Life Long Learning is a must
Kick the dust off your brain
And you will never be the same
Motivate yourselves
Learn new things
Motivation is one of the driving forces
Behind human behavior
It fuels competition and sparks social connection
Its absence can lead to mental illnesses such early depression
Motivation causes you to act in a way
That gets you closer to your goals
Even though you are old
No Mole can grow
Like a motor with moving rods
When oil lubricates all parts
Beyond the place of no rest
You are still to perform you best
Yet beyond the age of many years
No tears or fears may stop your progress
Now you may get your rest
You have past the test
Categories:
lubricates, appreciation, beauty, bible, blessing,
Form: Free verse
What are these words that rage with hate and war
That scream with bullets’ searing, lethal roar
That slash with livid flames the midnight sky
And with a tongue that lubricates the lie
Despoil the words of men worth living for –
What bloody god, or gods, in truth exist
That suffer men with words for this, for this –
What prophet false with rabid tongue betrays
The son of peace the son of man portrays
By choosing words of fury, words of fist
And worshipping the power they enlist –
A choice of words some men cannot resist –
O friend! O foe! Why still these words of war
That make the living word worth killing for –
Categories:
lubricates, anger, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Sonnet
Summer heat rising
Sweat lubricates the brow a
Single drop of sweat
Escapes the swipe of an arm
Lands on concrete to sizzle
Categories:
lubricates, summer,
Form: Tanka
puddles in potholes
damp cool morning will burn
before monsoon busts open
achy stiff start per usual
body creaks to the bathroom
teeth brushed face splashed
hair undisheveling--attempted
throw on a cap, shorts and a tee
triple shot breve lubricates
enough for brain function
and creak-free movement
shoulders and core bask
in the pleasant glory of yesterday's golf
a quite satisfying round
so much so, I'm a little dehydrated
good to golf with son
good to help him get far away
from where he's been
(why we thank them)
good we still talk like we do
takes some time to get back home
even after the big reunion
he's still him and what's still there
will make it's way back
when he's through
worrying about everyone else
up at the ranch with the coati's
and his in-laws
is a good place to be
for a day or two
just what his soul
needs to wake up to
life is good
there's puddles in potholes
and more monsoon around the corner
soon and very soon
waterfalls will spill down canyon walls
and the river will run dry--no more
Categories:
lubricates, father son, golf, home,
Form: Free verse
Nectar dripping, lubricates heart
Where energies converge
Watch oh hermit, ignition start
Manifesting bliss surge
Vaporised presence glows
Magnetism within grows
In the boat that God rows
Rapture gripping
Nectar dripping
25-November-2021
Quietus
BEATITUDE RHYMING POEM Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Beata Agustin
Categories:
lubricates, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
I love to wash the dishes
I do it everyday
Washing dirty dishes
Darlin it’s OK
It’s better than OK
I wash them all by hand
It’s always spontaneous
Never is it planned
Tend to wash the cutlery
Twice or even more
Always do this first
The greatest washing chore
Glasses and cups
Are second to make clean
To make them sparkle, with no stains
Drinking mugs pristine
Then I move onto bowls
Scrubbing all the plates
With the washing liquid
OH How it lubricates
Pots and pans are always last
To execute a clean
Scouring, rubbing, brushing
To only see them beam
There's always dirty dishes
I wash them everyday
I love to wash the dishes
And put them on display
On the drying rack
This work has come to end
For others to dirty them
To do it all again…
Categories:
lubricates, work,
Form: Lyric
In my room at night
I switched off the lights
And played us cool blues
It was just your love I knew
In the bed of love with God
One needs romance that is strong
For the renewal of our strength.
For the sustenance of my breath
For me to make it in life,
I need this play with my wife
That romance that keeps marriage bed alive.
The oil of our love-bed romance
Lubricates us for better performance
The sweetness of your oily romance
Will help me not to compromise
Just with a pure romantic pace
There is release of strength and grace
To help us finish this race
For me not to feel the wounds and pains
Of the cross, and to remain ablaze
I did not worry about the thorns of the day
When I remembered the night romance we incubate,
It provides all I need
And makes my wife take good care of me.
This Romance strengthens love
And love strengthens us.
I have dressed my heart
As a comfortable mat
For this MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.
Categories:
lubricates, feelings, for her, friendship
Form: Romanticism
My love crèche refreshes the niche
Where stacks of bliss
Vie to dish
Out the kind of love fleece
That my love nourishes and brandishes
Clear avenues
Where sorrow finishes
Blues disseminated in news and views
Expected to chart the way forward
In matters of the heart
That reward
The start
To an enriched setting
Enmeshed in prisms of happiness
Waiting
To displace an episode featuring unhappiness
Which sometimes creeps
Into nooks and crannies
In a berth that keeps
No faith in pennies
Counted once in a lifetime
In need of a dose of affection
Genuine to bless a life for all the time
When attention
Needed to bless a union
Is never in short supply
But given a standing ovation
To dry
Unshed tears
To grace a salutary coupling
Bereft of beers
With no inkling
To derange the range
In which love lubricates
Gears to arrange
Happiness states
In which bliss thrives
Heartbeats breathe well
Sweet love derives
Love feelings that swell and spell a love scale.
Categories:
lubricates, poems,
Form: Free verse
Blood lubricates the chains
The only sound alongside muffled cries
In pain
A sideways glance
Before you look away
Pretending you saw nothing
Ignore the cracks
So that your life remains picturesque
While millions suffer
Welcome to the stars and stripes
Where beatings make you see stars
And chains leave you with stripes
The chains are subtle
But they are felt by millions
Don't be afraid to stand up
Categories:
lubricates, america, political, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
A fistful of hair,
she lubricates his lips-
She quenches her thirst.
Categories:
lubricates, love, lust,
Form: Haiku
Lust,
purified and liquified
lubricates the wheels of my thoughts.
Desires gone wild
tortures my soul with thirst!
Categories:
lubricates, art, life, social,
Form: Lyric