TOMORROW

The future draped in frightening disguises

There is no map to guide us on our way

Our host,the planet always has surprises

And speculations change from day to day

We feel an obligation we must strive

To make the earth a haven without sorrow

We challenge destiny and keep alive

The dream that we can influence tomorrow

Eva B. Hansen 

(c)copyright 2015 Eva B. Hansen

Eva is regular contributor, check out the archive for more of her work.

DARK

DARK

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By Hannah Miles

It’s dark, that makes the light shine clear

It’s night, that sees the stars appear

It’s pressure that makes diamonds form

In pain, a baby’s life is born.

Cocoons, create the butterfly,

The lows distinguish out the high.

It’s silence that makes music sweet

It’s working that makes rest a treat.

The rains keep ground from drying up.

New things grow, as old things rot.

Calm is known, when storms rage past

We savor ‘first’ when we’ve been last.

Life is turning; dancing; flow.

Seasons come, seasons go.

There’s hurt that can’t be understood

-yet God works even bad, for good.

 Copyright (C) 2015 Hannah miles 

Bio: Hannah Miles

   Hannah Lives in London England and currently studies textile design. She is absorbed by her creative influences and that inspires her to write.

   Some of her influences have been the writings of Brother Lawrence, Mary Oliver and Brennan Manning.  Her literature tastes run from the Bible to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. “I find myself getting very excited reading truths about how we’re created to be free, and to extravagantly love and be loved—a radical, defiant empowerment in the face of the pain, suffering and inequality we find all around us in life.” A quote from Hannah during our interview.

Poem, Dawn & Jack

DAWN & JACK

When last we are to see your life

As colors not yet bloomed

We are forever for your strife

In doors unopened doom

We struggle with your loss today

And wander through our haze

From places near and far away

Some joy- some hope- some gaze

Awake be here and laugh a loud

We want it to be true

To see again your days of joy and know forever proud

Of those who last remain in days forever blue

You left at different times we know

And not were you alone, for others sure to follow

We miss you now for what we have known

And your dreams that we must follow

Copyright © 2014

Artemis J Jones