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They divorced in the late sixties
I was young, just turning ten and listening
To their arguments, their disagreements
Revealing words that I knew were injurious
They walked away from each other
Determined to find… a new way, a new love
Someone who would make them forget
The love that had been a part of their lives
They didn’t tell me too much about it
Only that I’d spend time with each parent
Finding ways to share our weekends, our dreams
With fake smiles that would always beam
They both found their way to new loves
New hopes and dreams, new families to believe in
Leaving me, their one and only, to find comfort
In the silence, the solitude of being a part of the past
They struggled to give me the best they could
Never quick to remind me that I was from a broken home
A broken world where trouble was just normal
Where my heart felt so unsure – uncertain - broken
They didn’t pay much attention as I searched the past
For fragments of hope, fragments of a loving family
Remnants of promises, leftover optimism
Feelings that were left behind, where I was a part of them
They didn’t notice when I found the broken locket
It was cradled in a chest, hidden beneath a long ago
Where I had been the favorite child of a young love
And I found the courage to open up the locket and look inside…
There I found two kids – both smiling like they’d light the sun
With the joy found in their hearts, the wonder in their souls
Two hearts who had found one another and found something
Far more beautiful than sun or moon, more beautiful than the stars
In that broken locket, I found my mom and dad, two who knew…
That love was more wonderful than they’d ever figure out
Love was the guiding light, the ray of hope, the dream stirred up…
And, together, they were a part of a wonderful, fanciful reality
They didn’t know I found their smiles, happy and lighting
The camera’s lens – with joy immeasurable, a bond so pleasurable
That, soon, their child would be coming along… making them a family
And, in spite of what was to be, in that broken locket… hearts beamed!
One in Five poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May
Theme chosen: The Broken Locket
June 29, 2022
I can’t believe my eyes
I have witnessed your demise
Like the day bowing down to the night
What a sight…what a pleasant sight
Torn apart by your absence
I wander through the maze of my own enigmatic mind
I faced the truth; I don’t believe it! It’s nonsense!
I drift away, only to find…only to find…
That this fear bottled up inside needs to be released
Shut your eyes – don’t even peek!
Shut your mouth – don’t even speak!
My soul has strayed too far
I wander through the maze of your outlandish mind
The truth is…hidden beneath the surface
It’s somewhere safe…not devoted to the abyss
Shattered by your hopelessness
Weeping ‘cause of your demise…hearing insidious lies
Your demise…not something I prize
I can feel my heart beat fast
I have caught you sleeping silently forever
Deliver me from this pain of looking back in the past
Sorrow bites me with its injurious venom…everything’s a blur
Torn apart by your absence
I wonder what went through your mind!
I faced the truth; I don’t believe it! It’s nonsense!
I drift away, only to find…only to find…
That this fear bottled up inside needs to be released
Shut your eyes – don’t even peek!
Shut your mouth – don’t even speak!
My soul has strayed too far
I wander through the maze of your outlandish mind
The truth is…hidden beneath the surface
It’s somewhere safe…not devoted to the abyss
Shattered by your hopelessness
Weeping ‘cause of your demise…hearing sinister lies
Your demise…not something I prize
I CAN’T LIVE THIS LIFE IN DESOLATION
This is not the way I should have turned out to be
I can’t look behind me…I must keep my head up high
I look in front of me…I shall not disappoint me
Heal this wound that scarred me with fear
The other day
you asked me my friend, who I am
I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true
look, how much alike we are,
no matter what, the color,
the creed
the race
the status.
Look,
I am born and I die
I suffer and I enjoy
I love and I hate, just
like you!
I am a father, a brother, a son,
a mother, a sister, a daughter, just
like you!
Happiness I seek
family to raise is my wish
peace to find I look for,
just like you!
I long
I loathe
I fear
I hope
I bleed
I heal, just
like you.
I believe
I doubt
I accept
I refuse
I laugh
I cry, just
like you.
We are alike
we are the same
we are brothers...children of
a unique father!
