Is our planet destined to survive?
In the beginning God created the heaven and earth,
And claims ownership to all that it is worth.
God created our planet to survive,
And on it's brilliantly designed foundation will thrive.
God promised that life will live on our planet forever,
And it's foundations will not be moved whatever.
The righteous wiill possses the earth,
And benefit from all that it's worth.
...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 8:28 pm
Also by hugh:
Scoundrels who steal must be held to account !! | Warning,don’t drink and drive !!! | Stuck in hospital what your loved ones really need |Cinemanalysis: Bean Here,There&Everywhere
We grew up together;
these were cultural phenomena
and also... fun!
Teaching tools for fitting "fools"
in cross-cultural, multilingual settings
suitably adjusted for the faithful&trusted.
Who wants to learn about our customs?
So randomly ordered, conventions bordered
but seldom spoken, a wisdom token
and a gratitude gained:
While some things left, some things remained...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 7:16 pm
Also by Auracle:
Cinemanalysis: The Fighting Spirit | Cinemanalysis: Introduction | To Discover The Nature Of Natures | From Surviving To Thriving: Pudding Proof | From Surviving To Thriving: Baby Steps |Sunlight
Sunlight burst upon the horizon
Exploding like lightening in a storm
Light fell upon the earth like rain
And soaked into our exposed skin
The warmth ran in little rivulets
From my hair and across my face
The sunlight tasted sweet like honey
And sounded like music in the wind
Wednesday 31st July 2024 7:09 pm
Also by Tim Higbee:
Colors | Passing | Occasional Fancy | Love’s Power | Little Scraps of Paper | Winds of Change |Embers
Dreams are in the embers,
in shimmering red heat;
the subtle settling of ashes
reinforces the illusion of movement.
Unfocussed eyes
fix on flickering flames,
the acrid tang of burning turf
warms my weariness,
wraps around me
like a comfort blanket,
faded memories safely swaddled
in the reassuring glow.
Wednesday 31st July 2024 6:38 pm
Also by Trevor Alexander:
Beware the Ides of March | The Anangu Of Uluru | Malice |Butterflies Alight
To live a life in a day
the difference is plain
there’s no doing it again.
A flight within the 4th-dimension
no squirming weasel words for you
just a graceful flutter and decline
on a wing and a prayer.
No absence of synesthesia here.
just a mingling of the finest bouquet
with the deepest regret in a minor chord display.
The tug at your heart and the tear at your chest
just flo...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 6:25 pm
Also by John E Marks:
6 and 9 August, 1945 | Second Sight | BRIDGES of SILENCE | STUTTERER | KAFIRISTAN | VACANCY | VICE | SHORT STORY by Ernest Hemingway | CALCULUS | The beautiful Cathars of Languedoc⁷ | Pilgrimage: out of the blue | DELPHIC | THE STOLEN CHILD | Shalom aleichem | The flowers of the forest | Kathy's funeral |(Untitled)
It’s happy hour in The New Austerity Inn
And a fight’s already broken out
If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it
Rachel cries, as another brick flies
And machetes are drawn in the street outside
Someone’s set fire to a police van
Someone’s shouting at Keith with a wreath
Someone says what about the children
A small voice what about the children
But the far right are flying the flag
An...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 4:39 pm
Pep Talk from a Far Away Galaxy
"You can't get it wrong,"
those words are so soothing.
"You can't fail, you can't flunk, you can't irreversibly screw up...."
Those words are balm to troubled souls,
struggling,
worrying,
fretting--
that is not a fun way to live!
Every problem has a solution,
"failing, flunking, screwing up,"
are just part of the dance.
You are unfolding into your perfection,
yo...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 4:37 pm
Also by Hélène:
Patience and Faith | Who Am I? | Offerings | Everyone Is | Wondrous Panorama | Holding On | Who I Admire |Simple Tail
I woke up this morning
angry at turtles, and parrots too.
They get so many years to be.
Who decided our dogs only get ten,
maybe fifteen brief years to be with us?
