Short Pursuits Poems

 Gardening pursuits
A green and healthy income
Seeds into flowers ...

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Drain no vim rain in vain
On pursuits which gather you
A blend of strain and pain....

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beautiful, yellow
pursuit of a butterfly
into a flower

5/1/19...

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Shrivelled day,
Mottled charred desires,
Still pursuits,
Dying hope,
Shadowed duty engagement,
We fall and rise still....

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Poetical peace
Prowling pupil pursuits
Profound progression 



~ode to learning new forms
of poetry for growth......

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to walk the talk
we first talk
and then walk

life pursuits a quest
but if we be at rest
each breath a crest

will bends
seeking ends
soul ascends...

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My heart is too frequently engaged
In pursuits of the most frivolous kind,
Sometimes it runs away with itself
Leaves my mind lagging far behind.

written June 18, 2021...

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Positive outlook brings
Permanent joy and peace
Purity of mind, heart
perpetual fine-art
Perfection possesses
Pursuits and penances
Philanthropy be life 

04/08/2021...

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How can they make love when owl hoots,
In a deep forest, in nighttime pursuits,
With moonlight so bright,
They whisper, "Goodnight,"
To the owl, who just watches and toots!...

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I have become ash
Decayed for decades
What happened?
To my lithe thoughts
And deft digits

That could churn
Heaviness into brevity
And paltry pursuits
Into wee nuances...

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Recognize the Great Emptiness
Feel the amazing qualities that arise.
Understand impermanence and duality.
Reject all worldly pursuits.
See through the game but play it anyway....

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nonchalant to pursuits mundane
since erst desires are to rest lain
we cannot now, engage in strife
our glowing heart, being bliss rife
save God-connect, all cravings slain

22-February-2022...

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Beyond
These trivial pursuits
The day looms long,
Largely unused, unplanned,
Promising unimportant
Activities.
Anticipating alternatives,
Inertly I idle,
Mind meandering meaninglessly,
Mildly morose,
Diffident, diffuse,
And aimless....

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I have a predilection 
      for the helping professions
      As well, for artistic self-expression

      I'll take my leave with this confession
      Other 'pursuits' are no more than repression
         ~ That lead inexorably to depression...

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It can be managed
wisely or wasted spent on
worthy or wicked pursuits.
It cannot be bought
sold ordered to stand still or
saved for another day—time.

Image 4


Date: June 10, 2019
Contest Title: Fives and Sevens
Sponsor: Joseph May...

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Time for reflection

May I not rue, when life draws to an end,
Invidious, mean words which bring distress
Nor sigh, that precious time I did misspend
On frivolous pursuits of happiness.
Rather let warm benevolence hold sway
And solomonic wisdom guide my way....

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The young foolishly dream of old age.
Time wasted on futile pursuits, 
an illusion of freedoms, 
vitality fleeting.
Pages torn like flesh 
are ever gone.
Precious time 
turns to 
dust.





By Rhonda Johnson-Saunders
10/2/13
for  Dr.Ram Mehta's Nonet Form Contest...

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Chutes and Ladders, Monopoly
   Candyland and Bingo
       One-two-three!

Risk and Careers and
   How about Charades?
Scrabble and Password
   Venerable Word Parades!

The youthful pursuits of
   An Innocent Age 
Eating Hostess Twinkies
   And drinking Kool-Aid!...

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Science's 
And our World's 
Great Minds
Thinker's 
Mathematics 
The purveyors 
Searchers 
Answer providers 
Live a different consciousness 
To us mere mortals
I wonder if the more the brain can comprehend 
Fulfills or depresses them 
Like trivial pursuits 
Drown the bleating Sheep...

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our words one can compress
but our focus as wordsmiths
is to let creativity take charge
each and every conversation
becomes a writer’s permit to
master their authorship
choreographed words bestir
and challenge mind-numbing
beware of what you share
pursuits of passion my pen
not to be silently suppressed...

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P	Pleasurable beyond whimsical
A	Artistic freedom lifts my soul
I 	Imagination plays and laughs with me
N	Never bored with color choices or mind fun
T	True happiness and bliss as I work
I	Interests and delights corners of my mind
N	Not discovered in any other pursuits
G	Greens, blues, pinks, and yellows. Ahh!...

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Brush with death
and still self-same
but that stupor cycle...
could not be tamed.

I've never known such wild pursuits,
where the deck was deep
and I lost in depth,
struggled to dry land
and almost drowned in death

and no other animal knows such wild pursuits
as that day on the deck
where I lost my brain....

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Facing adversities 

while resting on God's strength* 

empowered faith reaches out  

midst love-propelled pursuits

spreading triumphant peace

to ripple with exuberance.

*Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

April 20, 2019
Edited on September 22, 2022...

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Like a Flower
So full of Love
You gave it to me
And how I dreamed of

Holding you tight
Smelling your sweet perfume
Watching my smile
Cause you to Bloom

And when the Hardships came
To water your Roots
You drowned with the pouring Rain
And washed away with our future pursuits.

Like a Flower
On Death's bed
You utter your sweet last words
But now... you're dead....

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A woman 
Is no longer a prisoner 
In a family
Like the olden days
Now
With her own pursuits
Own interests
Own wellbeings
And
No more intensive pressures
From the mother-in-law
Or anyone else's dictatorship
A new person is born
To the society
To a new era
And now
The death of a prisoner
Has ended the miserable stories
Of women 
In the olden days...

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