Best Sustain Poems


Premium Member If I Cannot

For Steven Joseph Way

If my loving presence does not warm you,
if it does not dry your wet tears away,
then I have wasted each new breath I drew
to sustain my life on this offered day.

If you cannot retrieve your happy face
amongst the love-grown life we two do share
or amid the rhythm of our joined heart's pace,
then my emotions may collapse from scare.

As the pillow where you can rest your head,
as the balm to comfort your painful ache,
as the light dimming fear of all you dread,
I want to make your sadness flee or break.

If I cannot be all these things and more,
then I feel trapped in a room with no door.

Premium Member Sustain Ate Manna

A for Ahira not an Apple was found at the tree of life, Sustain ate Manna;
B for Band bananas Black beans in stride;
C for Corianders and Cocoyam's flown in from the skies, sustain ate Manna;
D for Dalkon with Dandelions cries;
E for Endive in the wilderness eat, eaten with flies, sustain ate Manna;
F for Fat hen-Fiddlehead Fern, all for this I learn many people died;
G for Gherkin no more starving infants sustain ate Manna;
                             Sustain ate Manna;

H for Horseradish rode in from the North East;

Got a stomach-ache, must been somethin' that I didn't eat that I didn't ate.
Got no food for my family, must pray and stop being sadly...
God rains down something, I sigh, well, well, I said God rains down something...
rain down a chocolate cake or pumpkin pie;
Sustain ate manna this I got to have, yowl. . .

I for Ice plant, I spent on hot soup, sustain ate Manna
J for Jerusalem Artichokes rolls of Rice, this would b so nice so very nice
K for Kale is coming growing in bunches, sustain ate Manna;
L for Lemon grass and lentils and tree bark crunches;
M for Marjoram just to be brewed, sustain ate Manna;
N for Nettles and nuts just a few;
O for Okra and Olives oh, my, my, Oh! sustain ate Manna, sustain ate Manna;
P for peppers and palm hearts warms my inter soul;

Got a stomachs ache, must been something I didn't eat;
God no food for my family, must pray and stop being sadly;
God rains down something I sigh, a chocolate cake or pumpkin pie;
sustain ate manna this I got to have now. . .

Q for Quince and mince and mash and chew, sustain ate Manna;
R for Radish the raisins just a few;
S for Slokes are jokes no one eats them, sustain ate Manna;
T for tomatoes to Matt Toe what's the different;
U for Ulluco you be hungry when you eat, sustain ate Manna;
V for Vidalia onion sometimes is sweet;
W for Watercress, what a mess, sustain ate Manna;
X for Xemenia too!, Comes from heavens kitchen;
Y for Yamaimo and yams is the plan, sustain ate Manna;
Z for Zucchini for every woman, girl, boy and man; 

                             Sustain ate Manna

Premium Member Sustain

If healthiness
grows godliness,
and godliness
grows healthiness,
why not regenerousness
co-redeems Earth's shared Eden Nest?

Healthy belongings fill Yang hunger.
Sacred belonging flows through Yin nutrition.

Industrial,
like military,
revolutions
for monoculturing power and wealth
are too much Yang short-term bottom-line.

Sustainable evolutions
for matriarchal gifting polycultural flow
is what we post-millennially higher value
as just right Yin over Yang long-term
co-empowerment
co-operations
in-formations bilateral,
deductive-industrial LeftYang
reweaving inductively sustainable flow RightYin,
as particles are to waves,
as organic cells are to digest/eliminate nutritional systems,
as thymine form is to cytosine functions,
as positive fractals are to double-bound notnot zero.

As Yang industrial periods
are to Yin flow-sustaining sentences
proclaiming regeneration wins
as decomposition loses loss.

Love manufactures
where fear's angers
pass double-bound away,
if healthiness
grows godliness.