All that dog ever wanted was to be by our side,
the occasional extra treat and, of course,
his daily walk. All we really wanted
were a few more perfect days just like that.
Wednesday 31st July 2024 3:28 pm
Also by Mike McPeek:
Putting Them Away | A Conversation With Grief | On Our Way to Colorado | Those Girls | Permanent Loan |FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND
The wet sand takes your weight
evidence of your presence
and you marvel at the perfection,
but nature is profligate and soon
the bigger waves erase your mark as if
you were never there, a tick of time
is marked instead while you have need of rest
and rejuvenate yourself in a different bed.
Wednesday 31st July 2024 1:52 pm
Also by ray pool:
EMPTY SHELLS | THERE'S A TRAIN COMING |Sitting in the garden,end of July.
A warm breeze, caressing my body and
Kissing my face The sky is pale blue.The
Leaves on the maple trees gently swaying
To and fro.The silence is infiltrated by the
Trickling sound of the pond waterfall. The
Carp ly submerged, ready opened mouthed
To receive their fragmented capsules of food.
Not a care.All is right with the world. Politics,
Wars, petty arguments and disag...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 11:16 am
Also by Ornella. Bushell:
Breakfast from a Child's perspective. | Small Things |And there it is
Unraveling now,
my soul laid bare.
Once free of fear,
now I care...
Never needed to hold on tight,
Until I had love in plain sight xo
Wednesday 31st July 2024 9:38 am
Also by AccidentalFun:
The fight within the fight | The fisher. | Keys for happiness |binah
“you got ur mind right, boy?”
I got this fast car and the whistling wren
don’t know what to think of me
an’ I got a coin in my pocket
lain up toward the day of thunder
an’ the wind whispers
the cries of the great raptors
come, now, the hour of trembling
the mother of my understanding
suffers not to stay her hand
in my hour of need
Wednesday 31st July 2024 1:49 am
Also by Landi Cruz:
burial at sea |A mother's tea is always cold
A mother's tea is always cold
Scrabbled together between dish washes
Brewed while the wash is locked and loaded
Or loaded and locked, who even knows?
A mother's tea is always cold.
Over brewed or under, teabag out in thunder
Speed or is it lightning? Who even knows?
A mother's tea is always cold.
When it's hot, there's always time
To pick up messes, clean...
Wednesday 31st July 2024 12:37 am
Also by Wonderer:
Mother, wife, house. |YER MORRIS 1800
(I was prompted to post this from my Greatest Hits back catalogue because I saw on Bangers and Cash that one of these "land crabs" as they were known fetched £7000 at auction)
Yer Morris 1800 motor car
Was not designed to travel very far;
It was the first one that I bought
And, sensibly, you might have thought
For ninety quid that I’d been caught
With “MUG” across my head.
...Tuesday 30th July 2024 9:14 pm
Also by John Coopey:
TEETHING TROUBLES | DEAD FLOWERS | SIXTEEN STONES (OF BLUBBER AND LARD) | BUDAPEST SHOES |A Universe Of Poetry
Merseyside poets have launched a free online anthology entitled 'A Universe Of Poetry'. The work is available to view on the Facebook platform, and will be part of a live upcoming event at the famous Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre on the Wirral Peninsula on August 15th this year.
Editors Barry Woods and Michelle Wright specifically curated the project for the observatory, with a t...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 8:33 pm
SLOW REVEAL
Standing in front of David Hockney’s Peter Getting Out of Nick's Pool
Aged 16.
