National Poetry Month Celebration 2019 - Post Poems Here!

[Colm Roe]

'while the plot thickens'
Neat way to finish.
I enjoyed those poems...but they're about death...so I would

[ajduclos]

Taxed and maxed out today, just wanted to wish everyone well. Sending strength and love to all who need it, Indar. 


I can't wait to read what everyone has posted in the last 24 hours.

It has been an honor, and pleasure taking these incredible journeys with all of you. 

Deb - these are two more simply wonderful and soul-filled works.  Truly wonderful writings and expressions from your soul.  Hug yourself............
Aj
 

[ajduclos]

Day 19

Forgivable  

Things we do
things we say
often they just
won't fade way  

We didn't say
we didn't do
carry that load
of should-have blues  

We hide inside
we take the blame
chokehold of guilt
personal shame 

Time may be the
only card to play
to ease your heart
    free your soul
    lighten your step
    lift the load
Show you the way 

 It's all forgivable
   so forgivable
     forgivable   

[Vaughn Neeld]

Graveyard


Many have gone to the grave carrying the same ignorant notions they lived by:
Segregated by race and class, “You can’t eat here. It ain’t allowed.” 
Back then, people normally separated by skin color, nationality, economic class, 
gender, age, religion, or profession, would not have mingled… publicly.

Families no longer rest together among fenced-in plots, up by yonder tree.
The bullies no longer torment, nor do hoards huddle and gang up on the wayward soul.
Instead, they’re strewn haphazardly, 
save for the couples and siblings who share a headstone.

The living lay fortunes on monuments for their dead
with names, dates, titles, verse, and epitaphs
elegantly etched in marble or stamped in concrete, every symbol
carefully dictated from broken hearts and executors of duty.

If they could, would the dead bang on the lids of their satin-lined cages 
sanctimonious with unreasonable demands?
Imagine the uproar there would be, had they known
they’d all be picnicking in the same garden for eternity







while the plot thickens.


~Deb

 

Excellent, Deb. I can just imagine my mother as the protagonist here. V

[Vaughn Neeld]

Day 19

The Fly Within the Cup

The fly within the cup
circles endlessly
looking out,
not up.

I watch in a fascination
that hovers on cruelty.

I could so easily upend the cup,
set the drunken creature free.

But the metaphor of its busy circling--
the futility of its searching--
stuns me.

Is this how we appear to God?

[ajduclos]

You are referring to that kind caring loving diety we call God?  I think I've encountered that diety on several Star Trek episodes.
Excellent, Vaugh !!!
Aj  

[Gyppo]

Day 19

 It's all forgivable
   so forgivable
     forgivable

AJ,

Forgiveness is a gift which can free two people, but sometimes we simply can't give it, even if we want, and sometimes the other party just can't receive for the same human reason.

Gyppo

[Gyppo]

To all of you, there seem to have been too many funerals lately.  Life has taught me they gather in unfortunate clusters, and we all have to deal with them in our own way.  With defiance and eventually acceptance.

My plans were made many years ago, when a sometimes reckless life suggested I might not even reach thirty.  Now every year pushes the date back and I have to accommodate two more generations and how they will feel about my wishes.  But my plans have barely changed.

Tomorrow I will find a more cheerful subject, but whilst the sombre mood of recent events is still upon me, here is today's offering.

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NAPO 19 - 2019

No marker

I will have no graveyard plot,
and no marker as such,
save in the mind of those who knew me.
My ashes will be scattered
from a moving vehicle,
in a fairly specific area 
on Salisbury Plain.
Roadside flowers will bloom there
in their natural season.
In Autumn the leaves will fall,
and in winter the wind
will sing its eternal requiem.

Someone told me this won't happen,
that there are rules, 
that this act won't be allowed.
I just smiled quietly,
they don't know my family.

And if in time the road crumbles
and no-one visits,
or even passes by,
that will be fine too.

Gyppo 

 

[ajduclos]

Day 19

 It's all forgivable
   so forgivable
     forgivable

AJ,

Forgiveness is a gift which can free two people, but sometimes we simply can't give it, even if we want, and sometimes the other party just can't receive for the same human reason.

Gyppo  

So very true, Gyppo - often a very difficult thing to do as giver or receiver... but I find it is an amazing self-healing tool.  Yet, there are a few folk and incidents that defy my attempts to forgive, instead anger still wells.
For me, a very difficult thing to do is forgiving myself - working on that really hard - in small steps it seems to heal.

"No Marker" is powerful - let the seasons handle the task... perhaps scatter some ashes around your favorite crocus?

Aj  
 

[Vaughn Neeld]

Day 19

 It's all forgivable
   so forgivable
     forgivable

AJ,

Forgiveness is a gift which can free two people, but sometimes we simply can't give it, even if we want, and sometimes the other party just can't receive for the same human reason.

Gyppo

Gyppo. That is so true. My ex-husband, who I have not been married to in 45 years, refuses to forgive, forget, and move on. I know it's horrible, but sometimes I just want him to die! Sad waste of oxygen. V