Best Internalize Poems
I'm inspired to open beauty's door
To step outside and let my mind explore,
To feel refreshing rain from skies above
To internalize nature's gifts of love.
Your poetry is what inspires so...
Such imagery that sets my heart aglow.
You capture life and love within your rhyme
In music of your words that's so sublime.
Enchantment swells from my impassioned heart
From glory that your wondrous words impart.
The depth of passion with coherent bliss
Lingers in my mind as a cherished kiss.
I long to be enfolded by your charms
With dreams of being held within your arms,
As your desires seem so real to me....
Yet, sure I know those dreams be poetry.
11-15-18
~First Place~
LATE NOVEMBER ,ANY FORM,ANY THEME,UPTO A MAX OF 20 lines
Contest Judged: 11/18/2018 12:08:00 AM
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
*Dedicated to all romantic Poetry Soup poets
Inspired by the following quote: "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." — Helen Keller
Why am I crying now; there must be a reason
Is there something my conscious mind’s trying to hide
Or could it simply be this humid, warm season
The torment of seeking answers can’t be denied
There are days when I wake with a smile on my face
Grateful for many blessings that have been bestowed
But after nightmares, I feel I’ve fallen from grace
Anomalies exist in my genetic code
Like my Mom, I struggle to break from depression
Never understanding why feelings overwhelm
Perhaps I pay for a forgotten transgression
Is it a smile or a frown today at the helm
Sometimes I have tendencies to internalize
But the causes of these I cannot analyze
*Written March 14, 2015, for Sara’s “A Penny for your Thoughts” contest.
It’s a long slow trip into misery
It starts by putting that bad feeling aside
By narrowing your expectations
And removing all of your pride
And as you make you humble
You actually cripple as well
You reach so far to have someone else
That it actually puts you in hell
It’s a long slow trip into misery
From which I must return
And in order to do this
I must internalize the lessons learned
To believe in me
To set me free
To walk into the light
And possibly disappear from sight
Ascent from Misery – 2001 (C) Susan Manley (on my divorce)
Sometimes you learn in a second the lessons that takes decades to internalize
2-16-2016
Sunset. Synergy is moving between chairs
that don't quite match, widening tight circles
of rovers. Muses Cafe, a small cove where
views internalize, so we heave heavy troubles
outside. Minstrel Mary Anne Epp shelters
songs about happenstance. When a server drops
a plate, she ad libs, Save cracks for later.
Heads nod to her witty vibes, bite-sized bops.
Inspiration strums as parlance sighs, Good grief,
my journal's at home. You say, All's fine.
but your purse offers only ONE loose leaf,
curiously room enough for TWO to lay lines.
Pens groove. Friend, you prove that poets can wage
self-determined verse while on the same page.
*For Kathryn
No one wins in custody battles,
The children get shuffled back and forth
like cattle,
It's bad enough their family life has come
to a halt,
They have to keep reliving the horrors,
thinking it's their fault,
The feelings of wounds being aggravated by salt,
The partnership of parents may end,
but the children don't have to lose
their stable lives and friends,
All that will happen is they will become
transient people, who shun attachment,
not knowing whether to believe in God or the devil,
It's never a win-win situation when children have to choose,
in the long run everyone looses.....,
They internalize all the hate,
and begin viewing the world as evil........
Some folks tend to awfulize
Others prefer to dramatize,
There are those who fantasize
Many people will improvise.
I know a few who tantalize
Even resort to marginalize
Those who are short in size,
Which will often destabilize
Because they may internalize,
Which is not always wise!
Three times a week, I advise,
It’s a good thing to exercise!
