Living death
Never to feel
Owner
of your breath
Never to feel
Owner
of your movements
Surviving in a life
Not belonging to you
Surviving as a slave
Craving to be free
A life closed
Never to use
Your talent
Closed to
Your energy
A mind made into a wasteland
By the evil work of a human hand
Unsurmountable obstacles in front
Imponderable mountain behind
Endless wait
Useless time
Chinese wisdom says
OBSTRUCTION
WAIT IN STILLNESS
“Teach me not to care
Teach me to be still”
The wind like time
Does not beg permission
It does not pause for longing hands
It moves illusively disappearing
Coming and going
Weaving the strands of tomorrow
into fleeting dreams transcended
From the bones of yesterday
It waits unseen in silent stillness
mummering with mystery
charging into an array
of constant cycles of energy
Touching everything
In its river of drifting sighs and huffing gusts
Its anger devours with
Screeching tempests
Swallowing the lifeless forms
Without discretion
Making alive and moving
All that lies in its wake
At the crossroads of departure
Spinning like a bird in flight
You are taken in its wake
Uplifted into its command
Within the chasms of little choice
Unsurmountable mountains of truth
Lay just ahead in perilous wait
Only to come to rest
Succumbing to the valleys of peace
To witness destiny
"Be happy in the moment, that's enough.
Each moment is all we need."
Quote_ Mother Teresa
Problem's color dwindles as morning dawns.
Obstacles which seemed unsurmountable
Evaporate as entanglements fade.
Might it be that I left them in God's hands?
For real, I rest in His care and constraint.
Offering each day praise; then thanksgiving
Remains my focus despite the day's stress.
Today as I rise, fresh on this moment...
Offense and maltreatment I can pardon.
Deliberate actions rejected, gone.
A word from the Lord brings understanding -
You are forgiven, the operative words.
May 25, 2023
contest: Writing Challenge - B Quotes
sponsor: Constance La France
Mutilated mind constructs the precinct of recluse
Encasing the stifling loneliness of sad prison
Languishes there the surrendered psyche.
Agony unsurmountable relentlessly
Negates the positive perspective of hope
Cauldron of dissonance remote from the rhythm of the outside
Hollowness inside filled with drops of depression in adagio
Obdurately prolonged as untiring mental affliction.
Latent desires are demolished and the malleable mind
Yields to nostalgia, the melancholic remnant of yearning.
___________
(I chose to use Acrostic form to dissect melancholy to
discern its anatomy)
May 9, 2023
Contest : Anatomy Of Melancholy
Sponsored by : Craig Cornish
What would my life have been today,
Without you Lord to show me the way.
You are a loving God who always cares,
And removes all my worries, doubts and fears,
You lift me up from my complacency,
And gives me hope so I can truly see,
All the amazing things you have done for me.
You saved my soul and set me free,
You have kept me from unforeseen dangers
And guided me through many tough challengers
In you, I put my trust each day,
Confident you will guide each step of the way,
Though the tasks seem unsurmountable to me,
I will not doubt but put my trust solely in thee.
Your faithfulness is forever steadfast and true,
Your righteousness, I will forever pursue.
Mountains be removed
Mountains were meant to be moved
They are much too heavy to carry
You can not wrap a rope around it and drag it with you
Sometimes too tall to look over
You can maybe climb over it, but then you are stuck on the other side
It is said that faith can move a mountain and throw it into the sea
This mountain sometimes blocks my vision
You cannot see through it
It impedes freedom
It stops me dead in my tracks
It is big
It seems unsurmountable
Its like the elephant in the room
Yet it can be moved and crumbled??
piece by piece or all at once!
I pray for the faith…
Of a tiny mustard seed
Grace Daub
August 23, 2021
Worriers Sink, Warriors Shine
- By Aare Tunde Dawood-Akerele
Let's exempt the death
Worry is for the living
Who has cases to win
Challenges to surmount
Fears to conquer
Aspirations to achieve
Failure to escape,
Success to record.