Tell me,
my brother
my friend
my ally
why do we have to oppose
to fight
to hurt
to destroy and
to eliminate one another?
Are our seas really that narrow
our oceans that small
our lands so limited to
contain all of us?
or
is it the case that
our hearts are not big enough
and our minds not so wide-open to
enfold all of mankind?
Listen to me, my other self;
it is up to us to change this world we have inherited
with its virtues and vices
history and culture
flaws and merits
and
try to make it
better
nobler
kinder and
more caring
by:
obliterating harmful beliefs
demolishing injurious divisions
destroying detrimental distrust
annihilating racism and eradicating
the erroneous feeling of poisonous
superiority
for
to bring the dawn of a new loving world
a world of acceptance
of respect
of justice
of equality
of love and of
universal brotherhood
thus
with peace in our hearts
liberated we would be from past’s
deleterious tribulations
that
for myriads of years, have kept us,
fighting one another! *
© Demetrios Trifiatis
03 JUNE 2020
* Dedicated to the memory of George Floyd and to all those who
have fallen victims of racism!
R.I.P. for Justice would be served!
Celestial rays indeed blaze midst eternal grace*…
Oh, they brace my vital days along spiritual life’s race
bringing revival sways during faith-filled upheaval praise
while against trial, my soul prays, devoid of denial-trace.
Around Christ’s fellowship light glows my worship delight…
His leadership-height guides toward stewardship flight;
glad friendship tight props prayer partnership plight
since workmanship might fights sin-flagship blight.
Through God’s victorious hand, I pursue glorious promised land
learning from His gracious command, being precious as He’s planned…
since He paid redemption’s injurious demand; furious death He did withstand
my faith with biblical conscious stand declares His love midst anxious band.
With gratitude’s zest, I seek God for solitude’s best…
upon trust-fortitude’s crest … within His beatitudes, blest
nestling in divine certitude’s breast toward servitude’s quest
in facing attitude’s test against pandemic latitude’s pest.
*Philippians 1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
May 5, 2020
2nd place, "Grace and Solitude" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton; judged on 5/9/2020.
September 10 Scripture Meditations Based on Matthew 5-6
Key Verse – Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR BEING MY HEAVENLY FATHER WHO TEACHES TRUTHS
Thank You for being my heavenly Father Who teaches truths, so righteous
About Your beatitudes of divine virtues
Enabling me to be gratefully courteous…
Blessed am I to trust You while receiving Your blessings, always plenteous.
Thank You for being my heavenly Father Who teaches truths, so perfect
About Your principles conquering humanistic intellect
Enabling me to be humbly submissive to where You direct…
Blessed am I to learn from as Your ways I reflect.
Thank You for being my heavenly Father Who teaches truths, so bright
About Your holiness with transforming might
Enabling me to be fervently persevering toward faith-height…
Blessed am I to follow You with joyful delight.
Thank You for being my heavenly Father Who teaches truths, so important
About Your Word always significant
Enabling me to be prudently wise against the arrogant…
Blessed am I to be instructed well to know what You want.
Thank You for being my heavenly Father Who teaches truths, so meaningful
About Your works majestically beautiful
Enabling me to be sincerely glad and worshipful…
Blessed am I to prioritize You, knowing that You’re wonderful.
Thank You for being my heavenly Father Who teaches truths, so life-changing
About Your commands for my revival’s charging
Enabling me to be firmly strong midst sinfulness-raging…
Blessed am I to seek You for ministry-fruitfulness plunging.
Thank You for being my heavenly Father Who teaches truths, so victorious
About Your power omnipotently serious
Enabling me to be biblically successful despite selfish pride that’s injurious…
Blessed am I to triumph in You along Your name, awesomely glorious.
September 10, 2022
We salute you:
committed Frontliners, to the fullest
for your fervently driven-zest
propelled by dedicated service-crest
geared with devotion's best toward triumphant life-saving quest.
