Hold On
Hold on to loved ones and show that you care
Hold on to your principles, those you wish to share
Hold on to your dignity, when events are not so fair
Hold on to those memories that can never compare
Hold on to your inner strength with all of your might
Hold on to your will that makes you stand and fight
Hold on to your emotions, those that cause you fright
Hold on to your empathy for those not treated right
Hold on to your inquisitiveness to seek what is true
Hold on to your sensibilities, share your point of view
Hold on to your common sense that you always knew
Hold on to the possibilities of what may come anew
Hold on in all your strife
Hold on for dear life
At age of five, baby turns to a child
Leaving Mother’s lap enters outer world
Curiosity begins, strong or mild.
Fear and Sweet Home are the important words
Inquisitiveness to increase daily
Schooling and study get priority
Adolescence becomes crucial mainly.
At fifteen searching for identity.
Through budding teen ages bubbling youth comes
Sex consciousness appears as fulcrum.
Most vibrant dynamic youth to welcome
Career, Love and Family : Broad Spectrum.
At fifty Perfect Persona is gained.
Lad or Lady fulfills own ambition
Proud Parents : Grown Up Children entertain.
Success reflects through Next Generation.
Last Phase of Life starts at age Seventy.
Last but not the Least, you are to proceed
through hard work establishing entity
Live in full, Life is a Challenge indeed.
"What all charms and secrets reside in the mysterious depths of nature! To enjoy them, one should have a child's curiosity and the inquisitiveness of an environmentalist." --- By Poet
When heart bleeds from unseen wounds, I wish to roam,
Through dense and lush green woodlands wild
Where leaves whisper and insects chant in rhythmic form.
Holding my breath, with prancing steps, like a child,
I walk watching trees loaded with colorful blooms
And enjoy the scented breeze, sweet and mild.
As I move on, vast and varied vista zooms,
And I behold the wonders nature keeps.
Watch macaws and peacocks in colorful plumes.
There's no time the woodland fully sleeps.
Making pulsating and swooshing sounds,
A cataract from a nearby mound leaps.
As nature in her magical beauty surrounds,
I feel, my heart with sweet sensations abounds.
Paints through tools; read with logical reasoning
Change conventional beliefs; abandons traditional probability
Coordinate figures in league with attributes; Polished audience inquisitiveness
Challenges the aside; make out the take of possibility
Poets are never ashamed
To own we have been wrong
It is a way to be glad
We are strong
As a poet
Making out fortunes off problem
I become problems alternate
Advanced clown of Adam
As I'm always hoping
To be improving
Agreed it is of fact
I have become wiser in act
This pen will not seize
Not to the quest of phase
The height of my dreams' gees
Making it go ablaze
Phases of Moon on inscription
round the Earth on revolution
will be marvelous memento .
Just a simple manifesto.
Moon is our nearest neighbour.
Closest companion of ours.
It awakes inquisitiveness
about Universal vastness.
extending curiosity
to seek human identity .
Search for Cosmic explantion
since start of civilization.
Attraction of Moon from the Earth
continues from humans' birth.
Event of human Moon landing !
The Great Grand Success : Outstanding.
Memento to leave, we deserve -
' Phases of Moon' - as Earth observes.
Ambiance beautiful she stand before me
close in the beauty of the Father be
her heart beats her eyes sparkle her smile
Beautiful God I only see
~
is as the clouds white so shine outward beyond
the blue plane she speaks softly such
a nurture her inquisitiveness so tender her breath
Beautiful God I only see
~
light sweet her quiet ambiance unbeknown to me
her heart speaks I love the god in her all I see
and the God as in her loves me
Beautiful God I only see ??
8/10/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2024
ENTHUSIASM
Ensuing enabling efficiency, energy in exulted endeavor
Noted noble nice notion in ambition
Total devotion to try targeting goal in tenacity tackling tension
Happy venture with high vitality, hopeful vigor, zeal, hasty potency.
Unbridled unchecked unending zest an liveliness for work.
Strong sparkling sprightly shiny stamina on dynamism.
Inherent inquisitiveness initiating vitality.
Affirmative assertive active approach to achieve aim.
Sustaining spirited sharpness searching success.
