They held goodness high like pillars of steel.
They were banyan trees that shook in no storm.
No burnout of the mind could break their zeal;
their love for life was beyond nature's norm.
They gave all that they had with no reserve—
self-sacrifice seemed to be their sole goal.
Who on earth could match them in inner verve?
As humans, did they play a steadfast role?
As true learners, they learned from all defeats.
They could break the walls that they themselves built.
Never did they take pride in their own feats;
with their wills, did they have an inner split?
To drop the earth is not to drop the race;
The unbowed spirit claims the cosmic space.
People Pleasing
An excessive willingness to serve or
Please others.
The Charlatan routinely is pretentious
In one's face.
One can't try to please everyone is a
Recipe for misery and disappointment.
Don't self sacrifice yourself its not
Selfish to say No oftentimes.
Some people are never pleased.
People Pleasing drains one's energy
Without being aware.
The receiver continously take, take
One's kindness for weakness.
You’re gentle, judgemental,
A freak in sheep’s disguise
Yet in some ways you’re burdened by self sacrifice,
You’re obsessive, compulsive,
Afraid to let me go
You’re afraid of what’s left of you,
If you have not my hand to hold
You know I love you,
But it’s time to move on
Take a fall, and crash out, if I’m wrong
Be scared, I’ll hold you,
If again our paths may intertwine,
Someday you’ll see me smile,
But now is not your time
So I guess we have little left to say,
But happy hurt day,
Let’s eat our heart ache
We’ll bake ‘till we can’t feel
Lind’s eat your cupcake,
Made out of mistakes
Let’s wrap up what’s concealed
‘Cause it’s your birthday,
But not anymore
Since you chose the hurt held door
So happy hurt day,
Look, I baked you cupcakes
Blow out your candles,
Close the door
I firmly attest,
There's no beautiful marriage in this world.
Only ordinary life,
Embarrassment in life,
There are ups and downs
Self-sacrifice, crying late at night.
Love puts on armor for us,
Let us have courage to face everything.
Foundation.
With uncertainty flowing like a molten volcano around the world, and online.
Is it within dark times like these, we should try to bring more light into the world?
Title:
A voice in the dark whispers
Lookup
Not down
And be drawn
Into spiritual degradation
Or dark temptations
Linked to politics or the flesh
By the Red Dragon
But to blue clouds
Filled with sacred tetragons
With belief in whatever you know as good, be held
In-Depth
For the son of Cronus and Rhea
Brother of Zeus and Poseidon
Grows ever near
To welcome you into his waterless Barren Lands
Delighting in unimaginable fear
So be
Precipitous
And look up to
Defeat the rolling Abyss
Ruled by Hades
Hidden
Within
Its mists
Espouse goodness
While you still
Live
Like a sweet Valentine's Day kiss
And try to avoid
The Void
Filled with those
Who now pay a hefty
Price
But enter into new lands of Spiritual Paradise
With your selfless acts
Of kindness and self-sacrifice
Will you try to do good?
Or will you follow those who will suffer bitterness, when a star called, Wormwood,
Falls?
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
my soul is like a c a g ed animal yearning to break free....
Embedded in the snare of self-sacrifice
twisting and snarling only able to bleed.
For one, I am small and increase the body of reverse
As love and hate enter space and time without poles
The largeness of sleep and dimensional reality
Going into a law of consistent inconsistencies
Raw the cost never leaves into laughter
By his own facts which enlist varied gods
Sex is the validation unto which is declaration
To make intent stronger and mind no speak into the certainty
Twisting and turning where skills are refused
War seems skill
War seems knowledge
Also fight
Yet experience makes cry and far as you run
The earth makes sure of variation
To watch through the glass
By expectancy and obliterate
It has been the patriot to call love
So the squeeze will leave as rendered outside of the king
Available as throwing the towel in
Because the lights among us would offer rationale
As tossing in self sacrifice is the magnified gain
Old friends make more dinner in adverse
Guessing without a train nails part
Mission would herald the boarding bite so clear
I remember being given some simple advice.
It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
Can I ask that you just hold this thought?
And give me time, whilst I retaught.
In a world where kindness can blossom and thrive.
Where a simple smile can change a life.
Stay humble, smile often, keep honest, be kind.
To see acts of kindness it still blows my mind.
You only keep what you've got by giving it away.
So sharing is caring, these words I convey.
Where trust is gained and loyalty returned.
And honesty is appreciated, and respect is earned.
Be grateful for everything I have and everything i know.
