OVERALL CONTRASTS
apparently
wide-ranging
individually
cited
academics
to
help
stimulate
brilliantly
coloured
fringes
&
delicate
shadowed
novel
studies
attractively
revealing
powerful
&
enthusiastic
fascinations
Who are we? Are we part of God? Is the hurt we feel reflective of His? Where is the greater good? Is it in
Politics? In commetce? In faith? Maybe your god is
Just a one dimensional aspect you observe? Maybe
I do this also? Its difficult to see any blemishes with
No mirror report.' First judge ones own motives by the
Bible must be my first resort.'
Visualizing memories of all the moments we shared,
Even those in which I was most angry, sad, exhausted, and scared.
Sadly, I am only now grasping how much you truly cared.
Toss a pebble onto still waters
does it skip the surfaces
does it fly
or does it plunk deep into the recesses of the deep
Patience is the virtue of a weary soul
longevity begets wisdom through trail and error
Youth by nature is impatient
Pray for rain and receive a flood
does your cup runneth over
Bury your dreams and smother hope
Hate is easy and justifies self doubt
True love takes time and is earned
Honest labor works for the betterment of all
Time is everything
Time is nothing
If life goes in cycles
can it recycle too
The flat stone slides across the water's surface
with three great leaps and skips
Enjoyment in simple things allows happiness overall.
E-nraging
L-ink
L-ets
A-ny
I-nfected
N-ation
E-xperience
E-pidemic's
N-asty
C-oronavirus
A-s
R-estrictions
N-icely
A-bate
C-risis
I-mplementing
O-verall
N-eatness
Topic: Birthday of Ellaine Encarnacion (April 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
H-ealth
O-fficers
N-otably
E-mploy
Y-our
G-reat
A-lcohol
I-n
L-etting
P-andemic
A-void
M-outh
A-nd
O-verall
S-anitation
Topic: Birthday of Honey Gail Pamaos (April 05)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Crafting this poem in spirit and mind
not by word count nor syllable-kind,
though somewhat mathematically though numbers a-miss
to share with my friends-
Inspirational-bliss.
For I share as I care
For I give everything my best
With free flowing art...
dismissing the rest.
For I share as I care
Give everything- my all
In turn I get sorrow,
pain and I fall.
So I ask you good people-
Why bring me down
With bad news and ill things?
(Seemingly coming in mounds).
Though still I try and help others
Not much in return
and those burdens of others,
and how my heart yearns.
Then you show me a sign,
and thus give me strength
The most wonderful artist-
Whom goes to such length.
Forgive me my maker,
For the wrongs that I do.
You uplift me and gift me;
No burdens with you.
For you share as you care,
Give all and your best.
With all of your blessings,
dismissing the rest.
For you share as you care,
Give everything and your all
Only loving kindness
Overall.
This moment when you hear the voice you like. And then you just catch these words, even if not all of them, even if you really have no idea what the whole topic of them is. They are just caught in your ear. And after a while, when you hear another random word, suddenly you know. Shoot. Your heart skips a beat. Why you like them. Because they are like those you used to hear. And you do not hear anymore. Your face falls into distorted grimace. Your heart just turns into a distortion. Congratulations. You have just become a distortion overall.
In the cooler landscapes
it seems frost and icy spells
In the tropics its now
the hot sunshiny phase
Yet the dells look fabulous
whether quilted in snow
or bright green carpets
Nature can be spicy hot
or icing on cake.
Time by growing twisting all diameters
while pass by, time didn’t fare back
Once matter precious when all is amuse
when by lightness, the soul paragon
Time! ... the duration thy birth
any out ways to be, up away untimely
By threes abduced faculty design
in past, present, futurity
Time maybe something for nothing to you,
Thou —for your penury!
But —time verily it something
serious by, my appraisal esteem
In best use at my way holy to comply
from periods’ solar thy nighters
Over a passage to be accomplished
draw, of the rainbow and rainfall
El time ever gone with me, I using
in arouse mine be it according
Wishy is sets’ from my heart and mind.
even if its yellowing years in the slowly settling dust
have dimmed much of its previous, glorious lustre,
which, in times olden,
must have been
golden,
still like a proud monarch standing akimbo,
it haughtily proclaims to the noonday sun that it still is
the much coveted prize,
the blinding
obsession
for which the young, hot-blooded multitude caught
in the hysteria of campus contests fought and cheated,
booed and cheered, shrieked and
wept, won and
lost;
now quietly it leans on a heap of rubbish in the rubble
of the old gym - - the 5-foot "Overall Champion"
trophy, a relic of a sports
season long
forgotten.
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