Whispers

by Mike Turner / February 9th, 2025

Hate howls from the streets
Bigotry bellows from rooftops
Privilege pontificates from its mansions
Greed gloats from its vaults
Raising their cacophony of tribalism, entitlement, privilege

Satisfying no one
Only draining, exhausting, useless
Ultimately spent

While love whispers all the while
Welling between the cracks of discordant noise
Filling as a tide above the marshes
Floating again our hopes and dreams
Quelling despair
Instilling Peace
And renewing Spirit

Mike Turner, a poet/songwriter living on the U.S. Gulf Coast, was named 2025 Poet of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Dissident Voice; his lyric, “Sense of Peace,” was awarded the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative’s 2023 Roger Williams Peace Award for Writing. He can be contacted at www.MikeTurnerSongwriter.com. Read other articles by Mike.

This article was posted on Sunday, February 9th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.