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I imagine you — swirling, light, carried by every wind.
A playful breeze brushes your hair and your body.
A butterfly dissolving into air, like time slipping away.
A gentle dove becoming a fairy made just for me.
Choosing a star in the silence of the night,
My heart races only for you.
Giving it your name, a baptism of life,
Naming that spark and standing speechless.
I know, I know — Love is always something we build.
Let’s be inventive, so it never becomes ordinary.
Let’s love in the plural, together, to shape tomorrow.
I know, I know — night suspends time.
Softly, tenderly, I return to you.
I run beneath this sky of a thousand lights,
Carry my heart high into the firmament.
Not a word — I offer you my hand.
Joël Charvillat
forests are my haven and there I imagine myself a graceful butterfly fluttering
Imagine now if you could that you were the one who created man and thought it was good
Would you change anything in the world today
Or would you keep everything the same way
Would you have let your creation evolve
If you start over again what problems would you solve
Would you turn back time at a fast pace
And never given life to the human race
Would you send your son over again you could save him from the cross and not suffer in pain
You might send a flood wait you did that once before
Your creation didn't learn then do I have to tell you more
You could send bolts of lightning striking your creation down in pain
But in a thousand years all will be forgotten and your creation would still do the same
You’re mine but I’m not yours.
An unwavering line between us,
invisible but solid. Strong like vine
in brick. It grows thicker. It spools and
twists across road, over pavement,
under bridge. To you. You’re mine, but
I am not yours. Conjuring emotions in
each person that I meet. A holiday
researched, clicked and booked with
him in the supermarket queue. A wedding
planner called about him sitting two rows
behind. Inventing love where there is
none. Seeing hearts in bodies anywhere,
everywhere. To beat mine to back life.
Imagine if they really knew you…
What you are going through
What you actually feel
Pain
Imagine if they really knew you…
Imagine if you could see what people think about you.
What to change about yourself
Make people think good about you…
Imagine if you had one wish.
One wish that would fix everything
A wish that would help you overcome your fears
Imagine you had one wish…
Imagine if they knew what you wanted to do…
How much you hate yourself
And having to fake your smile
Imagine having a blade to hand…
What would you do?
Imagine how they would feel about you…
Imagine how they would cope with your death.
Imagine if everyone was equal…
No young girls would be committing suicide
No one would be faking their smile
No one would be depressed
Imagine if life was perfect
Imagine if dreams came true…
Imagine having one wish
A wish that would fix everything
A wish that would make people stop hating you
Imagine having one wish…
~ at dusk meeting up with a huge Clydesdale horse
while walking home from work
like a dream in the shadows he takes shape
the rider a police officer
on patrol Miss, he says
have a nice evening . . . but I am in a trance
as ... I have never seen anything more beautiful ~
Sophie is wallowing in the despair of her furlough
it suits her; she enjoys pain, anguish and disappointment.
Her sister Henrietta tries to instill hope, but her attempts are thwarted.
Some people choose the land of depression over everything else.
Sophie is a professional at this; she has made a career out of it.
No one has had more car wrecks, accidents or mishaps at work.
It would be impossible to find someone more desperate to glean gloom.
Henrietta is a Pollyanna, a quintessential optimist., wasting her time.
The other sisters giggle about this behind her back, not realizing….
She is doing the work of the angels; what we should all be doing.
The universe is here to inspire, uplift and alleviate stress.
Can you imagine how terrific this world would be if we all inspired hope?
My hair is thick
I could hide rats in it
maybe even a monkey
or two
I doubt if I could get another appointment with my hairdresser
if I allowed inhabitants though
especially if they hopped out during a shampoo
I can imagine them sliding down her hands
to take a swirl in her stainless-steel sink
324.
Imagine the World without Butterflies
When I was a child, I was captivated
By colorful flowers beautifully painted
But what was that creature with floppy wings
Like a flower's frail petal, attraction it brings
If a flower below to the land decorates
That creature above to the air celebrates
To the dance of the wind giving music
Its every movement is a graceful lyric
This flimsy flyer they called “butterfly”
In its absence, the flowers cry
So come butterflies…come to the flowers!
They need your fantastically propitious powers!
Oh! Imagine the world without butterflies!
It's just like a chopsuey without spice
Music without notes, theater without actors
So safeguard these most artistic pollinators!
-01/28/2015
(Dumarao)
*Defense of the Animals Collection
In a grungy window sits a flashing sign..
‘Download a concert memory.’
Can you imagine?
I’d much rather have actually been there,
truly imbedded it in my heart forever.
You can add it to your subconscious
but the smell is all wrong.
You can taste the artificial articulate
in every single song.
In all that neon the rank and file is gone.
The muddy shoes, the torn up hats,
that filthy overpriced merch they wear
until it hits disintegration.
‘Disintegration’ an album from an era
nicknamed ‘Pure Human’ now.
Can you imagine?
I know how much better it is to feel it.
Download a concert memory?
I don’t want to imagine that reality.
The ice faerie was diligently carving an intricate reindeer sculpture
Snowballs, sleighbells and faerie balls stood at attention
It was the familiar blue of the loveliest ices
No one could dispute this might be the grand prize winner
If this antler-laden-masterpiece would freeze in place, without distortion
We would be ready for the judging, glad to receive a purple ribbon
Grand prize, I imagine, I whispered to an icicle who nodded in agreement.
Kids should be city architects.
What a lovely world it would be ~
Every street would be magical !
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
May we be blessed understand
how only flags of peace would henceforth unfurl…
If everyone not only imagined peace
but did our best to spread it throughout the world
On days I think I could never have imagined what is happening in the world…
all the inhumanity, the prejudice, the hatred and cruelty
I return to the lyrics of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’
and imagine how the world as I’d like it to be:
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today, ah
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t har do to
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace, you
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one.
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world, you
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one.
It’s been 55 years since John wrote Imagine
It was released in May of 1971
And though he’s not here to imagine anymore…
I am…and I know I’m not the only one.
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