You know what the Football World Cup really needs?
Goal! Goal! Goal!
with Bigger Goals!
Another yard — another meter—
on either side of the posts.
Bigger goals mean more goals!
More goals mean better football!
Goal! Goal! Goal!
Screamers from thirty metres!
Curlers into the top corner!
Thunderbolts from halfway out.
Goal! Goal! Goal!
That's what fans want to see.
Not defensive fantasy!
Not blockers lined up at the back.
Bring on attacking football!
More goals means fairer results.
Goal! Goal! Goal!
Imagine the score in Heaven?
5–7!
8–6!
10–8!
That's what fans play mega bucks to see.
Last-minute winners!
Goal! Goal! Goal!
More skills!
More thrills
More daring!
More drama!
More football!
Goal! Goal! Goal!
It's so ridiculously easy.
Just widen the goalposts.
when nobody's looking—
out a yard... out a meter... on either side
Go for goal!
Blight the nil-all draw!
Goal! Goal! Goal! Goal! Goal!
make way, make way,
for a maiden banished from my desolate plane.
she holds her head high
with her bindle in hand, and nothing in sight.
her countenance? fierce yet seraphic.
like divine judgment, contrite yet panoramic.
i watch you leave with wist—
i know you plan to reel me in,
plotting on me, like i’m an oblivious fish.
so used to my lack of adamant action.
you think of me to be a fish in a well,
though i know that to be aspersions;
i’m much more than just a hopeless whelp
described as nothing more than an accumulation of precipitation.
i am the vast sky, with even vaster aspirations.
you have goals for you
I have goals for me
yours are your own
shared with no one I see
mine are eagerly shared
I have nothing to hide
meeting them daily
keeping my muse happily plied
Sit in your seat, the driver's seat.
Strap down and lock in.
Now, go ahead and fire 'er up.
Pan your gauges while you listen to the rumble. Check all your mirrors... left, right, and don't forget the rearview before you peer ahead.
Now, take a deep, long breath.
And with that beautiful destination in focus, confidently pull the gear shift from park to drive.
Now, foot off the brakes and on the gas.
Up ahead, sweet dreams long last.
Rumors abound
All around town
Lily White
Needs a knight
She is tangled
Being wrangled
By the tricky trees
Planted by Peacocks from Leeds
Wolves are down under
Hearing wraths thunder
Drinking Burnley claret wine
Getting ready to do second tier time
In comes the Hammer girl
Wearing expensive pearls
Bought using Gallo credit
Wondering, ‘will anyone get it?’
Message, ‘relegate’
Easier opponents await
Fans will have reason to cheer
Dousing the same expensive beer
As players work on maturing skills
Crunching numbers, paying the bills
Oh yes, who is going to get dropped
Commentating, ‘our season truly was a flop’
Officially closing the show
Taking the athletic production to parts unknown
Goal now ‘will want to come back’
Claiming healed healthy, surviving a relegation attack
Time slips away
Use it wisely
Set lofty goals
Reach for your dreams
Live your best life
There's no second chance
So get it right !
AP: 3rd place 2026
My mind on pause
easily entertained
idly wasting of time
I sit back lazy in my lazyboy
like a potato blob on my couch
meanwhile not noticing
my goals drifting right on by
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
gave myself three goals this week
dye my hair to camouflage the glaringly white roots
burn the twenty-six empty boxes stacked in the kitchen
the pile is high enough for beaver living
drive my car somewhere; anywhere
mice chewed the wires out of my last sitting car
It is Saturday.
I have blown through five days of doing not one whit of a goal.
I dyed my hair around two a.m.
burned the boxes at three in the afternoon.
procrastination wore me out.
I had napped all week, avoiding these three huge goals.
Mice are probably having a heyday in my car.
Leaf dies in air
Trees going bare
Death stalks the woods
Of those athletically good
Sweating summer heat
In games where they compete
Never do they cheat
Being honest and true
Acting cool
Laughing fools
Champions determined
Life lessons learning
Decision final and confirmed
Hardware issue no longer a concern
Northern success exposed
Confederates propose
Move inside
Red lights will guide
Scores made
Making the grade
Finally, a trade
Check signed, saying paid
Shutting mouth
Going south
Community warm
Staying in University dorm
Will make this undergraduate program a winner
Before the all-inclusive meal plan dinner
Then off to the library and study
Learn how to make, investment money
Earning a degree, that is what is funny
Since making field goals really wasn’t a realistic thing
Along with not being able to sing
But books in print
Will hint
Proper direction
After securing academic protection
I want to kiss the stones of my ancestors
And to walk on the sand where they fell
And know I will not sink
I want the teeth of arrogance to scar me
To scar me where they could not be scared
And to let those scars burn
The sun it dries
But can’t dry me
For I will drown
And I will sink
And will be the most happy
No hand of help to take my hold
No warmth of home to steal the cold
This act alone
Is now my own
I will be where I will be
With the sun beneath my swollen feet
And my grave will lie to face the sky
And leave it all behind me
A barren kiss my fate shall hold
Of a foreign face on weary stone
And ancestors shore be gone
The sand will sink and I will fall
But this time someone else stands tall.
To change desired end result
input first needs to be somewhat different
risks calculated for better odds
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
I wake up fully psyched
On track full charge toward my goals
~ My vision couldn’t be clearer
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
“I have journeyed within myself,
Scanned rumblings of the inner self
Lent my ears to the inner chime
Within grasp of the sands of time.” By author.
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The Journey Within
The journey within, for diverse souls,
Begins at diverse stages of life,
For some since early days of childhood,
Goaded by parental mentoring,
For others during the course of life
Driven by coincidence or a quirk of fate.
For some it`s an insightful journey
Shining with light of enlightenment,
A straight-line excursion to top of a mount,
For others a nebulous trip shrouded with haze,
Veiled with dark doubt and deadly dread,
A sporadic trek ceasing at foot of a hill.
My journey within glowing since days of youth,
Sparkling through exposure and learning,
Has been deeply anchored with quest to know myself,
To find who I am and my goals in life.
Storms of life sustained from fate and men
Have propelled me to scan deeper within myself,
To treasure peace and bliss in solitude
At the shining lake of my inner self.
pursuing my goals
one step ahead two behind …
life’s moonwalk
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