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Two towns not different
from each other and yet
they have become indelible
and their preciousness inestimable,
they are two thoughts of equal devotion;
on one I spent lively and spontaneous days
of my brief youth that was given to passion:
going to school, playing soccer in a distant field,
On the other, I rolled up my sleeves and worked hard.
Two towns with friendly people showing a frown
when faced with many hardships
and a few questionable rewards;
and that incited me to be a fervent dreamer,
someone who allowed imagination and dreams
create something beyond belief that shocked my peers.
I could have been a notorious painter,
or even an applauded composer,
but those aspirations vanished as fog at the arrival of dawn...
boarding an airplane, taking me far from my birthplace
while the Vietnam war raged on
and hippies sang songs of rebellion and peace,
and with drums and guitars, they rambled on
being deluded that freedom was won without arms and courage
by smoking weed and getting drunk: that didn't change their tune.
Two towns not different from each other
have remained engraved into a youngster's memory
and they can't be taken apart, or single out by animosity
having been stumbling blocks but also inspiring as well;
did I wish to leave my motherland and not tell
how tragic and how appalling was my farewell...
uncertain of a future not so brighter in color?
Life is challenging, but we are here to learn and grow. Our souls are infinite and our lives enhance the Universe's knowledge, experience and blessings.
Natural pearls are extremely beautiful and rare. Remember that you are too.
Life is like an oyster
By Michelle Morris
02/02/2023
Who wants to live this way?
With a heart and soul filled with pain?
But if we don't feel the pain
We don't get to feel the joy
Life is like an oyster
The experience can prickle your system
It can irritate you beyond belief
But it will definitely make you grow
You become that elusive pearl
So beautiful and rare
Only authenticity creates this magnificence
For you are better raw and real
This doesn't mean that you forget
Your humanity and divinity
You can be your true self
Revealed in the best way
No one wants to live with pain
No one wants to live with regret
No one wants to pass so many tests
No one wants the toughest quests
But ultimately, it's up to us
To become our greatest gifts
We can share this with the Universe
And create memories that are worth it
So, expand beyond the oyster
Embrace the pain and the joy
Our lives are like its ocean
Fulfilment beyond this world
© Michelle Morris, 2023
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why they felt compelled to come
dozens came with casseroles
a few with flowers, wads of tissues
tender words of helpless mutterings
many acts of generous offerings
don't get me wrong, I watched the suffering
expressed in words or acts of kindness
I watched it all, and felt the love
did not dismiss the warm compassion
returned it all, with pure compliance
a thankful heart, a swollen throat
I hugged these strangers at the door
to comfort them, who shed their tears
upon my shoulder, offered them
a place to share their sympathies
a place to spend their mercy, pure
but, this was my child who loved and lost
impossible........I can't express it
protected from the very start, by
loving hands, her dad's and mine,
we watched her grow, and let her go
she grew from the vine ....into a rose
but life composed a tragedy, with goals
beyond our reach...beyond belief
beyond our wildest dreams
and left her with a loss beyond control
like visitors from outer space, we watch
as others come, and others go
they blow into their tissue wads
and empty the boxes one by one
and cry with us, and then they all go home...
do we cry........? Oh no, not yet...
instead we smile a grateful smile
and thank them kindly for the while
and for the ways they share their love
but we can't cry into our own clenched wad
of tissue from the tissue box
she needs us to be strong, somehow
and so that is the way it is, we vow...to hold back all the tears for now
for, this was my child who loved and lost
impossible........I can't express it
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4/12/13
An awful aardvark ate anchovies against all advice.
Besides belching beyond belief, he bit bitter banana boats.
Charlie Chimp cackled curiously, convinced
Delicious delectable desserts did damage.
Enormous energy engaged enthusiastic excitement
Frenzied friendly felines, forever forgiving
Greasy giraffes giving grievous gripes
Horsey happiness hiding hurt amongst hilarity.
