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A doctor's sorry for birth complication A sea of CP cases in physiotherapy centre Siblings, twins, triplets All with defects *** Advice of *** Therapy, Botox, Vision, Hearing, Ocupational, unheard names of unknown place... !!! Children I never thought existed Parents I couldn't believe laughed Joy in the eyes of kids with severe disability Waiting for acceptance but yet unknown.. Blanked eyes of a mother Whose 4 yr old child can die any day Income reduced expenditure doubled !!! *** Yet *** Optimism, Joy, Laughter, Patience, Hardwork, Belief multiplied many folds... Coz they are the chosen one God believed in them And so God sent to them The special gifts in SPECIAL KIDS... to make them SPECIAL MOMs... !!! Sparkle In Wisdom Sep 2018
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 9:48 AM UTC
Special child, Divine child.
Sep 15 2 0 15 your poem read, awoken by lightening flashes of morning notifications arriving, postmarked from "I liked it" but it does not end there, continues, to a new ending who and why, who and why, did this one find their own worthy in it that was writ unknowingly just for them and you look them up, guessing who and why, rereading your hand's work, which verse was it, was it for a blessing or a curse, that touched them, that made them touch you each "like," a work in itself re examined, re searched, re imagined in the light of who they are and why they are liking words I wrote a single poem bring hours of imagination, each "like" individually gift wrapped, each human liking rapt, each imagine a rapture, each "like" a new poem about the who and why each name a disguise to unravel, each name a title of a new different, imagined poem, who and why, we like each other ~~~ 6:53am
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 7:01 AM UTC
imagine likes/who and why
"lie still and let it wash over you, the was and is and soon to be. How frightening yet effervescent the next 24 hours. The lust, and musts of future days revert to the ancient past..." patty m. >< the irony! when I am stilled, the effervescence of me unbounded, unleashed, and the torrential rain of words fulfilling and departing from my interior I am a Grand Central Station of trains labelled "the was and is and soon to be'' all moving in an unscheduled mayhem, but never crashing. never accidenting, only accenting my racing against time, my oldest and fiercest Super Villian, and one just knows, never can you beat time, time, that old rascally up his sleeve card magician, who when shuffling the deck, he knows what was, what is, and here his red eyes gleam with satisfaction, soon to be... He and I, old familiar adversaries addicted to living. never leave the table, never leave a *** or a poem on the felt, and having always felt, firm believed, there will always be one more, one more gamble, another day, to write another poem and turning my cards over to reveal, to revel, in my Royal Flush of creativity, when time, smiling face, with his wild card, **** time, who trumps me for it, in possess of a Five-of-a-Kind(1) ~' and the new players, the young poets, slap me on the back, saying I had a great run, but they don't know 'bout my secret stash, preprogrammed to appear, long after these fingers cease their tangled tango of tap dancing, my dust, my lusts and musts will unstilled yet be blowing, floating in the soon to be so ha!                          nml 6:30am Wed Sep 10 Twenty Twenty Five
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Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM UTC
the was and is and soon to be...
"lie still and let it wash over you, the was and is and soon to be. How frightening yet effervescent the next 24 hours. The lust, and musts of future days revert to the ancient past..." patty m. >< the irony! when I am stilled, the effervescence of me unbounded, unleashed, and the torrential rain of words fulfilling and departing from my interior I am a Grand Central Station of trains labelled "the was and is and soon to be'' all moving in an unscheduled mayhem, but never crashing. never accidenting, only accenting my racing against time, my oldest and fiercest Super Villian, and one just knows, never can you beat time, time, that old rascally up his sleeve card magician, who when shuffling the deck, he knows what was, what is, and here his red eyes gleam with satisfaction, soon to be... He and I, old familiar adversaries addicted to living. never leave the table, never leave a *** or a poem on the felt, and having always felt, firm believed, there will always be one more, one more gamble, another day, to write another poem and turning my cards over to reveal, to revel, in my Royal Flush of creativity, when time, smiling face, with his wild card, **** time, who trumps me for it, in possess of a Five-of-a-Kind(1) ~' and the new players, the young poets, slap me on the back, saying I had a great run, but they don't know 'bout my secret stash, preprogrammed to appear, long after these fingers cease their tangled tango of tap dancing, my dust, my lusts and musts will unstilled yet be blowing, floating in the soon to be so ha!                          nml 6:30am Wed Sep 10 Twenty Twenty Five
