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SOS

Say something;
your silence scars my skin,
shatters my soul,
strains my skull,
stretches out my suffering and 
snowballs my syndrome.

Out loud;
your opinion is not obvious,
openness not optional,
obligation not obsolete,
only your opposition to the occasion is
orchestrating this onslaught.

Speak;
I scream and shout,
shriek and screech,
sob and solicit,
still, you stay shut-off and silent and
strike me speechless, too.

Sos

SOS I’m crying out
Can you hear me in the silence?
SOS I’m crying out
I can’t stand up to all this violence

‘Cause I washed upon a sandbar
Destination close and yet so far
I need a little help now
To get this ship back up to par

SOS I’m crying out
Will anybody save my lost soul?
SOS I’m crying out
In this harsh and cruel world, I’ve taken a toll

Anthology Sos

Missed my submission of poem in the first PS anthology
I think I was travelling that time or in a very long journey
Second submission, I think I’ve missed because I was so busy
Perhaps focused on my school work, no one had pinched me
Third submission, now announcements around I see
But which of my poems is/are worth for publication, can you tell me 
I think I need an editor, can you help me my dear mentors of poetry?

May 12, 2023     3.40pm

Dedicated To Barry and Peggy In Sos Titanic

Whistle... and I'll come to you...
Through the sea, across the land

And with my mittens, 
Warm your hand



[Inspired by reading "S.O.S. Titanic" by Eve Bunting. Read it to see.
This is dedicated to them, it is not a poem from me to anyone else.]

Sos

Hello again

I'm sorry I haven't been writing as much
I've been ripping out a myriad of my musings
like petals from their flowers
crumpling them up & discarding them in a bin
overflowing with lies, malicia 
& stories I wish were truly mine
I'm sorry it took an eternity for me to reply
I've been trying to convince my shadow
to be my friend
so I will not remain lonely here at my new school

Every day I trip over my self-esteem 
& shatter my hope
Every other day I hide in a coffee shop
Just so someone I haven't disappointed yet can call out my name

I'm just going to be honest
It isn't going too well for me here
Don't abandon me

To Be Alive

TO BE ALIVE

There once was a man from Galilee, and
A woman needing water from a well
She seemed transparent as you and me
He filled her soul with spice of truth as well
We breathe one breath.

Oh for the love of seeing
Even the dark of night holds glory
Drab of day finds the clearing
Stars one by one tells a story
We are star dust.

The whole world waited for a Savior
Even the wind and waves would obey
One gift as gift was favor
Would you throw it all away?
Which way leads home?

We will  come alive where freedom reigns
And emptiness is replaced by light weightiness
And truth is embraced like a long lost gem.

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SOS Sincerely Me

It’s infinitely brighter, 
I would not turn back the clock;
If compliments are like money? 
I’ve left them all inside a jar;

I hope someday I can say these words;
Right now? I can’t quite put them together; 

Just like the day we met,
I’m completely terrified;
To unleash them all now,
covered in everything I can’t forget; 

I’ve lowered my eyes a thousand times,
I’ve banked one thousand moments;
Everything is infinitely brighter, 
even though you make me nervous; 

I wish I could bottle that ‘look’,
I’ve seen it a couple of times;  
A tortured thunderstorm, 
drink the raw honesty in your eyes; 

I hope someday I can say these words;
Right now? I can’t quite put them together;

So I’ll leave them on the beach,
let my thoughts dance on the water;
If compliments are like money? 
I’ve left them all inside a jar.

The Last Bee Dances Sos

I never work in darkness friend
Evil hunts in shadows
Give me a sunny meadow
dancing jolly, kissing flowers 
now I stand quivering gossamer wings
narcissistic greed mongers, corrupted
build towers where neons flash
sold their putrid souls for cash
the prophet said perish thee
for you can’t eat money
words of change died in silence

Trees don’t tremble, flowers don’t cry
I know my time is near
Last night I had a dream
the last bee dead
I’m mounted on display
10,000 drones replaced me
doing what I gave for free
there is no hope in silence

Wastrels write on tenement walls
their words failed to convey
blind and deaf to my dismay
communications more than words
deathly silence screams the answer

Written 5/8/2019
NA the Day Away - Sponsor Lu Loo
Placed 3rd with thanks

Dam It All - Sos

The stream flows unceasing,
surging and swelling and smothering at the dam.
But the walls hold…

What creeps over is a trickle,
contained and detained and drained of its freedom.
But the walls hold…

It’s broadcast abroad,
tear drops and blood drops and congressional inspection.
But the walls hold…

And what is heard,
is muffled and lost and drowned in the mainstream.
So the walls hold

Because what is said,
misses the point, misses the people, misses humanity
So the wall grows.  

