“With patience and perseverance
We can win the hardiest race.”- By author
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Patience and Perseverance
On the journey of life when we embark
Let patience allied with perseverance
Be the lighthouse, our path to lit with spark
And permeate our spirit with endurance;
When wilful whirling winds waft down our soul
Let us not yield to dark clouds of despair
But forge ahead steadfast towards our goal
Without a single shaggy seam of scare;
Let`s not try the hilltop at once to clinch
As we may tumble down a dizzy slope
But, move forward step by step, inch by inch
With patience and perseverance to cope;
With patience we earn the Lord`s divine grace,
With perseverance we win the tough race.
Categories:
hardiest, endurance, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Painted desert skies
blanket the shifting sands.
Hiding secret surprise
in the quiet badlands.
Hardiest creatures known
walk the hot, scorching earth
living under a stone
proving their robust worth.
Scorpions, spiders, snakes
and more native species
survive where the earth bakes
and little relief sees.
Birds, gazelles, and camels
all graze the barren land,
among many mammals
that flourish in the sand.
The painted desert smiles
at its varied creatures
as if they were exiles
in defiance of their teachers.
Nature’s ecosystem
thrives among the cacti.
Life is full to the brim
under the painted sky.
Categories:
hardiest, color,
Form: Rhyme
Winter wears a gown of crystal and lace
woven with ice and snow;
and life shelters in place
when Her frigid winds start to blow.
She blankets all in a white duvet
soon as the songbirds have flown away,
yet, some of the hardiest of birds opt to stay.
Snowflakes confetti the ground,
silently falling without a sound;
fluttering and tumbling all around.
While yule logs crackle in the fireplace,
in Winter’s Garden, naught will grow
and children gather indoors to play,
a little sad, and yet, come spring, spirits rebound.
Categories:
hardiest, 10th grade, beautiful, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
It's difficult
for anything to grow
in completely dry ground
hard earth crusted over
gritty like sandpaper
abrasive
yet crumbling
at mere touch
unable to hold together
or support weight
Yet rain doesn't always
help that much
when it's too hard
or too fast
or not long enough to last
The best help of all
is a gentle sprinkle
now and then
or a slow steady shower
to soak things in
Our minds are made
like that, too
ideas carefully
firmly planted
can't take root
in dry destitution
Even ideas
of the hardiest constitution
will wither away
and decay in our brains
without that simple
life-giving rain
a gentle shower
of information
knowledge
truly is power
Categories:
hardiest, growth, life, metaphor, people,
Form: Free verse
There once was a loud laughing star
Whose laugh was hardiest of har-hars,
She was asked to be quiet
Which she thought was a riot,
So they made her into a headlight for cars.
Categories:
hardiest, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Limerick
she is a blatant caricature in loud technicolor
her presence shouts sexual innuendo
alluring with dark undertones
her past shadows her every word
like clouds passing over a weak sun
she is the road untold but by the few hardiest of souls
her skin tangles his mind
as she watches him in the rearview
runs her hand through her hair repeatedly
he is mesmerized by moist lips parted
around phrases dark and foreboding
the cool calculation of her casual appearance
he is sleepwalking a dangerous dream
he is a dramatic parody in shades of pastel
a sorrowful tale told hesitatingly full of doubts and fears
full of the gentlest of loves
weak and stained he stands in the fell shadows
waiting for her rusty razor blade kisses
she has him
like clouds passing over a weak sun
and he loves her for it
Categories:
hardiest, angst, crazy, gothic,
Form: Free verse
After Cain murdered Abel, and moved to the east,
evil and violence continued and never ceased.
The devil lives in the hearts of all men.
I must tear everything down and start again.
There is only one man and his family of worth.
I shall spare them to repopulate the earth.
For forty days and nights, the rain shall fall.
The evil shall perish. The flood will drown them all.
Noah, you and your sons are skillful by hand.
You will appear strange building an ark on dry land.
Take all the animals of the earth by twos.
The hardiest that can be found you must choose.
With the strongest of wood, you shall build that great boat.
You, your family, and the animals, will be safely afloat.
Written especially for our fellow souper, Mystic Rose.
Categories:
hardiest, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Early in the spring the variable winds and rains fall heavy on grass meadows,
Adding a spring in the turf, waking the mosses on stone walls and stone paths
Purple stems of woodspurge hang in the wet winds with its pale green flowers,
Ancient orchards left unattended have gnarled twisted trees with sour apples,
These grounds are bestrewed with the whitest of violets, a carpet of beauty.
But there are other flowers that have been out in colder, hard bitter weather
The humble daffodil has been plucked and strewed by children for generations,
A beautiful old English flower which belongs in village gardens and commons,
The old daffodil is one the hardiest flowers it grows anywhere and everywhere,
In box hedges, neglected arbours of alleys, hard rugged moorlands and glades.
Daffodils in desolation grow long after the planters hand has turned to dust,
Buried deep in disused graveyards, overgrown with nettles and thorny bushes
And dwellings around it have fallen to decay with passing of many hard years,
Even the other flowers that have grown nearby have been cleaned, swept away,
Outlasting memories that have perished along with families of old homesteads,
Categories:
hardiest, nature, old, spring, old,
Form: Prose Poetry
Featured Poem On Poetry Soup W/O 12/10/2018
I'm just a person
not a tree to be climbed,
Or trampoline to jump on
when so inclined.
A Frisbee I'm not,
to be tossed in the wind,
Or a carrier pigeon
so me, please don't send.
I'm no welcome mat
to be laid at one's door,
To wipe and be walked on
like some rug on the floor;
I'm not a balloon
to hold anothers hot air,
Nor am I a wagon
to be pulled here and there.
Count me not as a scapegoat
when things go askew,
Endeavoring to tickle my ears
as you invariably do.
I seek no man's pity
and God made me no fool,
Allowing myself to be used
makes me that person's tool.
Unlike the planted oak
The hardiest of trees,
I must be free to go,
like wind, when I please.
I wasn't placed here
to compete in life's race,
I'm just a person who requires
Solitude and "Space";
Categories:
hardiest, allegory, inspirational, me, nature,
Form: Lyric
Broken glass and shattered dreams
Living a loveless life
It cuts deep into the soul like a sharpened knife
Blood flows from the wounds of living alone,
wounds that only grow deeper and fester with time
Fight it as best you can,
for living this life can fell the hardiest of men,
and makes the coldest of men weep
It’s a hard life to lead,
when there’s no one to turn to,
nobody to satisfy the innate need to be loved
Categories:
hardiest, life, lost love, love,
Form: Lyric