Hitherto
Giving and receiving
Advice
In regards to life Excetera
This may actually help and be of use
And the most crucial and important of all
Try your best to be comfortable in your
own skin and company
So you aren't afraid of being alone
And are then able to wait for the right
One or person to come along
So you don't end up rushing into
And making rash judgements
When it comes to your love life
Just incase you end up with someone
Who may not in fact love you back
And had no intention of staying with you
And it eventually ends up with you
In the family way
Having a child with them
With them being your child's other half
And you having to co - parent
And trying your level best to get along
Because you have no other choice
If only for your child's sake
Who you now unfortunately
Have come to regret
And now wished you had never ever met
And wonder what on earth you were thinking
Or possessed you to go out with them
Or found attractive about them in the 1st place
Least of all their personality
Or lack thereof
Categories:
level best, good night,
Form: Free verse
Ain't it Funny how
Lucifer once said to his father
Some certain individuals
No matter how guilty they are
Or evidence doth incriminate them
Always seem to get off
Scott Free
Enough said
Mic Drop
That's all I wished to say
As i am currently off to serve
Scott's sentence now
So due to this unavoidable catastrophe and travesty of justice
I will be most unfortunately out of commission for
the a wee foreseeable while
Hope to be back and see you soon
I'll be back
All depends on if I am prepared to change
And i manage to get parole for good behavior
With again
Ohh so Devilishly glint and glimmer in his eye
Trying his level best not to crack a Smile
Whilst all the while chocking up way
down deep inside
Looking most angelic as if he could sprout
wing's from underneath the ethereal
glowing hallo eminent above his saintly
head
Like butter wouldn't melt on any given
Sunday given up for lent
Categories:
level best, slam,
Form: Free verse
A good time will surely arrive
On a safe path God will drive
Quietly continue the journey
Like this are waiting many
Surely God will confer a favor
That is why He is the Savior
Trust Him without doubt
Fully believe in His clout
Happenings will be confusing
Worries that will be producing
But, let your mind be firm
God will assist I confirm
Do your work with true love
Chaotic ideas, do not allow
Keep your mind crystal clear
Try your level best my dear
Hopefully make a move
Your prowess, you prove
Worrying causes only anxiety
Confidence augments ability
Cancel worry, replace it by joy
Peace is sure if hope you employ!
Categories:
level best, courage, emotions, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Couplet
We all have gathered here together
And we have to leave together
Let us promise to each other
To shape our future better
A small act of remembrance,
Will bring an iota of fragrance,
Let us prove our excellence,
By utilizing our brilliance
Let us always have zeal and zest
To do things to our level best
To say everything in a gist
Le us have good plans in our list!
Categories:
level best, education, emotions, encouraging, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Comforting, the tidings to be
when he is laid to rest ~
He’s always done his level best
Categories:
level best, death, introspection, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
I will still be here waiting
Long after time is called
And every opportunity has been spurned
Because at this moment
I am so endlessly tired
Find myself craving sleep
And in need of a break
Some precious rest
Or merely a change
And if that doesn't come anytime soon
I am eventually going to be forced
into letting go of the string on my
lead balloon
And embrace another impending doom
way after noon when I finally stir and
try my level best to awaken
To the impending sunset followed by
perennial darkness eminating from
my black tar molasses heart and soul
For I am he who for who the Midnight
Christmas Mass Bell's Toll
Categories:
level best, slam,
Form: Free verse
Moons ago, you chopped my legs
From under me
And cursed me with a wicked hex.
Today, you're bemused, wondering
Why I'm on my feet,
And you're unable to stand...
I'm laughing at you now.
Remember when you mocked me
As you stomped on my dreams?
Or when you stood in my path
Giving me no room to maneuver?
Well, I made it past you
To my destination somehow.
I'm laughing at you now.
You stepped on my head once
From way up high; kicked me
At my lowest,
But karma sprung a reversal of fortune.
You, drowning in a quicksand.
Me, standing over you.
I'm laughing at you now.
You tried
And tried
And tried your level best
To break me, and failed.
It's funny to now find you broken.
As I watch you cry...
I'm laughing at you now.