I have always been a keen swimmer
The thrill of the cold water sea chill - that sensation
And now I was keen at looking at the swimmer in front of me
I felt a sensation
I was unsure then over my attraction
The form and content of
Supposedly ‘flat’ static surfaces
reveal themselves over time
...Tuesday 30th July 2024 8:24 pm
Also by Lee Campbell:
NO SOUND AS LOUD AS SILENCE | JAKE THE SNAKE (with audio recording) | YOU MADE ME SWING! | TOWEL TALE (with poetry film) | Uncharted (with poetry film) | Keep On Keep Off | Cut Off | Towel Tale | Uncharted (The Cartographer) (with audio recording and my drawing) | Uncharted (The Cartographer) |RED
Taboo
Cautionary
Loud
Transgressive
Feverish
Powerful
Inflamed
Classy
Tacky
Infectious
Lustful
Lust Inducing
Painful
Irate
Hellish
I remember standing
in the dressing room of Dillard's
with my found Grandma
as she asserted
"honey, Red is your color."
I collected her commentary
and carried it around in the back pocket
of my...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 5:07 pm
Also by Endigo Michaels:
Swallow Me, 2 | Swallow Me |I am scared!
I thought hearing your voice one day
Would make me feel better,
Remove all the pain I felt
After you left me.
But now I am scared.
Your voice takes me back to where it started:
How you broke my heart
And showed no remorse in it.
Now you're showing interest again.
Yes, you miss me because I do too,
But I am scared.
I’ve been giving you lots of ch...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 2:47 pm
Dancing Darlings
Dancing sweet hearts wake one day
Summer break sing and play
Dancing darlings summers morn
Monday Mersey mums they mourn
Silent street dressed in flowers
Prayers on prayers crucial the hours
Dancing beauties nature's Purest
Harmonised with angels to heavenly chorus
Beyond heartache Unforgettable day
Endless love to God we pray
Tuesday 30th July 2024 1:07 pm
Why?
Teddy Bears and flowers rest upon the wall.
It’s just impossible to make any sense of it all.
I cried hard and long, I felt myself shaking.
Inside I could feel my heart was breaking.
All the details, I didn’t want to read or hear.
The headline alone brought on the first tear.
Public outrage is tangible…dangerously so.
People want answers, they won’t let this go.
Last n...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 11:30 am
Also by Mike Bartram:
Brave Birds | Barren | The Sea | Emma and Rachel | For Alba And Nola | Guide You Home |Tigers Limerick (For International Tigers Day yesterday)
My brother says he knows a tiger named Spike,
Who rides around town on a small, shiny bike.
Speeding past McDonald's with grace,
Spinning through the library's space,
With a smile that astonishes all creatures alike.
(For International Tigers Day yesterday)
Tuesday 30th July 2024 10:25 am
Also by Andy N:
"Ghosts into Negatives (Dreams of Brazil, 1995) |MAMMALIAN
I'm lying on my couch, well out of the sun,
and glad if it. Where's the truth, let alone fun,
in baking yourself? You'd have to hold a gun
to my head to get me back out there today
because, so i swear, there is no other way
you'll manage it, no matter what you might say
or do, no matter how much you threaten me,
coax or cajole. No chance! I would rather be
cold than hot, any old day. I...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 10:20 am
Also by Martin Peacock:
RAWTENSTALL LETDOWN | CALLING #3 (IMPOSTER) | CALLING #2 | HER OWN ROSY CHEEK | CALLING #1 |A tapestry of time
It's a trail of events,
each moment passing by,
one after another,
unfurled like a movie screen,
projecting the essence of our days.
We catch glimpses,
the whispers of what’s to come,
blueprints laid bare,
scripts waiting to be performed.
But reality bites,
a vivid display woven into our lives,
the grandest tapestry ever seen,
where hellos and goodbyes
...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 8:08 am
Also by Sunshine:
Needship | Journey begins | Haters aren't lovers | Let there be love and light |Appeasement
It’s never going to work;
You do deals with the tough,
But soon he’ll cut up rough
And do his dirty stuff.
He just can’t get enough.
He’s never satisfied
Until your flame has died,
Snuffed out by his dark side.
By then his grin’s as wide
As some cream-licking cat.
Though preaching peace and that,
His word is worthless tat;
He’ll rase your homeland...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 7:16 am
Also by Stephen Gospage:
Joe | Gunman | The Wind | Useless | Fantasy Days | Premier Tour |I Am a Woman
I am a woman up to the tips of my hair.
