Community – Member Posts

by: Guildford Windley Changing season ______________________________________ Ah, I can sense it in the air Days are getting shorter and the air a little cooler Yes it’s definitely getting near, it’s just around the corner Those warm hot lazy days of summer are fading into a memory Oh the fun we had on summer larks Now … Read more

by: alexis karpouzos I love a flower, i stretch my hand and touch his soft leaves and it sends me a sweet smell. it’s a tacit love, in the sense of wonder we found in each other, secret signals from another life that bring poetry to my heart.

by: Guildford Windley Robert A baby comes on the whispers of October bringing forth a new sweet morning. A child with bright blue eyes and a sheepish grin, that won the hearts of all near him. The child I knew grew in a home of love, a dad and mom with all they could to … Read more

by: Guildford Windley What have we done? ______________________________________ The wind is a blown The trees hear the words not spoken The birds fly above the mess that is man You don’t see as many honey bee and butterflies that once pollinated the land My God, what have we done? No time left for thinking Action … Read more

by: Shirley Satterfield The devil can’t derail me Just because he speaks a word, For there is no defeating a genuine Christian Word-nerd. The muscles in my mind Are well exercised and sinuey Alls he can do is talk, talk, talk A lot continuously. He cannot defeat me. He cannot kill my soul, For it’s … Read more

by: Guildford Windley Where is Isabel _____________________________ Where is Isabel, where did she go? Where is that girl with a beautiful smile? Maria, you spoke so eloquently in defense of yourself and others You came to this country with the hope of living and of giving You were invited here to help find a cure … Read more

by: Guildford Windley Lost Love ___________________________________ Here I ponder life Lying under this weeping willow tree By a babbling brook that’s crying out to me Oh, is my troubled soul, deep in pain I’m I For sweet Esmeralda, has left me for some other guy Across the seas, they went Sailing on a ship at … Read more

by: Guildford Windley Political Speak __________________________ In a world full of bull Where the truth does not matter anymore A place where freedom of the mind to think is replaced with political speak Behold the lie, for with a spin it’s now told over again Over and over the lie is said, until the people … Read more

by: Guildford Windley The Watchman, watch _______________________________________ The Watchman, watch The clock as it tolls, its seconds as they go The Watchman sees the damage done As humans have been told, but they ignore They rather turn their backs then change their lives The Watchman, watch There are tears in one’s eyes For the truth, … Read more

by: Shirley Satterfield I’m just a sittin here right now watching the clock As time ticks by And hearing the second hand Go click-clack in a forward clockwise And just a pettin’ my kitty cat, For the quiet present moment now Is really where it’s at.

by: Shirley Satterfield As an older person I only have three simple priorities in my life that you may not agree with, but please bare with me as you will be in my place someday. 1. Growing closer to the Lord and enjoying the many simplicities of His creation and learning more about His matchless … Read more

by: Guildford Windley What is the Sense of it All? ______________________________________ Oh what is the sense of it all? We are born into a world that has so much beauty to enjoy But why then do we destroy it We have the gift of love that we can share But then why do we turn … Read more

by: Guildford Windley .A poem for Maria _____________________________________ A child lost in a world that does not care A world of greed, hate, and deceit wrap up in phony Christianity She is one but there are others Both to these shores in hopes of life-saving measures The medical establishment brought her here, legally when we … Read more

by: Shirley Satterfield Animal Envy My it must be nice Just to be a cat, Eating and drinking and getting real fat, No past, no future, only the present moment Under a bird song’s spell, No future worries in heaven or hell. It’s so complicated being a human each day With a mind that goes … Read more

by: Guildford Windley We need to take a stand _______________________________ We turn our heads, we look away We close our hearts and minds to the truth Our eyes do not see what we need to see Blind are we to the truth We live in fantasies of a world free of care everywhere people go … Read more

by: Shirley Satterfield I’ve got something profound in my heart today to share and that is that I am so glad that I have lived a long life and have been able to share in the common human experience a long time. My mother once told me that she did not want children and that … Read more

by: alexis karpouzos Where is the magic? We all start out knowing magic. We are born with hurricanes and whirlwinds, oceans and galaxies inside us. We are able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see the destiny in grains of sand. But we have forgotten the magic and we feel without compass, … Read more

by: alexis karpouzos Dust to dust by the broken dreams of the humanity, you ain’t got a lot to say, the words are sad, now, our companion, the pains of the heart. The indifference kills with no shame or concern, killing me ,killing you, watch the end of the blessing, for the blind in the … Read more

by: Guildford Windley The Runner ___________________________________ The Runner runs, run runner run Don’t look back at what has been done What was, will always be, but in the past is where we hope it stays, except for memories that are baggage on the brain Look to the future, learn from the pass But we know … Read more