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Are we into a recession ?

Ladies and gentlemen,

Let’s take a moment to reflect on what happened in Venezuela. In the blink of an eye, everyone became a **multimillionaire**—not because the economy was thriving, but because hyperinflation piled up so much worthless money, people could barely carry it. Piles of cash with no real value. It’s a harsh reminder that money itself is not an asset if it can be manipulated to the point of collapse.

So, **where do you put your money?** This is the burning question in today’s uncertain economic climate. We’ve seen trillions wiped out of the stock market, and people are starting to worry. With central banks printing money and stock markets artificially inflated, where do you go to preserve your wealth? What is truly an **asset**?

An asset is something that holds value over time. But to understand how long your asset will last, you need to know two things: its value and the cost to maintain it. The reality is, if you’re holding onto an asset that requires too much upkeep, or worse—its value is tied to a depreciating currency—its lifespan will be cut short.

**Look at what’s happening right now.** The stock market, once soaring, is starting to falter. The markets are high, but we all know the **Feds** are coming. The next **FOMC** meeting will likely bring changes, and many are anticipating interest rates to be cut. We’ve already seen **50 bps points** pinned from previous CPI data, but the big question remains—what’s going to happen with rising geopolitical tensions in the **Middle East**, upcoming elections, and Japan’s interest rates, which have been low for so long?

This brings me to a crucial point: the **acquisition of the right assets.** In uncertain times like these, it’s not about following the herd into the stock market or real estate. It’s about finding assets that will **survive and thrive**. And I believe we’re going to start seeing a shift. We might witness **America considering Bitcoin** as a part of its reserve. Think about it: decentralized, free from the manipulation of central banks, and capped in supply.

Ladies and gentlemen, as we navigate this economic landscape, remember: **it’s not about chasing inflated markets or relying on printed money**. It’s about securing assets that have true value and can withstand the tests of time and turmoil. The future belongs to those who understand this fundamental truth.
Form:


~ (~) ~ the Journey ~ (~) ~

~ (~) The journey towards home, yes quiet the tender longing, my soul, weary, inside inside-
out in between outside all about; 

given the struggle, attention... being and remaining always seemingly to be quiet-and quite 
the insidious, aspiration, perfection, whereas it would lie finally; 

it stands-for-me-to be-yet-incomplete... yet and still forever-transfixed; 

my peace, the simple fulfillment humble fruit, gentle blessing of this hope. (~) ~ 


~ (~) Such it is this journey for me, struggle... greatest-ambition... my joy full and 
overflowing in the day of its fruition. (~) ~


~ (~) Just like a diamond in the rough glistening-there-lying in the snowdrops; given the 
honest exclusions of my soul at-times covertly divided absent-growing-evermore-futile the 
original vision of it I feel now, request far more... ! (~) ~


~ (~) Love I believe forever providing abiding beside the truth telling overtly of this — 
conjured up all the remnants of fallacies-as-they-are I've-come-to-see will always try to keep 
the heart mind in complete denial — as grace is the only hope as well I believe delighting 
thriving there amid the-space-between... . (~) ~


~ (~) For all of us, mercy, these simple treasures are-what I pray do-remain, I mean imagine 
if it were the-day-that-they-wouldn't-care-to-be — oh I know yes the quiet-separation, perfect 
longing, confusion-within — oh-God yes Heaven-forbid... ! (~) ~


~ (~) I mean brogue-down beaten up-chartreuse black purple handed down to me my face... 
grappling-I'm not yet crippled my soul lay opened amenable amendable-willing-now-desiring 
only for this one-conviction the charity of-your Mercy... .. (~) ~


~ (~) Touched by this I was also though back in the day though nary I know the way it went 
my joy it left me in my hate... . (~) ~


~ (~) Consumed I became like an angry wind by someone something else, but I too believe 
as well and consider it today to be ultimately by the allowance of the merciful outstretched 
hand of God... .. duly abiding-by-His-word, in-Faith... .. (~) ~


~ (~) And so I offer this one exclamation to Him hoping for nothing greater or less than this 
result as I say for-another-time; "Okay God, you have my attention now, I am listening... !" 
(~) ~




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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.

