When spring starts to spread its soft lease
The green shoots bring nature`s sweet peace,
The sun shines so bright
With fresh, gentle light
And robins chanting their release.
Inhale this moment,
let the sunshine in.
No, it’s not easy.
I have begun now,
unlearning the rush.
A brand new lease
will wake you up.
All those details
that went unseen.
Decorate
everyday
with color
spilling
across
you.
Was it Banting and Best,
Collip and McLeod’s feat ?
Whose efforts bore fruits,
And ‘Insulin’ was discovered.
Or was it the Compassionate Creator.
Who really Sorted out the pancreatic mystery,
And Granted man the sense,
To perfect the pancreatic extract,
That was injected to people with diabetes,
Safely and successfully !
A new era dawned in the history of medicine.
Many hopeless souls,
Got relieved and cheerful.
On being Gifted Insulin,
The “lifeline” so much awaited before.
Since that landmark discovery,
Diabetes has witnessed many more breakthroughs.
Each one a lesson, to the faltering human.
Not to despair and to carry on the struggle,
Despite upheavals and failures.
And never to loose the trust on our ‘True Benefector’.
We should always strive keeping us upright,
And keep words and deeds like a mirror.
Kindling the dreary paths for others,
And rescuing fondering hearts, from deep waters .
Ahead, Medicine has many more challenges.
Diabetes also needs more plunges,
Into the oceans of research and practice.
As in 1921, the insulin got invented.
May one day, “Diabetes” get eradicated.
I like baths over showers
Rain that brings flowers
Long summer nights
That leads into light
Sitting with friends
Creating stories with no end
Laughing and loving
Till my heart sings
And this brings
Me such joy and peace
Nothings compares to the life that I lease
This wreath is in your eidetic memory, yet you should live.
Can you receive my lament, which is almost to happen?
There is no garland as I plummet, rattled by the sieve.
Died with you, can't revive, as you lie on plush and satin.
Earth collapses beneath its weight—why was it to be that way?
The words reflect that living beings are welcome today.
To read the stones, the lost will return home shortly to stay.
The shade of gloom fosters a dark and virtuous decease.
Stashed spaceship shrines to scold scintillating stars in peace.
Among the outworn headstones, the moss knows the lease.
There's a hushed quiescence here; no birds to chirp up or hive.
The wind moans, the agony is veiled, and the heart blackens.
Trusting that I would rest here, bereft of any rich ray.
Leaving behind all my acrid-gained assets through a name cease.
Written: February 25, 2023
This poem form is the Fragmented Rhyme invented and Conceived by Constance La France. It has 14 lines with indentation, and a rhyme scheme, as follows: ABABCCCDDDABCD
This is the story of the frog, the bee, the spider and the mouse
They decided to become roommates and purchase a small house.
First the bee got kicked out, and he began to grouse
They are unfair to bees, especially that danged mouse!
The next one out the door and off the lease was the mouse of course.
He called up his cousin and said “the frog was the source!
Frogs always have it out for me, he told his cousin.
I wish I could stomp on them by the dozen.”
The last one to go was the spider, kicked out by the frog.
He found a marvelous new place inside a log.
He hid inside it for days because of a big black dog.
Now the house is inhabited by only one selfish frog.
Twenty one years a man grows
To become a full human.
He will battle all life's woes
And must prosper if he can.
Another score and one years he grows
To be now a full grown man.
By this time his role in life he knows
And has honed his acumen.
Yet a score and one years he grows
To be fully confident.
By this time the seeds he throws
And starts to become redundant.
Twenty one more years he grows
And may display highly polished weapons
In things pertaining to mind and soul.
But he is now in expiring seasons!
He may enter another twenty one
To be a hundred and five years,
But he is now but a child of his son
And cowed by all kinds of fears!
A further lease a few may start
But like a child they often cry.
They are simply far from smart!
And in this season they'll surely die!
Six twenty one year leases of life
Is the most anyone can get!
Years are no preserve of the wise;
One needs luck and a lowly mindset!
Methuselah got plenty of leases:
Well over nine centuries of life!
It was closer to man's origins,
When man's body could long survive!
Genesis 5: 27
I am sitting in front of an empty building.
Large red, white and blue sign says “for lease”.
What would I do here?
Creative writing center?
Art center?
Botanical garden?
Toy museum?
Clutter our Way or the Highway?
Birdbrains Anonymous?
Crones United?
Hag’s Homemade Brews?
Psychedelic Phenomenon?
Krutsinger’s Believe it or Rot?
Voodoo Dolls and Vampires?
The ideas are endless.
I dial the number, to find out what the rent is.
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LEND LEASE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
As I Gaze over My Earthly Possessions I Smile
I’ve Accumulated These Assets During My Trial
It Was a Dedicated Effort to Amass These Things
Palatial Homes, Grand Piano, Diamond Rings
Once, I Thought All These Earthly Objects Were Mine
Reality Exposed Veracity with the Passage of Time
Others Are Quite Jealous at All the Things I Own
I Know All These Objects, Here, Are Simply on Loan
A gift from above
Made with love
Life to be had
Too bad it was sad
Hard to deal
Never feeling healed
A messed up head
Thinking alive or dead
Can't do it anymore
Hell what life has it store
Not Saying Goodbye
But It's time to fly
Now time for peace
Life treated like a lease
Wait why so many tears
They didn't know about my fears.
They shouldn't feel sad about my leaving
I'm at peace and they are grieving.
No reason to sink into dumps
When your spouse scrams from home without leave
Financial muscle into the red jumps
Joy from chaff you can’t sieve
With a head shrinker you may disagree
When mental health strikes
All trial and tribulation gone when you with Jesus agree
While divine power hikes
Stakes pulling you from the quicksand
That’s been pulling you into an abyss
When God’s hand
Hoists you like a crane jib with the kiss
That tells you all is well again
In wealth, health
As God grants you a permanent bargain
Which slays the dearth
Of permanent solutions given to David
Chosen as king
From among giants including Ovid
To kill Goliath with a sling
Which God grants you to slay blues
In the life you lead
Without clues
As to the fruitful future you need
To lead a fulfilled life
In marriage
At work with no further strife
In an abnormal baggage carriage
You can do without
In perfect bliss
Bereft of any iota of doubt
Blessed with an ultimate life lease.
A charming new lease on life I'm feeling today
An exciting new opportunity has passed my way
A love so deep
I'm losing sleep
A sweet new romance with my brand new toupee
N-ew lease of life
I-s a fresh energy;
C-ontinue to travel
A-nother long bleak journey.
B-e brave and enthusiastic,
U-ntil the sorrow ends;
E-arly twenty-seventh of July,
M-orning sunshine ascends.
I-n spite of hard living in the wide world of strife;
A-llow your heart to glow, there's a new lease of life.
Live in the light
Love thrills each sight
Etch a bold play
End well each day
Ask joy to be
Apt words now frees
Set your mind clear
Seize poise of cheer
Employ wise wit
Embrace deep fit
Leon Enriquez
02 November 2016
Singapore
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