#speech
speech bubbles popping spit
lubrication of words
helping you swallow
Mar 19
Mar 19, 2026 at 6:59 AM UTC
Do you see the vision
A mission
To envision abortion
To oppress and suppress
Nonetheless
The mission
To detain and restrain
To capture our daughters into a cage
full of rage
To conjure and injure
Their femur broken
like their innocence and demeanour
If our daughters are not mature
How can you be so sure
That motherhood is the cure
Of course you would not acknowledge
Or consider
The disaster that awaits
But you would acknowledge
The disaster if it comes faster
Because your leniency is in scarcity
Consider mankind
And show benevolence
Not violence
Feb 5
Feb 5, 2026 at 3:51 AM UTC
I sit awaiting my turn at a speech meet
people stand, talk,
and, well that's it
when a boy walks in
with chestnut eyes and
beautifully fallen umber hair
he was the prettiest man
I had ever seen
could he like a boy like me?
if he even likes boys at that?
I mean it's not as if I am weird
just different
I wasn't born they way I am now
being a boy that is
I am a boy, I know I am
but I didn't used to be
the chestnut eyed boy
sits down next to me
his beauty far more solitary up close
the judge calls his name first and
he walks to the center of the room
eyes stare at him as we give him
a round of applause
his words slowly carry like broken beautiful souls
his chestnut eyes come up
to mine and stare
for only a moment
it's all part of the act
I tell myself, that is how speech is
if only it could be more
his words spill on,
every more beauty then the last
he pours his soul out onto that stage
with a perfect voice
with a perfect face
perfect
I've watched dozens of speeches
all scrambled words with no impact
until now
tears trickle at the corner of my eyes
this is what being a speech competitor
is truly all about
he last words conclude
and leaves the room
for a different round
if only he could have heard me speak
I watch more kids go
all telling broken tales
none better then his
I get called up last, to tell my story,
one I wish he saw
the story of transgender people
and them facing society
just like this
showing all these feelings I am just now
maybe if I saw those
chestnut eyes deep enough
I could tell how the words make him feel
and react, being transgender and all
the words would fuel his soul to say
could he love a boy like me?
if he even loves boys at that?
Feb 1
Feb 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM UTC
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five,
years these words once spoken have stayed alive,
Born in breath and shaped by sound,
Through time and war they still are found.
Through village fable, tales are tall, through kingdoms then that rise and fall,
So many hear, yet miss this truth,
For abracadabra is not a trick for youth.
But ancient words lost both deep that stick.
meaning lost to haze and trick.
For spoken magic once was understood,
Not smoke or guise, but something in it's mystical good,
A whisper law the wise mage once knew:
What we speak seeks to come true.
Be careful of each word you say,
Be careful what spell you cast each day,
Our words are seeds both dark and bright,
They grow in shadows,
They grow in light.
Sharp tongues can cut like hidden knives,
Soft words can save and shape our lives,
What we write and what we speak,
Forms the world we chase and seek.
Magic sits on the tongue’s fine thread,
Alive in all words we've said,
For what is spoken, once begun,
Will move and act till it is done.
“Abracadabra,” magicians cry,
As sparks and rabbits fill the sky,
Yet far beyond their fleeting art,
Its truer spell beats in pure of heart.
“I create as I speak,” its meaning sings,
“By word alone creation springs,”
With gentle speech, the wild rose may bloom,
With words of hate, we summon wilting gloom.
This life we know but not so well,
We live inside the words we tell,
For thought made sound, when soul believes,
Takes root like seed the earth receives.
So choose your words with mindful care,
For magic lives in words right there
For what you say, both dark and free,
Is what you are
and what will be.
Though my words may twist,
At times turn upside down,
I choose them still each one profound,
For souls we plant with what we say,
Are the seeds we’ll harvest one fine day.
Jan 22
Jan 22, 2026 at 6:08 AM UTC
Many greater poems that I will not share
I'm learning of privacy
Pretending I don't care that others wont see this greatness
just because its personal
With myself I have to be merciful
Its hard for me to keep quiet when i'm this well with words
Not everything should be shared
People think they know me
I see the stares
They can't possibly know me if I haven't even found myself yet
That's not fair
"Do you think before you speak?"
A nasty question, that many times I had to eat
I sound smarter when I write first
At least those times I know that I think
Some day, I want to preach
I feel this urge to teach
I know that first i'll have to work on my speech
Jan 21
Jan 21, 2026 at 12:23 PM UTC
Death can alter
Death can change anything at the altar
Death can deter
Death can damage the liver and the motor
Death is powerful
Death is really awful
Death is painless for the deceased
Death can destroy mums and lilies
Death can change schedules
Death kills bookworms, nerds and fools
Death can. Death can change everything
Under the moon. Death can change anything
Death can
Death can easily kick the can.
Copyright © December, 2025, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
Dec 4, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM UTC
Words are fleeting. Structured sounds of substance none.
