LIFE IS A BOOMERANG
Life is a boomerang
What you give you get it back
So, balance your Yin and Yang
This’s an essential hack!
With love fill your tray
Spread joy and cheer
Prejudice be kept at bay
Let not fear come near
Fling vibes of happiness
Gift others your trust
Hurl loads of goodness
Propel propriety with thrust!
For Contest: Life is……
Sponsored by: Nayda Ivette Negron Flores
Date: The 3rd of July 2022
An independent inventor, Stanley Meyer
Delved into his innate cauldron of genius
Thought ingenuously out-of-the-box
He’d revolutionize the automobile industry.
He claimed to have designed an engine
That he designated as the water fuel cell
Using the established principle of electrolysis
Of water making hydrogen, burnt to generate energy.
Although the concept in theory seemed feasible
Meyer couldn’t demonstrate that it really worked
Skeptics branded the claim pseudoscience and fraudulent
So, water as an engine fuel remained a myth.
Meyer’s innovative design interested some investors
His effort and idea upset the influential oil companies
It’s unclear if his untimely unusual death was connived
Or he actually succumbed to cerebral aneurysm.
Meyer failed to give the world unlimited supply of fuel
But he survives in mystery as a derided inventor.
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June 9, 2022
Contest : Life, Death And Aims Of Stanley Meyer
Sponsored by : Joe Maverick
humble observer
as the world
spins
around me
i step
in and out
to readjust
my focus
it’s a fine balance
as i walk
the tightrope
of sanity
i hold on preciously
to the delicate flower
that is hope
keeping my eye
on the finish line
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Submitted on March 11, 2021 for contest LIFE AT A GLANCE sponsored by MYSTIC ROSE ROSE - RANKED 9TH
Transient rainbow arches time onto the eyes,
changes color on the fading horizon we see.
To alter the perception the scenic mind tries,
life then becomes a sunburst sky called beauty.
The eyes capture the soul of splendor as winner,
turn to artifact of magnificence, the mind’s entity.
Things that are ugly dissolve in the world inner,
life then becomes a finer feeling called beauty.
In the depth of glowing mind happiness gleams,
ecstasy spreads on effects that make life worthy,
drapes exquisiteness on what the seeker deems,
life then becomes a pristine image called beauty.
March 10, 2021
Contest : Life At A Glance
Sponsor : Mystic Rose Rose
In the summertime
On a summer holiday
The north wind doth blow
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Line one - Ray Dorset.
Line two - Bruce Welch/Brian Bennett.
Line three- Unknown/traditional.
8 March 2021
Contest: Life at a glance
Sponsor: Mystic Rose Rose
I wandered the forest alone -
the cool my cloak,
with touch the sky trees my cathedral and haven.
and birds singing a symphony.
The forest was full of wonder and awe,
for a lonely girl with raven hair.
The streams rippled over time worn rocks-
and wildflowers grew,
and nature wrapped her arms around a sad girl.
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September 14, 2019
Written for the contest, Life
sponsor, Ironic Zink
whisper of lilac in the summer’s day
variety of flowery fragrances wafting
streaming sunbeams warming gray striped tabby
mums and petunias decorating wrap-around porch
wasps and bees collecting butterflies and faeries
country magic adorned with marigolds, tomatoes, and roses
Written 9-13-2019
Contest: Life Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Ironic Zink
There are trillions of stars in our sky
I can only count a few
It takes millions of years for starlight
To reach me where I stand in the cold night air
All the stars that I see could have died
half a million years ago - or more
And I would never know
9-7-19
Contest: Life Poetry
Sponsor: Ironic Zinc
Be not sad.
Take comfort in that I am looking down on you.
Just like when I was alive.
For contest 'Life or death Epigram', sponsor Kevin Shaw
26th July 2018
His eyes bugged out from so many lies.
Here he now lies with bugs in his eyes.
Contest: Life or Death Epigram
Host: Kevin Shaw
Written: 7/21/18
I couldn’t bear to bury him
like I knew I should -
I just had to pickle him
like I always said I would.
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Submitted on July 17, 2018 for contest LIFE OR DEATH EPIGRAM sponsored by KEVIN SHAW - RANKED 2ND
Our unfortunate world is constantly changing
our need to become better through evolution
a thirst a hunger for useless rearranging
destruction, inevitable revolution,
insecurities, need for a better future
desperation directs our confused thought patterns
abuser replaces another abuser
so complacency shows goodness to evil turns.
peace on Earth won't be achieved through revolution
by reading animal farm I came to this conclusion.
2/5/2018
Contest life lesson from a favourite novel
Sponsored by Line Gauthier.
Life lessons in a book
is a search that I took
when my mistakes shook
me giving pain in its cook.
In instant God Google’s absence
getting one’s Life in balance
came from someone’s guidance
and in books that had substance.
In True Histories Instructions sit
is a lesson that revived my spirit,
History replete with human grit
to overcome pains they were hit
has Life lessons that show the wit.
27-Jan-2018
Contest: Life lesson from a favourite novel
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
We watched Gone With The Wind,
at Christmastime- it was a tradition each year;
with my mother and we each had a tear,
I used to not like the movie that much;
but in time this awesome movie my heart did touch,
with scenes that have ever stayed in my mind.
Then, I read the story,
of loving a man who will never love you back;
and marrying in a panic attack,
a man you do not love, nor ever will;
reading of a woman travelling on a journey uphill,
with great courage through hardships and glory.
Life lessons in a book,
of not giving up no matter how deep the pit;
of never being a person to quit,
and not caring what people thought or said;
still having hope when all is lost and dead,
this is a novel not to overlook.
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January 25, 2018
Poetry/Rhyme/Gone With The Wind
Copyright Protected, ID 18-9861-35-01
All Rights Reserved. Written Under Pseudonym.
Written for the contest, Life Lesson From a Favorite Novel
sponsor, Line Gauthier
Second Place
Things in life, do not come easy
effort and passion; not being sleazy
Sure, you can choose the easy way out,
but that's not what life is really about
You must slave and work with your soul
and when complete, then you'll feel whole.
Be humble, be gracious, be caring,
be admirable, be eloquent, and be daring.
But in the end, what I've been taught:
"That what you do, is not for naught."
Contest: "Life lesson from a favourite novel - Poetry Contest."
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Completed January 25th, 2018
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