A Poem A Day #157: Favourites

“Favourites” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Sound of Mark’ which was published in 2014 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings

My Poem “Converse”

I have always loved to talk...
I have always loved to meet new people...
I have always allowed my enthusiasm for life
to guide me ever since I could walk...
I have always been able to find something
to converse with someone about -
no matter how big or how small...
I have always loved discovering
what I have in common with others
and what others have in common with me...
I have always loved taking the time
to listen and to learn from people
who have no idea just how insightful
and interesting they can effortlessly be...
I have always loved the thought that we
here on Earth are constantly transmitting
and communicating the infinite layers
of what makes us what we are
out into the vast expanse of universe...
I have always loved the idea that there
are also those out there, in every galaxy,
who every minute of every day are also
listening and sending out
their own voice and their own message -
accidentally, or deliberately, trying to
reach out and converse.

A Poem A Day #156: Mementos

“Mementos” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Sound of Mark’ which was published in 2014 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings

A Poem A Day #155: Anti-gravity

“Anti-gravity” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Sound of Mark’ which was published in 2014 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings

A Poem A Day #154: Different

“Different” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Sound of Mark’ which was published in 2014 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings

A Poem A Day #153: Ocean

“Ocean” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Sound of Mark’ which was published in 2014 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings

A Poem A Day #152: The Apple

“The Apple” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Sound of Mark’ which was published in 2014 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings

A Poem A Day #151: The Experience

“The Experience” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Sound of Mark’ which was published in 2014 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings

My Poem “Full of It”

All my life I have felt
the feeling of being full
and overflowing of many things:
energy, ideas, happiness,
inspiration, love, stories,
memories, experiences,
hopes, and dreams -
and what I have been full of has been
so profound and so uncontainable,
whatever I have felt soaked
from head to toe with, like a sponge,
invariably finds a way to the outside
and has be seen, heard, and felt
by people far and wide.

I was always a child who could be
seen running around -
as if I had been stung by a bee -
just so that I could exert
the power of the spirit within me...
during the Summer time
I swear that I was like solar panel
who drew on the heat and the light
all around me because I felt like it
motivated me to go faster and faster.

As I have grown older my mind,
my imagination and my creativity,
as well as my body, has on multiple occasions
felt as if it has been sparked to life
to allow me to see things with so much
depth of colour and clarity of vision
that I have attempted to put into words
the beauty and the poetry that I believe
is there for anybody to see.

I have admittedly always been optimistic,
perhaps sometimes to a fault -
but I cannot help who I am at my heart,
nor can I help what I have within me:
and whatever and whenever
I feel myself seemingly
electrified and charged with energy
that courses through my veins,
watch out world, because I am full of it.

A Poem A Day #150: New Camera

“New Camera” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry collection ‘The Sound of Mark’ which was published in 2014 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings