Some New Poems

On This Year's Natural Catastrophes ( © Deirdre Siobhan Goodman )

Is it Mother Earth's retaliation?
Spirit migration?
Or HAARP's weather manipulation?
Is it the seasons shifting?
The temperatures lifting?
Or Jove sifting
The wheat from the chaff?
Collecting the jewels and leaving the rougher half
to cope, - or, just for a laugh,
playing chess with our lives
seeing which one survives
which nose dives?
Are catastrophobic worries
projecting flurries?
Will it slow us down in our headless hurries?
Is it a cosmic conjuction
teaching us compunction
and how to function?
Or the End of Time?
Has it reason or rhyme?
A sublime
testing of all of our souls?
A switching of poles?
Or Trolls?
Or the Divine Wisdom teaching compassion,
and when the walls crash in...
Will I - at least then - share my ration?

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I am an empath ( © Deirdre Siobhan Goodman )
I can feal your joy, grief and wrath:
I am an empath.
I can sense your confusion and illusion,
Your knowing, growing, tears, fears,
Your wisdom beyond your years;
I can hear your true voice beneath the mask,
And when you ask
-If drugs have made me hazy
Or am I crazy-
Then I hear your wariness of the divine in you
That I can see shine in you.
I tell you I have Venus in Taurus
And bore us with talk of auras
I want to help to free you so you can be you
If only you saw you the way I see you!!!
Please, let me live MY way
And sometimes let me exit off the emotional highway.
What rivives me
Is to lean on an oak tree,
To let mud get on my feet and to let the rain soak me.
To let wind and ocean
Help me feel my OWN emotion.
I am learning to ask with grace
For a bit of time and space,
To follow my own path,
I am an empath.

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Human Kind ( © Deirdre Siobhan Goodman)

Please be kind!
To the hearts that long have languished and have pined,
Please be careful when you're chancing
To be hopping round and dancing,
That its not on toes your prancing,
Just be kind.

Please be kind!
For so many have long, long, now, been maligned.
If your mind you're frankly speaking
Be aware who's wounds you'r tweeking
If they're losing it and freaking,
Just be kind.

Please be kind!
If you're venting, check if someone is behind.
You can never know for certain
If your jokes are cause for hurtin',
Please respect the drawn up curtain
And be kind.

Please be kind!
If you do not understand them, never mind.
They are each fighting their battle,
Often feeling like they're chattle,
Tossed about in life's big rattle,
So be kind.

Please be kind!
If you try it out for size you just might find
You will never more be mindless
For the milk of human kindness
Helps to cure the heart of blindness,
Please be kind!

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Bundles in the cold ( © Deirdre Siobhan Goodman )

I went and walked out in the night
the world was blanketed in white
the corners of the rooves were round,
snow muted every jagged sound
The world lay still
I looked my fill
Too wonderstruck to speak.
Each car, no matter what the make,
looked like a round marshmallow cake,
All people, rich, poor, young or old
turned into bundles in the cold.
All things are evened out by snow
When cars and trains and planes don't go,
like snow, we're one
beneath the sun
-yet each of us unique.


Love from Deirdre