OUR ABILITIES DISCOVERED

I beg on behalf of the human race re. our effects on mother nature.

Help is what she needs, her abilities slighted
Atrocities committed by man impeding her adventure.
Verily, all things are so bad, and by us must be right’ed.
Exceptions none, to right our wrongs we must venture

Understanding the perils of pollution,
Now, we must pursue, and not relent,
The abilities we have to aid nature’s reconstruction
Abilities we have and could be used to repent
Problems we inflicted on nature’s natural evolution.
People of the world must unite and show their good intent
Employing untapped abilities to find a positive solution
Discoveries they will find, on their way, their time well spent.

Attainable, well maybe, but it must be a future without corruption
Belief in our abilities to create a…

I have untapped abilities
Just waiting to be discovered
It’s never too late, one agrees
And so, I just need the password

I could write, I know that by now
I could dance, but a bit awkward
I could cook, I have the know-how
And so, I just need the password

I couldn’t sing, that is for sure
I get sea-sick, even anchored
I’m good with wine, like connoisseur
And so, I just need the password

I have untapped abilities
And so, I just need the password*

(c) ladyleemanila 2017

* A Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming couplet). Just like the traditional Kyrielle poem, the Kyrielle Sonnet also has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet consists of only eight syllables. French poetry forms have a…

He awoke at 3 am as he had done so often that week. Once again, the same dream had been happening. Though he was beginning to think it was more nightmare than dream.

It was one of those dreams where he was standing in front of a panel of people he knew from his childhood who at one time or other had offered him advice.

In every dream, it was the same thing, “Did you try this? Did you try that?”

Always the dream ended with a chorus of voices saying: “He never listened. We knew he’d amount to nothing.”

Around him, the people at the table would be shaking their heads that look of: “If only he’d taken heed.”

In the early hours of the morning, there are very few distractions, and his mind wandered to what the dream was saying.

Yes, he remembered as a child being told…