A toast to the beleaguered who overcome
Refusing to let setbacks claim the victories,
Who press forward, refusing to succumb,
Claiming laurels, earning the valedictories.
Refusing to let setbacks claim the victories
Success becomes part of their very natures,
Claiming laurels, earning the valedictories
They are the leaders who face down dangers.
Success becomes part of their very natures
Never settling for anything less than the best
They are the leaders who face down dangers,
Standing courageously ahead of the rest.
Never settling for anything less than the best,
They’ve suffered the pains of failure past,
Standing courageously ahead of the rest
They solemnly vow never to come in last.
They’ve suffered the pains of failure past,
Who press forward, refusing to succumb
They solemnly vow never to come in last
A toast to the beleaguered who overcome.
Written August 27, 2022
The Haunting Of A Broken Spirit And Beleaguered Soul.
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Her pricing haunting blood shocked eyes
Reflect her heavy rain cloud acid corroded heart
And spirit broken beleaguered soul
Although in the summer of her blossoming youth
She aged beyond her tender gifted years
Life has took it’s scourging toll
And she can no longer hold back
Her floods of painful tears
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The bombshell blast that devastated and destroyed her life
Left her shell shocked unable to piece together
The shards and carnage left behind
Her dreams have turned into nightmares
Her bed but a bed of nails her broken spirit tied to the mast
She once dreamed of idle lush green bejewelled meadows
But now dwells in a mine field in total darkness
And with every breathe and step she takes
She feels the blast
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Snared and tangled in a cobweb
The more she riddles the more she's tangled
Her hapless struggle is all in vane
She stands on the ege of oblivion
And welcomes an end to her bitter anguish and pain.
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Peter Dome©2021.
A woman in white coat
by Bernard Chilambe
The soft touch of the woman in white is felt by people in pain
What this woman does is not plain
She never says much as she is mature
Her clothes describe her heart that is pure
Where does she disguise her image that is not poor?
I know our brain can cheat but that is being poor
She looks brilliant in white attire
As that makes her identity clear
Her smile never fades
And her heart never bends
A woman in white coat speaks like a lamb
Her sausage heart never crumble
This woman never melts in mercurial temperature that is hot
Her sympathetic tone is not hidden in a white coat
She gives relief to images of beleaguered crowd
But she is resilient as she has never been cracked
The woman in white coat restores people’s pride
She covers her clients with her soft love cloud
If not the whole truth exactly,
then news much closer to it
--- but politic, omissive --- ,
and if not fair really,
then news just fair enough,
for now ...
Beleaguered Battlefield
On site of a past battlefield I had been
Can you imagine doing it over again?
Bloodshed, suffering and senseless death
Right down to the last dying breath.
Lonely majestic eagle flies high overhead
Looking down on site of those once dead
And on the flat plain rain started to pour
Down on site of those not there anymore.
High in heaven is where they have gone
Looked back on earth they once laid upon
God again please in one more big breath
Blow all the pain away suffered from death.
No matter how hard things are or times dim
Prayed to God and then into the arms of Him
Where there exists an endless sandy shore
And peace always prevails for evermore.
This poem written by me is designed along
the lines of modern times and language
usage. It has been constructed to smoothly
flow and reach for your each feeling.
James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
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