We never went after applause.
Never tried to carve our names into stone.
What sticks are the little things:
holding someone’s hand
when they’re falling apart,
holding to what is real,
even when it burns
trying to do right,
even if nobody’s watching.
Death will come,
slow,
patient,
sure.
We’ll meet it without fear,
without regret.
When God calls,
we’ll stand up straight,
unafraid.
Because the world
won’t remember our names—
but it will remember the hands we held,
the courage we slipped through
and the quiet pieces of kindness
we scattered along the way.
To be true to myself
I need to speak loud and clear
~ share what’s on my mind
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
I owe it to myself
I need to open up express myself
~speak my truth my mind
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
He didn't choose to have it in the first place
Why would he be so mean to keep it.
Just like he got it
Someday he's gonna loose it
Just like he didn't choose to have it
Loosing it definitely won't be his choice
There's alot he doesn't know about it
So who is he to think he owns it all
Those
days are gone
When anything makes
You Angry or sad ,stressed
You just cry
Swindlers and charlatans
strut the world’s stage
Decent folk beat a hasty retreat
‘tis the era’s outrage
Tenacious on occasion.
Orderly always.
Unspoiled by opinions of others.
Generous to a fault.
Honesty is his only policy.
Outperforms what is expected.
Longing for Heaven.
Decisiveness is a strong point.
Backbone shows in the face of adversity.
Ideas that solves problems he owns.
Receptive to the opinions of others.
Downhill is now his direction of flight.
Jolly jelly-belly J.B. Pritzker
Your wife’s health you took pains not to risk her
Flew her on a private plane
While with Covid you raised Cain
Hypocrisy portrays you ~ tsk, tsk, sir
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J.B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, flew his wife
to Miami after imposing travel restrictions on
'all Illinoisans' and closing all schools and
most businesses during the 'Covid crisis'
of Spring, 2020.
we are the authors of our life's opus
every scene and every chapter
we hold the pen as we record
history dreams and ambitions
stepping into the shoes of the hero
our integrity and pride on the line
one day we'll sign off on that final page
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
I wish for history
without the sadness,
a sting,
of Cordrazine
Rock bands,
close em eyes
sweet hearts
will accelerate
as the vessels
increase here
despite the sands
of never knew em....
pumping
accelerating
and the heart,
fails the pockets...
of an 8 ball,
silently
forgotten
as nothing
to your calls...
I'll break apart like a marble
of sledgehammer smashing
strangers of this fable,
I look the eye into darkness...
Heresy is a cursed word here
but its all I have ever known
since before and after dust's cleared
and too fatigue for weeds overgrown...
Strangers are often comfort and warm,
honestly without such a false charm
A shoulder for the days we so mourn
after bullies cause us shattering harm.....
Bleed into me like the tap's dripping
Fading Ghostly like a new spectrum
of failed repetitive of the names hissing
The rusty old end and a new beginning
This could be..."True Love"
If she only knew me, well...
It would be..."True Hate"
I see right through you,
you can play dumb all you want
~ if that's your winning strategy
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Hang your head in shame:
kept quiet in the face of injustice
~ the lingering taste of cowardice
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
Forgiving is easy
for those not directly
offended -- like, you
can’t sell love to the
loveless – no need.
Be a professor and
have a captive kingdom --
the real world outside of
Tenure. No tomatoes
tossed vs a good grade.
Win the aim
but lose the war.
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