* If you want to be in their heart tomorrow, be in their life today.
Touch the cornerstone of parenthood, love them with fervent
Open hearted dedication. As a mother or father, only you can give them the
Upbringing they need, the understanding of themselves. Just love them and
Caress their souls with inspiration. Help them to achieve their dreams ,
Holding nothing back. Live for them and enjoy the contentment of parenthood;
And when they grow up and are ready to spread their wings and fly, don't
Negate their desires. Love is all about letting go, share space, then
Do the right thing by them. Do not raise them co-dependent but sane
Guide them and teach them self assurance and self acceptance
Only you can guide them lovingly. So bless them, everyday.
Contest Name: This or That, Vol 1 (chose, Touch and Go)
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Date: April 9, 2021
Categories:
touch and go, analogy, parents,
Form: Acrostic
The girl has reached the terminal
cancer creeping within her tender lungs
the drowsy eyes decline to close
lest the final sleep comes crawling
steals the beautiful world from her.
She hears a distant whisper wafts near
flowing on feeble breath telling the lungs
don’t give up yet, together let’s fight
construct the edifice of hope bit by bit
albeit the unsure mind can’t hold for long.
The girl knowing the battle is uncertain
she would surely lose, tells her mother
freeze me and keep me in a cold chamber
in the frail state of suspended animation
the way you nurtured me once in your womb .
I would live within the dubious domain
between the swathes of life and death
until they find a cure for deadly cancer
I would then sprout from hibernation
and bloom again in my beautiful garden.
April 9, 2021
Title Chosen : Touch And Go
Contest : This Or That Vol 1
Sponsor : Edward Ibeh
Categories:
touch and go, analogy, cancer, fantasy, hope,
Form: Free verse
TOUCH AND GO
Free birds flitting fluttering to touch and go
In ardent ardor felt immense amour.
Blazing passion glazed in gracious glow.
Short period, yet high pitch in glamour.
In ardent ardor felt immense amour
Overflowing emotive urge to full brim
Short period, yet high pitch in glamour.
Soared high, exploring sky, floating in dream.
Overflowing emotive urge to full brim
Quenched thirst drinking desires on ecstasy
Soared high, exploring sky, floating in dream,
as if sinking in fervent fantasy.
Quenched thirst drinking desires on ecstasy
Blazing passion glazed in gracious glow,
as if sinking in fervent fantasy.
Free birds flitting fluttering to touch and go.
04/09/21
Title Chosen : Touch and Go
'This or That- Vol. 1 ' Contest by Edward Ibeh
'All Yours (Apr 12 ) Contest by Brian Strand
Categories:
touch and go, appreciation, longing, love, passion,
Form: Pantoum
The story remains untold until the music begins,
The touch of the button and suddenly my body goes.
While the eyes of the audience follow each move,
Step by step, the story is told.
Each word constructs a new motion,
Letting my movement be the interpretation.
I use the music to guide my feet,
But without thinking, it all just flows.
Now the story dies down, but I could keep going,
Never wanting to end this moment.
The music stops but, I hold onto the feeling,
But why must it all end?
Touch and Go
April 8, 2021
Donna Moody
Categories:
touch and go, 12th grade, appreciation, dance,
Form: Free verse
Wherever I go, my feet will always touch the hard asphalt,
Wherever I go, I see more challenges that I have to conqueror,
When moving forward, there are more things to experience,
When there is more to experience, my running gets easier.
The brain is a powerful tool that your demons are constantly attacking,
They long to take over and guide and direct,
But it is my own mind that I must inspect,
Reign in and take hold.
But do not get discouraged, there are always options to overtake your demons,
Listen to Christian music, for the demons will run away in terror,
When he leaves, you now have control over your brain,
Now Take hold of your new brain and go.
4/8/21
Touch and Go.
Mrs. Moody
Categories:
touch and go, 12th grade, christian, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
When the game begins, I do not fret,
The ball about to be tipped.
It bounces toward me, and I immediately feel
The urge to drive and kick.
It comes to me, a decision I must make,
I do not have much time to think.
As soon as I feel the texture of leather,
The ball is in my court.
Defense begins to clamp its claws tightly,
In fear of what is to come.
I feel the ball leaving my fingertips,
And watch it swish through the net.
A battle we face throughout the game,
The clash of effort and hustle.
As time winds down, we begin to feel
We have won the battle this time.
Touch and Go
4/6/21
Donna Moody
Categories:
touch and go, 12th grade, basketball,
Form: Free verse
Life is not set in stone,
It can start high and end low
It may start low and end high
However, what most do not see
Is that life is akin to a rollercoaster
It has repeating highs and lows
It has ebbs and flows,
Life constantly touches and goes.
My life has been no exception.
It is subject to ebbs and flows
It can feel at times that there is no redemption
It can feel like I am happy again
My life is touch and go
At times it feels pointless
It can even feel worthless,
Occasionally there is happiness
But it comes and goes.
Touch and Go
4/6/2021
Donna Moody
Categories:
touch and go, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
throughout the day, the planes touch and go,
But where they go, I do not know.
