Life takes twists and turns
The unexpected harshness burns
There's elevation of healing and happiness
All the things there are to witness
A heart that rises and then falls
A mind that can shut down with walls
Events may not turn out as seemed
There are unusual things to be redeemed
It's truly the simple things to try in a day
To see, to do and to find your way
When the tears fall and move like rivers
and fears come about bringing shivers,
There is comfort in knowing things always change
In small ways, big ways, to rearrange
There is no complete fix and cure
from certain things that we may endure
Everyone has their own story
and everyone deserves eventual glory
As the moments arrive and pass by,
Remember to grasp them to evolve
- Just try -
Heidi Sands
8/9/26
(C)opyright
Something shifts in the airscape
Like Lady Guabancex’s angry storm
Then wild winds spin around and dance
Becoming a beautifully chaotic song
Of our vastly ever-changing universe.
Twists and Turns..
The story finds
Already This
Appearing as that..
Amazing..but
Me may re-enter
Jump on stage
Desperate to find
Unfindable This..
The saving grace:
Desperation too is
Already This...??
Life's twists and turns like the wheels of mystery
Sometimes it is bliss, sometimes it's misery
Sometimes it is crest, sometimes it is trough
Sometimes it is false, sometimes it is true
Sometimes it is white, sometimes it is black
Sometimes it is tight, sometimes it is slack
Sometimes it is red, sometimes it is yellow
Sometimes it is high, sometimes it is low
Sometimes it is left, sometimes it is right
Sometimes it is dim, sometimes it is bright
Sometimes it is heavy, sometimes it is light
Sometimes it is peace, sometimes it is fight
September 23, 2022
At the tender age of twenty-three
Carl took his leave of family
He'd put his stock in friends, he said
One year later, happily wed
Life was easy, an ocean breeze
His siblings, Carl loved to tease
Mocking their holiday get-togethers
He toasted his friends in Vegas weather
The years passed, memories faded
Carl and his wife fully persuaded
They'd done the right thing, sans regrets
Although no children did they beget
But Carl took ill, then his wife left him
Life took a U-turn... painful... grim...
Distant memories of a caring home
Awakened Carl's nostalgia zone
So despite himself, Carl picked up the phone
~ Family long gone, address unknown
Skip around twists and turns in life,
like only a dancer
forever in music is lost.
With grace God adorns her.
Her passage marks my soul
with fineness, like old gold
makes an adornment whole.
Scorn the risks; scorn the storms,
skip around twists and turns.
Quietus
09/01/2021
Being adopted at 6 weeks I was gone
to live in countryside brought much joy
there I was free to fill me with fresh air
pre-school was great just as a little boy
But school came to hate each day
so glad to reach 15 to get away
suffered stammer so stopped me on track
socially unable, so shy and reserve I did stay
Got wed at 28 sadly Jean passed away
then came to believe God to receive salvation
this changed me coming spiritually alive
Jesus my friend and saviour so full revelation
At 37 remarried to Christine so in love
now been wed 30 years simply amazing
in these years in myself got stronger
increase in faith for God be praising
In all the twist and turns of life
looking back God's been so true
providentially taking me on His route
I know I trust Jesus loving Him I do
You turn an age it dawns on you
This twist you've taken, you must stop
You turn in a new direction
But by a twist of fate you flop!
If you turn that which is anchored
Then that turn becomes a twist
So now with this new twisted turn
You wonder of, what was dismissed!
Turn up, turn down, or twist around
Turns and twists are everywhere
Do you know where you might have been,
If all those twists and turns weren't there?
So twist the wheel of fate around
For your next turn, give it a spin
Which ever way that you might twist
It turns to where, it should have been!
*Like Caesar I wrote this in the 3rd person:)
In third person he talks just like Caesar
Stuffing bagfuls of sweets in the freezer
Mumbles loud in his sleep
An appointment can’t keep
Often plucks at his brows with a tweezer.
With false tan he conceals his complexion
In shop windows inspects his reflection
Cracks his fingers and neck
And exclaims ‘What the heck!’
When he drinks has no sense of direction.
He’s allergic to pollen and sneezes
Throwing up at the smell of blue cheeses
Hair extensions he wears
When it’s windy he swears
Swallows tablets in fear of diseases.
He invents and tells lies for no reason
Any week any month any season
Does it all with a smirk
(Yes, that’s also a quirk!)
In a cell he could end for high treason!
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For the Contest “Quirks”
Hosted by Madison Demetros
© 9th February 2018
Life is hard and the times are harsh,
Here and there I run in a mad dash,
Not knowing where to head,
Nor where my life is by fate and fortune led.
I don't think that all is fine,
My head swirls as if spun by wine;
I know not east from west.
Where I'm destined heavens know best.
I hope that someone will one day tell me,
What is wrong with me that I don't see.
Perhaps I entertain a lot of hope;
More faith than the world can cope.
Meanwhile I'll roam the streets of life alone,
For all my childish joys are gone.
Not Papa is there to hold my hand,
Nor Mama to walk me through that spectacular sand.
I trust in one God above,
Whom Papa used to say is full of love
And is there for those mired in want and sin,
And those without friend and kin.
Now I tread upon the highway of loneliness,
Knowing neither failure nor success,
Only walking alone with moderate speed,
Unwilling to guess where this path may lead.
Its the simple and easy lifetime story that everyone wants but in reality ,theres always twists and turns that stops that from coming true. but we proclaim that our life is great with no problem but only to hide from our fears and pretend that the twists and turns never existed. It causes a calamity among us which just leads to more confusion. Step up and handle your twists and turns with an iron fist. We live under a God who gives us these obstacles because he knows we can handle it. eventually you will get the story of a lifetime and it may take years, but the twists and turns will always be there..not to tear you down but to make u ah better person. Now the question is..Are you ready to take your obstacles to reach your lifetime story?
All of my regret will wash away somehow
But i still cannot forget the way i feel right now...
To all the hearts i broke
Knowingly and unknowningly
I never meant to hurt you
Neither did i know i could hurt like this.
All i did was in the name of having fun
What was i thinking?
Believe me, i feel so sorry not just for you
But for myself.
Right now, i know how much i hurt you.
I got served... i have been paid back
in my own coin ... i guess!
So long, how fate works
Nemesis has caught up with me
It's the twists and turns of fate,
You can say that again...
Might take time... time heal wound(s)
But i know someday, in these little hours,
You'll forgive me.
All those twists and turns
to this place now bring me,
amidst humps and bumps
on long, deserted highways.
Failures far too many to count,
success very few in between;
discouragements strewn all over
dragging, pulling me down under.
Yet mighty proud to surrender
though the spirit grows weary,
while faint lights out yonder
endlessly flicker, beckoning.
So here I am proudly standing,
proclaiming hey, I am winning!
thanks to an inner fire that burns,
unfazed by those twists and turns.
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