Words&Lives&Leaves

Our words, our lives and identities

with our personalities and family trees

will fall away, disappear, be gone

like fallen leaves as we move on

into That Oneness, That Light where we belong.

Into That Greatest Love, That Joy and Peace,

That Highest Truth and Freedom’s release

we’ll go, finally Knowing who we are

as Life Itself, merging, emerging, Ever One.

September 22, 2025

First day of Autumn

Shelley A. Wilson

Meaningful Short Sentences

Abstract Tree and Shrub. I created this from a night photo I took around Christmas one year by swinging a camera I had at the time then playing with the image in Photoshop software. It has nothing to do with the poem except the creation of meaning. šŸ¤—šŸ˜‚šŸ’•āœØ

Meaningful Short Sentences

Short sentences

command, demand,

reveal, conceal,

uplift, depress,

heal, stress,

agitate, motivate

and more…

Punctuation

or tone of voice

adds layers

to context

even more…

Start. Stop!

Hold on. Let go!

Come here. Go away!

I see. I didn’t know!

Be well. Don’t tell!

Fear not. Watch out!

You’re hired. You’re fired!

I love you. I hate you!

She said ā€œYesā€. He said ā€œNoā€!

Move along. Fight on!

Time to go. Stay here!

Thank you. Bless you!

This Language

has more…

Do others?

I don’t know.

March 26, 2023

Shelley Audrey Wilson

Victoria, BC

Words

Words

There are words emptied of meaning,

words twisted ā€˜round and words hurled.

There are words to keep and cherish,

sometimes words that change the world

for good or evil, understood, misunderstood.

There are words to eat slowly,

words to chew on or spit away.

Some words work. Some words play

a role to lift us up or bring us down,

words kept silent, words to sound

with emotions. Words can be lost or found.

Words can energize us or deflate,

words filled with love or hate,

words that comfort or celebrate,

words that grate or agitate.

Words can frighten. Words can heighten

awareness, empower to enlighten,

to delight and brighten up our day.

Words bring together or separate.

Words unite or disintegrate.

Whatever words we do choose

create and shape our world views

into personal or world news.

Whatever language, time or place,

whatever status, gender, race,

there is power in our words.

October 4, 2022- Shelley Audrey Wilson

Walking Words

On my balcony chair, I just listen

as walking words pass by.

Many are the lazy likes-

impatient, abbreviated, unsure,

wanting to like and be liked,

strolling in conversations

parroting and parenting likes.

Uncaring words, the fucks, pass by too-

all but few dressed in tight conformity

while wishing to run free…

Rebel words declare their own identity

fashioned in darkening dialects

of current rebel fashions,

another learned conformity,

parroting and parenting their words too.

The air is filled with sounds-

working machines, sirens of warnings,

masked words, languages evolving…

I listen, then tune out the words

to hear the wondrous songs of birds.

April 14, 2021- Shelley Wilson