During these trying times, please stay safe, and enjoy your holidays, even if it has to done online.
‘This too shall pass’ so don’t worry about the future too much! Eventually it will work out.
Stay safe!
Enjoy 😉
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Voices Rise Not Hide
I’ve been sitting on the deck watching the fog
Creep out into the perilously darkened sky,
Waiting for winter’s cold to seep and hibernate in a log.
Even the tree trunk stops its growth and its leafy
Dress has fallen on the ground, food for worms
And other creepy crawlers that abide insides.
With covid spreading, killing, and scaring humanity,
Its many mutations vying for attention, probably,
Many feel the need for hibernation as long as no solution
Exists for man’s protection. Pharmaceutical companies competing for vaccination
Uncaring of side effects on man’s Health.
What fiction!
Holidays come and go without a cheery spirit.
We long for a time when we just drove to our
Destination, uncaring to where or with whom we’re
Meeting up with , as long as we meet, communicate,
Discuss, argue, chill, and amuse one another
With nothing but our presence and care!
Never forgo the need to stay in touch with your
Humanity that’s strained while you hibernate for
Fear of sickness, racism, and oppression reign!
Let them combat each other while our compassion
Rises to the fore, fights, wins, then rests in faith and religion.
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Oh father
Farther, frantic, frivolous, funny
Arbitrary, amazing, amorous, angry
Terrified, terrific, tutor, tumble, true
Healing, hearty, heavenly, hotheaded
Embrace, empower, enormous, encouraging
Rare, rowdy, resolute, resolved, remembered
All of these and more apply to a Father.
A day a year is never enough to appreciate
All he does for his family. Sacrifice is his middle name,
Silent support is his first, Power and strength are his last name,
A pillar of wisdom is his endgame.
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Sightless Eyes
The light of hope has been extinguished from
The eyes of the Lebanese people who are forlorn,
Dejected, and lost, as their leaders fight amongst
One another for scraps of power and money, uncaring about the angst
They cause their people, followers, and peers
To bleed out their hope in sweating doing their jobs.
The last vestiges of divination that a future is possible
Have dissipated with the smoke of the last port explosion
Rendering the once brilliant gazes, now flat with the notion
That justice, equality, freedom of speech,
Acquisition of human rights, even, love, honor have a reach
In which they have a material value rather than ethical.
How, oh how, will such oppression be abolished?
Replaced with honesty, selfworth, acceptance,
And realization that we, as a people, matter!
We matter to ourselves, loved ones, mostly: God!
These hardships are testing the believers of good
And those traveling the ‘right path’ will find hope
Where they least expect it and sweep away their troubles.
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Life’s Beatings
Some say: ‘It’s easier said then done’;
Others have similar sayings, with a different turn.
Lebanon, the saying goes: ‘ He who gets beaten
Down isn’t the same as the one who counts the beatings’.
Whether you take this literally or metaphorically
It seems logical that the one being beaten constantly
Feels the pain and heartache at a different level
Than an observer, sympathizer, or companionable
Friend or family member. It’s understandable
That being the recipient of such bad deeds affects
Not only the constitution of the person, but also
His character traits alter, his mood vacillates,
His very being shifts into negativity, unconscious
Of the act of changing till someone wakes him/her
Up to their behavioral substitutions that aren’t a part of you.
Ever! Don’t wait so long for things to become insurmountable,
Identify the cause of your beat down, face the indomitable
Obstacles that seem too solid to be broken down
And resolved as an entity. ‘Divide and conquer’,
They say, so too should your problems be cleaved
Into manageable parts, so your problems are metamorphosed,
Turned into simpler goals that are easier to be triumphed
Over, boosting your selfconfidence into believing
In your ability to dispatch the rest of the issues revolving
Around the whole that is effortlessly solvable.
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Mission: Escape
Whenever humankind faces existential problems
They have two possible opposing reactions:
Escape the present, and start somewhere else;
Or alter your priorities to advance survival of humanity.
Historically, when Europe wanted to get rid of criminals,
They placed them on a boat to the then ‘savagery’
Of North America, where indigenous people
Roamed freely, thriving without the need
That are imposed by the ‘guests’ who shot
And killed indiscriminately to take over the lands.
From this grew capitalist society that takes
Advantage of its population to grow in powers.
Today, there are no undiscovered territories or unexploited ones.
So … What recourse does humanity have for its survivals?
All that’s left is space, Mars, our closest Neighbor
Is millions of miles away with an uninhabitable atmosphere.
Technology is advancing at such an exponential rate
That a mission to Mars is a proven possibility.
Man’s an ostrich!!!!
He hides from his problems rather than face them!
Instead of spending billions on fixing earth,
He spends hundreds of billions on space travels.
How can we progress if we can’t solve our obstacles?
Civilizations will die down because of this,
And people’s acceptance of change is in paralysis.
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Power to the People
Uprisings, protests, rebellion, civil unrest, riots
Are forms of criticism to political systems.
All require courage, guts, and (lots of) blood
In order to be heard by the powers that be, as they laze in bed.
The latter line their pockets using hand gestures
To acquire and spend their ill gotten gains,
While those vying for change use peace
And the strength of their vocal chords to be
Their delivery system for their opinions,
They are always loud, proud, stout, and ground
Out of strength of the lands they’re defendants of
Valiantly trying to overcome overwhelming
Odds to live honorably in their homes, driving,
Driving away those who wish to turn them
Into lambs for the slaughter, as they rebel
Against injustice, inequality, oppression,
Subjugation, and destruction of unique ethics.
They use muscles, ingenuity, and individual powers
To forward their needs, knowing that few are
Heard, appreciated, acknowledged, adapted
Into a system that favors only those who corrupt,
Avid for power, willing to encroach on others
To possess what they deem as ‘necessary ‘.
When will we learn that humanity needs
Its world community to survive any difficulties
Unseen, small, large or in betweens?
We need awareness, acceptance, and self-love
To promote healthy relationships among family,
Friends, peers, colleagues, and everyone else who try
To help in the development of each individual child’s
Character who needs everyone’s support
To feel safe to express his/her emotions
And beliefs freely without enduring oppositions
That are degrading, demeaning, or cause destructions.
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Winter Wonders
Winter has finally set in!!!!
Snow covers the grounds, while you fall in.
Next day, ice sets in!
It crunches under your heals, as you’re thrown in
The icy weather that blankets the ground to win.
The icy wonderland whites and crystals reign
As we tobogan, having fun, again.
And as always, on your way home, you watch the plane
Flying passengers to the warmth of the sun.
My heart says: ‘Never again!’
‘Shall I pass this road without the wonder
Of flight and drizzle following my thunder.
I reach for its boisterous boom, all aflutter,
Hoping that with each step I learn about myself and the other.
The best knowledge to impart is to always be kinder.
Kind towards others,
Loving to family,
Respectful to colleagues and strangers,
Honest with yourself, fully
Understanding yourself and the need for your piety.
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The Fear! The Fear!!!!
Fire, fire, sinuous liar, spread fear like a liar.
Ceaselessly, undulating, weaving your web with a lyre
Blending, melding, fogging your thinking,
Embedding the conductor’s swaying, moving
Hands, mesmerizing in its bright bluish, red flame, burning.
Rise, raise your filaments into the sky in supplication
To the Creator, the all powerful, the giver and taker
Of life, pleading for a savior from the twister
That surrounds your vision with a blight of fear.
Paralysis sets in, and movement is bound in a lere.
Fear, fear of a teeny weeny virus is worse
Than the fire bathing you in brine and ashe
That sizzles up your skin, sneaking, bubbling
Into scorched patches of bright stinky skin.
Emphasize the need to survive this pendemic
As surely as you empathize with your fellow man’s
Plight in their struggle to eradicate fear’s
Hold on your life and your actions.
Stear the fear into a sepulcher of death
And despair so its power lays fallow in a breath
That inhales life and hope for longevity and health.
Beseech your Creator for the will to live and breathe
In hope, optimism, compassion, and empathy for humanity.
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Long to Belong
Lately the day is long and the night’s moon
Brightens the darkness like a loon.
It reminds me of the times I change my tune
So that friends and family stay with me, in tune,
With my needs for their support, strength, love.
The harmony within is all our closest entourage
Request of us if they truly believe in our being
Just who we are, unapologetic for our strengths
And weaknesses, hoping that both are accepted.
Even if you’re not peer friendly, who cares
As long as your symphony within and without
Portrays who you really are in a bout
That you win as your strength can accept
Either failure or criticism and move forward
To improve upon who you are with your resilience.
Poetry for Change 