(Christmas Poems) Another Year Creating Poems

Dear Friends,

 I hope you are well and flourishing. Work, family and I are flourishing, as some of you will have noticed I have published my first collection of poems. In addition, I have, at the weekend, made the e-version available available from my website. 

 Below are this year’s poems to say thank you for your friendship. The three poems are all very different!!

 Hope you all have a wonderful festive period.

 Regards

David

THINK SIMPLE

Simple words of kindness

Provide a reassurance to try;

Harsh words of challenge

Provide that reason to cry.

Simple words of challenge

Ensure that we stay humane;

Harsh words of kindness

Ensure the passion to remain.

SIMPLE WORDS

The simplest words ache with meaning

Awaiting their full release in a listening ear.

Delving deeper into the heart of meaning making

Holds the possibility of emerging wiser.

Never hold back from the easy words

That draw together communities eager to relate.

Leave the hardened words for technocrats

Who need the precision and beauty

Which only comes from purest wisdom,

The insight from which science grows.

MISSING TOGETHER

Today I listened to your voice

But heard beyond the words.

Seeing beyond the words

Moves towards a perceived fantasy

Made of the emotional essence

That creates the poetic observations.

Intuitive understanding is poetic,

Beyond the realms of rational ideology.

Air knowledge of earths wisdom

Gathered over time refines a being:

Not to shape a supernatural human

But the essence of true humility.

Not being able to understand

Yet to see and to feel it as a thing -

As clear as the flowers of the garden,

Fresh and alive, named in latin,

Sourced in the actual light-space -

Spoken in poetic words of meaning.

The outsider wanting to be inside

Also sees the ways of self and other

Through the inner turmoil, resolved,

Ever moving towards unknown ends.

Perennial inability to satisfy with words

Yet constantly seeking understanding.

The insider not wanting to be outside:

Afraid of the cloudiness of rejection;

worried about the world beyond self;

Manufactured to bury the unknown,

To allow functioning in the simple world,

In which the majority live becalmed.

Staying human and humane

Within the outside and inside of seeing,

Among those who choose to hide and play,

Constantly trying to describe the world

Is the lot of the inside outside poet

Who lives in the world of normality.