Honesty is built on trust,
bedrock and stone.

To build a city
you need communication,
straight forward instructions,
and people with different skills for each task.

A team builds a support,
a foundation.

A structure can fall a part
but without an honest blueprint
there’s nothing you can do.

Lies break infrastructure
causes cracks within the
foundation and fragile
walls that have no support
beams. They have no support
nor care for your desires.

So why would you follow
a liar or crook through a fire?

Wouldn’t you rather survive
and know the status of your
family members?

How does war put out the fire?
Have you ever seen a war
that ended without death
or burning infrastructure?

Peace is the winner of the raise,
it brings patience freedom and
prosperity. Honesty can bring peace and strength.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton

I am a writer
a recorder of life,
through poetry I breathe
twice, once in body
again through poetic lines.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton

Secrets are oozing from the
bowels of the earth, she quakes
and shakes her ***** for your
viewing.

Watch her take a bite from your
life, she’s older than your
great great great grandparents.

Her womb grew for us, opening
wide devouring those who die.

She’s got six feet
long legs, a chest bigger
than mount Everest, and
hair as long as the
Nile River.

Her depths are the deepest,
her valleys dip deeper too,
her girth is wide and she
has sapphire eyes and
diamonds grow from her thighs.

She’s screaming for help,
but no one hears her cries,
for you’re all blind and deaf,
it’s a merciful whisper burning
steady and fast through out the night.

She slowly takes her last breath,
releasing a deadly ghost from
her past.

Oh Corona, oh Corona
shall we sing you a song
a proper fair well?

Oh Corona, oh Corona you’ve
over stayed your welcome,
no one invited your virus
or your dime lit eyes.

Such secrets came free
as the sunsets upon your
ocean eyes, the beams
carry a dream of peace
and love. It’s up to us
if we do her right.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton

Upon a beating breath a heart
is born.

Feelings and life pushes it
through strife, it learns how
to fear, cry, love and support,
it builds a stronger cage
within your chest.

It locks away loves first kiss,
it breaks upon the fall, it
heals and deals with bruised
memories, its reminded of
its place by the pressures
you embarrassed.

It expresses pain and stress
through the process of life
and osmosis.

It beats faster and faster
with every step you make,
it slows down as you calm
to rest and take a break.

At the end of the process
its stronger and smarter,
but still age helps decay
to take away its beating
breath, it weakens over time
as death comes knocking
on the cage door.

Life was welcomed but death
was not invited, yet it has
a key for death is part of
the process.

As the key slowly turns
all goes quite and peaceful,
death sat down as an
old friend would do,
leaning in to kiss you.

For a moment you are lovers,
life and death dancing together.

Life gracefully bows taking
deaths hand to walk into the clouds.

The End!
Fin!

❤️

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton

Upon the wind
travels my words,
it is my responsibility
to be mindful of what
I speak for the universe
hears everything.

Words are powerful,
like the seasons upon
the breeze live the
winds of change.

I carry the news,
it depends on what
I chose to say.

We all do.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton

There’s a tear in my heart
where your lies left a mark
now the burning pain
escapes from the wounds.

Like a monster in the depth
of night its left salivating
waiting like a wolf in
the dark, hunting in the
shadows.

Love struggles to win,
thorny roots choke and
smoother, like a fragile
porcelain heart it crumbles
and falls apart under
the pressure.

Through the gaping wounds
comes memories of you,
it hurts, it burns,
it dies a long with your
lies.

Like vultures they come
they lick at their lips,
they sniff and scratch,
leaving nothing but pain,
damage and decay.

Love struggles to win,
digging deeper and deeper
down into the ether of
wade.

Slowly it fades, nothing but
shallow pain scratching my head
eating my heart leaving me
to die and falling apart.

Such a fragile heart, beats
slower and slower, aching for
departure of the suffering
you deployed.

You owe me love and support.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton

There be shadows lurking in the
meadows, amongst the tall grass
they slither.

Serpent tongues they conceal,
in between teeth like daggers
they saw and hiss.

Their skin seems thick but in reality
they are so thin you can see through
their skin.

Beating on their chests like gorillas
in their trees, they pound in protest,
they think they know what's best.

While they gather inside their pens
the others are left in the cold starving
and homeless.

As they take off their skins
to reveal the piggies underneath,
squealing and hollering like *****
hogs eating all the feed as the earth
burns providing them warmth from
the cold.

All seems doomed, hopeless and bleek.

The Republicans are stealing all our
resources and money, while they
lie steal and cheat.

©️ 2025 By Amanda Shelton

Upon true loves kiss
I leave you my wish,
loves whisper sweet
and tender.

Within my dreams you
leave a sweet perfume,
a reminder of your tender
touch and lovers hug.

So precious and true,
love never has forgotten
you, for my kiss follows
your heart, I am always
beside you whispering
to you, my sweet heart
so true.

© 2020 By Amanda Shelton