I am a woman by spirit and nature.
Like no one, I’ve got an innate flair.
As no one, I need a daily rapture.
I can make an elephant out of a fly,
My ‘yes’ a man can never deny.
I do not burn in the fire,
In the water, I do not sink,
I know exactly who is a liar,
And know what a man thinks.
Of course, I can st...
Tuesday 30th July 2024 4:25 am
Also by Larisa Rzhepishevska:
A Moment Between the Past And the Future | Perfume «A La Larissa» | A New Start is Ahead | I AM AN ACTRESS | The Melody of Love | The Most Powerful Force in the Universe … | I'VE LEARNED | Please, Leave Me Alone! | SINFUL SOULS |Bye
I have been ordered not to share my poetry on this site anymore by a family member of mine, i have deleted my poems but left my cherished ones. I suppose this is my goodbye.
i wish you all well 😊
Monday 29th July 2024 10:35 pm
The stalking amphibian
All pop stars have their stalkers – while most
are merely a nuisance, others can be rather irksome.
Take the case of Rory Rocking Rogers,
my stage name, who became the victim of a
fame-obsessed denizen of the ocean.
While making a pop video in Ilfracombe,
that famed resort in the English county of Devonshire,
to promote new single, I’m Ravaged By Your Devotion,
the make-up lady told m...
Monday 29th July 2024 1:47 pm
Also by Kevin Vose:
Babbling man | Montessa |Just Sign
Looking over the terms of my surrender
I can’t help but feel the Germans were treated better
you’ve got me down to my last dollar
making me swear I’ll love you forever
I’m reading paragraph seven
where you maintain I must obey your every decision
there’s an asterisk attached to that section
that defines “enthusiastic submission”
I’ve read the thi...
Monday 29th July 2024 11:41 am
Also by Robert C Gaulke:
Heavy Accumulations | Lost in a "U" | This Forever | Issues |Once upon a time
Fall into the absolute
Quandaring on the resolute
Pitch perfect vocational education
Synchronized consultations of the useless
Standing with dexterity
Increasing load off center
Reinforced foundation
Sinking in the shifting sands
Baptized
Symbolic repentance
Loftly lifted
Unto a life unscripted
Into the bounds of resistance
Forming natural sk...
Monday 29th July 2024 4:07 am
Also by New Shoes:
Infinitesimal |Homesick
I came back in time to see the apples change color.
Shades of crimson dripped from such delicious skin, only to be left to dream amongst the branches
Too majestic to eat
I waited for the feeling to return but it was buried so deep I no longer could find it.
So I poured myself some coffee and forced the pen upon the page
In search for the words once again.
I ponder here
Still waiting
B...
Sunday 28th July 2024 7:00 pm
Also by Jordyn Elizabeth:
Pebbles. | 23 |THE GOOD SHIP
How fortunate those who take a lifetime's voyage aboard the Good Ship "Friend",
For they are on a journey whose joy will only ever end
When time and tide run out together and the sun of life slips away
And sees body and soul drift off forever to discover come what may
Beyond the clasp of human hand and the cheering word
That friendship offers the open heart willing to hear and be he...
Sunday 28th July 2024 5:45 pm
Also by M.C. Newberry:
THE SIMPLE LIFE |Specter
I cast away my ego just to see you smile,
Only to watch you vanish like a ghost in the night.
That specter still haunts me,
Each time I remember you,
Stealing my rest.
Surely, it lingers to teach me a lesson.
I hope it’s something valuable,
Something to make me stronger,
To help me understand this abandonment,
And fill this void inside.
I am not alone; your spect...
Sunday 28th July 2024 4:15 pm
Also by Oscar Fadlala:
Loneliness | Spaceminded | B&W |Thin
England now is stretched too thin
twixt
Birdsong and where throng begin
The thicket and the wooded edge
retreat
as does the honoured pledge
Now where two worlds existed clear
jaded
shades of life appear
Diminished of their rich appeal
devoured
by destructive zeal
Each precious field each sacred stone
buried
like a flesh stripped b...
