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He took risks you might not have
Thinking that he deserved to beat the odds
Flames like heated fiery thorns
Eat through his flesh numbing as they go
In pain, he swirls, his muscles roil
He wishes, Oh he wishes it would end, be over
His burning enthusiasm is consumed and charred
Blackened by the flames of false expectations
Reducing now into a smoldering heap
After all, he did set himself on fire
Believing the illusions, the lies he told
For power, more power, grasping for it
As the dark smoke fills his lungs
Choking his life's last breath
Scoffing at man's inhumanity to man
Inhaling humankind's immolation
As if were not his fault at all
This man on fire could be you
And so, the soul crinkles up into a ball inside
What's left of you has no place to hide
145 words free verse
Colored Pencil illustration G.Gaul 2024
Where does your greatness lie
Greatness
That's what I've got
Like a twisted plot
I figured it out
I know what greatness is all about
It's taking the best of you
Adding it to the rest of you
To come out with a different view
It's when you acknowledge we all make mistakes
On the to day basis
Different places we shall go
Greatness seeks overflow
Overflow sometimes includes
Letting go
Of the pain the past the hurt
The grains in the dirt
Sometimes you have to find your self worth
Where does your greatness lie?
It lies within you
Ask God he will reveal
He'll hold your hand
Continue to heal
You have it don't let no one take it
You were destined for greatness
I see me without
Please hear me out
I see the inner
We can be winners
But we feel like beginners
Sometimes we feel so blind to the fact
That you are greater than that
You work hard
Beat the odds
You made it
Wouldn't' trade it
You prayed
You prayed
You didn't leave you stayed
You figured it out
That's what greatness about
You did it
You won
Greatness is about to come
Where does your greatness lie?
It lies within you
Ask God he will reveal
He'll hold your hand
Continue to heal
You have it don't let no one take it
You were destined for greatness
Written by ; Concetta Hardnett
12/9/2021
Odds and sods with change of strange
You my think you feared what’s weird
But what you’ll find within your mind
Has likely in others also appeared
Change of strange with odds and sods
Embrace your differences unique
Keep so cheery with self owned eerie
Envy lies in others critique
Strange sods will change the odds
The ones who keep it interesting
And go far are those most bizarre
In rhyme worth time investing
So never rearrange your strange
To fit followers or serious sods
The ones who grow and change
Are curious ones who beat the odds
Feb 22, 2023
Nursery Rhyme Contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper
We beat the odds
I remember growing up
Going to school
Still clueless on what I wanted to do
Going from class to class
Learning
They didn't just give you a grade
It was worth earning
You learned to appreciate
The teachers had a lot on their plate
Teaching those who didn't want to be taught
Not letting negatives thoughts
Stop you all from believing
You didn't give up (on us)
Instead focused on achieving
You have worked hard
We beat the odds
We beat the odds
The odds we did beat
We didn't let negativity defeat
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Let me take you back baby
When our grandparents were introduced to slavery
Had to work hard
From sunrise to sunset
Taking care of families
Still experiencing neglect
Treated with No respect ,
Doing all this for a little check
Raised some of the great
Come on who can relate
Working day in and out to put something on your plate
They would starve to make sure you ate
The work hard
So you can work harder
Instilled in you
You are not dumb always smarter
It hurts to read or hear history
They went through it , they never gave up
Did whatever it took
We beat the odds
The odds we did beat
We didn't let negativity defeat
(Repeat 1x)
Bridge
We beat it
We made it
Society couldn't take it
(Repeat 1x)
We beat the odds
The odds we did beat
We didn't let negativity defeat
(Repeat 1x)
(Repeat until chorus fades)
Written by: Concetta Hardnett
09/11/2021
Woman of God
You are
Ever faithful
Beautiful
Always so adorn
Ever worshipping thee Lord
For this I' thankful
In this I do declare, that I
That I
I la la la la looe you
I la la la la love you
I love, love, love, love, love you so
You and the Lord
Are more than worthy
And I love you, I love you so
Yes you the Lord and God
I love, love, love, love, love you so
You beat the odds
In this I am so proud
Woman of God
You are
Splendid your beautiful
And the color of your faith
The Lord has enlisted you, oooh
So pure and you
Endure your blessedness
Is heaviness
In this I do declare, that I
I la la la la looe you
I la la la la love you
I love, love, love, love, love you so
You and the Lord
Are more than worthy
And I love you, I love you so
Yes you the Lord and God
I love, love, love, love, love you so
You are an irresistible worshipper
You beat the odd
In this I am proud
Woman of God
You are
loved and I la la la la love you
09/06/17
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Leave the soulless gallop to the horses
Head north to the brightest star in the sky
Restless and hungry for something calming
Lazy rivers and deep forests
There is no story like your own
It reads fast and hard on this day
It's a wishful rant swollen like a stormy sky
It's the music that plays deep into your mind
One lost street lamp stands forever on my street
The road outside my door remains reckless like my feet
Can I get a piece of the American Dream
Can I get a pat on the back when I'm free
Of all this useless clutter I keep inside my head
I need a vanishing act and a new to make up my bed
Wishful and willful is the master living large
Vagabond and defenseless i'm clothed in this fog
Can I get an edge to beat the odds
Can I get a lesson to be who I once was
Wishful.......