Notes of a Twenty-Something-Year-Old

I wonder if some part of me was running,
while I gathered up my thrills in wanderlust;
scattering them like dust to the fire, that feeds a lazy afterglow.
The Adventure of Wonder. The one I embellish just a little,
because that time away is my big trophy 
full of glitter. I can't hardly reach in without distortion.

My portion of that place was different than I expected-
a beauty exceeding the dreams
I'd constructed from photographs, but it was tamed and balanced-out.
Tugged under gray skies like a great god asleep in some hidden cave
beneath a thriving city.
And I made to-do lists daily, as I'd done in college to ease the pressure
(with specially constructed spots for sightseeing)
And some days when I wandered off to little Irish villages,
I looked for better places to stuff the notes 
of future plans. (I found them everywhere)
I found them even in the glare of the rocky cliffs that stood naked
to Atlantic winds. And I shoved them in and went off
and saved them inside my tiny travel-friendly lap-top, which I took
even on days that I felt like a god,
because no one I knew would ever walk the same places
I had. I grew up and I grew proud
and then lost it again, when plans
collided with the world that was. And the cycle repeated;
It still does.

And when the day finally came that I descended 
hazy-eyed from the journey of dreams, I felt the same 
as the day I left. That familiar blend of joy and thrill
and anxiousness, that leaves my chest tight for days.
Weeks passed before I grieved.

A dancer in Leeds once told me: 
sometimes all you need is a new pair of eyes
not a destination. I believed her,
and I still do.
And I'm happier too, when I see the faces
of the ones I'd missed; the memory of something lost still fresh.

But then there's that other feeling,
the one I let take me across the Atlantic
like a stranger with welcoming eyes (that somehow seem familiar)
that has me writing everything down, arming against disaster.
Only now the notes die faster. 
I wave them off hoping in the future (when that twenty-something year-old 
sense of urgency dies, or transcends into realities of peacefull coping)
I can use them as a witness to myself, and they'll tell me nothing's lost
in the breakdown. Everything just comes and goes. 
And whether we've never had it, or we have it all,
I think I'll never know. There are those things
we must learn to let go.
Form: Rhyme

~ Cherish the Kisses ~

~ Precious-tears-offered in-faith ... fall, God-catches them places 
them, within His Souls heavenly-amphora, and with a sway of His Mighty Hand, 
plucks-up His eminent-Knowledge-honed by Holy Quill. ~

~ Upright ... and looking strait into His vision for us of the new day. Offers 
the many consummate opportunities riding high on the fringe of His 
promise, granted in welcome. Painting a Holy Journey, evolving amid 
a certain solace and freedom. Moving on into veracious days with Him 
lasting on forever. Exiting beyond higher lofts of earthly sky's and rolling 
lands advancing in humble reverence descending down from the openness 
of the Heavens. Rewriting yet again; another-story in person for each individual. 
Yes for all life; far-greater and-even-greater still ... than the others gone before. ~

~ Carrying within it ... the treasures revealed of Him strewn about found soaring 
aloft the reality of Him granted and awakened devout of their surrender. Whispering, 
of the latter days grateful of the many gone by. ~

~ As tender kisses resinating from-His heart of-mercy, grace-the folds-
every-nook-and-cranny-of the-lands. The-fullness-of His-consciousness-
the very-presence-of His-greater-hope ... has-placed-its-sweetness-rising-up-
in its-essence. Within-lowly-laying-effervescent; droplets-glistening-in the-
light, of His-joyous-rejoinder. Given for all; in love. Carried-in the-honest-
taste-the-freshness; of the precious morning-dew, and-in her-innocence; 
truth; e'er-aware; and-seeing this-and being-fond of-His-presence thriving-within-
the-relative-ease and-dancing amid-the peace, emanating-from the-perfect-fruition-
of His-love. ~

~ Moves-to-cherish too, the-pureness ... 

of-the-union ... ~


~ While rising, in-a blaze-of His-Glory; from the ashes of the past. A 
new-day budding in the-wake of-its-freedom. Amid royal fields-growing-
still-fragrant more brilliant elaborate; of lavender. Has felt the-pleasure 
of-His passion too, and-given the true-warmth and goodness-He has-always 
been-open to provide. ~

~ Pausing-amid this beauty seen still rising in-spite-of-this out-of-the-ashes-
of-the-hate of the days of our past. 

