Long Competed Poems

a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo


The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her eyes
light continued to seep out

Her brilliance, competed with the sun...

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Every year our community gets together at the annual church fair. This year they have changed the format with some new events and dropping some of the old events that appeared a little dangerous. How...

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For years I was a trained gymnast, and I'd competed in the Olympics,
Before my leg was injured in a car accident, among fate's cruel tricks.

I had photographs and memories, of my glory days on the...

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There are some things that you have to do, to make your long-awaited dream come true. The morning with all its glory is listening silently to your body, it watches your heart beat for signs...

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If I tell you the story of old, of how one tiny dream come into being and changed the race forever with just a silent whisper, would you believe me? If I tell you the...

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Beating the Rhythm against my Eyes,
Making us Survive, There your Love lies!!
The Mirage in the Sunlight, Shimmering with its pristine reflection,
Flowing in its ain mood with no restriction!!
Glorious River-The awe-inspiring bank, has streams rushing aestheically...

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A young woman fled North Korea into the United States of America.
All in order to attend one of our east coastal university. She told the
700 Club that what they were teaching their students! 

"Was even...

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We are people of plan and of purpose, not cargo or merchandise for commerce and trade. We were not born in the wrong place at the wrong  time, nor were we made in China...

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Dear GreenKollar Peeplez



l' home qui doit nous unir
il rendra l' alliance
forte a nouveau
les promoteurs du monde
enteir le soutiennent
les gens doivent
les rende riches
levr arrogance sera
que de les faire forger
de nouvelles assocatoins

sign by
Wealth Steeples
the Grappling Prophet


Twelve named...

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Odyssey from Africa 
Chapter 9b (continued)


And this pattern was repeated 
On the following day's journey 
As the day turned into evening 
They again found rocky shoreline 
 
So once more they hunted shellfish 
This time...

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Princess Layla, daughter of king Philip, had her life set since the day of her birth. From a young age, she was taught embroidery and the duties of a wife. Now at the age of...

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There once was a popular car commercial that stated, "This is not your father's oldsmobile".  The manufacurer was proud to have built a better car. I don't know if it was better, but after...

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Prompt :"A crimson sky breaks the distant shore"
Sponsor : Joseph May
Submitted: 20/5/25
Placed : 4th

 CRIMSON SKY  

A crimson Sky breaks the distant shore
stargates opened veils upon veils
portals portending lyrical lemon drops
or so it seemed...

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Preparation and Discipline
The start leading to greatness
The man, Legend Franklyn Greene
He trained while being determined
It was pump of Bodybuilding blood
The more he trained and admired other champions before him, Mr. Greene was more inspired
It didn’t...

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(this is another throw-back - a piece of writing, from high school, used in my Yale applications)

I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.

The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise...

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What a year – Tim was just a little boy of 25 – naïve and

Lost in ‘innocence’ a critical time bomb waiting to happen

Blue-eyed he listened to Nena’s 99 Red Balloons flying high

While Band Aid...

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Cut from the same cloth, certainly didn't apply
I'd lived twenty places, was born to improvise
You had one home, parents, sister, two nephews 
Persistance forced my flighty spirit to accept you


Invited to hang with your family...

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Today is good but tomorrow will be better
Today my heart is heavy but tomorrow it will be lighter
Sweat is oozing out of my body dripping from my hands and face
Soaking my shirt as if I...

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I can remember at least four things that we did on train tracks,
And one thing that I never did until I was an adult.  Firstly, let me tell you what I did not do...

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I don’t know where resilience comes from
But it seems to be in short supply -  
There was a time when “true grit” meant something 
But for too many that idea died.

Complaining and playing the...

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Wild flowers

They spring up to life,in the field where The Creator plants them
They are nurtured buy sun ,water,and feral soil,
They proclaim the glory of the artistry of their Creator
They grow and multiple until  they...

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CRAZY  HORSE

My crazy cat's called Crazy Horse;
abandoned at birth, she's a bit different
like calls to like its said.
No mummy to teach catty behaviour,
tiny blue eyes barely open
desperate to live, on discarded cat kibble.

Brought home,...

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Once upon a time ,a farmer lived in a remote village                        ...

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All an illusion


It's all an illusion. 
No matter where I am, I am alway just,
sitting there. Unaware, with a blank stare messy hair
and probably the same clothes that I always wear.
Wrangler jeans, and a button...

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As I travelled across the night sky
by means of an arrowhead-shaped ship
that used free energy; present across every
moon and star,
I noticed that there was no other soul
in the crew’s deck and pilot’s cockpit

‘‘Can I be...

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