Welcome to Day 22 of the 2012 April Write – the Poets Jubilee Olympiad.
Once again, today is a VERY special day. It’s our 3rd Free Verse day and it means you are allowed to write a poem on whatever topic you feel you need to get out of your system.
Day 22 of the April Write is a Free Verse Day, if you have not yet been able to share a poem in our last 21 days, then today is your perfect opportunity.
Watch the video to hear my mine, which is called “Journey On The Pane”
Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnvaLJeMjhM
Angee
xoxo
The April Write 
Mark Paleologo wet
.
i was in
up to my knees
before realizing
i was wet
she was
blanket
in the sun
cherry coke sweet
waving answers
to questions
i had left
in a car
that burned
on my way home
i stood
sand covered
shivering she said
look at you
come here
wrapping me
warming me
considering me
un-singed and dry
touches tingle
while
flesh knits
as wounds close
and her lips
find my cheek
willing
waiting
wanting
kisses
that make one
forget
everything else
(c)April 2012 Mark Paleologo
http://evildick13.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/wet/
Lana Joseph Mother Earth
“By LJ”
Mother Earth cries tears of pain
as she oversees nature’s beauty treated with disdain
she whispers gently into the wind…
trying to calm earth’s surface… roots and trees
her words are voiceless to human beings..
but to the birds…
the fish…
all plant life…
above and beneath the sea
and to all other animals…
except you and me…
she speaks
and they all hear…
Perhaps naked shadows also listen?
Will those who continue to be the spoils of nature…
continue blowing horrors against God’s will?
Tears of disappointment…
because man Incessantly destroy earth’s beautiful precious land
What will be left when all has perished?
No more food…
because plant life will be gone…
foul and fish poisoned…
extinction of all animals…
You…
Hu~mans
Man~kind…
will have a pocket full of money
but your lack of concern for earth…
will give No…
New Birth
Then…
will you understand that your Money$$$ is worthless?
Because…
there will be no more food to eat?
*aprilwritefreeverseday22/30*
Copyright © 2012 LJ
Halim Flowers (incarcerated):
Why can’t we love
Without all the complications
Why when i say that
I love you
Do I really mean that
You are never supposed to
Ever
Have sex with
Anyone
Ever again
Why does this always lead to
The inevitible heartbreak
But yet I want to be loved unconditionally
With conditions of my own…….
(c)22nd April 2012 Halim A Flowers
Zita Holbourne
‘THRESHOLD TO FREEDOM’
IT WAS COLD AND SHE WAS TIRED, DRAINED OF STRENGTH
BUT SHE KNEW THEY’D GO TO ANY LENGTH
IT WAS NOW OR NEVER TO GET AWAY
IF SHE WANTED TO LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY
SHE CREPT SLOWLY IN STAGES, LISTENING
FEARFUL, SHE FELT THE SWEAT GLISTENING
SHE UNLATCHED THE DOOR SLOWLY
HAND SHAKING DROPPED THE KEY
SHE FROZE IN THE PITCH DARK
IN THE DISTANCE HEARD A DOG BARK
INSTINCTIVELY COWERED, HEAD UNDER ARM
SEEMED FOR EVER BEFORE LOOKING UP AGAIN
SLOWLY SHE PATTED HER PALM ON THE GROUND
BREATHED A SILENT SIGH WHEN THE KEY WAS FOUND
PLACED HER SYMBOL OF FREEDOM IN THE LOCK
HEART BEATING LOUD AS A TICKING CLOCK
PUSHED DOWN THE HANDLE QUIET AS A MOUSE
PRAYED SHE’D NEVER AGAIN ENTER THIS HOUSE
AS IT OPENED THE DOOR CREAKED LOUDLY IN THE NIGHT
SOMETHING, PERHAPS A MOUSE SCUTTLED AWAY IN FRIGHT
IN HER RUSH TO CROSS THE THRESHOLD TO FREEDOM SHE STUMBLED
ADRENALINE PUMPING, NERVOUSLY SHE GIGGLED
FEAR AND EXCITEMENT ROLLED INTO A SINGLE EMOTION
SO LONG A VICTIM OF OPPRESSION
SHE HALF FELL, HALF CRAWLED OVER THE THRESHOLD
AND IN THAT MOMENT SHE FELT BRAVE AND BOLD
STRAIGHTENED UP HER BRUISED AND BROKEN BODY
AND SHOOK OFF THE INVISIBLE CHAINS OF SLAVERY
RENEWED ENERGY SHE FLED INTO THE NIGHT AIR
GUIDED BY THE STARS, WIND IN HER HAIR
SHE RAN UNTIL SHE REACHED A PLACE OF SAFETY
AND WEPT TEARS OF JOY KNOWING SHE WAS FREE
(c)April 2012 Zita Holbourne
“I wrote the above poem as a reminder of ‘modern day’ slavery and human trafficking that exists today.”
Katie Rendon – Mustang
You my eternal love, were a stallion
A wild mustang, with a spirit so free
And perhaps that’s how my heart was won
The way you loved so openly
The journeys that you took me on
Were among the best I’ve ever know
You would roam across seemingly endless lawn
Where for me, obstacles were always shown
But your sights were set on the infinite anew
Throwing the idea of settling to the wind
The only thing about you I could be certain was true
Was that you would always leave me at the bend
A fork that you must travel alone
And I would be left there at a loss
Until the road leading back was shown
But I knew you’d find that cross
Then, momentarily, you would be tame
Content by the comfort of my hands
As I would release myself the same
From a life with limits and demands
So within those precious moments
We would free each other entirely
And our love made perfect sense
But a mustang will always run free
(c)April 2012 Katie Rendon
Justice Chikandamina
FREE VERSES
Free flowing verses
Blasting in my mind
Are causing tremors
And tsunamis
Making my soul quiver
And shiver
Where is Noah
We might be needing an ark
In place of Titanic
As my heart
Becomes torn and worn out
Caught between verses,
Songs of Solomon
And ghetto verses
That spins and twists
My thoughts
Making me i lost spirit
With mental hernia!
(c)April 2012 Justice Chikandamina