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Strength

Strength is through conquering our deepest darkness and demons. 

Madoda Jack Thank you for your inspiration. Never forget your strength. Blessings, love and light.

Strength
By Michelle Morris
15/02/2023

Strength is through
Conquering our darkness
Conquering our demons
Conquering our fears

Strength is not acquired
Easily or through comfort
It is not pleasantly won
It is not a pageant or gift

It is the deep, hard and difficult 
Soul grinding efforts
We make through the abyss
Through the darkest of nights

It is a blessing and a curse
For the blessing can make us stronger and kinder
The curse can make us harder and cynical 
We choose the outcome every time

For strength requires courage
To face our fears and have faith
To face down our demons and win
To face our darkness and shine through

For strength requires hope
That we are stronger than we realise
That we have a future to fight for
That we are capable of overcoming challenges 

For strength requires love
Love for, and acceptance of, ourselves
Love and respect for our family and friends
Love and compassion for all life and freedom 

Strength is through
Nurturing ourselves 
Healing ourselves 
Embracing our divinity 

Strength is acquired
Through consistent effort
By allowing our light to illuminate our souls
By believing in the unseen powers of the Universe 

To believe takes strength and courage 
And strength is hard won belief
Faith over fear; Light over Dark
The power of Angels over Demons

Strength is acquired through
The good and bad
It is up to us to choose how we use it
And who we will become 

© Michelle Morris, 2023


Yuletide Pageant Merry Go Round First Time

Written ~ December 
two thousand seventeen
in case ye dear reader possess 
an eye extremely keen
nonetheless just by happenstance 
courtesy this human bean  
counter, who also happens 
tubby garden variety alien. 

Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style 
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart 
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals 
and quirky superstitions lit 
(akin to a lit Christmas tree) 

starry eyed imagination
as catalyst viz *****Sapiens 
furrowed stern brow of forehead 
aft stemmed whilst Santa oft puzzling 
(allocating suitable gifts) 
inducing him to tug thought generating beard
pondering, whence agents provocateurs 
receive just desserts

fueled hodge podge, mish mashed, helter skelter 
eclectic December twenty fifth 
encompassing tens of thousands previous generations
bred despacito fixtures via paganism, 
Manichaeism, Jainism, et cetera
ancient brutish credos, ethos, faiths 
brewed nebulous concoction
within mindset of early mankind 

loose confection, confederation, conglomeration
indiscriminately torquing, vetting, whetting 
disparate constituent beliefs
contagion wrought spirit paradigm 
inculcating oral tradition Madonna and child 
occupying high chair
whereat superstitions birthed patchwork 
comprising divergent ensemble heralding

Honeymoon

O lady of night,... distant radiant splendor 
in your golden castle, echoes of love render
a countenance of silver, in a whisper tender
hushing a  cloudy veil, a romantic surrender 
where poets in awry, voice a lustrous wonder.

In pageant of stars, a showstopper shines
palisaded halo, a bashful yellow reclines
a nocturnal goddess, daemon wind whines
companionless beauty, no orbit in twines

waxing  and waning,  wave on wave chimes 
medley of lyrics, abode of countless rhymes
phases hide and seek within old paradigms.

O desolate damsel, Who do you watch? 
mingled in honey, glowing butterscotch !

syrup of sparkles, her pearly words replied                             
"Illusion is my drift,  darkness a pretender
reflecting my sun, magic of lunatic wines
a voyage of ight years , honeymoon times."

Invisible blemishes , no craters, no notch,
in a black sea, blushed a beauteous  bride.



Dated 7th April 2020
rhyme scheme of AAAAA, BBBB, CCC, DD, E, ABCDE.

Sponsor	Emile Pinet
Contest Name	Minuanetta Poems
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Glorious Alchemy

Lucent is new light waking laced leaves,
        When  rays descend upon diamond dew
           To thrill every  oak, its treeline  tinted in gold
  By morn’s auroral  ambiance; its alchemy--
           Beguiling    bewitching  a  pageant of buds :

Sunshine  embellishes  Sabbath  with finery
             As  dawn spills  floral-song along joyous strolls;
   This  magical  beam , a  divine  moment for mankind
        Who hums gracious hymns through early hours…
          Praising  God’s peace till day breaks into a psalm!



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Written For Edward Ibeh : Pick A Title; Vol.3 Alliteration
3. 24.2019 *

Anyone


Facebook flight, a messenger pigeon 
Each Pageant shuffles pretty women 
Most admired tiara sparkle temporal 
Sash off strategic take trick terminal 


No need to tweet esteem over media
Stern sensei recites reprimand, sepia
Cyber courier delaying defeat in fury
Gathers fragile artefacts via the jury


Thrown to past season, bent bouquet
Creases curtain backstage, showcase 
Effort effected in gloom glows wattage
Wife writes fairytale wedding marriage 


Health heralds husband’s regard sole
Seashell static fuzz phases out vitriol 
Ocean sunk scroll in bottle, lost title 
Cut circuit campaign silences recital