8/5/2019

Remind Them of Their Humanness - Sos

Delicate dream pinching me this morning
Urging me to go out among the people and reach them,
To teach them to open up their hearts and love each other

People are unfulfilled, because they are islands
Lost in the bowels of themselves, praying to electronic devices.
Sitting next to others who also have their gods in their laps

They are further apart than they have ever been.
No one touching, talking, speaking, or listening.
Delicate dream pinching me softly, urging me to enlighten them.

To remind them of their humanness, to enlist the sound of silence
So she can help me show them how to mediate, and mediate.
How to get back the inner peace, possibly restore their families.

Written: 8-02-2019
Contest:  Sound of Silence – SOS
Sponsor: John Hamilton

Who Took the Village - Sos

Have we ceded our stewardship
allowed a systemic sepsis to spread
acquiesced to the benign malaise
of Death’s directing finger?

Spending billions to cure diseases
caused by poverty’s pestilence
arming ourselves against an assault
of mutating microbial minds

Offering triage to the fatality
of futility’s folly
bandaging life’s severed limbs
sound biting our souls.

Who took the village?


©8/1/2019

Sound of Silence Poetry Contest
John Hamilton sponsor

Hello Darkness -- Sos

I walked into you with wide-open eyes,
Your softly creeping gloom invaded my dreams,
Lingering and hastening the oblivion;
Hello, Darkness.

Doubts and confusion paved my way
Leaving room only for shadowed rain.
Unexpectedly, a gleam of light shattered my illusion
And broke the darkness.

Now I walk in light and see desperate people,
Thousands, yearning to be heard above the fray;
Silently they scream in panic and pain,
Finding only your darkness.

Foolish men knowingly block their ears,
Confident in your festering evil,
Loathe to hear the cries of the people,
Content to remain in darkness.

I see learned citizens embrace you as a god,
Unwilling to read the writing on the wall,
Bending every lie into a warped version of truth;
They worship your darkness.

I walk into you with eyes wide open,
Appalled at your naked ambition,
Straining to hear a word of denial
From those able to to constrain your darkness.

I hear only the whisper of silence.









July 31, 2019

Reticent Voices Heard Only In Thoughts Sos

an obscurity of thoughts
fall like soft rain
through emotional pain
that linger again
in caliginous mind
that feed my pen

words stumble
atop sheets of white
unspoken, unheard
like soft whispers
of a gentle wind
although seen
remain uncomprehended
like laconic utterance
within bold frames
of darkness

i feel its chill
as i walk alone
unknown
through paths
once blocked
where people stand
beneath the effulgence
of moon's full glow
like stars
together
yet afar
untouched
by my words
or yours

i feel you
guide me as i slump
beneath the shadows
of their selfless rituals
through the force
of my pen
scribbled
through silence
in darkness
alone

July 27, 2019
Sounds of Silence
Sponsored by John Hamilton

The Fear Silence Bestows- Sos

In the stillness of the night I saw myself-
captured in quietude and sinister peace.
Suppressing all that hovers,
truth saved by ivory silk covers-
I long to feel the calm life used to give. 

So, I tarry and stroll along shores of woe,
stacking sandbags against the river of
tears I sacrifice just to feel the silence…
                       that haunts me. 

Three million saved from lights of faith, 
existence fears not what leads to kismet.
I see through glass that carries grains
just to ease my timepiece quivering-
   and
I travel to mounts just to hear the silence…
                       that haunts me.

My essence used to shine in blue brilliance,
now it’s withered in ash without resilience. 

Serenaded in fractions of non-fiction,
chronicles of a hush longing to be 
whispered-
whispered in a way only I can comprehend.
For I am but a woman craving,
longing to embrace the silence…
                       that haunts me. 


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Sound of Silence Contest
John Hamilton
July 27, 2019

My Soul Cries Sos

In dim-lit realms of shade,
my dream comes to life
to disperse into fragments of lives I made
visions become real, lips move without sound 
I stare out at a sea of humanity
crying in silence as they move through the wilderness
searching for redemption...filled with hopelessness
seeking Gods that glitter in the night
as they wrap themselves in the hate of discontent
no one speaks...no one hears
my dream becomes bits of paper filled with empty words
tumbling on the breath of fate
I toss them onto tear-stained empty streets
to form puddles around what's for sale
where my soul is lost,  I crawl through my refuge of despair
and await the rain that falls silent on my darkness
where I have scribbled graffiti on the stones of my poor yearning
hoping for peace, finding silence
as I ponder the death of humanity


7/26/19 contest Sounds of Silence

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