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Effortful Poems

Paradise Waits

...The utter simplicity of nondoing…

What’s happening is so obvious,
yet the way of seeing so subtle,
it’s easy to miss and disregard.

If this is enlightened view and action
it is indeed too si...

Categories: effortful, faith, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Effortful Pen Adventure

...My first  thought,  Haiku!
I kept writing twenty one
Feverous efforts 
Seventeen syllable try
Instead of six eight six or
Seven seven.seven more...

Categories: effortful, anxiety, art, poetry, success,
Form: Tanka

The Seven Deadly Sins

...If you laugh at anger and allow some pride, 
You may not be quite the same person inside; 
If you ignore a little greed, just to yourself, 
And inspect sloth in worship as an act of self, 
You’ll...

Categories: effortful, character, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Accomplishment

...Go there now, 
Way out, effortful, 
Take much time....

Categories: effortful, inspiration, inspirational, voice, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

The Passion of the Christ

...To be predicted means that you’re the fruition, 
Of a rational process, effortful and determined;
We can all predict that someone will soon cure cancer, 
And so Jesus was foretold as medicine’s ro...

Categories: effortful, bible, christian, corruption, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Sober Acceptance Gandg

...unabashed analyzation
overturned rocks 
and constant contemplations
an effortful acceptance 
spurned out of desperation 
gathers speed now flying
taking, ticking, tocking
the past once regrett...

Categories: effortful, addiction, adventure, angst, blessing,
Form: Free verse

Home of the Brave

...Schackled the child cast in shame
by a father's disapproval.

Clipped the fledgling un-nuzzled
by an indifferent mother.

Brave the neglected one and
miraculous her recovery 

climbing with effortful...

Categories: effortful, courage,
Form: Free verse

Forgotten

...Dame’s Rockets grow atop her grave:
Pinks, whites and purples flourish here
in this cemetery enclave
where no one has visit in years.
Her oblique, weatherworn headstone
stands aside a ne...

Categories: effortful, death, nature,
Form: Verse