To worriers, life is hellish
Every issue seems unsurmountable
They easily manufacture excuses
Often soaked in sinking feelings
And anxious about nothingness
To warriors, life is fun
They call problems challenges
Often chase the winning formulas
Not fearful but focused
Warriors fight through the battlefield
Stand gallantly at other bank
Coast home winnings, loots, plunder
And tell the adventure tales of heroic exploit
Before the voyage
Worriers had sunk mentally
Physically in the midstream
Get consumed by anxiety.
Every worrier dies trophyless
My Craving Heart
Let me have your sorrows and your pains, my love
Share with me the restless days that agony ignites
Why make your distresses unsurmountable and tough?
I swear I’ll be behind you when agony strikes
Once I sought your heart but you preferred someone else
I craved for your kisses and hugs but they weren’t for me
Give me your repentance, your penitence and stress
Share with me your feeling of remorse, your tragedy
I wish for you no longer to writhe in pain
I wish for you no longer to anguish endure
Give me your moments of stress and strain
Your solace from despair is begging on your door
See how moments of despair flee
Like the glitter of dew on a rose petal
My desolate heart is craving for you from eternity
My longing for you is fathomless and eternal
Sintra, Portugal 2-9-2017
Copyright © Mohammad Yamin | Year Posted 2017
ethereal coupling
waiting finally over
coming together as one soul
surrounded by ancestral bliss
unsurmountable moon magic
summoned by the gods
of love and lust
acute wanting finally satisfied
no longer longing for moments like this
this memory lasting forever
in both of their souls
Written 1-23-2019
Contest: Picture Prompt Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brenda Chiri
A Pleasure Beyond All Measure
What we discovered was his pleasure,
Amounted to unsurmountable treasure;
Always scared;
Never shared;
So tremendous and beyond all measure.
Jim Horn
Epitomy and Symettry of Trump Stupidity
We started being enveloped by epitome,
Of what did turn out to be the symmetry,
Not countable;
Unsurmountable,
Amount of Trump's surreptitious stupidity.
Jim Horn
Unsurmountable and Held Accountable
When difficulties are unsurmountable
We should always be held accountable;
Become involved;
Problems solved;
When done will feel more comfortable.
Jim Horn
What I have decided after reading more
of Hillary's "What Happened."
Let me have your sorrows and your pains, my love
Share with me the restless days that agony ignites
Why make your distresses unsurmountable and tough?
I swear I’ll be behind you when agony strikes
Once I sought your heart but you preferred someone else
I craved for your kisses and hugs but they weren’t for me
Give me your repentance, your penitence and stress
Share with me your feeling of remorse, your tragedy
I wish for you no longer to writhe in pain
I wish for you no longer to anguish endure
Give me your moments of stress and strain
Your solace from despair is begging on your door
See how moments of despair flee
Like the glitter of dew on a rose petal
My desolate heart is craving for you from eternity
My longing for you is fathomless and eternal
Sintra, Portugal 2-9-2017
Accountable and Unsurmountable
At first ship was admired and reliable,
Every piece was totally accountable.
Under and below;
Wreath do throw;
Sunk and destruction was unsurmountable.
This is truly moving regarding death and
destruction caused by damaged and
sinking ships.
Jim Horn
It was a romantic endeavor
this quest for vaporous ridges,
as an adventurous spirit crested
already reaching dizzying altitudes,
short of vital breath & intensely high,
yet, there was no returning as the
summit was a mere birds-eye view,
it was the last chance to achieve
brass ring elevations mid skies'
survival beyond boundless frontiers,
towering strength and determination
overcoming fears whilst lack of oxygen
was a matter of achieve/die, win/be buried
ultimate goal was furthermost zenith, 'til
Mt Everest in its infinite nature took grasp of
life and climber's deathly eminent boundaries,
while its unreckonable power commanded an
unsurmountable frigid avalanche 'neath violent deadlocks,
encasing tombs of unfulfilled loftily dreamt expeditions
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