Memories happy odd and sad ,
Are the roots of the tree of life ;
One walks in fancy robes clad ,
The other teases the suffered strife .
The pleasing one is comely and soft
While the irate other is full of pain ;
Recurring wild, broken images fly aloft
And re-form the rather missing chain .
The knotty, prickly vicissitudes burn
Or sting like flames or a venomous tail;
Time offers the apt panacea to turn
The gloom and ailment into hope, pale
Sweet and gainful events do stay
Within ,somewhere, refreshing forever ;
While the bruises and deep hurts may
Distress,and, the soul's resources, sever
The treasured pleasant picks of the past
Are soft and soothe the virtual sorrow ;
While the fall and ravages endured all at last ,
Harden and strengthen the stand for morrow.
Physical pain
Emotional pain
One affects the body
The other, mind and brain
Pain is painful
Wherever it attacks
It is not gainful
That is a matter of fact
You Did It Unto Them,
Ye Did It Unto Me
Miracle Man
3/10/2023
I’m besieged by panhandlers on the street,
With extended hands and with signs they greet.
I seldom fall for stories they’re dishing,
But asking is more gainful than wishing.
Many have chosen the wrong path in life,
looked upon by some as being lowlife.
But some can’t fit society’s framework,
and need help finding continuous work.
Matthew 25:40 King James Version
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Nice sum
ho-hum
Figures
triggers
transfer
defer
Strict loan
bemoan
Invest
divest
credit
debit
Tax break
intake
Pay in
smart pin
Pay out
for nowt
Encash
that’s flash
Mortgage
bondage
Wage freeze
on knees
Account
discount
Trader
with flair
Bonus
focus
Crossed cheque
ink fleck
Price hike
dislike
Bank app
just tap
Bankrupt
disrupt
Assets
facets
Bullish
flourish
Bearish
finish
Blue chip
shrewd tip
Savings
cravings
Broker
joker
Launder
flounder
Money
sunny
Offshore
of lore
wealthy
healthy
Lodgement
judgement
Finance
by chance
Stocks crash
mad dash
Target
market
Angel
gainful
hubs thrive
survive
glib glassy green-eyed gruesome ghoulish goblins grabbing gloriously
glitzy glimmers of gourmet garnish. Giants give garbled ghosts gruff
growls. Gargantuous groups of glamorous gargoyles give greeters
goopy green gravy. Garbanzos grab globs of giant gamblling goulash.
Glum grieving giraffes generate gibberish in German. Granulated grocers gripe about grimy glittering goblets. Gainful games google greening, guessing about grimy graveyards of gruffly grotesque ghouls. Glam Grandma Gigi gazed at gradual greasy grasshopper’s greedy game-changing griddles and granolas. Grazing garbled granite gleaned Greta Garbo’s grateful giblet. Gus’s glorious greasy gangly go-go galoshes garnishing Gilly's’s gristled grizzled gemstone gleaning gallons of gracious gangly gallows.
Only Last week with his Holy Bible,
I had to challenge Sam’s loaded pistol,
The whole spectacle indescribable
Thoughts of “Who did in him new thoughts instill?
This could yield cops’ visit and his arrest
Some dark cell his new place of ordered rest
If with it Sam appeared in a luncheon
He would not escape the first truncheon…
Now, I judge him Maverick Champion
With his loaded shot gun A Scorpion,
Though, his being with it might be protective,
To be snooping around him Detective
With possible orders to make shameful
What The Anxious User had thought gainful.
Loss of creative skills implied
a soul has died,
leaving bereft
those who are left.
Latent talents youth unexplored
may be restored
in later years,
no undue fears
Lest a waiting world be refused
future recused
nothing gainful,
loss is painful.
THIRD PLACE WINNER
written July 17, 2021
submitted to "12 Lines in Rhyme" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Joseph May
I never thought of Doug
as particularly intelligent
or interesting
And as he stood next to the fireplace
With a cigar in one hand
And a scotch in the other
He fumbled for words
Making feeble attempts to impress
But we knew better
the family and I
We knew of his past
His inability to keep
Both gainful employment
And wives
He seemed quite pitiful
when one by one everyone left
The room
Each using their own excuse
Some the restroom
The other a quite boring game of football
On the television
But anything was better than seeing Doug
And the massive success he had
In making himself a complete bore
It almost made me long for the isolation
Of the pandemic.
"A goodly, gainful thing"
Caribou told me
"To leave, once in a while
Home's high-ground safeness;
To roam, for what as sun-grassed
Lies in wait sweetly
Fills which need, Surprise's;
Feeds on vast Newness."
"And the most jubilant!"
Dragonfly added.
