Best Maintain Poems
Written: January 15, 2024
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Fiction, factuality, and fetching flavors.
Tangible, practical, natural perspective.
Can a warm impression be desirable?
To witness connect, and wonder.
It's heartfelt but delusional.
delight, devotion, a warm imposter.
A genuine affection, a hope for deceit
A supposed desire to succeed.
To wish for sight, feel affection.
It's a dissatisfaction connection.
My priority is your well-being.
Dwelling in a rigid atmosphere.
It felt as if I didn't belong
I tried to fit in for years
within a mismatched enclosure.
Still, I sought their embrace and praise.
I struggled with their maze repeatedly.
regardless of my desire.
I didn't catch the dwelling I desired.
It glazed on me as I traveled.
Being treated simply as you are.
I had not loved or cared for myself.
Don't you recognize me starving?
I heard myself in that crucial insight stage.
I knew I ought to rewrite my story.
must abandon society's rigid rules.
Allow my authentic integrity to shine.
Adapting was challenging.
Toward self-love and pleasure.
I felt peaceful and the sky seemed vast.
I realized my genuine self deep inside.
I freed myself from worthless people.
Those who elect mask above birth.
They never fit my soul.
I had paid dearly for faking.
If you suspect anything is wrong.
Self-imposed turmoil has plagued you.
Relax and ignore others advice.
Self-acceptance is never late.
Convey your true radiance,
At its best—it's popular globally.
Just maintain that course
Stay on that path in order to excel
Put your best foot forward
And continue to do well
Uplift and empower
Be that beacon of light in every way
Nothing but positive vibes
Rise and shine everyday
Maintain Dignity Horn Haiku
Maintain dignity (5)
You should always stay with me (7)
I am Hillary. (5)
How is that for a Hillary Horn Haiku?
Jim Horn
Ask me how I'm doing now and I'm just maintaining, just to maintain it
Its raw deep and seeded, an explanation doesn't really justify the details
I knew i was stronger than most when i consoled my own heart
As i silently watched you give away everything that i ever deserved
Its been a few more years past now and it still hurts
I feel jaded, I held on for so long, rewriting the wrongs
Somedays it just feels like ripping the stitches out of wounds over and over
I don't even know anymore how to approach it, I just want closure
But it hurts me to have to hurt you
And then when you do hurt, I hurt again too, pain times two
So, I let my heartbreak for your heart, so your heart don't have to just to sustain you
There is a rawness and discord intertwined in that type of pain
So, I bare the burden of your heartache just to protect you
I can't let the anguish and atrocities subdue and consume you
So I give every allegiance and conviction that I have in me, to you
So that I can endow you.
When rollerblading I threw out my back.
A sidewalk bump sent me off the track.
On the way home I had felt out of whack.
Did extra stretches to create motion slack.
But the lumbar pain would come and go.
My posture suddenly elderly, a pain show.
When walking I’ll hobble around all decrepit.
My legs uncooperative and are full of quit.
Pain shifted from lower back to the right hip.
Triggered by a sidewalk crack and near trip.
To get around I grab walls and solid furniture.
At this point the best way to treat I am unsure.
Can hardly dress myself or grasp stuff nearby.
Pain reaches points I think I’m ready to die.
People squirm seeing me in this weak state.
With an elite fitness regimen, it’s karmic fate.
Asking for my wife to get stuff out of reach.
When not overwhelmed, she can be a peach.
Such a contrasting dynamic from my before.
Winning fitness challenges by shocking score.
High volumes of pushups, burpees & squats.
Frequent strengthening and stretching shots.
But I learned one misstep can derail the train.
Workouts get suspended when in bad pain.
The worried looks on faces is a reversal.
When before I was awaiting a rehearsal.
For a professional pushup competition.
Now totally beyond my comprehension.
So I’ll patiently await the results of the tests.
Wondering if I’ll get back to setting my bests.
Willing to settle for the ability to just walk.
Surprised with all the agony I can still talk.
Took a needle to the joint to get some relief.
Hoping it helps my body going through grief.
Trying to inhale but keep holding my breath.
Suddenly understand why people chose death.
Constant pain totally changes life’s direction.
Only way to resolve is with medical inspection.
So I hope and pray it clears up pretty soon.
Because right now I’m as useful as a buffoon.
MAINTAIN YOUR FOCUS
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Don’t lower the bar, lose not sight of the goal
Avoid the distractions, that constantly unfold
Zero in on the prize with relentless pursuit
An untended tree will be barren of fruit
Fuel your quest with positive assertions
Mine your resources for creative infusions
Your goal emerges, in sight, continue apace
Successful missions lead to a higher chase
Rescheduling to allow enough
time so that what had been done
in 15 minutes could be done
in 7;00 minutes.
Re-learning the graft is
how he described the doings
of "Allocated Time"!
in working hours are expensive.
In Lescer often their isn't enough time
to accomplish what you wished or
planned to do.
In understanding time is set aside
to show how different
things are.
In a relationship
one would put time either together
or apart to find remedy or solution
to which troubles.
since words have simular meanings
in each context they can mean
completely different things.
