In the midst of the struggle
In the middle of the pain
In the midst of the chaos
In the middle of the change.
When life seemed confusing
and my path was indirect
is when I found you
on a journey that intersect.
Tulsa, OKC
and a few towns in-between,
our paths crossed
creating a love unforeseen.
Together forever
was our wedding vow
choosing a life together
without questioning how.
Some find the present holds no happiness.
Cocooned in memories of glory days,
they spin embellished views of each success
and leave bad times to vanish in the haze.
Some lend the past no power in their lives.
They learn no lessons from mistakes they’ve made.
If unacknowledged past with present strives,
will those same issues future peace degrade?
But wise ones know that when past intersects
with present, smiles will alternate with tears.
They realize growth comes when one reflects
on all life’s heights and depths, its joys and fears.
The voices from our past should not be quelled;
life makes more sense when old and new we meld.
May 2, 2021
All Yours (May 3) contest NA
May 4, 2021
Contest: Final 2021 NA Choice 3 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: William Kekaula
Find your own way
Through haze and maze;
Live well each day
In dazzling craze.
Find what you seed
In all you live;
Be beyond greed
Yet learn to give.
Find your way home
In your affairs;
For where you roam
Confronts new cares.
Find all right here
Within your soul;
Start with good cheer
To know sure whole.
Find what you seek
In faith and hope;
Know that the meek
Can sculpt kind scope.
Leon Enriquez
16 February 2015
Singapore
Sum of two, percolating hearts
Two forks merge, Love's current to kickstart
Love's seminal streams nutrients cart
Naively, through winding conduits dart
Each mind's eye the vital signs chart
Through coronary arteries; blithe goals, hopes jump-start
Strains increase blood pressure, tearing conjunctive cells apart
Gritty plaque dams; communication channels thwart
From heart's door, through silted veins, corroding dreams depart
Alter egos swell; each inflammatory argument a counterpart
A professional, therapeutic stent does bypass lane impart
Until acute thrombosis does stagnant minds compart
Divergent heart streams dissected on Love's flowchart
Colored lights may hypnotize
and sparkle someone else's eyes
now, woman
your words
glitter like you've been drinking glitterade from devilish
dixie cups' alchemy secreting formulas outshining
phosphoric secretions from fireflies and other
coelacanthic creel creatures scantily clad depth diving
kaleidoscopic critters glitter glowing fash gnashing
ostentatious understated fatal attraction
ultra auric traffic controls
glow neon landing strips untorched
metal smith’s grinding wheel sparkles
oxyacetylene torch, arc weld, plasma cut fusion in reel time
explosions rearrange realities
globally glazing glitzandery fraught with
pyrotechnic anthems razzle dazzle
fireworked ooh aahs cymbalize
electroliscious ectoeroticisms
eeliospatial emprov
ellegitimately enhancing
new
tat
too.
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Written by Nancy Jones and John Wulf, vice versa just as much
for netteski's contest on Glitter