Written August 16, 2022
In the midst of whatever has you bound up and under attack
The presence of God can break every chain for the Lord has your back
Be it mental, physical or psychological chains that are holding you down
The presence of the Lord has the power to lift you up to higher ground
The liberating presence of the Lord God will deliver you and set you free
From whatever has you shackled and girded up like a Christmas turkey
Let me go, set me free, break every chain, free me from my situation
It's time for me to embrace the place of my transformation
Let me go, set me free, break every chain
Of whatever has me stricken, bent over and in pain
Let me go, release me, take away the shame
Let the Holy Spirit bring forth in me some change
It's not enough to just show up in church dressed to the nines
You need to participate in the worship and let God enter your mind
And don't play yourself by thinking the church is more than just a building
As it's the congregation who are the true source
In working, worshipping and witnessing for God
For He is the ultimate life force
Now let the power of worship in you transcend and transform
Let the power of praise in you redeem and reform
And it matters not what is your condition
Allow the Holy Spirit to reposition
And no longer will your condition rule
As you have been spiritually schooled
Now able to get past your circumstances and situations
By embracing the Resurrection power of God in your transformation
Let me go, let me go, free me from my misery
Break every chain Lord God, just set me free
No longer will I internalize or lament woe is me
For I've been transformed by the hand of God for the whole world to see
An Immigrant Hymn (my story against Trump)
Must be difficult, to unlearn,
Everything you once knew,
New ways quickly learn,
A different way accept as true.
Must be difficult, to get used,
To faces white and black,
To internalize new skills and,
Master the foreign with an easy knack.
Must be difficult, more than the ways,
To tragically leave behind,
The feel of rainy tropical days,
Family and friends kind.
Must be difficult, to restart,
From the bottom of the ladder,
With your unusual accent part,
Keep memories from making you sadder.
But, yet you do it,
With great joy and pain,
To keep a promise to yourself,
Pursue happiness, hopefully NOT in vain!
By Ritu Saheb, AIA
(I first published this poem on Poemhunter in 2009)
Integrate Integrity
I am learning to lead by example, what does that mean to me?
It has to encompass integrating integrity.
For what I admire in others, I need to internalize.
I want to feel no shame when I see myself through God’s eyes.
I was raised to recognize wrong and right.
I justified my actions through lies and deceit.
At the end it was my own suffering that made me realize, I had to admit defeat.
Along my descent I lost my integrity.
I was aghast at what had become acceptable to me.
I crossed many lines and thought I did not need to have any boundaries.
My lack of integrity, helped to bring me to my knees.
I did many things I said I would never do.
The most devastating lie I told, was not the lies I told you.
It was the lies I told myself that was once what I came to believe;
Until I was granted a reprieve.
In spite of the things I did to others and to me.
I must incorporate into my spirit, the definition of integrity:
adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
Integrity has to be imbedded into the very soul of me.
I thought I could make up and live by my own set of rules.
I thought I was the captain of the ship, but realize I was just a passenger on a ship
of fools.
No longer do I choose to build spiritual or emotional prisons.
When I did not practice integrity based decisions.
I heightened and strengthened the prison walls with my own guilt and shame.
Blaming others, because I refused to take the blame.
Until all that I could see;
Was my lack of integrity.
I willingly compromised my very soul.
There is no wonder why, I could not feel whole.
Today I am setting a goal that I must practice everyday.
Integrating integrity into my life; is the only way.
That I will live a life full of joy and serenity.
It is time to live my life fueled by the integration of spiritual and moral integrity.
Written by Greg Sykes
June 20, 2011
In this moment,
Can I give you a piece,
If only a morsel of my thoughts?
Would you tide them over,
With your own stormy thoughts?
Or would you ride mine like waves,
And let the depths take you?
Let me be myself,
And I promise I will fly beside you
Unto skies you only dream on peaks of ecstasy
Upon highlands gleaming with hope’s reverie
Would you find these words too overcast for ingesting,
Or in a heartbeat, would you swallow me whole,
Into a weather out-weathered?
Internalize this song,
Forever and always!
Let me be myself,
And you will find the path toward light
Toward the beaten route of stranger words
That seek beauty over other worlds
-For my friend, Richard
Children are all the same continent to continent.
Innocent, impressionable; full of youthful exuberance
And wide-eyed wonder.
They're endlessly curious about the world
Around them; sponges absorbing
All that their minds can conceive. They internalize
Things said, repeat words they hear, imitate
Behaviors they observe.
To raise good children, parents must teach them
Family values, proper etiquette, good manners,
Communication skills required to function
In today's society. They're receptive to acts
Of kindness and compassion.
Children are all the same continent to continent.
Innocent, impressionable; full of youthful exuberance
And wide-eyed wonder.
They all want the same things: reassurance, freedom
To explore and discover, love, comfort, encouragement,
Protection, guidance, attention. They need people
To play with, be it other children or with grown-ups;
Preferably their parents.