In 1944 or so,
The Nazis did deliver
A group of Jews in Hungary
Into the Danube River.
They lined them up and shot them dead -
Not one did soldiers save -
A Jew was not considered worthy
Of a normal grave.
Before they shot them, one command
Was, "First, take off your shoes."
The shots rang out and that was all
Remaining of the Jews.
Today in Budapest, you'll see
Lined up along the shore,
A lot of beat-up shoes in bronze
To stay forevermore.
And looking at those shoes, you'll find
The past has come alive.
The Jews who wore them somehow
Beat the odds and still survive.
Memorials have power if
They don't let us forget,
And those shoes by the Danube
Left me strongly in their debt.
I may not be good for many things
The days that cut one down came early for me
I may not have fancy cars and gold rings
But if you recall there was a time all those things were a could be
I may not have made you grand babies
But I'm really shy and was misled about women and dating
Still at one point I had beat the odds and made success were others just made maybe
I may not take all responsibility for my loss of a future and all of achievements tokens
But thats neither here nor there in this bit of word that need spoken
See mother their no one on this earth that gets my love more than you
I would tare down a building and take down an army
I would walk until I fell fight until I died what ever I had to
To save you from harm to get you better to get you home and near me
So from here on out regardless of anxiety or doubt
When you get ill you don't wait so long
From now on act more like your my age I act like yours
But both to worn down to push so hard even tho you feel you should
If I have to I will have words with whom ever is the cause
Of your restless efforts those who may extort your wishes
For time away from their things that need tending
So from now on you stay well because when your sick I cant keep clear vision
Bottom line is this I will always need the love you are always giving
And I will always protect your life and the way you living
But I don't ever want to see you so frail from illness
Because you waited so long to see if the problem was persisting
In conclusion I learned to make cards and I didn't like when you was sick
So I went long winded to try this app and this is the card that your getting
Women in my family have to fight
Fight to live fight to die
One born premature with challenges
With a heart so pure settling the balances
She was a model name Tiffany
Like her name she was very pretty
Stayed sane despite the insanity
Cancer took her but not her virginity
She was a slave whose name is unknown
In a photo dress is full beige and long
She made a sacrifice for us to achieve
Named her baby my great grandmom Mary.
She was Mary and quite contrary
No nonsense with a hint of fairy
She made wonders from a wood stove
Raising grandchildren as she did so to vote
Her namesake Sister Mary
Would carry on this voting destiny
Fighting in life the man and her man
To make a life with Christ as American
And Wanda Jazmin Gail was soft spoken
Despite her challenging life she kept hope and
Beat cancer beat the odds of black in the south
Covid took her body but her spirit lives proud
And there is me the poetic strange type
I too persevere from many a fight
Fight to raise a black son in a hostile USA
Fight to the rights of Roe vs Wade
Fight to eat when food is so high
Except junk food which is cheap all kinds
Fight to enjoy land that I may never own
Fight of the nights molesting devils roam.
The women in my family would never write this
For they are too strong to need a word such as is
A poetic petition praying for perseverance
The women in my family are of courage and endurance.
7/2/2022
Written for The Women In My Family Poetry Contest
Sponsor Soto Poet
The purpose of authority is to remain in authority, not to dispense justice. (Anonymous)
There are lofty careers such as chef or physician,
But none is so low as a politician.
We vote to send them to D.C. to represent us,
But once they take office they start to resent us,
And retaining the job is their only ambition.
We've a two-party system, supposedly better than one,
But they're constantly bickering and little gets done.
Each session is rife with innuendo, and slander,
And pure diatribe, and, of course, gerrymander,
But when they vote to raise their pay, they pull as one.
Republicans and Democrats by name,
Self-promotion and duplicity their game.
What a politician says is proving
He's lying if his lips are moving,
But we elect them, so we've just ourselves to blame.
Trump soon will start his reign again, but here's the thing,
This country needs a leader, not a king.
Kamala mightn't have been much better,
But would've tried harder if we'd let her,
And she wouldn't treat the job as just a fling.
Now Republicans are thrilled because they won,
But the uphill fight for them has just begun.
What they seem to disremember,
All power to them is not surrendered.
No matter what they may propose,
The Dems will stubbornly oppose,
And they'll find themselves back where they were…
Square one…
And both Houses work the hardest
When they're getting nothing done.
This country needs a captain
Who can steer the ship of state.
Let's hope that…somehow…Trump will beat the odds
And not continue second rate.
For the next four years, I guess,
We'll have to bide our time and wait
For him to tweet us just exactly where he stands,
And that the country's in the very best of hands.