AuthorsDen.com  Join (free) | Login 

   Popular! Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry
Where Authors and Readers come together!

Signed Bookstore | Authors | eBooks | Books | Stories | Articles | Poetry | Blogs | News | Events | Reviews | Videos | Success | Gold Members | Testimonials

Featured Authors: David Litwack, iMaria Daddino, iCathleen Niblo, iChris Efessiou, iChristina Neely, iRose Limongi, iSusan Schaab, i
  Home > Action/Thriller > Poetry
Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry     

Phyllis Jean Green

· Become a Fan
  Notify me of new titles
  added by this author.

-
· 516 titles
· 6,978 Reviews
· Share with a Friend
· Save to My Library
· Add to My Favorites
·
Member Since: Jun, 2002

   Sitemap
   My Blog
   Contact Author
   Read Reviews

Newsletter
Subscribe to the Phyllis Jean Green Newsletter. Enter your name and email below and click "sign me up!"
Name:
Email:


Books
· Carrboro Poetica

· Above and Below

· Spinning Straw: the Jeff Apple Story


Short Stories
· Scrawny Kid Clerked at Thrifty

· Euceless Laughs, Y O U Laugh {Capice?}

· This is Your Lucky Day by Euceless Liesalot

· Christmas Fax for da Broads in da Audience

· Flashing

· Owner Will Repair Kitchen Floor {flash humor}

· Courting Able


Articles
· Amnesty International Pressing for More Anti-Rape Legislation

· Bullying has no Place in a Democracy

· Calling Dr. Mengele, Calling Dr. Mengele

· Show and Tell by Karen Vanderlaan - Review

· Valley of the Shadow by Sybil Austin Skakle - Review

· Courage in Patience by Beth Fehlbaum -- a Review

· Heart Attack Symptoms Differ for Men and Women -- Read and Share!

· If you Have Been Kidnapped or Abducted --A Letter from Someone who Cares

· RICO for Kids - Help Missing Children, U.S.A.

· Reason to Celebrate! {re O N E's impact re suffering in Africa}


Poetry
· Listen to Your Muse, Then get up an' do Your Thing

· Poem an Inside Job

· Vicks, Flannel, and Great Expectations?

· Rumor January 19, two Thousand Thirteen

· Snow Night with Bird

· Gunned Down

· Shape Shifter

· Fought Tooth and Nail, I Know You {for Ellie}

· Night-Light

· We are Here to Tell You

         More poetry...
News
· Featured in Creative Thinkers International!

· Second Appearance in Leann Marshall's Sketch Notes

· New Appearance in The Yarn Spinner

· Bullying has no Place in a Democracy Featured at Creative Thinkers Intnl

· Poem to Appear in Sketchbook

· Poems to Appear in Sensations' 21st Century Issue

· In Richard Lee King's The Price of Freedom

Phyllis Jean Green, click here to update your web pages on AuthorsDen.

  Simple, Really
by Phyllis Jean Green
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Rated "PG" by the Author.

Share   Print   Save Become a Fan


Recent poems by Phyllis Jean Green
•  Listen to Your Muse, Then get up an' do Your Thing
•  Poem an Inside Job
•  Vicks, Flannel, and Great Expectations?
•  Rumor January 19, two Thousand Thirteen
•  Snow Night with Bird
•  Gunned Down
•  Fought Tooth and Nail, I Know You {for Ellie}
•  Shape Shifter
•  Night-Light
•  We are Here to Tell You
•  Telephoneitis Syndrome
•  The Watcher
•  From Your Grateful Mate Pea
•  Age Increases Value {fall-related ku}
           >> View all 483


-


L i f e :

a maelstrom.  A prison, deep underground.    Iron bars,
rock walls, rock floor.  Only light from rancid oil...

our eyes burn and our noses run
from smoke and fear

of choking

of giving up

and yet...and yet... we choose you.

One thing goes right, ten go wrong.
One loves, one's lover leaves
or is taken.

Death stalks.
Lightning electrocutes.
Quakes and tsunamis and floods.
Deprivation, accident, disease.
The decadent, the evil.
The black holes.
The chaos.

So why?

To hold a hand.
To hug, and be hugged.
To watch the miracle of birth.
To see a baby discover it's hands.

For the joy of learning.
For the beauty of sunrise and sunset.
For animals and trees.  For flowers.
For mountains,  rivers, and streams.
For oceans and caves and deserts.

Every star, every bird, every fish.
                    

To hold a hand.

