Love is the key
To being me
To being you
To being us
World needs more love
Do you agree ?
Show it to all
Love is the key
People hurt so much
A touch of love
They sure do need it
To change their life
I did it today to a guy
In church
All I said was your so cool
It made him feel good
… the original woman
The pure
Without sickness
No sick psychology
The man-hater
I need the original
God created
Without psychology
No need this science
Only the Bible
That’s all
But everything
Forever
In this write..With oxymoronical title i take
Issue with a condition a rule most un-vital ' i must be nice.? When on poems i comment or advise.? I have no choice.' On this i could pen a sonnet? Not that by carachter
I am prone to be mean' if i be honest? yet thats a blanket
Ban.' Maybe usefull in Siberia? On going there i don't wish too.' Thats my choice.
Yet on here' there is a rule..that all must
Just adhere too.)
Throughout my whole life, I’ve felt like I was on the outside looking in.
It’s always been as if no one saw me for who I wanted to be.
I was always waiting to be part of the group and let life begin,
But they looked right through me without a second glance and never chose me.
I felt so alone and pushed aside… my only companion was pain.
I feel my whole life has been lived in quiet darkness and quarantine.
Being someone’s literal shadow is very lonely and mundane.
“What’s the point of being visible, if you’re not going to be seen.”*
* quote from Ghosts, Season 4, Episode 16
You, reading this,
you are the quiet miracle no one taught you to see.
You have walked through nights
that would have broken other people,
yet you kept your hands open
to whatever small light
was brave enough to stay.
You have been hurt
in ways you never named,
carrying storms
that no one else noticed,
and still you rise
with a softness the world
did not manage to take.
There is a strength in you
that does not shout.
It simply endures.
It simply continues.
It simply refuses
to let the dark decide
who you are.
And if you forget this tomorrow,
or the day after,
or any day after that,
remember this line:
you are the proof
that survival can be beautiful.
If this reached you, feel free to share it with someone who might need it.
a trip back home to reflect on past, present and future
NEEDED POLITICAL LAXATIVES
Not working to well,
The political toilet
Bowl needs to be flushed:-
It’s so full of stinking stuff
Of stymying bigotry;
It seems like justice
Has become constipated
Fighting injustice:
Political laxatives,
Needed for the uncloggings:-
Sometimes you have to separate yourself from others in order to find happiness
I wonder
I remember
I had so many questions
Yet I stayed silent
Especially when I was
The only one with red hair.
All my life pictures
Only after I was 6 years old.
No birth records
Just born abroad
One piece of paper with
My birthdate and
Secretary of state seal.
My great grandmother called
Me jeanie, yet that was not my name.
So suspicious
Last time I saw her
She whispered in my ear
GO FIND YOUR REAL FAMILY.
That was the only answer I needed.
Now I knew the truth.
I made a measly mistake today
the family communal text site blew up
I had typed in
you will have three presents today
all three daughters claimed they had received presents from me
with a note that said “you are my favorite”
It got wilder and crazier before I saw the sixteen texts
they had sent back and forth claiming favoritism for themselves
I typed this back “you are all knuckleheads. This text was
for my friend Marianne who has a birthday, not you goofballs”.
I included a farting elephant for good measure.
I do believe my mistake gave my daughters the
most fun they have had in a long time
HELP I NEED SOMEBODY
AND NOT JUST ANYBODY
TRUMP BEGGING SHODDY
From inspired to tired..Subtle yet literal.'
Truths heavy load, often takes us there.'
Enlightenment.. Now essential.!
Escaping pain and turmoil from the world of men,
I walked away and disappeared
into a forest by a gurgling spring,
and there, I found the many shades of green
calmed me and soothed my wounded soul.
Where shafts of sunlight found the glittering water,
and beauty was a kind of psychic balm,
I wondered how this place could be so quiet,
when so much, in fact, was going on.
A breeze song whistled, causing reeds to sway,
as rock and stream danced a happy jig,
and, within, inch long minnows swam.
I long needed someone devoted to God.
Not the one who has always feared God.
Not the one who never at all revered God.
But the one who is aware we are all God.
I long needed someone who lives freely,
Not the one who lives strictly hypocritically;
Not the one who lives duly apathetically,
But the one who lives wisely lovingly.
I used to not know what I felt I was missing,
I now know what I was missing is living
Alongside one I am only now remembering.
I found someone bearing my life's meaning.
I used to compromise to earn their love.
I now undo my knots for one from above.
I finally found him whom also fits my glove.
I now have a love without push and shove.
Alone in a dark corner
A fleeting smile was all it took
~ setting the wheels in motion
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 2nd place 2025
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