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Poetry Heals:  Now-a-days poetry doesn’t get the recognition it should. The genre needs to be brought back into the spotlight, especially since present day society is in such a worldwide chaos. I challenge all to learn more about poetry and it’s effect on populations. Look at rhyming and non-rhyming, read some famous known poets. Then discover local poets in your city. Take what you discover––write one of your own. Hang it on a wall, give it as a gift,  or submit it somewhere. If a poem comes to you, someone else may also need to receive it, just get it out there. ––Albert Lee Moran

 

 

WINTER WEEDING SURPRISE

 

I see you, wild white weed,

rooted in dust from which you feed.

I judge you with an attitude of disgust.

I must pull you up; you serve no purpose

in my perfect world of faultless gardens.

But as I hoe, you send forth fleets

in a breezy whirl, thousands of seeds...

as if you somehow disagreed with me.

©2004 Lee Collins

 

 

WHEN POETS PASS

 

Some slip into oblivion;

Their words beckon

To fields of daffodils,

To listen to brooks,

To love and live,

To feel the froth of mirth,

To shake spears at tyrants,

To learn from follies.

--© 2004 Mani Suri

 

Hope springs eternal

in the human breast.

Give boy a fishing pole...

See?

--© 2004 Ursula T. Gibson

 

 

ON DRIVING THROUGH OREGON

 

The rolling hills of Oregon,

with their gentle swaying trees...

Trees, which reach to touch the sky

and yawn with gentle ease.

 

A clearing here for a deer to run,

An opening there by a stream,

When I chanced upon a raped mountainside;

A place you could hear the Earth scream.

 

A few trees stood between the road

And the scar, which marked this place.

As if that should serve to heal the heart

Which cried for the ravished face.

 

The trees are needed, this I know,

But I’d hope there’s a gentler hand

That could look upon this rich, green Earth

With a vision of love for the land.

--©1989 Joann Turner

 

 

ADVICE TO THE EXPLORER

 

Be gentle and patient with yourself

Trust your instincts and experience

Look for places of peace and beauty

Celebrate the smallest of moments

--© 2004 James M. Pinkerton

 

 

• Our Poetic Voices conducts a Poetry writing group to assist all ages and  levels of Poets, or Want-to-be Poets, to grow.  2nd Tues/4th Wed Glendora Library - 6:30-8:30 pm

 

•Our Poetic Voices readings meet 2nd & 4th Sundays at the Home Brew Coffee, 661 W.  Arrow Hwy, San Dimas. Readings and live music, 2-5 pm. Poets can read their works, or the works of a favorite Poet. Two featured Poets & open mic signups. No fees.

 

Quotes

 

 

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. ––Plutarch

 

There is in us

something wiser than our head.

––Schopenhauer

 

 

We have to accept personal

responsibility for uplifting our lives.

––Chögyam Trungpa

 

 

The mind magically creates

reality from the ideas habitually

focused on. There is no other rule.

––Socrates

 

 

...one who has made

the sacrifice of self

to come into human form

is one who has chosen

to bring into being

a difficult set of circumstances

that can allow true mastery

to occur. ––Ra

 

 

William Anderson

in his poem on Light

 

“. . .leaves become the point of interchange

Of instantaneous chemical activity

As their molecules of chlorophyll

Absorb the bands of the sun’s spectrum –

All except one, all except green –

And the photons slipping through the leaves,

Like angels through walls, excite in their passage

The magnesium in the chlorophyll to explode like fireworks,

To split hydrogen from oxygen, to fix carbon

And to alter the fuel of life into the sweet sugars

That feed the plant cells hungry for growth.”

 

A succinct explanation of activity in the plant – photosynthesis – the transformation of light energy into chemical energy, providing food and oxygen and all the secondary products which include essential oils according to the plant species.

 

 

While spirituality can be discovered in solitude––

by retreating to a cell of some kind, by reading,

by thinking, meditating, praying––

it can be fulfilled only in community.”

––Earnest Kurtz & Katherine Ketcham

 

 

It is the mark

of an educated mind

to be able to

entertain a thought,

without accepting it.

––Aristotle

 

 

It is not enough

to hate your enemy.

You have to understand

how the two of you

bring each other

to a deep completion.

––Don DeLillo

 

 

When you pray for things,

you are really seeking

the feeling

the thing brings you.

Cultivate the feeling,

and the thing

becomes secondary.

And then it will come

spontaneously

and effortlessly.

––Alan Cohen

 

 

A man can succeed

at almost anything

for which he has

unlimited enthusiasm

––Charles Schwab

 

To attain knowledge,

add things every day.

To attain wisdom,

remove things every day.

––Lao Tzu