 


Angels That Care


Want to review or comment on this poem?
Click here to login!


Need a FREE Reader Membership?
Click here for your Membership!




Reviewed by Elizabeth Russo 4/24/2012
To love and be loved. Life offers such beauty and promise, along with the chaos and heartaches. But I wouldn't give up one for the other. Bravo Phyllis! ~Hugs, Elizabeth
Reviewed by Regis Auffray 4/22/2012
Such a beautiful and meaningful offering, Pea; I love the manner in which you close with such hope and goodness. Love and best wishes to you,

Regis
Reviewed by Linda Hill 4/20/2012
Phyllis,
You remind us there is beauty among the darkness. You poem is a shining ray of light to all.

Many blessings,
+Linda
Reviewed by Patrick Granfors 4/18/2012
Life is partly about trials and how we handle them. Then there's the good stuff that you so capably explained. Patrick
Reviewed by Jon Willey 4/18/2012
Pea, you remind us that we control the joy in our lives - circumstance and hardship mere challenges for love - love is the force that overcomes and makes every obstacle and achievement secondary to our core purpose in living life - I wish you love and peace my dear friend - Jon Michael
Reviewed by Amor Sabor 4/17/2012
This is truly exquisite expression Pea...this is as bright as any star.
Amor
Reviewed by Christine Tsen 4/17/2012
Beautifully expressed!
You place that question "so why?" perfectly, and use it as the wellspring of such beautiful poetry, and I love your answers, the very essence of why.
Blessings,
Christine
Reviewed by Tom Hyland 4/16/2012
PEA ... VERY WELL DONE!

"LIFE IS FOR ... THE LIVING!'

Reviewed by Diana Legun 4/16/2012
This feels to me like dualing Rorschach inkblots. One so clearly this; one so clearly that. We watch a human face looking at the two versions. We know which face we want to wear. Wonderful poetry, this. ~~ Diana
Reviewed by Axilea MU 4/16/2012
Very nice and... so true. There is the negative and the positive, but I always like it when Love wins. Your lines are like flashes of light.

Axilea
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan 4/16/2012
to hold a hand--yes...to hold a hand
Reviewed by Mary Ann Biddinger 4/16/2012
To hold a hand in the miracle of life and love.
You are an angel Phyllis Jean.
Lady Mary Ann
Reviewed by Sheila Roy 4/15/2012
I think it's important to look for the positive, too, Phyllis. This is a great reminder of that. Love the ending on this. You really leave us with a deep message to consider.
Sheila
Reviewed by John Flanagan 4/15/2012
love rescues life when everything else
wants to take it away;
you, Pea, are a beautiful soul

john
Reviewed by Sage Sweetwater 4/15/2012
You're a beautiful soul, Phyllis. You are indeed an angel that cares. I'm glad to have you in my life.

Always,
Sage
Reviewed by jude forese 4/15/2012
perhaps the meaning of life is intimacy and the universal emotion nourishing us all is beauty surrounded by love ...

wonderful work, Phyllis ...
Reviewed by Vivian Dawson 4/15/2012
Life full of feelings by hand
to hand seeing is the reward
of your poem *Phyllis*

Lady Vivian
Reviewed by Ronald Hull 4/15/2012
You never cease to amaze. While all around you is falling apart you see through the depressing thoughts and bring forth the life force that we all have if we only choose to see it.

Ron

Why did I think of “Blood, Simple?”
Reviewed by D. Vaineo 4/15/2012
Phyllis, Life is the good,bad and the ugly...well depicted as always!

Always,
Deborah
Reviewed by Morgan Merriweather 4/15/2012
heaven on earth.
   - eBooks
   - Marketplace
   - FaceBook


Popular
Poetry
(Action/Thriller)
  1. Care will stay
  2. Gnarled Lust
  3. Bonkety Boo
  4. Happy days
  5. Broken
  6. A baying hound
  7. Tapestry Thread
  8. Novus Ordo Seclorum
  9. RUBBER NECK
  10. Moon Hair
  11. Scattered Ash
  12. The Slow Dance ( Erotica )
  13. Antonia
  14. There's a Hole in my Heart
  15. safe and sound





You can also search authors by alphabetical listing: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Bookmark this page to your Favorites

Featured Authors
| New to AuthorsDen? | Add AuthorsDen to your Site
Share AD with your friends | Need Help? | About us


Problem with this page?   Report it to AuthorsDen

© AuthorsDen, Inc. All rights reserved.