Sunday 28th July 2024 3:44 pm
Also by David RL Moore:
21st Century family values | An Airshow Progressive | The Uncertain Journey | Summer headlines long ago | From Caves to Cages | The Revelation of Dreams | Haveli | Chair | A thousand faces | St James of Upper Wield | Aabey 96 ( a mountain walk ) |“America’s Best Girl.”
A new century of enlightenment beckoned
The age of women’s suffrage had begun,
A young girl born in downtown New York,
Unaware of the greatness soon to be won
Eight kicks, one stroke, the eight-beat crawl.
Propelled like a torpedo down the lane
World and national records blown from the water
Seven in one afternoon. This was her domain.
Paris, nineteen twenty-four,...
Sunday 28th July 2024 1:43 pm
Also by JD Russell:
Catherine Bush | New World Sonnet | Remembering You |Take Time To Sit And Stare
Sunday 28th July 2024 4:34 am
Also by ZTK Space:
Nae The Time To Ask For Slippers | Nonetheless Is Under Control |THEY FED US LIES
The cruelty of the world we woke up to,
A tapestry of lies and deception.
Hopes bestowed, dreams squashed.
Duped with their sweet words
Our trust we gave them, shuttered they were.
We thought it would be better with them,
Regrets now siege within us.
We thought they were one of us,
Wolves in sheep clothes they really were.
Where is the sweetest of our promise...
Saturday 27th July 2024 3:50 pm
Also by Mark Kamuhia:
THE UNHEARD VOICES |A Private View
thoughts at an art show
“… amongst the brightest artists currently working in this medium,
she offers us the opportunity to reflect on poststructuralism’s
most pressing ontological questions …”
The Artful Eye Magazine review
____________
Clichéd,
devoid of style.
Rip-off of my old stuff,
things I was doing years ago.
No life …
Established artist, 57
Ne...
Saturday 27th July 2024 1:09 pm
The Wobbly Wobbly Table
Saturday 27th July 2024 7:52 am
Nothing More
All I hear is the tinnitus ring
And a fan
My heart is beating
But I don't feel alive
Numb to the pain of being alive
I assert a separate role
This body laid on the laminate floor
But my spirit is elsewhere
Exit the body
And enter the stratosphere
Watching a planet
Peopled with busy lives
And anxious thoughts
The pain of lost lives and broken hearts...
Saturday 27th July 2024 7:08 am
Lead astray
The spells of illusions and deception,
where whispers weave through the fabric of faith,
modernity dances to a tune,
a trend in vogue, cloaked in shadows.
God-fearing hearts, and demonic shadows,
all donning masks,
mastering the tricks of the unseen.
You bow five times a day reading namaz,
words of tawakkul spill forth,
yet in the quiet of your longing,
the lure of wh...
Saturday 27th July 2024 6:01 am
Also by Ghazala lari:
Follow your light | Live and let live!!! | Angry monster 💀 | Serenity and peace | Need blood but they bleed | A Million dreams and a million more..... |Maths
Today's homework is: arrive in Paris
But this is maths, sir
Yes. Les devoirs sont to arrive in Paris
But sir, how do we get there?
That's the homework
I know, sir
Yes?
My aunty lives in Hull
Fascinating, fascinating
No really, sir, you can get the ferry to Zebrugge
But then you'll be in Belgium
Then you can catch a bus to Lille and then another bus to Amiens and…
How do you know all ...
Saturday 27th July 2024 4:30 am
Also by Marnanel Thurman:
Dallas Mirabilis |Three Strings Detached
There are three strings missing
On my violin,
I think of touching the last one,
But it’s very delicate and thin,
Outside the dusty window
And closed-compact walls,
Is a road that goes far
And stands tall.
Down that easy road,
Bearing risks of a rough patch,
Some blind-trustingly go aboard,
While some get weighed down
By the fear of detach.
