Best Solves Poems
Written: December 23, 2023, For Robert James Liguori Contest
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Life must be navigated without family pain.
Sins that grab the dirt below leave a stain.
Wrongdoings profoundly wound the heart.
Wrongs compel us to feel like targets apart.
Can we avoid future wrongs if we forgive?
Is it better to let go of grudges or to sieve?
Life is full of hurts and scars that all us face.
Disdain, pride, criticism, sarcasm, disgrace.
No type of love that can weather any storm.
A display of virtue outrivals a hatred swarm.
We are in an era when love is seen as a delight.
A bond falls when there is no sense of insight.
Rejecting wickedness is a crucial life insight.
If a smart person bears evil well, we can fight.
The grace to endure affliction and shame.
To fight off evil, avoid reprisal, rage, or declaim.
Was forgetting a condition of forgiveness?
To ignore it is to miss the tip: lenient grimness.
A major harm can't be erased from memory.
Pardon is a duty to offer optimism and reverie.
To some, forgiveness is a sign of weakness.
Forgiveness needs heroic work and boldness.
Furious individuals escape quite easily.
Creative dialogue solves this issue gleefully.
The best approach to surviving this world.
is to request forgiveness and be unnerved.
A balance is present in this chaotic universe.
Just let life happen and live it without a curse.
Allow God to handle the care of the wrath.
Love is the central theme; it paves the path.
By forgiving injustice, humans can heal.
Man needs time to forgive; thus, mercy is a deal.
5th place contest winner
Categories:
solves, analogy, angst, appreciation, forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
This may come unspoken
dismay is mostly taboo
This count feels endless
discount refills the queue
This trust I lost in God
distrust found in the pew
This stain runs too deep
disdain sets in like glue
This dress shows all flaws
distress perfectly fits you
This gust left a whisper
disgust in what it blew
This pair of nuts lost out
despair one couldn’t screw
This missed the G spot
dismissed as nothing new
This solves all our questions
dissolves the answers too
This illusion belies the hurt
disillusion because it’s true
By
David Kavanagh
Categories:
solves, life, perspective, word play,
Form:
Monorhyme
FOUND AT LAST
.
Heading into the light of the infinity mass.
Thrills over a new breath, a shining smile made out of brass
Wondering if my energy will ever dissolve?
A slipknot tied on the world where we revolve.
Sublime in to a new kind of contrast.
A fate ending better than worse, no longer an outcast.
Appearing with TRONS no one solves.
Beyond and under where life really evolves.
Once death takes a toll real love will be found at last.
An afterlife so profound waiting~alas~alas!
By:P.D.
Categories:
solves, death, imagination
Form:
Couplet
Aristotle, who once said, “A flatterer is a friend,
Who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.”
Magician or not, the appraisal we try to defend,
Veneer covered ready, prepare for the overthrow.
And a splint named psychology supports nowt,
Tender are the suspicions, a tourniquet gripped,
That of emotion, a trend compared with doubt,
And complacency set amongst the less equipped.
Human form takes shape of Copernican theory,
Between each other, is the central perspective
Years ahead in terms of mind, yet still we query.
Remaining wary, they’ve listened so corrective.
A glimmer of paradise from that which destined
More positive than rightful, for instance, must,
Be seen as most probable, avoiding a rescind
Of harmonies that quaver a motion. Well, just!
And the motion we speak of, like a whisper,
Eases the tension between people who feather,
The hearing sensation shall understand crisper
Torn between plusses and negatives; whether!
The flatterer is found as the darkest seclusion,
Reflection of them is the question of mystery
A misty environment that forms that illusion
Chronically synchronized a challenge to history,
To beat out the drum of intention, as constant
A theory relating to trust involving apple trees
Has a Newtonian law which shall transplant,
Gravity, attached friends upon a breeze.
In feather-like spirit, the meadow may drift
An illusion that folds from the first dew morn,
With goose bumps that wrinkle a wary shift
Trusts! Where the sugar sweet mentions are born.
That’s what friends are Law, children at heart,
Make-believe portfolios of whimsical worth,
Fasten the button on jumpers, and bonnet apart
When blue summer dye creates umber for earth.
