Don't Ask...
Simplified.
Induce
Reduce
Exude
Seduce.
Dis-Connect
The Umbilical
Creative
Past...
Or, Keep The
FLOW.
Floral-Recycler
Just A Little
Off Kilter.
Oh Yes!
Why Even
Ask Yourself?
Hmmmm?
Ask Your Self:
Am I Not
Entertaining
Enough
For You?
Not Needing
Reinforcement?
No Booster,
No Competitor,
No Nonsense
Meted Out...
You Are The
Product.
Not The Creation.
Is That Good?
Now.
Thanks.
-Gray Squirrel
07-14-2026
The heart is a wonderful thing
when in control and on fond
path – the heart is a fickle-thing,
sometimes confounding
its fore and aft – the heart
is a fierce competitor, when
afire, fearing not God nor Devils --
the heart is a repentant thing, a
foolish thing, Victor and Victim
of its own undoing. The heart,
its own praise and excuse…
a fruit tree~ with a dangling noose.
Checked it flag
A stand out soapbox
All in grey
Challenger in a race
Speed of competitors
It was fast like a Greyhound Dog
Grey color gets attention
Had to mention
Grey soapbox named “ROADHOG”
As the wheels accelerated more and more
It was definite that the soapbox was going to even the score
Faster Faster and Faster
Maneuvering here and there
The soapbox was beyond compare
Ahead of its time
Throughout the soapbox race
Every competitor was in a chase
Winner to be
A let see
Who will cross the finish line?
You guessed it, the Roadhog being the grey soapbox
Cheers and roars
Undefeated challenger
Winner took all
Soapbox winner call.
I'm the vibes, they're the vipers
I give healing, them keep killing
Words my medicine, call me words smith
Deceit and betrayal their weapons
I call them cobra, them are snitches.
I'm the owner
Them the controller
I always act like
I own or know nothing
They're so ruthless
Acting like they own or know it all.
I'm the completer
They're the competitor
Always fight for something
While I ride for my things
Everyone with their own obligation
Paying attention to whatever they belong.
Whose smile and behavior are more devilish than Tom Cruise’s?
Naturally cast to play Maverick, daringly bending the rules.
Putting himself and his bestie Goose in danger, over and over.
They both are enjoying US Navy’s elite fighter weapons school.
Maverick is conceited, cocky, and super believably over-confident
As is Iceman, his nemesis, and major competitor, played by Val Kilmer.
The two together carry this movie to an exciting fruition.
Maverick's flirtation with Charlie, astrophysics instructor adds pizazz.
I do not think you will be bored if you rent this one dated 1986.
Thirty-seven years later, it still makes me smile.
Of course Goose’s death will always be sad, even now.
Competition is the race for the swift?
Does one has to consent by the rules
at times not fair, practice self-control
in all thing emotionally , physically.
impulses, and things, Competition. Don't
measure yourselves with another individual,
nor compare themselves with each and
everyone. Don't envy one's sidekick or
competitor, this is vanity and pride striving
for the wind, Competition.
Shall we not grow weary in doing in good
deeds? And not give up on yourself,
run with endurance the race that is set
before us, withstand y'alls temptation and
quarrels, It's not that your passions are at
war with you?
Do nothing for rivalry nor conceit it only
accompanies discord, Competition.
Less than eighty, now ... they're, unaccounted.
'Tis sad ... NEXT: the hawk hovered that founded
fresh sedges, grasslands, and deserts idyll,
God in the detail, Red-Tailed Hawk sidle,
Blitzkrieg mob by crows, females sized greater,
social-less wingers, life mono-mater,
dives one hundred twenty miles per hour,
kills owl young BOTH nesting competitor,
Prey spotted one hundred feet in the air,
Their eyesight to man, seven times finer,
Two feet, two pounds, twenty-one years lifespan,
Roadkill, hunting, and human expansion,
Diet: various birds, and small rodents,
Scrub deserts, farm fields, rainforests, woodlands.
