Two Poems by Hilary Canto

 

ORIGINS

 

Identity, Identity

What’s it’s importance

Who am I,

Where did I come from?

 

What is it I seek

Is it my origin

Do I want recognition

Or need acceptance?

 

What is a label

What is a name

Is it not something

That people can blame?

 

Does the Sparrow know

That a hawk is a hawk

Will the whale feel heard

Any more than the bird?

 

Such angst in the mind

To be labelled and loved

Whilst true origin lies

In a place way above

 

With no body or mind

To get in the way

Identity’s no reason

To mess up this way

 

Go deep into heart

Feel that part

light of soul

Restores the whole

 

People and nature

Universe and earth

Beings connected

As one before birth

 

Origins beyond

A planetary home

Beings now separated

Feeling alone

 

Labels and names

Reinforce separation

Creating barriers

Through every nation

 

Why can’t we see

We’re one group of beings

One human race

One origin, one name

 

Race, culture, religion

Gender, sexuality

What’s truly affecting

our future destiny?

 

The planet cries out

destruction we’re causing

Minds anxious and fearful

Realisation dawning

 

What once was peaceful

Beautiful earth

Destroyed in a century

Of human births

 

Human minds, human needs

Ever increasing power and greed

Annihilation of a paradise home

Earths original species cry alone

 

Damned by destruction

Voices unheard

Save us they cry

Like the screams of birds

 

Labels can give

comfort inside

Yet won’t save lives

due to die 

Can we return to

The home of our soul

To love, compassion

Honest and whole?

 

The hour is late

Identity ranges

divide minds

nothing changes

 

Origin, home

Has no identity

Peace and love is

One great entity. 

 

UNSEEN MYSTERIES

 

Just because we can’t see it

Doesn’t mean we can’t feel it

Magic, Myth, and Mystery

Fascinating humans intrinsically!

 

Faeries, Unicorns

Dragons, Elves

Hobbits, Lord of the Rings

Enthrals with spells

 

Celtic lore, magical stories

Gothic tales much more gory

Adults close children’s imagination

Thwarting magical inspiration

 

Unicorns, Dragons,

Witches, Wizards

Grown-ups love

Mythical beasts, lizards

 

Harry Potter

Merlin, Narnia

bringing light

to adult paranoia

 

Reawakening the child within

Adults’ hearts can now sing

Suppression unlocked able to fly

Magic, Myth, Mystery now a high

 

Whoever said they don’t exist

Beings of magic, mystery, myth

Shame on them, cruelly denied

Listen, Feel, they’re all inside.

Hilary Canto - Loves this planet and is deeply troubled with it, having lived in the Shire, magical Greece and enchanted Highlands of Scotland, where else than the land of the Unicorn for a healer and writer? A varied career has nurtured her writing in many forms. Global Love Day Directors Poetry Award 2023 and 2017. She is a regular contributor to M.E Essentials (living with M.E.). and Poetry for Mental Health. Now delving between the worlds for Lothlorien, through lands of enchantment with Elemental and Angelic Beings her guides! Her career in the creative and music sectors helped open the magical inner doors of light and prose. She wrote and recorded an album of healing songs and now her voice heals however she uses it as a gift to the reader and listener of her words.