Navigating the Treacherous Waters of Office Politics
In office halls, where silhouettes loom,
Beware the boss who calls you aside to manipulate,
A trap awaits, where whispers seal your destiny,
Keep colleague woes locked deep, an unspoken weight.
Security's helping hand may hold a test,
Expectation's seed, in every coin you nest,
Proximity breeds contempt, a subtle art,
One day's omission, and you're branded apart.
Close friendships forged in workplace
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Categories:
navigating, africa, analogy, best friend,
Form: Didactic
Navigating The Void
Smoke until my eyes burn
Unforeseen circumstances occur
Forget to eat forget to sleep
Remind my heart to beat
Magical flaws in fountains
Rules of strength flaunted
Breathtakingly steep, so steep
Conjuring colorful plumes
Thought-provoking imagery
How can I create it
Yet I cannot feel a thing
Is there a tangible difference
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Categories:
navigating, confusion, endurance, pain, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Sailing
There are days when the water exhales softly,
its glass surface holding the light like a promise,
and my boat -
once battered and splintered -
glides steady,
sails catching the wind
at just the moment I need them to.
The storms don’t forget me.
They linger at the edges of the horizon,
a dark smudge
where sky and sea bleed into each other.
I’ve stopped
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Categories:
navigating, depression, extended metaphor, growth,
Form: Free verse
Navigating Winter
Winter’s captain, pompously struts his stuff, then
breaking tempo, alters the autumn rhythm;
slower pace is dominant, leaf dance dwindles;
nature's in rest mode.
Trees and bushes blanketed white by snowfall,
caps and gloves with heavier coats required now,
cabin fever, fidgety boredom, proves our
need of the sun's heat.
Shov’ling driveways, icicles dripping vex us,
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Categories:
navigating, 11th grade, winter,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Whispers of Tomorrow: Navigating Uncertainty
During the stillness of the night I lay awake
Gripped by a blend of fear and unease.
The future, an unexplored sea
Leaves me pondering in uncertainty what will it be?
The shadows cast by tomorrow seem vast and daunting
Each step forward feels like an uncertain venture.
An orchestra of worries a tempests roar
I cannot simply
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Categories:
navigating, anxiety, emotions, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Navigating Enigmatic Choices
In the sanctuary of Religion,
the choices are usually clearly
drawn relative to good and evil.
It is up to us to choose.
In the area of Business, especially when
our demands are crucial, the choices
can sometimes be shady and scamming.
Sometimes, regardless, we have to choose.
In the arena of Politics, there may or may
not be choices of good and evil.
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Categories:
navigating, business, political, religious,
Form: Free verse
His world versus Mine
His world is a rose garden, I nurture and grow
A place where emotions bloom, and feelings show
His heart is a river, flowing free
Stillness as a lake, and heals all aches
But my world...
my world is a maze, I even get lost in the haze
A language I Can't speak, a code hog-tied to crack
my thoughts are like
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Categories:
navigating, courage, crush, cute love,
Form: Rhyme
Navigating the void
Emptying heart of seeking and desire,
no thoughts arise and therefore ego dies,
whence presence, now an ethereal fire,
in the void of no-thingness, wingless flies.
The primal celestial music within,
reverberates with omnipotent force
deep in cave of heart, so we go therein,
becoming the flame, changing our life course.
Time and space dissolved, as we vaporise,
transformed as that, we had set
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Categories:
navigating, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Navigating Life's Uncertainty
In life's uncertain journey, where paths diverge,
Some will stay, some will emerge.
Amidst the flux, where trust is tried,
We learn to navigate the changing tide.
With every disappointment, walls may rise,
As faith in others slowly dies.
Yet in our own integrity, we find,
The strength to weather storms unkind.
But some, they build their walls too high,
Afraid to trust, afraid
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Categories:
navigating, betrayal, emotions, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Navigating Insecurity Safely
Embrace your insecurities with grace,
Yet, don't let them dictate your pace.
They're shadows that may come and go,
But never allow them to diminish your glow.
It's fine not always to be on the peak,
Cool and collected, a demeanor unique.
Value the journey, not just the goal,
Secure your insecurities, make them your soul.
Blaming won't lead to growth,
Own them, let
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Categories:
navigating, community, for teens, happiness,
Form: Ode
Navigating lucid dreams
Given that spirit can assume any form,
the manifestations that in dreams appear,
may conceal intent, appearing to be warm,
revealing their true colours, as they draw near,
so be it a placid lake or a dark storm,
if our eye be single and heart free from fear,
God in us embraces, God in shape beheld,
that so emoting love, darkness is
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Categories:
navigating, dream, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Navigating Through Sedimentation and around Societal Keloids
Forced diversity has led to a compacted social sedimentation.
Another flavor of oppression...for everybody.... this time around.
There's a heavy undercurrent of resentment and hatefulness.
Tugging souls down to where there's no air-no light -no honor.
A few well intended veins are attempting to traverse the compaction.
but they're thin- fragile-guilt ridden-unsustainable.
Destined to slowly wither or quickly bleed out.
If
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Categories:
navigating, america,
Form: Free verse
Navigating the storm
A challenge so bold,
A journey so long,
A story untold.
The wind and the rain,
The thunder and the hail,
The darkness of night,
The fear that will prevail.
But courage will rise,
And strength will be found,
A light will appear,
To guide us around
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Categories:
navigating, africa, books, confidence, dream,
Form: Free verse
Navigating Through Life High Way
Navigating Through Life’s High Way
Truth, honesty, diligence, discipline
and
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Categories:
navigating, appreciation, life,
Form: Free verse
Navigating Through Life's Highway
"And though scars are the roadmap of my life,
I drink from the deep blue cup of sky."
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Categories:
navigating, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
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