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Karma keeps no ledger

Karma keeps no ledger you can see,
no ticking clock, no courtroom plea,
it moves like rain through unseen air,
quiet as breath, already there.
The way you speak, the things you choose,
the small, soft wins, the careless bruise,
all ripple outward, thin then wide,
then circle home on the turning tide.

It is not wrath, nor cosmic score,
but echoes knocking at your door,
a mirror held in shifting light,
reflecting day inside the night.
So plant with care the words you sow,
they bloom in places you do not know,
and when they rise, both sharp and kind,
you meet the garden of your mind.

JH

 
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Posted by on March 21, 2026 in poetry

 

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Where Did I Go?


I used to know the map of my own mind.
Every street had a name.
Every door opened.
Now the rooms move.


I walk into the morning
and it forgets me.
Faces arrive like visitors
who expect to be known.


They bring smiles,
warm voices,
and stories that sound like mine.


I search for the key
that used to fit their names.
Sometimes a memory glows
for a moment.
A small candle in fog.


A child’s laugh.
The smell of rain.
A hand I once held forever.
Then the wind comes.


People say my name
as if calling someone home
across a wide field.
I want to answer.


But the path is fading.
The signs are gone.
The map is dissolving in my hands.
Inside me
a quiet person still listens,
still feels the warmth of love
even when the words fall away.


If you look into my eyes
and stay a little longer
you might see them.


The one I used to be
standing gently in the mist,
trying to remember
how to return.


JH

 
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Posted by on March 14, 2026 in poetry

 

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The Quiet Good Rarely Trends

he Quiet Good Rarely Trends

In the bright bazaar of noise
where every shout grows wings,
the loud climb ladders made of echoes
and applause rains like summer hail.

But somewhere, just outside the glare,
a hand steadies another hand.
No camera lingers there.
No headline leans in close.

A woman carries groceries
for a man whose bones remember storms.
A boy kneels beside a fallen bird
and cups the trembling air around it.
A stranger lets another stranger go first
in a world that loves to rush.

No fireworks announce these moments.
No algorithm lifts them high
like glitter tossed into the sky.

The quiet good moves softly
like moss over old stone,
like dawn laying gold on rooftops
while the city still dreams.

It asks for nothing.
No medals, no trending tag,
no bright parade of praise.

It simply happens,
again and again,
in kitchens, in doorways,
in the hush between heartbeats.

And though the world scrolls past
in search of louder miracles,
the quiet good keeps growing
under the surface of things,

a forest of small mercies
rooted deep in ordinary days. 🌿

JH

 
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Posted by on March 4, 2026 in poetry

 

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peace is not a whisper

Peace is not a whisper;
it is a door left open.

It is the light that stays on
when the street goes dark,
the quiet cup of tea
set down between two shaking hands.

Peace is not weak.
It does not bow its head.
It stands in the centre of the storm
and says, enough.

It is the courage
to lower your voice
when you could raise it,
to unclench your fist
and find a pulse instead.

Peace grows in small places.
In school halls.
On crowded buses.
At kitchen tables where words once burned
and now begin to soften.

It is the brave art
of listening past your own echo.
The steady work
of seeing a stranger
and choosing not fear,
but wonder.

Peace builds bridges
from the thinnest thread of hope.
It stitches torn flags
into blankets.
It turns battlefields
into gardens where children run.

Do not mistake its silence
for absence.
Peace is a deep river,
moving under the noise of the world,
patient, certain, strong.

And when enough of us
step into that river,
the current shifts.
The shouting thins.
The ground remembers
how to bloom.

Peace is power,
not loud,
not cruel,
but enduring.

It is the future
walking towards us
with open hands.

JH

 
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Posted by on March 2, 2026 in poetry

 

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