Best Obstacle Poems

Brushed timeless in youth's inner light, dreams flow
like ruffles on dress stitched blue - 
no fence long legs can't climb. 


By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders, 2/15/15
For Nette's In Praise of A Kimo Contest
Visual #2...

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                                          watch your step
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“Obstacle In Our Path”
Elephants

Side to side
Side to side 
Rhythmically rocking my enormous body and head  
Side to side
Side to side
Like a pendulum my trunk swings side to side
I'm only doing this because I'm bored
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My family and I walk for miles and miles
Foraging, 
Dusting,
Mud wallowing,
Swimming...

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Every Obstacle Away


Like a bird that sails over everything on earth
Without even a dram of worry in its heart,
If you try to live that way
You will certainly get every obstacle away.....

Find, in yourself, your capabilities
Be confident and obtain your susceptibilities,
Like a king who is known...

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I look up at the intimidating sight in front of me in anger.
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I’ve had struggled through long nights of sobbing.
Days of questioning, 
Wanting reasoning. 
Mental threatening. 
There were things I just couldn’t answer, but still seeked. 
I set boundaries for my self but still cheated, still peaked.
When someone comes along to help you see things for what...

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We didn't start out this way
We didn't plan for this
We created this

Our ancestors didn't think about
Corporations
and
Cars

What were their dreams?
Were they as materialistic as ours?

Survival only has one road
But many potential avenues to travel

It all ends up the same
My friend

Death
That final unconquerable
Obstacle...

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I was brought her under the false impression that this was one big adventure
I listened to my intuition (hopelessly wrong)
I was confident and excited and young
but time can change people
Now I feel older than the trees in Century Park
trapped in a concrete jungle
despairing, hopeless, but...

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fog as the white ghost 
escorts the airship wrongly
brings a pathless wreck



-January 01, 2018 Chattogram...

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While sidestepping impediments,
Achilles heel stricken with paralyzing zap
chronically inducing captain klutz
to bemoan and yap,
i.e. (think) booby trap
strategically laid down by the missus -

necessitating yours truly
to patschke with marauder map
in an to circumvent and handicap
becoming lame and crippled for life
essentially rendering me totally tubular
pathetic non-ambulatory chap.

Aforesaid...

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My family never allows me to read a book 
Every time I attempt to read a page they'll tell me to cook
So day and night  I sweat
But bitterness wipes of the wet 
Triumphantly it makes me do all the work...

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What's this hill in front of me?
Is it another love obstacle? No it can't because I've been through one before.
A few steps closer yet it seems to travel further away.
Is it a goal or a destination, I don't know.

The sun blurs my vision for a...

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Here I am again buried under by this grain of sand
At the beach oceans mock me.  Waves laugh real tears
Pretty bikini girls wearing two strings saunter by 
All smiles as they admire my bulky hunk muscles 
As I hide my grief from them and...

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A face with the bitterest frown,
For long years expecting a crown;
Now in prickly sweat bathed
And A Tongue is scathed …

It’s really an awful spectacle,
Facing no challenge, no obstacle,
As reported by his mirror
Doing so without error;
Ability he’s got and Agility
And all his life no infirmity.

So, why...

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He is out to spread his tentacles
In the face, of combative obstacles,
And dying to end through a tackle
Any unacceptable spectacle 
Between The Rickety and The Ramshackle:
Busy roads he’d started their channels,
Hateful robbers sealing off their tunnels,
Corrupt judges replacing with panels,
Supported subsidy showing with funnels,
Filling stations...

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