I AM NOT A POET - Allow me to prove that.

DAY FIFTY-SIX  Thursday 25th February 2021:

I am not a poet as you will today see for yourself.

Yesterday I took my total word count for 2021 to 402,293 after adding another 3,217. These words were employed in editing the three volumes of POETS CORNER. All being well I will finish volume three today then be able to publish them tomorrow

In this third volume I have been reading poems from Emily Dickinson which have inspired me to write a few things. I am not sure they qualify as poems or just the pointless scribble of an aging human being who has started to lose his marbles. I will let you make up your own mind on that.

This is something I wrote last Saturday – 20th February 2021.

A SNOWDROP

 A hint of spring on a winter’s day,

the snowdrop in a carpet of white

upon a field of green.

The naked branches of the trees

look down and envy all they see.

Then they smile at what is yet to come.

A robin dances on the ground

his red breast differs with the white

and thinks could this be a nesting site ?

But then the footsteps of a man come near

and with it sadness, dread and fear.

The snowdrop, trees and birds

worry the end may soon be theirs.

Extinction of climate is the aim of man.

 

Yesterday’s SMILE of the day was actually from Emily Dickenson, my inspiration:

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again. I shall not live in vain.

Here is today’s SMILE OF THE DAY:

If you don’t leave your past in the past it will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not what yesterday has taken away.

While typing up some of Emily’s poems yesterday this burst into my head:


POETRY

Poetry is the beauty of our world,

Salvation of the planet’s heart,

With pain and sorrow all around

A poem smiles all sadness away,

If poetry ruled this world

What a better place it would be.

A better place for you,

And a better place for me.

 Then while watching television last night this happened.

 How bad !

No nightingales sing in Berkeley Square.

The cuckoo no longer heralds Spring.

How long before the sparrow falls ?

And the dawn chorus is no more ?

A flight of starlings overhead,

is worth more than an entire city of men below.

The day is coming soon

when not even a seagull will fly

over any cliff white, black or grey.

How sad !  How Bad !

 Around two o’clock in the morning there were another TWO poems. I got up at half past four to write them down.

Evolution Got It Wrong

The face of that man is black.

The face of that woman is white.

Black, white and every shade in between,

that’s the way we have all been made.

Black and white which are not within the rainbow of light.

What colour is that of a black man’s spirit ?

What colour is that of a white woman’s heart ?

Both are much deeper than the outside view,

Both are more beautiful than any eye can see,

Nor any mind understand,

Evolution when you made men and women.

Black, white and every shade in between.

You got it wrong !

 

And something for next week.

 

March

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb

March the hare month of the year when Spring begins to smile

Flowers start to bloom and trees do grow their leaves

Birds sing and new born lambs appear

For a lamb birth is death

A lamb will play in a field for such a short time

Murder and death await

As does mankind’s dinner plate

There you go, I said I could not write poetry but that has been a lot of fun.

ON THIS DAY:

26th February 1951: The first Pan American Games are officially opened in Buenos Aires by Argentine President Juan Peron.

26th February 1956: In his speech on The Cult of Personality and its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev leader of the Soviet Union denounces Stalin

26th February 1991: Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact at a meeting of its members in Budapest.

26th February 1967: Ed Balls born.

26th February 1974: Dominic Raab born

A friend once asked me if I lived my life with my head or with my heart. Immediately and without thinking I responded that I lived my life with my heart. When I write stories I write with my head as does every other author. However, this poetry I have been dabbling with comes from my heart as does every poem written by every poet.

I wonder what my heart will tell me to write today.

My heart is now telling me to honour the 548 people who died from china virus yesterday, to send my love to their grieving family in  a way our government and monarch just are not doing. To think of those who are the real people within the 8,489 new cased recorded yesterday. Please get well. My love and my thoughts are with you.

If you don’t leave your past in the past it will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not what yesterday has taken away.

Have a great day

Catch up again tomorrow

Dave

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