We commend you:
courageous Frontliners, midst task so rigorous
you’re indeed facing challenges, grievously torturous
sacrificing yourselves in this pandemic, costly injurious
battling tenaciously, spiritedly victorious.
We pray for you:
caring Frontliners, for constant steadfastness
likewise extra strength from God’s graciousness
and rejuvenating peace to conquer all sorts of weariness
as you, with well-doing*, aid people against attacking virus’ harshness.
We entreat the Lord for you:
conscientious Frontliners, to bless you and your family
to shield you with His protective fortress mightily
while upholding your faith to trust Him fully
in your rescue-efforts badly needed verily.
We thank you:
compassionate Frontliners, with our wholehearted engagement
marked with loving concern to fight global health-crisis’ detriment
yes, we are with you, along compliance to our government
that by the Almighty’s power, we can overcome for healthy betterment.
*Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
April 13, 2020
2nd place, "The Last Token" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Mystic Rose Rose; judged on 4/21/2021.
3rd place, "STRAND PICK 12,any theme,any form" Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 4/14/2020.
Lifeblood of democracy hemorrhaging
ousting the "FAKE" president only recourse
to staunch impending grim demise,
since forefathers drafted
United States Constitution
ratified more'n two centuries ago
hoi polloi must take to the streets
denouncing severe curtailment
impinging sacred freedom of speech
linkedin with paramount bedrock provision
accessing unvarnished flint stoned "truth,"
nonetheless commander in chief
he quakingly, staunchly, vociferously...
excoriates, lacerates, repudiates...
one damning hermetically sealed,
iniquitous airtight, vacuum packed
flagrant misuse of power,
(not to mention nepotism)
invidious, insidious, injurious... infractions
incontestable, incontrovertible, contemptible...
significant melange in führer
re: hating deplorably
crooked basely barren
factual exposé after another,
deft correspondents all not quiet
along western front
(I heard Maria - mull remark)
bring "to light" execrable,
lamentable reprehensible...
gross transgressions
commander in chief
significantly overstepped
Pulitzer prize winning
prestigious storied publications
scathingly trounced, pillaried,
lambasted, insulted, denounced,
butchered, critiqued, demonized,
fricassed, gored, humiliated,...
pummeled, quartered, reviled
courageously expounding fiend
ensconced within his Taj Mahal
impregnable donjon, whereat he trumpets
laurels asper, nonpareil administration
laying groundless accusations
baring his white fangs,
twittering, naysaying, mocking.. supreme
renown gifted by "honest Abe"
recalcitrant commander in chief,
who refutes objectionable
dogged investigative journalism
every step of the way,
where dedicated news gatherers
risk life and limb
firing line reportage troopers
ferreting (foxlike) he/she
doth gopher precious nuggets
uncover alarming undisputable details
impossible to refute raw bits
agent provocateur freely colluding
immediately hashtashed poppycock
smarmy, snooty, snappy
beastly capital one ogre
blatantly castigating diligent endeavors
oblivious pie in sky
delusional egotistic haughtiness
bobblehead vilified by silent majority.
COME, MY BROTHER,
You asked me the other day, my friend, who
I am
I replied: I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true
Look how much the same we are,
No matter what the color, creed, race, or status.
Look, I am born and die, suffer and enjoy, love and hate just
Like you!
I am a father, a brother, a son, a mother, a sister, a daughter, just
Like you.
Happiness I seek, family to raise I wish, peace to find I look for, just
Like you.
I yearn, I abhor, I fear, I hope, I bleed, I heal, just
Like you.
I believe, I doubt, I accept, I refuse, I laugh, I cry, just
Like you.
We are alike, we are the same, we are brothers, children of
A unique father.
-
Why have we:
To oppose, to fight, to hurt, to destroy, to eliminate
One another?
Are our seas that narrow, the oceans that small, the lands so
Limited to contain all of us?
Or
Is it the case that our hearts are not big enough, and our minds are not
Wide open to enfold all mankind?
