Tug Poems

Tug Of War

The depth of my thoughts
is always fighting against
the shallowness of my being.

Tug Of War Strategy

Waste your energy
Lose the game
Save your energy
The game is yours
When you pull 
And try to hold immediately 
Another one who is constantly holding 
Gets an advantage in that small moment 
Cause while you try to hold 
You also try to balance your body 
And strength for the holding phase
Hold preserves center of gravity 
So you don't topple forward or backward 
While Slow Pulls gives you an advantage 
Since you're moving backwards 
But risks toppling backwards 
Since the center of gravity moves as the body moves
Humans walk on two legs without tails 
Making them unstable 
Furthermore, tug of war 
Is a game of strength and stamina 
Slow pulls makes you exert energy more than Hold.

Tug the Muck

Tug a bit on earthly muck, shakes us all;
Hell's murkiness makes the eternal fall.
Pick up pure mud, feel its wonder and awe.

Our cosmos burns but organics are rare;
though carbon abounds, exists everywhere.
Light springs into life, if water is there!

Grab damp dark soil, same stuff in a flower.
Musing trite thoughts drains our mental power,
try to wake before your faint final hour.

Some sculpt Buddha's fingers touching the earth,
always connecting to soil has true worth.
From the moist muck comes all life and rebirth.

Our world will rock us asleep and awake;
ups and downs, storms and quakes, for goodness sake.
Accepting all flaws, what will we forsake?





Monorhyme in tercets  15 lines  114 words
Inspired by John Milton's Paradise Lost, 
Astrophysics and Buddhist philosophy

Magnetic Bliss Tug

Magnetic bliss tug along spine
All nodes within form dance
Our mind-body becomes divine 
Love with love in parlance 

We’re centred in the void
Blissful and overjoyed 
Heart pure and unalloyed 

Lingering love hug
Magnetic bliss tug

02-November-2021
Quietus

Tug of War

Tug of War
the three and four-year-olds had a terrific time
playing tug of war with a rope
all of them trying to help their friends
pulling a variety of directions
no matter what team they were on
hilarious to watch

Don'T Go Tug On My Heartstrings

so don't go tug on my heartstrings man
i might fall apart at the “seems"
take a jump off a bridge 
just to show that i live 
to make a mark on the start
for the times of dear dreams
take a ride in a boat to niagra to float
thinking that destination's delivery can share
of what keep me afloat to stop the chaos
with hope and to be a big witness of care
don’t go pulling on my shirt now dude
you won't believe what comes out my sleeve
a difference a detour a doubt for the pain 
that's just a jaunt just to trust and believe
so take all your heart hope put them near to the head
so you won't confuse clarity for real tears
just take all your time to tell a true rhyme
that i know more for my age plus my years

I Hear and Feel a Quiet Tug of Love-

it is a sweet ringing in my ears 
a song a melody resounding Psalms
there is a tug and embrace 
and a warm feeling in my heart 
there is a breath of fresh air
 flowing through my nostrils 
must be sweet God in Jesus 
His Holy Spirit keeps 
coming to me I can feel it
Oh!
O
My, my, my 
I hear I feel so a quiet tug of love
Glory
Hallelujah

1/18/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021

Love Tug of War

Come and be a part of me, now conjoined
Our lives meshed relentlessly caught 
Netted forever in daily favours we appoint
In constant debt to save love's abort

Entity rules written on parchment ethereal
Compile acumen requirements 
Tolerance adopts compassionate interior
Faith pledge beckons kindness

Independance threatens from near corner
Sinister as demon intending to leap
Reports a lost opportunity to love coroner
Solitary plight, pride intends to keep

Conscious strive for linking brings prosper
Combined denotes concerned 
Response an innate component longed for
River of reciprocation yearned

Innoculated beneath doctrine of obligation 
Committed beings tread carefully 
Self derived bliss retains a vapid formation 
Of solace seen in together revelry 




1st November 

- torn in concept 
  of tug of war demanded
  by needing others as much
  as I rely on myself

Tug 'O War

In my youth during the war years
At our July First festivities three cheers
They held a Tug 'O War
Police and Fire to the fore
At times life is like a Tug 'O War it appears

The Balloons Goes Up With a Tug of the Breeze

the sky an ocean of Forget Me Nots, 
  leaden on hues French-vanilla ice-cream, 
    puffy cotton candy clouds move down stream 
      grassy field of red spice cinnamon hots 

dream of pleasure indulges in single malt 
  of her big eyes. watch a half smile linger
    a wink of sun glare, tighten her fingers, 
      cries, red balloons into the amber they bolt


4/17/2020


just musing

Tug of Self-War

Written on February 17, 2020
By Gail DeBole

I read a quote the other day.
It said you must improve today.

I read a quote the other day.
It said to love yourself – don’t change.

Which quote was right?
Which quote was wrong?

Both made me weak.
Both made me strong.

And thus, the tug of war began.

One side of me – quite content
Was fighting all my discontent.

One side of me – quite discontent
Was fighting all my self-content.

My ego – almost split in two
Could not decide just what to do.

And thus, the tug of war continued.

Until one day, quite tired of this.
My question was, "What had I missed?"

Was there a balance I couldn’t see?
Satisfied with what I was, could I be…

A person who improved her lot
Without a tug of war so taut?

And thus, the tug of war ended.

Tug of War Between One's Will and Writer's Block

"I still got some ink in my pen;  I know I can do this!,"
goes one's will.

"No dice, my brain is like scrambled eggs right now,"
replies writer's block.

"I CAN DO THIS, I REALLY CAN! THIS IS GO-TIME!,"
screams one's will.

"Hey! Not now...I'll tell you when!,"
writer's block screams back.

Quite an amicable relationship...
 between these two.


Submitted for...
Strand Special 6,Any Form ,Any Theme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Date written: 11/23/2019

Tug of War

Push-Pull leaders
demand your gripe
at either end of their
hangman's rope
Your willing hoist
of their own petard,
the Devil's foist
of his own retard.


"retard" in this sense="delay," as in delaying tactics. 

1John 5:19.
Luke 4:5-8.
John 17:14-16.
Daniel 2:44,45.

"For tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar, and't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them to the moon" 

Hamlet.

Ghosts That Tug As I Walk By

I love the people
that know i can do the things
that i never thought i could
I love the people
who know the words
i never say
I Iove the people
that feel
because i felt
and all the rest just ghosts
that tug as i walk by

A Gentle Tug

A Gentle Tug


I wait for you to gently peek at me
As you begin to rise above the earth
And lift your glowing face for all to see
A perfect orb to grace the indigo sky
Through eons of ages you've guided us by
I sit and gaze at you from upon my rug
Your beauty gives my heart a gentle tug

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