You might show your brawn,
Flex your fists,
But my words are stronger.
You might sharpen your knives,
Slash at my throat,
But my words are sharper.
You might yell and scream,
But my words are louder.
You might push and shove,
Beat me down,
But my words can be brutal.
You might lie and manipulate,
Twist what happened,
But my words carry the truth.
You might try to make sure others don’t hear,
Damper my screams,
But my words won’t be silenced.
Words have power that might can’t conquer.
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1 of the King James Bible
Blest time
yon dime
God's time
sublime
Lifetime
health's chyme
Bed time
pray'r clime
Peace time
sip lime
Up time
faith's climb
Show time
do mime
Play time
catch slime
Pastime
hum chime
Flex time
clean grime
Mealtime
enzyme
Art time
write rhyme
Free time
leave "I'm"
War time
hate's prime
Lost time
worst crime
Meantime
plant thyme
Psalm 121:7-8The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
I experienced early on the block
Don't respect a rebel
So I etched my own lane, created
On truth,
And battled every day just to
Earn my come-up
' Cause the streets only fear a real rebel
One who won't fold, won't flex from the truth.
Some twilights I bled for the cost of truth
But discomfort never immobilized my
Hierarchy rise,
It only amplified the fire in a rebel.
Rebel, truth, rise; the lore I transmit through
The shadows
Her feet crush the coarse dirt,
settling from foot to foot in approach.
Tendons flex; bones remember weather.
Wings—thin bone, taut skin—rise,
each feather catching a gale it cannot see the end of.
The body lunges.
Wings propel upward as a single draft is caught.
Legs lock into a streamlined stance,
and the body relaxes, gliding on years to come.
The dirt seems never to have existed;
storm gales he dark sea below.
Flying spray and rising mist crust her beak with salt.
Endless currents shepherd the locked wings through thick fog.
Half in repose,
sweeping the air—never too high, never too low.
She has always been this far from land, and never.
Seasons crust her wings like old weather she can’t shed.
Then the wind snaps. A warning.
Wings unfold.
A wall of petrichor and sulfur rises ahead.
Feathers shudder.
Tendons unlock. Her body loosens.
Feet strike giving soil,
legs search for footing as friction returns.
Salt gives way to soil.
The dirt is dirt again.
.
i flex mine
torso'z push
limbz
mine rusted
uhhp
umph lock
got'chuh
now did that hurt
"((mmph))"
You had it all wrong.
You were never a fling,
And there was never an ex.
You were his first—never a flex.
We warned him not to simp,
That it was a sign of weakness;
That men must never love,
That body counts matter more than a GPA.
We warned him
You would make him vulnerable.
Now he finally sees why.
We said he'd want to marry you,
And every word came true.
So, did you feel the same?
Now he knows
He was never the only man.
But was he the main?
Were we really honest?
Is this the true meaning
Of love is blind?
Must love make us blind,
Or are we simply blinded by it?
He rehearsed his pickup lines:
"You're hotter than lava."
"I hate my last name—can I give it to you?"
And you smiled...
Was it genuine?
He believed we'd never lie to him,
And we always warned him about you.
But mistakes make us wiser.
Even so,
He would still choose you again.
Cowards are those who resort to violence.
And cowards are those who hide behind silence.
Violence seekers try to conceal a complex.
And want to show off how their muscles flex.
Silence embracers try to cope with a weakness.
And live in unfathomable bleakness.
Why don’t people act humbly and sensibly
So that others keep their dignity and live happily?
Why do they have to disguise their flaws with arrogance?
And why do the aggressed show a lot of patience?
Both parties are to blame for their cowardice
If not treated respectfully, people should act with competence.
Much like the emptying of womb
Each time a mother gives birth
Increase in disasters and violence
Act as catalysts to cleanse the Earth
Many want to cling to safety
The smooth rhythm of waters around
Provision offered in waves
Without abrupt noise of unanchored sound
Along around the seventh month
Warning signals tense and flex
Preparing through unwanted movement
That strengthens muscles to pass the test
Resistance is futile against tide
Yet the unaligned will pull and resist
When birthing time arrives
The baby is found in an emergency twist
Many worlds have come and gone
The survivors are the lining of the wall
Memories are wiped each time
But new waters have helped them recall
...we are not from here
Written by Trudy Schrader on 04-16-2026
It’s Monday - again - every time I look around,
it seems like it’s Monday again.
