Another holiday comes near,
holidays past have placed a fear
inside like an enemy spear~
the call from afar,
why are you choosing to stay deaf
to songs of love, does not the clef
notate wonder like Kepler-62f,*
and yet here we are.
*a super-Earthexoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets discovered around the star by NASA's Kepler space telescope. It is located about 982 light-years (301 parsecs)from Earth in the constellation of Lyra. ~Wikipedia
Your head is a living forest
full of songbirds.
~E.E. Cummings
The songbirds in my head
are chirping melodically,
and unlike the voices
the birds make no demands.
The voices want me dead
chanting evil plans rhapsodically,
but trilling birds notate a different choice
toward a path to other lands.
Lands where voices can be shed,
lands wherein I dwell harmonically,
lands where psyche can rejoice
without annoying ampersands!
THREE WORD ACROSTIC
Admit
Meditate
Encourage
Notate
Do
Start
Ask
Diminish
Model
Initiate
Talk
Confess
Obey
Negate
Face
Ease
Sincere
Surrender
1 October 2019
For the contest sponsored by Bobby May
My favorite things are the pen and the paper.
I write the words and make them rhyme,
I write the facts about the times.
I write my sorrows, sometimes my failures,
Sometimes what moves me, or what I should savor.
I write down my goals and I cross off my deeds,
I write all my wants and notate my needs.
I write about joy, I write about pain.
I write the same notes over and over again.
Writing has always been easy for me,
It's self-expression that no one else sees.
It helps me sort the wants and the nots,
It gets me over and past the stops.
It helps me to vent when no one else cares,
It keeps my secrets when I shouldn't dare.
It brings back the memories and helps me grow,
It makes me see things that I would never have known.
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