by Caycay Jennings |
Categories:
change, corruption, freedom, inspirational love, love, peace, prejudice,
Transitions towards a worldwide truce
Highlight our hearts, hopes, hymns and
Inspire us to embrace peace as a truth
Spread globally strong from love’s roots.
All prayers seek universal peace,
Love-filled hearts breathing ease and
Living life as freedom guarantees.
Corrupt power holders need be
Outnumbered by justice seekers,
United in faith to crumble cruel
Leaders and their false rule, to then
Determine all lives harmony soothed.
Blessings of equality could be as they should be,
Enjoyed by all brothers and sisters of humanity.
... CayCay
September 2, 2019
by Sandip Goswami |
Categories:
feelings, love, pain, philosophy, symbolism, tribute, truth, woman,
Kashmir is the innocent beauty of nature
It lifted me above all mire dark and dense.
Kashmir is the divine smile
It gifted me a peace beyond all of my sense.
Kashmir is the sorrow
It showed me a combined pain of poverty, corruption and terrorism.
Kashmir is the beautiful helpless unmarried woman.
Whose neighbors are trying to capture her body not sweet heart.
Kashmir is the paradise on earth without dream...
SANDIP GOSWAMI, INDIA
( THE POEM IS DEDICATED TO EVERY WOMAN IN ALL COMMUNITIES OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND POET ANDREA DIETRICH )
by Kishan Sharma |
Categories:
beautiful, bereavement, best friend, betrayal, bird, birth, birthday, blue, class, computer, corruption, creation, dad, day, deep, girl, love, love hurts, missing, missing you, moon,
Sorrow is my companion now,
Why do you tears your drowsy?
The happiness you have received,
The realization of the world of sorrow.
Life has listened to me,
Why do you co-exit?
Love you all,
We all hate hatred.
Sorrow is my companion now,
Why do you tears your drowsy?
Everyone broken my heart,
Why do you do me love?
Why do you want us everything?
We have given everything to us only punishment.
Sorrow is my companion now,
Why do you tears your drowsy?
The happiness you have received,
The realization of the world of sorrow.
by Laura Breidenthal |
Categories:
absence, allegory, analogy, angst, change, confusion, corruption, crazy, creation, dark, life, light, lonely, loss, love,
In vile defeat I confided to helplessness
I cringed knowing I know so little
As inadequate as I am I felt responsible
I felt responsible to know everything
In this mentality I suffered long nights
Over thinking myself and overlooking life
Until I gave up the pain for a little while
And took a deep, dark look to the other side
by Tom Cunningham |
Categories:
corruption, prison,
When tax is due make sure that you pay
Scarface didn't and got put away
For the feds they got wise
Took Capone by surprise
Alcatraz he went for a long stay.
So the moral of this limerick rhyme
Tax dodging is a serious crime
If you love prison life
And you wont miss your wife
Be prepared you'll go down for some time .
Written on 24th December 2018
For tax and finance limerick contest
Sponsored by Carolyn Devonshire.
( male )
by Line Gauthier |
Categories:
angel, corruption, hope, love, people, sorrow, spiritual,
angels cannot interfere with injustices
they witness in the mortal realm
their tears we know as drops of rain
may one day drown all and dishelm
angels in show of compassion
do play the harp and throw a rope
hoping those who quieten their heart
will hear their notes of love and hope
AP: 3rd place 2021
Submitted on July 23, 2018 for contest FAVORITE POEM WRITTEN IN JUNE 2018 sponsored by DEAR HEART AKA BROKEN WINGS - RANKED 2ND
and June 14, 2018 for contest ANGELS IN THE RAIN sponsored by VERMILLION SCYTHE
by Anna Hopper |
Categories:
analogy, corruption, love,
Her love was a tropical hurricane
Drowning the souls who fell victim
The wind would pick up at the smell of rain
She never quite knew how to pick em
She loved those lost and those in hiding
She cared when the world gave up
No factors played part, in her, deciding
No such phrase as “enough is enough”
Her gift was her unconditional love
Her curse was her understanding
A consistent, gravitational tug
Attracting those, most demanding
A rubber ball, she bounced about
Not picky, but sticky as glue
Each soul she touched, a love would sprout
Always trapped, in another’s shoes
by Bill Boenker |
Categories:
addiction, beautiful, confidence, corruption, drink, fantasy, inspirational,
Open my eyes on a bloodshot morning
The champion strains his leash
He's howling in pain, but he's howling in vain
The lights on Love Street are red
Tension mounts in my flesh
The rigidity of perplexed anguish
Turgid in my purple soldier's head
Veins popping, striated muscle pink and warm
I whip him, three times a day
Offer him a hand out of spite
I'll be frank: I spank and I spank
This thing's bigger than the both of us
by Kristin Cook |
Categories:
beautiful, bullying, corruption, humanity, summer,
Is it possible the sun is just an angry star?
