Collaboration, 2025

MANY THANKS to editor CRAIG and ALL those who offered incredibly BEAUTIFUL WORDS WISHING you all a PEACEFUL CHRISTMAS and WINTER

EIGHTEENTH GLOBAL COLLABORATION

A Poem by An owl on the moon

 

OUR EIGHTEENTH GLOBAL COLLABORATION at the Writers Cafe!

 

Creating a beautiful tapestry of hope, empathy, and unity this December one voice at a time, many hearts together. Thank you ALL! 

 

In this out of empathy world
Still have trust for a peaceful future
Poetry will save the words
With love and belief
Beren, Turkiye

 

Trust that our future shall be fulfilled with peace, love; the world as we know it today craves empathy

Betty Hermelee, United States

 

No Love without Trust
No Peace without Empathy
No Future without the World
Hey baby- let's make this work

Brad Dehler, United States

 

Our world, a vibrant tapestry stretched on canvas
Thoughtfully woven with silken heartstrings
Its earthy rainbow colours uniquely named
Peace, Love, Trust, Empathy, Future
Carola Hume, Australia

 

You wanted world peace
I wanted empathy and love.
Instead there is trust for the future.
Salute
Carrie, United States

 

May the Christmas wish
for this year come from
Christ Himself, wrapped
in hope-joy and love.

Cherrie, United States

 

I pray and beg for World Peace.

Our planet - the-all-around, needs

abundant help: our future might well 

survive with empathy, hope and unity.

emmajoygreen, England

 

soak the world thick

in empathy

like gasoline ;

trust the fire that follows,

that its peace will be

the future we will love.

Emunah June, United States

 

The world needs empathy;
To harbor love and trust.
We need peace now
So the future doesn't rust.
Hallow, United States

 

Long time world was future dreaming
Love of and empathy for our land
Blackfella peace or Whitefella peace
Trust and respect belong this country
Hunter Lewis, Australia

 

wrap hate in Christmas paper
put a bow of love on top
signed tag
from all of us poets to the rest of the world
and perhaps on opening, a snow of peace will start falling

jacob erin-cilberto

 

the future
is woven threads
a hope for peace, when all is said
a knit of scarlet hues, a fiery red
John Sullivan, United States

 

Please join me to pray for world peace
Love fellow humans with empathy
I trust in Jesus

For our future year in 2026

Juliespenhere, Australia

 

In this world love and trust are oftentimes forgotten.

But as we think towards possible futures. At this time, we hope.
Ken Simm, Scotland

 

In a world often crude.
Does peace, love and trust elude?
Perhaps all should embrace,
Empathy in their future.
LisaCarol, United States

 

In the year two zero two six,
may all anxiety subside.
Might all pain become less
on its journey to nothingness
and the the path for all be lighter.
Lorry, Scotland

 

The world as we know could not be without peace
And built on trust and empathy
We look for the future we have
And love it as it is
Marie Kinnett, United States

 

In a broken world, peace grows
where love is planted,
trust takes root,
and empathy shapes the future.

Owl on the Moon, United States

 

coined in god we trust

peace and love faithfully trussed

not merely discussed

Pete, United States

 

The future holds Empathy.
For those who trust in love.
That world peace will come.
Randall, United States

 

The World spins on
Its future uncertain.
Thank the Lord
For our Fellowship
And the Peace to be found
In following the Word.
red93, United Kingdom

 

In a World with no Peace,
is there a Future to Trust?
Lest Empathy sings in our hearts,
how will we ever know Love?
Richard, United States

 

Our bright Future tree is lit.
With Peace, Love, Empathy, Trust as lights.
Be a Light in this World;
A tree of many colours.
​RomaJ, Islan Guåhan

 

A sincere eye,
With truth, empathy inside,
The one that ain't
Love or hope devoid,
The one that never,
Holds pride,
A soul that can always be relied
The one that breathes peace,
That shimmers in sparkling delight
...its all that matters
...Its all that matters.

Saumya Srivastava, India

 

When my mind knows a calming peace

the world becomes so beautiful

that I know

love has a future.

Stella Armour, England

 

a world of peace

where the hopeless and the divine trust in love

where empathy is shown to all

oh, what a beautiful world

Sunflower, United States

 

I want to fly to all of you,
my arms carry peace;
trust me, in our future
love will win the world
for us.

Vol, United States

Reviews

[LisaCarol]

Such a lovely collaboration! Thank you for putting this together. Merry Christmas!

[emmajoygreen]

Many, many thanks for your appreciation, dear LisaCarol. Wishing you everything you wish for Self and your Loved ones, now and for always. Hug.

[John the Baptist]

What a fine collaboration you have assembled here. Reading it makes the headlines of the morning paper disappear, at least for a while. If only this kind of spirit could manifest continually, worldwide. Very nice effort here.

[emmajoygreen]

Many thanks, sir. How right you are, 'if only this kind of spirit could manifest continual, worldwide

Perhaps that could be a very, very gently enforced promise for the new year.

[Carola]

a wonderful kaleidoscope of words from 6 countries around the world.
first time i've participated.
(tho' some folks kept their country anonymous)
cheerio carola

[emmajoygreen]

Many thanks, Carola. Thank you so much for joining us. The collaboration has been going for eighteen years! Wishing you all you wish for self and loved ones.

[Carola]

thank you emma, wishing you a merry Christmas & happy new year
cherio carola

[Richard🖌]

Another wonderful gathering of skilled, good-hearted poetess and poets, Em … I am proud to have joined-in again this year … 2025, not 2005, as your title says! 🙄

Thank you for your thoughtfully-kind invitation.
Peace! ⁓ Richard 🙏

[emmajoygreen]

Richard, like all the others who joined the collaboration, will remain your entry but be ally and friend to all the other voices that 'sang' with us! Many, many thanks yet again.. and again!

Wishing you peace and joy in the near and distant future, sir. :)

[Sharrumkin]

Well done. A neat idea with a good result.

[emmajoygreen]

Many thanks.

[Yasmin]

Beautiful way to spread joy. So many from the United States... it is wonderful to see a few poets from places, I haven't heard of before and would love to travel to. It shows diversity and how big this world really is. This is a magnificent tapestry.

[emmajoygreen]

Yasmine, thank you so much for responding with such kind words. Owl and I truly appreciate the way that poets and authors respond to the collaboration: so much sincerity and empathy is thought and offered and now, YOU are included. :) Enjoy today - enjoy your life!

[emmajoygreen]

.. forgive, have added an 'e' to your lovely name - Yasmin.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Thanks Emma for your fine work. ! Very early I just woke up I’ll read it all now after coffee. Love to all Julie xx

[emmajoygreen]

Hope you woke up to sweetness and sunshine. :)

[red93]

Lovely Work Emma and you deserve every credit for bringing a fine and appropriate Project into being ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[emmajoygreen]

:) Is thanks to our friends in the Cafe those words came to light! We couldn't do anything without you all, red93. Enjoy the day, it's a special gift!

[red93]

✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Cherrie]

Beautiful to read a piece of each of us blended together

[emmajoygreen]

Many thanks, Cherrie: each of You created a superb gift of unity.. If only it could travel the world! Take care of yourself.

[Lorry]

🎶 And a very merry commercial exploitation of a once meaningful occasion to you all. 🎶 Ho ho ho!
😆

[emmajoygreen]

In many ways very true, my friend but.. today I joined a morning group of happy mothers and children who danced all sorts , laughed and giggle the whole time. Then, this afternoon I spent time with nineteen crymblies (as you would call them!)
and there was hardly a quiet unhappy moment amongst them. Consequently I'm home exhausted but full of great memories, sir. Surely you find that people like that know the value of money and its more the fools that exploit - not least the big stores and similar. But, BUT, when they check their accounts in a few months.. wonder what their accountants and auditors will find - a steep rise in profits or what. We'll see how it turns out, won't we? If I'm wrong - often can be: I'll leave the Cafe and run away to the all about at once!! (Do I hear a noise of cheers on the go!!!!?)

[Lorry]

No, thats folk booing! 😀
As you said, real people know how to live in the moments that make life worth living and we can only hope we all turn back into giggling kids in the latter years of our lives, where there's no time for grumpiness, no matter how some seem determined to find it.
Everything is fun for toddlers, especially when in a group, with mums watching on carefully of course.

[emmajoygreen]

You certainly know how to discover a might remedy, Lorry : 'we can only hope we all turn back into giggling kids in the latter years of our lives, where there's no time for grumpiness, no matter how some seem determined to find it.' Do you hear me and my shadows cheering!

[Lorry]

Yes, but I thought that was because it took me four attempts to log in. The site is really glitching again, just in time for Christmas!

[emmajoygreen]

Come to the conclusion that glitch and grinch might be vaguely related. Think you that's a possibility?