By the river side
the weeds grew and spread
covering the shoreline
life there a vibrant bloom

Now they grow everywhere
cultivated and sown
feeding humanity
beauty sways in the summer breeze

The Elder Wheat stem said long ago
they think of us as a nuisance
feed them and they will make us fields
where our dreams are told
love is passed on
we shall conquer the world
harming not a soul
our stems
fertile
all love and life will grow

She of Nazareth
a heart that glows

Before lights out
a small pleasure
milk and a cookies
childhood revisited
yet
wracked with guilt
for the child
cowering from bombs
on an empty stomach
Bethlehem forgotten

I wanted to write a poem
about you today
I lost all my words
so let your ears hear my heart
beat
a song of love
for someone
whom makes me smile
simple thoughts, I know
is how I see you treat others
that makes my heart glow
even my tears
have slowed

A home
is
warm, inviting
living beings
lives unfolding
Christmas carols
children's laughter

then

it becomes a house
empty
barren rooms
death now roams freely
dancing slowly to sad memories

then

a new family of smiles
children play
a new home
life recycled
memories built
on sand castles

then

it becomes a simple
house again, empty
whispers of the past
deaths song sings again
time moves on

I lived in a place
that was a house
never a home

Memories are killing me
tears are drowning me
your words of softness
flew away, yet
I hold dear these memories
soft flames burning my heart

Red, the vibrancy of the rose
hidden
the little garden smiles after the rain
filled full of compassion
she is my sanity
in a world
that has gone insane
she is the sunrise
when sunsets are only
flames

They sing their songs
for those who drop bombs
we know very well for who
are the guns
Zionists who **** for pleasure and fun

They hold no rose for humanity
in name only
they sing for **** and death
and a babies last breath
their roses dead, their guns ablaze

The flower of love
the flower against oppression
the flower of life
amongst the Olive trees
the Hannoun blooms, even where evil lurks