Perceived as a coward on grass that’s not green,
Glass, not a ruby, when trust solves the riddle,
To finish this mantra this causes serene,
Convinced like a Titan’s romance of the fiddle.
Oh! Zeus, need we flutter the discord to ride
The twirls of Hyperion, who teaches the master,
To dance like an ocean and swirl like the tide,
As trust gains momentums avoid the disaster.
Categories:
solves, mystery, trust, perspective,
Form:
Epic
Don’t fall in love with your pictures of love
For the odds are that you are mistaken,
Thinking that she must be this thing or that
The more sure you are, more likely taken.
Her skin coloration, the language she speaks,
Don’t build structure of dreams out of rubble
Strong or compliant, can’t say from the start,
Expectations are sign you’re in trouble.
Love’s its own answer, it writes its own song,
And its breadth is beyond vision’s limits,
Deeper than human emotion, LOVE IS,
Paradise only found in its climates.
Newfound creation as God’s Bliss evolves,
Endless surprise that all mystery solves.
Long Tooth
May 7, 2016
Categories:
solves, faith, life, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Where the aura shines in subdued tones
Overlooked tones were these
Purple...murmured brilliance
Austere vivid visual
Captivating subtly... smiling shyly
Deflecting the praise
gliding through days, easily flowing
floating
Lovely, imperfectly graceful
Cries on whim, laughs like songs
Affectionate laugh....contagious laugh
I love to make her laugh
Selfless, sensitive angel
arms wrap delicate
nurturing, healing embrace
See's unseen, unsaid and solves...
...somehow
Selfless, sensitive angel
arms wrap delicate
I long for your embrace
Categories:
solves, love
Form:
Ode
HE STILL SEE’S ME!
The sun follows her shadow
and backlights her aging hair
She emits the warmth of God’s
Justice, wisdom, love, and care.
Her aging eyes light up air
When she’s speaking of God’s Grace
Explains God’s love’s ...impartial
How embraces every race.
Truth shine’s from within her heart
When Bible truth’s tries to share
Into all men’s neighborhoods
“Jehovah’s name …proudly declares.
Still lives life with intention
God’s purposes loves to explain
God’s kingdom ...solves men’s problems
Paradise will exist again!
Faith and trust ignite her hope
Believes when dies in grave she’ll sleep
Earthly resurrection loves preach
God wakes dead… His promise keeps.
The She is Me… a shadow
Of teacher I use to be
How grateful to Jehovah,
His “Witness”…He still see’s me!
Barbara Barry-Nishanian
Feb.16, 2018
Categories:
solves, christian, faith, god, how
Form:
Rhyme
If we all tried our best,
To do everything we can
To make the world a better place
And to embrace our fellow man
Our skins may be of a different colour.
Our brains form the same.
We are all human beings,
With different cultures and names.
We should celebrate the differences,
That adds interest and intrigue
To a life that would be mundane
Full of self-interest and greed
How would we survive,
If we were all the same?
Our education would be limited,
And some would go insane
Because of intermarrying
One of your kith and kin
What a state of affairs
It would put the world in.
Whatever race we are
Be it black, white, red, or yellow
Our inner core is the same
Born a girl or fellow
War makes unrest
It never makes peace,
If this were so
Wars would cease,
Individual inner peace
The peace that calms the soul,
War solves nothing
It takes its toll
In every facet of life
Causing bloodshed and strife
So before we crumble and fall
Individuals, one and all
Give your best
And The Almighty will do the rest.
Categories:
solves, 10th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
I sat with a friend,
discussing overpopulation,
"the worlds not overpopulated"
he stated
"Look around you,
there is still, a lot more land,
there are still places,
with very few people"
Granted that's true,
there are still places with few people
yet the fish have become
depleted from the sea
We cut down fifty eight football fields
of raintree forest, every day,
the seas are depleted,
because people need to eat,
We cut down the rain forest
because people need furniture,
there are only three hundred
Siberian tigers left in the world,
Other animals have a right to life
three, tiger species became extinct
in the twentieth century,
the ozone layer is becoming depleted
because of the carbon
that we, as a race create.
