TODDLERS’ ECONOMY
What’s mine is mine. What’s yours is mine.
Remember this, and we’ll be fine.
E-con-oh-me? Not for the wee!
E-con- NO! MY! economy.
© Marie Elena Good 2009
pictured words
a simple pairing of pictures and poetry
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December 14, 2016
November 21, 2016
ONE
Photo credit: Deanna Marie Metts
One heart was freed
One soul was saved
One life unchained
One sentence waived
One died for me
One took my place
One sacrifice
One act of grace
One Holy God
One Trinity
One Perfect Lamb
One thankful me
© copyright 2009, Marie Elena Good
October 20, 2016
UNWANTED (Sonnetina Tre for an unplanned child)
A life that’s wanted is a life that’s life.
Unwanted life? Disposable tissue.
So at what point does life become a life?
Unplanned or planned – too often the issue.
The silent scream of babies ripped apart
Is deafening to me – I can’t be still
And not express what grieves my beating heart
While theirs are halted at another’s will.
What right have we to turn a woman’s womb
Into an unplanned baby’s living tomb?
© Marie Elena Good, 2016
July 25, 2016
MOTHER’S DAY
Photo by Deanna Marie Metts
All I wanted was to give you a gift –
A pretty something you could wear
On your wrist,
Or around your neck.
Something having nothing to do
With construction paper,
scissors,
or crayons.
Something purchased with paper money
From a department store.
Something wrapped in ribbon.
Now all I want is to give you a gift –
Something having nothing to do
With purchases
With paper money.
I want to give you
Sunny smiles,
Smooth sailing,
Sweet solace.
July 23, 2016
Tears for my nation
Where cheers for gun rights
Paled those for unborn children
And left me in tears
My hope lies in this:
“The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: He channels it where He wills.” ~ Proverbs 21:1
Photo credit: www.slate.com
July 21, 2016
CROSSROADS
Image credit: awesomeaj.com
As children,
We were taught
To always
Always
Look left, and right,
Then proceed.
As adults
We continue
To always
Always
Look left, and right,
Then proceed,
And we’re free-
F
A
L
L
I
N
G
For lack of middle ground.
© Marie Elena Good, 2016
July 18, 2016
SEEKING SOFTNESS (#prayforturkey #stopthehate)
Media photo as presented by Photography of Nia
I can’t pretend to understand
As hostile minds, with arms in hand,
Disturb a peaceful country’s night
While innocents hole up in fright.
Another friend, another cry,
Another ally begging, “why?”
Another hashtag adding weight
To those who prompt and spread the hate.
This fallen universe, complex:
While animosity is flexed,
A softness tries to smooth the way
From violent night, to placid day.
Let softness have its gentle sway;
Let mankind not be mankind’s prey.
© Marie Elena Good
July 15, 2016
un câlin pour un allié (a hug for an ally)
Photo by Keith R. Good
Hate reigns. What remains
To say? To pray?
We disavow
(somehow)
Our sin in errant skin –
Our callous view of life
As strife endures, and carnage lures
The vilest mind.
Oh, mankind!
Weep desolately deep
As France steeps in blood,
And floods of tears release
A piece of Nice.
© Marie Elena Good
July 9, 2016
OPEN AIR PICTURE SHOW
Photo credit: dreamstime.com
We as children
Face-up in soft grass
Hands clasped behind our heads
Watching floating scenes above,
Seeing things differently –
Each through our own lens,
Mimicking real life.
© Marie Elena Good
July 8, 2016
SUMMER, ’16 (BLACK AND BLUES)
As life bleeds red,
My guilt, this:
I thank my God
My love is not
In blue uniform;
My son, in black skin.
© Marie Elena Good
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