Success Endurance Poems

With heavenly gates wide open, earth unsealed
As walls come down, obstacles vanish from our field
New impressions arise within our mind
Unblocking our thinking, freshly aligned
Our thoughts...

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What a blessing it is to be alive
Driven insane until tortured further and I felt my sins so impure
But, I told them I will surely...

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Existential Exams

By Mark D. Stucky
Math problems, essay questions,
multiple choice, fill in the blanks…
Many are the tests we take
from grade school through grad school.

We also encounter...

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It is night's first light — evening
The world thinks through my mind
The echoes of a bittersweet day whisper
My ears twitch, my heart pricks

A pressed edge...

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I guess I’m sorry I was leaving so soon
It came out of the blue,
It came out of the blue moon…blue moon…
I couldn’t find my left...

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NEW YEARS RESOLUTION

This time I’ll do it, I truly will, I really will
I know that I have made promises before
When shame came after only a...

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To the passage of time, you waste

to an old idea that lives in you
to that vivid imagination that still burns
to your dream that lives on
there...

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The room is filled
with sweat and sounds
of heavy breaths,
heaved by shivering lungs.
Every muscle of the body
aches and whimpers
buried in exhaustion,
drowned in sweat. 

But where there...

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On Havana's white shore –
With each salt-infused whirl
That agitates its border –
Every sand is a potential pearl....

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Struggles come in many forms,
Some are manifest, some are hidden,
But no matter what the shape,
They can be hard to bear and seem unending
The path of...

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Irreplaceable
Success is written all over me 
My progressive attitude makes it obvious 
Am not trying to say am perfect
Yet honestly I give
Gratitude to life I...

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In a quiet trailer park, 
Just a short walk from the middle school
Where we all felt our way
Through literature, science and math,
Often silent during the...

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     Oh,my dear poet,stop being so down!
     Above all, do give up being blue…
   ...

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Reluctant Rogue Redo?

By Mark Stucky
If Jonah, reluctant rogue of a prophet,
had desired to visit Ninevah,
instead of fleeing the other direction,
how different would his story have...

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Underdog Alleluia

By Mark D. Stucky
Why do we love underdogs?
Why root for ragtag Rockies
and scruffy low-rated teams
coming from behind to win?
Why adore unlikely triumphs
against impossible odds?

Our...

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