Room for All

painting by Norman Rockwell

Room for All

For some, life may be a playground, simply a

vainglorious game of theatrics, self-deception,

and lack of empathy; just another empty room.”

--Erik Pervernagie.

Is there room in my

heart for compassion for those

dying in Brazil?

Nature treats us as pariah,

attacking every country.  Glenn Buttkus.

Many people hear voices

while shut up in rooms, staring

at four silent walls.

Odd that as writers, we pretty

much do the same damn thing.  

--Margaret Chittenden.

It was not the room’s

disorder that was frightening;

rather it was that

I could see no key to repair it.

--James Baldwin.

There is a room with-

in me, a chamber actually,

where Love waits to trump

the cruelty of some men, that being

their highest goal it seems.

--Glenn Buttkus.

Twas a cozy room,

books packed tight on shelves,

or lying in piles.

It smelled of very rich words

and very deep thoughts.

--Jenny Nimmo.

If your thoughts are only

as tall as the height of your

ceiling, you will never

fly above your room.

--Israelmore Ayivor.

For some, a prison

cell is their only room,

for others it may

be an appliance box, or

an abandoned car, or alley.

--Glenn Buttkus

When a small night-lamp

alone illuminates our love-

making, the room be-

comes circular, passing through

night humming with stars.

--Fernand Dumont.

Today, we’re divorcing

the past and marrying the present,

divorcing indifference,

and marrying Love, finding

God in every single room.

--Kamand Kojouri.

No room at the Inn

is biblical in tone, and

now plenty of rooms.

Christ could have been born without

the lovely Ode de la Cowdung.

I have triple pad-

locked the racist views of my

past, banning them for-

ever, cuz humanity is actually

a brotherhood, our family.

--Glenn Buttkus

Glenn Buttkus

Renga

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