Very easy to feel pain
in distress of any one
Not that easy to be
happy in happiness of other.
Enjoy also bliss of other.
If you can share sorrow,
your grief will be less.
Share other’s sorrow being selfless.
When you share your happiness,
joy will go more intense.
Common sense, not so common
in common populace as expected.
A natural event follows logic.
When falsehood shown as fact,
It termed a Magic
GRIEF
If destiny betrays, grief is granted,
When faith is deceived, grudge to grow.
Wrath blazes surpassing sorrow.
Then consolation unwanted.
Even being too competent
Off and on may appear failure.
So sad to accept and endure.
Though that is natural event.
Life holds chapters of strife and grief
more than happy joyful moments
short to enjoy, long to lament.
Sorrow if shared, can bring a relief.
04/25/21
Third Place
'Grief in 12 lines or less' Contest by Line Gauthier
The Hula Hoop
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On acquisitiveness or generositY,
Where both parties wanT
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Buck, therebY
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***The above CONCRETE form is the statement described by its shape
The below HAIKU form describes the statement via a natural event
Being well-rounded I decided to call this the HULA HOOP
2019 August 19
*5th Place*
Invitation to Play
~~Sheri Fresonke Harper
elegance
of a
phrase
ripples
across
my mind:
glittering
prefigure
a poesie:
flitter
flicker
into life
crying
I'm here!
from within
the berth
channel
of
inspiration
Dear soup friends,
There’s no poem this morning; living in central Oklahoma is too sad and painful.
Any death is one too many, especially when innocent children are the victims. It’s almost more than the soul can bear, especially for those who have lost their families. Homes can be rebuilt, lost possessions replaced or forgotten, but not the lives of those held dear.
Ten miles south of total devastation, I am safe with my family, our lives not destroyed by a random yet ordinary natural event in Oklahoma, the third in the same area since 1999. I ask for your kind thoughts and remembrance as we struggle through the aftermath of nature’s wrath yet again.
Jack Jordan
Fair weather eye's
focused on the eastern horizon
occasional salty sea spray
followed by a chilly breeze .
A voyager , wandering adrift today's beyond
searching for better tomorrows
on life's ocean of emotions rolling wave's
At times , I feel like changing direction's
follow the sun to the west
go in circles to where it never set's
But then , would I be in a continous day dream
only capable of experiencing a singularity ??
Supposing the setting sun gives hope for another
opportunities abound whatever the weather
Even still , why has everything become so different
refraction apparently affecting others
their mind's " I " incapable of truth
tropism natural for most
eclipsing of the sun becoming an everyday event
What happened to the world I once knew ??
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