Category Archives: Poetry

Will We?

As I started reading this poem to post it, I realised that it’s about more than romantic love. It’s about life itself. It can be translated to ask questions about race, skin colour, gender, religion, philosophy, attitude, respect, consideration, acceptance. It is about the entire way we as humans connect with this world, and theContinueContinue reading “Will We?”

Sweet Time

Baby Amie We rush through timeAs if we have to keep goingKeep doingMove forward To where?In doing soWe rush past our livesMissing the tiny momentsForgetting to store The precious memoriesWondering how we got old so fastWe were not paying attentionTime flies when we’re having funAnd the memories stayThe bad memories sometimes more soUnless we slowContinueContinue reading “Sweet Time”

The Common Good

One race What is the common good?We are all uniqueDifferent backgroundsDifferent ideasDifferent worldsWe don’t speak the same languageWorship the same GodLive the same liveswith the same trappingsBelieve the same thingsOur homes are differentWe are nomads at home where we areLive ‘civilised’ livesIn crammed stacksMaybe in the skyWhere the building sways in the windWe live inContinueContinue reading “The Common Good”

The Edge of Humanity

At the edge of HumanityThere is a spaceA gap representing a choiceLife has assaulted youBeaten you backDestroyed your youthful dreamsLeft you bereftAngryDisappointedDisillusionedBroken?You feel outside hopeWorthlessTrodden down by the success of othersDiminished by being differentYou’re all wrong in this worldFor any number of reasonsThat don’t exist anywhereOther than in the minds of thoseWho make themselves feelContinueContinue reading “The Edge of Humanity”

The Rules

There are rules you know!Depending on where we’re fromWe have to hate each otherNothing else is possibleOr sensibleDepending on our skin colourThere are rules that we must followJudgements to be madeAn entire shade placed in one categoryOf right or wrongDepending on our body structureWe must be one thing or the otherNothing else is rightNo authenticContinueContinue reading “The Rules”

Message to the Children

I love you bothEquallyUniquelyBut how to prove itTo you who areSo perfectly differentHow to explainThat love comes in many formsLike youAnd one formIs no more nor less beautifulThan any otherLove is as diverse as you areUniquely individualAnd unchanged by detailsYou are equally amazingEqually beautifulEqually lovingAnd you own equal partsOf my heart and soulThe world mayContinueContinue reading “Message to the Children”

Intelligent Life?

If humans are the most intelligent life on the planetwhy do we choose war?Why do we destroy our environment and overheat our atmospherethen deny the damage?Animals do not do thisEven the most lowly bug does not do thisBut we think we’re betterTrees connect through their rootsWhen another tree is dying they try to feed itWeContinueContinue reading “Intelligent Life?”

I Saw a Daisy

I was worrying about the worldWhen I saw a daisyStanding proudly looking into the sunBeautiful and completeWithout a frownThe daisy asked me what troubled meI said the state of the worldIt said that it was in this worldAnd untroubledBecause it had long ago learnedThat the world would turn as it didAnd it was too smallContinueContinue reading “I Saw a Daisy”

Your Unhappiness

Your UnhappinessIs not my burden to carryYet carry it I haveThrough the long winter of your lifeA product of your pastFrozen in timeAnd carefully nurtured to controlEverything around youIt has become my burdenIt has compromised my abilityTo see the lightDimmed my daysClouded my mindAnd unleashed vibrations into the worldThat were never necessaryThe past was notContinueContinue reading “Your Unhappiness”