Best Toilsome Poems

Sisyphus pushes his rock up hill
While Atlas bears his load.
Damned by the ire of capricious gods,
Forced down a toilsome road.

And so it is with the...

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I wish to be the gentle breeze
Sweeping tearful eyes
Of the weary midday flower.
Or to be the horrid shadow
Casting fearful darkness
For a passer-by to rest.
A rippling...

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Life is a dangerous struggle 
Full of inconsistencies, challenges and pains
Life is not fair even to the fair skinned 
The dark skinned are not faring...

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Remembering Dad’s animated Cowboy tales
Along lyrics, bearing words, “My pony and me”
I would imagine his youth's toilsome farm travails
while making the best of life midst...

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Likened to a beast of burden
I groan with back breaking strain
weary laden and fraught with pain
working mightily in vain
under this black powder rain.

‘Tween strife, sweat...

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MY NAME MEANS BLESSED

For gift of life indeed precious
Packed with love and care, so gracious
My heart exclaims praise magnitude…
Blessed, I give God my gratitude.

Pardoned against...

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Stillness soothes sweet
Grace grooms grand greet


Prime placid peace
Embrace end ease


Bright blessings bloom
Glimpse greatness groom


Niche nimble night
Sense succinct sights


Calm candour cheers
Treat troubles tear


Lines living lot
Praise puzzles...

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This dread disease that has afflicted my home, 
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof 
Into something...

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If you'll have an indomitable endurance,
it will lead your life towards success.
Successful people do not do different things,
they just do things differently,
they love patients, but...

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Live loving light
See scented sights
Be blessing bright


Please pretty play
Mime moments may
Speak salient say


Alien aims ask
Treat toilsome task
Blooms brightly bask


Inspire in ink
Boom buffers brink
Live laughter links


Wear...

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See simple sense
Touch tranquil tense
Ask apt appeal
Younger yore yields


Sense sanguine sighs
Troubles tame tries
Approve asking
Yes yours yelling


Such splendor soars
Treat taut thrills tame
Aid allows aim
Yarn yester yore


Sober...

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Hoard healthy highs
End etch enough
Add apt apply
Roam rivers rough
Trendy true tries


Hope hurls healing
Etch earns ending
Art aims asking
Reap real risking
Trust truth tasking


Help hurting hires
Embrace empty
Apt art...

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Recollections of childhood
when life was simplistic,
brings to memory, days 
filled of toilsome work
and long hours.
Yet in its own way, bestows
feelings of warmth, safety 
and at...

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You. 
Yes you. 
Are hard work. 
There's nothing more to it. 
The scarcity of my vocabulary limits me from describing the complexity of the situation...

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Ah, at last the toilsome day ends
Comprehending the grinding body bends 
Draining this salesman
In this departmental stores
Pleasing all as do the whores
I am all aches
The...

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