BE THE CONDUIT (Response to Twiglet #54: Water, Water)
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We thirst for even a sprinkling of peace,
as we reach the boiling point.
#seventeensyllablesfortwentyseventeen
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a simple pairing of pictures and poetry
Tag: Peace
December 12, 2017
September 27, 2017
In The Name of All That is Right
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This Land of the Free can’t agree on taking a knee. But it’s not about the knee. It’s about equality, and that’s the key to being free, from sea to shining sea.
See?
© Marie Elena Good 2017
#takeaknee
August 29, 2017
“Homeland” A Curtal Sonnet
Photo by Daniel Kain
Confession time: I sometimes watch Fox News.
And CNN. And MSNBC.
Still here? Okay. Now let me tell you why:
These folks are out to shape our nation’s views.
And even though I’m thankful speech is free,
Both left and right have somehow gone awry.
I fear our news is, by design, whitewashed.
No more can we agree to disagree.
Our nation needs a friendly meal. With pie.
Let’s eat good food and talk. And then you wash,
I’ll dry.
© Marie Elena Good, 2017
Excited and humbled to discover this poem sneaked into Robert Lee Brewer’s Curtal Sonnet Challenge Top Ten! To read the winning poem (Under the Rainbow by respected poet Jane Shlensky) and the other Top Ten poems, follow this link:
http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/wd-poetic-form-challenge-curtal-sonnet
July 18, 2016
SEEKING SOFTNESS (#prayforturkey #stopthehate)
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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 9, 2016
HAIKU (UNTITLED)
We’ve lost our first Love.
Even clouds of witnesses
Weep over our land.
June 12, 2016
AND IT’S NEVER OKAY
Bomb or gun
Mass or one
Gay or straight
Hate is hate
Foreign-run
Or homespun
Vain debate
Hate is hate
Deeply flawed
“Under God”
Won’t negate
Hate is hate
(c) Marie Elena Good, 2016
Photo from http://www.gmpcc.org.uk/news/stand-together-against-hate-crime/ .
March 23, 2016
Unhindered
If only hate could be
S e v e r e d
By earnestly penned poems.
March 5, 2016
Whatever is lovely…
Photo by Keith R. Good
Hushed splendor
echoes through rich autumn forests,
softly laden
with a palette of Eden’s origin.
October 13, 2015
And What of Joy?
This world may have some issues I can’t solve –
Some great enough to trigger pain or fear;
Some threatening to make my life revolve
‘round stresses, whether certain or unclear.
This fallen world may never right its wrongs,
May never be at peace, nor ever learn
The value of a love that seeks and longs
To emanate affection and concern.
Though incidents endeavor to destroy,
To pierce our heart’s contentment as a knife,
My Jesus, how I thank You that my joy
Does not depend on happiness in life!
Unending joy of sinner-been-set-free,
Your grace and mercy are enough for me.
© Marie Elena Good, 2015
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