She says the next topic should be "Money"

I'm thinking we should maybe take a break after this one for the OWC writing phase and finish the challenge up after next week.  What do you think?

Sounds good. Makes sense.

Everyone is very welcome to post random poems in there though, as I might do.

Quoted from mcornetto She says the next topic should be "Money" I'm thinking we should maybe take a break after this one for the OWC writing phase and finish the challenge up after next week.  What do you think?

I think that's a good idea. I'm traveling to Edmonton tomorrow for a congress and I'll be away from my computer.

OK, money...

Sandra

Money

This business of money making--
Making of money
Only good when it's spent
And that's kinda funny

Like love it is useless
If it sits on a shelf
Like love it's no good
If it's just for itself

It needs to move
It needs to be spent
So you buy a new computer
And you pay the rent

Ka ching Ka ching
A right good sound
It's nice to have
Lots of money around

It's strange you know
How it has to go
Burn a hole in your pocket
To move and flow

It goes to the mechanic's
You can pimp your wagon
It goes for your Warcraft
You can fly your dragon

If it sits too long
In the cookie jar
When it wants to buy
A chocolate bar

Then it needs someone
To take it out
And use it without
Fear or doubt--

That spending it
Is the right thing to do
Because others can use it
And then it is true

It becomes a real thing
As it changes in hands
As it works in society
Gazillions of grands

The fishers and wishers
Yes each of our friends
We turn it 'round daily
The money we spend


Sandra E.

The pauper doesn't know it
but he wants it anyway
The rich man wants to horde it
and he does so every day

The banker he banks on it
and he makes it as he does
The thief will own all of it
with no worries whose it was

The spirit turns its nose up
at your golden offerings
The body hungers for it
and for everything it brings

The money's all around you
but whatever the amount
once you are dead and buried
you can't transfer your account

Well, the OWC is over, and I want to jump in and suggest a topic - a writing one this time. So, my topic is the thing that all writers face, and many are so afraid of they end up writing nothing at all...

The Blank Page

Quoted from JonnyBoy Well, the OWC is over, and I want to jump in and suggest a topic - a writing one this time. So, my topic is the thing that all writers face, and many are so afraid of they end up writing nothing at all... The Blank Page

Oh Johnny! That's a good one!

Sandra

The Blank Page Within


I have before me
Many things
And One
A Blank Page

Lefniy
Lefniy Emunah
Lefniy Hochma

A page of Not and of All
That looks at me
Goading
With a staff
And a prod
A prod

How I search
All Day Long
Until Now

So late now
See the gap
Between words

Lefniy
Lefniy Emunah
Lefniy Hochma

What is this Blank Page?
It might be the screen
Or it might be
My mother's stationary
Or it might really be
"Hey!"
Might be Ha Masach

I don't know--
Yet

And it comes to be
A place of faith
And a place of knowing
And how can it be both?

Doesn't knowing cancel faith?
And faith cancel knowing?
Is it better to know?
Is it better to have faith?

And this Blank Page
Is so spilled a mystery

It's already full
The blank page is full
And that is a Mystery

Impressing deep
Goading me
Prodding me
With a staff
And a prod
A prod

Lefniy
Lefniy Emunah
Lefniy Hochma

And I look down
To my mother's old stationary
And the sheets
With purple Irises
Touching the surface

Without lines
Very plain
Not like school paper
Very pretty

But at the back of all
There is one lined sheet
For placement

To place underneath
The pretty sheet
As a means
To guide,

To write it straight--
Horizon crossed
Without a slope

I think about the
Old times--

Mother writing letters
In a perfect artful hand

Swirling letters
And Lefteruk
And what that means

A whole history
A whole life
A whole love

Lefniy
Lefniy Emunah
Lefniy Hochma

Lamed
Love
And Three Divine

This is not a blank page
This page of Not
It is before

Lefniy
Lefniy Emunah
Lefniy Hochma

Sandra El.

Jonny, I just realised you posted in this thread.

Yeah, let's start this baby up again... I will try and write a poem on your theme by tomorrow

Yeah, real funny!

Quoted from mcornetto The Blank Page

Thanks for the poem, Michael.

Sandra