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a birthday poem for S. perhaps, this is the responsibility, the purposeful gentility, that poetry engenders, that thwarts the impulse to anger, guiding away, finding a way, to temper the temper, to out and joust away our basest, our first, but never our foremost nor finest, succinct instinct, yet terrible human nonetheless... perhaps, this is where we hide, neath our carnival masque, our-would-be better selves, and struggle in this, this intensity intentional, the season's change is subtly blatant, not obvious 'cept to those who have a front seat, a well worn Adirondack chair in the nook where the airy breeze offers fruits of words so easy, pluck words as easy as breathing, and the slight gradation change, in the light and temperature, and yet, the suns cares not, for it still warms my body, though lower and slower, nonetheless, when the heat invades my soul, confirming my, our, existence, burning off the fog of our contradictory confusions, and eliciting an unsolicited "thank you god" for my, our personal miracle of re~birthing and better comprehending, that other miracle we can embrace never enough loving kindness sun~mon sep 14~15 twenty twenty five
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Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM UTC
"Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world"
and it emits a cry, of sudden surprise, a howl for the hole in its roundtable tummy, when it pleads for knowing, for it knows not of knowledge, why this light comes, who bids it enter, and why this entity they call mother, has all the answers required, and why the father, moves so stealthy to hug them both and squeeze them together 7:33am Sat Sep 11 2025 in the babies room, in the keep
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Sep 13, 2025
Sep 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM UTC
For Colby: when sunlight cracks the baby's room window
inspired by Ben Noah Suri <*> come to us in twilight, and just before sunrise, in the in~between times, when souls exit and enter. through microscopic cosmic windows, and there is nothing but you and the full emptiness of earth and then! fill our void with words as yet unborn, and aid all our passages from nether to glory... for you, we, await... for guidance inherited from all your visions of greater-than-us metamorphosis <*> upon first awakening and reaffirmation of life, reading the first poem of the day 6:59am Sabbath Sep 13 2025
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Sep 20, 2025
Sep 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM UTC
We Await For All of You (1)
~commissioned accidentally by a melody, a passing glance, a purring perchance, an idle innocent comment, to be born as the first poem of this day, @7:00am Tue Sep 18 2025, writ in haste, before departing over many islands to another place called "home"~ ---~<>~--- *sometimes, not so secret, anon, ^ sometimes, so much more, than that but a glancing of favoring, a handshake secreted, is actually felt, actually secreted, and rare though via~able, it passes through a longing traveled voyage, over wire, under sea's cabling, through space, hoisted from & by satellite over continental divides just a hop, skip and jumpstart over this tiny planet, and though, but, an amorphous 👍 thumb, a colored 💙 or collared,   or a pointing 🫵 body part the like, bears more than just a passing resemblance to another* f o u r   l e t t er   w o r d its often lost & found dear cuz ^^ full of meanings hidden, or even anon, "I'll be there shortly"^                                                          magic!                                                                                                                                                                           nml
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Sep 16, 2025
Sep 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM UTC
Following up on an anonymous 'like' (1)
~the heart of (the) matter~ ~~~~~~ an essential phrase, that concentrates the instincts not to sway away,    be focused on, by the always present algorithm of the essences but my version preferred is that "the heart of matter" with skill and effort, one can learn, to shoot arrows honed to be near an-almost-bullseye every time but to understand that the heart is matter, the mother of our body parts, the little engine that could, can and does, and asks only refresh it with fresh blue blood, every second (not to much to ask for) what are/is the sinews of the heart? what are its secreted corpuscular (1) composed of? why words, you silly! each beat, a letter,       the heart doth register its creativity incessant, never ceasing to rest for composition is its goal, to sing to write, to weep from pleasured thoughts and deepest fright, and you say you need inspiration? then listen to your writing vibrations that from thy center emanate, you who toil laboriously when all that matters is the matter, the wonderful matter of who when where and why that chatterbox in your body never ever pauses ***and that is why in the matter of god, have no doubts only a god could have conceived of a world of billions of composers where each one of us matters***… 5:19am Wed Sep 10
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Sep 12, 2025
Sep 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM UTC
the heart of matter
