Best Enthusiasm Poems

Excitement echoed
In my heart
First experience
Of being a part

Now looking back to
Those times, thoughts
Flood like the cold rain
And ties me in knots

Enthusiastically 
Grabbing the end
Of the crosscut saw
Helping hand to lend

He let me slowly pull
From my point of 
View, I carried my 
Weight, without gloves

At seven...

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For Sotto Poet's  E  Words Contest
17 June 24

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"Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action" -- Henry Chester

I cling to reveries of youth, the tender sentiment of plucking words from summer roots,
That in my journal hours when the red
of skies are...

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“Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action” – Henry Chester

Oh, glitter dreams, I had to let you go
though in my youth, you’re all that I longed for.
Faith fled when my sweet passions lost their glow.

Some plans I made fate forced me to...

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Enthusiasm is the key
To the attitude that will open doors
To your future

Enthusiasm is the ideal
You will want to strive to muster as much as possible
To live the life you want to live

To fully find your bliss
To live your most honored life
The one you set up...

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The lift cables engage, elevating
our gondola high above the valley. 
And as white snowflakes confetti blue skies
our honeymoon ski-trip feels surreal.

The allure of a ski lodge in the Alps,
is, it sounds so cozy and romantic.
For if the brisk breezes become too cold,
we'll retreat inside and...

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Ocean view ... yawning azure
          wakes and smiles, the lemon drop sun
     daubing sprites on wave tops -

              ...

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Rain beats against the window, 
As my little boy leans his brow
And little hands against the cool glass,
Staring, longing to go out. 

His eyes light up with joyous excitement; 
Grinning from ear to ear,
For down the hall by the door 
He sees his sister's red...

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Being stuck is how I learned I am a cartoonist,
A poet, a writer, a painter.
Being stuck is what makes me 
Seek something new that will interest me.

I know when my brain needs something new.
Her dendrites are crying for another language,
vocabulary words, new methods of painting.

I...

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she was a mess
people were scared
of uniqueness

she did not care
lived by her heart
knew herself well

people jumped back
friends delighted
family annoyed

followed her rules
lived her own dreams
happy magnet...

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Help me save the children from rage and hopelessness,
Bring your optimistic lanterns, and your jubilant joy sticks.

Meet me in a half hour in the gazebo in the park.
Bring all the children you can find along the way.
Use your magic flutes and faeries to get them...

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Some people are bored.
I am not.
Some people live the same day every day.
I don’t.
Some people never change their opinions.
I do.
Some people have not picked up a book since high school or college.
I am not one of those.
Some people do not believe in life-long learning.
I do.
Some...

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I really loved it when
I had that bubbly youthful nature
I’d wake up enthusiastic 
Hopeful for what each day would bring

Years of disillusionment pecked away
And eroded that bright fragile shell
It’s most unfortunate because
It was so unequivocally uplifting
That smile on my face seemed permanent
As much as that...

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fluorescent colors
every corner of the room
delightful cartoons
reminding me of great times
happy moments of painting...

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Dancing through life
Shaking my shoulders
Loosening up my hips
A sassy gypsy queen am I

Taking no prisoners
Enjoying my freedom
Playing my tambourine
Delighting the faeries

Twirling skirts 
In a variety of colors
Matching no one
Surpassing myself.

Singing my truth
Competition on. 
Fire oozes from my soul
I am the gypsy pirate queen


Written 8-02-2019
Contest: Invitation...

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Delight in something daily
A flower, a bird, a juicy tomato
Relish your good health
Your hearing, your memory, your clarity
Celebrate your children
Their happiness, their successes, their families
Enjoy your freedom
Create something, dance, sit in the sun
Smile if you can see
Use your sight to enjoy nature and children
Laugh at...

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