Ignoring idiocy involved ignorantly,
Jumping jack-a-lopes jiggled
Kangaroo kindness keeping
Leisurely lions laughing
Merriment mesmerized monkey marines
Never notorious, nevertheless, nefarious
Octopus ostracized owls, ostentatiously,
Preventing Porcupines putting prickles precariously in patrons.
Quietly and quickly
Resuscitating rescued rabbits
Savagely sustaining simple seriousness
Totally terrorized
Underneath unique
Verbose velocity
Which worried
‘xtra ‘xtraneous
Zipping, zaggy, zebras.
The vampire saw the campfire and was hovering around
For all the little children were just sitting on the ground
He doesn't mind the fire, it’s not ultra violet light
So he listens to his dinner telling scary tales all night
But when he feels that pretty soon it shall be getting light
He picks a chosen victim and he moves in for a bite
Alas his chosen breakfast was a little lad called Rob
Who turned around too early and punched the vampire in the gob
At the back a tooth went crack, the vampire squealed in pain
Holy flaming nuns, it hurts like I’m alive again
The vampire shrank and as a bat he fluttered into town
Snuck into a dentists where he pulled the shutters down
The dentist said ‘Your early mate, your time keeping is rash’
The vampire said you’ll fix me though I do not carry cash
The dentist grinned and said I have retirement looming large
So as my last good deed, my friend, I’ll fix you for no charge
The vampire thought the anaesthetic wouldn't work on him
And so he was surprised to find he’d dribbled down his chin
So lying in the chair, with the dentist in his face
The vampires jaws were numb as the dentist worked apace
The dentist’s constant chatter with his Adam’s apple bobbing
Did not distract the vampire from the jugular vein throbbing
Suddenly the vampire snarled, I’m starving, what the heck
He lunged to sink his canine teeth into the dentist’s neck
The dentist staggered back and yelled you hit me like a truck
Why on earth did you just give me one almighty suck
The vampire gasped, my canines fail me, it’s beyond belief
The dentist held his hand out and said, do you mean these teeth?
The vampire sobbed I cannot live without my pointy biters
The dentist said don’t worry, I’ll put back those ugly blighters
But first I’m gonna finish off that molar I was filling
Good job I am not charging you, for I would make a killing
So, the dentist said, the molar that you broke last night
Is finished once I’ve set it with this ultra violet light
Before the vampire could protest the light was in his mouth
Demonic hands burst through the floor and dragged the vampire south.
"My Kingdom will rise above all others. I'll always put it first."
He spoke with the devil perched upon his left shoulder,
but no angel sat on the right of this diabolical sinner.
The king pointed his scepter; his lemmings did his bidding.
Dethroned, he claimed foul to the point of 'ad nauseum.'
A whining child, toy taken away; unworthy of the crown.
Like Humpty Dumpty, he fell from his wall, his ego shattered.
Making up alibis while his lemmings battered and defiled.
"I'm innocent," he scowled, to his fealty of blind worshippers.
Promising, he'd be a phoenix, returning to reclaim the throne.
"Nay," vowed the judicial Knights of the District's Realm.
Unfit, the usurper who tried to topple their country's domain.
The Verbal War was fought. For months on end, battles raged.
It was the age of absurdity, neither faction would retreat,
and in the end, no one won, but the homeland was the loser.
The abuser, bent on vengeance, stalks those he condemns.
Millions cried, "Clip the wings of the phoenix! He's no leader.
His lies have breached beyond belief, and caused much grief!"
In southern lands he now resides, licking his festering wounds
while declaring, "It's just the beginning." and so the villain looms.
