Kindness

Charlie

Description

When things happen or situations crop up that raise an eyebrow, or cause a smile or simple appreciation, they are often the catalyst for one of Charlie's poems. He finds putting writing them frees his mind to get on with something else.

Sujets

• Poetry
• Charlie

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris AU
• Date de parution: 09 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669831099
• Langue: English

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Kindness
 
 
 
 
 
Charlie
 
Copyright © 2022 by Charlie.
 
ISBN:
Softcover
978-1-6698-3108-2

eBook
978-1-6698-3109-9

 
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Rev. date: 08/09/2022
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Kindness
Cruel
Veg
Oztopia
Perfect Country
That Smile2
That Magic
Window
Us
The Couple
It’s a Jig Saw
That Balance
The Couple
The Dream
Life
Newtopia
Alone
Fish
The signaller
Oceans of affection
The hug hormone
A meeting of minds
Tractor fun
Change
Change5
To feed a bird
Dog empathy
Loneliness
A Life
Chance Meeting
Forwards
Rush
Motherhood
The Ruggers
The Whistling Postman
Food2
Optimism
The Only One
Evolution
The Silent Speaker
The Gulls
Vegetarian
Carbon Neutral Car
Strawbale house
Hope
bird seed
It’s a Wonderful World


Kindness
What is kindness?
You can’t touch it or smell it,
but you can sense it
or warm to it.
Perhaps it’s a ghost,
the original fairy godmother.
Is it a force?
Like gravity,
there -
but hard to understand.
… not to be played with.
Like a plane in a spin,
or a tree falling down.
It is magic,
that’s hard to disprove,
like someone visiting an old man,
his smile says it all !
Nothing to be gained,
by visitor or old man.
Is that the fulcrum of kindness?
A contract without profit
or loss…
            Charlie Madden
            [e-mail]
Cruel
No small fish suffocated to make my supper,
no overfed cow,
stewed with onions and herbs,
or terrified cock,
hung from his feet,
zapped then killed from losing all its blood,
having had its throat cut mechanically.
Just vegetables, fruit and algae…
eaten to the limit set by the scales,
witnessed by that waist line measurement,
washed down with alcohol free wine.
That is just the animals.
Well insulated houses,
and cars powered from renewables,
will be a start…
Or a hidden secret transaction?
The dog gets free food -
the giver a loud licking, leaping welcome home,
and a warm sleeping soul on their lap
- while they watch the box.
Kindness -
doesn’t just apply to people and animals.
It applies to our small orb Earth as well.
Veg

They never wagged their tails,
or welcomed you home.
Never flew between countries,
or swam through the sea -
heaven knows how far.
Vegetables, simple vegetables,
with all the fuels needed to fill this frame.