"To up and go, but now
Out which comfort zone
With that relief's burst, once deemed
Unthinkable sped!
Isle-eying, isle-engaged!
Floaty; no more lone!"
With no one hereabout
As above streetlight shone
“Hello beautiful”
Endurance rules you flout
Daintily peeping out
Flourishing with aplomb
By each gainful degree
Amid detritus flows
Purple petunia grows
If only all could see
Limpet tenacity
Hidden in the shadows
Survival rates are slim
In mind you never dim
Name and Sponsor Hexsonnetta
3/15/21 Emile Pinet
Birthday wish*, my friend, comes with blessings’ glow
Prayers’ care upon the Lord’s mighty brace
Along peace, love and joy that freely flow
Marked by His abounding marvelous grace.
Prayers’ care upon the Lord’s mighty brace
His goodness does uphold you from pressure
Marked by His abounding marvelous grace
Transforming stress toward gainful pleasure.
His goodness does uphold you from pressure
Heavenly sunshine, divinely blissful
Transforming stress toward gainful pleasure
While you reach-out to others, still hopeful.
Heavenly sunshine, divinely blissful
Grants with cheers of abounding contentment
While you reach-out, making others hopeful
To share kindness midst grateful endowment.
Grants with cheers of abounding contentment
Along peace, love and joy that freely flow
To share kindness midst grateful endowment.
Birthday wish, my friend, comes with blessings’ glow.
3John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
January 29, 2021
7th place, "A Poem to ... on his-her birthday" Premier Contest
Sponsored by Funom Makama; judged on 9/20/2021.
Golden
Ginkgo drops gold
Gateway to gainful clearer thought
Bright light
Greater
Graphic lightbulb
Glimpse into gray matter's
Cogs, sell the gold, guaranteed gain
Get gist?
Date: December 07, 2020
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Contest: Alliteration
The letter G....Double Cinquain
Homeopathic companies make meds out of the Ginkgo leaves to help with memory and blood circulation so they say. I thought I have a tree with golden leaves which could make me some gold.
When discontentment grips my soul
stricken with “if only” litany
midst tormenting doubts attacking…
…helplessly beseeching for escape flight
while wallowing in failure along frustration angst ---
My Lord hoists my faith, reviving my heart
toward triumphant service.
Cognizant of uncertainty-filled response
to future upon insecurities' “maybe" flood
my carnality pursues gainful personal whim
making me swerve from devotion-vow
retreating into convenience and comfort ---
My God drives my commitment ardor
in building lives, vanquishing selfishness, indeed vain.
As skepticism obscures sublime vision
magnifying “sometime” pleasure
distracting heavenly focus…
my human nature succumbs to festive dainties
yet suffocating my spirit ---
My Saviour through His redeeming love*
reaches out to me with revival peace glow.
*2Corinthians 13:11 “… Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.”
August 4, 2020
3rd place, "If only, maybe, sometimes" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One; judged on 8/5/2020.
My prayer* for you comes with blessings’ glow
Warming your days around God’s sweet embrace
Along peace, love and joy that freely flow
Marked by His abounding marvelous grace.
Warming your days around God’s sweet embrace
His goodness does uphold you from pressure
Marked by His abounding marvelous grace
Transforming stress toward gainful pleasure.
His goodness does uphold you from pressure
Heavenly sunshine, divinely blissful
Transforming stress toward gainful pleasure
While you serve the Lord, abiding faithful.
Heavenly sunshine, divinely blissful
Grants from Christ of merciful endowment
While you serve the Lord, abiding faithful
As steward in His kingdom advancement.
Grants from Christ of merciful endowment
Along peace, love and joy that freely flow
As steward in His kingdom advancement…
My prayer for you comes with blessings’ glow.
*2Corinthians 9:14 … Prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
February 21, 2020
2nd place, "PANTOUM" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier; judged on 2/27/2020.
Some see power as personal,
feel light as intimate belonging,
interpersonal hope and faith and love.
For these,
life's experience and memory
are theologically driven from above,
explained,
hoped for,
and feared when lost,
abandoned
neglected
repeatedly abused.
Others hear power as planetary evolution,
sometimes climaxing in intense revolutions
of painful loss
and gainful passion
within nature/spirit nonduality
Transcending autonomous ego-body/mind association
and dissociation.
For these,
love's compassion and losses
are ecologically embedded,
reiterated,
actively hoped for,
And feared economic and political
and ultimate individuating risk
of fading through fragile depressed eco-unlogical despair
and suppressed political terror
about co-passioning Earth's mortality,
As if this personal Goddess
could someday die
while humanity claims Rapture
elsewhere.
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