the trouble with poetry (and this poetry site) is its facilitation awoke in a strange bed, my own, in a different city, with my old eyes renewed with, by loving amazement at the beauty of so many souls experimenting with edged, loving, dangerous compo-notions, that make me older than King David, who loved the love of life and this world, for here I am, falling too for the life & love potions of words of my fellow humans across vast oceans and I stoke their and stroke their heated words, pretending that the cool warmth of my tablet is both their gorgeous skin and alluring verbal twists that arouse my innermost, and break my already broken heart, and heals it at the very same time... all too, so easily this communication is at levels that descend, transcend, grips me with passion and consternation at my own desires, my open body & mind stirred, chilled, shaken, stirred and soothed by the busting out contradictions of us, me, so well hidden, so well revealed in the marvy ability of so many to share their essences, their own scents, just by words upon a page, and here I pause... to consider the duality of the word f a c i l e for poetry shared facilitates this burning,   "     "              "            "             "     tumult, and yet comes to me so facile, that I worry, that the words themselves are facile, cheap & easy, but then I am reassured by the very real drops of my body's fluids upon my cheeks, that confirm, that poetry is too so real, so living, and I guess you know me by my real name, my real face, and my realized words here, and wonder if I need cease to wonder why wonderful is... a thing my poetry is written by silent night, or early morn, so very differing, and laugh out loud at myself, for I am a differing man, at differing times, of a potpourri of contagious contradictory conceptions, that I traverse so easy, this facility is my blessing, and poetry my well worn skill at...facilitating this absurd admixture of human~you-man~a man~amen. and here I leave you... for I have left the sunroom too... @ 3:26 am Thu Sep 4 someplace else
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Sep 4, 2025
Sep 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM UTC
the trouble with poetry is...
the trouble with poetry (and this poetry site) is its facilitation awoke in a strange bed, my own, in a different city, with my old eyes renewed with, by loving amazement at the beauty of so many souls experimenting with edged, loving, dangerous compo-notions, that make me older than King David, who loved the love of life and this world, for here I am, falling too for the life & love potions of words of my fellow humans across vast oceans and I stoke their and stroke their heated words, pretending that the cool warmth of my tablet is both their gorgeous skin and alluring verbal twists that arouse my innermost, and break my already broken heart, and heals it at the very same time... all too, so easily this communication is at levels that descend, transcend, grips me with passion and consternation at my own desires, my open body & mind stirred, chilled, shaken, stirred and soothed by the busting out contradictions of us, me, so well hidden, so well revealed in the marvy ability of so many to share their essences, their own scents, just by words upon a page, and here I pause... to consider the duality of the word f a c i l e for poetry shared facilitates this burning,   "     "              "            "             "     tumult, and yet comes to me so facile, that I worry, that the words themselves are facile, cheap & easy, but then I am reassured by the very real drops of my body's fluids upon my cheeks, that confirm, that poetry is too so real, so living, and I guess you know me by my real name, my real face, and my realized words here, and wonder if I need cease to wonder why wonderful is... a thing my poetry is written by silent night, or early morn, so very differing, and laugh out loud at myself, for I am a differing man, at differing times, of a potpourri of contagious contradictory conceptions, that I traverse so easy, this facility is my blessing, and poetry my well worn skill at...facilitating this absurd admixture of human~you-man~a man~amen. and here I leave you... for I have left the sunroom too... @ 3:26 am Thu Sep 4 someplace else
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acacia "i know that, i know that what's mine will find me" (1) <> sigh... (forgive my intrusion) not necessarily- for too many, we have to invent, create and forever to be on the lookout for to find what we need, forgive and then, not begrudge the time it may take, finally then to make it ours, for that's when the work begins, sometimes it takes a forever to know how to define, create find, a forevermore <nml> exactly 5:00am Wed Sep 10 in the dark, dark sunroom
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Sep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM UTC
For Acacia: For when the work begins
peeress: a woman holding the rank of a peer in her own right. what tools fo you require? a microscope, binoculars, perhaps an observatory telescope... you ask to peer into my soul, the heart of the matter, and I object not, asking only for a workman's wages, of honest preparation, have you the tools to see me properly, and when you love what you see, will you have them by your side to see the future close by, and so far ahead? do you possess within thy secret places, an archeological brush to wipe  gently away my ancient earths, or a toy red shovel to remove fossilized 10,000 year old grains of old hearts, or fresh, damp from this morning, of words and sand from my inner beach, even then, the tonnage may require an industrial excavator to clear, hold and perhaps contain     all that poetry, all that love that it contains, so I ask, you, myself: *Do you have the proper tools, the necessaries and the necessities, to find    to store   to relish and    to delight in what you may find?* be an explorer, and write of all your discoveries, hurry, for the word time means in soul terms & the heart's specialized verbiage, never enough so girl scout/ mademoiselle peeress you s t i l l have much to assay/essay/uncover re the meanings of love... for there is as much to learn from the quietus of love, as there is, from the vibrant tumbling of climbing to new heights peer carefully... 5:44am Wed Sep 10 Twenty Twenty Five
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Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM UTC
Peeress: What tools do you require?
