What is our claim to fame,
maybe money, things, toys or a great career?
Money can be good then fought over when we die.
Things come and go,
making us happy and sad.
Toys like a new car,
did we really need it?
A great career,
to tell the world what?
I am someone.
Am I working myself to death but why?
Our claim to fame has a price,
how much are we willing to pay?
It would be better if we could say,
“death approaches but we have no regret ~
when God questions us, we will stand erect”
I am a simple person wanting God's favor over me.
Wipe the slate clean ~ dare start anew
Ask and you shall receive
visualize your fate and make it happen
~ the universe is your ally
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
How far gone is my soul and mind,
That coming back seems impossible?
My hands ache to be guided by your prompt,
Yet hours of blankness dull my bluntness.
But I can still etch out classics,
If brilliant minds will rub with mine.
My pen waits close, surreptitiously listening,
To gather in ink the wisdom you proffer,
For my momentary moments of madness.
The top ten will never be my goal,
But that one top spot that crowns the race.
A trophy beside my poem will render it more comely—
Not just this week, but at the marathon’s end,
For this is no sprint that halts at a hundred.
Yet the nearest mile I first must conquer,
Before the next, and all the miles ahead.
Though my fingers ache as though racing in fear,
No shadow of doubt will bow me to defeat.
Oh mine! Oh mine! I see it now—
A wonder folded deep in my words.
I’ve penned a masterpiece for the summit,
No judge can dismiss its rightful claim.
If none are near to ring my bell,
I’ll strike it loud with resounding voice.
I am no gentleman in this contest,
But a rival running the race to win.
Half the course gone—my pace surges higher.
Like it or not, this is the best.
F=Forgiveness is for,
O=Others to be given then to,
R=Receive.
G=God forgives me,
I=I must forgive them and I do.
V=Voice for,
E=Everyone to hear.
N=Never holding back,
E=Energy of love from me to you.
E=Except my words and,
S=See we still can be friends ~ Hooray.
September where have you been?
The June days burnt my smooth skin,
in July it was hot and I needed extra sun screen.
August was fun pool time with us all-in.
Finally lovely September to break-in,
with many wonderful holidays to begin.
RAISED AND SQUARED WITH GOD
Lying parallel,
Pleased and thankful for today:-
Perpendicular:
Squaring my service to God,
With love labors to others:-
Artist Versus Entertainers
Philosophically well educated
Obfuscation methods in placement
Evolution from their predecessors
Thought induction with language
Interpretation may vary
Subjective and misinterpretation
Hopeful to make changes
Unleashing words as weapons
Mental landscape vivisection
Anomaly amongst the lilies
Nature appointed tether
Ideological meaning hidden
Thunder before the rain
Yugen laced Ya'aburnee
Westerly wind in my sails
soaring a kite in the open sky
~ I stretch touching the sun
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
P=Perhaps we should have.
E=Ears for hearing, so listen more.
R=Reading time for a good poem to start each day.
H=Heart, show love along our way.
A=Applause for others and say thank you.
P=Praise as we are blessed.
S=Smiles to give away and make someone's day.
Pumpkins are made
For pies
And pies are made
For jack-o-lanterns
To
Please little girls
Who ride swings high over the city on
Cold
Mornings when others
Have found the schoolhouse
Under the ghetto waiting to transform the little leftovers
Into Wallstreetbogeymen scaring the country into
Unwanted
Growth claiming ‘More Pumpkins Are Better.’
The swing's chains are cold in late October
The seat can be wet
She
In her own glory does
Not
Notice the silence. Dreaming of
Dancing at the Met exposing truth to the music of Mendelssohn.
We linger
On the damp cool October morn
She peruses the skyline looking for the
Spot she might run to
As the swing finds a higher plane.
Put on a silly face
stay a while to laugh and giggle
~ age is an arbitrary number
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
Slow your breath to calm
pause stop relax to still your mind
conjure your dream vacation place
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Living every moment
Listening to nature
Laughing when feeling joy
Learning a life lesson
Lifting up the weary
Limiting our mistakes
Loving our Creator
Mother Nature Teaches
via
Geese
m i g r a t i t i n g
once again
intuitively
know
One = All
weak + well
vital vigor
flight soaring
long with
wings kept
tip-to-tip support
uplift motion
onward for All
Specific Types of Uplifting Poems
Definition | What is Uplifting in Poetry?