Art source: Alvis-leumas.com
Red silk kimono
Attracts the morning humming
Bird to my shoulder
Perhaps, it wasn’t
The flowers or bright colors,
But the sweet center
Morning Hummingbird Visit
Tag Archives: hope
Sowed
The seeds are ready to grow
Protect them from being disposed
Bring out the watering hose
Nurture them daily once sown
As the beauty slowly unfolds
It’s a magnificent sight to bestow
Spring
Shedding winters coat
Sowing seeds on bare shoulders
Anticipating
Abundant seasonal growth
With organic antidotes
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Awaiting color
To crop under warming sun
With splashes of hope
Time sprung in forward thinking
Full of possibilities
Fool Proof Garden đ
* 2016 holiday bouquet
Overnight Morning Glory seeds sprout with life
Pretty Daylilies* bloom in an array of colors yearly
Despite what you may think purple Pansy’s aren’t weak
Sunny Marigolds offer a safe bet for your money
Annual Impatiens grow quickly and require no manuals
Hearty Sunflowers stoop over to weep at the loss of heat
Perennials are sustainably preferred over Biennials
– Inspired by flower power among other things, and I’m super excited about volunteering to work on a Rose Parade float tomorrow.
Holiday Propaganda
Have you ever stopped to ask why
It is that you buy into all the lies
Sold in countless advertisements
That infiltrate our daily way of life
Influencing more than what we buy
To purchase our holiday excitement
All for a great cause with a cost
Gift wrapped in our traditions lost
Manufactured retailed happiness
Artificially bought into the thought
That giving matters as we’re taught
So we greet the season’s nastiness
Where shall we begin, let’s pretend
Spending our time together ends
The purchase of lasting memories
Discounted for family and friends
Gathering with the love to defend
Blessings less financial jeopardy
His Bountiful Supply
I’m thankful to be alive
To have you in my life
Every day and night
You are at my side
Willing me to survive
To never give up and try
Law Enforcement
Letâs cut the red tape and protective tethers
Away from the modern-day views that now prove
We have digressed from equality and respect
Excessive force hides behind bulletproof vests
Notwithstanding casualties within their own nests
Force sworn to serve and protect the community
Our peace officers no longer represent a unity
Revolting in desperate anguish from city-to-city
Countless loved ones die and all we can do is cry
Empathy and mercy is hard with justice uncharged
Memorials, a form of mediaâs art that bleeds dark
Emptying of conscience for the lives unfairly taken
Never to know future dreams stopped in the making
Tempered by the honorable few not forsaken
*Acrostic Poetry
This piece was written as part of collaborative effort, which was rejected for its aggression.  I respect that I’ll never really know what it’s like, as I am white.  However, I know the difference between wrong and right, so I choose to stand on the side of humanity.
As the saying goes, perception is reality, and this is simply a creative reflection on how I see things around me. It is not meant to fuel any hate or animosity. I see good and bad in everybody, especially our police.
