Travailed Poems - Poems about Travailed

It's Yours

...The wait is over, or maybe
there was never a wait 
A time to pull your pencil and
pad and illustrate

Create your masterpiece in this realm of 3D
Sweetly usher your dreams into reality

All t...

After Pain

...The one who brought fun, laughs, and smiles
travailed his path for miles and miles.

Amusing quips that filled his mind
Were formed by tragedies behind.

When one has never felt real pain
True...

So Close So Far

...My ambitions elitist
reality bourgeois
My palate continental
taste buds still raw
My ambition ennobled
vocation unhailed
My reality sordid
—future travailed  

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...

Days Ahead

...She read the writing on the wall,
She saw it before the fall,
The time it would be,
She didn’t know,
The direction the wind would blow,
She couldn’t tell.

She saw the days ahead,
She heard t...

Adieu Papa Madabe

...A patriarch, legend, family man,
A moral compass,
An arc of proprietary leadership
With octopus creeping advancements
Inducing pomiferous effects
Africa’s epitome of
Struggle against racial opp...

Whatever Weekend

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Whatever Weekend

Being humble common pathways ere,
I ought traveled nearby that lea,
Past the margin of my home there,
Where the daffodils fickl...

That Friday Feeling

...All the weeks once spent revealing
   Efforts pledged for Friday feeling
      Life's intents and notions reeling ...

          Yet, the weekend always shined
             Composing body, s...

The True Essence of Beauty

...Out of the pot of Nature's Heritage we were created.
The taste of originality to savor, such novelty to behold.
Fearfully and wonderfully adorned with a spirit nurtured as a replica of our being.
...

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Cold

...I have been absent for sometime
My words have been held in transit
Just waiting to form a semblance of
Rational understanding of the journey
I have over the seasons encountered

How does one ex...

Promised Child

...I dreamed I saw an infant child fall from a changing table.
Flailing then to rise again, I thought he was not able.

But, he struggled until he found himself upon his hands and knees.
It took som...

I Thank You

...To the God who from the dust of the earth created a man, and out of whose flesh he also made a woman suitable for him; who created vegetation and animal life, and put within them the life regenerativ...

It Will Come

...When God completes you
You will know it
As He’s been working on you
You've been travailed
Go through the whole process with Him
If you are going through it
You know what I am talking about
He wouldn’...

Julius Caesar

...Oh, Caesar, though our touch is lost in time:
Weeks, passing years, and years long eons, passed,
I still can hear and feel in learnéd rhyme
Your essence. Like some bee which has amassed
Sweets of...

Hilary Rodham Clinton

...Angel moved to and fro in Chicago, Illinois
Edgewater Hospital door opened
Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham was received
Travailed for a contributor to American she bore
Suddenly Hilary Diane Rodham Clinto...

You Are of This Earth

...You  came  to be here gradually,
from the whirling chaos of the dreaming infant,
anchored by the maternal hand to earth.
Do not try to fly back to heaven today.
Be patient;your guides will,with no ef...

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