Then And Now Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
Date submitted: 12/27/2022
Date originally written: 12/28/2021
Categories:
level best, fate, imagery, poetry, write,
Form: Free verse
To quote me
Poor Old
Poor Old
Poor Old me
Why me
Why me
Why always me
Until 1 day came along
Mev Jen
Lady P
She started reading writing
And commenting to me
And now
Poor Old
Why always me
Is foreign to me
Because she opened up my heart
And made me want to be
Everything she sees in me
I wish 1 day I may become and I am going
to try my level best
To justify the faith she placed in me
Because she deserves it so
Bake Dankie Mev Jennifer
My Plus One
Categories:
level best, appreciation, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Based upon this reasoning
I think is why i never actively
sought or took a mistress
One master is enough to serve
for anyone
So I tried my level best to cover all my
track's so other's could never
not follow in my footsteps
As this is my abyss down
which to fall and cross
to bear alone
So no one else's need do or
follow i
As blessed are the innocent
true of heart
Whom have i never met i
left alone
For that is all i can do for them
The rest is entirely down to them
Categories:
level best, grave,
Form: Free verse
There was a time in the Old West
When people tried their level best
A special breed
With but one creed:
Get the gold before all the rest!
Categories:
level best, america, humor,
Form: Limerick
Give yourself
A round of applause.
You did pull one over on me
And laughed at my expense.
Well-done, grasshopper.
Well-played, but you revealed
The tricks of your trade in the process.
The jig is up, Mr. Swindler;
Now I get to laugh at you
Reuse them again to snow me.
You regurgitate the same old methods
To hoodwink and entrap me.
Haven't you no shame?
You're as transparent as cellophane;
so predictable I enjoy mocking you.
You bit me once and broke my skin,
But now I see you've got no teeth!
Born yesterday, my eyes
Are wide open today!
There's no magic in your sleight of hand.
I've got your number, and you're out of tricks.
You've tried your level best
To inscribe "fool" on my forehead,
But have you checked yours
In the mirror lately?
*work of fiction*
Date posted: 07/28/2021
Categories:
level best, perspective, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
The dinner was very formal
The starters were served as normal
Scrupulous spread of hues, aromas, booze
So tempting to try one, but how to choose
A sea of dips, platters of cheese, and little boys
No one dared to try one, the host adroit with poise
Delayed, distracted in chatter, host kept the starving mob at bay
Guests unwilling to offend, stared like drooling lions at their prey
But surely there was no harm in sniffing, a polite hint to begin
So with fleeting glance, the guest picked up and sniffed the dish nearest to him
A quick sniff would surely not be seen as rude
But, in haste the nose got too close to the food
A dollop of ruddy dip clung on to nosy's tip end
Living proof of failure, with level best, to not offend.
Categories:
level best, rude,
Form: Verse
I am a very lucky man
to be a tiny part
of God's grand plan
On the Sabbath I stay away
from society's business
for one whole day
Spend time with family and friends
Pray, study, commune
take stock of life's ends
Afterward, relaxed and refreshed
I resume life's daily test
primed to do my level-best
Categories:
level best, appreciation, god, life, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
I adored the Chicago lakeshore!
The magnificent scent of Lake Michigan!
To a little girl, a dream come true, with
umbrellas of every hue.
Oh, the heavenly feel of sand between my
little tanned toes.
You know just how my little-girl heart rose.
Sandcastles, of course, we did meke!
And sand cookies, so wet and opaque.
We could not wait to get our toes baptized
by Lake Michigans waters
We'd run so happily in, as though we were her
long, lost Neptune's sons and daughters.
Splashing each older and swimming our very
level best!
There we were, young, tanned and after a
while, needed a rest!
The beach hot dogs there, were, I am certain in
God's heaven made.
We ate them under our very own rainbowed,
tinted, umbrella shade.
The beverage was orange soda with much
crunchy, crushed ice.
I'd give anything to taste it again, not once but thrice.
We walked back, full of good cheer, to the white and
orange North Avenue bus.
A poetess soul, in bloom in one of us!
4/6/2021
~1~
In loving memory of my late Aunt Angie and
my late cousin, Bruce! Miss you...Pangie
Categories:
level best, beach, family, happiness, memory,
Form: Rhyme
My dilemma is this
I am not , never a poet
Could try my level best to pose
for one but in all credibility not
seriously pass myself
off as one neither profess
to claim or be an artist even
an aspiring one
Merely a fella who loves nothing
more than time well spent
Stringing and expressing
word's into verses and
short sentences
By using and turning an
oxford english dictionary
definition into my own
personal individual meaning
With a point and a question
thrown in for good measure
A simple backwards hobbiest
soup meop-athic wordsmith
if there is such a thing at all
Who writes and posts not
in paper , pen or ink but by
touching pressing qwerty
key's on a phone touchscreen
Categories:
level best, allegory, slam,
Form: Free verse
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