Marvelous motivation on mission in merry mood.
06/20/20
Third Place
'Enthusiasm' Contest by Caren Krutsinger
'Completely Your Choice (23) Contest by Brian Strand
BASIC
Humans inherit
basic instincts in order,
hunger, survival
and feelings to develop.
next reproduction follows.
Then sprout emotions
yielding kindness, compassion,
caring and sharing,
love and inquisitiveness,
fear, anger, malice or greed,
Which will you control
or which to apply, being prompt
is Humanity
guided by brain, mind and soul
'. on ultimate perfection.
I paused me on the unstable deck of inquisitiveness
Jailbird the mind is but seized in the remorseful cell
To be learned thyself I bought the grace of flower
It sold me in the furnished market of hatred press
Reformatory house reformed me all through seen
But unseen I breathed the furnace of vindictive vein
I regained the pause which declared an inner war
Against me, I won the self- except the love I’m fiend
No defeated phase of the soul I met and found there
Human as man and woman- a respective cycle of creation
Though divisions dyed the eyes of thinking thoroughly
For the peace, all illuminated the harmony in the nature
With love, I wanna stand on the peak of natural beauty
Where every heaven is built as a room of humanity
© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
11/05/2023
Adventures
Escapades of discoveries in one's life's enjoyment, inquisitiveness,
challenges, illuminating exploration of movement, retreats.
pursuing the unknown destinations. Adventures inspecting,
searching for one's daily bread, camouflaged fortunes, gems,
properties, commuting, gems, gold, traditions.
Adventures are enlightening and educational and beneficial, most
of all momentous.
Figments of one's imagination transformations and inconsistent dreams postponed images of one's mind's eye.
Creativeness and non realities of one's
imagination a fairy tale, a made up story?
Passions and inquisitiveness into existence
being bearing and imaging it into actuality and
materalization figments of one's imagination
Dear Casimir…
You brighten my day by your shiny little sweet face
You make me lose myself in your brown eyes of blueish shades
You bring bliss to me with your cheerful inquisitiveness
You create paradise for me with you innocent performances
Silky brown Curls of yours make me exultant
Innocent sweet babbles of yours make me vibrant
Tiny stumbling feet of yours walk with so much vigor
Sparkling, big eyes of yours look at everything with curious care
Very unique kind of an extrovert joy you taught me to feel
I forget myself in your presence by becoming a juvenile
SPIRITUALITY
Sensing seeking supreme spirit within
Perception beyond physical and mental contour
Inner quality of introspection to know self.
Realization of Nature and human on universal prospect.
Inquisitiveness to explore immortality of soul
Talent to understand and explain philosophy of life.
Utterly free from personal desire and interest.
Aspiration to resonate in melody of aria sung by soul.
Liberal with love and loyalty for Universe.
Inherent intuition to assess purpose of mortal life.
Tempted to venture sublime spirit devoid of body and mind.
Yearning for eternal ethereal wisdom in ecstasy.
04/27/20
Third Place
'A Poem Honoring Spirituality' Contest by Caren Krutsinger
The rain. Unrelenting.
Cats and dogs.
The dreary architecture of the souless
grey-brown urban landscape
worthy of the matchstick man fella
But. Hopeful.
The smokers hunched by the bookies,
beside the battlecruiser. Handy.
A cosy camaraderie with a common denominator
No judgement; but wonder or at least inquisitiveness
I envy them; I'm not of their clan
They are the self determined grassroots,
as politicians like to say
A certain folksy wisdom prevails
Later; the grim realities unveil
But. Enough!
Have the craic, lads
Have the craic!
prayer crescendoed
in unison like an orchestra
they prayed with empty words
her heart was galloping like a content horse
i could feel without touching
divine music flowed like a river
thewood was dense yet the footsteps
of generations helped me find the solace
the warmth i was longing for a while
we sailed in the ocean of love wingless
flew in the blue sky,a sparrow
opening the unknown horizon
black wavy grass entwined writhed
in pain and ecstacy
at the passion of her eccentricity
red rivers rattled at the inquisitiveness
the roots grew upside down
we lay there like innocent birds
laying eggs
4.44 am march 7-2019
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