World Thinking Day Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

4: 12 p.m.
Today is World Thinking Day, yet we poets must say that
is every day for us, as we continue to write poetry and
share it with the world.

At times we admonish humanity, speak of it's cruelty,
unkindness and intolerance, other moments are thought
and filled with our love or the loss of it.

Tears of joy and happiness fall into and mix with oceans
of tears that have filled us with sorrow, tracing our
feelings into the poems we write.

Our words flow like lava into our poems, red hot thoughts
just now out of the ovens of our hearts and minds, melting
into lines on paper.

It's nice to have a day set aside for thinking, but it's
we poets who continue this endeavor from day to day, writ-
ing throughout our lives, reflecting our world in words we
write, daily.4: 13 p.m. 2/22/16 RoseAnn V. Shawiak