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This is When You Light That First Candle Against the Darkness

Dec 2 CJ Sutherland

Lawrence Hall

This is When You Light That First Candle Against the Darkness

Lawrence Hall, HSG
Mhall46184@aol.com

This is When You Light That First Candle Against the Darkness

Ordinary Time is now as summer’s lost leaves
Autumn has fallen into fogs and frosts
Pale sunshine flickers from shallow angles all day
Marking out the road to Bethlehem

Before the Altar in the parish church
A wreath is set with four candles to light
The first one today and a second next week
A third, a fourth, and then at last the Stable

The Stable at last, where the universe sings
The happy Desire of all our wanderings

Dec 2 CJ Sutherland

Global Heating

Dec 2 CJ Sutherland

Masibulele Ntsepo

Global Heating

I think we are past the warming up stage
Things have heated up,
And going to the extremes
The cooking has begun and we still chopping down ingredients
If we dont stir down this heat we going into deep fry
Cooling off is for meta the dish is done
All this heat from the fires , we about to have coal for breakfast
All we doing is demonstrations,
And talking about demonstrations
While the globe is riding on a wave of heat sweatlessly
Using resources to budget for ourselves,
While we are economising on economies of scale for the planet

And they revenge is best served cold

Dec 1 CJ Sutherland

Objective empathy

Dec 1 CJ Sutherland

Masibulele Ntsepo

Objective empathy

I see Ukraine
I see Gaza
Let me show you Sudan
Maybe you will see the whole world
The bigger empathy picture
With these words im not fighting for attention, least not sympathy
I feel like if we zoom-in on each piece of the puzzle,
We may never finish the photo-album

Dec 1 CJ Sutherland

Appellations

Dec 1 CJ Sutherland

Masibulele Ntsepo

Appellations

Im not in the study of appeasing appellations
Appeased by applauds
Im brainstorming this study
Typhoons of thought
Rains of memory
Winds of peace
Thunders of ideas
Snows of regret
This is not seasonal,
Just a continuous cycle

Dec 1 CJ Sutherland

Sleeping With the Bottle

Dec 1 CJ Sutherland

Todd Sommerville

Sleeping With the Bottle

Sleeping with the bottle
I know she's not a friend.

But when I'm feeling lonely
she always lets me in.

Lets me in and holds me
in her arms and in her Haze.

Lets me in and holds me,
as I drift away.

Sleeping with the bottle,
I've tried to walk away.

But when everyone abandons me,
I know she will stay.

She lets me in and holds me.
in her arms and in her haze.

Lets me in and holds me,
as I drift away.

She lets me in and holds me.
I try to walk away.

Still her warmth keeps calling me
But I don't want to stay.

She lets me in and holds me.
But I don't want to stay.

She lets me in and holds me.
But I don't want to drift away.

I don't want to.

No I don't,

I don't want to ,

Drift away.

Drift away.

Drift a w a y....

https://youtu.be/vVBqJptu5bk?feature=shared
This poem is on my you tube channel please copy and paste the link
or search Todd summers poetry in you tube.
Thanks for your support.

#grief #pain #addiction #loss #hope

Dec 1 CJ Sutherland

is this it?

Dec 1 CJ Sutherland

Eli

is this it?

all we know is school,
i have to spend the rest of my life after either working nine to five,
or starve to make my dream come true,
and after all of that i’ll peak either ending,
and then all that will be left for me is death.