His-love remains, abides-for-us. 

Why not-we-too all-move, to-look-to-cherish this like the-innocent; in their 
freedom are-always striving ... to-do? ~
© James Long  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Life Is Shouting

The cactus hoovers like a bully daring to be touched.                                                                                     Another cactus of a different type blossoms briefly.
The vegetable garden lies bare this year and wonders why.                                                                                  She doesn't understand that when I sometime grow weary,                                                                              weak, and worn reaping such small tomatoes, I take a break.

The roses stand erect longing to be photographed.                                                                                                 The Iris has had their say and returned for the season.                                                                                           The lawn was beautifully green a few weeks ago, but                                                                                              she looks at me now as she slowly turns brown and pleads                                                                                     for water, forgetting that in summer, I prefer brown, not green.                                                                           I promised that I would keep her cut and trimmed, but not green.                                                                      

The fruitless mulberry waves her leaves, standing ready for summer shade.                                                        The peony, who doesn't care for high temperatures, is feeling the May heat.                                                   I will inform her in a day or two that she will soon join her sister in a more                                                    desirous, suitable, and shady place and be transplanted into a large flower pot. She is thriving so well. I must not fail her as I did last year by not being dutiful and prompt enough to provide her a new home.                                                                                                         

In back, the Rose of Sharon tree is begging to be noticed. Underneath the tall palms, the plums, peaches, and nectarines are showing signs of a bumper crop this year. Water is limited and scarce; but trees and plants are thriving, and life is shouting!

050521PSCtest, All Yours, Brian Stran


Premium Member The Agnostic Gardener

How can you say
with your not quite straight face
that you neither know nor care
anything of God, or gods, 
or exotic goddesses
or ghosting holy spirits?

That's like saying you don't care for any love today,
or believe in rain during a drought,
yet feel gratitude for sacred Earth's holistic medicine,
all the grace-filled rain that came some other place and day,
even if not this dry and cracked today.

Like saying you don't believe in music
and dance
and sex
and pleasure
and passion
and red and purple and pink and yellow bruised violet sunsets.

How could you not care about creative becoming?
Regeneration of interdependent life?
The future peaceful home of our prospering grandchildren?
Health care and assurance?
Social and environmental securities?
Anti-social anti-ecological irreligious insecurities?
AnthroObscene LoseAnthroMinds/LoseEarthBodies 
mutually assured destroying war games
and re-creative multicultural sacred/organic gardens
pantheistically loving 
peace-thriving fragrant and beautiful Beloving Communities.

How can you pretend
with that half-smirk
that this Earth Goddess 
we democratically garden together
is no one you could wisely know
or deeply care about?
To co-redeem a master gardener's wildest dreams?
To love into integrity's holy nature/spirit wealth 
by divesting of manmade hypocrisy,
thinking we could sufficiently name,
much less commodify, God 
without re-creating passions
and pleasures of organic Paradise.

Why would you take a pass
on digging into Earth's co-passionate
fully humane mind/body divinity?

This could not be true
not really you
not the Self with polyculturing Others 
past and future right now within
and without your own,
but never owned, passion
to prefer sacred cooperative pleasure's 
indigenously natural wisdom.

How can you know
we're not gods and goddesses
in our health-gardening integrity?
in our potential for harvesting regenerativity?
economic and politically fertile
sync-tensegrity,
love of full-stretch multi-colored jazzy soul livity.

You know you want to dance in cornrows 
and sing with bird choirs
as god and goddess
within and on,
for and of Mother Gorgeous Gaia's
embryonic wounded womb
elationally awaiting Golden Ruling garden bliss

Or, did I miss something
in that twinkling 
of your somewhat straight-faced lie?

Premium Member Denying Doubt

In ecstatic climaxing designs
for healthy multicultural communications
ecopolitically correcting
currently imbalanced
unhealthy
disempowering outcomes

Our most resiliently robust productions
derive from nonviolent communions,
compassion restoring cooperative
healthy EarthJustice

Resilient democracy 
co-invested in green peace
repurposing relationships for mutual equity,
co-empathic integrity,
win/win cooperativity.

This NonZero HomeZone
is our most authentic open design
for health and safety systemic thrival,
composed of egocenter's integral survival,
Self/Other
Me/We extending primal family zones
of great regenerational transition,
safely within our primary shelter
for cooperative relationships
with neighboring boundary habitats.

Zone One,
furthers interdependently defined
loneliest shade of Othering neighborhood properties
since the number TwoZones
in co-passionate thriving re-membered relationship
within our municipal
eco-political
democratic communication,
designing unitarian green communities
with woke regional interreligious education
and nondualistic natural/spiritual 
indigenous wisdom reformation

Sharing Zone Two
lived fully
gratefully
gracefully in our daily
sacred experienced community
conjoining double-bound interreligious cultural connections
to our eco-politically ego/eco-organizing
HealthCare Design Team
for Golden Ruled bioregional optimization
of wealthy co-invested atmosphere,
ecological soil,
cultural drinking water
interwoven in this robust economic climate
of cooperative design 
for win/win multicultural compassion.

Completing this holonic Open System Fractal
is Zone Three,
Gaian EarthMother
still cooperatively rebirthing
healthy 
resilient
spring climaxing climates
remediating rebirth
with all cooperatively designing
organic EarthTribe species,

Currently excluding anthrosupremacist Zone Four
LeftBrain dominant
dualistic commodified employment
of de-nihilistic CAPITAL-HEADED fundamentalists
worshiping anti-recreative professional consumer design
bowing to an autocratic StraightWhite militarized altar
of politically uncorrected Patriarchal Capitalism
suboptimal disassociations
settling for win/lose normativity

ZeroSum pathologically uncaring 
lose/lose entropic absence 
of regenerative health is trusted wealth 
bicameral design.

Premium Member The Bulb

Through layers of snow, 
	White blankets, the world
Peaceful and quiet, still as grief – abiding
I stay hidden, secreted in the darkness,
Buried beneath the dust, the mud, the earth
Where life awaits the springlike touch
From sunshine’s blessing, rich and glorious
Awakening the music of a heart’s mystery

Soothing, like stardust – so gentle,
	Light covers my grave, so somber
Earnest and peaceful, I lay quietly, waiting
For the miracle of a moment when sunlight
Breathes its wisdom through my veins,
Inviting me to rise through the soil, the richest
Clay, trembling with compassion, caressing
Away the frost, cold, so unsympathetic – bitter
Like resentment who fills the heart with 
Doubts, distant thunders, storms in skies so blue
They feel like beautiful guiding me through
The reckless rest where I’ve been dormant, forgotten
By the twinkling stars, the sunrise and sunset

Never aware that I was even there – alive,
	Hidden by the winter freeze, with ease
But, now – as spring silences the silver flakes,
There, hesitating within the earth, my tender leaves
Begin to peek, peering up toward the sunshine
Graceful and lulling, like the glimmering glories
Discovered in the new buds, stirring, emerging – soundless
On a quest for the light, the rain sprinkling through
The night, erasing winter’s touch with a growing
Promise – the assurance of a thriving blossom, a bloom
Who develops just as the heart begins to beat
With eagerness for the beginnings of spring,
Growing – springing from the darkness, resurrected

