There is talk of peace..Yet Much conflict goes on' where are the drainstream media.? When such bad things in islam are
Going on.' Is there only one prisim? Through which the world can be viewed..I answer no.' As the false dawn of the
Insitu; behemoths is cut away.' a sad fractured reality
Comes now into our view.'
Categories:
upheaval, appreciation, care, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Counting History
Days, months, years
But history is not a
mystical process
You have written about the winners
but what about the losers?
You count history
You count what is written, but the truth
Is in the words that are never spoken
You count history
You forget to count lives.
Written: January 14, 2023
Categories:
upheaval, analogy, angst, bereavement, history,
Form: Free verse
Life is inherently difficult. It is its cornerstone
Awakened, striving to tie up all wear and tears
Respect you've given, the kindness you've shown
Will still offer me vigor and be my exulting gear?
Awakened, striving to tie up all wear and tears
To be truly human, fully conscious, and awake
Will still offer me vigor and be my exulting gear?
Feud grew fray, brother with brother, and no spake.
To be truly human, fully conscious, and awake
Oblivious to what Dramatis personae uttered;
Feud grew fray, brother with brother, and no spake
Will be thrown out of the nest in a steady world?
Oblivious to what Dramatis personae uttered;
Must live each time, as if it were at the beginning
Will be thrown out of the nest in a steady world?
Facing life head-on lessens our ought-clinging.
Must live each time, as if it were at the beginning
Respect you've given, the kindness you've shown
Facing life head-on lessens our ought-clinging
Life is inherently difficult. It is its cornerstone.
Written: December 08, 2022
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 22 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mark Toney
Categories:
upheaval, analogy, bereavement, life,
Form: Pantoum
Public protracts a meg night of sorrow.
My forebears' screaming intimidates me.
I'm on high alert; catch my spirit growl.
Upheaval nations were met with fury.
Whiners pelted with mallets left dreary.
Police detained civil rights advocates.
Despotism bears loads worrisome ailments.
Anyone opposing the reins is held.
Each note is judged by a team of experts,
Most of them seem to be wholly ignored.
Written: February 01st, 2022
Categories:
upheaval, analogy, angst, bereavement, change,
Form: Dizain
Blessed triumph, mighty spiritual
toward service upheaval;
divine renewal
wrought by God’s revival
uplifting me for His grand arrival.
Grateful to the Saviour Jesus for life eternal
my soul strives beyond mere survival
prioritizing not the ephemeral
by His grace, sharing His love so special
toward heaven’s bliss ... against vanities, merely temporal.*
*2Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
August 16, 2019
Categories:
upheaval, appreciation, blessing, christian, devotion,
Form: Verse
Storm
hissed loud
twisting forms
Painting town blood
red
Contest
Lantern Frenzy number2
Date
April 26 2017
Categories:
upheaval, dark,
Form: Lanterne
Evil Upheaval
There is this evil
Trump causing an upheaval
And utter chaos.
Jim Horn
This seems to be what is happening
every time I watch the news on TV.
Categories:
upheaval, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Mourning news flash
Terror attacks;
Dead and wounded
~~~~~~~~~
Senseless acts
Vile perversions;
Human debris
~~~~~~~~~
Violent times
Scourge of evil;
Good men die
~~~~~~~~~
Why madness?
Blind self-destruct;
Empty ideology
~~~~~~~~~
The best revenge
Is forgiveness;
Love always wind
~~~~~~~~~
Thoughts of pity
Sympathy strains;
Painful empathy
~~~~~~~~~
Bullets and bombs
Explosive violence;
Terror ignites
~~~~~~~~~
Cheer cries
Happy dies;
Sorrow fruits gall
~~~~~~~~~
Bad people do
Bad things to good people;
Pain escalates horror
~~~~~~~~~
New world order
Devilish evil;
Sign of the times
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
16 November 2015
Singapore
Categories:
upheaval, change,
Form: Haiku
Transparent happiness ripples in the wind that
Carries me into twilight
Invisible feelings sparkle in the moonlight then
Drip onto naked skin
Verity
quickly covered
Hidden,
Like shadows in the dark
Fear keeps me silent.
Silliness
like a band-aid ripped off
Is stinging truth
The heart on my sleeve
A deceptive impression of
Secrets buried deep
Will you be my shoveling muse?
Categories:
upheaval, sad,
Form: Free verse
In the sudden romance of dawn’s time
I find myself trying to find myself
Spinning in a motionless circle
We are content to be divided
Then gasp with grateful heaving
Knowing that we are one
That we are injurious and alone and tied together
We need not be poor in spirit
Let loose your bounty
Share and be grateful.
Categories:
upheaval, life,
Form: Free verse
in the icy climates of winter's days
when only then, do the days grow longer
love slipped, careened, and fell away
balance and stability sway to reconquer
and teetering on that glacial cliff
squinting at glinting diamonded ice
attempting to decipher life's hieroglyph
something will occur to make us think twice
in the freezing and thawing of loves seasons
both hard and cold give way to a rebirth
love fails or succeeds, a myriad of reasons
still to return again, for all we're worth
upheaval is life transformed with apprehension
budded with hope, love aspires to ascension
© Goode Guy 2012-01-30
Categories:
upheaval, inspirational, introspection, life, lost
Form: Sonnet
Drawn from chaos Eros spell
Cupids arrow lovers swell
ought naught the stomach
.......full of knots,
can't eat,can't sleep emotion weeps
Crime of passion hotly contested
inner strength has meltdown bested
to have,too hold obsessive possession
the lovers twisted self annihilation.....
Bow string taut and quiver full
vibrations follow arrows pulled
deep the wound and deeper still
the mind to lose it's strength of will
driven is infatuated lust.....
distinguish difference our Pysche must
bring home to love our soul to trust,
guided on those winded gusts......
Categories:
upheaval, adventure, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse