Poetry Inspired by the Amazing Dr. Seuss, in honor and respect to his work, life and legacy.

In fifty words or less

An author set to express

A world through a vision

with turmoil and division

but how to portray and display

in reality, fantasy that is reality and portray

what seemed as if was not was actually what is

and in 50 words no less the world we saw as his

it was not his however

through words and rhymes quite clever

we read about green eggs and hams

the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat

The places we will go

and the place to call home

In the undertone of art and words

we saw the reality of what life holds and scorns

For awareness to condemn is not better

awareness to understand is quite clever

for all the Great Nations ever built

were constructed similar to the art of a quilt

one piece at a TIME

with peace, love, understanding and kindness in mind

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I am only a girl, so I can’t dream of

flying an airplane

running for government

becoming a doctor

open a business, with confidence easeness

play basketball

study in school

do somersaults

not be as a fool

I am only a female, so I can’t dream of

constructing a building

becoming a lawyer

success as an artist

published endouver

with professional stupor

move forward in kindness

with mental strength rumored

leaving my sadness

and in struggles find humor

I am only a woman

so I can’t dream of

leading my life

and becoming a wife

while creating more leaders

kind humans and givers

educated prone readers

and in intellect find

a purpose not bind

potential within

regardless of skin

I am not only the person

I am not only the girl

I am not only the female

I am not only the woman

I am not only the boy

I am not only the male

I am not only the man

for not in mysterious ways

do we do as one says

but in knowing ourselves

we can do what compels

and redifine I am only

and Say I AM indeed I AM

I AM who I Believe myself to be

I AM……………

Gratitude is the friend

that can mend a bitter end

adjust the lens, begin again

in Gratitude we learn to stand

as we partake, submerge into streets of gratitude

we begin to understand our self perceived latitude

as the lens adjusts and bends

the focus of life  develops and mends

for when we see beyond the caterpillar

the shadows within our tunneled cocoons

we recognize they were essentially a pillar

never understood by simple buffoons

and so in lands beyond our reach

how it comes that knowledge preach

Is it divine unforeseen plan?

for in this world there is one land

from the time I wrote a fate

a candle steady wax on plate

The glimmer of a shining candle

the pencil on a single handle

As it glides along the printed lines

Creating memories in rhymes

Gratitude was indeed the words

that exited from my silenced cords

for in that page of written vision

I had sealed my life’s conviction

In the end line, as words would sift

I wrote these words, Life is A Gift

The way we spend our life

will determine and define

for if we spend our life in hate

we will remain a simple slave

but if we stand beyond our latitude

We will live, rejoice, succeed

in inner peace, freedom

Gratitude.

“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress”

Joseph Joubert

What is a victim, is it a system?

a person a place, a gender or race

what is a victim, is it a system?

composed in a place, cocconed in a case

It sleeps in our attitude

to desifer our attribute

the victim it speaks

in valleys and peaks

as we see them coming

we start slowly humming

to alter the fate

or perhaps ignore hate

you see, I refuse to reduce

and instead introduce

for as long as we sleep

in the sheets of despair and defeat

as long as we creep

from the possible storm or afraid to repeat

as long as we silence

we point fingers, blame, or create senseless violence

the victim it creeps, it sleeps and it lives

in the present and future continue it weaves

when we choose to face personal fears

and decide there is no room for tears

if we look past our skin, our muscle, our vessels and nerves

into the spirit, the light, the soul without any reserves

we decide

what better life awaits

when we speak of the wonderful traits

the attributes we individually possess

or the talent we collectively caress

when the focus is given to utter success

what is left, but a grain of negative whispered regress

And a loud call, for nothing less than well deserved progress

so what will it take

to decide you must break

and victory speak

Chapter 2

What do you see?

When you sit and believe
You are not brave
And become a Slave
To the fear dormant/awake within

What do you see?
When you sit and believe
The whispers that criticize
And diminished in size
And slowly conform
To the elephants form

What do you see?
When you sit and believe
The conformity of life
That you must sit and sacrifice
And never express
What you feel and suppress
And at times choose regress
Live stagnation no less

Fear is an illusion
A made up mind boggling confusion
Triggered by a past
That needs to be shed at last

What would you see
If you sit & believe
If today was your last day
And you keep your fears at Bay
And decide you are bold and fearless
Choose to act and be seamless

What lines would you cross?
What limits would you pass?
What do you see now?
That you understand exactly how?
You sit, you learn, chains brake & you Believe

volcanic explosions
thunderous emotions
tornado devotions
it is all a commotion
for what hurts us and makes us bleed
is a negative planted seed
It becomes the pain stimulations
triggered in every other, next situation
it sips on the walls, on the skin and the souls
it feeds on the minds the spirits, it is cold
it is never content until it feeds and it threads
thirsty for flesh and hunger for trends

Its’ eternal damnation
becomes first hand contemplation
as it gathers the right
to lack stillness and light
for if we have the right to be angry
we have the right to be hungry
to revenge and condemn
to lack peace and relent
to the negative motion
that is not a sweet devotion

what is there left to live
when we are unable to forgive?
what shall we expect to do
when life has gone and there is no more food?
we sit, we think, we forgive
we pray, we sleep, we sing
we write, we stand and look our our brother and sister
we look at our mother and daughter
we look at our son or our father and
and realize life is meant to be lived
the anger within
has not power in me

for anger is madness

it is a constant state of sadness

has no room for gladness

So forgive, forget, forgo and simply know

to stand in peace is to move forward and create change

to remain in madness is to circle, destroy and remain in the same

it’s ethereal isolation

What is a year?
Is the end near?
A Year in Review?
Or to start anew?

