That Friday Feeling

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All the weeks once spent revealing
   Efforts pledged for Friday feeling
      Life's intents and notions reeling ...

          Yet, the weekend always shined
             Composing body, soul and mind
                Weekdays proving thus, unkind ...

                    Still its sanguine trend
                       It always had an end.


Seemed no matter how it spun
   Start-to-end the week would run
      Stress was ne'er to be outdone ...

          Obligations, they were chanced
             Hopes all let, as time advanced
                Always, Friday evening danced ...

                    Like a winsome sprite
                       Feign for Sunday night.


On-and-on the pattern stretched
   Crimps and crows-feet slowly etched
      In a face that often wretched ...

          From the sour hopes that failed
             Plans and prospects, as travailed
                Efforts spurned and aims derailed ...

                    Proceeds withered on
                       Friday nights-and-gone.


Then, at reaching all-time lows
   One more week came to a close
      But, that promise of repose ...

          Developed from a new divide
             Repletion work could not provide
                A joy that seeded deep inside ...

                    Growing from my soul
                       Faith had made me whole ...


Yes, it's faith ... I now extol.




~ 4th Place ~  in the "Friday Feeling" Poetry Contest, Silent One, Sponsor.

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Line Gauthier

Date: 4/9/2018 4:21:00 PM

Congrats on your win with this awesome poem, Gregory.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 4/11/2018 1:08:00 AM

Thank you very much, my friend! :-)

Rhoda Tripp

Date: 3/12/2018 7:47:00 PM

Congratulations on your placement.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 3/15/2018 11:12:00 PM

Thank you very much, Rhoda - you are a sweetie! :-)

Joe Maverick

Date: 3/12/2018 12:33:00 PM

A well deserved place here; you put a lot of thought into this Gregory.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 3/15/2018 11:11:00 PM

Thank you so much, Joe - this one was a bit of a struggle, so I'm pleased you enjoyed it. I wasn't sure how it would turn out or be received! Blessings, friend! :-)

Sandra Haight

Date: 3/12/2018 9:09:00 AM

Yes, the magic of Fridays...so well expressed, Gregory, in your flowing and rhythmical poem. Congratulations on another fine win! Sandra :)

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 3/15/2018 11:10:00 PM

That's very sweet of you - you are extraordinarily good to me, my friend, and it is NOT taken for granted. You brighten my days with your kind comments, and they are like orchids in the pumpkin patch of my life, (though I like pumpkins, too!) ... many thanks to you for your friendship, dear one! <3