Envy the green eyed monster
can be harnessed to achieve a goal
I currently have a want for fitness
it's eluded while my life was on hold
So I am mustering up my health
and working on my stamina
And feeding up my ego
because in the end its chutzpah thats its anima
You have to attack with vigor
and have a plan you adjust along the way
You have to be single minded
and self congratulate to make it stay
For envy does not really serve
and it can actually deflate your cause
Because you don't ask for advice
and align with those who have achieved what you want
For those that have blazed those trails
can tell you their recipe
It may be the thing you can exactly do
or it may be an energetic zing
But use your emotional energy
to fuel your restless tide
And keep an open mind
and move ahead with pride
Turn Envy the Green Eyed Monster to you can do this!! You can! - Artimus (C) Susan Manley 3/11/24 8:43AM
Two lovers smitten, cruel sister bitten
by envy, her tantrum, a spell newly written
‘This shall be so, when next they shall meet
His one desire, to roast her and eat
One empty flagon, then the unwary
He shall be dragon, she shall be fairy
Monster shall never know love with a sprite
Dragon shall see her as supper this night
Their love shall falter and she’ll be his snack
And he shall be mine when I change him back
For he shall think twice ’fore next time he picks
A lover whose sister is this dark witch.’
And yet in spite of her cruel drunken night
At first light those lovers shared their first flight
One dragon, one fairy, neither was prey
For true love it seems shall find its own way
1 November 2021
Contest: Rhyme Me A Poem 2 (based on image 1)
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Envy is a green-eyed monster
wrote Shakespeare and Ovid
You think they were jealous
~ of the appearance of covid?
Have you climbed to the top
of your little mountain,
only to find others
looking down
From heights far above you
that unable to climb,
you turn a blind eye
to the ground
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
I hearkened to my better side, it bade me make amends,
For if not what was there, would then forever end.
A bitter mistress jealousy, my mind could hardly cope,
Thinking only of myself, harsh were those words I spoke.
Unfounded were my utterings, I had spoken like a child,
'Twas love that had unsettled me, my mind ran fast and wild.
But my love, she took me back she listened to my plea,
It was my undying love for her that stirred my jealousy.
I am not the first of many fools who love leaves insecure,
But let not the green eyed monster, sully what is pure.
Entry for
LATE JAN 2019 , ANY FORM OR NONE,
ANY THEME,UP TO A MAX OF 20 LINES Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand.
25/1/19. Placed=1st.
Indubitably there is one emotion
By the time I feel its first nettle
I am at the point of explosion
It is already too late to settle
I become immediately apoplectic
Before the green-eyed monster
Is validated as authentic
Thus exaggerating it asunder
I find this is so flabbergasting
My face turns red and I glower
Jealousy for me is most suggesting
That my sanity has been devoured
May 5, 2018
The green-eyed monster
The green-eyed monster has awakened
From a sleep that made him rest
As he has regained his vigour
He will put you to the test
You will have to act real courteous
While your heart with envy sears
And you must control your anger
Maybe even hide your tears
Your endurance will be torture
For it lacks good sentiment
There’s no will or motivation
To utter any compliment
Now your mood is so confusing
And it shows upon your face
Which appears real taut and rigid
And you feel so out of place
’Cause the monster has awakened
And he wants to be amused
He wants you to spew out venom
And he will not be excused
As you struggle not to please him
You blend friendliness with spite
And it all becomes real awkward
’Cause you want to do what’s right
So you smile and raise your eyebrows
In case your eyes stare blank and cold
’Cause you want no one to blame you
For a grudge that you might hold
This is how you fight the monster
Or at least that’s how you try
And it looks as if you’re winning
But you know it’s just a lie.
Wendy Nipas
The green-eyed monster has just peeped
His eyes around that corner
The look he gave so dark and deep
As if he meant to warn her
That some things are best left unsaid
That some are best left put to bed.
To visit once or twice maybe?
No harm in that she could not see
But harm once done to jealous eyes
Will creep and creep and demonise.
