Best Strive Poems
Why shall I freeze my dreams?
Why can’t I let them flow?
While some maybe hopeless,
But some may tend to grow.
You find me as an ugly rock,
Some think I am a worthy stone,
But do you know who am I?
Just jumbled flesh and bone.
I have tasted many failures,
Still I strive towards my goal,
Tell me not success is sour,
You cannot silence my soul.
I shall keep my hope alive,
Till the night is bright as day,
The only time I shall give up,
When death comes in my way.
Some may tend to love me,
And some may tend to hate,
I keep dwelling in my dreams,
I am the master of my fate.
Inspired by the line- I am the master of my fate - by William Ernest Henley
Feb 06, 2020.
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Famous poetic lines 2 Poetry Contest
STRIVE
You know to be proud of the skin you in to keep the decorum of a winner.
Let them see you smile when frustrated.
Prepare your way.
Empowering a form that distinguishes your person, many have known a covetous
environment informs growth and stratagem.
Crazy at it they come.
You the one they are jealous of.
See yourself through their eyes.
Therein,
Strive.
A scenario...
Beautiful is your person.
Your voice is endowing throughout the world.
You have achieved double masters even in time of dilemma.
So many problems yet you face.
Never a tiring soul will embody your essence.
Crazy at it they will come.
Your fundamental nature murals an image of who you are.
Epitomizing your ideals and religion, setting the perfect example to pattern.
To end the scenario...
You just might be the first of your kind.
Exemplar, an original mind…
Endeavor on!
Titivated to thrive, you are a striver.
Therefore,
Strive.
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Written June 11, 2016!
Take a swing and knock it outta the park!
You can do anything you set your mind to!
Love your neighbor and all that jazz!
Those words still hold true today.
Don't cry you can do much better than them!
Today is the 1st day of the rest of your life!
Close your eyes and make a wish, it will come true!
Am I still telling the truth?
Always look out for number one!
He who laughs last laughs best!
You gotta take anything to get ahead in this life!
Now it's looking a little more clear.
I'm not trying to be a downer here, just stating facts.
You can't get anything today unless you want it bad enough.
And wishing is a foolish waste of anyone's time.
And we ain't got much of that left.
And just for the record, everyone is not a winner!
If there were no losers in life, what would be the point?
Competition and the strive for greatness make this world the best!
And I challenge anyone that wants to prove me otherwise!
Some will say that this is an evil way of thinking.
Let them say what they want, doesn't bother me.
Because when it is all said and done they will see.
When i'm at the finish line waiting on them.
Life is hard, tough, rough, like a brilo-pad
Growing up, street smart was all I had
I had no choice but to turn to the hood
It's difficult trying to change for the good
What do you do when there's nowhere to turn?
Before you decide, look back, what did you learn?
Try to survive, I'm gon' do the same
Stuck in this world, heart full of pain
Money cover evil, trying to stay sane
Cash keeps flowing, like blood to the brain
Rappin' ain't like hustling, it's a whole different game
came through a struggle, my ankle got a sprain
Haters don't care, nobody gon' look out
Everybody's grillin', but this ain't a cookout
Bullets keep flyin', that's what the scare's about
Life's rough, like the stuff between tile, grout
The hood's full of hate, what happened to love
Too many little misfits, like a tiny glove
Put haters in dirt, that's what I call gardenin'
My heart's colder than water, when it starts hardenin'
Call me care-free, I ain't got no worries
Life don't always end well, like fairy-tale stories
WORDS THAT STRIVE TO RHYME
“Listless” in “Perfect isolation” I “Collide”
“Soul gazing”
“Escape from self” as the “Child inside”-
“Obsessive compulsive poet”
“Heavens heartbeat” an “Interlude” with
“Angels”
“Scent to remind me” as “Trophy tears”
“Kiss the sky”
“An obedient mind” traces “Déjà vu” –“Air travel”
“Half way around the world”
“Oceans odd overtures” reveal “Mosaic”
“Pansy shells on Pismo beach”
“Longing” for “Appropriation” an “Acquittal”
"A Genesis week”
“Phoenix rising” with “Love on hold”
“Lost rings and broken toes”
“Giant monsters” start a “Grasshopper showcase”
“Grace”
“Loves flight-Feather light” echoes “Harvest moon”
“I am a Poem”
(Compiled from titles of my recently penned poetry)
© Kim van Breda—April 2014
Life is hard, tough, rough, like a brilo-pad
Growing up, street smart was all I had
I had no choice but to turn to the hood
It's difficult trying to change for the good
What do you do when there's nowhere to turn?
