Of Passing Cloud
- Roger White
Unaware of the world below, a wispy cloud suspended between Heaven and Earth
drifts westward against an azure sky…
…blithely
As if coaxed by an unseen presence or hastened by a gentle call,
reaches the setting sun of the western horizon…
…quietly
Awash in hues of gold, beautiful and radiant,
delicate tendrils touch the night’s first stars…
…gently
A wispy cloud escapes the bonds of Earth,
ascends into the embrace of Heaven…
…peacefully
I’ve got a million words floating around my head
Used to construct rhyming sentences.
Cohesive thought is the author’s thread
For sewing poems of past remembrances.
Some make sense; some are absurd;
One or two might actually be good.
But mostly, they are just the word
Of a man often misunderstood.
I once sought fame or notoriety
After hanging titles on my creations;
After sharing hundreds with polite society,
I never experienced any such sensations.
I am destined to die leaving a legacy somehow
Of poems that have never been read;
They can’t haunt me then as they haunt me now
After I am peacefully dead.
People of different choices
On the same planet earth.
Some guys use their last breaths
to get some billionaires
And others want to win
The hearts of billion
people through the truth.
Huh? It is the reality of life.
Truth comes on the podium
Lies hide so quickly
Many people laugh loudly
It seems as some dramas
Which some liars
and true people play
publicly.
Oh! yes , yes , really !
A poet says loudly ,
" It is poetry ...
Let us continue
living peacefully
With the truth
On this planet earth."
June 26/ 2023
Of what essence it is
To fiercely assert a formalised choice
In the name of political honour
That produces terror?
I fight for my party to win
Yet us our country is between
The leaders and the led
Any need to fight?
Because her we have to as one ameliorate.
As simple as peaceful to vote
Just speak to the ballot box
Instead I've always caused things that box
My task of getting my boss there
At the height of prestige
In formulation of gangs of my fellow young dudes
To contend by physical exertion.
So funny!
It's now I realise
That the sons of those influencers are always absent
In our brawls and thugs
And in our forces;
For their fathers’ failing fates;
Like they have none,
Or ain't they our peers?
But they all do.
I see!
Ergo, I'll no more to vote fight
In rote we'll vote.
Elections are opinions, not dominions.
A joyride
Like that of a high speed rail
We may take our partners
Our small children
Or our old parents
For a joyride
Looking around
Scenery and nature
People and crowd
Shops and houses
Cars and buses
Highways and lanes
All are eye-catching
After a long time confining to
Walls and beds
While people are still hesitating to dine-in
Because of the virus
I love a joyride
I won't leave the outside world
Out of contact
I take photos from the car
I eat inside the car
I enjoy the hustle and bustle
Of life outside
Even though through
A small car window
I was bornt to this world
I was gifted
I won't leave it alone
Will it leave me alone
And I hope to live with it peacefully
Can I
I like to penetrate your soul too
Your world too
With my true love
Although only a little left
Can I
Wind peacefully soft
Begins to steadily waft;
Life is colorful,
The Next Man wonderful.
Security is stable,
Killers uncomfortable;
Their aforethought readable,
Every move predictable.
Where there could’ve been riot,
The clamorous are quiet;
No more of The Abusive,
Less of the Laughter Derisive.
Evil is no more presentable
Nor vice understandable;
Nature keeps image rebranding
At corners Angels standing!
trees have lost their Autumn colors
yet the winding path I walk is still in beautiful decay
a pond I pass mirrors a still azure sky above
and the cold water reflects ducks floating
the days are shorter and soon the ducks will fly away
but today they glide peacefully side by side
___________________
October 31, 2021
Poetry/Free Verse/gliding peacefully
Copyright Protected, ID 10-1401-886-31
All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Bite Size #25
sponsor, Line Gauthier, Judged 11/07/2021
Submitted to the Standard contest, Strand No 1042
sponsor, Brian Strand, Judged 12/29/2021
Be still and listen
Breathe in to quiet your mind
Peacefully Silent
Eternity Lion Looks Peacefully At the Lamb- -
bright eternity
a great, content lion looks
because of the lamb
3/5/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019
Please Just hold my hand
Nothing to fear if you do
For I am going
To travel in the heavens
To a place of perfect peace
3/2/19
oft times brutal not so short,
but nasty acknowledgement,
(this anonymous, conscientious, efficacious...
frivolous gent writhes at bloody history),
yet mindful premeditated how to be worthy,
and now feels forced to be acquiescent
(as well other citizens might) calling
(er...actually writing), an August
aegis body vowing to be adherent
to codas, doctrine, ethos...adjacent
with government sanctioned destruction,
and indefinite adjournment
of peaceful coexistence with native peoples,
who never accepted unfair (raw deal) adjustment
(most often forced with violence) preceded,
and/or followed by admonishment
of aggressive, corrosive, deceptive...
indiscriminate butchering and adolescent
women and children,
an irrevocable Janus-faced advancement
fate awaiting all aboriginal tribes
fueled by advertisement frequently with bounty
fast forward to present age of affluent
price tag to lobby and or represent
deliberate gerrymandered voting districts,
where trumped up agent orange
iz new black aggrandizement
finds Donny Brooks saturing the media
with proclamation defamation of this very day
stigmatizing valuable news as so subtly "FAKE"!
The zero world
How the tide rises and falls,
How the sky lightens and fails,
How the wind peacefully goes
To the zero scale it contains - zero doesn't judge, it just exists.
(c) Maryna Tchianova, Ukraine
Copyright © Maryna Tchianova | Year Posted 2016
earth tucked in warmly
fast asleep beneath white quilt -
snow float idly down
12/24/2018
Justice comes without a gun
Need not a knife at my throat
Let’s settle disagreements with our voice and words
Let's disagree in peace in and with Love
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
12/01/18
(form Yalto poetry)
Delightful
unexpected
beauty
an amazing
dream creates yearning
strong desire
can not
stop feeling
your love
though now you
are not here
within my heart you’re
love’s retained forever
so
rest in peace my love.
9/3/2018
EARLY SEPT 2018 STANDARD
sponsor Brian Strand.
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