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Premium Member Life's Journey

A family of petals wrapped up as a flower
Gathered together as one, none alone.
Each of them move in the wind with no bother,
Clinging to the center, calling it their home.

They wave in the breeze collecting their food,
Enjoying the warmth and light from the giving sun.
Each of them seems to be in a different mood.
While some petals watch, others are having fun.

As the day come to an end, and night draws near,
They huddle together through the dark and pray.
Two of the petals are now nervous with fear,
Wondering how many of their young will blow away.

They hope they have taught them how to live,
Passing on the values of right and wrong.
As the wind blows stronger, their hold begins to give.
The two petals watch as the others float along.

They glide through the air in a world so vast
That leads them each on a journey of their own.
They use what they have learned from years past
To find a good place where their seeds can be sown.

A new family of petals wrapped up as a flower
Gathered together as one, none alone.
Each of them move in the wind with no bother,
Clinging to the center, calling it their home.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Mama


She colored my world in shades of hope
Shining light through the darkness
Caressing those shimmering dreams
With appreciation of me, my vision

All the pieces of me that sought freedom
To dance through this world with passion
Inspiration and enthusiasm to desire
Sparks of joy, insight and beauty

All the glories of knowing my longings
Were worthy of the time I placed in them

She was wise beyond her years, with prudence
Flaming excitement and thrills through the
Horizon of faith in His grace and the soothing
Comforts of a God who knows that I am one

Who loves unconditionally, with sensitivity
And assurance that love is the answer to pain
The remedy for sorrow and all that gives my
Prayers the blessing of responses that are aware

True delight comes down from the God of heaven
Who answers our prayers with solutions that resonate
With clarification, wonder and discernment 

She breathed kindness into my spirit from her 
Gentle aura of feelings, opinions and ideas
Which taught me the beauty in all that brings calm
All that loves with assurance and confidence

Whispers of elation drift through the air around her
Bringing with them softest silence, hints of affection
Drawing me to them like a magnet draws the iron

Wishes for compassionate revelations incite my heart
Through intimacy with the Creator, the Lover of my soul
The One who knows me better than my own heart could
God, who my mama taught me about until I understood

His love is the love that could reach beyond the doubts
That left me wanting, into the soul of promise, solace
Where reflections of meaningful instruction assure me
That I am someone who knows His truth will be my peace

With God, serenity releases me from the desire to be
Anything but the woman my mama knew I could be
The woman who loves, lives and longs for the best blessings

God sends to those who give their lives to Him
The One who is the supplier of both love and passion!







It's a part of me - Life and the perceptions and philosophies you hold Poetry Contest
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November 13, 2020

In the Doom Light

In doom light, I see all that is & 
Ever was, I see all the façades 
Stripped away n callouses 
Tearing away all the love and hate
In doom light, the endless white
No sun, not in endless, twilight light
The ash drifts in sinister currents 
There in a chair out of nowhere
A figure sits, a gray shadow in this doom light
The light before the end of time
When all is done, all is said, all wars have bleed
Everything has been lost or completed
Every word that should have been said was left for dead

The end draws nigh, the light of nothing, shadows cower 
A dead light of nothingness clings to all in shades of bitter white
In the doom light stands I, a witness to the ending of time
My non-corporeal form drifts in between
I see all in doomed sight, at the end of reality 
Or make mine, one of Creations demise
I watch all in the fading light of yesterday's sun
A Nova on the horizon 
The end of days has come
I see all in the doom light
The light of dawn before time was spun
The figure sitting
The effigy of every deity

Lost in the approaching storm of nothingness 
All awash in the doom light
I see all that is or ever was 
I see all the façades 
Stripped away n callouses 
Ripping away all the love, hate
In doom light, the endless white
No sun, not even twilight
Just endless dead light
The ash drifts in sinister currents 
There in a chair out of nowhere
A figure sits in gray shadows, 
In this doom light

The effigy of every deity
      I linger for a little...while longer
            Going blind in the doom light!

Premium Member The Wonder of God's Grace

God's grace is a wonderful thing
it affects your right down deep inside
showing how deep is God's love
receiving it draws you to abide

Experiencing this grace changed me
having been widowed was so real
left on my own wondering what next?
but God came with grace to soulfully heal

God's word was a source of depth
enriching me spiritually so divine
filling my mind by God's holy truth
leading me in His way, grace is His sign

Divine truth was such a real delight
filling my heart with God's loving touch
this leaves one in astounding wonder
for God's loving grace is never too much

Looking back with true thankfulness
on how God's grace filled my heart
lifted me up when I was so alone
reminded of Christ's redemption in no small part

(This touch of God's grace when I was widowed way back in 1982 but God's grace made all the difference in my life at that time.)
Form: Rhyme

My Quotable Quotes

He who draws beautiful eyes
     is a beautiful person.
Beyond the pinnacle of arts
     is the hand of God.
He who speaks slowly
     is the most fearsome person.
He who speaks his native tongue
     is a nationalist.
He who laugh first
     laugh last.
He who loves his wife
     loves his mother.
He who looks the horizon
     is a lover by heart.
He who love wines
     speaks the truth.
He who love people
     loves to negotiate.
He who loves beauty
     knows how to appreciate.
He who forgive
     forget enemies.
He who kiss check
     knows how to betray.
He who love small details
     love wisdom.
He who love life
     is an Earthling human.


