Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.- Mother Teresa
Breathless daughter, remember that time soon fades
Challenges arise and hope is not promised
Refuse to listen to the fear who dissuades
Wherever life takes you, desire the calmest,
Still waters flow deep, as the liquid delights
Coloring souls with poems from the psalmist
Beautiful child, listen to heaven’s insights,
When you truly believe, there’s a sense of grace,
Believing is truth that God Himself invites
Time is a shadow that the soul must embrace,
Soon muted by life, it fades into the past,
Listen to soft, gentle wind, blessing the race…
Knowing life shall pass, to its hand we holdfast
Value today for only God’s love will last.
Categories:
holdfast, appreciation, blessing, inspirational, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Although the rose is unadorned by dew, rain or sun… she shines still brighter when all her work is done. ~ quote by poet
If often seems that I’m like the gentle rose,
When my limbs are pruned, my spirit thrives and grows.
Like the rose, my deep roots are the foundation,
For when my roots doubt, there is bleak stagnation.
Like the rose, my thorns seem rather like a curse,
But when looking closer, you see bugs who’re worse.
Battling bugs and disease, stems and leaves grumble,
I see the naked rose which makes me humble.
See the forest for the trees, rose as it sways,
Its rambling branches create a silent maze.
I feel just like that rose as it blooms with grace,
Then finds herself fading with age who’ll erase.
If I could tell past sprouts how to make time last,
I’d reveal the wonder of One I’ll holdfast.
When time has ended and I lay my head down,
There isn’t a doubt that His light will be my gown.
Like the rose who fades, despite our heavy grief,
We know she’ll rise again and it’s my belief…
That when she rises, she’ll be more amazing,
Much more beautiful as her soul is praising.
Categories:
holdfast, appreciation, beautiful, flower, garden,
Form: Quatrain
When he went away, leaving her that day,
She thought her heart would betray…
The way it hurt, the way she wanted him to stay.
When love meant to last all lifelong, like a song,
Joyful and full, then lost in the dark, so wrong,
Leaving her alone and afraid, after he’d strung her along.
When doubts filled her up, after their breakup,
She felt like she’d fallen and would never getup,
Like she’d collapsed and so needed a pick-me-up.
When he ended what they had, it was just so sad,
Like she’d lost the best there was, all the glad,
While life moved on, she was lost, nearly mad.
When time passed, though, her heart would outlast,
All the pain and grief, finding solace at long last,
With the knowledge that her healing would holdfast.
When life beats you down, remember you won’t drown,
In the faded waters of defeat, the darkness all around…
You will find your reprieve after the heart’s meltdown.
When heartbreak has had her say, all you can do is pray,
For the time when love comes back to you, to stay…
Washing away the tears with a light that won’t fadeaway.
Categories:
holdfast, appreciation, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Rhyme
Aching, trembling like the dewdrop as it slides, wistful, across a petal… down a tearstained cheek – our ancestor’s heart’s quake ~ quote by author
Wrinkled now, thoughts carved out - all in the past
like the graying hairs left, heaven's forecast
reminding his dreams that their time has passed
autumn leaves, falling softly in contrast
stirring winter's icy cold, all aghast
darkest shadows breaking through to holdfast
weakened by the years, heartfelt tears, harassed
changes in hues of life's sorrows, at last
death welcomes those who heaven surely asked
MonoMixoRhyme Cash Prize Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Hilo Poet
December 6, 2022
Categories:
holdfast, angel, autumn, death, eulogy,
Form: Monorhyme
The day, now clearer-skied and cloudy strips cruise
in shades of deep dark sapphire and Aegean blues
with sweeter shades of cerulean azure oceanic hues;
stretching out in yawns across the western horizon
as if riding on the surf rise of Poseidon;
while in the east, straight up past high noon widening
it comes -
the rising, glowing creamy coconut balled sun
brilliant blinding white ivory yellowed burning rays run,
cooled in the breeze yet hot on the skin and face
but here, in the garden place
beneath the shaded nurtured paths
where the maple, sycamore, and oaks holdfast
beneath them, the shadows are cast;
the leftover morning imagery begins to spill,
in scented lilacs, honeysuckle and magnolia fills,
soon with perfect time and match
birdsong rings from nested eggs that hatch
life grateful that winter chill has passed;
as spring returns smolder and burns
with every flowing ghost of shadows in their turns,
they dance, they hide, they glide,
life flows in the shadows run.