granted cows have more stomachs
cows give off more methane gas,
Yet we are by far
are the biggest creator of carbon pollution,
cars, cigarettes and human gas,
go into creating air pollution,
four and a half new babies
are born every second,
yes people have a right
to have a family,
Yet what do you want,
their future to hold,
We depend on nature
but now, nature also depends on us,
The north and south pole
are melting,
fresh water going into the ocean,
could change the chemical balance
Of the sea,
perhaps stopping the Mediterranean rift,
perhaps changing heat transfer,
perhaps changing nature,
we depend on this planet
for our survival,
yet this planet also
depends on us,
We have a brain,
We have the ability,
to overcome these problems,
Together we can achieve the impossible,
United we stand divided we fall
yet if we work against each other
we achieve nothing, using investment,
we can overcome our problems,
We can make cars that run on electricity,
We can decide, to have less children,
Together we can do the impossible,
We have already sent people into space
Yet if we spend our time fighting,
against each idea, we get nowhere,
To overcome a problem
first you must agree you have a problem
Then create a solution, that solves the problem,
Increasing tax and destroying lives does not work
investing together creating change is a solution,
We are the most intelligent animal on the planet
Categories:
solves, humanity, international, political, pollution,
Form:
Narrative
The Mechanic
Frank Halliwell
Sam was a gynecologist,
But he'd done his last swab,
For after ten long years, he had
Grown weary of the job.
So he took down his diploma,
And the shingle off the door,
To seek a new horizon for
His talents to explore.
Now trees and shrubs were not his style
He'd shun those jobs botanic,
But wheels and gears might be the thing
..He'd be a car mechanic!
So off he went to take a course
To learn how someone solves
Why cylinders go up and down
While gears and wheels revolve.
He graduated at the top,
The hero of his class.
His marks were of the highest
Any student had amassed!
To-morrow was the 'practical',
The very final test,
And each and every student
Would be straining for his best.
An automotive engine was
Spread out along the floor
And he had just a single hour
To make that engine roar!
Sam was the last to take the test,
The head judge waved okay..
A wrench was slapped into his hand..
The test was underway.
His fingers moved at blinding speed,
His moves precise and neat.
And long before the closing bell
The engine was complete.
He nodded it was ready and
A judge switched on the key.
The engine roared without a miss
..Sam was the top trainee!
He was awarded record points
The reasons obvious!
When asked about those record points
The coach explained it thus:
'I've never seen a job so slick,
Without one washer lost,
...Or seen an engine rebuilding
Performed through the exhaust..!
***
Categories:
solves, world,
Form:
Rhyme
i am the wordsmith
son of the verbalist
my expressions flows
in clicks of my tongue
like the San of the sands
the only strange thing about me
is my cliks and twists are softer
and sincere
but fearless...
I am the very woman
who will live by her offspring
and voice her dreams
because she could care less
who shuns her because
even then, her skin and
state of beauty
still sets their tongues wagging
Call her strange but
she is the very woman
who would put her foot down
and swear in the eyes of the beast
that she has had enough
The very woman
who would live until the very end
so that she sees to it that
all she loves stays well
The very woman who would
halt the habit of a man
who solves his financial crisis
with the back of his hand
and resolves to the toxic green bottle
for refuge
The very woman who would
live seven lives just so that
her will gets done
She is the very woman
who measures her worth
by the count of heart beat
her essence
has its own calibration
greater than man
She is the very woman
who would be quick to get up
after greatly falling
and heal her bruises with time
then follow the sun
for her home is where it sets
That woman is me
you
her
them
caged in these little girls
waiting to be unleashed
so they could rule!
Categories:
solves, happiness, hopewoman,
Form:
The house is burning
With violent noise
And red all-over.
I sit in the heat
With a prayerful heart,
That he would arrive.
Superman in his
Spandex suit of hope
And cape of justice.
I burrow inside
My mind to begin
A long wait with hope.
Many minutes then
Days soon followed by
Years of desperate hope.
Just like spring flowers,
My hope, soul, and mind
Wilt to my life's heat.
He is still late; yet,
I always believed
In my Superman.
My superman who'd
Fly with hell's fury
To save the weak ones.
But life's fake heroes,
Try with all their might
To make a belief.