To shed the past
And make it be last
Make room for the fresh
Nourish spirit & flesh

For the year has gone by
And it’s time to say good bye
To the tears I have cried
The fears I tend to hide
The price has being paid
The path has being laid

For I have no room for sorrow
No further time to borrow
To hate nor disgrace
To argue and stress
I don’t care to live small
Nor do I wish to appall


For what is a dreamer
But a life’s pattern weaver
I don’t know why I envision
In the corners & walls
I don’t know why my vision
Can be clear as a mission
I understand to live, we become more than we are not

So gone are the days of sorrow & sadness
Gone are the days that lack calmness
Gone are the days of abundant reaction
Gone are the days with no satisfaction
It is definitely time to take action
A New Year is here
And not far, but quite near

Time to live in the moments
Laugh at Life’s torments
Love abundantly without comments
Motivate & Create Sonnets
Inspire without Laments
Good Bye to old father TIME

To a bolder, kinder, successful, happier, lovelier,present, accountable, engaging, fulfilled, educated, balanced, harmonious,peaceful,healthier, family filled, abundantly filled, relationship built, no limits of a Happy New Year.
Happy 2015🎉🍷☕️😘
LetyM💗

In  morning I wake

and see through cleared lens

the things  that we take

To be happiness trends

In the Hussle and buzzle

 spirit, is not a great puzzle

but a Holiday Cheer

to be mindful & clear

to feel love & reflect

without fear or regret

for in this moment

we must state in this comment

that life is a gift

We are here to lift

our spirits in happiness

our spirits in understanding

our spirits in gladness

our spirits in greatness

if you look at another

a sister a brother

a friend or a mother

a son or a father

you might see just another thing

but if you look even closer

without guards at our disposal

and see through cleared lenses

you might find there are no fences

for on the other side

of each human we meet

if we dare to clear our lens

and leave silly pretense

there lies a heart, a mind, a soul

a life

in each human we meet

so this Christmas I say

let us be thankful I pray

for life is a gift

to each soul that we meet

as we unwrap presents

I learned a few lessons

The greatest gift of all

is not found in a mall

the love that we bring

is what makes the bells ring

with love

on this Christmas Eve

LetyM

For every letter that is spoken
Every feeling is a token
To become what you believe
It is the life that we perceive
For if we see that life is bad
And all that remains is sad
Than there is no room to see
All that we can potentially be
It is a matter of choice not chance
That determines personal advance
It is not cowardly on corners
Or creating walls & borders
It is not by wars & violence
Or remaining caved in silence
That we turn our lives around
It is only by standing, rising & saying
Taking action, moving & praying
That we awaken to the possibility
Discover our ability
Has it not being shown by history
That it is no obvious mystery
From Martin Luther King, Gandhi & Rosa Parks
They showed our world how they made their marks
Not through divide & conquer
But through divine & prosper
And decide on this day
I choose to believe
I choose to live
I will stand and believe
In the end it comes to this
If we only have the courage to not miss
That the most important things can be solved
If we decide to courageously love

It crawled in the cracks of the road
or the boats, the words that took fold
In the wind it was whispered in letters
in the sky to the mountain down meadows
I ran and I walked
I crawled and back up
As I looked left and right
and I saw a bright light
I found what was there all along
the strength to me it belonged
I had no reason to hide
or have self righteous pride
I however deserved to fortify
and it was down to simplify
that we have the right to live
to talk, to speak and to give
we have the right to receive
to obtain in abundance perceive
We can be wrong, we can be strong
we can forgive we can belong
what is change but a need to progress
a need to move forward and never regress
as it crawled in the cracks of the road
or the boats, the word that took fold
it no longer was lost
it no longer was cast
Yes I walk with my head up high
and I talk with a voice filled with pride
of the things I have learned and the things I believe
I have no need to hate only to receive
the love we deserve and the life we were born
we are together and we are not torn
there is no perfect man, woman or keen
so if a stone is cast we shall not let it in
As I walk don’t mind my step
I have served and for days have wept
It will be with a straight back and unwavering faith
that I take another step and met my hard earned fate
I shall see you do the same
not in hate nor self talked lame
but in kindness and self loving gait
If one shall feel as if we deserve less
don’t mind my lack of attention, mean no disrespect
I must say it in one simple phrase
we deserve to be treated with outmost respect
it is in kindness, love, nourishment that flowers grow
it is bitterness, hate, malnourishment that nations fold
I see it in my brother, my sister, my father, my mother, my friend
that it is love that grows spirits and carries us to the end
I have not time for anything less
If I see otherwise, God Bless
For it is kindness, love, nourishment that breath life
It is bitterness, hate, malnourishment that lack sight
Let us not be blind
Courage, success, life, love, belongs to the ones who see

believe