I skip, across a streaming, upon random~laid flat and comfortable flat flagstone stepping stones, from poet to poet, color to color, poem to poem, Auden to Whitman, Schuyler to myself, a dingaling notion, an errant word, the here to there, all randoms, yet, oval chain linked all, a question posed, an answer unknown, a reference to an old Italian myth, and there, and here, a body, comes to rest, & also, comes to rest… <> led not by the nose, but the single fingered tip that guides across a landscape patterned painting, lost but never a loser, each implants, each imbibes, and the H&H^ alternatively rumbles, pounds, vibrato burns erratically, and the difference between a life in love, and a life in poetry, is not a line dividing, but a path combining, and the only sign upon the road, is never a reddened "stop!" always just a soft lavender, so tender, inquiring, requiring, deep thoughts and reckless abandonment, the only guide inspired when ecstatic adrift in a season, a sea, any one of nature's designed unlimited schemata's of vista creations, is this, simply stated: What? <> postscript 6:27 Sabbath Sep 27 nyc after a sunrise glorious, where the windows eastern facing make an irresistible irrational pattern of golden yellow reflecting, mirrors, and after reading much, and so I too, reflect, vista, vista, what do you see, I see…What? after reading a poem by James Schuyler, entitled (yes, we are) "What"^^
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Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM UTC
adrift, but not drifting...
Did you see a special child, Moving on its own Waiting for a smile from strangers faces around! Did you see a special child Sitting in the park Waiting for the ball to come so He can give a pass! Did you see a special child Sitting near the lake Waiting for the fish to be caught In the fishing rod straight! Did you see a special child Moving it's wheel chair fast To catch that metro rail Which is about to depart! Did you see a special child In your child's class Sitting in a corner waiting for acceptance and cheers! Did you see a special child In your neighbor's house Waiting to be befriended By the whole society! Did you see that special child Whose innocence is unbound Smiles are genuine And eyes are pure shine! Unfortunately, It's 'not' you alone who did not see him.. We tend to not register there presence, We deny to register there existence I haven't seen a special child till my 28th birthday. Till I became a mother of one... That day a mother was born A special mom of a special child...!!! Then I became friends with Many such special mom's... Beautiful kids became my son's friends too... And the special journey of Special Life thus began!!! Sparkle In Wisdom Sep 2018
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Sep 28, 2018
Sep 28, 2018 at 12:08 AM UTC
Special Life.
this verbal wishing well, appreciated, a nut of good intentions but drives me deeper into de-spare-ing  downing detentions, for it is only the article's genuine genius, that elevates the human spiritus, to godlike status no ditty this, but a wail, shriek, for human touch is gift so greatest, that any day passing without either, neither but both, 'tis one truly wasted, a deduction on our calculus of inited^ human intuitions, a failure of our greatest inventions a subtraction of our gainful living, a purposed ecstasy our one and only inexact measure of measurement that defies pedantic notions of things of weight or volume, but extends our own existence sans the armies of embrace, the electric elected syncing, of the shocking sharing of closing the borders of divided spaces, a soft contusion, a realized illusion a de minimus of our days, a lessening of our lessons, a loss of earning livingness, a nail in our coffined basket, and here to cease without surcease, the elemental incalculable numbered members of our total human races, that so tragic in  a twenty four expiry, that the bonding of affection goes unexpressed... offer you my armory of arms, cleanse us both with showered kisses, inform you thus of our emboldened connection, voiding these lowlife separators of lineage divisors, what matter color, gender, chosen god nomenclature, any of this nonsensical human inventions for distancing divested human beings from each other tho eyes closed, and all our senses flaring, when we confirm what we were born knowing, there is nothing greater than the human touch PostScript my first and best poem of the day, how it came to me goes unbeknownst, but will practice what is preached with any and all willing encountered souls, and perhaps, come-end of day, will write, once more, one more, re heaven on earth 7:02am Tue Sep Thirty Two Thousand and Twenty Five. nml
