Success Poems

This Christmas and other holidays’ fame
May Christ be exalted with His great name.

Hoisted by faith midst supplication zest
I trust God, the Source of gifts, indeed best.

Blissful peace and good success for us all
Shout my heart’s desires* against doubts’ pit fall.

Love-propped,...Read More

So, you might be thinking,
Was the weekend a success?
Our grandson staying over
In the city? Goodness, yes!

The bus, the train, the dinosaurs,
A tournament of chess,
A playground smack in Central Park
And who could ever guess...

A play date with a neighbor's kids
Without a...Read More

 I AM ......NOT  GOING TO GET OUT OF YOUR CAR:..........SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT? THAT IS THE CONVERSION!  YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH ME!!! I AM NOT GOING TO GET OUT OF "YOUR HOUSE".....SO...Read More

What is it you have to answer
 But before you ask someone
 You have to know the answer

People call me  ed, Edward, nygma or prince of puzzle
Conclusively it doesn’t matter 
Cause I can make your mind a dimwit crippler...Read More

If only i
could make you smile
even
for just a little while
my life would be complete...

If I could walk
through all your trials
calm you when
your feelin riled
my life would be complete....

If I could bring you
happiness
make your life
a sweet success
my life would be complete....

If...Read More

   A poet writes to please himself

     ~ and succeeds when he touches you




              December 05, 2019
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In confidence, at three-card Monte when I'd choose,
A complete mark, I found myself destined to lose.
Pulling rabbits out of hats I was just a twit;
As a rank amateur whose hand always got bit.

Many times, I stacked poker decks to force...Read More

My foot is four legs of a tortoise
My thump is anchor of my docking
My reason is the traffic light of red lights only
My patience is the hand break of a vehicle

Their ‘batakari’ has wings to fly over me
Their worm-length’s shape...Read More

Butterfly, from the corner of my eye, you drew my gaze,
Wings cloaked in seafoam, hair ablaze with amber and flame,
I: transfixed by your figure as you danced into my personal space.

I apologize for staring at you for so long it...Read More

Author Dana Redricks
December 2, 2019

I rise although I may fail
I learn from my mistakes
Some lessons are learned
quickly and others come
over a period of time
but rather I rise or fall
there's a lesson in all
occasions
Never be afraid of failure
because it is in...Read More

So young but strong is my identity
Iam a Lion that never retreat
My outward appearance can be fragile but Iam not weak
I roar in thirsty for my destiny
People belittle me due to the atrocities I go through
They judge my abilities by...Read More

For Weatherby it was a final chance
for an evening of possible romance,
inasmuch as at his age a date
with a lady had come quite late.
At seventy-five, he still had pluck
and with persistence and a little luck
he’d woo her, a spritely sixty-nine,
and...Read More

I THINK A WOMAN CAN BE "THE PRESIDENT OF "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA",AND CAN DO A "GREAT JOB"!!!!!!! YOU KNOW WHAT MIGHT CHANGE THE TROUBLE IN "THE MIDDLE EAST"? IF A WOMAN WAS IN "CHARGE" IN "THE MIDDLE EAST";...Read More

Sometimes you will doubt
then, within those times, 
occurs unseen success, 
and with it you find belief.

Sometimes you will doubt,
all you will do is question,
with no success or encouragement, but that of the far past,
you must find the belief just the...Read More

As I was in church one Sunday morning,
This thought came to me.
What is your expectation for 2020?
I thought and thought; What is my expectation for 2020?
I believe it is a year of faith or doubt, trust or fear.
Do you believe...Read More

It is time for the game 
With the team the world knows the name 
This year New York State was invited to the feast
When the Bills were chosen as the sacrifice for the statement of peace. 
After devouring the skin...Read More

Unaffordable, yet valiant speeding, 
tailgating, and zooming Pep Boys, I cannot dodge. 

Yours truly grief stricken
(sob... sob... sob)...
wheely hard to bear
this anticipatory anxiety
riddled joker impossible
mission thwarting despair

death knell tolled (told),
woebegone news, I did fear
hears stunned me into silence,
the unwelcome prognosis,
I...Read More

Yes, young I pooped on my own treasures
Creating such barren beaches gray
Seeming so eternally short then
Unfolding now under revealing waves. 

Back then ferocious waters came crashing in
Change roaring in paid me no mind
Who cared what stayed or was swept away...Read More

I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of your starving stomach,
Echoing throughout your rebellious drained veins,

And I became a sweet loaf of bread
To...Read More

It is so true that good mothers are rare.
In the furious face of hunger,
And in the ferocious jaws of sickness
You have always been near.

Mami Owon,
This verse could have been a salutation,
Expressing my love for you,
Or to seek help from you,
But...Read More

Light, elusive and omnipresent. 
Hidden behind life’s trivialities, 
Rearing shine through bouts of success. 
Like a dark cloud in a bright sky, 
We unwaveringly gaze at that whose sail has been set, 
And who’s distance separates the seas from the...Read More

They all sit there lined up in a row 
Not knowing when exactly when to go 
Decisions are made on the image they are looking for 
As the applicants mumble at the door. 

Mommas got cash 
Let those pass
The Agent...Read More

I use to dream, about wonderful things, but now I dream no more. My mind has completely blacken, from too many tears and regrets. Tears from all the pain I have endured from the past. Memories that were once lost,...Read More

For some, ignorance is their strength,
taken false providence to all its length.
To know and not to know, conscious of complete truth
while telling carefully constructed lies to sooth.
Is that the revelation we want to hear,
while overwhelming motions are the tragic to...Read More

Fear of personal
and disconnecting
ego-success
feels reasonable to me

Too much adulating feedback
from old friends vaguely envious
that I would place myself above 
and before them
sacrifices integrity
more resonant with us,
immersed in ecosystemic success,
embodied health,
resilient Earth-rooted wealth.

Children
especially straight white physically-privileged adolescents,
have grown self-empowerment rights
to autonomous...Read More