Consonants and vowels, Syllables and sentences.
Together framed to stir within the hearer a chosen feeling.
’Tis said that words paint our thoughts;
Yet even this conceit betrayeth their falsehood.
For they declare not, but veil our true intents.
Our veriest machinations— thick and laden with feral wickedness,
Our grim and scheming contemplations and our most dreadful and contriving musings —
All are gracefully robed in the fairest raiment of speech.
Words pierce without a point, and bear great weight yet none at all.
They be but cunning emptiness,
Intelligently meaningless echoes from the void.
Woe unto them that hearken only to the words poured forth
From the lips of the vain-glorious seekers of regard and the velvet-mouthed usurpers of men,
For they burn with longing, yet lack all essence.
Nov 29, 2025
Nov 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM UTC
speeches
write the notes
practice, practice, practice
look in the mirror
and rehearse
rehearse until you're
sick of the subject
take a deep breath
inhale, hold, exhale
walk to the front of the class
look at your notes
look at the audience
breathe
begin
elegantly perform your speech
just like you practiced
the eloquent words
flowing off your tongue
end your presentation
and sit at your desk
take a deep breathe
calm your racing heart
be proud of yourself
why?
because you faced your fears
and you did it!
you got this!
Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM UTC
Noxious animals are colorfully bright
Their vibrance and patterns a warning
A warning to not get too close
That they're a danger
It's protection for them
I douse myself in all colors of the rainbow
Warning the wrong people to stay away
And the right people,
The people like me, will stay
It's a warning for some
And an invitation for others
Writing has been a love of mine since childhood
When I was introduced to it,
It became a passion
It's an emotional and creative outlet
Writing is a big part of my life
Now it is my future career
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
Writing poems is an emotional outlet
Any feeling I experience, good or bad,
Needs to be released
Poetry is the release
My emotions bubble up and expand
Which can be harmful
Writing poems when I'm having strong emotions
Is an outlet
Releasing pent up feelings to deal with them
Writing poems helps when I have big emotions
That could lead to dangerous outcomes
It's a healthy coping skill
When the bad thoughts come creeping in
I'm writing three poetry books
Right now, for different feelings
Poetry is like therapy
Except it's free
Dark thoughts, happy thoughts, anxious thoughts
Can all be translated into poetry
So versatile and beautiful poetry is
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
Writing stories is a creative outlet
Some stories are based on my emotions to create a scene
A thought will pop into my mind,
And a story begins to formulate
Words will flow onto a page
And soon enough a story emerges
Settings and characters will spring to life
With scenes erupting around it
Romance and fantasy and royalty
Creating stories is relaxing
Something to help unwind with
Or when I have free time
Scenarios and dialogue flowing in my brain
Just aching to be put on paper
My imagination runs wild
And worlds form inside my head
Writing brings me joy and makes me feel free
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
Have you ever loved something so much
That without it your soul feels empty
Well, I have and for me it's writing,
Writing stories and writing poetry
Writing has been a love of mine since childhood
I was introduced to it by alternative teaching
Where I learned about poetry instead of phonics
It sparked a passion in me about writing
It quickly became a loved subject
Then it turned into my future career
I want to be an author and a poet
That way I can do what I love for work
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
Quit it! Stop being hypocritical about freedom
What type or what kind that you are talking about?
Be serious! Keep on talking about freedom
Until you drive me to boredom
Until I am strong enough to eat a live trout
Keep on yelling freedom, freedom
Until you lose your kingdom
In Galatians 5: 1,13-15: we found these words, not in error
"You shall love as yourself your neighbor"
"But through love become slaves to one another"
"If, however, you bite and devour one another,
Take care that you are not consumed by one another"
Go read the Bible yourselves, ‘because we are free'
We are brothers and sisters, we should love one another
Yes, Christ died for our freedom, for our liberty
We want freedom in America
We want freedom in Cuba
We want freedom in Columbia
We want freedom in Haiti
Which is poor because of exploitation
Corruption, violence, hatred, pollution
Lies, extortion, racism, theft, distortion
Misery, slavery, crimes and discrimination
Stop, stop being hypocritical about freedom
Let's finish elaborating and talking about freedom
Before alluding to or commenting on democracy
Which is more twisted, complex, convoluted or mazy
Big brother is supposed to protect the little one
In this world, we should fight for freedom for everyone
For the rich, the poor, the underprivileged and the elderly
The strong must protect the weak one. Oh! Miss Liberty
Stands for something noble and divine for all
"For freedom Christ has set us free", so we can walk tall
So we can think freely
So we can wink freely
So we can talk freely
So we can walk freely
So we can laugh freely
So we can clap freely
So we can write freely
So we can chat freely
So we can dream freely
So we can invent freely
So we can yell freely
So we can enjoy life freely
While respecting each other
And protecting one another
Oh! Freedom, Freedom. Too many humans have senselessly
And falsely die in your name. Oh! Freedom. Oh! Liberty.