Time

takes out it's loaded gun
shoots holes in us for fun
daring us to try and run

time

knows the game and plays it well
watches from the side or there about
has us play against ourselves

time

laughs at you in your shame
takes delight in giving pain
whispers to the passing wind your name

time

is the wicked stepchild
the mad dog running wild
the haunt in the midnight howl

time

takes what you offer, gives back no change
feels that it must rearrange
places on you all the blame

time

holds tight to lost memory
takes it's que from history
spits on you before it leaves

time

draws on another cigarette
exhales the stench of death
till up in smoke is all that's left

The Days Between

I reach across the pillow bare 
And caress you with my thigh
And upon your lips
I gently bite
And breathe your hungry sigh
 
You pull me close
Hip to hip
My body is in song
A hallucinatory return to where I still belong
 
We are a skein of tangled feelings
Traversing time and space
Incantatory memories rouse us  
As we begin to move apace
 
The remembering of your fingers
The deftness of your hand
My body still your conquest
You raise your flag upon my land
 
You say you feel my heart in yours
And my blush betrays my thrill  
To taste again the salt and slick  
Of your urgent hungry will
 
As we rise to meet the moment
You place your head on mine
We move together silently  
In defiance of our crime
 
The treacherous dawn sun rises
Your scent begins to fade
I lock my eyes on yours 
And cling to your embrace
 
The light leaks through the curtains 
And draws me from your grasp
I wake in painful longing
Untouched unseen
I gasp
 
I lie alone in reverie
Until I hear the pad of children's feet
And the fragments of our union roam
Beyond my aching reach
 
I rise and smooth the linen
A requiem for the dream
And I begin again the counting  
Of the lonely days between
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Form: Rhyme

On the Shelf

They are out selling the poppies
In this run up to Remembrance Day
But they’ve confused Remembrance
With doing things the cheap way.

When I joined the colours I knew
I could be sent off to war
I just didn’t realise that
I wouldn't’ be needed anymore
If I came back bent and broken
With scars deep in my mind
A future looking bleak
And my best years behind.

Oh, you paraded at Wootton Bassett,
Wept your tears for the dead,
And you wore your scarlet poppies
Coloured for past blood shed 
But when my wounds mended
And I could use my artificial leg
I was thrown on the state
Almost like having to beg.

And such treatment is normal
For children partners and wives
Of all those who went to serve
And in duty gave their lives,
Or, worse still, survived
To feel the despair
Of being on the scrap heap
When very few people care.

You call us all heroes
Just once a year,
Dig in your pockets when
Remembrance Day draws near,
And then seem to forget
That we are still alive
And for the rest of the time
We have to fight to survive. 

They have to sell the poppies
For without Charity’s help
This so called grateful nation
Has thrown veterans on the shelf.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Seventh Day

Stillness. Darkness, in this place 
Thought that starts as arcs of light, 
shot through hollow parts of space 
Henceforth, day shall follow night 

I create a stratosphere, 
which I lay atop a sea 
Day and night shall rotate here,
trading for eternity 

To the edge, I bind a land 
Vines aburst with fruit and flower, 
Orchards lined across the sand 
Eden's first and finest hour 

Moon and stars such light will bring! 
Just as much shall fill the sun 
Beauty must still touch a thing,
though it might be seen by none

From the air and water spring 
creatures I have caused to grow 
slick of scale and quick of wing
As above, so too, below 

Fast four-legged beasts appear, 
friend to foe their numbers span 
Last, though slumber draws Me near, 
in My image, I make man 

With free will and virtue blessed,
choices tell the fate he'll earn 
Go forth child, today I rest... 
Choose thee well til I return
Form: Rhyme

A Cowboy In Connecticut

He's a cowboy in Connecticut
All Southern drawl and wide tooth grin
No matter how he tries it ain't no lie
The boy just don't fit in

He wears his Stetson hat, Alligator boots
Jingle Jangle Spurs with stylish Chaps
He dresses the part this cowboy work of art
Draws attention wherever he's at

He loves his Karaoke
Always requests a yodel song
When he's up on the stage folks don't know what to say
As he asks them all to sing along

You may wonder why he's not in Texas
He prefers it brisk and cold
Since he was born and raised among the Northern crazed
But it's the cowboy life that stole his soul

He has no cowhand to help with roundups
Local Yocals wouldn't dare be seen with him
He rides and ropes on his bike cats and dogs at night
With no horse or cattle to his name

Cause he's a cowboy in Connecticut
All Southern drawl and wide tooth grin
Where no matter how he tries it ain't no lie
The boy just don't fit in

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