Our lasting legacy lies not,
In the towering stone structures,
But in,
The forests we nurture,
The oceans we safeguard, and
The skies we keep pure.
Categories:
safeguard, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Free verse
Slow down
your sweet mellow embrace;
Falling for you I drown,
my pulse just starts to race;
Let me run your playground;
I swing
through your mind and whisper
“You are so addicting.”
A full body shiver
uncontrolled and shaking;
So hard
I just can’t seem to stop;
Safe within that backyard
moaning from your hilltop;
My soul I must safeguard.
Categories:
safeguard, emotions, love, lust,
Form: Other
Feedback - flight or fight – it’s due to enzymes.
God put it in our brain, safeguard for crimes;
fear is normal, a good thing many times.
Facts fog up when fear uses its strong-arm.
What is meant to keep us sheltered from harm
can fail just like any other alarm.
A freeze from fear forces all hands on deck.
When fears become phobias, take time, check
your fear can be a liar, a roughneck.
Facing the fact of a fear of failure
pray to God; ask others to help for sure.
With effort on your end, you’ll find a cure.
Focus on the freedom you can achieve
when your irrational fear goes on leave.
January 22, 2023
This is a reasonnet - four tercets rhymed AAA,BBB,CCC,DDD, and a couplet rhymed EE. I have used pentameter, but that is not required according to the creator of this form, Reason A. Poteet (yes, that's me).
Categories:
safeguard, 11th grade, fear,
Form: Sonnet
Yesterday morning, I came out of the Temple,
A lady with proper identification wanted donation
For a charitable home and I gave her Rupees 50,
I told her about my retired status and took out 50,
After seeing inside my purse she wanted hundred,
I gave her as many have given more than fifty
And if I had put fifty, all might follow the same,
While going to another Temple, I scanned her act
And finally for the sake of kids, I justified my act
And in the evening when I went to a shop,
Where I gave my books to be sold, to buy paper,
He said one of my English books got sold
And gave me Rupees Hundred and I was surprised
To know how God planned to compensate kindly
As those books were with him for three months
And today I got an amount that I donated kindly!
Categories:
safeguard, children, god, introspection,
Form: Blank verse
M-ake your heart protected
A-nd shielded from evil;
E-yes of God look inside, seeing the core so well.
B-e aware, be on watch,
E-arly fifteenth of May;
R-emain submissive to the Lord,
N-ever ever turn away.
A-llow your mind to be meek,
L-et the arrogance depart;
E-nd or stop the high horse,
S-afeguard your heart.
Categories:
safeguard, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
season's first bluebird
inspecting the ripen grains
time for a scarecrow
Categories:
safeguard, seasons, strength, success,
Form: Haiku
Safeguard
The planet feels man gashing through it.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010
Poetic form: Monuku
Categories:
safeguard, angst, nature
Form: Monoku