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Day 4 April P-A-D - Write a poem about a type of person

Listening in love,

A mantle of acceptance

Ensures disclosure.

Guilt and rage released

With no fear of being judged

By your kind spirit.

With simple guidance

You take our hands and lead us

To a better life.

G. K. Bostic - 4/4/11

Picture in my Mind

For Poetry Potluck Prompt:  Photographs, Memories and Nostalgia

I have a picture in my mind,

my Mama by a window,

I had to see her through a screen.

They would not let me near her.

They feared if any closer

That I too might get sick

I'm sure she felt an emptiness

A need for her child's touch.

I was only four or five..

She left our world soon after.

She was too young to leave us all

With nothing but her picture.

I have lived now twice the years

Of my long departed Mama

I got to see my sons full grown

As I'd truly hoped I would.

If only I had known my Mama

As my sons have known me

So I could have sweet memories

Not just a photograph to see.

I looked up through that window

Took a picture with my mind

Or is that sight within my heart

Just a snapshot memory.

G. K. Bostic - 4/4/11

Puppet

Haiku Heights prompt: Puppet

Puppet no longer

freed from demon's sadistic

manipulation

G.K.Bostic - 4/4/11

I Was Here

Day 3 April P-A-D (Imagine the world without you) and NaPoWriMo (Use the titles of 3 books in your home in the poem) Challenges:

A single life lived quietly
Is barely one of note,
And yet perhaps a mark’s been made
By time upon this earth

Taking the Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Fighting the war of abuse
Reaching a hand to the desperate who
Suffer the Weight of Silence.

While the Other Side of Me
Raised a Band of Brothers
Who grew and touched so many lives
Loving hearts forever.

I learned to Eat, Pray, Love and dream
Not always sure it mattered
Yet looking back at what I’ve done
The truth is now revealed

Of innocent victims cruelly defiled
No longer walking in pain,
And the greatest gift I gave the world,
Loving spirits born.

I can’t imagine what life would be
Without these three fine men
So I won’t give another backward thought
To what if I hadn’t been.

G.K.Bostic - 4/3/11
(Book titles included:  Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Weight of Silence, Other Side of Me, Band of Brothers, and Eat, Pray, Love)

Postcard

Day 2 of April P-A-D Prompt:  Brief postcard type poem about where you are

Here in PA the sky is gray
While you lie warming by the bay.
Nothing here but more cold air
Wish you were here..and I was there!

Blue

This is National Poetry Writing Month and the NaPoWriMo Prompt today was to write a poem with a color as its title but to write against what people associate with it.  (Blue=Sad)  We are also to invoke the name of the poet (as in a ghazal) and to use a form.  (I chose the terza rima)  Finally, we must use a form of water in the poem.  So, here it is:

Blue

Sweet summer days for thee and me
We’ll lie upon the soft hot sand

And bathe in warmth of azure sea.

Blue sunny skies, marshmallow clouds

Like parasols in party drinks

Replace the cold of winter’s shroud.

 

We’ll weave our turquoise tapestries,

And savor sunny season’s heat

Enveloped in the tropic breeze.

 

Before return of winter’s drape,

We should move where it’s always warm.

So Gloria why don’t you escape?

G.K.Bostic - 4/1/11

The Gift

Written for April Poem-A-Day Challenge at

Poetic Asides

Prompt for Day 1 - "what got you here"

Painted memories

Years of tears and ecstasy

Brought poet treasures

G.K.Bostic - 4/1/11