Weekdays I run on snark and caffeine.
If I seem preoccupied..
I’m not ignoring you, I’m buffering
My playlists soothe and understand me
I’m not ignoring you, I’m reorganizing a playlist.
My mood is linked to Wi-Fi strength.
I’m not ignoring you, I’m doom scrolling.
On weekends, we put the ‘pro’ in procrastination
we take the celibacy out of celebration
and work on our romantic cardio
Sometimes you gotta pop-out and show your alignment
I’m not ignoring you, I just don’t want to pull a bird-finger muscle
.
.
A song for this:
The Politics of Dancing (12" Extended Mix) by Re-Flex
Without Him by Triste Janero
My friend tells me that if it is meant to be, it shall be.
Her words are quite different as they are in a different language. Can we flex the nature of hell, the divine, how's holiday worded to be?
No matter how I feel, I should not chase it if it is not meant for a future of love.
Looking at a strong word does not make it a Pew Lonesome Dove.
If you admit to only being a season and only that, then you are not meant for me.
Bodybuilding Crave
Fitness at its best
Proportion put to the test
Weights in uplift
Intensity Count
Flex to pose
Artistic suppose
Muscle must have a feed
Nutrition to proceed
Exercise transforming into condition
Shaping in precision
Muscle will not develop alone
Determination full blown
Results to achieve
Muscle to receive
Before to transformation
Theory of Muscle Evolution
Still waken; yawn, flex.
Still rise; to eat.
But once had lived too!
That childhood feat.
By accessing joy
Through countless gates
On those friendly raced
Free-ran estates.
Think neighbourhood's wide
Neighbourhood shock.
Think foals, in tandem.
Of wilder stock!
the t-rex took a bite out of my back
I was surprised at this dino attack!
stegosaurus gave the t-rex a mean kick
healing my back with a frothy lick
so, all dinosaurs are not mean or bad
the stegosaurus is the best one I ever had
I am glad I did not judge them all by the t-rex
I would have missed out on my best friend, Flex.
Reflection in a Phial
I look at my hands, they are as brown as a farmer`s, this pleases me,
although I have no land to plough, a tractor or a mule, or
a workman`s sturdy hand; all socialists should have hands that
have harvested potatoes or carrots.
I flex the muscles in my upper arms and see a faint movement
like a mouse moving under thawing spring snow.
Glorious vanity, I used to do a hundred press-ups a day in the hope
of looking intense and furious. I think of sex sadly. I wasn`t any good
at it. After the act, I looked for a book to read.
The squalid side of life has always mystified me. Why does
a person choose a path that leads to moral disgrace and ruin?
I have always been lazy; strenuous effort will not touch me,
but I would like to pull up a few more carrots.
???STEEZE WITHOUT GOD NA ORDINARY BREEZE???
Steeze without God, na ordinary breeze,
Stay lazy o, no hustle, just chill as you please.
Street life dey hot, but heart dey freeze,
Your pride go fall flat, like leaves from the trees.
Boys wey dey flex, but no know the divine keys,
Chasing empty dreams like ghost wey coffin squeeze. K
Steeze without God fit loud, but the loudness na tease,
Life no bi chais, but Baba God fit put am for ease.
Money fit dey one corner, but peace no dey,
Glamour for show, but pain go betray.
Dey front dey receive all the shine, but behind dey decay,
Na God be the illuminant wey fit show you way.
Chase the steeze o, but remember the clarion call,
Without God, my friend, you go fall like felele ball.
True greatness comes when we rise from the stall,
So...get steeze, but you gats get God make life stew evermore.
Omo... steeze without God na ordinary breeze,
Because na Him dey give us peace and increase.
???VICK MANUEL POETRY???
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