As if it were a godly thing?
Crowned and glorious?
A new sweet foundling?
But no
The green-eyed monster has just peeped
His eyes around that corner.
I am a real life green-eyed monster
For I was born with green eyes
I try to keep the monster at bay
But sometimes she rears her ugly head
It’s something I’ll always have to live with
My first memory of the monster appearing…
Well I guess I was about five years old
Mum would give us our pocket money
You were older than me so you got more
ALL it meant was you could buy more sweets than me
I would watch you devour each one
You never thought of sharing them
But you’ve had weight issues all your life
Whereas I’m a petite size eight….
I wonder who is jealous now!
Contest - Jealousy
Sponsor – SKAT
09~08~15
Last year you were looking as good friends
yet today i feel that you're bringing up troubles
a baby with a green eye
was born in japan
grown up in your mind
feeding of your dark side
tell me why the hate
is taking up your smile
why don't you just offer him a flower
of a yellow color
you can't take away what he deserves
if you are jealous try to be the best
Hent my heart from wandering concepts of affection.
Recant the murmurs of insecurity that riddled my temple.
Like a slow wound toy awaiting release from a child's grasp and attention.
Toss and birl, whipsawed into the oblivion of life's gamble.
Take away this wretched knife in my side.
A knife that twist with every incantation.
Those bastards! Jackanapes! Stirring in the tides.
Exordium! When I appear to disappear. Insouciance!
This tires me into a gaumless breathing, beating whole.
Furl all I can, these product of fallibility and madcap.
As I breathe deep into a bibelot diamond. The centre of my soul,
I feel the urge to plotz from reminders and blankets.
As I indite a subtle line of assurance. I contrived.
Culling into materials and conversations. I quelled.
Forgoing this disposition. Finally, Peace has arrived.
Retribution in it full essence. Salient though dishevelled.
I had some extra green paint
Oh what can I do to make her faint
So a dabbed a bit down below
When in the room she came for a blow
I yelled
Green-eyed monster is waiting to show
She fainted
Notes:
ok ok I saw so many poems with this topic, I said what the hell, why not!
Silly me, walk up to hubby
Lady with him walks away
Oh, that lurid creature lurks
In the depth of my soul
It tries to make me act like a fool
Best to smile, walk away, and not to drool
I’ll be cool, they’re the fool
This Green-Eyed Monster is no fool
By: Eve Roper 12/12/2014
Contest: The Green-Eyed Monster
Sponsor: Verlena S. Walker
I seen a green eyed monster
I went to bed with a thought of good things.
My belly made a really bad noise I thought it was a possibility that monster.
With everyone to sleep I went downstairs without a sound.
To the cookie jar I went. Then out it came from the dark.
This big green eyed monster.
I just wanted to hide but no place to go. I was caught with the cookie jar.
I reach into the jar and took a cookie out.
I handed the cookie to the green eyed monster.
He took it with a grump then went out of sight.
The green eyed monster looked back at me
He said in a voice I heard before.
Go to bed my son or that green eyed monster might get you.
He was right to be suspicious
She was acting suspiciously
So he followed her that morning
To see what he might see
She didn’t go towards her office
She took the road to the ocean shore
And pulled up to a motel where
They had never been before
He watched her get a room key
Then go to a cabin with an ocean view
He was hurting so much inside himself
He didn’t know just what to do
He saw another man knock on the door
Looking tall and younger than him
He loaded the pistol from inside his car
As she let the stranger in
He shot her once aside the head
Him twice in the face
Then turned the pistol upon himself
Making a full mess of the place
The police found a cell phone in her hand
The stranger left a bible on the table
The husband’s cell phone was on the front seat of his car
Displaying 1 voice message on the label
“Hi Honey, I know it’s a month early but … Happy Anniversary. I got us a terrific little room at this quaint motel down in Seaside and found a nice young preacher who said he would perform a service to reaffirm our vows. When you get this message, come down and join me. See you soon … Love you.”
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