        
             25th January 
       Objection Overruled
Form: Couplet


Yuletide Pageant Merry Go Round Second Time

tender petsmart impact, where world wide web populated 
with sacrificial pacification sans deity 
via oblation, immolation, flagellation appeasing Dominatrix
borrow wing, vis a vis amalgamated viz Roman sol invictus
wrought fiery brimstone tempting those who dared
assert contrary fledgling jambalaya outlook 
provoking regally supreme sacerdotal wiseman 
punishing opposing incorporating 

novel modus operandi explaining sacrilegious worship
such heretics pitched headlong 
into fiendish frothing furnace
forcing obeisance toward primitive popular 
identified, honored, glorified father figure
expressing devotion re: 
decking the halls of the mountain king,
whence boughs of Juniper sprigs contriving wreaths

sanctifying twisted brambles via sprinkling angel dust
(actually cremated remains of malefactors 
stripped of habiliments) during bleak winter
unwittingly interweaving nascent (futuristic) 
formally codified bona fied religions
unknowingly, tacitly, silently rendering 
quintessential premises obliging
layperson to foreswear locally rooted secular treatises 

trounced, trumpeted unction voided 
wishy washy antithetical blind faith coalescing edicts
over course of time became established 
Greco-Roman imposed group think
disallowing cynics, 
diametrically emerging fanatics, skeptics
who (if he/she did not recant 
recalcitrant recommended recourse
 
faced torture amidst throng of madding crowd
as entertainment and forewarning gall 
asper those who held steadfast dissimilar views
taught since birth, when citizenry reared
as just a little drummer boy/ girl pipsqueak
taught to stay the course (sans straight and true)
bound without freedom to express contrary aspects
of ways and whyfores, which accepted traditions 
controlled each green day

and silent night, wherefore unimaginable ogres
lined straying hip cats 
eventually ensnared within warpath,
whence law of the land lend scimitar to smite
any mortal man, woman or child with flaming torches
licking the heretical body electric, 
while defiant individuals
left to burn into decimated 
charcoal blackened, ashen corpse.

Premium Member Wonder of All Seasons

Through solstice of cycles, time's pageant greets
a year with springtime quilting a floral crochet,
meandering on a lattice of  verdant woodlands
as my Taurus-essence radiates in dazzling splendor...
until in a raw flush, August blazes to flame
a mantle of summer's raw passion; red as jeweled
moonlight brushing torrid flesh in love,
in a heat varnished by undulating sea-waves
through a sweetened curl of a  kiss.

Gently, the breeze transforms into minty froth
reflecting the crisp strains of autumnal glow,
when fabric of trees reverses its pattern
from cerise to pale tangerine settling on lane
of reflection, of contentment: and night tucks
a shawl of yin and yan quietude, as if moments
rise and accept the slow exposure 
from winter's imperial reign: flakes drifting
in a dance of mild rainstorm and glistened hail,
while my heart awaits Yule's birthing... a circle
of life's seasons embracing the wonder of my world.



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4/08/216
Seasons Contest of Shadow Hamilton

Premium Member Poetic Thoughts On Crossing the Delaware River

There were two
Acting role written as ‘cool’
One from the first state
Other an empire whose façade outside looks great
Table chances inside the beachside resorts
A drive through free federal highway really short
Rest in peace trip place where it ended
Airline industry needed young American Donald as a defendant
Amusement Pier now a gambling game
Bridge span has Delaware’s Memorial name
A simple river is the gap
Historical fiction worthy for an enemy to be trapped
Sports book came to Joe
Why go to Trump Taj ? “I don’t know!”  
Beauty pageant on the seashore NBC Peacock streaming reel
Financial whiz kid authors “Art of the Deal”
Atlantic City Polo League benefit little chukkers  
Casino charities benefit from twenty four hour suckers
Joe married University professor
Second Lady Title was how the people address her
Eight years Joe neighbored the White House
Back up commander using the rhetoric computer mouse
Reporting to General Public
Who basically replied, ‘good luck with it’
Today our leaders inform ‘wear a mask’
If going out to do our daily tasks
An invisible bug
Graves could be dug
While POTUS in a war of tug
Wrestling issues
From citizens needing tissues
Trying to survive 2020 summer
Socially honestly is a bummer
We listen to them
Reflecting on freedom invented by Franklin Ben
Hopefully it won’t be as cold
As the winter Valley Forge turnpike toll
Sit back let the revolution scene play out
Then in four years everyone will be able to shout
“GET OUT”
For this pair works for us
And we drive The American Independent Rock Star Bus
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member If I Had a Wishing Stick

If I had a wishing stick I would ask for world peace 
The lovely beauty pageant contender said into the mike
Generous generous generous

You are allowed three wishes, the commentator said.
Oh, great! She said. World peace, and I want the unicorns to be freed.
Smart too right?

“Three wishes,” The commentator said while the crowd looked on.
“And I wish the dragons would stop flying and killing people,” she said sagely.
Wow! I began to laugh. The commentator looked stunned and stumped.

She gave her queenly smile and a wave, and trotted back 
to her seat in her bathing suit.
Yes, bathing suits are important too in a beauty pageant.
There were four additional finalists. Three said world peace.

Each time they said “world peace” the audience clapped as if they were on fire.
I kept rolling my eyes.  
I am wearing a comfortable mumu today. It is ninety outside.
“What would your three wishes be?” The commentator asked.

“I wish to be selfish, to be left alone, 
and to have my hair grow out in rainbow colors.”
The audience’s clapping was thunderous.
She was crowned almost instantly.

We are all tired of people lying about wanting world peace I guess.
And who the heck
Does not want their hair to grow out in rainbow colors?

Do You Dream In Color

Dictated by the times, I guess,
     my youthful dreams would stretch
     in stories and imaginings of simple black and white
     where heroes and villains stole away the sleep of night.
Those transparent years seemed less aware
     of all the efforts in life's translucent fair.
Those were the days of hued monochrome vision
    when questions rose in every darkly tinged decision.

Today with colors blended beyond the prime
    black and white dreams would be toned a crime
    and a myriad of vivid color lay on the artist's palette.
So the colors tend to meld and blend in dreamy flight
    as if the sun and moon gave a shaded brilliant light
    to the beauty of the mix dyed blushed delight.

Do you dream in color?
  Are your nightly escapes dark and shadowed by the drapes?

Fall deep asleep in gold and green discolored fields
  with all of your  blood and beating heart to yield
  to the wonders and the magic once absent
  of life colored in its mysterious pageant.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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