Pride jumped into a frightening battle,
Too selfish, this war was never settled,
Almost so dark, felt like stars would rattle.
Inside, pride’s heart and spirit were mettled.
Pride rejected kindness and charity,
She listened to the dark world of conceit,
While I avoided her sincerity,
Knowing her dark vengeance was bittersweet.
Refusing to heed soul’s humility,
Pride, she’d surely bleed the murkiest grief,
Battling in a war called futility,
Pride will get you nowhere, that’s my belief!
Categories:
mettled, pride,
Form: Quatrain
*Image of Learn The Hard Way by The Writing Cooperative.
The Magic Of Words
The magic of words does inspire
from depths within astir a dream
proclaim so as one heart's desire
and fabricate a righteous theme.
As images mount high like trees
the magic of words does inspire
a spark enflames that all agrees
reverse that flickers you require.
Works and forces as you inquire
there beyond it will appear from
the magic of words does inspire
for skillful advent soon to come.
At last, that moment has settled
subjects sort for each to admire
a dream once astir now mettled
the magic of words does inspire.
2021 August 14
*3rd Place*
August 2021 NA's
Constance La France: Judged 2021 August 30
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The Writer In Me, Wants You To Know
*Sponsors Name Omitted was a Requirement: Judged 2021 August 14
Categories:
mettled, character, encouraging, endurance, strength,
Form: Quatern
Trump Mettled With Mind
Trump with minute minds often mettled,
Of all his supporters who are unsettled;
Ignorance lob
Like doorknob;
Over cliff his bike should have pedalled.
Jim Horn
Categories:
mettled, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Immigrants Abducted and Corrupted
After all of them are already abducted,
Could be that they ended up corrupted;
Then mettled,
And unsettled;
Much more bad behavior had erupted.
Jim Horn
Categories:
mettled, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
The sin of excess use does breed revulsion,
And rampant hollowness turns love to lust,
And ignorance outshouts the learned's repulsion,
And violent vitriol begets disgust.
My stomach palates not these corp'ral dungs,
My heart's emotions clot and freeze unused,
My reason's aerie 'voids their plaguing lungs,
My passion's seat's inflamed, their creeds eschewed.
But when I'm most imbalanced and unsettled,
My love for you recenters and restreams,
My organs chime with daily hymns re-mettled,
This fallen Earth with Sunday morn's redeemed.
My elements align when loving you;
Their harmony resounds, naught can re-skew.
Categories:
mettled, love,
Form: Sonnet
Courage and Success
Courage is the way of success
So never let your feelings suppress
If you deserve something right
Step forward and never fright
Be confident and be polite
Whenever you step outside
Your will power will be your strength
No matter.......
If ladder of success is arduous
But it can never be hazardous
Increase your vim and velocity
Polish your dexterity
Kick the impotence
You will never face debility
Always show your intrepidity
Your will-power will be your strength
And you will become mettled one
So if you deserve something right
Then step forward and make luck bright
Go up and up and never fright
Be like a valorous for your right
Prove your prowess when needed fight
If you want successful life
Face with courage and you will rise.
Poetess S. Nadia Azam Shah Bukhari
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Categories:
mettled, courage, success,
Form: Rhyme
Touch me in the mettled heart of faith tenderly
Hear my prayers rise in praise, and emptied to kneel
Eternal God, before thy grace. What echoes now in me?
Power beseaching with sin blistered tongue for glory
Raft of mercy on angel wings lifted making the story
Atonement gifted merging tension and compassion
Yearning prophetically for historic provisions made
Embrace of grace and faith with love's wide submission
Remembering hope is unwatered flower that does not fade
Categories:
mettled, hope, faith,
Form: Acrostic
My childhood
Limicolous nomic but limpid or propper,
Hard lines limb, non violent and passage stopper,
Vegetarian, nonchalant, compliance or observant,
Prepotent prepositor, jannock jangler and importunate copper.
Metoposcopist, mettled, nonplus politer or politic,
Demonstrator, protagonist, receiver or a fair way to chopper.
My childhood, credible, conceivable or appreciator,
Sagacious, replenish, reprobator and republished hocker.
My childhood was a joker.
Categories:
mettled, devotion
Form: Limerick