Great joy comes from the knowing, the hope
	That revives the spirit, the feelings
In those who see that I have made it, once again,
Through the silent nights and the snow blanketing
On a land, sleeping through the winter’s smile,
Waiting quietly for the proper time to rise
From the earth, - new birth of a bud, a gentle
Wish peeking out from the past, prompting the spirit
To listen to the whisper of God’s tender gift to us,
Those who know that, despite our deepest wishes –
In time, in season – there is birthed a splendor

In spring, that splendor – that pretty comes from me
The bulb who waits, patient, beneath the ground
Where there is the promise that, in time, there will come
A beautiful flower who will brighten hearts like the sound…
Laughing in the breeze – a flower, free to breath!

Telly the Trendsetter

:)           

What kids are watching on telly
are crimes and crimes in all variety! 

Crimes of hate 
crimes of passion
acting it out at shocking rate
thinking in some wild fashion
then ending up cell mates! 

When kids watch their movie heroes
shoot down people with the gun
they are incited to do the same
to achieve some thrill and fun.

When they see their very film star
slash someone's throat in a fit of anger
they think well of crimes of rage
and plunge everybody else into danger.

The tendency to portray the violent scene
luridly and shockingly on the Big Screen

Ah even for the small screen, tis the gory
that makes for the dark and thrilling story.

Now that technology's long opened this pandora's box
the dispersal of amplified social ills ain't no hoax

The rowdy hoodlums and reckless gangsters
are simply by-products of Tv influences
The world watches the thriving of the bully-boy pranksters
passively in helpless terror of their offences.


It's all portrayal of the vulgar, the obscene
by that devious Silver Screen

And the horror movie
though it may seem groovy
begets the horrendous
and drills evil thoughts subliminally
into the subconscious! 

It's an unrestrained dark faking
of real life reality exaggerating

Whether it's Bollywood in the East
or it's Hollywood in the West
they don't merely impart tactics of defence
but rather those of aggressive offence

Viewing those gruesome swashbuckling films
gives rise to morbid sadistic whims

Flipping through the TV channels
just ponder if the telly's the perfect channel
of information is it a proper panel? 

Dad always tells me, 'fear ye the roaches' flicking antennae? 
While you oughtta fear the influence
of 'em' flickering images by dish antennae'.

Then a mere single merit that I dug
as I drank cappucino in my mug
that atleast one couldn't live in a bubble
daily watching the bubblebug.


Ah but then tougher gun laws couldn't halt
even underage shooting sprees
Rather it's stringent scanning of Tv content
that might make it all cease

Parental supervision too tis gravely essential
Should've been of parental code quintessential

So the next time you catch your teen
absorbed and engrossed while glued to the screen
Just sleuth a bit just to make sure
that for the x-rated he's not too keen!
Form: Didactic

Premium Member The sad Happy New Year

                                   The human creatures dancing 
                                To the rhythms of blood and flesh
                                  Shrieks and sobs of soft babies 
                                        Pain, agony and misery
                                       Years yell the same story
                                       Written in tears and ruins

                                       Hearts turned in to stones
                                       Homes turned in to smoke
                                         Hitting the candid souls 
                                       Bitten by chill and hunger
                                            Destined to live in 
                                      Desolation and buried hope

                                 The cruel laugh of booming guns 
                                      Turning breath in to blaze 
                                   The rampage and destruction  
                                   Mocking the innocent masses 
                                         Falling on deaf ears 
                                   Of political lords and masters 

                                          Years come and go
                                 Pain, agony and doom continues
                                     Injustice and endless wait
                                       Is the order of the day
                                   But the world reels as usual
                                Leaving the distressed to destiny

                                    Where is “Happy New Year”?
                                            My heart weeps
                                   The cruel demons and brutes
                                    Celebrating their success of
                                  Shedding the blood for nothing
                                 Turning the years in to tyranny 

                                     Determined  not to learn
                               From the  buds, bees and breeze
                                The art of harmony and peace
                               The hoards  of heartless beasts 
                                 Thriving on human suffering
                                      But, the Father sleeps

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