HOLIDAY COLLABORATION, 2024

                                🌍 Holiday Poetry Collaboration Call 🌍

          Do you have a message of hope for our world and the people who walk it? 

                                  Whichever your faith - or not, please         

 

                

                       Submit 4 lines of poetry or prose answering the prompt 

                                   

                                                     as follows

 
                      “My hope for our world and the people who walk it is…”

                                

                                 *  Entry Dates: NOW  -  Sunday, Nov 30  * 

       Please include your country to show the diversity of voices across the globe

                                  

                                     **  and of course, your user name **

                                                      Thank you

Reviews

[Titilayo Sarah Eguridu]

My hope for our world and people who walk it is to
Live in concert regardless of differences,quit modernizing and glamorizing hate.
Be bold enough to love everyone with a deep understanding that tomorrow is not promised, and time is to be courted respectfully.
Let’s stop weaponizing food,love,color,diversity,age.Let’s be human…again.

Country: Nigeria
I am deeply honored to be part of this collaboration.
Thank you Emmajoy.

[emmajoygreen]

Many, many thanks - your words have so much depth Just noticed:. would you add your country, please. Must get to sleep now.. Take care.

[Titilayo Sarah Eguridu]

Thank you,I just did that.

[Richard🖌]

Such a powerfully touching heartfelt message, Titilayo Sarah Eguridu.

Thank you for sharing🌿 ⁓ Richard

[Titilayo Sarah Eguridu]

Thank you Richard.
I appreciate the review

[Carrie]

My hope for our world and the people who walk it is
To honor the Earth our mother, who gives us all we need.
To treat all creatures great and small kindly.
To not waste the world's gifts.
To leave the world a better place for our children

Country USA

[FlaLover]

alas...I can't think of any hope for the world. I'm not bitter...just appalled how ethics and morals have slowly becoming a thing of the past

[R J Askew]

Late as usual!

Grow, my giggly garlic grow!
Love the earth come rain or snow.
Cultivate and goodwill sow.
Truth's a turnip in the know.

[emmajoygreen]

I'll send those words to Owl, the editor, am sure he could add them to the end of the collaboration if not in alphabetical order. Thank you so very much for sending such a personal and amusing offering, RJ! Wishing you and your family and happy and comfy Christmas. Will try to catch up in 2025!

[Coyote Poetry]

“My hope for our world and the people who walk it is…”
My Christmas wish is a quiet world,
a world filled with hope and kindness.
My Christmas wish is a safe world for every child.
A place where every children can know laughter and a safe place to rest.

[Beccy]

My hope for our world and the people who walk it is…”

Let the men with washed hands
and hearts of stone, atone;
and may the children of all our Gods
reign victorious in everlasting peace and goodwill.

Beccy.

[h d e rushin]

I think of Christmas as a child might, with blue things and glittering balls. Tinsel for the house cat to roll his fur beneath a cut pine tree placed in a red and green trough. We, little and bemused, sitting in our worlds of anticipation. Today the tree is the plastic one I dragged from the closet and its box home with its lights and silver thingies still attached from last season's wonder. But the anticipation still blooms inside me; a heart of wonder with hurt and loss, a passing memory. When this season is over and the leaves of the Poinsettia wither, I will wish again for peace and love throughout the land. Then stuff the old plastic tree back into its yearly home. Wonder is eternal, they tell me. dana. 2024

[Betty Hermelee]

my hope for all peoples of this world to to understand our differences and our similarities…..and try to express them in a civil way, so that we can have peace and harmony…. we don’t know what tomorrow will bring so we must live in the “ NOW” and hope that each day will be brighter than the one before….we must have hope that some day the world will be at peace and different ethnic groups will respect each other
country: USA
Warmly, B🙏

[Lydia Shutter]

May you find inner peace
May your worries be few
May your heart be full
And your wallet too! :)

[Nelyn Salvaleon]

My hope for our world and the people who walk it is to...
Live with peace and harmony by understanding each other's perspective;
Stop blaming the world every time we don't get what we want in life; and
Be grateful for what we have today, for today is a gift of God, which is why it's called "the present".

Country: Philippines
NelynSalvaleon

[emmajoygreen]

Beautiful words, Nelyn, many thanks for offering them!

[William Propsner]

To have faith truly is rewarding
To have hope truly can be inspiring
To have trust can be gratifying
But to believe in a higher power
Truly is spiritually fulfilling

New Mexico, USA
Navy Veteran

[emmajoygreen]

Many thank yous.. how very prompt!

Will pass this to the editor, Owl - who in a week , will put all the offerings in alphabetical user-name order and post it all, as One in early December for everyone in the Cafe to read and more! :)

[Richard🖌]

Such a powerfully touching heartfelt message, William.

Thank you for sharing🌿 ⁓ Richard

PS: I, too, am a Navy Vet … served aboard the USS Boxer, LHD-4 (WASP Class aircraft carrier) and the USS DeSoto County, LST-1171, in the Atlantic Amphibious Fleet.
Thank you for your service, Sir … nice to meet you. ⚓️

[William Propsner]

Thank you as well for yours. Me, USS Kingbird, coastal minesweeper straight from boot camp. First error Navy made. I was aviation and they sent me to a minesweeper. Didn't really matter then, I enjoyed my time on the 'Rex'.
Later years ABH3 when I got out. USN family, dad and my brothers. I had duty in Pensacola, Jax and NO.
Nice to meet a fellow 'squid'