Best Interests Poems


Premium Member When Melancholy Drowns My Interests

When melancholy drowns my interests,               
all seem lost; when black bile's ooze then molests,           
I travel through the valley of this death,
lacking life, hope—even desire for breath!

So, myself from blackness I amputate,
spurn whether to self-murder (and brave this fate?);
and lay aside despair and misery,
to fall in love once more with Poetry.

For two loves I have, God and the Muses:
one gives, the other neither refuses.
Before long, the Parnassus heals me in time;     
and I grow strong before the end of this rhyme!

For mightier than despair is the Lord,
and the poet whose pen conquers the sword.

Premium Member Conflicting CoOperative Interests

Two Taurus husbands
intending to nurture shared truths 
of Win/Win 
organic mind/bodies
engaging Earth's interdependent communion

To discover our conflicting 
and often unshared 
half-baked thoughts
intentions
anticipations 
in articulate and marvelously punctuated language,
rhythm, 
lexicon of meta-confluent function 
and integrally warm
co-gravitating flow
like butta' 

To uncover, 
recover,
rediscover 
our therapeutic seeds 
and traumatic weeds,
cooperative hopes 
and conflicting transracial despairs, 
repeatedly, 
co-passionately,
authentically, 
resonantly
and, at last, co-arising

Yummy regenerative treats,
communication strings of ecstatic recreation,
spectral sights 
and savory sounds 
and bouncy muscular rebounds
of potential co-redemption

Healing,
anticipating rom-com therapeutic curiosity,
resiliently co-engaging discovery
re-connecting beloved EarthTribe communities
re-developing health-wealthy outcomes

Slowly replacing
traumatic stress disorders, 
binging on hate crime dramas,
and RightWing atrocities
against sacred EarthMothers
and green innocence

While wintering and withering
deep seated desperation
in life's last retiring 
isolated
lonely recliner.

Common Interests

The obsessive narcissistic lover of hers
climbed the hill of challenged.
Beating his head against a brick wall
for his pure love was damaged.

Whilst meeting they seemed to get along,
with common interests per usual.
Neither proudly advertised;
for this was unconventional.

Upon leaving he stirs and slurs,
left alone she questions again.
Uttering muttering "women",
naming blaming "men".

Pick up their phones to call now enraged,
only to find each other engaged.


Premium Member Common Interests

COMMON Interests 


Kim and I were both taught to be good girls, and we both believe in God and humanity.
We use long poetical rhyming words like insanity, vanity and profanity.
Both of us like the outdoors, and know there are dangerous things like gravel  and snakes out there,
Which will jump up and bite our bare feet and bare toesies without a  “I’m sorry” or a care. 

Our jester-side is actually in charge of the whole family, and maybe the neighbors too.
We are so terrific wearing this hat, that we conduct whole armies, red, gray, orange and blue.
We both enjoy the Beatles – Yellow Submarine, is a favorite of mine, and that’s no fib.
I was a young teenager when they landed in the states,  Kim,you heard them in your pink baby crib.

We agree on second, third, and maybe even fifteen chances for people whom we love.
We like imagery that includes billowy clouds, faeries, and a charismatic turtle dove.
We like Dr. Seuss’ Books, especially ‘Horton Hears A Who’ and ‘The Star Belly Sneetches’,
And we would not turn down a free vacation at wonderful  South Carolina beaches.

We do our best to comment on other’s poems with genuineness and love, to an entire group.
Our tastes are similar; we love art, music, gardening, animals and especially Poetry Soup.

Key words: good girls, God, rhyming words, jester, Beatles, love, faeries, Dr. Seuss, love, art
	     Gardening, animals, Poetry Soup
                                                               Written:  May 1, 2018

Interests

A sea of nothing, full of volume and driving
ambition from both sides.
A shooting star is nothing but a rock
from somewhere else; maybe more lovely,
burning in our atmosphere.
Life on Earth, how special?

What Interests Me

What Interests Me  
I know there are men more tender than you
With eyes more protective than yours,
And more other things,
And . . . . . . .
But I’m not interested in the number of hydrogen bonds in molecules of water.
All I know is that without water, I’ll die of thirst
And it’s the same
Without you.

Translated by William Hutchins


New Interests

I want a new interest
                    to heal,
          My heart's weariness,
           Someone to live for
                and work for;
            The one to wait for
                  and long for.

