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Thank You School

We spend 7 hours a day 5 days a week stuck at a desk
The only thing i'm learning is how to obey
Grades??They meant nothing 
Grades are… 
How long can you sit still
How well can you remember 
How compliant you can be 
Cause god forbid we have a imagination
God forbid we need to move 
God forbid we think different
Why do we continue to do this starting at age 5 
Why do we not see the struggle not coming from grades but from people 
Not all of us can learn the same way you teach
When you put a kid through all this stress and don't realize 
We are struggling 
We are killing ourselves because we are under too much pressure
We cry behind closed doors because we want to quit
We think we are the problem the kids aren't the problems its the system 
So stop blaming us for it 
Stop allowing it to happen
We are living our one life 
Let us have fun
Let us be outside
Let me have a choice in my own life
Let us learn things we want 
Let our voices be heard
How oblivious do you all have to be to not notice 
How anxious we are 
How depressed we are getting
How un prepared we are for the “real world”
How do you live with yourself 
How do you sleep at night 
Because we aren't 
WE are doing the homework you assigned
We are helping around the house
We are caring for siblings
We are working jobs to help support our family
Then we go to school and you have the audacity to call us
 Lazy, stupid, forgetful
Well we aren't. We are
Creative, caring, courageous, strong
But may i say thanks 
Thanks for  all the sleepless nights
Thanks for the stress of passing a stupid state test
Thanks for teaching me to trust no one 
Thanks for the self esteem issues 
Thanks for the years wasted for nothing
Thank you School


Premium Member A Peregrine Falcon

A peregrine falcon masters the sky
its wings majestically arched with flair
soaring with the elements eye to eye.

In a flurry of speed, it flashes by 
serenely aloof, untethered and rare
a peregrine falcon masters the sky.

Sunlight gilds feathers as soft as a sigh
and flickering flecks ignite in the air
soaring with the elements eye to eye.

Naturally nimble, graceful, and spry,
inspiring both audacity and dare
a peregrine falcon masters the sky.

Riding an invisible thermal high
it lifts me until suddenly I’m there
soaring with the elements eye to eye.

Like poetry in motion, wingtips fly
and awed by its beauty, I can but stare.
Soaring with the elements eye to eye,
a peregrine falcon masters the sky.


(Villanelle)


3/7/2015

To Faith Assigned

The acting soul in the cosmic drama existence,
define place in personal defeat and excellence.
Accepting the authors entire purpose role,
superimposed receiving upon its own.
Character and conduct by choices shored,
in challenges and ultimate reward.
These actors with soul in peculiar dignity,
principle cosmos to adjust legitimately.
The appropriated environment of precise,
like tones in harmony become concise.
Utterance in determined capacity,
individual notes in appropriate audacity.
The voice towards the total harmony,
singing out life through it all be.
Resultant of all in one sound harmonic sphere,
lesser sounds in soul accept as clear.
Worth of whole in cosmic association,
the body in all as divine appreciation.
Love given in nature to affect the bond of union,
improvised soul to soul dominion.
Reformed character and feeble hope surprise,
the extended soul as loving conductor to emphasize.
Form: Ballade

Premium Member Escape

Escape:  Tribute to George Oliver 

"People can't fly when they're backed into a corner."  -Tami Longaberger

Centenarian, I can only imagine 
What you were thinking
When you boarded your wheelchair, 
Headed out the door of the Ewing Wing,
And took the downhill runway. 

Surely you meant to take flight-
Bystanders who saw that you had left your Rocking chair
Could only gape in awe at your audacity  of hope.

The California Highway Patrol,
Noting that you forgot to fasten your seatbelt,
Rushed in where the federal aviation commission could not.
The CHP took you back to John C Fremont
And bound you to earth for the few days
you had left.

 Trapped, we often get our wings late. 
My friend, I can only assume, that you,
Despite the new alarm on the door of the Ewing wing,
 Are flying high above us

No Man Should Know Unbearable Grief

No man should know unbearable grief,
and carry with him it's uneasy burden;
and regret could be as heavy as that,
not to have accomplished much before his death:
wouldn't a loving father be proud of his only son?
But mine followed his own greed and destruction.... 


No man should refuse to multiply his off-spring,
pondering over the concept of making mistakes:
as his insanely-infatuated and uncaring dad did;
this is a crude rejection of creating another human life,
wondering if he'll take the same gruesome path and constantly err!
Look! I could stop this life anytime, but my inner faith is much stronger! 


God gave me life and I cherish its sanctification,
and only He can take it:  if I rebel against His intention;
so fragile as a butterfly, and yet unbreakable as a rock 
is my purposeful existence that I sublimely exalt 
through my divine and unpretentious ways!
And would it suddenly end, my acceptance 
would be certainly approved by my dignified ways!


Life free from me, and let fate be fulfilled;
and what remorse will be felt, if not the guilt of having loved less?
I exercise fairness and don't expect an equal amount of kindness,
whatever I give...it is genuine and never cold;
they can accuse me of being too harsh and judgmental,
and which lessons could I teach without  wisdom?


Do I have the audacity to say what others fear to make known?
Is it hurt, shame, embitterment, hatred or even contention  
that make a decent man cry out in despair to allow the act of forgiveness...
when accosting the final hour, which offers nothing but death? 
No man should know unbearable grief as an unfair token of abstinence;
the evil doer always acts on meanness, not on humaneness! 


Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci
Form: Sestina


Premium Member Nomadic Treasure

Nomadic Treasure
            by Odin Roark

A wise man told me
The Essence tuning fork
Is never idle
It is always resonating

As in…

Surviving one’s homeless spirit
One may tune in audacity for a roof
Direct eyes to dine on tomorrow
When eyes no long see
Listen

When ears no longer hear
Think

When no thought comes
Allow

Resonance lingers 

For when one’s father no longer lives
Compassion becoming father
When mother passes on
Embracing Order is natural
When no friends come near
Quiet assumes companion
When one’s home is no more
Silence becomes shelter

And so…
I now reside somewhere nameless

Responding not to supernatural influence
My tongue leads its own choir
Allowing no such fortune
Visit my park bench

Need remains but a tactic
Detachment my strategy
My Means have discovered the Within
Where nothing and everything
Becomes my destiny
Anonymity proving divine
Death but treasure found

He also taught me 
When your lover has gone
Sleep invites your courting

For tomorrow’s awakening
Awaits slumbering shadows
Primed to detach into the light
Where begins anew
The tuning of the fork
© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.

Ode-The Flag That Shall Never Fall

This is the flag that shall never fall,
a flag woven with stars...blue as the widest ocean,
and red as the blood sustaining my heartbeat evermore;
empires rise and fall, this one will endure furthermore,
and under the watchful eyes of the Almighty,
I foresee a renewed prosperity, not calamity! 



They tried to tear it down and strip it of all its glory,
the mighty towers crumbled down and turned into toxic dust,
and still that flag was raised on the piles of debris
by the brazen firefighters of the greatest city;
and while this city breathed death everywhere...imagining the worst, 
the Good Samatarians pulled many out of the infernal ruins!



Be proud, Americans for your bravery is long remembered,
and you, hard-working folks, who came from other countries to lead a better life,
loyalty and fortitude are the virtues to fight the dismayed and arrogant enemy;
all join in to sing liberty's anthem...God, our Lord, is listening!
Be assured that your flag shall never fall, hold it up with all your audacity;
and nobody can ever take it down or defile it by burning it with fire!
 


Wave, O brave Americans, the flag that shall never fall,
I am the foreigner who has praised its peaceful quest from the very beginning,
and will for endless ages through my poetic voice, which will never be silenced or die!
Let me sing with you, O fellow Americans, and share your fervent pride;   
I will pray for those blessings that are a joy to be received, 
so that your country remains safe and your flag shall never fall! 


My poem is dedicated to the victims and survivors of the September 11 attack on America

Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci
Form: ABC

Premium Member To Those In Denial

Mortal worlds are no place for spirits like me to dwell; I am not meant for them; I have always been…a different soul.  The womb begets many beings; I am not all that different from you, but, I recognize my sisters and brothers.  Despite fur, feathers and fins; all come from the same soul and womb; God did not create Earth to give birth to idiots!  But, man insists on acting like one by denying his own siblings, because of fur, feathers and fins.

Sentience is not a right to destroy other lives, but, most, seem to believe that it is.  In less than two centuries; man has destroyed most of the Earth and her children; yet Man has the audacity to call his siblings…”dumb animals”!  Fur, feathers and fins never did so much damage to their Mother’s body; as mankind has done.  I have to ask…who really are the “dumb animals” on the planet?  
I am not like the others; I have always known that all animals have souls.
Mortal worlds are a place of persecution for me as, I watch my siblings’ abuse and slaughter one another; to those in denial, it’s time you awoke!


For entry in poetry contest: "Denial"

Premium Member Imprisoned Part 3

PART 3

etc., etc., etc., and the negativity just keeps steam rollering on and on, it just keeps on coming and coming, like giant waves crashing upon a serine beach, tearing it apart and depositing it’s garbage, littering what is beautiful with an ugliness that is unbefitting, yet the wellspring of understanding, desire, hope seems to be endless in it’s patience as each new day brings with it, the same old, same old as new cracks in my persona – she perceives, judges, creates and makes my reality – are put down, belittled, criticized as she, in her audacity, believes, perceives
 that her creations are my realities .
   These are the materials from which I should fashion the keys – if so chosen – into a solid mass, keys that would open ?,
should open the prison, the cage doors in order to set my soul, my spirit, my life free. Why do I let the essence of these potential keys come at me with such force, slapping me in the face all the time, punching me in the heart with such force it breaks in two, kicking me in the ass ?
Form: Prose

Premium Member Just a Second of Your Time

Image of Clock Time Second provided by Pixabay

Just A Second Of Your Time

I suspend clung to optimism
   apprehend channeled coupled
      the uplift swing of the pendulum
   exhilarated wholeness, subtle
for complete I, a task begun
   trice's, thinks, terms, tic-tocks
      of spring dawn unto wintry dusk
   calendar masters a world runs
I am off, never lost yet must
   nefarious filters ghastly whims
      if finding myself out on my limbs
   hourglass greets my gold dust
as serenity achieve the ones 
   each to their specific ambition
      no audacity or deciphering dons
   an ephemeral interest position
I sensed a serpentine easily
   nonetheless, ensure measures
      downing dawns a grin treasured
   close up a swung ped breezily
a sec ends, repeat escapism 

2021 May 26
*1st Place*
ALL YOURS (JUN 3)
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2021 June 02
*8th Place*
Time 
~~Chantelle Anne Cooke: Judged 2021 May 27
Form: Rhyme

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