LET EARTH ENDURE

 By Jesu Ben 

A pox, a blight, a cursed end

An instance of regret

Let hope ring out – a message send

That love will pay the debt.

Let Earth endure, and hands be lent

Give edge to fading age

Let faith assert and stars assent

the damage assuage

RAIN OF BLESSINGS

Winter didn't hibernate

But the rain we couldn't wait

Drought thickens parchedness
The season under humourless spell.

That spell breaks its long silence
Weeping wet the earth not with sadness
For the earth around us rejoices
When rain to us at last descends.

From the sky covered with starkness
Blue and clear with cloudless days
Then sometimes rain clouds hovered by
Posing hope that soon all will be well.

Morning mists steamed through darkness 
It moved around to sweep clean the air
While the sky has long withheld the burden 
Today is here when heaven disposes.

Rain without you this land cries of affliction
Though you scourged with rage in diverse places
Floods and strong winds bring down calamities 
Here and there fires break through like hell.

Today, you decided to show us your mercy
Your strength of power as mighty as the sea
You rain down blessings to dispel aridity
Rain, we long to embrace you with divine graces.

Leah C Dancel 
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20 October 2017
Australia

BY THE SEA

 By Leah C. Dancel

On this beach by the sea
I pore through the sand of memory
Wash by the rough edges of the waves
Reminiscent of home far away.
The rocks form a fortress
From intrusive waves of injustice
They're my citadel from the enemies
Who in silence rob my happiness.
A place of solace from loneliness 
To which tranquil of vicinity
Drapes me with peace and serenity.
Just as how it was in my days.
As I watch the blue waves roll
Fleeting from the deep far end
They beckon me to stroll 
Quietly I obey and bend.
With pride their forces play
To show their grand display
Their spray comes in wonder
Cohesive and majestic as the sea!

@LCDancel
25 September 2018
East Beach
Kiama NSW

THE RAIN WASHED UP THE DIRTY LAND CLEAN

By Melany Amante Mabao Maguindanao

 

I saw the rain washed up the dirty land clean.
The trees were dancing vibrant green.
The leaves that lost their coats of dust...
With scented freshness float at last.
The sky looked fresh and clean, and blue. 
It brought the world a brighter hue. 
The sun shined bright 'til time to set...
No hint of darkness, no, not a bit.
The moon that followed bathe the night...
With shimmering bright and silvery light.
Forever I wish, my vision will stay,
But fear caught up the image away...
The strong wind blowed and stole ...
This humble dream of a fool.

But who needs some silly wish on the moon...
When the firelight burns in your heart?

March 15, 2020

LIKE DROPLETS OF VERSE

By Yesu Ben

Like droplets pushed towards time’s barren shores

Our incidence will bear us to our goal

Not by the wind but each time like before,

By certain will and character enrolled.

The scythe shall every sculpted grassland shear,

And shall have them killed long before they’ve dawned,

And it sees neither greenness nor the years

for we all shall be merged with sea and gone.

The process is a long dark winter night,

A spiteful earth and window-shatt’ring storm.

Glass-like shadows will sneer at breath and sight,

transforming us unknowingly in form.

There is a day that waits but far ahead

It hides in verse that is yet to be read.

SAVE EARTH, SAVE HOME, SAVE LIVES

By Stuti Tandon

The beauty of the earth

Is where the wind blows,

The greenery in the garden

Is where the wind goes…

Winter’s cold wind

And pleasant summer sun,

The voice of the rain

And little children fun…

Stop cutting the trees

Stop making fires,

No more construction

Our earth will get tired.

Source: Your Quote