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Sep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM UTC
Upon awakening: a tiring of "hugs and kisses"
this verbal wishing well, appreciated, a nut of good intentions but drives me deeper into de-spare-ing  downing detentions, for it is only the article's genuine genius, that elevates the human spiritus, to godlike status no ditty this, but a wail, shriek, for human touch is gift so greatest, that any day passing without either, neither but both, 'tis one truly wasted, a deduction on our calculus of inited^ human intuitions, a failure of our greatest inventions a subtraction of our gainful living, a purposed ecstasy our one and only inexact measure of measurement that defies pedantic notions of things of weight or volume, but extends our own existence sans the armies of embrace, the electric elected syncing, of the shocking sharing of closing the borders of divided spaces, a soft contusion, a realized illusion a de minimus of our days, a lessening of our lessons, a loss of earning livingness, a nail in our coffined basket, and here to cease without surcease, the elemental incalculable numbered members of our total human races, that so tragic in  a twenty four expiry, that the bonding of affection goes unexpressed... offer you my armory of arms, cleanse us both with showered kisses, inform you thus of our emboldened connection, voiding these lowlife separators of lineage divisors, what matter color, gender, chosen god nomenclature, any of this nonsensical human inventions for distancing divested human beings from each other tho eyes closed, and all our senses flaring, when we confirm what we were born knowing, there is nothing greater than the human touch PostScript my first and best poem of the day, how it came to me goes unbeknownst, but will practice what is preached with any and all willing encountered souls, and perhaps, come-end of day, will write, once more, one more, re heaven on earth 7:02am Tue Sep Thirty Two Thousand and Twenty Five. nml
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Your Joy is my joy Your happiness my own Our beginning bittersweet Premonition of it's end. Those I love the most think of me today. My dearest darling beloved forever m o r e Omnipresent remain our treasure tree of life our paradise lost and found. ~~~~~~~~~~ By: Karijinbba ~Copy Rights apply~ Sep-2020 revised 03-21.
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Sep 15, 2020
Sep 15, 2020 at 6:35 PM UTC
World! Galaxies! Constelations!
Jane was given a year to live Febricity, nausea and cancer would assist her through that year Marching headfirst into this battle Apropos of nothing, she packed up and left Maybe she broke down, maybe she got up Junction of her heart and mind, she was preparing to die whilst simultaneously starting to live Julian Alps, Tianzi Mountains, Santorini, Petra, Machu Picchu, she saw them all Augmented her mind Separated her ignorance October fell and she was hospitalized, the hospital was now her personal party with constant visitors Novice to cancer no more, now she was the leader Decease couldn’t stop her, she was alive
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Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 2:37 AM UTC
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The Hardest Forgiving Slant <|> 9:19am Fri Sept 22 2023 ~ 8:02am Fri Sep 29 2023 commenced during the Ten Days of Awe <|> we debase our language daily, robbing the spectacular majesty [example] of awe with the common overusing vernacular of “awesome” especially forgiveness is degraded, we utter “I’m sorry” trippingly, costless, less than cheap, with even the snap-on veneer (1) of sincerity discarded, but move on to the next rudeness but today I will not permit myself an easy letting-off-the-hook, no shifting of blame to anonymity, or fast forward to tomorrow, when we can obfuscate our intrepid dishonesty one more time…again to forgive those who have injured us, not that hard, or the judging deities, who silently wink and nod, but offer no certitude beyond trying, itself a maybe, maybe not, truly tiring this trying tacking the constant requests so first an etymology explication on the tension inherent that very word, f o r g i v e As a word, as a sensed, intuitively- it is a Perfect Continuous Infinitive! (2) to forgive is perfect, to forgive is continuous,, to forgive is infinite! what a marvelous, perpetual past, present and always futuristic word (alas) The Hardest Forgiving? to forgive oneself so nearer to impossible, the first responders doing triage, leave people like me for last, as it a unconditional condition with no cure that can be effected indeed, by our very affect, they instant diagnosis seeing our very gestures, body language, or ****** expressions, all reveal the hopelessness of the never-to-be-given-grace, among us for a thousand years, I have tried and failed to forgive myself for the worst I’ve done, and there is no sword or club, blood-letting, that can dispatch the onerous burden I carry so I write poetry, a salve that offers temporary relief, while I write, imposed a momentarily distracting, a kind of dusting of self~spin, that chills myself just until the, this! poem is finished, the slant is drawn <§> Tell all the truth but tell it slant — BY EMILY DICKINSON Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —
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Sep 29, 2023
Sep 29, 2023 at 8:12 AM UTC
The Hardest Forgiving Slant
The Hardest Forgiving Slant <|> 9:19am Fri Sept 22 2023 ~ 8:02am Fri Sep 29 2023 commenced during the Ten Days of Awe <|> we debase our language daily, robbing the spectacular majesty [example] of awe with the common overusing vernacular of “awesome” especially forgiveness is degraded, we utter “I’m sorry” trippingly, costless, less than cheap, with even the snap-on veneer (1) of sincerity discarded, but move on to the next rudeness but today I will not permit myself an easy letting-off-the-hook, no shifting of blame to anonymity, or fast forward to tomorrow, when we can obfuscate our intrepid dishonesty one more time…again to forgive those who have injured us, not that hard, or the judging deities, who silently wink and nod, but offer no certitude beyond trying, itself a maybe, maybe not, truly tiring this trying tacking the constant requests so first an etymology explication on the tension inherent that very word, f o r g i v e As a word, as a sensed, intuitively- it is a Perfect Continuous Infinitive! (2) to forgive is perfect, to forgive is continuous,, to forgive is infinite! what a marvelous, perpetual past, present and always futuristic word (alas) The Hardest Forgiving? to forgive oneself so nearer to impossible, the first responders doing triage, leave people like me for last, as it a unconditional condition with no cure that can be effected indeed, by our very affect, they instant diagnosis seeing our very gestures, body language, or ****** expressions, all reveal the hopelessness of the never-to-be-given-grace, among us for a thousand years, I have tried and failed to forgive myself for the worst I’ve done, and there is no sword or club, blood-letting, that can dispatch the onerous burden I carry so I write poetry, a salve that offers temporary relief, while I write, imposed a momentarily distracting, a kind of dusting of self~spin, that chills myself just until the, this! poem is finished, the slant is drawn <§> Tell all the truth but tell it slant — BY EMILY DICKINSON Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —
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From the 4 corners of Addis Sunday school students At a Meskel Square make a throng All the procession beating a drum Ululating and singing a song With a passion strong. "Queen Helena (Elene) Mother of Constantine the Great Found the true cross Buried under A dump-mountain long By those who  read  Jesus The incarnated word wrong." "Advised by a monk Led by an incense smoke The whereabouts of the place As she saw in her dream/revelation (326AD) Queen Helena managed to unlock." The n-curve of the smoke As a pointer Allowed her a go ahead To dig the mountain Beneath its bed. That is what Ethiopia Has been zealous To commemorate To date (For over1600 years). At sundown When by the patriarch And the mayor The bonfire is lit Priests and deacons Sing and dance circling it. An electrifying vibe Overwhelms Spectators' spirit Proving the event A hit. "Fail not to note The cross is power, Perseverance And soul's medicine To our sin an antidote !" An ocean of vigil light Accentuated by the darkness Of the night Allows souls' flight To the extreme height. At last if the bonfire Falls towards the right It will be Celebrants delight Specially if a rain Puts the fire out. Celebrants return To their home To attend petty Similar events That ripples across The nation In the same fashion. On the morrow Returning back To the ashes' bed They draw a cross On their forehead. On 27 Sep Tourists  in droves Come To Ethiopia For a first hand knowledge " Ethiopia raises Its hand to God Demonstrated many fold." Here reflecting is a wise thing In the division of the cross To avoid a similar thing Ethiopia(During the Era of its emperor Dawit/Middle age) has received The right wing. At a cross-like Mountainous road, It is placed At Geishen Mary's church Which the laity takes As Saint Mary's abode.
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Sep 20, 2019
Sep 20, 2019 at 12:02 PM UTC
The Finding of the true cross(Meskel)
From the 4 corners of Addis Sunday school students At a Meskel Square make a throng All the procession beating a drum Ululating and singing a song With a passion strong. "Queen Helena (Elene) Mother of Constantine the Great Found the true cross Buried under A dump-mountain long By those who  read  Jesus The incarnated word wrong." "Advised by a monk Led by an incense smoke The whereabouts of the place As she saw in her dream/revelation (326AD) Queen Helena managed to unlock." The n-curve of the smoke As a pointer Allowed her a go ahead To dig the mountain Beneath its bed. That is what Ethiopia Has been zealous To commemorate To date (For over1600 years). At sundown When by the patriarch And the mayor The bonfire is lit Priests and deacons Sing and dance circling it. An electrifying vibe Overwhelms Spectators' spirit Proving the event A hit. "Fail not to note The cross is power, Perseverance And soul's medicine To our sin an antidote !" An ocean of vigil light Accentuated by the darkness Of the night Allows souls' flight To the extreme height. At last if the bonfire Falls towards the right It will be Celebrants delight Specially if a rain Puts the fire out. Celebrants return To their home To attend petty Similar events That ripples across The nation In the same fashion. On the morrow Returning back To the ashes' bed They draw a cross On their forehead. On 27 Sep Tourists  in droves Come To Ethiopia For a first hand knowledge " Ethiopia raises Its hand to God Demonstrated many fold." Here reflecting is a wise thing In the division of the cross To avoid a similar thing Ethiopia(During the Era of its emperor Dawit/Middle age) has received The right wing. At a cross-like Mountainous road, It is placed At Geishen Mary's church Which the laity takes As Saint Mary's abode.
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my "insensitivity" isn't stemmed from negativity, but more so a desire to think about it logically. a life without stress is when i do my best. and don't take that as     distance, but my choice to be  sep ara te.                                         independant.    me, myself, and i mind, body, and soul. woven together underneath the attachment of my surface layer. hidden from most, deemed "unreadable." my "detachment" a word often describing my lack of attention- is not a reflection of my affection, or a distraction from my emotions, but a reflection taking place of a reaction. my "cold heart" is not the polar to a warm heart. it is simply the polar to a fiery heart, but it burns just as fiercely.
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Apr 23, 2019 at 1:59 PM UTC
"my cold aquarian heart"
Fishy Haiku F J McCarthy on Sep 8, 2009 Swimming in the sea. Through day and night, calm and storm Swimming endlessly.
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May 17, 2010 at 7:27 PM UTC
Fishy Haiku
My third attempt to commemorate Joel Frye. News arrived Mid-May, found me far from home, found me shock-gasping in a hotel room, on the wrong coast, though he sort-of-warned-warned, about a month earlier, I misunderstood his subsequent silence, thus it caught me unawares, unprepared, and strangely grasping for proper comprehension and the right words, that usually come so quickly, even too easy~quick, when one’s emotions are running fast, like a springtime Northwest mountain stream Imagine a conversation of nine year’s duration, one of a number forged in the iron-y of poetry, a most genteel art. I found his words above in a comment on a poem (1) of mine, writ in 2015; the subject, so apropos, to be ever gentle to thy words. Our dialogue and mutual admiration lives on and survives, for bonds forged ex-the world of poetry, but more so, in real deeds and deals and realized poems come true. We never met. Not unusual for an on-line community, where the social, literate media can foster a closeness surpassing the normative standard need of the physical, which nonetheless the absence of that touch is now deep regretted. But Joel do not be concerned! Your words will live with others, as per your desire. This my promise, this my premise: A debt of brotherhood that will be, must be, paid in full. So let’s begin…shall we… ~~~~ Joel Frye Sep 2015 Friends Some for a reason, some for a season; even lifetimes come and go. All things are transitory.  Doesn't mean I have to like it. <> (1j https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1425812/oh-poet-be-ever-gentle-to-thy-words/
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Jun 27, 2023
Jun 27, 2023 at 8:10 AM UTC
Joel Frye : “I can only hope my words will live with others after I am gone.”
