HAIKU: THE BABBLING BROOK

By Charles Robert Lindholm

The Babbling Brook

Silence

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Listen

Listen, do your hear them
The gentle sounds of spirits
Whispering softly
Among themselves
Listen! Do you hear it?

I Will

Launch me into darkness

and I will sculpt the universe.

Bury me beneath the birch’s roots

and I will fertilize a nation.

Tuck me between the covers

and I will give birth to love.

Knowing The Unknown

strange as it may seem
by truth, eternally porous
sparks of virtue gleam
soft, adapted as clay does

When I Listen

I listen to the blues to push you away

Nothing personal baby

Just it is so much easier that way

When I am feeling so blue

I just listen to the blues to push you away

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See there is a horizon ahead

We all see it lay before our eyes

We all want to feel that special breeze

That one that lets us feel it’s ok

See there is a horizon just waiting up ahead

Listen! Oh deaf man

Poetry Challenge: Oxymoron

Listen! Oh deaf man

Don’t go by your foolish wisdom!

Think about your insane rationale

Your heaven is hell

A fountain of brotherhood: Acrostic.

Empathy

E –  Envy that you don’t need

M-  Making the other feel important in feat

P-  Patience displayed when you have no time to spare’

A – Acceptance of differences of opinion: gift to inhabit in the mind of the other.

T – Tolerant enough for the shoulder to spare,

H-  Hope for the hopeless,

Y – Young and not so young at heart, all deserve empathy

By: Shashi Moore