Month: October 2021

Writing True

World, You’re Short

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In drones, wars loom
As conflicts brew—
Yes, it matters who is in the big room.
Is peace doomed?

Famine from afar,
Killing mothers’ and children—
Isn’t that another war?
Bellies have rights to grumble.
Check the food banks’ radars.

Solemn weddings ended in ugly divorces.
Ring in finger;
Ten worn fingers are not credible enough;
Just not enough to count.
Perhaps the satin and silk lost their graces;
Perhaps the vows and promises just meant for the laces?
Oh,only when tag price amazes. . .

If only all heads would bow
and thumbs would up:
Love is love. Love love. Love.
But then again, no.
Just not enough, no.

 

 

YouTube/Trijnjte Oosterhuis/Dionne Warwick/What the World Needs Now

Lyrics · Prayer · Songs

And We Waltz the Blues

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If only I could touch Your Face

Oh, I so long.

I too ache

To see the grandest Garden

In Your Eyes:

For that Divinity to shine on me,

Showing me the grandeur

Of all the angels in Heaven

Playing a symphony

For our daughter-and-Dad dance–

I have been waiting my whole life through.

. . . seeing the sun in your Velvety Robe

And me in a pink dress

Laced with different colors of Hibiscus

And all the flowers of aloha.

Oh, I so long to see

The grandest Garden

In Your Eyes

For that Divinity to shine on me, Father;

The grandeur of seeing You,

Tenderly holding my hand on the right,

And safely resting on my back on the left. . .

Kindly smiling,

Gently guiding,

Sweetly letting my graceful turn. . .

And we waltz my blues.

YouTube/All I Ask of You/Daddy Daughter Duo/Phantom of the Opera

Writing True

A Thing of Wise

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See in every isle,

Understanding and wisdom are present.

Who hears

The Greatest with the Unsketchable Face says

“Get them;

Get as much as you can?”

Both left and right

Have green, yellow, and red.

But the invisible counter

Of Truth

Summons all:

Head straight.

Nothing is more precarious than a roach’ life.

It’s almost zero-crime in lizard society.

Listening is a thing of wise.