"bless the beast"
bless the beast who is helpless
small alone and defenseless
waiting to be loved
bless the beast who is hurting
who believes life is unrewarding
wanting to be loved
they wander gently and cool
they live by a golden rule
bless the child who sees the frail
lending a hand for others to sail
wanting to be seen
bless the child who feels other pain
who supports and steps out of his lane
waiting to be seen
they know nothing of an evil sin
they live with innocence built in
bless the best who enhances life
chosen to help the child with strife
who is quietly unloved and unseen
SkyWatcher
09-08-23
Categories:
unrewarding, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Living yet I’m not alive
Frivolously stupefied
Uncaring of myself and I
Nonchalantly undefined
I used to compete but there’s no glory
Victory always unrewarding
Someone would appeared before me
Dispossessing the importance
Progress would demoralise
Feeling bad after you’ve tried
All that effort was applied
Just to leave you dead inside
Punishments for doing well
Turning happy into hell
Flip success into a fail
how do you ever excel
Belittling what I achieve
Telling me about my failure
Eventually make me believe
I am nothing but a failure
Some mates have a bitter streak
Take you down when you succeed
Teaching you a winning streak
Is not something you ever need
Unprepared or unprotected
It doesn’t really matter now
care for myself is neglected
Life will only bring you down
Every time I’m motivated
Times that I’ve overachieved
I seem to be annihilated
Death will be my sweet relief
Categories:
unrewarding, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
This is not my place
But anyways.
A strangely unrewarding
Chain on my door.
What is it that I'm guarding,
What's the trouble all for?
Smoke
fills
rooms
Like ivory in tombs
We wouldn't be depressed
If it weren't
For the best.
Foamless steel
Stain-filled bubble bath
Bought for the price of a meal
Sould for a laugh.
And so we travel on
The goodies always gone.
Alas!
I say
My head I'll lay
No dogs do stray
No mines we lay
I'm wishing for a way -
But the wishing well's run dry.
And so you shudder and I cry,
'At least we've been passed by
The fortunes that don't lie.'
And then, you have a vision
Of a man who's screaming
"Intermission!"
And his eyes are beaming
With precision.
And so we laugh and share a cigarette.
This is just as good as it will get
If you go outside you will get wet
Eventually...
Minds gray,
Thoughts sharp
We'll best be on our way
As the angel plays a harp
But hits the wrong notes.
What's it for
What's it about?
In friendship we've no doubt.
So don't go knocking on my door,
As I won't knock in turn.
Since walls cling
But doorbells ring
And fires always burn...
Categories:
unrewarding, fantasy, journey,
Form: I do not know?
Many a tears for your children you've shed
Only you fully understand that love is yours
Tears are not only for sadness but for joy
Healing the pains and wiping their tears
Everything that you do can be unrewarding
Remember nothing can replace your love
Death cannot break that mothering bond
Anyone can be a mother but you are mines
Yes I am proud to have you for my mother
Categories:
unrewarding, celebration, mothers day,
Form: Acrostic
Like a wandering nomad
I roam this earth in a quandary,
Oblivious of the passing time,
Knowing not what I seek;
Obliterating each passing moment
as inconsequential,
Each passing year—
Unrewarding.
Do I seek true love or absolute truth?
An escape from
the confines of the traditions
and the clutches of social mores
or deliverance from the sins
and release from the concerns of life?
Whatever I seek, I seek in vain
Whatever I achieve is naught,
Cowering in obscurity
kowtowing to the dictates of time,
Unable to free myself from
the overwhelming sense of self.
Until this journey ends
How many more lives must I endure?
How long must I suffer
the folly and bigotry of man?
I look back at my obsolete past
Look ahead at my vague future,
Whatever I do, I must do it now
Or drift into an eternal oblivion!
~Contest: "N" poetry
~Sponsor: Constance La France.
~Contest: Oblivion
~Sponsor: Rob Carmack.
Categories:
unrewarding, journey, life,
Form: Free verse
Holiday’s Roadside Wreckage
by Odin Roark
To live as you’re not
To be who society massages you into being
To succumb to counterfeit identity
Is to skid into mere roadside wreckage.
We pass such rubble all the time
The defective and or mismatched parts of authenticity
Merging with Nature’s roadkill
Decorated by gum wrappers
Festooned by beer cans.
Sadly…
Few anticipate the accident,
The head-on collision with reality,
Where darkness and tears
Become the black ice of misfortune.
Still…
Some will slow down enough to see when they look,
Realize that reason and logic’s purpose
Is to reveal the highway shoulders and ditches’ necessity,
Irony’s off-road demise for make-believers
Careening unconscious down life’s highway.
Roadside wreckage…
Unrewarding scenery made repetitively prophetic
Until we take the time to recognize and live compatibly
With who we really are.
Categories:
unrewarding, introspection,
Form: Prose Poetry
As their anger built and they lost control,
It was like something evil had possessed their soul.
The words they said burned like fire,
Seeking to hurt the other was their main desire.
It didn’t matter who or what started the fight,
The ole devil had you this very night.
He set the stage, he set you up,
As you both spew his venom as you sip from his cup.
Once it gets started it’s so very hard to stop,
Hate breeds hate such an unrewarding and pain filled crop.
As you reach the point of no return,
The devil will laugh as you feel his burn.
He wants your soul that’s his only goal,
One marriage gone to hell another success story for him another mark on his
pole.
If you want your marriage to stay good and strong,
Give the devil a kick in the pants and send him back to where he belongs.
And over all the best advice I can give,
Seek the Lord and follow Him in your daily life and the way you live.
Categories:
unrewarding, family, happiness, husband, wife,
Form: Narrative
DEBT MADE ME BITTER
CREEPING BENEATH MY NOSTRIL LIKE LITTLE CRITTERS
DEBT HAVE ROB MY JOY AND DREAMS
DROWNING ME THROUGH AN UNREWARDING STREAMS
I HAD MADE A PLEDGE
TO PAY OF THESE DEBT,
BUT WHAT I DID WAS NOT WELL KEPT
I HAD LATE FEE AND OVER THE LIMIT FEE
ALL THESE DEBT STING ME LIKE A BEE
I GOT CALL EVERY WHERE WITH HIGH INTEREST RATES
CAN'T BARELY PUT ONE GRAIN OF RICE ON MY PLASTIC PLATE
DEBT HAD DIVIDE MY FAMILY
DEVASTATING MY AUTHORITY
DEBT CAUSE ME TO LIVE IN FEAR
BARRICADE MY EYES WITH TEARS
DEBT DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SAVE MONEY
ONCE YOU ARE TRAP, BOY IT'S NOT FUNNY
DEBT HAD TAKEN CONTROL OVER MY LIFE
I THOUGHT THAT I WILL NEVER HAVE A WIFE
DEBT HAS PUT ME DOWN DRASTICALLY
BUT I TRUST GOD AND HAVE FAITH AND I AM ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY
BY STANLEY JEAN JACQUES
Categories:
unrewarding, happiness, health, hope, me,
Form: Personification