Author: poetryfest

VERSE 1

This humble snow show Romeo
In a happy Christmas glow
See Cupids busy with his bow
You’re driving me all Gonzo

Look up from that stupid phone
Throw this friendly dog a bone
Don’t let me be all alone
I’m all wrapped up for you to own

CHORUS

Make me Happy
Happy Happy, Happy
Happy we can do
So Super Happy, Wahoo
A Happy Christmas
A Happy Christmas for two

VERSE 2

I’m just a simple man
An idiot man
Who just wants happy
I’ll give it all to you

Crazy locked in a love joy zone
My hearts yours on permanent loan
A shining Knight pleasure prone
Your besty own slave drone

Just Misbehaving in happy hello
Smooching slow under mistletoe
Ya know there’s nothing we’d not do
Party pash tripping not blue

CHORUS

Make me Happy
Happy Happy, Happy
Happy we can do
So Super Happy Wahoo
A Happy Christmas
A Happy Christmas for two

VERSE 1

Conspiracy or Conspirators
Naming the theorists so
Interests in the dough
Keep real undertow

Hidden libraries why
Someone knows
Casting us spell
Thinking tends dwell
No way is a hell
Fishy old smell
Well well well well
Clandestine cell
Asking to be felled

Know more of space
Than what’s in the sea
A matter dark we cannot see
Hypothetical gravity absentee

Secrets lost in rocks
Clues buried or burned
Imagination spurned
Bubbles me brain urn

A different age smarter
Aliens did we barter
Prevailing masters
Our ancestry of laughter
Current date disaster
Greater and dafter

Life’s greatest question
An endless obsession
Skulls all in session
Knowledge suppression
Suffer oppression
Forefathers transgression

Body’s acting on our Sun
Climate change smoking gun
Electric false economy spun
Elite and oil Barons Fun

Solar Storms heat us
Creating money with fuss
Looks good on paper bus
Soon all superfluous

CHORUS

Insignificant in the magnificent
An unfathomable mystery
Stone art reliquary
Dark deep bewitchery
Missing delivery
Our heritage history
Much contradictory
End the trickery

VERSE 2

Spooky action at a distance
Proven other worldly existence
Quantum entanglement insistence
Boggles most to Indifference

Tesla found Aether
Free energy professor
Better society Forever
For whomever wherever

Abundant motion Magnetism
Slaughtered by depotism
Old ruler elitism
Killing off any altruism

Great kind mind scattered cast
Free energy no profit vast
Their only crime past
Nice guys finish last

Blind to see
What’s all around me
Technology stunted we
Should stayed in the trees
Or not got out the seas
Are we not the disease

Triangulated universe
Infinity obverse
Scientific traverse
Or mind metaverse

So baffled all we can see
Is governed by light far away
Travelling to us in our Galaxy
Divided stumbling human betray
Shameful territorial play
Unity of us all made of clay

Upmost rationality
Wealthy in spirituality
Let and let be internationally
Healing Gaia fantastically
Advancing tirelessly
Past primate whimsicality

To the oceans and above
Focus ought to dream of
Share everything well
Working truths to tell
No heaven nor hell
Life could thrive swell
Bidding egos farewell

CHORUS

Insignificant in the magnificent
An unfathomable mystery
Stone art reliquary
Dark deep bewitchery
Missing delivery
Our heritage history
Much contradictory
End the trickery

VERSE 1

Love life besotted by you
Fun run swum with you
Smoke high hung with you
Dream fires food with you

Road fly adventure with you
Laugh live crime with you
Give everything betray for you
Fight forever lie die for you
Just to save you nobody else
Your body your smell
The sweet sweat on your lips
Morning hand on your hips
Waking close caressing your dips
Comfort and care
Never no time to spare

CHORUS

You were my one
My only one
Best of the best
Ripped heart out my chest

VERSE 2

Lost now to fear
Shocking tear
Sit and stare
Days weeks months
Too much to bare
Invisible pain
Daily strain
No weight gain
Fighting flat out
I see you about
Hide my love
But it’s easy to see
Heart churning
Swallow deep
Mourning loss and yearning
Entire being a hole
Vortex in my soul

Dark dusty existence
Salvation hanging
On your every word
Your indecision
Promise of hope
Numbingly I wait

I run away
But call to ask
Answers the same
Blood curdling drain
18 months pass
Nothing gets close
Utter morose