It is wise to look over definitions
place them under the correct
area to study them.
For Example the words
The Word Consummate means to
physically began a relationship.
While Biblically it used to describe the word Destroy.
Lackadaisical one would neither separate the definitions
and would probably smirk in the face of
these definitions. Which then
could be used to by folk who
would benefit more
by using the correct defined words and phrase.
(Which then Is Neither)
Fusing words is dangerous: and those
who exploit people are wrong for
"neithering- and not stating the objectives in
there attempt to be recognized!
At the heart of this art there’s a tartness that fits like a harness/
Put those pieces and bits together to finesse and furnish/
I’m breathing in the flesh here I go out of my mind in a flash/
I’m teeming to tout and sprout my divined intertwined lines/
It’s seeming I rhyme like a purified water spout your out and spew that brine slime/
Got your wit salt saturated so stop and sit then you sulk as it's curated/
A lot to shoot at with a pot to balk at after who’s muck was berated/
Solely for the souls I’ve created I’m having hopes slated/
Slowly and strategically I strain to pain these pages/
Painfully went through stages coming from outrageous cages/
Plain prayers I ploy practically as I plan my poises/
Prone pigs pricked at prose posed to oppose the pose that’s proposed/
Like propane with no flame, yeah that’s a good name as I’m a pro at pain/
I know lanes to strain the games as I’ve stained my own old game/
Had to re-tame and re-frame as I maintained to refrain/
I’m telling you now blame clowns nobody can pain me like KRG. okay G?/
As I am schooling you louts I hear your shout/
You’re a few letters short for your jacket/
Just get jagged but don’t get it twisted/
I won’t fret fracas flasks flashed in the past/
Forgetfulness forgotten as the factious family fractions be flapping jokes/
Forever flipping flops for flimsy folks/
Don’t be a fiend friend and find faith tokes
I live right next to the Lockwood Folly River.
Maintain My Poems
When writing poems them must maintain,
And then in good shape they will remain;
Prepare a plan,
Understand can;
Write more poems me should start to train.
Jim Horn
MAINTAIN CONSCIOUSNESS
concentration has a deadly flaw
distraction brands our subterfuge
prescription drugs just lead to more
sedation erasing sacred lucid truth
pick the sharp double edged sword
ultimately understanding the point
simply to focus on nothing stored
tempered blade by displaced taunt
keep eyes open for just one more day
keep heart alive heed deaths blood drain
keep from floating adrift along the way focus sane and consciousness maintain
© Kim van Breda—June 2014
Soul learning goes on,
until ego’s shorn,
desires negated
and fears sedated.
Since we're now alive,
it means desires thrive,
suppressed but not dead,
still by our heart fed.
Let's not self-appraise
pastures where fears graze
within our body,
filled with thoughts shoddy.
Make mindful our eye,
lest later we sigh,
on life's gift wasted,
bliss never tasted.
28-October-2022
Maintain your tenacity
And do not fall apart
Keep your mind sharp
Right from the start
Knowledge is there
Just reach out and grab it
Continue to learn
That is the spirit
Maintain your true identity
Not because of the feeling
Not because of the personality
Goodness makes us accountable
It's our DNA inate in our being
Life may change, change for good
Change for the better and more goodness
In the course of life good always win.
Today was the day for a medical appointment
to prove he was fit enough to drive
It's an annual event for which one must present,
when you reach the ripe old age of seventy five
What's the medication for your pulse rate
at forty three beats per minute why is it so low ?
Fifty years no medication, with gusto he decided,
he would surely let them know
Firstly he revealed , whatever he did eat
was only ever, organic raw
No food is ever cooked, no coffee tea or drugs
it's been that way for thirty years or more
At age of seventy seven he still can swing an axe
to chop a pile of wood
Still quite able to do all the things
as a younger man he could
Be it physical or mental
he has energy aplenty
To run six kilometres daily
be it ten or twenty
Daily exercise, play musical instruments
or just sitting in the sun
Choosing activities
that offer lots of fun
Focus on the breath
through the nose both in and out
Be aware of beauty, the birds , the trees , the clouds
where ever you may find yourself everywhere about
Complete a cryptic crossword, a trivia quiz or two
works the mind , slows the onset of senility
Meditation in the morning perhaps again at night
exhilaration, a sense of guided tranquility
Introduce Tibetan Rites, an ancient form of yoga
a therapy to reduce the ageing rate
As a soul upon this planet, we have free will for our selections
Face reality there's an outcome for the choices we create
It's almost to the point we will need another licence
for the vehicle called the body, which we inhabit twenty four hours a day
It's called a microchip or an ID card. Will you give it your consent ???
I request that every one of us, votes an emphatic nay
He's not the boy she used to know
wherever in the world did he go
nor the man we once knew
but it only goes to show
time and tide took its toll
for all that he's become
and just one look will soon tell
if he'll maintain or succumb
as overwhelmed by numbers
and totally surrounded
through all weather can he ever
remain steadfast or grounded