In the depth of autumn’s fury, The day has a ritulant glow Encasing her gold tresses in a halo Of light As she holds her pen, poised, to carry
Her vision of a world filled with cheer, Shimmering over the river’s shore, Accepting her peaceful humanity where fear Is a forgotten feeling that seeps through pore
Flooding away its trauma, building New communities, integrated with purpose As she watches addictions evaporating And discipline, righteousness are the cause
Held dear to all. She keeps her pen Over the paper, wishing, wishing That life as she knows it dissipates into a hen- House, encasing all the negativity and fishing
Out the best of optimism’s cry That resonates into souls needing to fight.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Her hazel eyes look into the mirror, What she sees is a wonder. In the reflection, ‘La Vie en Rose’ Covered with a pinkish screen as she pose.
She lifts her hand, extends her index, Grazes across the glittery surface, that’s a fox, Wily and intent on showing her only Beauty, utopia, family, and community,
Trying haughtily to impose a vision Of fidelity, that’s as wrotten a passion As Eve’s apple; who thought it would Impower her with Knowledge, Immortality
When, in reality, it highlighted her Faults and sexuality through a picture Of nudity and immorality. Her curiosity, pride were her downfall from all heavenly.
The gorgeous woman’s gaze turned Inward, subconscious awareness aged With centuries of data, she becomes Cognizant of the struggles of generations
That tried not to give her her power. The power of a woman that’ll never Let pride, shame, sex be the means used For her destruction that stays unpardoned.
She’s swiftly swung into a new Path, where women are revered, as few Are, for their strengths, nurturer, Culture, and self-awareness that is a propeller
Into an age of her distinction, acceptance, Integration, and sociopolitical presence. A long journey whence she grew Out of a subjugation in a pew.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Diamonds glitter in her ears, studs of stars Shining brighter than the moon, Pearls adorn her neck, snowwhite flakes bares The city scape in a romantic glow, flown
With the wind of time as another Holiday season, decorated to impress, Flies by with a peaceful blanket of snow, a cover Of harmony, calm flow of steady Snowfall dropping on her jeweled Hair and neck, icy cold, bright gold, fluffy, Velvety feel like a mother’s hug, hold,
Love, eternal in its giving grace As she too, with time falls down As we grow old while youth’s stately Presence melts like the snow shown
At its season dissipates, replaced By spring’s colors, warmths, brilliant Colors that shine brighter than diamond’s encased In a vine wrapped in wine on a neck, elegant
Never gaunt but sparkles and haunts Memories as transient as the snowflake That touches, melts, becomes water, a font Of changes just her her stylish break.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Her tears, hidden like her fears, They stain her cheeks in moments Of quiet reflection, no sobs, tantrums, Only a deluge of emotional expressions
Hushed by her shame that she’s weak, Weak for having feelings that can freak Out any ‘sane’ person and break Their will to survive, not her, her stake
In life is her children’s future That she struggles to provide, nurture, Even as she’s placed under careless provider Whose emotional abuse is worser
Than any physical one, as the latter Heals, while the first fester In a heart that feels like a pester For asking help to provide shelter.
Her tears and fears are hidden From all, she only acknowledges the forgotten Less worrisome problems that never flatten As her strength overcomes the burden.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Dressed in white, hair, a golden flax, She lays on the fluffy white cloud Bent in a fetal position, arms hold The fluorescent moon under chin, lax,
In rest, she poses a vision of calm As the moon shines brilliantly In a frame to keep the fearfully Looped worries away from her palm,
And creates a luxurious beam Enrobing her in warmth Of light As she slumbers in the clouds’ soft, bright Lumanescence whose role is to brim
With courage and fight against The terrors within, A heroine never Given any fame, but like the moon, it’s a killer Of monsters that create panic, at a cost
Too high to endure, if it were not For the peaceful moon laying in arms Breaching the towers of fright, it calms The dread, horrors that she faught.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
We’re being bombarded, daily, By subliminal messages, hourly, Whispers of drugs, violence, alcoholics’ enduced hazes, minutely, Incorporated in ALL media, compulsively.
Resistance is Futile …
Words, sounds, images coalesce Into an indoctrinated presence That’s insidious in its convergence Into your mind, creating a blinding trace
For behaviors that are incongruent With ‘our’ Ideals of humanity, that are esculent By mediocrity of addiction becoming permanent, As our dependence skyrockets into exponent …
‘Resitance is Futile’ …
As our struggles persist, our Vision, imagination, purveyor Of our strength of cohesion, flutter Into a bud that flourishes in power.
As ‘Resistance is Futile’,
Our obstacles remain tangible, Yet, clearly, unattainable. The need to strive to be corrigible Is embedded in our DNA, for hope is always tenable.
Thus: ‘Resitance is (Not) Futile.’
*1. Star Treck, the Borgh, a a cyborg entity trying to Conquer worlds, says this to Captain Pickard when they wish to invade earth.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Thank you, administrators, for the honor and your hard work.
Vanity’s Curse
From the swirling darkened fog A wisp of a gorgeous woman Wrapped haphazardly in blood red smog Alive in its flow as she moves, an
Astounding beauty, captivatingly attractive, Sensual, and her sexuality bared for All to consume closely and become enraptusured By a fiery beauty hiding an insidious core,
Horrifically rotten with envy, Hatred, corruption, aggression, All coalesce within her stare, a visionary Of destruction, disunity, strife that lend to perfection
Into her spiderweb of infractions That destroy unity’s equality And fairness that require absolutions From a community that venerates all that’s holy.
Wherever there’s equanimity She presents chaos and superfluous vanity.
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.
Thank you, administrators, for the accolade and your hard work.
Important Insignificance
The fox enveigled the cheese from the raven, The child wheedles the cookies from parent, The dog raises his puppy eyes and melts your heart.
The birds twitter and flutter coaxing attention, The flower shyly moves its petals to receive Its caresses from the sun’s rays: nutrition!
The man wads his wallet to empress, While the woman wears her war paint as not to depress; The elderly lament their youth, and try to cajole
Their kin into longer and more frequent visits. While the individual struggles to beguile themselves Into believing they’re valued more than they are!
Ironically, they lack the vision to see their importance, That drives jealousy in others in constant Turmoil with themselves, for those lack your presence!
My poetry book, Perfectly Flawed poetry for change, is available on all eplatforms including Amazon. It was on the finalist list for the Canadian Book Club Awards 2023.