Paula's Poetry

spp - title: By Hook or By Crook Host Jill Tait, 24 hour 5.27.23 - 5.28.23 8am ES Paula Shene USA By Hook or By Crook (Acrostic poem) Boggs that sod used his child again, this Year. He named him Extension Rod. Handed Rod, a billhook, told him to use On the highest limb severing, no excuse. Only the sheriff saw, talked and allowed Knowing Boggs' trade was the trees' bough Oh, the Lord' knew every subject's working fame Right down to each Boggs Rod child was named Because you see, the Boggs were all wee Yearly they came, most girls filled with glee Children of Bogg's Shepardess' wife  Rugged but comely, placid, and genuinely nice Overall, the Boggs family was doubly blessed Only because they gave to the poor and oppressed Keeping the needed and heaven's goal sharing the rest ~PLS/PCS~5,27.2023 .  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_hook_or_by_crook#:~:text=%22By%20hook%20or%20by%20crook,of%20John%20Wyclif%20in%201380. . . .

  RACISM Reacting in superiority Acting as if Color makes a barrier Ignorance drives Systemic prejudice Means also fear of others Reality is left Askew and in a Culture can grow Into allowing genocide Spiritual deadness in Mass populace causing wars. ~PLMS/PCSS~5.26.2022 All reactions: 5 Omar Farooq Ahmed, Waqar Ijaz and 3 others 1 Share

 Paula Shene USA Theme 24-hour contest FADED MEMORIES Paula Shene USA STATUS HUMAN Smell pheromones are the ticket. Taste the turn-on or the horrific. And that is just the start of making Touch an inevitable grabbing roughly Sight may say this is your soul or star Unfurl your charm, sweet words dripping Sound escapes your lips, speaking love words How we evolve into love or hate in communication Used daily to knit or unknot that first Smell, leaning Moment compelled to Taste, hands traveling in Touch Until the closed eyes open to full Sight and hope to  Make a Sound of triumph that I finally found my mate. ~PLS/PCS~ 5.16,2023 revised 23.5.23

  Jennifer Taylor picture prompt 5.24.23 to 5.26.23 free form acrostic Paula Shene USA title: POPPY'S ILLUSION People ridicule what they know, not. Olga stood at the window, lightly stroking Pupple's flowing fur, golden, copper streaking. Poppy field blooming with birds in flight Yet her eyes were transfixed on the figure Serene in slumber Isel was sunbathing while Olga stayed inside Longing to be amid the feel and smell of grass. Laid out as an offering, no one except Isel and up above the birds paying homage to the nymph. Shadow bathed Olga, the pale twin with Saffire eyes instead of gold; she settled for the silver beams Only wishing for the kiss of the sun but receiving None. ~PLS/PCS~5.24.2023

  Monday Thoughts with Waqas Weekly challenge Theme: A Blank Page Paula Shene, USA Title: A BLANK PAGE Ah, it is precious; it is Bare. What shall I dare? Lovely words capture A fleeting mention of the rapture Nesting in a heart forgotten Knowing fire still is trodden Perhaps better used to draw Animals dumped, extending a paw Gaping jaw salivating at bones tendered Envisioning they just stepped into heaven ~PLS/PCS~ 15.5.2023 Animal rescue is always close to my heart.

  DIPLOMAT GAMES Delve deeply into your core Is your mission peace, or is it war Peaceful measures, not enforcement troops Lay down the groundwork and positive proofs Otherwise, hatred for each other will sacrifice Most civilians on both sides lay spliced As martyrs for eternity, glory bestowed Thanking God they died with love, not hate sowed Gaming for more slices of a pie, not theirs And their neighbors said no let our heirs Meet God in a more gentle fashion Enemies not, but neighbors met with compassion ~PLS/PCS~5/15/2021 All reactions: 8

GENOCIDE I am a woman, I am a woman, a woman of peace With your clothes, I see a man of war I see death, terror, and despair I love the people of Palestine I love the people of Israel I love the people of Yemen I love the people of the Arabian Peninsula I love the people of Pakistan I love the people of India Allah says in all the holy books that you will not kill God says in the Qur’an and the Bible that you will not kill Revenge belongs only to God Revenge belongs only to Allah Someone has to hear this sound from above Someone should listen and bow to God's grace Someone must lay the sword, and someone must obey Someone must listen to the sound of that Holy Spirit I bow to God Almighty and His word alone I will love the enemy because it is me I am called to pray, I am called to love People's leaders need prayers of blessings Only God can touch their hearts and change Allah gave man free will and showed them love God will treat all of humanity fairly when we are humble We wors...

  one of my unsharable memories - Love is the ability and willingness to allow those you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. - Wayne Dyer This is today's world where hate is accepted, and love is banned. Where countries take up arms to fight instead of thinking of their children and their elders in peril. I speak not only of the present deadly and depraved fighting - another ethnic cleansing in effect as was done in Syria - we have not forgotten you - in Uganda, we have not forgotten you; there are many going on now with biased reporting - killing their protesters not arresting them - In the Americas not just the States - hate for neighbors, hate and fear of the unknown and the unknown striking back to protect. So few are listening to God. You choose not to believe what was given to you by God with a love so deep He continues to call your spirits to come to the light, to come into love and put down the fight. Who is your ne...