Friday, May 27, 2016

Wasted?

Wasted?

by Seah Greenhorn
(Poem with copyright)



My eyes detected dense smoke afar off.
Closer. My nose twitched; I began to choke.
Ground underneath me shook; it rattled.
Fear overtook. I curled--head to knees; then peeked.

Look! A ladder appeared from invisible overhead.
I gazed in confusion; then instead looked forward.
A strong voice suggested, "The rung! Take hold!"
Though, bold, I stay chained to a stupor. To No Safety Swung.

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Inevitable? No.

Inevitable? No.
by Seah Greenhorn
(poem with copyright)
As manure

on its surface--
the total earth

a universal war
to give due birth

to banquet feeding
vast birds to fill,

while cleansing lands of carcasses
grand and small. Young and old.
Consumed all:

Those tragically dead
who know
but hate to or don't abide.

Those who don't know
but by choice
decide

do show

The Creator

their hides,
backs stiff;
necks too.

Courses stubborn.
Apathetic.

His Government
sadly

flatly refused.

Leaving the Almighty
no other recourse.

Like fathers who love their disobedient children; but who must let go
of the reigns

to alcoholism, drugs and other detrimentals careening their offspring into future graves. As their other progeny, parents seek to save.

What other reasonable solution
for a God of justice, of wisdom,

who allowed an opportunity of 'freewill' to use

wisely or not?

Prideful human intelligence
craves

their own will to do.

So,

Time sped centuries
to gather ones whose
hearts abound
in love

to glow

in brotherhood upon a hill.

Seen
unity learned
values
still performed

instill

morality, loyalty, integrity.

Nasty words
thrown out of the dark cavern
of this old, but new
humanity

narcissistic in its extreme love
of self,

of temporary pleasures,

causing children and animals to scatter; then scream. Their blood sacrificed for sadistic means.

Then target, they, cowards
who hide their weakened minds inclined to kindness,

but whose soft spines bind them as victims enslaved

abused

left, self loathing.

Balled and curled in corners for hours and hours and hours without mental or physical power.

Thus to stay?

Or toting firepower to spray innocents
creating horrible headlines to international news relay.

We must pray

for one another
in sincerity
to find

gain strength
to stiffen or determine
who will win:

The one you want or need to be.
Or the one to others
your freedom's slayed.

Choose a way.

Don't just flow the path of bats blinded by their own suns, though surrounded by cats in shadowed caves mimicking,

then growls,

since lacking ability to garner a bright and fleeting light.
Meowing thoughts wildly into the wind to watch wobbly flights and hear echoes to rewind and twirl as whirlwinds wastefully spun or damage caused. Arrogantly done.

When day-to-day
evidence is at hand.

Delivered gracefully, without always pomp and circumstance.

Our lives denote purpose, not some random plan.

True,

beauty abounds in tragic art.
Fluid, liquid in dance displayed.
Sung and strummed upon various hearts.
Words of lost lovers that end in suicides or other equal darks.

Diversions

from a Future soon to come.

Time To Prepare.

Survival promised
for an unnumbered sum.

Plan intelligently.
Not like in Noah's day.

Do what you want after examining the proof. Not just do what others say.

It's Your Life
and your children's

you'll

Eternally Obtain
or Everlastingly

Lose.

Choose Life without further delay
On an Earth Renewed and Wonderfully designed
for Heartwarming work and leisurely play.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Intimate Friends

Intimate Friends
 
by Seah Greenhorn
(poem with copyright)
 
 
 
 
Sat still;

pondered
intently watched

did not scurry away
at the march of the ants
at ardent work,

not superfluous play.

So many species
delighted by their service

plants, butterflies,
insects and more.

I sit still

watch in my yard
where a gentle breeze
brought me outdoors to these

Ants in motion constant,
non-discreet.

Acacia trees
in friendship
ants keep

to destroy
threatening choking vines
discovered

as they patrol the grounds
of generously provided
hollowed home of thorns

rewarded by sweet nectar
divine. This union one blessed

kind.

Aphids too
love their companionship
dispensing
secreted

delicious honeydew

attached to ant antennas
aroused by a gentle stroking.

What appreciation,
what devotion

as ants nightly carry away aphids
then return them in daylight's rising
only to leaves
younger, more nourishing

saving older leaves to flourish another day.

What wisdom
partnerships

to humans display!

Too, the large blue butterflies, the red ants befriends

as caterpillars
in awkward stages
time to begin.

Before beautiful bodies do fly
ants to them do tend;
their reward: sugary excretions--
Not minimal. Not thin.

Emerging from chrysalis,
gently they fly

lovely flutterings
to please our wondrous eyes
in uplifted gaze
to the yellow sun

dackdropped
puffy clouds amid tranquil skies

as ant's nests
stay unharmed;
safe in gratitude

as mankind's
marvelous examples.

The Ant
created by means
of the Creator's holy spirit.
His magnificent and loving

Spiritual Arms.