Tuesday Writings #28-Happiness Personfied

Happiness Personfied

She is tiny and wrinkled

Her face, red and a little battered

Like she’s been through a war

She has,she tried so hard

With mother’s help to be born

But after many, many hours

Her mother worn

They pulled her from her cozy home

Into the cold bright world

She is a newborn baby girl

Long awaited and loved so much

She’ll grow up big and strong

The apple of her father’s, mother’s

And grandparent’s eyes.

©Sheilagh Lee January 24,  2018

Tuesday Writings#27~ End Prejudice

Prompts this week : Impartiality, Enlightened, Educated.

End Prejudice

Words uttered having meaning

They cannot be tracked back

Rewritten with different meaning

Racism is racism

Shameful and demeaning

It should be talked about

Telling the person who utters it

No, this is not acceptable

Educate the children teach them well

So they can teach their elders

No more bigotry,

No more bias too,

Just a world where men,

And women are not judged,

By the differences they hold,

Let’s find the courage,

The dignity and the conviction,

To transform prejudice, backward, beliefs,

Into tolerance and impartiality,

It is possible to become more enlightened,

The words in back rooms,

Behind closed doors,

Still echo in the world,

Let’s end that hidden prejudice, too

For educated, open-minded people

Want to live in that world.

©Sheilagh Lee January 16,  2018

Tuesday Writings -No#26

Tuesday Writings -No#26

Prompts this week: Denouement, Stardust, Turncoat

This is an imagining not anything I know personally.

The denouement of my life

Came when the stardust fell from my eyes

I saw them for what they really were

Not family, not people who loved me

But turncoats who thought of only themselves.

©Sheilagh Lee January 10, 2018

Tuesday Writings 25 - Carrying on

Tuesday Writings 25- Carrying on

Prompts: Adrift, Battering Unwavering

©Sheilagh Lee January 2 , 2018