Places far off, full of mystery.
How I want to be where those planes go.
Maybe one day I will keep up with them.
In the sky, flying far and wide.
All throughout the day, my plane would touch and go,
And where I would go, I would cherish it so.
Touch and Go.
Donna Moody
4/7/2021
Categories:
touch and go, adventure, mystery,
Form: Free verse
A sport that holds a special place in my heart,
A memory that will live with me from the start.
The day I hit my first home run,
I knew my hard work was not done.
Hard work, blood, sweat, and tear,
Poured into the game, as the fans still cheer.
As the end of the season is near,
I will be playing on the field one last time this year.
4-8-2021
“Touch and Go”
Donna Moody
Categories:
touch and go, 12th grade, emotions, fun,
Form: Rhyme
I once lost a love that so deeply touched my heart,
it left me wounded; pricked by thorns that pierced my soul.
Sorrow brewed within me. Heartache, I did impart
to the point of feeling broken; no longer whole.
I withered when hearing, "Life goes on. You'll be fine."
The place I wanted to go was at my love's side.
I've been off balance, there's nothing I can align.
Life is vexing for me when I just want to hide.
I can't deny that each day has been touch and go,
prowling in shadows, searching for what I had lost,
not caring if I tumbled where fickle winds blow
or if I drowned in the sea, where memories tossed.
To be touched by love that left me so desolate
makes it hard to live. I have no move...it's stalemate.
April 8, 2021
This or That, Vol 1 Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
Categories:
touch and go, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Our romance was but touch and go
since first time I ever did see
your face. I’m sure mine was aglow.
Some magic spell you cast on me!
Days later I went out with you.
Our romance was but touch and go.
Nobody that I ever knew
had shown me the things you could show.
Your kisses were so sweet and slow -
down my neck; all over my face!
Our romance was but touch and go.
I shone within from your embrace.
One night then it all had to end.
You needed to leave. Even though
you live on in poems I’ve penned,
our romance was but touch and go!
April 7, 2021
For Edward Ibeh's This Or That, Vol 1 Poetry Contest
Touch and Go- Title chosen
Categories:
touch and go, lost love,
Form: Quatern
I hear my car calling to me, and I feel the need for speed.
I walk outside and open the car door to get into my driver’s seat.
I start up the car up, and I pull out of my driveway, heading towards my exit.
I touched the pedal too hard, and now my speed has gone too far.
I touch the brake, but it is far too late.
I see the lights, the flashing of the blue and red.
I watch him approach with my head hanging low.
I listen to his words about how I have taken advantage of the road.
I throw away my pride, for there was no reason for my crime
I reach for the paper, the record of my wrong.
I look onward, knowing one day I will have to confront my fine before long.
I pick my head up, touch the pedal, and continue to go along.
Touch and Go.
4/6/2021
Donna Moody
Categories:
touch and go, 12th grade, anxiety, car,
Form: Free verse
life is a game of tag
though we tend to play it wrong
we only ever want to pat, nudge along friends
when it could be even more fun to turn the whole wide world into a playground
making it a whole lot brighter
pass along kindness
at times you won't get very far before you're it
at other times it will be a long ways
but we won't care, just laughing along
for we will not be seeking sanctification
but joy
Touching hearts with goodwill
as we travel our journeys.
Categories:
touch and go, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
feelings flood my mind as I speed,
at many thousand miles air flow,
hope is dwindling, would I succeed?
could be a case of touch and go!
white clouds look on quite helplessly,
jittering firefly rumbles low,
left engine smokes perilously,
landing it would be touch and go.
four hundred lives could well be lost,
peaks of mountains covered in snow,
fear and doubt loom, better think fast,
to get across is touch and go!
past the mountains, riding on prayers,
I turn a corner circle slow,
good pilots must be good stayers,
hope in heart but still touch and go.
few miles down, see flickering lights,
runway ahead, bright dots in row,
I slant the wings, ground in my sights,
land!!! Thank God for helping me so!!
Premium contest winner (8)
Written 02/April/2021
This or that Vol 1 contest
Touch and go topic
Edward Ibeh sponsored
8 syllables each line
Categories:
touch and go, anxiety, confidence, courage, fate,
Form: Rhyme
In cracking lights, beaming smiles, lost in the moment, busy minds,
Someone just got lost in my vision, reached out to my senses
Hurricanes, poison ivies, king-sized towers turned out to be a joke
For a guy like him whose blossoms can move sky-scraping fences
Out of the blue, with every moment that’s true, everything seems ethereal
I’m in depth of crescendo, rhyming with the bells, dancing with auroras
And somehow, I stopped as I remember my plethora of phobias
I let go of him, my oasis, but he’s like the wind that walked with me
Chasing past shadows, wrecked ivory towers, tricky sorceries
With him touching my hand, I let go of those fears
That smile, those eyes, those memories in radiance
With him touching my heart, he let go of me.
March 31, 2021
“Touch and Go”
Categories:
touch and go, crush, cry, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
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