All my life I’ve been searching
Yet never seeming to find
I’ve traveled, married, divorced
As I’ve searched and yet
You have avoided me
My life has been fairly happy
As most would say successful and full
But in the quiet hours of dawn
I know that is not quite true
There is a yearning in my soul
That I have yet to put to sleep
People ask what are you looking for?
I know what it is but,
Putting Into words is hard
It’s a soul that matches mine
In spirit and thoughts
It comforts without even trying
The sound of their voice will settle me
The touch of their hand
Will send shocks through me like lightning
Yet gentle like the breeze
Their love is like no other
Reassuring without control
And lingers through me
Letting me know they love me
Like they have never loved before
Their compassion has no end
And guides me without preaching
Their laughter will fill every fiber of my soul
It is a calmness that washes over me
Even when they’re not near
And a gentleness that no one can touch
In their eyes I am perfect
Even though I know I am not
With them I’ll feel like I’ve come home
Are you out there?
Original poem by
Linda Franklin 03/10/2026
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Today’s blessing comes from Stephen Chbosky
(He wrote The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
and in this time when people are banning books
his words hold special power…
To all you out there who are banning books
may you be blessed to one day see the light…
to comprehend what you are doing is wrong
and understand Stephen Chbosky is right:
“Banning books,” he says,
“gives us silence when we need speech.
It closes or ears when we need to listen.
It makes us blind when we need sight”
Oftentimes I prefer being alone.
The world seems a cold & bitter place.
I'm best inside my sanctuary.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 2nd place 2026, Honorable Mention 2026
Mom always had a saying.
Promised lots of fish in the sea.
Are they all avoiding me?
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2026
Turn
the beam
inward
although there
is no one to
turn it..
but the storied
beam when so
turned will
search indefinitely
to find
Nothing at all
and perhaps
nothing out there~~
Madam Justice has been drugged.
She's been knocked out and lies in a coma.
We'll have to hold our own until she come to.
Meanwhile the horses are loose and running wild.
So are the lunatics and criminals.
Oh Dear Alien, I hear you've been,
buzzing me in recent days.
With flying saucers and drones,
scooping down here in droves.
Well I for one would love
you to come, and land for me,
To swoop me off my feet,
up into your cool dude craft.
Oh Dear Alien,
far away out there.
I sent you a message
to show that I care.
You gotta get me outta here.
I don't care what you look like,
green of skin, or pop-eyed as well.
I've seen you in the movies
and E.T. looks just swell.
So common Mr Alien or anyone!
I'm looking to hitch a ride.
To somewhere else, anywhere else?
Out of this, my stale ale abide.
Oh Dear Alien,
far away out there.
I sent you a message
to show that I care.
You gotta get me outta here.
perched in heights above
with a good vantage point
a feral cat howls
in desperation
at the full moon
longing for its mate
gone missing in the night
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
no one said life would be a breeze
i compare it to getting out and climbing trees
i sometimes fall to my knees but don't stay down
i get up and refuse tenaciously to wear a frown
in my imagination i have wings and i roam free
i do my best to expand the big world before me
AP: 1st place 2025
Skating upon Saturn's rings, on the outskirts of gold,
executing my double axel, in the brisk, season of cold.
The sole sound is of ice skates, spraying bits behind;
In rich, purple dusk, of the chaotic universe entwined.
A wide-eyed dreamer, in the red heartbeat of fantasy,
does slow twirls and excited spins, jumping uncannily!
Skating on concentric rings-the adventure of her life,
Stars shining all together, a hundred moons in the sky.
Who is watching from out there
Would you listen if you care
You may not, cause anyway
No one counts on me to say
Hello there, how do you feel
Must I wonder what’s the deal
But your constant silence, man
Makes it hard to get your plan
What’s the great idea to hide
Hibernating there outside
And inside of me as well
Bless with heaven your old hell
Give me something in return
Something positive to learn
But no suffer and no grief
These old trials I achieved
And I find them bad enough
Please no more of this bleak stuff
And those power drunk who rule
Trigger happy, playing cool
If you can, take them away
To whatever place you may
For I’m helpless without you
And it does seem overdue
To reveal if you’re out there
Still provide a little care
Cause in case you are retired
It’s a saddest joke they wired.
World War 1, and World War 2
It's now 2024, and it's affecting you and I
Korea, Vietnam, the Balkans, Ukraine
No wonder this planet's not been invaded
Out there must think, they're all insane
From our inside looking inside, daily thoughts
With people we've grown with, taking us to
It's history, simple history, the world now caught
Just what in the hell do their minds think through
To the United Nations, someone stand tall
Now start showing clips of a world without war
Children in playgrounds, running around at will
To be never now like the Ukraine, a minorities spill
It's high time, that all the powers that are
From their neighborhood's they travel, to be
Simply observe, their families so spread around
Is it your decisions, that they'll no longer see
The worlds heading to an infamous Chess game
Where leading players simply haven't a clue
One thing that should remind them, totally
It's not your world to sanction it's spew!
Within every man, there’s Adam
In every ma'am, there’s Eve
Each one feeling like half a soul
'til brought together to be made whole
For everyone, there is a purpose
To find one’s better half
That should be our only purpose
Nothing else should matter
All else is superfluous and lost
So, go find him, or her, at all cost
It’s what truly makes us happy
It’s encoded in our genes
Within every man, there’s Adam
Within every madam, Eve
Sincerely,
Cupid’s apprentice
It is sheer absurd arrogance
To only look way out there in the Universe
For Life as WE Know it!
That is, an organic form based on Carbon and Water.
So what is Life, in essence?
Life is a revolt against the fundamental rules of Nature
to decay to disorder (to increase Entropy). That's it!
Living things are organised to work continuously to decrease Entropy.
To build and maintain structure and order, against inevitable decay.
As such, Life as We don't Know it, may be here, and there, already!
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