grass grows so quickly
rain won't stop for a minute
wildlife loving it
This pace I cannot keep up
Soon we're going to call it a wrap
The more I blink the more agile it gets
Every time I breathe, it's on my life I'm placing the bets
This dirging song gets louder in my head
As I nigh the end I don't know if I'm going to be alive or dead
To say this is man sometimes akin to citing example
or what art thou we want to shed more light or extend
to a kind of limit.
Once we admit the duty and responsibility or find no
way to escape, then can we roam like beast like normadic
people like peasant farmers like these common men
in the society?.
Or share the same concept and notion of something
or grant we were raw or sometimes the quack and qualm
youth's of a thing carnality?.
To the peace on the earth already we know the decay
already the night is half past eleven or this nocturnals of
a thing.
O peace on the earth! :
Humanity?,
nation?,
family?,
or what doth keepeth it, such pillar?, let distance
a kind of fear?.
Getting back on the path that is true,
is often the path traveled by few.
When you're in doubt and your faith you lose,
start looking into the choices you choose.
Old book on the shelf covered in dust,
coin in the corner, in God we trust.
The truth you seek is like that old dime,
easy to find if you just took the time.
Lessons learned from turning the page,
as many things wisdom comes with age.
Father forgive me, thank you and please,
words better said when said from the knees.
3/23/21
Contest: 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 8
Sponsor: Mark Toney
Attempting to revive them
I felt my nostrils fill
With the bloodiness of their deaths
Determined I kept digging
My fingernails full of stench
of her hopelessness and despondency
You are in there! I told her.
I remember you.
But the problem is, she didn’t.
No matter how much muck and grime
I extracted from her beliefs,
I could not keep up.
She was a maestro at
generating self-deprecating
beliefs that kept her dendrite highway full of self-loathing
S-ee
H-ow
E-arly
R-ay
I-n
F-ixed
A-llotted
T-ime
A-nd
D-awn
U-nderneath
K-eep
U-p
Topic: Poetess (Sherifat Aduku)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust keep up the good work,
O-pen your life to success;
A-llow your mind to think
N-ot of the loss and mess.
N-ow keep up the good work, open your heart to result;
A-llow your eyes to see not of the men's insult.
R-emain humble before Him,
O-bey the Lord Almighty;
S-how your lowliness
E-ven if the day isn't sunny.
O-ctober tenth early morn,
U-nder the voice from heaven;
A-im to pay attention,
N-either ear won't be
O-pen.
R-each the journey's end,
E-ven during the vilest clime;
G-ain the eternal life,
A-s you are firm all the time.
D-eny the wicked ways and evil deeds that lurk;
O-pen your soul to holiness, keep up the good work.
J-ust keep up the good work
O-f salvation in these last days;
H-ide not the burning light,
N-or conceal it in a dark place.
L-et the good work continue,
A-llow it to all the more glow;
M-ake it reach the whole world,
I-n June twenty-seventh show.
N-othing can slow you down, you shall still improve and perk;
A-lways ask the Lord for help, just keep up the good work.
Keeping up,
Or at least trying to.
Giving up,
No what i want to do.
Letting go
But not of you.
Please give me a clue,
Something to do.
Im giving up,
But i will never give up on you.
Can you keep up with me?
Not that I’m growing;
But I’m learning each day
And growing my knowing.
Can you keep up with me?
Not that I’m faster;
But with instruction,
Soon I’ll be a master.
Can you keep up with me?
Not ‘cause of good looks;
But I study real hard
With my nose in the books.
Keep up with me
It’s easy to do.
If you do as I do,
Then you’ll do as well too.
you are the star
where ever you are
my repect you won
for all you have done
you makes me alert
KEPT UP THE
GOOD WORK
Keeping up,
Or at least trying to.
Giving up,
Not what i want to do.
Letting go,
But not of you.
Please, give me a clue.
Something to do.
I am giving up,
But not giving up on you.
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