Copyright © July 2021, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM UTC
When you're afraid to speak, you sell your rights for nothing
You sell your conscience, your soul and country for nothing
When you're afraid to express yourself, you don't subsist
You're no longer alive, you're dead, and you no longer exist.
Writers, poets, professors, professionals, teachers and students
Be not afraid to say something, to tell the truth, to tell it like it is
Language is the easiest form of communicating, say it with ease
Say it like brave beings and have no fear to face the elements.
When you speak, say it loud, with all your might, force and soul
Speak like a Hero. Be brave, be fair, be just, and be strong and bold.
Copyright © September 2018, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
Sep 28, 2025
Sep 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM UTC
Giving the bully, your lunch money does not make him go away. If anything, he comes back hungrier.
Sep 23, 2025
Sep 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM UTC
A song is a poem
With rhythms and rhymes
It would be a blasphemy
Not to say it and explain it.
A song is a prose
Put on pause
Intermittently
With various beats and tempos.
A song makes you dance
A poem makes you dream
And a prose helps us examine.
A poem is a classical prose
With harmonic words
And well-calculated rhymes and verses
A poem is really fantastic.
A song makes you live
A poem makes you revive
And a prose helps us survive.
Copyright © December 2016 Logerie Hébert, All Rights Reserved
Hebert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.
Sep 8, 2025
Sep 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM UTC
Into deeper darker depths I'm drawn
Inch-filled every way in wondrous sight
Of life, unseen, unknown, mysterious
Yet a familiar revelatory strangeness
The prompt blindly followed proved true
Echoed in surprising whispery sighs
As speech goes forth before hearing
So too the way walked then revealed
In mutual affirmation I'm given speech
In human tongues to craft the ineffable
That We hear, know, and acknowledge
Thus not hallucinations of wickedness
In ecstatic drunkenness I will sleep
For tomorrow to greater depths I go
Jul 18, 2025
Jul 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM UTC
Freedom is somewhat limited
In a so-called democratic society
At times, people cannot truly tell it like it is
People cannot vote freely
Without some restrictions or some stupidities
In order to weaken the disadvantaged
Even though the US first amendment guarantees
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression
To assemble peacefully, freedom of religion
Freedom is not what it is
It is not how it is articulated in the glossary
Freedom is relative, please
Do not say fire vociferously
Or yell gun in the theater
At church or in the street corner
You will be prosecuted
Freedom is not what it should be
It is not what the US Constitution intended
It to be
Freedom is somewhat controlled and limited.
Copyright © 2016 Logerie Hebert, all rights reserved
Hebert Logerie is the author of several books of poems.
May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM UTC
There are moments
when words become more than sound,
more than air shaped by thought.
They become a call to arms
for the weary soul,
a rising drumbeat
in the chest of humankind.
In the mouth of a true orator,
words rise like music,
then fall like thunder
moving hearts,
igniting wills,
reshaping destiny itself.
Spoken with the precision of art
and the fire of belief,
a single sentence
can lift the broken,
summon the silent,
and awaken a city from sleep.
No weapon forged by man
has ever rivaled
the right words,
fueled by conviction,
spoken at the right time.
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM UTC
I don't speak often,
When I do I don't speak up,
But that can change.
Two colors rule my mind,
A blue hue,
A red fool.
That doesn't me I'll fight,
It certainly doesn't mean I'll lay down to die.
May 3, 2025
May 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM UTC
Lightning tongue
Brother tree
Strike the dirt
Breaking free
Roots emerge
Like a snake
Snap like cords
Crack the lake
Speak sword-tongue
Cut me loose
Catch me with
Holy noose
Let me not
Plead, "Away"
YHWH God
Lord, please stay
Earthy tongue
Gentle words
Friendship won
Nesting birds
Turn about
Long ago
What's that sound?
I don't know
Dove wing tongue
Remind me
Of all that
Love spoke He
Calm me down
Know my groan
Report back
Glowing stone
Let me speak
Orphan tongue
Granting me
Only lungs
Solely You
May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM UTC
The words flow—
a river running endlessly,
rushing through rapids of bias,
crashing down cataracts of prejudice.
The cat’s out—
out of the bag it leaps.
See that wild, spotted thing?
It’s called poetry.
The beans spill—
tumble from the plates of the young,
passed hand to hand,
from youth to age—
never the reverse.
May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM UTC
There are over 7,000 known ways,
To say 'I love you' on this earth.
So there is no excuse to not tell the one you love,
That you love them,
And maybe they will say the same,
I know mine did.
Mar 19, 2025
Mar 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM UTC
A warrior fights for what he or she believes in,
A warrior does not need to fight with a gun,
And a warrior does not need to have a sword,
A warrior does not need any weapons,
He or she has their own weapon,
It is the weapon of speech,
For speech changes people more than a gun would,
Or a sword would,
Or any other weapon would, or should,
Your speech can change people.
Mar 17, 2025
Mar 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM UTC