THURSDAY'S 'BEST'

Featuring poetry and 'Short story-to-poems' of Danny Best.

HAVE FAITH

Yet another setback to have to deal with, after several others already. Life can seem so very frustrating and so completely unfair. If only I had someone to help me I thought, someone to direct me as I'd so often prayed for. Someone to guide me so I'd get everything right the first time.

It would really make my life so much easier and help to encourage me to keep trying even harder "if only" (I'd kept whispering to myself) while nuzzling my sleepy head down into my pillow.

MY GUARDIAN ANGEL

I stumbled upon my Guardian Angel

last night
she was veiled in the faint golden shadows

of a dancing quavering candlelight
and I could hear her whispering softly

everything will be alright

sleep tight...sleep tight

everything will be alright

then I beheld a bright wide sweeping flash

blinked hard

and watched her calmly take flight

yeah

I had stumbled upon my Guardian Angel

last night

and

everything is alright...everything is alright

THAT 'OL BUBBLE GUM MOON (A Children's Lunar Tale) by © Danny Best
(Featured on slideshow, only and below)

What's A...MoonBow by © Danny Best
(Future on slideshow, only and below)

THE SOLDIER

he was drained and shaken from what he'd hoped
was just part of a bad dream
steeped in grave sorrow and dread
stunned by a loud crack and a blinding bright light
followed by shadowy images that bled

a low-pitched hum of predatory blow flies
hailed from either side of his drooping head
bussing their way along the fold of his ears
telling him to go where his fallen brothers have fled

he desperately wanted to message a warning
although fearful it would never be read
having been put down in a scorched field of ruin
where only the elite of the dark side now tread

wondering

why was everything moving so slow and
why wasn't he able to just get-up instead

along with the heavenly angelic sound of harp strings
encouraging him to concede and accept

he'd been shot and was dying and that soon he'd be dead

and there was that horrendous burning in the pit of his stomach
from a well defined pattern of hot spattered lead

which caused him to then realize

he'll never get the chance to say all of those things
that he now wished he had said

THE SOLDIER

Then recalling a simple prayer that he had wrote and sent home to his Mother a few nights ago "A Soldier's Simple Prayer" that went like this:

If you should find me wandering amongst your daily cares
as far away as I may be
please know that I'll be hoping
that somewhere in your silent prayers
you'll be putting in a good word
for me

THE HEALERS CREED

As our planet sadly seems to have become so much more inhospitable to humankind with one new virus right after the other to contend with, that is just as bad or possibly even worse than the last one that we thought we might have finally gotten under control, there also still remains all of those other ever present diseases that we've already been dealing with on what seems to have become an even broader and more expanded scale.

I believe as do so many others of my fellow beings that most if not all in our medical communities (The Healers) strive everyday without fail to do their very best to help each and everyone of us in anyway they can. Simply because they want to and/or simply because they believe it to be their own sacred duty by oath or just by a knowing from within that this is why they are here, because, this is their mission in life.

THE HEALERS CREED

Thank You Universe

things don't always seem to go
the way I want then too

sometimes the universe tells me
I have something else to do

so I don't always get to be
where I think that I should be

but instead

somewhere else with someone else
who simply needed me

thank you universe

Please click on each of Danny's images to get the full view!

210