Strength of the Will
...The Strength of the Will
Deep within every soul lay the strength of the will
All the temperance and fortitude that it can instill
When seeking for some answers and confusion is the host
Is when...
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Categories:
time tested, character, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Turn towards light
...Sins never ask for excuses
To whom does this come
At what age, at what instance
To whom, what for, where, whence
The jealousy to be charred within
The hatred to be buried within
The greed to ...
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Categories:
time tested, bible,
Form: Free verse
Happy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn September twenty second
...Happy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn - September twenty second
But first etymological climatological meteorological esoterica:
The word autumn (/'??t?m/) is derived from Latin autu...
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Categories:
time tested, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
...Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.
Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twen...
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Categories:
time tested, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Granma's Porch
...As Freshly Laundered Linens
Secured By Pins On a Back Yard Clothes Line
Airing Out In Daisy Aromatic Breeze
Set to Dry Under The Friendly Not too Hot Sun!
I Sigh, For this is All In My Mind
Sitt...
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Categories:
time tested, grandmother, memorial, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Change
...The hour suggests me,
the day re-forms.
No need to talk to the bathroom mirror,
new skin and a new nakedness of features
are obvious.
Time tested
I live out-of-myself,
just a breath away from ...
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Categories:
time tested, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Another Bon Voyage On Next Leg of Journey
...Another bon voyage on next leg of journey...
into the unknown courting lovely lass
crafted four years ago to date
flying colors while eldest progeny
an undergraduate
at storied university d...
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Categories:
time tested, absence, adventure, america, anniversary,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the Day
...Follow the time tested path of adepts ~
Renounce oh hermit, all mental concepts
26-February-2023...
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Categories:
time tested, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Pig Spleen Forecasting- Squishin' Accomplished
...To predict the weather do we need a meteorologist?
Not here, although this method by some is dismissed
Maybe not so scientific but time tested and long lasting
Welcome to the prairies and pig sple...
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Categories:
time tested, animal, humorous, weather,
Form: Couplet
Open Arms Welcome Poetry Muse
...Ideally yours truly prefers
a she/her who never got prosecuted for a felon,
yet who most deaf fin knit lee
possesses sound blinding killer instincts
think miracle worker Anne Sullivan
signif...
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Categories:
time tested, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Anchors Aweigh
...Anchors Aweigh...
destination unknown
for this Earthling
stardate: February 26th, 2022
At sea since time immemorial
I relish being alone
upon oceanic expanse
yours truly doth bemoan
me ga...
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Categories:
time tested, 6th grade, adventure, america,
Form: Rhyme
Paying Your Tithe
...A time-tested spiritual banking,
Higher and higher one goes in ranking,
Slammed doors sweetly unlocking,
Hindering barriers unblocking…
From the wall one has been flung
And like a bag on a peg...
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Categories:
time tested, dream, money, religion, truth,
Form: Rhyme
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit Respectable
...A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...
ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.
Whiling away his time playing solitaire......
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Categories:
time tested, anger, city, corruption, education,
Form: Rhyme
The Hourglass
...The moment we are born…that precious moment when we wake…the hands of Fate take the hourglass filled with the sands of our life and give it a little shake.
And as we take our first breath…in a mov...
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Categories:
time tested, time,
Form: Rhyme
Wonderstruck
...I see wonder wherever I look,
be it the sea or a babbling brook.
Decoding Mother Nature's handbook,
Time scribes Her secrets in its scrapbook
cataloging every niche and nook.
I need bu...
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Categories:
time tested, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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