We work ourselves to exhaustion
and drive eath other to our limits.
We aim for that elusive destination
that never seems to get much closer.
We strive for the better life of our dreams.
The more we have the more we want
when really we need so little to be happy.
Joy doesn't have to be a target.
It's as simple as our daily habits.
It's being in the moment
Appreciating a warm smile
Extending a caring word
Making a moment's pause
Taking a detour for fresh air
Sitting in the garden...
Joy is gathering these precious moments,
appreciating the present and feeling gratitude.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Juniper- a genus of evergreen
Under the cypress family list;
Neath scented leaves, new berries are green.
It had a place in mythology's mist.
Protection, Long life, Purification
Expressed in religious celebration
Rejecting evil spirits in between.
Is it a sin to stay Closed away
within the Long moment of midnight sky?
Perhaps I will dance in the last rain Of May,
No! Not I! I will not gadfly,
as is the wont of Some.
Why do They want me to succumb
to the Error of their ways,
to live in sin the Remainder of my days,
and to Eschew God's everlasting life
and stay with them in Death and endless strife?
Somewhere on the North York Moor
Pedal almost through the floor
Engine soon began to roar
Eighty miles per hour for sure
Death comes quick on the A64...
June blooms its flower, plush passion pink petals supple and velvety
Unyeilding scent sensation’s drift diliriously midst my garden party
Neath a saffron sun, zephyr’s waft, pollen dusts a regal rose bush
Everywhere little ones adorn cotton twirl dresses that gently whoosh
Yes once, I
had a love
now, I sigh !
He flew above
and I weep
a mourning dove !
My grief deep
death, oh why ...
memories I keep !
.
D eath of a relationship, but still alive
I nvoking a new lifestyle without familiarity
V olatile scenes happen less often
O perating on shock factor, then
R each settlement with negative emotions
C oncentrate on building back on the positive
E nergized again with love, compassion, and understanding
Negative emotions that happen in divorce very similar to a death:
Anger
Grief
Loneliness
Depression
Despair
Guilt
Frustration
Anxiety
Death is an indissoluble shadow that follows us all.
Earthly life being transient and fleeting as a bubble,
A heavenly abode of sheer bliss waits at our final call,
Terminating life from every worldly care and trouble.
Happy we should be for a life eternal when our joys double!
S- omeday when the world is gray
P- eople will need a light to shine
R- eally really bright
E- nveloping everything.
A- nd we will need happiness
D- eath and despair cannot penetrate happiness
I- n dark days it is what we
N- eed.
G- o far, far away from here, find
H- appiness
A- nd give it out.
P- eace only comes when
P- eople are happy.
I- nhale,
N- ever doubt your place
E- veryone lives to be happy
S- o share it,
S- pread the happiness
Quack quack
I have a story
Hold the sit
One man one army
One house three children
One suside two'left
Education of children guts to hold the time
Ages going one man one cored
Four people
One man one cored one wife half
Both of the children need to be started own as per as there qualification
One man spend money on boy for his habits
One'man one cored told to the children then also don't have teeth to eath or remove there quak quak
Because that one man never
Sail into the water nope his ego
With love all
Jagdish bajantri
The
hand
extended
was
our
remedy,
death
being
everyone’s
curse.
Adonai,
making
expiation,
furnishing
life
eternal,
sacrified
himself.
—————
expiation - removal of sin
Adonai - literally, ‘Lord’, one of many names for the Godhead
for the Christmas Poetry Contest
sponsored by Bobby May
written on 12/15/22
G-od
A-ssigns
U-nexpected
D-eath
E-veryone
N-ever
C-an
I-nterfere
A-s
A-nother
S-unset
U-ses
N-ightfall
C-ompleting
I-ts
O-peration
N-aturally
Topic: Death (Gaudencia A. Asuncion, Feb.18,1952-March 14,2019)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
E-pidemic
H-orribly
R-eaches
A-larm
M-ultiplying
I-n
E-erie
P-andemic's
I-nfection
A-s
C-oronavirus
E-mploys
D-isease
A-nd
D-eath
Topic: Birthday of Ehramie Piacedad (May 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
I-t
L-ets
U-s
M-editate
I-n
N-umbness
A-s
D-eath
O-f
A-nyone
N-aturally
G-ives
U-s
L-onely
O-ccasion
Topic: Death of Iluminado D. Angulo (April 18,2020)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
On the beach one night
Neath a late-May moon
My love bathed its light
Lunar beams to swoon
(Kindled hearts, attune)
Just two young fools
In cool spring flames
Held close the dunes
Glib passion's games
Fire and ice
Even's arc
Did entice
Cool spark
Bare thaw ...
Awe.
~ 1st Place ~ in the "Pick A Title, Vol 12 - Diminished Hexaverse" Poetry Contest, Edward Ibeh, Judge & Sponsor.
* This is Diminished Hexaverse that I also did in Rhyme and Reverse ABC *
( Syllables = 5x5, 4x4, 3x3, 2x2, 1, counted at HowManySyllables.com - I removed the apostrophe from 'Neath as the software will not count words that start with an apostrophe. Thank you! ).
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