February 14, 2021
Biting Satire Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Each day she sat
upon her nest
lovingly nurturing
her unborn chicks
in burning sunshine
she gasped for air
her dedication
beyond compare
Yesterday
a gale ~ a gust
just took her nest
blew it away
Her eggs ~ Her chicks
were now all gone
and looking on
all I could hear
was total panic
borne in her cries
as slowly
tears welled in my eyes
This beautiful mother
had lost her eggs
in the blink of an eye
unborn now gone
and she’s left wondering
Why…
Head held low
surveying the scene
her pitiful cries
of what might have been
For in her grief
beyond belief
I witnessed
her sorrow
she’d lost her tomorrow
My tears now flowed
at Natures brutality
sadly beginning to face reality
Sweet black backed gull
I pray one day
you may
be blessed in time
~
For I feel your loss
so deeply
as if your loss
‘twere mine...
Written on 24rd May 2020 at 4.00 am, after witnessing the previous evenings devastation of a 40 mile per hour gale – so sad…
Contest Brian's Choice S
Sponsor Brian Strand
FIRST PLACE
There on the shelf among all the other books,
Was one, a book that was old and tattered.
By the cover, nothing could be told by the looks,
Inside were written words of a life that was shattered.
Pages were torn,
Some had sentences that were unfinished.
The pages talked about a life of great scorn,
Of a person that was diminished.
On pages written describing such grief,
One would think it would have been the end,
But no, what happened next was beyond belief.
More than a simple mind could comprehend.
The book was not what it seemed,
It was a book of destiny.
Written within the pages were things long dreamed,
Was a Scripture, “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Psalm 139:16
© Deborah Seale 2024
"Mmmm..." she moaned as she could smell
The aromas in her dream.
This time, she'll be wined and dined
In the most exotic scene.
Just as the starter was served to them
A neon violet beam
Sucked them and their dinner up
To a place they'd never been.
They were suspended above the floor
Inside this neon hold.
Three aliens approached them.
They were lean, green and bald.
When they spoke they sounded like Daleks
"The male form has a logical mind.
If they refuse answer our questions
We will have to read his mind."
They analysed the plate of food.
"What is it you consume?"
Neither of them answered
And the silence filled the room.
"His mind says it's some sort of magic.
They call it Aph-ro-dis-i-ac."
So one of the aliens tried some, froze
And fell flat on his back!
"Is this what happens every time?
Is this a normal reaction?'
They nodded. 'Why do you eat it then?"
They held back the purpose of the action.
"The female is changing colour
She was white and now she's pink!
We must examine her mind too
To see what's wrong - what do you think?"
She quickly thought of a popular song
So that her thoughts would change their tune.
"It appears that music turns humans pink.
They're wired to the moon!"
The aliens glided away.
This pair heaved a sigh of relief.
He praised her quick thinking,
"That was truly beyond belief!"
ET waddled into view
With his heart and finger a-glow
"You're from Earth. I have a friend
Called Eliot! Did you know?"
They smiled and nodded and asked ET
To free them from the neon cone.
He did just so and made the offer
"ET phone home?"
By this point the alien could move again.
His pupils filled his eyes.
That stuff knocked him off his feet,
He was still dazed and surprised!
ET lowered the ship to earth
And they ran as fast as they could
In to the distance of their dream,
ET's voice echoing - "Be good!"
Elevated beyond belief
To the sky and through the clouds
To think above the mists
Of normal everyday confusion.
What to eat
What to wear
How do I look
Who really cares.
What to do next
Where do I go
What do I create
How do I know
Which pair of heels
Which ones should I wear
The ones that are serious
Or the one's that say 'I dare'.
Should I put on my brand new ones
The ones that no one's ever seen
Or should I wear my old ones
Old friends that love my feet.
I am running in High Heels
That is what I do
I try to keep my balance
I try and keep my groove.
I try to stay grounded
Keep my feet upon the ground
Try to avoid the many puddles of life
Really try to avoid the pond.
Step by Step my High Heels take me
Ever further still
They are how I am going to get there
They'll take me where I am going to be.
It isn't always easy
To run in these high heels.
But I wouldn't have it any other way
I keep running by sheer force of will.
(January 9, 2011 Wausau, Wisconsin)
(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved,