In a land of magic and wonder,
There lived a child with pure innocence,
She roamed the fields with laughter and splendor,
Blissfully unaware of the world's malevolence.
But one day a darkness descended,
The air grew cold, and the sky turned grey,
The child was frightened and apprehended,
Her innocence slowly withered away.
The creatures of the land ran and hid,
As the shadows crept towards her,
The child cried out, "I want to be a kid!",
But her plea was swallowed by the sinister murmur.
The darkness took over, and the child's spirit broke,
Her vivid fantasies became a distant memory,
The land was still, and the silence spoke,
As the death of innocence became a tragedy.
Her world now tainted, with corruption and greed,
Forced to grow up too soon, the child could no longer dream,
No longer could the child embrace their pure creed,
The death of innocence, a melancholy theme.
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Posted: Jul 2023
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Love is the Answer
You cannot buy happiness, but you sure can rent it!
The prices of things have gone up way too much
I miss my dogs
We only go around this world once
The 70's were my favorite decade
A woman is a person who can give birth and produce milk
Nothing beats a good sundae
Time is all we really have
If you can't feed the baby, then don't have the baby
The 80's had the best music
Free music on the internet destroyed music
Life isn't fair
I miss Chris Farley
Shania Twain is very pretty
Pluto has a heart on it
You will be happy
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Posted: Jul 2023
About this poem:
Just some random I believe, inspired by Blue Collar TV with Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, and Bill Engvall.
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online today!
Once upon a time some poets would gather
And write poems of their choice
It was beautiful and lovely
It allowed each poet to have a voice
Comments made on those poems
Were lovely to read and digest
The comments inspired the poets
And gave them a feeling of being blessed
To all those poets I wish to say
It was great to have your work read
May your lives be blessed evermore
Thank you for what we have shared
And now, all you dearest poets
You can look back at those days
They were all so wonderful and happy
Oh yes, those were the days
La-la-la-da-da-da
La-la-la-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da, la-da-da-da-da
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Posted: Jan 2023
About this poem:
I posted my first piece here on CS Poetry Corner in June 2013. There was a great camaraderie among the poets then and the subsequent years. It was a wonderful feeling that inspired other poets and myself in our writing.
I have written this piece in honour of those days.
It was inspired and motivated by the song:
“Those Were The Days” by Mary Hopkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KEhWTnWvE
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Flowers that wipe out our sorrows
Am I hallucinating?
Flowers of varied colors blooming
A testament of beauty that soothes the pain?
Maybe...
I would like to undo these dark thoughts in my mind
I would love to create a world that is of balance
Where there is dark so would there be light
Where there is hate, love must override
And so on..
Is there anyone here who would join me
And scrape off this morbidity?
Or am I all alone?
We are like drowning in the oceans of doom
It has to change, we have to be strong..
So let us go out and plant, I know we can
Flowers that soothes our sorrows and pain
Flowers that make our world see the light
We deserve it, I know we do...
Not just sadness and sorrow
I am all for it,
Are you?
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Posted: Apr 2022
About this poem:
How flowers can sooth our sorrows
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Author: Unknown
Stitch by stitch, weave your tapestry of growth,
Embrace the lessons, both humble and loath.
Each thread represents progress made,
Self-improvement's masterpiece, to never fade.
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Posted: Jul 2023
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improvement can't like you
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Your god
Not a man-made creation
That implies existence
Perhaps a man-made concept
What kind of God, what kind of God?
Show me one
Who possesses fire in his right hand
And lightning in his left
Where is your eternal God
And why am I so unworthy
To speak
Or hold communion with?
Did he create me in such complexity
To solve his infinite riddles
and discern
with my power of reason
the difference between Him
and millenial history?!
Why must I believe
In that which I cannot prove
If faith is so important
Then why so many faiths?
Where were we meant to draw the line?
"I do not believe"
Is such a complex thing, itself
In the Christian God?
In the Jewish God?
In the Muslim God?
Your pick
The One Single God
As if they could be the same
Should one exist
If somehow only one
If somehow it could be proven
Just one, none more
But who could really say?
On the premise of faith
You take your pick
And somehow discredit
One, against the other
'In Yahweh, I have found faith..'
But not in Allah, I wonder why?
How do you determine your faith
To One God, against the Many God's Lie?
I marvel at your dedication
I am confounded by your complicity
I cringe at the thought
That your Universal God
Might accept your blind faith
And somehow not me
Here in my dark and painful reality
I am injured and wanting and free
To chose faith and complacence
To any God that I might
But none have presented
And even I should resent it
This 'Devil' that so well
you have known-
Yet now he doesn't chase me
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Posted: Apr 2010
About this poem:
I spent a good portion of my life believing what I was told to believe.
Someone help me find the truth?
I will believe in the God who speaks with me.
I will not hold court with riddles and history.
If I am to believe in a God, it will be the Living God.
It will be one concerned with my existence.
It will not be an ancient sovereign who is beyond my reach.
It will be He who Cares and Touches my Soul,
Not the cold and isolated, distant Father of the sinful Church.
I AM WORTH KNOWING-
SHARE YOURSELF WITH ME.
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Love's petals are plucked
in fields of indigo rain
like a storm up on the mountain
with no shelter to be gained
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Posted: Jul 2023
About this poem:
Simple lines
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Listen to the wind as it blows
A gentle breeze soft and slow
The stars are out
taking on a magnificent glow
Waves pounding rhythmically in a row
How easy it is to become one with the sea
Slowing your life down the way it should be
Enjoying nature's free therapy
Living in the moment and
Feeling free
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Posted: Jun 2023
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Whipping the master rites
still lightning high
unabashed solo
red freedom sky
Tamed by a jaguar
down on the plain
westerly wallow
the fevers engrained
When all thoughts of mercy
in deep foreign soil
ran hard in the corners
the sword and the foil
Served up like soup
the neighbor's disdain
damn with the fallout
Lord let it rain
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Posted: Jun 2023
About this poem:
Spilling out some lines, not entirely sure what its about!
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she was crying
in the sea
unloved and worn
she spoke to me
her heart and boards
were long ripped out
her diesel engine
left in doubt
yet I heard her
heard her true
in her estuary
of blue
I spent a fortune
on her hull
I slept beneath
the dawning gull
weeping wounds
carved by years
open sores
wept salted tears
a friend helped me
with her coat
a rising tide
lifts every boat
and I rescued her
that year
out of wet rot
out of fear
yet twas she
who rescued me
with my work
upon the quay
less days
to think of you
my retro thinking
hours few
the odd bewildered
passerby
would enquire of me
"Why?"
this dishevelled
bearded man
eating something
from a can
I thank the thousands
that walked past
who saw her place in life
as last
they failed to stop
and read the signs
they saw no beauty
in her lines
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Posted: Feb 2021
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