I phone again
Angry and sad
Beg to be glad
Shattered by words
World turns end over end
The line goes dead
Can’t go back instead
Shuddering and sick
Muscle spasms
Collapse in the dirt
An hour a minute
Want to die
No answer in I
All alone I cry
Grief of goodbye
Memories a lie

Need time to try
Fly fly fly
Pulling together
Whatever is left
Mojo lost
This is love’s cost
Lose time and identity
Over now
Adrift in the ocean
Heal me and seal me
Never again let it in
Love is a sin
To believe in

Years pass to hatred
Piece is missing
Tattered and burned
Never to return
Gone no trace
Sheild in place
Stupid optimism
New loves
New lifes
Move forward
Past gone
Only now

CHORUS

You were my one
My only one
Best of the best
Ripped heart out my chest

VERSE 3

Unconditional
You could do no wrong

Betrayed me bad
Of all we had
Naive to your ways
Cast to dog days

Earth won’t just rewind
Since you left me behind
Stole you my time
A most heinous crime

Away you fled
Fiance not wedd
Left me for dead
Mighty O’dread

Now I sing a very different song

Be lucky and happy
In grateful intent
Hurry no worry before
Time is spent

CHORUS

How much I long for you
To feel our embrace
Nature in its finest breath
Momentary standstill
Of all Aether meth

VERSE 1

Your eyes and sweat glisten
Sold am I
So alive we be
Together we glide
Shimmer and slide
Bride of brides
Turning of tides
Comets collide
Particles divide

Fluid movement
Entwined deep
Hearts leap
Captured beautiful
Creation from stars
Essence of everything
Primordial pairing
Staring Staring Staring
You me we I thy

CHORUS

How much I long for you
To feel our embrace
Nature in its finest breath
Momentary standstill
Of all Aether meth

VERSE 2

As if weightless
Such marvellous flight
Soaring new heights
Tuned in excite
Such wonderous light
Bright so bright
Bite slice all life

In this moment
No past nor future
Only now
Love is us
Entirety of the universe
Captured composite
In this moment

You tell me I let go of social media
like the last of three wishes.

Remind me how too much screen time
is bad for the eyes,
that I don’t leave my house,
get no exercise.

My heart is a motherboard (you say);
it keeps the rest of the machine going.
That my ears, nose, and throat
are USB ports that bring
the outside world, inside.

When I tell you how information sparks
my consciousness,
you show me a stack of books
I haven’t read.
Greeting cards I haven’t sent.
A canvas left abandoned
of my habit of adding
Cerulean blue shading.

Our lives are not a series of texts
and emojis that have replaced
the need for speech
and therefore, spelling.

Grammar is not an antiquated
language no longer practiced
by the masses.

Devices are not relationships
because they don’t give back.

Independent thought starts from within
regardless of wattage or processor,
a string of ideas that carries
in perpetuity like finely crafted code.
The errors are minor
when things flow unimpeded.

Synapses are like programming bits,
they work best in pairs.
 

She bit me

She actually bit me
She warned me many times
but I never saw it coming

Her perfectly even teeth
left perfectly even bite marks
top to bottom, side to side

On occasion, I admit,
we have had our disagreements
which often end with shouting
Bite me, Bitch!
and slamming out the door

But this time she bit me
She really bit me this time

and I never saw it coming

I want to fight with her again

In the ceasefires
I plant at the four corners of the horizon
where the blood of my brothers blackens in the sun
seeds of peace.

In the ceasefires I light candles
to light the paths of the spirit
traced and lived by Gandhi.

In the ceasefires I open the door to strangers
to come and share bread, water, roses.
In the ceasefires I build with my hands
the dreams of children
of the whole world.

In the ceasefires I touch
the hearts of those around me
to erase the pain of the past,
to join together to become a circle
To become dance, joy, song.

In the ceasefires I plant
The seeds of my lyrics
To speak in the tongues of the world
to become an eternal hymn for peace

Bio Note
Xanthi Hondrou-Hill

Xanthi Hondrou-Hill is an award winning Greek poetess. She was born in Germany and studied German and English Literature, Linguistics, Journalism and Public Relations Management in Germany. She has worked as Public Relations Manager at the Greek Consulate in Stuttgart, as teacher for German, Greek and English and is translating poetry from and to all three languages. She has gained international recognition during the pandemic. Her poems have been published in many international prestigious media and anthologies around the world. She has won in 2022 the first prize at the Gandhian Global Harmony Association and is poetess of the Year 2022 in China, won the 2023 Rockport Poetry Festival Award and has received awards in Ukraine, Phillipines and Equador. She was named one of the 30 Stars in India for 2022. She is cultural Ambassador for OXYGEN PEN Sri Lanka, NAMASTE magazine in India and editor for poetry columns at Faretra.info in Greece, HUMANITY in Russia, as well as co-editor for the international poetry magazine in China for 2022. Selections of her poetry have been translated into Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portugiese, Russian, Spanish, Slavic as well as in two Languages of India: Hindi and Bengali. She is the founder and director of the International Poetry Festival of Naoussa. She received in December 2023 an honorary doctorate from the Camerata International Escritores & Artistas in Madrid.