A belief with hope
Of water so pure
It'd wash away grief.
For years I thought
That this hope was a
Power of supers.
I stumble onto
The truth, creating
In me a fire.
I dig deeper in
My mind to be far
From disappointments.
A trumpet sounds
Drawing me from my
Burrow to listen.
The man speaks of
A real thing that has
Powers to help heal.
Yet, as dormant as
It is, the man said,
It must be found.
So, I join this search
For my broken heart
To find the true balm.
A balm that is new
And unique with its
Unknown soothing.
A soothing that feels
Like freedom to fly
And solves all your pains.
The search ends with a
Nugget of precious
Gold from wise humans.
Life is not about
Waiting for your hero
To save you from pain.
Life is all about
Unlocking your heart
And saving yourself.
Using that key of
Wisdom, I unlock
A special, new hero.
This hero steps forth
And shines a light
On the burned rubble.
And with a swish of
Her almighty cape,
She soars upwards.
Floating in the sky,
She calls a massive
Group to come to her.
And because of her
Super strength, the burnt
Rubble was swept away.
I am surprised
When she flies down to
stand in front of me.
I study the shape of
Her face, color of her
Eyes, and her lip's shape.
I smile to her
And then walk away
From my reflection.
She follows in my
Shadow, always there,
Guarding me from harm.
All she will ever
Be is me and all
I will be is she.
My Superhero,
In her sweatpants of
Hope and of Justice.
Flying off into
The sunset till she
Saves the day, again.
Categories:
solves, depression, hero, hope, life,
Form:
Free verse
Northside of Chi-Town is full of emotion.
In the ‘45 Series Cubs and Tigers are battling.
Sianis buys two tickets to show his devotion.
Is booted ‘cause his billy goat won’t stop bahbling.
He curses the Cubbies and causes a commotion.
But spring is rooted in fans' love and devotion
Like lush, green, yellow, crimson, ivy will never
Stop growing. Year after year fans fear
Hearts will shatter but remain forever
Faithful chanting “Wait ‘til next year!”
Generations grow up cheering with great emotion.
Generations grow old enduring gut-wrenching loss
Bleeding among Lovable Losers time
And again, but no Cubbie faithful dares cross
To the Southside—it’d be a traitorous crime.
In 2003, faithful fans’ love and devotion
Promises fruition as Dusty Baker
Arrives Northside heralded as the Cubs’ savior.
But NLCS Game 6 at Wrigley is a heartbreaker.
Cubs need five outs but collide with a traitor.
Steve Bartman’s still in hiding; his name elicits emotion.
Castillo’s bat aims grenade over foul territory.
Cubs’ fielder Alou springs towards the heavens to snatch
But when feet touch dirt Cubs land in purgatory.
Faithful gasp: Curse of the Billy Goat sets a rematch.
Since that fateful day in ‘45 exploding with emotion
Wrigley hasn’t seen another World Series.
Since Bartman's affair in 2003, Cubs haven’t won
A playoff series. But Billygoat yaks to Mrs. O’Leary’s
Ol’ Cow an’ scoffs at the new scapegoat’s unearned run.
In 2011, after 91-losses, Ricketts proves his devotion
Adding the sabermetrics guru who now values emotions.
Epstein arrives at Northside championing human connections
Rebuilds Cubs’ roster with players who reverse the motion
108-years and character solves equation for a winners’ resurrection.
Hearts ripping open is a crushing emotion
But fans never stopped believin' in near
Foreseeable future ‘cause they’re loyal
Lovers and nothin’s as good as baseball ‘n’ beer
At Wrigley for 81 games on your own home soil.
Categories:
solves, america, angst, baseball, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Copyright 2014 A.D., ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
By Thomas Lam Hsi Andress (TLH ANDRESS)
THE 'AUDACITY' OF DISCLOSURE!!!