Rising calmly with the cool morning air,
but never recognized for it's contributions
and abilities to help love grow.
Relying on the wind for a chill breeze
as it curses the land with rays of heat
and haunts the trees with shadows of rage.
Until it's emotions have finally piqued with frustration,
does the sky turn red, and do you realize
you have taken for granted the light of the world
as it falls furiously behind the mountain,
only to face another ungrateful day.
by Anna Hopper |
Categories:
addiction, anger, corruption,
Light as a feather
Provoked by wind
Chasing bad weather
Again and again
Many things change
Transform and bloom
But she stays the same
A chosen doom
If looks could kill
Nothing would breathe
The tree on the hill's
Leafs would leave
Her skin crawls
At a loving touch
She's stacking walls
With words and such
Her only true love
Hides in her closet
A personal pub
And lips to lock it
by Timothy Carter |
Categories:
change, character, conflict, confusion, corruption, emotions, evil, fear, feelings, goodbye, heart, how i feel, introspection, judgement, leaving, lost, lost love, me, pain, parody, relationship, remember, sad love, self, slam, spoken word, storm, stress, time, together, truth,
Oh what a mistake I have made,
Traveled so far to end up this way.
Not in a million years would I have guessed,
That this idea was truly not one of my best.
Never had known things had changed so much,
We for sure had fallen so far out of touch.
So many different do's , don't , and bewares,
Actually has left me absolutely scared.
What a fool I was to ever believe,
That she would ever be in love with me.
At my age you would think I know better,
You can trust this will be remembered forever.
Oh what a terrible mistake I have made,
Wanting all these memories to just fade away.
Tac
by Tobias Musyoka |
Categories:
anger, sad love,
I love my nation!
With all my heart I love this land
I’d die for all what it stands for
Hypocrisy and two-facedness
Inhumanity and corruption
What a sweet and wonderful song to sing?
I love my country
Kenya
I know all my fellow countrymen and countywomen
Will say the same
This nation is an oasis of damnation
Full of extortion and oppression
Ohhhh I love it with all my intuitions
What an imposition to shoulder
I love my country
Kenya
New storming and infiltration every moonlight
Deaths are common like cars
How I love my country
KENYA
by Amit Dhiman |
Categories:
corruption,
India is incredible country,
India is my country,
Believing on religion,
but doing corruption,
don't take action,
against the corruption,
India is incredible country,
India is my country,
Politicians pollute the country,
cannot take care of country,
please corruption-free my country,
because I love my country,
India is incredible country,
India is my country,
If we want India corruption-free,
we've to be a big united tree,
then & only I, you & we're free,
then & only then India is corruption-free,
India is incredible country,
India is my country.
by Arthur Vaso |
Categories:
abuse, addiction, betrayal, corruption, crazy, parody,
You ‘died’
You LIED
I live with my conscious
You live with yours!
You ‘died’
You LIED
I live with my heart
You died with yours!
You ‘died’
You LIED
My heart BEATS with love
You beat with fists
You ‘died’
You deceived the living
I dance with butterflies and rainbows
You drowned in booze long ago
You ‘died’
Along with selfish sins, resurrected
Verbal tirades spewing from devil mouth
Hypocrite from the grave
Note: All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
by Blake Holland |
Categories:
addiction, adventure, allusion, anger, art, child, childhood, children, community, corruption, crazy, dark, death, deep, depression, desire, evil, fantasy, fear, freedom, future, gothic, grave, grief, imagination, lust, murder, pain, pollution, poverty, power, sad love, science, society, spiritual, spoken word, visionary,
The innocence is transfusing
and overturning
the goat skin drums
children of the mills,
children of the junkyard,
alone,
and savaging
and we keep filling them with
mercury, nitrate, espestice, baby bombs
blasted out of their shaved heads
scared,
and foraging
by Victor Chavez |
Categories:
immigration, innocence, loss, love,
Oh love, why is it by your touch our soul's happiness withers away?
Why do you corrupt our innocent hearts with your love?
Our innocence is lost, our carefree days are over.
You enslave us with chimerical hopes
and make us suffer the loneliness of reality.
by Gene Bourne |
Categories:
angst, betrayal, character, corruption, desire, heartbroken, lost love,
Simultaneous the sting,
Those who two-time on the wing.
Each at fault began the fling.
Subterfuge, a complex thing.
Schedules smeared and rearranged.
Missing gaps in time explained.
Lies to memorize, maintain.
Learn the lying details game.
Shelf life of adultery
Locked away for none to see.
Those who trusted while deceived,
Hold, and rightly so, the key.