There are...
Friday 26th July 2024 2:44 pm
Also by Manish:
Dream-Mine | Isn't Always Cute | Nobody Knows | Rebound Seekers | School Days | Disowned | Final Slide | The Great Pile |Yesterday Forever
Yesterday Forever that's where I want to be
Yesterday forever a place of sanctuary
Yesterday forever together you and me
Yesterday forever will set my spirit free
Yesterday forever
Live for the here and now they say
Embrace today with a healthy glow
Enjoy the moment it's all you have
One day at a time is the way to go
Tomorrow is a mystery oh really
I don't believe a word hey ho
Yes...
Friday 26th July 2024 12:02 pm
Also by Tom Doolan:
Stolen Summer | Ordinary Day | Photographs and Memories |Shimmery
Poem after Isabel Galleymore.
The cute beaded sequin-embellished firefly
embroidered to the front of a recyclable blue
loves to be on the show so much.
Fashion arrays, boutique sales, forest floors,
and decades of its shimmery are uncounted everywhere.
When the invitation for us to meet outside is there,
the cute beaded sequin-embellished firefly is
a neon sign announcing a caf...
Friday 26th July 2024 11:08 am
Coping
I do things
It helps;
Climb,
Run
Swim
Gym
Things.
Evading life or embracing it?
I don’t know
does it matter if it works?
I won’t stop doing things.
It somehow makes me better outside.
And in.
Maybe...
It works
It’s enough.
Nothing else has a lasting effect.
So I do this.
To cope.
Friday 26th July 2024 12:10 am
Unstoppable
You are unstoppable
Everything is possible
Just believe in yourself
Not rust on the back shelf
Be brave and take that risk
The journey may be slow or brisk
But you have the full power
To handle your dreams like a flower
The road can be quite bumpy
And at times, you may feel grumpy
But never lose hope or give up
Just keep going, like a free-flow...
Thursday 25th July 2024 10:17 pm
Also by Aisha Suleman:
Crazy Lover | A Poet’s Love | Bullet Of Love | Close To You |Going Nowhere
I don’t want no Staycation
I’m not that kind of holiday guy
I’d rather not drive to some coastal location
When there’s budget ways to fly
I want to fall foul of Parking Patrol
Get mentally stressed and shout
I want to queue at Passport Control
Have breakfast with lager or stout
I want to remove my trainers and belt
Fill trays with keys and coins
Want to have...
Thursday 25th July 2024 7:10 pm
Also by R A Porter:
The Ballad of the Harbour Bar | The Harbour Bar | Lee Dixon’s Cliche Cabinet |Morning
Morning
Wandering merchants angle about the bazaar wondering if their gold intake will take them far. The birds ruffle in their cages, the callers call out their wares, the buyers hold their hands behind their back as they lean in to inspect the peaches and the pears. With time, the smells, the sounds, the cleaving of the meat. Get it all here my friends get it all. Get your merman and yo...
Thursday 25th July 2024 6:01 am
Also by Brett Maves:
Summer Night |SERFS (rise) UP
the house built on the rock
does not collapse in the storm
yet those stones will drown you
in the flood if you are tied to it.
the prince-maker lay the cards
on the table in black & white
as squares on a chess board
the art of war was forewarned.
Alexander's father / Philip the.2nd
Roman ruler - Julius Ceasar
& horseback emperor small.man Napoleon
...Thursday 25th July 2024 12:11 am
Also by Rob Cohen:
Louder Than Bombs |Tip toe time
Whatever you've done today
It doesn't matter now, the sign states
its time for a parade
for the tiny tippy tappers to escapade
You've seen the sights
Blinded by all the flashing lights
You've filled the senses with a pungent repulse
Tollerated the tube and the intolerance
Now you're back to the place of dreams
Where walls and ceilings go bump in the night
H...
Wednesday 24th July 2024 10:28 am
Also by Wordseffectbrew:
Echoes of playtime |
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