Redux
The value of the past eludes us.
The same mistakes on repeat.
Reflection would serve us well.
Empathy would too.
Oh, realize the worth of our tragic and harsh history!
Please only go forward, not back.
I worry for my children and future generations.
Sobbing, losing hope with each act of terror.
As I watch this world becoming one of hate and destruction,
I feel defeated.
Filled with sadness,
I still love.
But is it enough?
Originally published October 30, 2018, on I Write Her.
DARKEST MYSTERY
Darkest mystery
Pure gems within the darkness
I walk in the dark
OCEAN OF LOVE
Darkness
As light lifts me
As I walk the unknown
Pastures in the shadow of death
Refreshed
Renewed
By the silent still waters deep
In the ocean of love
I never knew
In life
OVER THE BRIDGE
Over the bridge mists
Sigh out love songs divinely
Calling me to life
WILLOW
Willow you weep dawn
Brings tears in dew to your leaves
Glistening with hope
FOREST
Forest green deep joys
Draw me to your chanting prayer
Divine sacredness
~~~
My name is Lorraine Lewis. I have always written poetry but began to write more in earnest following having serious advanced blood cancer and going blind and becoming wheelchair-bound. I greatly enjoy experimenting with different forms of poetry, preferring shorter forms.
Lorraine was featured twice in 2020 – March 27 & December 18, and published in The Sound of Brilliance.
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Tired
The journey
Is so exhausting.
I am weak,
So weary,
I could lay my head down and
Just give up right now.
Manifest
I like to find the witch in me,
sometimes it is so hard to see.
I use magic so I can be,
daughter of the earth, set free.
I attune with the turning earth.
Seasons can bring sorrow and mirth.
Then for what it is truly worth,
of happiness, there is no dearth.
Find answers wherever they hide
That still, small voice that lives inside.
For you have searched both far and wide.
Now manifest a smoother ride!
Forgiveness
forgive yourself first
then forgive everyone else
no matter the crime…
Shadow Self
you will have to learn
to accept this part of you
the dark to your light.
~~~
Carolyn Crossley, known as the ©🦊VixenOfVerse, is a poet and writer based in the Greater Manchester area of North West England in the UK. She enjoys spoken word events very much. Carolyn is a prolific blogger and can be found here: Backfromdarknesstolight.com. Podcasts will be coming! Carolyn’s first feature on The Short of It was on November 20, 2020, and had pieces selected for The Short Of It anthology – The Sound of Brilliance.
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the darkness craves light
life invested in the day
the light craves darkness
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The value of the past eludes us.
The same mistakes on repeat.
Reflection would serve us well.
Empathy would too.
Oh, realize the worth of our tragic and harsh history!
Please only go forward, not back.
I worry for my children and future generations.
Sobbing, losing hope with each act of terror.
As I watch this world becoming one of hate and destruction,
I feel defeated.
Filled with sadness,
I still love.
But is it enough?
Guest post by Terry Susi
One of the most creative people I know, and love!
You ask for my Darkness
That which devours my soul
But do you have the strength to bare
What hides in this Cold
Layers
Upon Layers
Of lies that I’ve told
Protecting the truth of what
Feeds here and grows
Would you thrust your own light
Into the Void that is mine
Or try to Retreat
From the Secrets you find
And what if
You become
The Haunted One
Your own light dimmed down by
My monstrous one
What if the Whispers from
My darkest part
Are as knives that pierce through
Your beating heart
Words into Weapons
To rip you apart
You ask for my Darkness yet
The cost is severe
You must give up your Light
To See
What lurks here
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