Welcome Compassion | Pushmaotee Subrun
Farewell bitterness
Adieu hate and vengeance
Welcome compassion
compassion poems
Advantage | Cattail Jester
Refusing to take advantage
of your plight, offering
a bit of healing for the harm
my step has caused
I pack a bag of food, big
deal, donate some clothing
Small goods and actions
in a brutally tilting world.
Why Are People So Mean? | Chrissie Sadie Haley
Why are people so mean?
She asks me after finding out
That not everything or
Everyone is safe and that
Some people will lash out
Even if you smile at them.
I take a deep breath and tell her
It’s because they are missing
Something deep inside,
That part of them that feels
Happiness, kindness, empathy,
And that we must keep kind
Thoughts in our hearts for them
Because someone didn’t when
They were growing up.
She thinks for a moment and
Says that she’s glad she can
Keep being nice even when
Others aren’t. My heart expands.
I think of everything I saw
Growing up in my family and
The promise I made to myself
That I would never lose the
Love I possessed inside and
Would always be the
Opposite of mean.
Starving | M Spear
Give them food
to fill them –
Give them wisdom
to grow them –
A drink of fine
water, bite of hope
to sustain them.
Put a Finger on It | Maggie Beck
I can’t put
my finger on what
I’m learning.
Just know I am.
There’s a way
to make the world
better.
Not like selfish
people who only
say they are working
to do better
while they sit
letting the world
suffer around them.
Classified: Top Secret | Stan Morrison
Truth has a way of upsetting the symmetry of history
of smashing the platitudes of grade school heroes
wiping away purity of purpose and clarity of choices
canceling the claims of the triumph of good over evil.
Truth can’t be edited to recapture innocence
it can’t be offset by arguments of “Yes, but…”
truth sets the course for new ideas
it opens pathways to compassion.
Truth sets a table in the presence of the enemies.
Consider | Angelica Fuse
Stop think
consider
where your hand
goes
where your eye
travels
what you mouth
creates.