We are liars.
Post our accomplishments and smiles.
Destinations –
you flew miles.
Your whole life stacked up on tiles.

We are liars
Share our concerns about that fire.
Posting a black square
Makes you seem like you really care.

We are liars.
Your life is wild.
How can you be sad- you look so glad?
Always tagged.

We are liars.
Look at everything I have.
this faux life you wish you had.
We are liars.

I haven’t done this in a while.
I’m not used to hearing my own voice.

The silence shields me.
It gathers around, as if guarding.
But this house still talks to me.

The stairs leading up to our bedroom,
They take me down a memory lane.
I still wonder why you couldn’t let me share your pain.

I see you’re smiling at me,
The way you always used to;
From within that photograph.

I’m waiting for this silence to be broken,
I’m waiting to hear you laugh.

These walls hold frozen moments
that decorated our palace.
I look at them now,
Hung, was your life in the balance.

What did you see that you couldn’t say?
What could you feel, that you didn’t stay?
Why didn’t you just call me?
I shouldn’t have left the house that day.

I recognise that look in your eyes
Like you were always seeing ghosts.
And now every mirror in this house,
It boasts,
Of showing each their own ghosts.

You were depressed
When you said
You wanted to be on your own.

Did our big house
Leave a lot of space
For you to be alone?

It creaks and it moans
Provoking my un-cried tears.
Brick, wood and stone
Standing testimony to your fears.

To your sadness
That desperately needed hope.
But your hands,
Your hands instead found a rope.

Reminiscent on this ledge
I can feel your fingerprints
Married into the blueprint

I stand where you stood then
I tremor at the slightest touch
Did you clutch or did you just jump?
Your note didn’t say much.

I shouldn’t have left the house that day
I shouldn’t have left the house that day
I shouldn’t have left the house that day
That’s all I could hear myself say
To keep my mind at bay,
from imagining.

I imagine you roar.
You roaring with pain.
It echoes in these ceilings,
In the mirrors, I point to the blame.

If only you had asked me,
I would have guarded
Your blood with my sweat.

But in the end
It feels like
Maybe we never even met.

I can feel you roaring still
Like a dragon drawing breaths.
Yet, the house remains indifferent.
Winter never ends.

And as I lose myself in you,
Twilight tears the house in two.
A deep distant gold
And a very dark blue.

So I turn around and I walk a mile.

I haven’t done this in a while.
The silence is too loud.
I’m not used to hearing my own voice.

We learn many lessons from the spiritual battle between Jesus and Satan.
Jesus fasted 40 days and nights in the Judean Desert, after his baptism.
Satan tried to tempt Him in a similar way that Satan tempts us.
Jesus rebuked Satan in his three attempts to turn Him away from God’s purpose.

Jesus was hungry but did not yield to Satan’s suggestion.
Satan told him to make bread out of stones to relieve His hunger
Jesus replied it is written that man does not live on bread alone,
To Him, God’s Word was more filling than bread made from stone.

The devil led him to a high place and showed Him the worldly kingdoms.
He said that he would give Him all their authority and splendour.
Satan said he could give it to anyone if they worship him solely.
Jesus said it was written to worship and serve the Lord God only.

The devil led Jesus to the temple’s highest peak in Jerusalem.
Satan told Him if He were the Son of God to throw Himself down.
For it was written that God would send His angels to lift Him up.
He would not allow Him to strike His foot if He dropped.

Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit and said aloud,
Satan should not attempt to test the Lord God.
Jesus quoted Scripture in replying to the Prince of the World.
Similarly, we can rebuke Satan if we know God’s Word.

Jesus, the humble Messiah, triumphed over Satan.
He adhered to God’s plan of salvation for all nations.
Jesus did not fail God to satisfy hunger or vain glory.
We can all learn from Jesus’ example in this true Biblical story.
Copyright@ Brenda Mohammed