A Poem A Day #172: Easter Island

“Easter Island” 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 #171: Breaking Bread

“Breaking Bread” 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 #170: Quintessence

“Quintessence” 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 #169: Retro

“Retro” 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 “First Contact”

The moment of first contact
is very important...
the moment of first contact
is when everything is still new...
the moment of every first contact
is always different...
the moment of first contact
can be when the first links of a chain
are forged together with something
stronger than glue...
the moment of first contact
can be fraught with both mystery
and sometimes confusion
until all the waves and the creases
of uncertainty have been smoothed out...
the moment of first contact
is when people first start
finding out who someone else is -
and sometimes first contact
can also turn out to be last contact...
the moment of first contact
is a lesson for all the moments to follow...
the moment of first contact
can feel like forever,
or it can be forgettable
depending upon what interests
and intentions are on a person's mind...
the moment that you first meet someone
you have never met before
you have no idea, nor control,
of how things will go,
nor how things will turn out -
but what you can do is hope
for the best that whatever first contact
you have will be memorable,
in a good way, and will open the door
for more contact in the future.

A Poem A Day #168: Cinema

“Cinema” 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 #167: Entrance

“Entrance” 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 “One thing leads to another”

It always amazes me how fast
one thing can lead to another...
it always feels somehow supernatural
when one action has the unexpected
occurance of causing a domino effect
that slowly reveals a hidden image or pattern
just waiting to be pieced together...
it always seems unbelievable whenever
I see order lead to chaos
and whenever I saw chaos lead to order...
it always makes me smile how
a single song, a simple gesture,
or a small gift of kindness
can make a heart take flight...
it always seems somehow natural
whenever I feel drawn,
like a hummingbird to flower,
to people who for some reason
I know immediately will
change and influence me for the better...
it is always a rush whenever I
enter, or re-enter, into something,
or into somewhere, I haven't, or I have,
been before that always had to happen -
because like the seemingly random
things that somehow happen in life,
throughout the universe,
one thing will always lead to another.


A Poem A Day #166: Crossroads

“Crossroads” 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 #165: Future Me

“Future Me” 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