             This my unfulfilled 
                     longing,
             Makes my want of 
                      strength,
              my listlessness
        brings my languidness.

            I need to encounter 
           this healing interest,
           to cure my festering, 
              wandering mind;
            Setting its thinking
                    at rest,
          By your loving kindness
                   O my God.
© Odu Mkwute  Create an image from this poem.

He Is Interested In Our Interests

When we pray to God in 
purity,
We speak our mind to Him 
with alacrity,
when we study His Word 
deeply
He speaks His mind to us 
clearly

When we praise Him in His 
beauty,

we spring into His 
presence... in reality,
When we Thank Him 
thoughfully,
we spur Him to doing more 
constantly.

When we worship Him 
willingly,
we spray Him awesome 
words outrighly.
When we swin not in sin,
we spare ourselves some 
troubles within.
when we sail more in 
stains,
we spite him, so He 
plagues us with pains.

When we endeavour to 
evangelize,
in the fathers Heart beat, 
we specialize

When we doubt his power 
to heal,
we speculate what is a 
settled deal.
when we trust in him with 
passion,
we speed up His 
intervention.
When we reject His 
instruction,
we spurn His salvation.
When we walk in his ways,
we spruce up ourselves for 
eternal grace.

Going,Going,Gone

The curfew city rustles
People begin their hustles
Transport and markets bustle, noisily
The curfew has served its purpose,obviously

We get it more clearly now
From ourselves we knew not, to protect us, how
Enter the consummate politician
He protects business interests, not the Physician

He spews numbers daily bigger
Wields authority, we figure
Advises that we borrow heavily, to save us
We get broker, as we fall under the debt bus

Trival Interests

Be careful not to lose the letter
attached to the top.
I finished mending the pants
she said, I hope you like them
them, I didn't know that Blue denim
Vest and pants where so heavy, they'll look
nice with those snakeskin shoes you
got for Christmas.
I hope she'll go with you,
I mean if you ask her to the dance
I hope she except, the Lady's at the
church spoke of a Man from somewhere
in Peru, coming to speak at the church, if she'll go 
dancing with you maybe she'll come to hear him
speak.
I think the subject is on some new findings in a Jungle 
research, they dug-up an ancient city and found the ruins
of Pragenti Solti" the gift giver of the Incan Indians.
the translated the scroll of the ancients, and the ladies
in the Dram Augsillany are sponsoring the ordeal.
If she say's yes then maybe just maybe  you can use the 
barn to have a party.

Premium Member The Death of a Prisoner

A woman 
Is no longer a prisoner 
In a family
Like the olden days
Now
With her own pursuits
Own interests
Own wellbeings
And
No more intensive pressures
From the mother-in-law
Or anyone else's dictatorship
A new person is born
To the society
To a new era
And now
The death of a prisoner
Has ended the miserable stories
Of women 
In the olden days

Premium Member Photoshop Interests Me

Rainbow owl, you are amazing even though
You are completely photo-shopped I know
An artist has made you adorable to me
I like your looks, gorgeous is what you be.

It makes me want to use photo shop myself.
I have never done it, because I need an elf
Who understand the ins and outs of technology.
So they can teach graphic arts to challenged me.

Premium Member In the interests of the Nation'

Its ob-scene yet not ob-scure.' Quite clear
The people must exerscise de'jure.' there
Were buisness officers sent armed to the
Teeth..Entailed unto your deadly grief.'
Just before the court action, Dezi was looking for truth and action.' Dingo dan though planned to thwart  being beside it  TWOT leader he'd have had to decide it would be great if an offence could be pinned on Freeman, the case would never
Be tried..Now goons are expendable.' And
If one perhaps were killed, he could say good riddance 'to that free-man' and old
danny boy could ridel.! That would only leave that car crash.? Yet he was good by
Thunder..The slipperiest snake that ever had slithered around
This land (Down under)

Premium Member The Art of Living

Beauty is in the mastery
of the life you have created for yourself
the interests and passions you've delved into
culminating in the unique individual you've become
you are the tapestry of your life's work



AP: 2nd place 2025

No Interests

Imagine No poetry
No photography
No music
do we  know our own worth ?

 a mean streak of  yellow light emits
and dimmer eyeballs entail
with a soupçon of an onion reminiscence

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