Thomas Hsi
1 second ago
This VERY SONG is the VERY REASON that I KEEP HOPING that LOVE WILL ONE DAY...'MAYBE'...FIND ME...as 'SHE'...finds...ME! After I was 'DELIVERED' by 'URSULA'...on APRIL 23, 1959 A.D., as a 'LILY-WHITE' MALE CHILD, but raised as an 'ASIATIC,' though I would go on to BECOME A MENTAL AND PHYSICAL 'SUPER-MAN' in that I would accomplish so many 'AMAZING' things in my 55 year-lifetime ( 70 mph 'ACCELERATED-RUN,' 378 lbs. 'ONE-ARM' DUMBELL CURL, 878 lbs. 'ONE-HAND' DEADLIFT, over 300 'ORIGINAL or IMPROVED GOURMET-QUALITY' FOOD RECIPES, 'WORLD'S FINEST POET, POETIC LYRICIST, ATTORNEY (AVVO-DISTINGUISHED, 14 OF MY 26 MEMOS WOULD GO BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, WITH THE 'SUPER-MAJORITY' OF THE CASES BEING DECIDED ALONG THE LINES IN WHICH I HAD CONCLUDED), VALEDICTORIAN AT EVERY MAJOR UNIVERSITY AROUND THE WORLD (based on 'Test Scores' at the University of Southern California and the University of Hawaii), the 'WORLD'S HIGHEST LSAT-TEST SCORE,' the 'WORLD-VALEDICTORIAN' LAW-GRADUATE (as McGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW was the 'MOST DIFFICULT CLASS EVER FOR THAT PARTICULAR YEAR,' 'ORIGINATOR' OF THE PUBLIC ADDRESS, PORTABLE, RADIO-DEVICE WHICH WOULD LEAD JAPAN TO DEVELOP THE MODERN KARAOKE-MACHINE, and lead SOUTH KOREA TO DEVELOP THE HIGH-DEFINITION TELEVISION, 'MELON-STYLE' DRINKS, the 'SOLELY-RESEARCHED, WRITTEN, EDITIED, COPIED, AND DISTRIBUTED' 5 and 1/2 PAGE COMPRESSED OUTLINE FOR DETERMINING WHAT A CONFORMING AND NON-CONFORMING RESALEABLE LOAN IS, along with a PROPOSAL FOR DAWN FINANCIAL, where the 'EQUITY-VALUE' OF AN OLDER-HAWAIIAN REAL PROPERTY INTEREST, could be REALIZED UPON BY RELEASING THE BUILT-UP 'EQUITY,' the development of a 'PROGRESSIVE-STYLE' BETTING SYSTEM at the WHEEL OF FORTUNE and ROULETTE TABLE (first used by Me at the MGM GRAND HOTEL & CASINO in RENO, NEVADA), 'DEVELOPER' OF THE 'FAST-OUTBOARD-MOTORBOAT,' with a 'SCOOP-VECTOR,' the 'MULTI-DIRECTIONAL SCOOP-VECTORING-SYSTEM,' the 'SWIVEL-WIND-FAN-SYSTEM' (with various 'FAN DESIGNS,' including the 'MULTI-DIRECTIONAL-OBLIQUEST-DESIGN,' a 'PROPOSED-DESIGN' for a SPACE-SHUTTLE which solves the 'O-RING' PROBLEM.
Categories:
solves, baby, proposal,
Form:
Ballad
I can feel your anger
I can feel your pain
It's your fault
You didn't give us enough love
It's your fault
you weren't hard enough
you should have made
me go to school
It's your fault
look at me now
I have no job
I'm living on the street
The words of blame
travel swiftly around the house
yet look deeper
was it my fault you didn't study
Was it my fault
you decided to take drugs
was it my fault
you didn't apply for those jobs
Was it my fault
you wouldn't
go to bed at night
fault and blame
Solves no problem
actions speak louder than words
If I didn't give enough love
learn to cuddle and build love
If I didn't make you
go to bed
learn self discipline
and get there yourself
there are course's to take
that will build your career
build the skills and stop blaming me
granted I am not perfect
Yet neither are you
lets stop laying blame
lets stop creating pain
lets decide to make a future
You can do it
you can stop taking drugs
you can stop finding fault
you can create a career
with the job
come's the money
with the money
come's a home
with a wage to support you
you create a life worth living
you can become proud
stating I overcame drugs
I got a job
I have a home
I have a family
Thanks for the words of advice
Categories:
solves, encouraging, inspiration, drug,
Form:
Narrative