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Life has many ups and downs
Personally more ups than downs
A happy long life with many more years
A bunch more smiles than frowns
Surely one of the fortunate ones
The genes were a very huge factor
Ten kids and us at a baseball game
In the bleachers, we had our own sector
Nine were girls and then li'l ole me
The talk of our little old burg
The Ellison's have finally produced a boy
Biggest news our town had heard
Dancing in the streets, parties all night
A celebrity at a tender young age
Predicted to be spoiled with all those girls
To fawn over this sweet wee babe
Turned out sweet, a stunning specimen
Can still bring it at eighty-eight!
It's getting tougher and tougher, though
That's about it and I'm done!
Well that's my life in a nutshell, my friends
Unique I guess you could say
In this day and age of smaller families
Our story is rare nowadays
Written: February 24, 2025 For Brian Strand Contest
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A lifetime swings good, bad, and back
Toil shows us what we lack.
Brave lessons learned
hard earned,
grasped by
how high we fly,
determined by the will
to work, whatever sweat we spill.
Note: Pendulum is an invented verse form with graduated line lengths. Etta J Murphy created it and it first appeared in Calkins' Haiku Highlights (July-August 1970). The Pendulum is an 8-line poem with a syllable count of 8/6/4/2/2/4/6/8.
Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd.
pop ups appear on my screen
annoying me
who are you voting for?
This is America
I do not have to tell anyone
new pop ups
Can we ask you a question?
no
And please stop popping up
The more I see your logo
The less likely I am to ever get a loan from you guys
pop ups slide from the left
pop ups slide from the top
pop ups, pop ups, pop ups.
Give me the old-fashioned typewriters
Where you got to type everything sixty-five times
and use white paint in seventeen places where you had an error.
My eyes roll back as I remember this frustrating task.
I have not even amused myself with this one.
I use my computer, spell check and grammar check.
Welcoming the pop ups.
Let’s have a staycation, Ted said (he won’t fly
because if he did he would certainly die)
Don’t know how those aeroplanes stay in the sky
You won’t change my thinking so please don’t try
His wife said we just took a family vote
We’re flying abroad while you go by boat
We’ll get there first but we’ll try not to gloat
You still can relax in the time you’re afloat
And so off he goes with his luggage on board
And calm is the sea so he feels quite assured
The plane overhead not as high as you’d think
That’s not his concern so he goes for a drink
Was that his wife’s plane, she’s welcome to that
You're safer afloat even if you’re a prat
He said thank you God for the family vote
It was about then that the plane hit the boat
A PERSPECTIVE IN LIFE’S UPS AND DOWNS
Late last night, I was
Parallel to the full moon:-
That changed this morning:
I am perpendicular
To another day’s sunshine
Glory be to God
Another surviving night,
And its rising day:
Me ready for all of life’s
Up and down tribulations:-
In life’s ups and downs,
Let’s forever be in God’s
Labors of His love:
Seeking true equality
For all of humanity:-
In life’s ups and downs,
Let us pull down injustice;
Raising up justice:
Don’t be blind to injustice,
Up there, pulling down, justice:-:
Much more could be said,
But it’s parallel time now—
Tomorrow waiting:
May God see fit to have me
Perpendicular again:-
If a time and place is different
for them to fire off their weaponry,
to lie and win against a significant.
What keeps a similarity in liability,
to lie and win in a predicament
where skill is an absolute necessity?
Bold and without a last abatement,
I see through the lies of industry.
Bold and without a past abashment,
wouldn't be paid a cent currency.
Seen by gross pure aggrandizement,
violent potent a cologne adversary.
Laughably, an obvious despondent.
Is there no end to one so lairy?
A stone thrown, I notice your salient.
I won't resemble the tuning veeries.
Even no pruning, losing an assailant.
The truth is tied up in flimflammery.
Path set by the trying time rodent.
Cocky, peacocking varies ostentatiously.
Read past the first half constituent.
Go pass-through a proof for checkery.
Auction of nonsense falsified Rembrandt.