O, for a bite of chocolate
a tiny lick of fudge
Alas, it is impossible
her nutritionist will not budge
If she were a highly paid professional
she could bribe the priest at confessional
to let her nutritionist know
her intake of sweets is below zero
But our competitor is as poor as poor can be
she'll have to devise a different theory
Aha! The girl's got it!
This year's there no wheelchair bikini competition
Now her hopes may come to fruition
Sheba woke up happily, eager to tear apart her competitor
Not in a mean devouring teeth-out, sharpen her claws way
She would do it as a lioness would, approaching slowly.
Giving her prey a sense of peace and hope
Springing at the perfect time
Before the woman’s defenses were up
Tearing her competitor’s edges into bits.
Eating the woman’s chances at stealing her promotion.
champion
undefeated, excellent
defending, protecting, ensuring
fighter, superior, opponent, competitor
facing, confronting, contesting
ambitious, intrepid
challenger
Date written: 12/27/2022
Phwwwwwhht!
Went the high pitched airy sound
From the tiny plastic whistle
And off the competitors raced
Vroom!
The car engines revved
One Male driver with a Mistress in Toyota
Another Female driver with no one in a Honda
Zap!
The race began
Toyota ahead
Honda Behind
Kakpum!
Came the screeching Honda sound
Like the bad guy's tires
In a cops-and-robbers chase
Shreeeerchhhh!
Came the halting Toyota Sound
As the driver and mistress go dumb
With hands above their heads
Phwwwwwhht!
Came the final whistle
The race ended
And none touched the finished line
Waah! Waah!
Came the sound of tears
From onlookers and the surviving competitors
As they stared deep into space
Hahaha!
Came the voice of the judges
Who adored the Toyota Driver’s Bravery
And Condemned the Honda Competitor
Boo!
Came the voice of condemnation
For the Honda Driver
Whom they tagged “Foolish”
Blames filled the air
For both the Toyota and Honda driver
But no one won the chase
So Infidelity remained
“A man is as miserable as he thinks he is” -Seneca
I want to do bigger and better things in my life
I want to fulfill all my potentialities
I want my actions to be the example
I just want to be the best I can possibly be
I'm prepared to endure great losses
I'm willing to stand in the fire and to bleed
I am prepared to fall into deep despair
Because when I fail, it's a step in the process that sets me free
I know there's only one true competitor in my life
Its the voice of discontent and self-doubt that whispers in my mind
But when I'm mindful of the internal narrative
I'm empowered to control the controllables in my life
For I am responsible
I'm not a pathetic helpless victim in this life
I'm a warrior, a conqueror
I’ll willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice
The sacrifice is having extreme patiences
And staying true to your word
It's about relentless perseverance
Sadly, to the younger generation, these actions seem absurd
This life, my life, will not be taken for granted
I have personal choices to make
And that choice is to give everything I have
Anything less, would be a serious mistake
Our semantic words or lines produced ideologies.
Every person creates their own lines to create ideologies.
It means that one’s ideology is different than others.
This is because each of gather this knowledge through self experiences.
No one ideology is greater than others.
This is because they had different untold stories.
Some get through traumas and negative experience.
So he or she creates pseudo and extreme ideologies.
Suppose I treated badly in past so I enhanced my negative rage.
This will build the footstep to go into the feet of extreme ideology.
Suppose I treated equally with others
So my ideology will be based on harmony, blessing and love.
Only exception would be when we will take mistreat as challenge to overcome.
Your inner positive spirit can gives you the power to turn them into your friend.
Only thing we have to do is feel that inner energy and end our mental trauma.
Love your opponent as a competitor not enemy or reply them with your satisfied success.
Halo over his head
He had piercing, fierce eyes
Had children, some unknown
Heralded much like Zeus,
He rode across the skies
Helios was a fierce competitor
Horae, goddess he wed.
Written February 24, 2022
especially for "Greek Mythology" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Joseph May
syllables checked by HMS
The deeper the darkness of one's character is
The more dangerous competitor he is
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