Raul Mondesi is back from wherever he’d been hid
Storming into the Big Leagues and making another bid
But he played over a decade ago
Guess for me time hasn’t gone slow
And the rising star this year is Mondesi’s kid
3/31/16
He
Looks like
A hoodlum?
Tattooed and hard –
Judge not the surface!
Be like God, look inside.
Let love flow; watch joy abide.
Tupac’s rhyming brightens sorrows.
Rapping beats to famed masterpieces.
Singing the wisdom he learned from the streets.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
June 7, 2010
Poetic form: Etheree
Shedding the dry life
Awaiting the new life, reborn
Forever in green
For Raul's contest
I’m a young boy
A single mother’s son
I’m a young beach beaten by a tsunami
Sent by an undersea earthquake delivering ripples of death
Carrying my mother and hers out to sea
Ravaged sands asking the sunset to reveal the secrets of the sunrise
I’m a father to a wonderful child
A beautiful wife’s husband
I’m the love in each rain drop of a gentle rain
Nurturing arid hearts with the moisture of my words
Watering seeds of the future with hope
The catalyst for the magic of spring
I’m a teacher
A Painter
I’m the strike of a snake
My fang: a pen’s nib full of black venom
Poisoning compressed cellulose pulp;
The anti-venom: beautiful words
Administered through the ink gracing the surface
A student of verse
~ I am a poet ~
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I was tagged by raul to write a poem that ends with
"I am a poet"
now I'm tagging Elaine George
heavy clouds promise
mountains greedy for water
placid bowl reflects
the barren reflects
winter sits at water's edge
mossy stones don't move
1 " Sad Reality "
So " Compelling ; and Profound " ( Raul )
( MIATIANNA )
2 With my Heart Softened
By eyes, see Pride in her eyes
Princess of Haiti ( HG )
Dedicated to my " Senryu Sensei " Raul Moreno "
Author's Note : The First two lines in the First Senryu are " Raul's" Words "
{ I added the first ( So ) } In a comment to my POEM " MIATIANNA "
The Second Senryu is my Response
‘ Raul Moreno, Poet- Sen•sei … ’ 56th Senryu
Like Marco Polo
Haiku Master, Moreno
Explores Nature’s Show
From Magnanimous Me (he! he!) (LOL)
Love Your Poetry,
Your Poet-Pal, MoonBee
Ivory beacon
Ebony reflections cast
Shades, mixed grey, upward
For the Reflections contest by Raul Moreno
Liquid lasers cut
moist verdant patterns into
refuge for the soul.
Buck panting, gurgling
blood filling his lungs, run down
steep slope, MUST escape...
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For Raul's contest(Solace in Nature)
Tranquil country scene
All at peace with Mother Earth
Let's all picture that .
His
Words
Flow with
Elegance
To create paintings
On a canvas filled with white light,
Bursting with everlasting imagery of nature
Copyright © 2009 Lena “Lolita” Townsend
*inspired by Raul’s wonderful Haiku “Sunset”
*for Brian’s Contest
May i thank for the Honor
To be free on this site
To be allowed to express
Our mind and its write
We do unto others
As they do unto us
They allow us to write
No deliberation for crass
A lovely poet who wrote his mind
Its his to applaud
And for us to be kind
Read and dissect
As we interpret his say
Poets like Raul
Are here every day
So what ever he writes
On any given day
His freedom to express
In his own way
His feelings and thoughts
Are entirely his say
" Hail to Raul Moreno "
Truly an angel
He did not misjudge my heart
Alast I see light
-again thank you Raul
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