Author a snow cipher meeting misery.
There are times I don’t want to be reminded (as crazy as it sounds)
how life is always changing…how it’s a series of ups…and downs.
We’ve seen many things in life that have made us laugh…as time’s gone by…
We’ve seen many things that have made us weep…that have brought tears into our eyes.
We had just spent a beautiful day together…and…as that day came to an end…
We received the news that cancer had invaded another friend.
We’ve felt the joy of friends and family and pets who have taught us how to fly…
We have felt the sadness and the pain of when it came time to say goodbye.
I’ve been lucky in my life for whenever an up or a down has found its way to me…
my first thoughts have always landed on my friends and family.
I think of life as a roller coaster ride…and again…as crazy as it sounds…
I use to think the best I could do is hold on tight through all its ups and downs.
But I have come to realize the best way to enjoy this ride…
is to experience every up and down…with friends and family by my side.
Whether holding on for dear life…or riding with my hands up in the air…
it’s nice to look around and know my friends and family are there.
So to my friends and family…it its any consolation…
as you ride your roller coaster of life…I offer this revelation…
When the ups of life have you feeling joy
or the downs have you feeling blue…
look to your right…
or to your left…
I’ll be riding next to you.
The ups and downs of life
Somehow seem to be condensed
When a family weekend has,
After too much time, commenced.
For excitement, filled with smiles,
Leads to tantrums and to tears,
Though some ice cream stops sure help
Tilt the balance (as do beers).
Just when things are smooth as silk,
There’s no water from the sink,
Nor for showers or to flush -
Glad there’s bottled stuff to drink.
There’s a water main that broke;
Takes 4 hours to repair.
Just before I hit the hay,
It’s all fixed - no more despair.
Still, the sky is filled with stars
And the days are streaked with sun.
All the downs are soon forgot,
Overshadowed by the fun.
Push-ups
A lyric/acrostic ~> an acrolic
The rules to this acrolic is to rhyme the same way in verses 1 and 2, then the bridge does its own rhyming scheme. V.1 and pre-chorus is considered an acrostic and v.2 and pre-chorus is also considered an acrostic. The rest of the poem (the bridge) is the first syllable of the word in acrostic form.
V.1: P- Plenty of sunshine, come what May
U- Understand that I’m tired of liberal-conservative politics
S- Shame on me for saying it today
H- Hanging out with the buddies without taking any selfie pics
Pre-chorus: U- Underestimated by scars and shown to be happy
P- Pretty much, I’m appalled by the stars and so free
S- So free, clean and sober from my addiction of painstaking infliction
Chorus: P- Pleasure-embarked
U- Under
S- So much
H- Hushed pressure
U- Understand my ups and downs
P- Please
S- Show me the way
V.2: P- Pain and shame, I can wish it away
U- Unless I pray it wouldn’t affect me — six times six
S- Shameless and sheltered today
H- Not feeling a seven times seven, but I need a fix
Pre-chorus: U- Underestimated by scars and shown to be happy
P- Pretty much, I’m appalled by the stars and so free
S- So free, clean and sober from my addiction of painstaking infliction
Chorus: P- Pleasure-whelmed
U- Under
S- So much
H- Hushed pressure
U- Understand my ups and downs
P- Please
S- Show me the way
B: P- Plenty of room to push yourself forward, feeling mellow
U- Usage of peace would be necessary
S- Shine on and on like a tranquillity bird, shimmering yellow
H- Honoring myself, paying homage freely
I went to jail
Yo I couldn't make bail
My life went off the rail
Til I got a letter in the mail
I stole a truck you see
Got caught when I tried to flee
My life always sucked
Yet God wanted me out of the muck
The letter said God loves me
With all my mess ups that can't be
In my heart I knew this was God's plea
Seek and ye shall find, I will set you free
Signed God the Father, God the Son
God the Holy Spirit
All three
So I asked the Lord into my heart come in
He forgave me of my sin
Sure my consequences would begin
But He changed me from within
Now my life with His help will be a win
Win