My third attempt to commemorate Joel Frye. News arrived Mid-May, found me far from home, found me shock-gasping in a hotel room, on the wrong coast, though he sort-of-warned-warned, about a month earlier, I misunderstood his subsequent silence, thus it caught me unawares, unprepared, and strangely grasping for proper comprehension and the right words, that usually come so quickly, even too easy~quick, when one’s emotions are running fast, like a springtime Northwest mountain stream Imagine a conversation of nine year’s duration, one of a number forged in the iron-y of poetry, a most genteel art. I found his words above in a comment on a poem (1) of mine, writ in 2015; the subject, so apropos, to be ever gentle to thy words. Our dialogue and mutual admiration lives on and survives, for bonds forged ex-the world of poetry, but more so, in real deeds and deals and realized poems come true. We never met. Not unusual for an on-line community, where the social, literate media can foster a closeness surpassing the normative standard need of the physical, which nonetheless the absence of that touch is now deep regretted. But Joel do not be concerned! Your words will live with others, as per your desire. This my promise, this my premise: A debt of brotherhood that will be, must be, paid in full. So let’s begin…shall we… ~~~~ Joel Frye Sep 2015 Friends Some for a reason, some for a season; even lifetimes come and go. All things are transitory.  Doesn't mean I have to like it. <> (1j https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1425812/oh-poet-be-ever-gentle-to-thy-words/
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So very caring and kind Like her, you'll never find Possessing a beautiful mind Her pure heart makes you go blind, A wilted heart, she can easily mend A helping hand, she will always lend She'll stay by your side till the very end Her loyalty knows no certain extend You're blessed to have her as your friend, Her warm heart has no limit Her sweet words are infinite She's extraordinary and she knows it She can make you smile within a minute, Your mood will lighten up Simply with her presence She would never give up Would support you even in your absence, She's a one in a million What else could you ask for? Knowing such a wonderful person I'm so very thankful for, Disrespect her And you'll rue, Dare to hurt her Guna make you regret that too, Better keep insults away If you wanna wake up the next day, Someone I could never replace Her words leaving a permanent trace Sure, we're walking on a different pace However no friend could take her place, For her smiles, I'd sacrifice To make sure they stay, She gives comforting advice She's simply the best What else can I say? ~A.d | 6 Sep 2014
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015 at 9:59 AM UTC
A dear friend
Cortez, theyre just running through my mind Like track and field junior year You want to cyph before class, but i don’t think that’s for the best Look in your ****** eyes, but you had to change into sweats I remember that afternoon, it’s in my mind all the time You gave me your hoodie and went home like routine Snuck out the back door and forgot to take me White Cortez, but they’re ***** on the sides Dirt on your pants, but never did you mind You’re so versatile, how you build up your walls and know when to break them down ? At 16, i never would’ve guessed youd actually ditch town A city on lights, like do you know what you’re leaving? Persuasion and ideas, you know I’m still here waiting Connection is rare, and with you, it was waning Black Cortez, cleaned it up on the sides Fade into dark Caesar, never did i mind You smelled like axe and gelato, you probably taste so sweet In my head, there’s a sword fight where two ends never meet I hope you’re passing your tests, or training your chest I still have your hoodie and i wear it here and there I washed it so many times, but i didn’t think you’d care SEP, where they prayed for me, I remember you spoke to me about your goals You told me you wanted to have a relationship with God I told you i wanted love, i was a fraud Spending every day of the year, you were mine you were a physical manifestation of everything that was bound to be A physical manifestation of everything attracted to she Classic Cortez, lit up and you ran into class Never expected you to fall so fast You could roam the earth and be who you are I just don’t want you to ever run too far
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Apr 5, 2019
Apr 5, 2019 at 1:23 PM UTC
Cortez
Cortez, theyre just running through my mind Like track and field junior year You want to cyph before class, but i don’t think that’s for the best Look in your ****** eyes, but you had to change into sweats I remember that afternoon, it’s in my mind all the time You gave me your hoodie and went home like routine Snuck out the back door and forgot to take me White Cortez, but they’re ***** on the sides Dirt on your pants, but never did you mind You’re so versatile, how you build up your walls and know when to break them down ? At 16, i never would’ve guessed youd actually ditch town A city on lights, like do you know what you’re leaving? Persuasion and ideas, you know I’m still here waiting Connection is rare, and with you, it was waning Black Cortez, cleaned it up on the sides Fade into dark Caesar, never did i mind You smelled like axe and gelato, you probably taste so sweet In my head, there’s a sword fight where two ends never meet I hope you’re passing your tests, or training your chest I still have your hoodie and i wear it here and there I washed it so many times, but i didn’t think you’d care SEP, where they prayed for me, I remember you spoke to me about your goals You told me you wanted to have a relationship with God I told you i wanted love, i was a fraud Spending every day of the year, you were mine you were a physical manifestation of everything that was bound to be A physical manifestation of everything attracted to she Classic Cortez, lit up and you ran into class Never expected you to fall so fast You could roam the earth and be who you are I just don’t want you to ever run too far
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