It's Nature's Way ... - Hello Poetry

Apr 2018

Mek and the Infinite Madness

…In the Deafening Silence of the Night
a teardrop plunges on stillwater
Ripples turn into waves of emotions
deep in reflection
A clouded certainty of
blinding
deflecting
Illusions
Wading through shallow streams that
drowns me in a delusional enigma
Struggling to emerge from the tides
forged by swords and spears
And with a haze in the air I
sit and ponder where
to tread my path of beyond
To the eastern horizon I
would go
Anticipation of the sunrise in the
morning meadows of
angelic songs
Where brightly colored poetry
pens the sky of a dawn and
paints the rainbow of
bliss and serenity
Forever Sunshine of
undying aspiration
Radiating through sages and flowery vast lands
But the ebb of the flowing river streams with
the widdershin of a withering hope
A shivering truth now haunts
the very core of my soul
Seeds of yesterday will soon
come to season and
the reaping will soon rise beyond my
towering fort…

Mek
Jan08

Apr 2018

Jeff Stier

A Collaborative Poem by SK O'Sullivan and Jeff Stier

(In this poem, the authors alternate stanzas.)

AUTUMN'S CALL

In the stray
sweetness of yarrow
and starlings’ trill by dusk
rejoin the fading
without regret
as the foot worn grass will
receive morning’s frost.

And whenever that green yarrow fades
then I fade
in the dry husk
of this autumn of fire
this autumn of smoke and regrets.

Wake in sidelong sun
light half hidden
days under curtains
of violet and scarlet
leaves so soon
will bury the moss
inch by inch.

But I
being the beast that I am
will burrow through the moss
past every encumbrance
beyond hope and fear
and finally find the freedom of one
sweet day
in October
the air still
not a sound
but leaves settling
into the detritus of dreams.

Apr 2018

Onoma

April Finds Herself

as windows come up for air,
dimmed by the depths of
dust.
vases draw clear distinctions
of water, before a handful of
stems shatter their illusions.
all to clarify flowers, and what
a clarity.
it's there among them, standing
alone in a crowd...April finds
herself.
she's utterly disoriented at the
height of her powers.
she's welcome wherever she may
roam, so it takes a while.

Apr 2018

Mary-Eliz

Take Your Time

Spring

is it finally here
with its softly pleasant ways

Spring

with blossoming cherries
and balmy days

Spring

breezes calm and fragrant
with petals replacing snow

Spring

blue sky, warm earth
where many colors grow

I'm ready for all of this
but Summer take your time

Sometimes you get
carried away
and create too hot a clime

Sometimes it feels as if we jump too soon into summer it feels more and more as if we are becoming a 2 season area, often skipping Autmn as well. I love the variety of 4 seasons and wou ld hate to lose that.

Apr 2018

Thicket of Thoughts

Thunderstorm Flowers: Honey Suckle

If you pull the stem
Off a honeysuckle you can
Eat the flower

Honeysuckle are either yellow
Or a bright red
There were soft yellows
Growing in the back yard

Those flowers infused our
Summer nights
Their beautifully sweet aroma
Filled our thoughts

Our summer nights were as delicate
As the moon that illuminated them

Sweet smiles covered our faces as
We pretended to be fine
While eating those
Soft yellow flowers.

The third in the collection.

Apr 2018

lyka

Shored

I grew up
by the seashore
Never learning
how to swim
Saw sunrise
turn to sunset
As the lazy waves
turned in

Years of watching
the horizon
Spent changing
with the tides
The ocean breeze
still pulled me home
The deep blue
still mystified

#coastal #home

Apr 2018

Polar

A Dandelion Wish

Like a dandelion seed

you have flown from my reach

When you used to be so near.

The night calls out to you

With siren delights

Guiding you

with illusions of bright shining lights.

Like Michaelangelo's barefooted baby Jesus

I see you run toward a future

Headed for potential disaster

And like the angels

I want to shadow you

To steer you away.

Yesterday seems far away

With sadness I see

Time

Has made you step away

From me.

Apr 2018

Aa Harvey

Winter

Winter

The cold wind blows, through the bones in my body.
A shiver down the spine makes you shake a gesture or sign,
Of a forthcoming winter; the cold is in the air.

So enjoy the sunshine, before the cold dark days;
The winter of discontent.
The eerie sound of an icy wind, a time for you to lament;
That the warm days, are no longer.
This summer has come and gone.

So wrap yourself up, nice and warm,
Before you catch your Death.
The bleakness of the moral, is innocently lost,
But the cold air gives form, to a heated breath.

So stay indoors, where it’s safe and warm
And keep the heat trapped;
For the heat that you have imprisoned,
Beneath the blanket on your bed,
Will soon become,
This winter’s closest friend.

(C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights Reserved.

#cold #winter #me #sunshine #summer #death #morals #heat

Apr 2018

Andie

Crabapples

carmine petals dance in the wind
the fruit is soon to follow
this winter is colder than we thought
careful, the frost has been known
to ignite the inflammable
to the end

Part Three

Apr 2018

Poetic T

To Let The Right One Seed

She was fruity,
     subtle aromas
fermented from her.

Watering her own garden.
                 but never letting
other taste her fruits.

Even though she was seeded
           with much delicate tastes
no other would pick upon them.

She wasn't *****,
        wanting the right person
to pick her seed and let it blossom.

#seed #purity #delicate #taste #fruits #waiting

Apr 2018

Josiah Anderson

mango

you can only eat each mango once
so i go tree to tree picking the best looking mangos i could find
one day i hope to sprout a tree of my own when i find the perfect mango

many of these mangos are sweet
for that reason none of them stand out
i find a mango that has fallen from its tree
it has been bruised and hidden from the sun
this mango is too tough to slice
i approach it differently
this mango is just as sweet as the others
but i like it because it's tad bitter
maybe it's bitter because it's just as sweet
just not as pretty

i like this mango
i want to plant it
but it might be too soon
too soon to grow that seed
so i'll throw this one mango away
not because i don't like it
because i found it too soon