Compromise is only a weakness between
two people who are unwilling to work together.
I dwell on this statement. Just what does it mean?
Well, if with another you refuse to work,
I would have to say it’s very clear
your unwillingness makes you one big jerk.
Categories:
compromising, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Walking here and there,
Scrounging for messages of Care,
Journalists of the day.
Standing by at door or gate
Spirited, to interrogate the great.
A long-serving microphone,
Miking words from those interviewed,
And an esteemed bagged camcorder on the shoulder;
Always await eventual days
So they’d pace with grace
But, their presentations tremble under status’ feet
Whereto their integrity doth greet.
Their job hence counts slackness of Justice:
That if they are to question a poor fellow,
They’ll do it diligently till he’s zero
But if they are to question a rich man,
Minister or president in particular,
The ‘eye-box’ is covered with red cloth,
Their journals closed,
And their inkers halt;
They’ll compromise till he’s out of any cases.
Sorry
They are!
Turning a blind eye to the rich’s injustices
And giving a bright eye to the poor’s…
Yellow Journalism eke in Africa?
Categories:
compromising, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Easy road to take
Is compromise guillotine,
Unprincipled soul.
Categories:
compromising, freedom, gospel, judgement, spiritual,
Form: Haiku
Life can a dangerous
secret...
A deep mystery...
But we must seek to unravel
life however...
But let us cognize how to be wise...
Life is not deciphered
in one life...
Decode it all
can be risky,
fatal, and
compromising... !
Categories:
compromising, allusion, appreciation, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A night that truly almost never came
A number that I almost never called
And yet when I look back I am enthralled
Since then my life has never been the same
We met and I knew nothing but your name
How could I plan when nothing, I recalled
My nerves had taken over and I stalled
I never knew just how to play this game
I thought I’d just be safe for our first date
So I suggested dinner and a flick
A comedy should somehow do the trick
But, oh the choice of food was not so great
Though compromised, I made it through the night
And not one memory would I rewrite
1/24/18
Contest: A First Date
Sponsor: Brenda Chiri
"Compromising Positions" is a 1985 comedy starring Susan Sarandon.
It wasn’t a great movie but one that I will never forget.
Categories:
compromising, courage, love, memory, relationship,
Form: Sonnet
"Living here can be compromising"
says Dad to Danny
in a John Irving novel.
Isn't that our universal truth?
Living here is a compromising series of on-purpose accidents.
Living is compromising
with mortality heavily favored to win out,
maybe short-term,
maybe later.
But these odds
between two categories
switch places
between eight looking toward sixty-four,
and sixty-four looking longingly back toward eight,
measuring all small and large compromises
erupting through serenity
in-between.
Wonder
is just taking a time out
to notice the last clematis blossom
is exactly the same color
as the purple mums
hiding behind her.
Wonder
is taking a moment
as no more or less perfect
just as it is,
a snapshot
between where we have come
since Earth was growing glaciers
to when Earth may, eventually, pass on.
A moment
perfectly balanced
in full-color octaves
of sight
and sound
and smell
and savory taste
of spectral Wonder.
Categories:
compromising, death, integrity, life, trust,
Form: Prose Poetry
Never Compromising
My heart has moved on and tears have been shed.
Patience spread thin, relationship is dead.
When I talk you don't respond, withdrawn!
Tears have been shed and my heart has moved on.
Love was not enough, so much for destiny!
Tough, walking on eggshells is misery!
This life together has gotten rough
So much for destiny, love was not enough!
Never compromising, always a fight
the times I get the urge to write!
Constantly struck over-analyzing!
Always a fight, never compromising
Mind is wandering, strangers to conquer,
to much time has already been squandered!
Suffering has passed, now prospering!
Strangers to conquer, mind is wandering!!
For Andrea Deitrich's "Swap Quatrain" contest!
Name withheld until contest is over!
Categories:
compromising, goodbye, lost love, love
Form: Quatrain
Compromised
By pain
Joy is contained
Putting me
In an awkward,
Position
I want to let the joy show
That I know
But this little wall of pain
Often blocks my ray,
Of joy
So I sustain,
Discomfort
One can only wonder
What
Is the compromising agent
Which makes,
My joy appear vacant
Making the mind
The body
The soul
Frustrated
One can only wonder
What, is the answer
Categories:
compromising, depression, introspectionjoy,
Form: Rhyme
You're over there staring at
the sun within your eyes
Curiosity knows no bounds
with out ever a compromise
dignified with beauty as
you turn around and walk away
speaking with the wisdom
that comes from a certain love
I want to know you better
i'm going to learn from our past
I want to kiss your reflection
going to make you my addiction
A smile thats hiding what
you truly feel in your heart
words have a meaning
only different from what you suggest
I want to know you better
i'm going to learn from our past
I want to kiss your reflection
going to make you my addiction
Categories:
compromising, song-kiss,
Form: I do not know?