-
Listen to me, my brother,
It is up to us to change the world we have inherited, with its:
Virtues and vices, history and culture, sins and merits, and
Try to make it a better, nobler, kinder, and more caring world
By
Obliterating harmful beliefs,
Demolishing injurious divisions,
Destroying detrimental distrust
For to
Bring forth the dawn of a new loving world,
A world of acceptance, respect, justice, and of
Universal brotherhood
So as
With peace in our hearts, liberated would we be
From the past’s deleterious tribulations
That
For myriads of years have kept us apart!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
24 OCTOBER 2013
You asked me the other day, my friend,
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,
Look, how much the same we are,
No matter what, the color
The creed
The race
The status
Look,
I am born and I die
I suffer and I enjoy
I love and I hate, just
Like you!
I am a father, a brother, a son,
A mother, a sister, a daughter, just
Like you,
Happiness I seek,
Family to raise is my wish,
Peace to find I look for,
Just like you
I yearn
I abhor
I fear
I hope
I bleed
I heal,
Just like you,
I believe
I doubt
I accept
I refuse
I laugh
I cry,
just like you
We are alike
We are the same
We are brothers...
Children of a unique father.
Tell me,
My brother,
My friend,
My ally,
Why do we have to oppose,
To fight
To hurt
To destroy and
To eliminate
One another?
Are our seas really that narrow,
Our oceans that small,
Our lands so limited
To contain all of us?
Or
Is it the case that
Our hearts are not big enough
And our minds not so wide-open to
Enfold all mankind?
Listen to me, my other self:
It is up to us to change this world
We have inherited, with its virtues and vices,
History and culture
Flaws and merits
And
Try to make it
Better
Nobler
Kinder and more caring
By obliterating harmful beliefs,
Demolishing injurious divisions,
Destroying detrimental distrust,
Annihilating racism and eradicating
The erroneous feeling of poisonous superiority
For
To bring the dawn of a new loving world,
A world of acceptance
Of respect
Of justice
Of equality
Of love and
Of universal brotherhood
So as
With peace in our hearts, liberated we would be
From the past’s deleterious tribulations
That for myriads of years,
Have kept us, fighting one another!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
21 MARCH 2015
Copyright © Demetrios Trifiatis | Year Posted 2015
NOTE! Today because of the “ World Day Against Racism” my moral duty, couldn’t let me stay away!
This poem of mine is an old poem of 2013 that has been edited and improved today thus it is posted now as a new poem!
* I did this for all my friends who wish me to come back. I will come back when I am ready! Thank you for your love!
He chose the illegal way,
instead of honesty and prayer,
to deny his sordid existence with the blankest stare;
and while tragedy strikes home,
he can't evade those prisons' walls and run free
to comfort with his shallowness a wife drowned in sorrow,
struggling to make a living,
giving more density to an empty feeling...
An incarcerated father,, temporarily alienated
from society,while his kids' dreams are incinerated;
had he been a good dad like others have,
nothing of this sort would have happened..no goodbye, no tears!
Fathers, ponder over this and spare them many useless heartbreaks!
Never let them see you dragged in chains to a courtroom,
and feel the humiliation of the harshest words from a furious judge!
Is this what you like to hear and not change anytime soon?
What makes any man desire
others' possessions that they earned with their sweat;
what makes a dishonorable human being seize,
by a swift and injurious hand, what isn't his?
Desperation and deprivation play their role,
to bring to completion the Devil's schemes of deceit;
any remorse, not to suppress guilt, and make this sin remissible:
to erase everything from his conscience consumed by greed?
An incarcerated father, dreaming of those innocent faces,
he condemned in hell without any fault of their own; heartless father,
take another look at them and see how they shiver;
they would like to hold you, but something holds them back...
if you are capable of carrying out the evil in you and hurt strangers,
how will they ever trust you and not see that as a possible threat?
Untrustworty and unworthy one...you have failed as a dad;
and would they understand and rescue you from the inferno you've created?
Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci