The Color of Love

Red is the color of love? I say, No!

ten days to retire

Submitted by T.A. Cullen

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Someone the Donald claimed to admire
Was asked after ten days to retire
He just couldn’t seem to zip

Elixir

Elixir

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Ice tea

Heat elixir

Sweet, spicy, exotic

Eases the thirsty soul craving

Untainted Grace

Her head held high, wearing her crown with dignity

Proud of the woman she claimed to be

Carefree of all of life’s mishaps

Life happened to her in a split second

Dragging her pride and her head down with it

As her head continued to hang low the crown started to slowly slip off her head

The once sparkling jewels became a testament of her demise

The mist that rose from her sorrow as the cold tears hit her hot cheeks

Tainted her crown, filling it with rust that clung to the hinges of her heart

Let us Go Back

The past holds the future.

Don’t be chased. Don’t be chained.

Forget it and we tumble.

Go back and make peace.

Kalamata Heat

Part 3 of 20 in ‘The Aegean Shores’ series

I found a spot of sunshine
with no-one else around
Overlooking Grecian waters
with just the ocean sound

It was very hot – some forty plus
but pleasant in the breeze
as we sailed to Kalamata
through Mediterranean seas

Enough of This Sh(ee)t

Some thoughts on the recent events in Charlottesville …

We’ve come so far, so how can this occur?
How is it simple pigment judgment blurs?
How can we still believe humanity
By outward cast divided we should be?

Eclipse

The Moon will try to go between
The Earth and her true lover, Sun,
To darken deeply living green,

What His Eyes See

She sees the oily shine of a complexion that hasn’t noticed puberty ended years ago.
He sees a radiance that comes from beauty within.

Nectar

 

Photo by Pixabay

 

I awoke in the middle of a flower

To a world of pink petals

And saffron yellow,

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It whispers it’s lies
An incessant barrage

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I wallow and force myself
To go on

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Unexpected news
Without a direct connection

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Lying in bed
As the cool air

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Sitting out in the sun
Waiting on the minutes

Common Life

Common Life

-Linda Lee Lyberg

To love

This common life

Traditional routines

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The clatter and hiss
Rain falling through the

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I tug my hair
Wanting it to be

At Sea

‘At Sea’ – 2 0f 20 in ‘The Aegean Shores’ series

Slumber with the engine’s thrum
through decks one to five
Come morning though, the sunshine
makes us come alive

Streaming through our window
across a deep blue sea
This borders on perfection
for my soulmate, Sal, and me

A LOSING BATTLE

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

as she signs the final papers

she keeps blinking her eyes

thinking of vows, remembering lies

#32 POETRY =

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Poetry =

HAIKU: MORE THAN A PICTURE CAN SAY

By Charles Robert Lindholm

A poem can convey

Humanity

It begins with a single voice

and then another and another

united as one

Summer-Time and You

Summer-Time and You

The warmth of the patio on sunny day’s.

Sunbeams stream to caress ones cheek.

The Shepherd

The loving Shepherd walked among the sheep;
By name each one He called.

tattered soul

Submitted by kevin Simms

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As she stood perched like a bird in a tree
An unsuspected felling fell over me
I don’t know if it’s the shyness in her eyes
Or the affection in her heart
But I need to capitalize before I depart

Crystal Staircase

Submitted by Tanique Huddleston
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When we were younger
We used to always say how much we couldn’t wait to grow up
“Glo up” they say
Pick ya ttittes up
Throw on that “freak em” dress
And “slay” they say..

“Slow down” Mami would preach
Langston Hughes would teach
“Life for me ain’t always been no crystal staircase”..
And yet here we are
Staring life in the face
Wishing we knew then
What we know now

Summer Rain

Summer Rain

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Can you smell the summer rain

As it trickles, trickles, trickles down

Washing away the grime and stain

Appeasing the thirsty ground.