Before you decide, look back, what did you learn?
Out-of-control, like an untamed beast
If I should fall, I'm gon' rise like yeast
Got the game in submission, fools better tap-out
On the road to success, ya'll on a different route
I'm shootin' up haters, more than a heroin addict
Ain't talking 'bout electricity, but it helps prevent static
Like a ship's anchor, I'm gon' hold it down
No matter the outcome, I'ma' stand my ground
I tried turning right, but end up going left
Already living in hell, so what's worst after death
Fast life, gotta' slow down, like I'm in a school zone
Made amends with people I ripped off, like clothes being sown
Searching life's meaning, can't find it in the dictionary
Gotta' change, or end up caged like a canary
Got a pocket full of green, like a bowl filled with lettuce
Satisfied, 'bout to end my run, so roll-the-credits
bleak tunnels hunger
for the slightest of sunshine
chip into the rock
unleash the beast from its pit
quench it with sunshine’s embrace
1/18/2016
Poetry Contest ; Syllables of Wisdom 3 -
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I found the strength
walk forward in life
Why crush my hopes and dreams?
I've got a job
Budget cuts layoffs
Why work lose everything?
I’ve open doors
To be closed again
Where are all the good jobs?
10/16/2015
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Contest: Questionku Two
No man is left, nobody is lost
Good time is there but struggle is all
You need, yourself, for you to haul
It is time to rise and face the brawl
Hindrance everywhere you get to own
No one is there to comfort your soul
Even the closest by them all
Will leave you alone and try to mold
If you want to encounter the whole
Then learn how to fight alone
Time demands ever
People apply ruler hardest
Stunting life..desires.!
Its morning time
But getting up has no drive
Trying to keep my eyes open
I feel such heaviness
Heaviness!
I don't know where it lies
Also am I not sure, of what?
Whether its there
But I feel it
Such heaviness in my eyes
Even the bright light
Shinning through my window
Is not enough to clear it
And I simply turn my back
At night I have set my alarm
Hoping to jump at its sound in the
morning
But I simply throw my hand at the
clock
And off it goes
I lift my hand to put off the alarm
But I now feel my body as the
heaviest thing in the world
That I can't lift from the bed
And out of the sleep that I am not
fully into
My organs are working
But my muscles can't get to do
enough
And I feel as though they are tied
All these thoughts and feelings run
through me
Which shows I am not totally asleep
But I still can't get up
When I finally get up, I think;
How can something as simple as
sleep be difficult to get out of
No answer
But a wondering mind.
Keep me at arms length/ I cannot hold you.
I haven't the strength.
With wondrous eyes I use to see/ the magic amd will that lived within me.
Now filled with anxiousness and worry/when will this ever end?
I no longer wish to have the sensation/no longer want to bend.
Struggles of life affect us all/ one way or another.
We try and force/ needing a breakthrough.
When will it come? This is no life to live.
They will say push; PUSH HARD TO STRIVE.
~mp (c) Nov 15 16
I rejoice in my strife,
With dreams being my drive,
For there is no shortcut in life.
I strive for you
I see you at the top of a mountain
I feel you underground
And I'm following your presence
Until I reach you
I share you with the world
So they know who you are
But only through a mythical story
A painted one
Because I see you so faint
A memory
You are
The one I strive for
And I hope to meet you again
I hope you'll love me
when we meet again
I'm waiting for our warm embrace
Because you are my King
The one I strived for
long ago
Meet me my love
Meet me
I have crossed the land so far and wide
To find your presence
Meet me
You are the one I've strived for
Write by Nina E Dalin
Have you seen e'er
Soaring a bird high:
I feel, wonder dear -
To appoint right her,
These eyes calculated why?
Together clouds moving fast,
In middle thrilling blue.
Or time day exhaust,
Perhaps, proves regularity last.
By seeking a clue?
What fruit ye deserve,
Oh! golden flit speak.
My beg will observe.
Pride out quest reserve
Allow to farewell freak!
Our seniors taught little,
Don't trust on pleasure,
Make aggregate live agile.
With struggle prolong settle,
Further side of wager.
Why not we get,
Lesson from different drive.
Elegant as fertile pet.
Bring in trace hit,
Retain fruit of strive!