A virus does not ask
Whether someone is young or old
Is rich or poor
Is male or female
What skin color one wears
Which religion one belongs to
What state one comes from
It treats everyone equally
Like the sun gives light to all of us
Breathing all the same air
Can we do that too…?
DidiArtist, 02.10.2020
Belonging to a party
Should not be a free ticket
For joining a concert of lies
Not the lie from your mouth
Should speak, should rise
Just to show solidarity
Truth and warning conscience
Should be your driving force…
DidiArtist, 02.10.2020
“No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.”
―Carroll Bryant
The days are finally cooler so I find myself spending more time in the garden. There is a lot to do in fall here in my desert oasis. It’s a time to prune the roses, trim bushes and cleaning up from the monsoons. With sadness, I remove what’s left of once vibrant plants that did not survive the baking heat of summer.
This morning as I am trimming the rampant herbs, I come across the remains of a love bird. I’m not sure how he died, it could have been in a myriad of ways. A stray cat that frequents the garden may have gotten lucky, only to realize this is not your typical tasty bird. A rodent may have found its way in…
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I might be
seduced
beguiled
entranced
enthralled
enamoured
fascinated
bewitched
captivated
enraptured
spellbound
but I can never
be changed.
.
.
© the author writing as Romantic Dominant
Not new, but always true.
Art by Michael and Inessa Garmash
Source: Just Stay | Debatably Dateable
Please join me in congratulating Megha Sood on another fabulous month of published work. Megha is kind enough to share this list with us as they are a wonderful resource should you decide you want to submit your own work.
Have a wonderful autumn October and stay safe- Linda
1. Chapbook published by Local Gems Press, NY
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/18/chapbook-published-by-the-local-gem-press-long-island-new-york/
2 OddBall Magazine ( Word cento)
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/poem-featured-in-the-incentovise5-column-at-oddball-magazine/
3. Spectrum Publishing, California, USA “Fall Edition”
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/poetry-published-in-the-spectrum-magazine-fall-edition/
4. Free Verse Revolution
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/02/poetry-published-in-free-verse-revolution-theme-afterlife/
5. Oddball Magazine
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/poetry-published-in-the-oddball-magazine-to-honor-rbg-and-her-legacy/
6. Poetry reading with Spectrum Publishing, California, USA
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/30/poetry-reading-with-spectrum-publishing-pasadenacalifornia-usa/
7. Poetry reading at the First Fridays event at the Soap Box Press https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/11/poetry-reading-with-first-fridays-event-at-the-soap-box-press/
8. LIQ Project mentioned in The Stanford Daily
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/project-life-in-quarantine-mentioned-in-the-stanford-daily-newspaper/
9. Collaborative poem at the Heretic, Lovers, and Madmen
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/with-clenched-fists-i-rage-a-collaborative-poem/
10.Collaborative poem at the Heretic, Lovers, and Madmen
https://meghasworldsite.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/collaborative-poetry-lady-justice-published-in-the-heretics-lovers-and-madmen-journal/
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On the ledge
Lost to the night sky
She, alone
Sits, waiting
With starry eyes gazing fast
At her beloved
©2020 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Image by enriquelopezgarre from Pixabay
Forever has only just begun
with each precious day that passes on
Diamond stars still sparkle in blue night sky,
Golden sun still shines happy and gay
Pearl moon still croons to hidden lovers
and as each magical season passes by,
another comes to take its place
Author’s Note:Sharing one from last October. Today is my 66th birthday and I am going to enjoy it to the fullest! I have so much to be grateful for. On Monday, I completed my last radiation treatment for breast cancer- YAY!
Live a balanced life —
learn some and think some and draw
and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some.
~ Robert Fulghum ~
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“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” Douglas Fetherling
Whose Eyes Speak How my hands traced her body is a surety of faintness but that is not a summation of her being, her tenderness begetting compassion, or her mindfulness so centred, not forgetting her sharpness, an intelligence beyond compare, none of her can be divided nor singularly worshipped, only taken as whole, and yet she is a beauty whose eyes speak into the depths of my aching soul. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
The Reluctant Poet 