Archive for Inspirational

1. GOD'S WORK • by Ben Langhinrichs 11 Comments

   We wake before the break of dawn,
   Just grab some coffee; head on out
   And toil until the daylight’s gone.
   Each day we face what is foregone,
   Some days fight floods, and others drought
   We wake before the break of dawn.
   Though strong young men, we ache and yawn.
   Rough fists must rub the tired out,
   And toil until the daylight’s gone.
   Come Sunday, [...]

   Inspirational
   
   

2. RESOLUTION • by Robin V. Herrnfeld 27 Comments

   In solitude,
   noise from the street outside
   shut out by window panes
   the plant in a quiet corner
   thrives
   spills from its stand
   a cascade of colour, spreads
   green over warm polished boards
   grateful for water
   I give
   blossoms bask in sun by day
   close by night to save
   strength enough for tomorrow’s display
   tell me somehow still to find
   a corner of my own
   I will
     
   Robin V. Herrnfeld has [...]

   Inspirational
   
   

3. A THOUSAND DRUMBEATS • by Terry Zimmer 5 Comments

   A thousand drumbeats dance the ground
   To say ‘Come play’; to me invite
   A leave-taking that, heeded, might
   For time a grief or worry drown.
    
   A leaf, rain-felled, will quick a-brown
   Unquick’d from branch that nectar drank
   And will, with time, in brothers’ rank
   Decay to crumb, no longer found.
    
   Ah – when my last leaf is shed
   The drum will halt, still-quiet.
   A naked [...]

   Inspirational
   
   

4. THE GHOSTS OF GUITARS • by Barry Napier 13 Comments

    
   Despite your best efforts,
   it will all seem warmly familiar—
   the creak of the front porch steps before you ascend them; 
   the song of crickets and tree frogs
   before their night choir sheds its shadows;
   the worn and warped feel of the handle of the screen door
   as your fingers graze the handle.
   Haunted by the ghosts of guitars, of flat [...]

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5. SATURN ON MY SOLE • by Richard M. O’Donnell 7 Comments

   I wake to see Saturn on my sole
   a child’s glow-in-the-dark sticker
   stuck to the bottom of my shoe
   radiating from the bedroom floor
   like the moon to the earth
   reminding me of the infinity of space.
   I close my eyes.
   Outside
   a billion constellations swirl in an emptiness
   beyond my comprehension
   but I’m grounded
   by my daughter’s penny sticker
   stuck to the bottom of my soul.
   Richard [...]

   Inspirational, Relationships
   
   

6. WAILING • by CD Goble 15 Comments

   A solitary trumpet
   wails from across the alley.
   I join in, slapping my knee
   with a lively rhythm.
    
   The window ledge becomes
   my ride cymbal.
   The floor is my bass drum and
   the wall my crash.
    
   We make great music.
   He is Dizzy Gillespie
   and I am Gene Krupa.
   The alley is our stage.
    
   The drunk next to the garbage cans begins to
   hum along and for just [...]

   Inspirational, Other
   
   

7. THE WEDDING-GUEST’S THOUGHTS • by Paula Berman 9 Comments

   Their temerity is brazen,
   and glorious:
   two puny humans,
   entitled to
   nothing but death
   dare to promise
   forever.

   Paula Berman is an American currently living as an expat in Taipei, Taiwan. Occasionaly she writes poems as a break from engineering. http://paxber.us/avontuur

   Inspirational
   
   

8. TALES WE LEFT BEHIND • by Raymundo Gallegos 4 Comments

   Weary hearts, heavy tears have creased
   our shells.
   Our callused hands portray the timeless
   tales we left behind.
   But don’t be sad for the timeless tales
   we left behind will dry heavy tears,
   crease a smile on weary hearts.
    
    
    
   Raymundo Gallegos was born in Texas, which means that there is no need to say how proud he is to have Texas soil [...]

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9. BLIND MAN’S ORCHID • by Amy Corbin 13 Comments

   White as silence
   in the middle of night
   near the heart
   is a fire of fuchsia
   bits of warm
   bleeding into the pale
   like cinnamon sprinkled
   on your tongue
   tell me more
   lips before a kiss
   are the petals
   surrounding the golden sun
   a yellowed stamen
   more
   the blooms
   are a soft voice in love
   each glimpse
   like a cool breeze
   on a humid day
   and a scent that leaves you
   wanting more
   Amy Corbin has been [...]

   Inspirational, Literary
   
   

10. SWAN SUMMER SERENADE • by Marc Latham 11 Comments

    On sparkling summer evenings
    royal birds of ebony and ivory
    send golden ripples
    along gleaming silver
    reflective surfaces
    as they glide across
    to meet their kind
    Whooping greetings
    they meet under sun;
    sending shining shadows
    of elongated necks
    extending and kissing
    each others’ cheeks
    like mademoiselles
    on a Paris street
    Tangerine beaks
    raised and lowered
    like snakes charmed
    unharmed
    in solar haze
    to wondrous praise
    Rewarding each other
    reminding another
    wild beauty lives on
    there’s a reason to it [...]

    Inspirational, Nature
    
    

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