Categories:
holdfast, analogy, nature, seasons, ,
Form: Rhyme
The hungered in-flight spots its need to last,
The beleaguered seize every occasion,
Fittest scores a new day, other has passed,
Left to make the status quo unsurpassed,
Lost must survive and waive the equation,
The hungered in-flight spots its need to last,
Maintained senses and elements holdfast,
Increase numbers, better its evasion,
Fittest scores a new day, other has passed,
Hail, the victor sustain they will outlast,
Plans being than not eased their persuasion,
The hungered in-flight spots its need to last,
Offspring joins the frame, focused and steadfast,
Greatness in numbers, accumulation,
Fittest scores a new day, other has passed,
Determined as the best, they have amassed,
Balance favored being, spite invasion,
The hungered in-flight spots its need to last,
The beleaguered seize every occasion.
Date: 08/30/2019
howmanysyllables
19 x a perfect 10
Categories:
holdfast, anti bullying, fate, nature,
Form: Villanelle
You'd think that it would be easy
to malfunction as I do.
In the eyes of those who see me
clearly one and one are two.
However, it's not that basic,
for, when in these shoes, they'll see,
that it must be quite the trick,
when one and one are three.
They all seem to know the "right" answers,
yet if they were in my skin,
they would be frozen, just standing there,
when I must run for my life, once again.
Something that they need to learn,
as they holdfast to their grudge,
my life, my problems, they're my concern,
who the hell are they to judge??
Categories:
holdfast, discrimination, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
I shift my jacket close as wind blows past,
perched upon this dull, gray massif of rock,
below the throaty call of raven’s squawk,
cannot stay long, in Fall the sun won’t last,
cold can make a man run out of gas,
but rolling vistas make a soul take stock,
ridge upon ridge, all view of cities blocked,
shut right out in my stark, high peaks holdfast.
Categories:
holdfast, earth, freedom, image, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
"You do these things to shock me"
One of many absurdities
That mouth has hurled at me
While mine its lip is bit
Bred to holdfast like a pitbull.
Categories:
holdfast, mother,
Form: I do not know?
I oversees my likely behavioral that not controllable or not properly directed by the rightfully owner thats never been exposed to his behavior will not be ashamed to prevail and to acknowledge such ignorance thats awful to his name. In which I will award myself to a trophie thats far not yet been appreciate by my behavior defaults I will try to clear fast with no holdfast haults to my behavior standpoints and digest its guilt of ashamed behavior that was never not missed or made to be alive in such reality statement thats proven. I love to climax and resolutely to my behavior gratitude and surface to a portion of confidence meditate my overly controllable behavior and think to the conclusion of what might makes me overly overdue my conceptions of doing to much in hurting my bad behavior causes and releif through patience and time to heal allowances to the mind circumference. And to write to stimulate the behavior mind settings and fragments.
Categories:
holdfast, anger, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse
YESTERDAY
A FEELING FREE,
COOL AIR
SOUNDS OF GEESE,
PHEASANTS,
ROOKS FLAPPING
SAWS BUZZING
FEELINGS QUITE,
LIKE RUSTLING LEAVES
A BREEZE NOT HERE
STRANGE LIGHTS,
THRU CLOUDS
FROM HEAVEN STREAMING
FLATTENED GRAYS OF LIGHT SUPPORTED
ROLLING FIELDS OF SHEEP CONTENT
IF THEY BUT KNEW,
THEIR DINNER MEANT
IF ALONE THESE THOUGHTS ARRIVE
IT MUST BE SO
THE DIVINES INTENT
AT TIMES LIKE THIS
IT’S PRESENCE FELT
A FEELING,
OF QUITE, CONTENT
AN EARLIER WOE
A SOARING HEART,
FEARS NEAR FORMING
HOLLOW STOMACH
(BEING FULL)
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A WELLING SWELLING NEED TO LOVE
A HEALING FEELING NEED TO LOVE
A CARING HEARING NEED TO LOVE
A SEEKING PEEKING NEED TO LOVE
A LEAKING BREAKING FLOODING NEED TO LOVE
HAPPINESS IS FLEETING HERE
IT’S JOY I MUST HOLDFAST
THE NEED
TO FEEL IT NEAR
IS NOW
MINE, AT LAST
Categories:
holdfast, happiness, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
The moon is peaking thru the night
shining down on thoughts unseen
daring to reveal the great unknown
daring to haunt your every dream
Its light is tapping on your window
seeking to capture your sin-filled soul
trying to steal what's hidden inside
to kill and destroy the story its told
close your eyes fast, hurry its coming
sleep is the key to the harbor so deep
where there on the shore angels await
to wash your soul clean with God's glory to keep
Hold tight to the truth that lies in your heart
For God is your army against the shadow of evil
the stain of your past blocking his love
leading you into the hands of the devil
So when the night crawls to cover the sun
holdfast to the hand that has given you life
that waters your soul with blessings of joy
and the moon will just be a star of the night!!!!!
Categories:
holdfast, faith, inspirational, moon,
Form: Free verse