PLUNDERED

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

empty words like trojan horses
seeking to deceive
thinking I don’t know the truth
hoping I’ll believe

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HAIKU: THE LOVE OF THE FATHER

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I am a believer

THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE —————————————————————————————————————————————-A MESSAGE FOR AMERICA

BY CHARLES ROBERT LINDHOLM 

How free are the free
How brave are the brave
In America today? 

Have we learned our lessons
From the past
Or are we doomed
To repeat our errors, again? 

Poem of the Day – Balls Over

Balls Over

 

Crystal gaze shattered with consequence

Underneath a table

A dog lies; telling stories

Breaking templates with broken heels

Fresh grown gowns smothering cream that the cat licked up

FOR I SEE

Submitted by Wendell A. Brown

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Can you pray to Me speaking honestly
That in your heart you truly love Me?
When you hate your brothers and sisters
I cannot see how this has come to be

Can you tell Me that you love Me
when in your heart I alone do see
the hatred which you hold for others
with such a true flagrant animosity

We Have a Choice

WE HAVE A CHOICE

Shut off the news

and choose beauty

Let a song well up in your throat

and fill the air

Dichotomy (tanka)

Without is sunshine
new green, a warm gentle breeze—

Love’s Gate

Love’s Gate

-Linda Lee Lyberg

As I stand at love’s gate

With my heart in my hand

I ponder life’s true fate

Will he be the one man?

Truthful Hurts

 

It came as a surprise that things clicked
Maybe we were looking for a distraction
But emotions got involved and blossomed
Hard to deny that there was an attraction.
I dreamed.

I LISTENED WITH MY HEART

By Charles Robert Lindholm

she read the words upon the page
then took it like a man
her eyes got red and misty
but not one teardrop fell

Dancing in the Light

She curtsies to the light, from yonder sky

Deep in the woods, as the night floats by

HAIKU: LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD

By Charles Robert Lindholm

Must we live with hate

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The truth

Virtual Onlive

Submitted by antlouro

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Login on alive
Offline existenz no more
No less springs the rest
The spring of all the rest
Breadcrumbs trail our past

Diamante: Taste

Taste

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Sugar

Luscious, delicious

A “Getting Older And Wiser” Limerick

I can’t remember the last time that I jumped out of bed in the middle of the night and wrote a limerick, but then again, I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday. I am rapidly approaching one of the “milestone” markers on the Road Of Life. It has given cause for a little reflection and not the type that involves a mirror which I find myself now avoiding more and more.

Tale of a Bird

Up I fly
above the clouds,
but the clouds fly
above me too…

Off I go,
yet I don’t,
that’s the beauty
of an edge-less home!

THE GAME

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

the lure
the trap
the bait
the smile
the call
the date

FRENZIED EMOTIONS

By  Charles Robert Lindholm and Wet Bliss (Italics)

I look in your eyes
and they tell me everything
your body lusts for

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HAIKU: IT’S NOT WORKING

By Charles Robert Lindholm

I choose not to care

Paradise Has Closed

The doors are locked
The windows bolted
“No Entry” signs are scattered all about
Paradise has closed
Closed without a shout

#Tanka: Scorching

Scorching summer sun

 

Throws shadows on hot pavement

With You

From here I see a dozen mountaintops and more.
How many have we climbed together?
How many more remain to us?

Help me to find answer

When it pains in the heart

You just sit quiet in the corner

Seeing them kissing and mingling

Forgetting you like

For them it never existed

One day suddenly they wake up

A celebrity’s wife

So much show going on outer front

The inner self is unheard and silent

The loneliness no one can understand

The irony is, she only chose the status

I COULD TELL

By Midwest Fantasy and Charles Robert Lindholm 

A day of happy
took my hand
and held it
IN A SPECIAL WAY
DIFFERENT THAN EVER BEFORE