Striving Poems

Get The Lead Out

You always think on everything bad,
feeling one mistake will cost all you have,
seeing all sides until it’s too late,
if not satisfied then you just wait,
while other men are playing the game,
half as good as you but winning all the same;
when you can seize it at any time,
overthinking things ain’t always wise.

Get the lead out, get

Striving

What’s the point?  she asked.
It could be a simple solution, he quipped.
With much to do and little to gain,
The effort remained unattainable rain.

So onward she strove
Observed by those who stood beyond the boundaries
Doing much and yet ignoring them
She left having been a bothersome chagrin.

FAMILY AND TRIBE

Family is not anything 
But everything 
Family the root
You the offspring 
God chosen 
To walk side by side 
Through all seasons without leaving.

Tribes not a language 
Rather your people 
With same 
Heart and spirit 
But different goals 
Sharing same dreams 
Supporting each other relentlessly 

Family and tribe
Never to be traded 
Neither be disputed 
But to

Imitation

We are not perfect
We all have scars
We all have fears
We all have pain
We all have our imperfections

Because perfections can not simply exist
In the human spirit for long 

There are the moments in everyone lives
Where glimpses of perfection appear in our day

Finally learning a new skill
Achieving that goal
Putting the finishing touches on work of art
A freshly

Wealthy

I have a dream of affluence.
Of dripping gold and bread..
To feed the mouths of children 
Save the hungry from their dread 

I have a hope of heaven.
Where the generous are free
To liberate the captives
Where compassion is the key 

It's not the stash I'm after.
It's genuinely not.
My rainbow ends with colours
Not some ever roving pot 

I

Striving Toward Distinction

Stopped an angel on the hill
a wildflower growing amid impossible
through cracks in the palm
reflecting some deep feelings
motivating you to follow
across the water, driven by tides
she is in the crescent phase
In a nutshell, the essence
similar to a shy, secretive fan.

Optimism is stronger than evidence
creativity is stronger than erudition
fiction is more common than truth
the power of fantasy

Ceasing Striving

Ceasing striving, poised in the void
We play out our life role
Fearless, desireless, by love buoyed
Bliss throbs make us feel whole

Journey without movement 
In quiet contentment 
Love’s our sole sentiment

Joy reviving
Ceasing striving

26-March-2022
Quietus 

Cease All Striving

Cease all striving, oh weary soul
Everything’s ready made
Bliss suffused, feel joyous and whole
Rest in heavenly glade

Keep head-heart in balance 
From God, zero distance
With love in resonance

Heart’s-a-jiving
Cease all striving

02-January-2022
Quietus 

Striving For Happiness

We felt the joy of the soft mellow breeze, sighing down the hill,
As we lay sprawled beneath a cedar that grew beside a rill.
Shrubs abounded, meadows covered with splashes of daffodil.
One day we'll be wed there where divine nature displayed goodwill.
Bells tolled from our chapel anticipating us with a thrill.

Hive of Striving

we are everywhere
within the straw of our relationships
	      to shine a sheen 
that comes from polishing 
                                each others

Striving Vine

ivy twirls 

     grateful

          clings to trees 

               as God* nurtures

                 

Striving To Be Like Dorka

Dorka’s dainty darling double wide was dazzling in the dilapidated trailer park
She was the beautiful boisterous, bouncing bohemian other trailers aspired to be
They planted geraniums, lilies and lilacs, trying to duplicate her gorgeousness.
But none could compare, for her beauty was within as well as without.

Dorka was the epitome of what all homes strive to be

Fisherman

Cold odd keys to lost cities glisten
as spikes of torment test the frigid
cold fish hands feeding ropes
into the winds biting kiss, 
teeth gnashed against themselves.
Hanging on for life 
Men in shirts of frozen plaid
disrobing for a touch of longing, 
belonging to a certain tribe.
Whether they acknowledge it or not 
they are each a star within

Striving To Find Home

I have often read and seen the goodness of humanity
The nurses, the doctors, the firefighters the EMTs
The good politicians, the police, the writers, the vets, 
All striving to keep us alive — helping us reset
Yet there has always been a nightmarish dream
Amongst this positive life’s evolving stream
Existence of the worse of mankinds’ barbaric fiends
Cruel and

Things We Do Each Day

Things we do each day

Things we do each day
Learning to learn 
giving to give
crying to cry
living to live 
praying for prayer
singing for song
surviving to survive
breathing to breath
grieving to grieve
hoping to hope
loving to love
hating to hate
jealous of jealousy
proud of pride
sleeping to sleep
waking to wake
reading to read 
faking to fake
yearning to yearn
longing to long
Another day begins.

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