regain me or reconnect numbed nerves,
where I had left myself for dead.
Yet you still soothed me with whisper words...
Bound deep wounds with tender touch,
and gently, gently eased the hurting heart
to lie between blankets of careful kindness
in a bed prepared with mindful love.
Then I slept the deepest, deepest sleep.
Soothed.
Aqua M.
05/02/2024.
.
i dreamt uv pluperfection
az
In heaven
then mine ren
kicked in
When
There I met
Lil’ red riding hood
All
Growed up
yup
In thuh
Voodz
Wit thuh
Basket uv apples
yum
Ren
(Chinese: “humanity,” “humaneness,”
“goodness,” “benevolence,” or “love”) the
foundational virtue of Confucianism.
Written: June 18, 2023
Ekphrasis Edvard Munch Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Dilly Dally
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Humanity
is trapped in the spasms
of
lunacy,
technology
lured our wayward hearts
into
schizophrenia,
humaneness
gone astray in the midst rush
to self
enrichment,
faith,
a pointless endeavor
for the
lost;
finally,
vicious realization - life atrophied,
a silent
scream...
This poem draws inspiration from the iconic work of Edvard Munch, titled "The Scream." The profound impact of this poem is truly amplified when experienced in conjunction with the accompanying picture.
warrant humaneness
It's all surgeon bludgeon
equanimity stratagem
unfazed by quibbles
coarse aqueous colander
a memory pillow
bled to venture
perplexed spuriousness
throb growingly cognizant
numbness wooziness
clock is striking
likewise we should
If we can force the lock
falasity proven by speculum
verdict of acquittal
Written: February 16, 2022
1st place contest winner
A Strand (1075) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived. ( Poem inspired by Poet Brian Strand Form)
“In Kindness we should be selflessness compassionate with sympathy
While understanding benevolences benignity friendliness in hospitality.
Amiability with public-spiritedness generosity with quality of being friendly,
Being generous considerate Always! In thanks giving being thankful for them
Those with kindness and in do we should support
So in kindliness goodwill affectionateness gentleness
Tenderness concerns care gentleness for our fellow man, unselfishness selflessness altruism compassion sympathy understanding big-heartedness courteousness in public-spiritedness
humaneness mercifulness decency love bounteousness as indulgence genuine patience
tolerance graciousness God is so lenience amidst His Jesus character humaneness
Mercifulness graces decency should be us selflessness compassionate with sympathy”
tolerance are those
that persistent their love for
humanity kinds
8/16/21
Kindness Poetry Contest
Haibun poetry form only.
Sponsored by: Regina McIntosh
Obnoxious arguments; I rant only
My words, shard glass tearing souls
No exception is there, my wrath equal upon all
Though to you, are the wounds mendable.
Excuse myself in rage, do I never
A barrage do I release, to free myself
Humaneness, my preach to oppose another
The hurt I inflict, is remembered by my own.
As your silence befalls me, my guilt grows
My thoughts erratic, not whole
What was spoken, can not be refunded
A friend, a foe; my acts deceive.
The loathe towards myself, my cell cast
Forgiveness a key, you grant.
Like search for soothing green pastures,
In the heartless dry heat of summer months,
And running after a shimmering, ever elusive mirage,
Why are human relations increasingly getting brittle?
Increasingly narrowing and stifling humaneness,
Like searching for an oasis in a desert,
Our life journeys becoming longer but more lonely,
Are these signs of social progress we wanted?
May be, poisonous gases of global warming
Are less harmful than invisible winds of inequality
that discreetly spread scourge of excessive greed,
Is this not the result of collective selfishness of us?
Comment: Perhaps, inequality of any kind is root cause of human suffereing.
Mohan
The natural state is
shameful.
The skin,
once smooth
now calice
drownding in rich fragrance and
creams
Hair is plucked, cut, shaped, and
trimmed.
Animal instincts our squashed
with regulation and normalness.
Our eyes seek, wishing to
pounce
But our hamstrings are cut;
unable to spring.
A human is what is told to be
There is no humaneness...
just an animal being
pampered by rosy makeup
Roots are buried
our skin is sinful
Few sane remain
frowned upon
by proper citizens who love
to demonstrate proper behavior.
There is a minority force out there
one of evil and intent
disguised by enchantment and empathy,
within surging tides of coercion
steers one’s ever defiling poetry
of the predator,
those that crave to share one’s shadow
and constantly demand on return
a challenge to please one.
Yet
with words created in a
cynical brief of heartlessness from
gardens of perversity, cultivated
in domains of lies, untruth,
when a trigger-happy progression of rapidness
perfumed in eloquent penetration
aimed at one’s very soul.
Every
word every stanza to tug at the recipient
being delivered in poetry humaneness,
inflicting the aroma of fragrance to entice gullibility
before the enforcement to the nurtured
of a mature kind,
and the eventual trial of tempting innuendoes.
With
defloration complete,
here one reaches the pivot of reaction
the highway crossroads of decision,
a last chance to tread the right road
some will, some will not
those to fall into another’s perverted obscenity
to be ensnared, then scarred for life!
© Harry J Horsman 2013
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