Gene Bourne.
06-26-14
by Terry Burns |
Categories:
religion,
Murder
Rape
Homosexuality
Theft
Abortion
Incest
Slothfulness
Racism
Greed
Idol Worship
Blasphemy
Genocide
War
Terrorism
Hate
Destruction
Annihilation
Lies
Broken Promises
Fear
Corruption
Suicide
Barbarism
Slavery
Prostitution
Bullying
Gambling
Jealousy
Where does it all end?
It ends Where Love begins.
by Ashley Chanel |
Categories:
conflict, corruption, family, friendship, humanity, money, vanity,
Keeping up with the Joneses
Tit for tat
Caught up in competition
"You got this? I'll get that"
Let me 1up you
Everything an attack
"Whatever you do,
I have to fight back"
Destroying ourselves
Breaking up our homes
Pride over love
Ending up alone
The things that define us
Are the things that we own
The the things that we've done
And the things that we've shown
Driven by jealousy
Feeding our greed
Filled with envy
Eyes glow green
Superficial materialism
Behavior obscene
Prioritizing what we want
Above what we need
by Jean Lars |
Categories:
conflict, corruption, freedom, identity, life, love, slavery,
Transcend
Evil is fierce, always lying in lurk,
Fighting Man's opportunity to sow,
Infinite value, a souls greatest perk,
All of us need Love and freedom to grow.
The economy and democracy,
A tease in a tie or king with a crown,
The Goddess of truth as authority,
Love expands your mind, fear will shut it down.
Artificial walls, which cannot be seen,
Erected by the beast of many names,
Keep your mind clear and let your heart stay keen,
Spirit will fly unrestricted by frames.
The Earth is our home and balance the key,
A sovereign man will truly be free.
Comments are Welcome.
by Lisa Hicks |
Categories:
abuse, childhood, corruption, dark, death, feelings, forgiveness, hate, history, memory, niece, pain, psychological, remember, sin, truth,
I remember it now
Not all, but enough
To understand how
I am afraid to accept love
Because some love hurts
Especially the kind you gave
The kind nobody deserves
The kind that plants the seed of hate
It matters little if you feel remorse
Your guilt could never ease my pain
The damage you did cannot be reversed
I still wear the residue of shame
And you will never have my forgiveness
My hatred will be your only companion
As you lie upon your deathbed
Feeling frightened and abandoned
You still won't even have my pity
Pathetic as you are
All you will ever be is what you did to me
As I will always bear these ugly scars
by Rico Leffanta |
Categories:
corruption, culture, health, leadership, patriotic, political, women,
Attention all voters
Who love a great scam
The Republican Party
Now welcomes flimflam
Republican healthcare
Fell apart at the seams
Through an absence of facts
And a surplus of dreams
Republican planning
Takes a decade or two
To discover what's missing
Is an average IQ
American healthcare
(Most expensive on earth)
Will not save your life
But destroy your net worth
So enlist in a Party
Where the money rolls in
And believe those in Congress
Can spend it like sin
No pilgrim had healthcare
Play the cards that you've got
For, "I am the President,
and you are naught!
by Karen Ruff |
Categories:
courage, freedom, future, god, patriotic,
We Will Not Comply
I never thought I’d live to see the day
When children would be taught that God is dead,
The flag we love, someone would take away,
Or leaders in corruption share a bed.
It matters not to me who ridicules;
I am American, I will rebel.
I’ll keep my God, my guns, my right to use
Free speech the truth to tell.
We never thought to live in tyranny—
Just to stand for truth could mean your life;
We need to recognize we are not free—
We will not save our country without strife.
Will we rise and claim our liberty
Or take the lies and bow to slavery?
by Sellamuthu S.Kandasamy |
Categories:
philosophy, universe,
Love even enemies with humanity
Endeavour ever for creativity
Live united with smile until death
Add eminence to parents for birth
Let truth alone remain in the universe
Aspire for flawless life with perseverance
Ensure peace persists everywhere
Make poverty and disparity among people rare
Acquire doubtless knowledge
Impede united against evils you judge
Preserve the accepted holy epics
Also admire philanthropy and ethics
Hate hatred and corruption in every walk of life
Adopt Ahimsa as the right path for eternal life.
by Cheyenne Nienhueser |
Categories:
absence, anger, best friend, betrayal, conflict, confusion, corruption, cousin,
Four years filled with Happiness,
suddenly ripped away,
When coming home from work to find out,
your not the only one he seems to want,
she was suppose to be your best friend ,
your beloved sister,
It turns out she was only your competittor,
to get your first and only love.
A heart so broken,
a soul not at rest,
or contented to ever love another.
Only to be comfortd by people who are considered your brother.