Sustain Humanity

Beat the man always 
The stronger he must become 
Down is the limit 
Strengthening a foe unplanned 
In peace we can all find rest

Crimson Sustain

Crimson Sustain

shards of glass
reflecting fault
circling the drain

bubbles in his
crimson bath
bringing end to pain

lingering shadow
of the past
tormenting refrain

the prison of
his dying hope
eternal sustain

By: Jeremy Siedlecki

Premium Member Un Sustain Able

wielding blunt weapons
       soul peddling at the cross road

                to be the greatest 



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Mama Put 3

From buka to butry to batcher to barrow 
Mothering many they will never know 
Feeding the ever growing population 
Even men have joined to meet the need

They site at points easy to reach
They are even mobile to reach all
To sustain humanity they can reach 
Playing Vishnu in the theatre of fun 

Some grow to restaurants and lounges 
Available to all social classes of human
Serving the same function to always support 
Feeding humanity as an obligation chosen

Sustain

We are but solo figures that walk the department stores
Held captive and enchanted by our capitalist laws

I DON'T WANT TO BUY
I DON'T WANT TO BUY

I Cant be the only one who hears the earth cry !
It's buckling and creaking under the strain
We rape, log and mine and repay in acid rain

How long can we survive 
How long can we sustain

The present principle is to keep you thoughts to a minimal
Shop, work, consume and buy more digital
Work six days and forget the kids
They're now educated by a stack of vids 

So are you happy with your life of excess ?
Armed with a swath of cards and the need to impress 
However there is a middle ground you see 
Attainable to both you and me 

No credit card bill no new magic pill
Just your family and some earth to till
Live off the land with your own two hands 
For that is the true way of man.

No desire for the best
And more than the rest
No keeping up with Jones
Which require vast loans 

And leads to mental anguish and pain
So is this your form of bliss
How long can this sustain.

Premium Member Sustain Bliss

Admit odds-on guilt for spreading delight and happiness
For as long as one's bold soul is doused with goodness
If I lacked money or riches, my odds could be limitless
As of now, I bear a heart that is fit to yield with easiness
The grain is large and plump, but in another is worthless,
Nothing vast occurs on consecutive with deathlessness
Giving delight to the noble hearts of others steadiness
An odd item that does not maintain the value faultless.


Written: January 23, 2022
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Sustain the Life

Open way do a start
May be fortune give you hike
And be wings of your dream
And give you a new life
Believe in you and so called god
And believe on her beautiful vision
Nobody will ask you then
While you do right step with right reason
As the lonely evening need moon light
As the night goes to meet with rise
I do faith you do promise
Everything said on pules of heart
Come in front me don’t stay hide
While you satisfied hunger will die
Every moment need struggle
To be survive sustain the life

If Trump We Should Sustain

If Trump We Should Sustain


If Trump we really should sustain,
When either dry outside or in rain,


Would say we may remain insane.

Jim Horn
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ABSURDITY

They said the youths
Are leaders of tomorrow 
That we're the future 
In a system we're not featured 
Where the youths are not in the picture
That's why they never nurture us
They always acting like vulture 
Giving us mental and emotional torture.

How would the youths 
Partake in a system 
That doesn't recognize them
Even to socialize is now a crime
Freedom of speech and movement 
Which is our fundamental human rights 
We've been denied, due to their insecurities.

They're brutalizing us
Traumatizing us
Same people 
That is supposed to protect us
Are the ones killing us
Inputting pains and fears in us
Just to sustain and maintain their negligence.

FOOD

Food use to grow freely, making us have many things to fill our bellies. 
Food in its natural state, use to be so accessible, it use to grow all around. 
Food is like a gift from God, it has the ability to make us feel great. 
Food is the fuel we need to survive, it keeps us going all day long. 
Food like apples and other fruit, use to grow all around. 
Food should always be growing all around, it should be easily found, making no one suffer from starvation. 
Food is essential, so make it grow and give it away every day. 
Food is our fuel, so make it grow and teach the next generation to be great farmers. 
Food should never be wasted, all the unused food should be donated, to a place for recycle.
Food is medicine, it cures, it fills our body with essential stuff, so value it, procure it, and never waste it. 
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.

Premium Member Sustain Me

¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ The Humanity in deadly sleep 
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¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ the Past, Present and Future existing ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦
Before me. O Divine Spirit, sustain me ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦
That I may awake ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
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Like iron scourges ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ reasonings like vast serpents
¦¦¦¦¦¦ around my limbs, bruising my ¦¦¦¦¦¦ articulations.

I turn my eyes to ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ Europe
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¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦ as those in Eden, ¦¦¦¦¦¦
¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ ¦¦¦¦¦¦ in freedom ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ in harmony and peace.


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