Makes everything I am, and everything I show.
So in acts of compassion, with truth in my mind.
Through laughter and tears and struggles, we find.
With each time I show kindness and self sacrifice.
I am reminded again that it's nice to be nice.
She lives her love day by day
with all that is feminine
a touch,kiss or knowing look
concern,red-lettered in her book
Particular to detail
self-sacrifice a routine
as she walks the extra mile
ever ready with a smile
The days news eager to hear
her wise counsel,stills a fear
open arms brings her love near
her warmth dries a child's tear
Patience to give herself,time and again
soft and beautiful and feminine.
| Year Posted 2010
LIFE IS A SONG
Life is beautiful, life is precious.
Make life lovable and marvelous.
Meet challenge of life being righteous.
Every step of life must be gracious.
Optimistic zeal to run gorgeous.
Devotion on action ! Oblivious.
Love and compassion to make life glorious.
To fight for justice simultaneous.
Be prompt to lend your hand to sufferers.
Your help and service sure to get bonus.
Self confidence is pivot ! Obvious.
Not you and me ! We are for all of us.
Propel dynamic life : Be valorous.
Self sacrifice not superfluous.
Life is a song to sing mellifluous
on note of truth tuning melodious.
Lyrics of song to show petals of lotus.
Song of life not solo ! Sing in chorus.
The world is so attached to this perceived device
Lost is the romance of rolling the proverbial dice
What would it be like; if we remembered to entice?
Instead, we only tax each other to a ruined excise
Until all our souls breath is cold as new formed ice
Seeing impurities; in the aspects that we are precise
Most are shown to have spines akin to the ghosts of mice
Our days spent trying to quantify our life's value price
Seeking to achieve a version of paradise
All while searching for an unattainable entitled slice
Without giving an offering to self-sacrifice
No real effort to make the world better will suffice
This verse with judgment; am I withholding advice?
Peel back the lamination of this to reveal its true gneiss
Questioning; who do you know; would you ever think twice?
Swimming times river, looking for every-ones; selfish vice
Fishing Holiday
A kingfisher sitting on the old harbour wall
Listening to the geese from the mud flats call
I'm here for some sea fishing until after the thaw
Braced against the north wind so cold and raw
No Kamikaze diving into a frozen pond
The quickest route through to a life beyond
I need to cut a hole to fish with rod and line
To catch minnows like an Eskimo for my tea time
A sound of crunching from the lake what can it be
I fly over the marsh to take a look and see
Two swans are on the salt lagoon a winter wonderland
I watch from the sluice gate where the water is damned
The leaders pushing through the thick sea ice
Slowly inching forward, heroic self-sacrifice
Jet propulsion is required, web feet redesigned
Whilst tail end Charlie swims serenely behind
The Buntings skating through the reeds ask me to stay
But I've frost bitten feathers and don't want to play
The brochure promised beaches and sunshine every day
I am flying further south for my next Seaside holiday
Keyhaven Marshes, 17th January 2023
Mind and heart get wedded; physiques get attracted;
Love, bond, and affection hold hands in one accord;
Infatuation and romance are compacted,
Intimacy, passion, and commitment concord...!
Building bridges of fidelity they proceed,
Bathing in streams of fondness and admiration,
Positive perspectives and forgiveness accede,
In physical psychic charm, they find elation...!
Wedding bells, for lives of merged minds, peal endlessly,
Moments spent together become celebrations:
Physical touch and gentle kiss go zealously,
In mutual help and keep there's no negation...!
Marriage, when heart and soul are one, is paradise,
Though it seeks from each, a bit of self-sacrifice...!!!
You live your love day by day
with all that is feminine,
a touch,kiss or knowing look,
concern,red-lettered in your book;
Particular to detail
self-sacrifice a routine,
as you walk the extra mile,
ever ready with a smile;
The days news eager to hear,
your wise counsel,stills a fear
open arms your love brings near,
your warmth dries the childish tear.
Patience to give of yourself,time and again
so soft so beautiful your hearts's refrain
They taught
and made claims they helped dyslexics
Mr Cavalry was one such
and Mr Depieu was rumoured to have taught in a French Colony
Time will discreetly raze their self sacrifice
Headteacher Tuffnell on BBC Panorama
Listen to the ear to gain insight
and to your Reproduction lessons
of eternal rabbits multiplying
Of November poppy's
representational gallantry,
and who loved the Stones over the Beatles
and of CSE's
your perfect social class strata
And Mr Tom Dodds your eternal
teddy boy arts teacher
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