They imbibe virtues such as respect, fairness,
And honesty, regardless of national origin, race, religion,
Or language. They comprehend gestures of genuine
Friendship, and they're perceptive enough to immediately
Detect hints of insincerity or instability.
Children are all the same continent to continent.
Innocent, impressionable; full of youthful exuberance
And wide-eyed wonder.
Submitted for...
Anything You Want - Must Be New Poem Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke
Date: 07/31/2021
Interpretivity is a measure of a person’s rate of understanding. A person’s rate of
interpretation shows the individual’s ability to unlock, identify, simplify, solve,
measure accurately, try to understand, restore, think, re-think, unveil, transcribe,
translate and hence it has a role to play in an individual’s creativity. Since the rate of
understanding is directly proportional to creativity, an individual’s level of
interpretivity is a measure of an individual's understanding i.e. ability to read,
receive, interpret(internalize-explore-externalize). Intuitivity and inquisitivity play
important roles with this parameter. It is the link that bridges receptivity and
reproductivity.
Narrativity ability to read and give back – reproduce without necessarily understanding
what is read. A very high level of receptivity, low interpretivity and expressivity
exhibit narrativity.
Reproductivity – ability to give back exactly what has been given, read, thought e.t.c.
without any sort of addition, creativity, subtraction, alteration e.t.c. It is totally
different from re-creativity. A high level of understanding is needed for reproductivity.
Re-creativity – this is the ability to re-modify, re-adjust, re-define, re-alter,
re-model, re-shape e.t.c. an already existing-created-discovered altered creativity. For
re-creativity to be achieved, some absolute understanding about the substance in question
i.e. to be re-created must have been undergone. It is an alteration to creativity. It is
correctional adjustment to creativity.
Correctivity is the process of re-mending-mending, re-molding-molding, re-fixing-fixing of
an altered creativity-substance. It requires absolute-ultimate not only mastery but total
understanding of the altered creativity in order to perform this process.
Understanding is having an absolute knowledge and wisdom about something. It is the
interpretation i.e. (pure-total reception, highly active intuitivity-individual
perception-inquisitivity and maximal expressivity) that eventually must lead to
creativity. When understanding is at its peak creativity is inevitable whether by
derivations from the original-truth or copies of the-from the original-truth. If
understanding is directly proportional to the vividness of imagination then the rate of
creativity will-must vary from one person to another.
Addiction II
I listen carefully to gage what you are covering up
To hear if your words are slurred
Or your outlook too bleak,
Or if you have verged into mania.
I tell myself,
This is the nature of addiction.
I try not to take it personally, but
I internalize your depression and misplaced rage.
I love to hear from you on a good day
Straining towards the normalcy in your voice
Recalling how you once were, and could be again
Imagining all the fun we could have as sisters.
Setting myself up to fall when you crash.
I cover for you to try to spare others the worry
How many stints in the ICU will it take
“to reach rock bottom?”
I have been encouraged to walk away but I cannot.
My guilt and my love and my powerlessness weigh heavy.
This is the nature of addiction.
Internalize the beauty, it
surrounds your sacred place;
reach out and touch the breeze as it drifts by.
Caress creation's origins
imbued with nature's face
and hear sweet Gaia praise you with her sigh.
The riddle in the middle
contemplates the truth of man
for therein lies the balance all men seek.
Do not abandon Nature
but accommodate Her plan;
it gathers all the glory of the meek.
Rejoice in every choice you
make that strips away the blight
to bring about a righteousness revealed
For truth shall give a purpose
to the prophets perfect sight;
one day the earth, in beauty, shall be healed.
Yet danger often hovers
like a lover in the pit
where accidental evil waits its turn -
So delve within yourself
to find perfection in the fit;
the prophet's oratory says to learn!!
No matter what a label
or a fable may direct,
reach out to relish reason with your mind;
The search for truth is ancient
and the Pharaohs did neglect
all signs the mighty Tigress left behind.
Through Persian and Egyptian
reigns the truth has faced all fears,
that forge the futile fumbling found today.
Mankind has been immersed
in loss and shed too many tears,
no longer can we hope or even pray:
Now activate the intellect
and then dissect each part
of complex continuity we breed.
Let man and nature come
as one to greet the final start -
in restoration of our fertile seed!!