Determination Poems
Rubberband Man
by Stewart Watkins
There he is...
On his biz
Unbothered and untethered
After many pernicious pulls and tainty tugs
And so many ghastly grabs and sheisty shrugs
After huge stretches with hopes of breaking
And so much tension, pressure and shaking
Every time!
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With or without
by Kuenzang Dorji
Home of nigricollis, the U glacial valley
Amidst a twilight, I shall knock your ingo
Ask me not any; with or without, but I
If only I, inflate not the burning cut
But welcome the chills of Pelela lamo
For the cause, it truly accompanied
By dayspring, open the golden gate of shrine
To voice-the long waited prayers
And brow, to hit the divine floor
Wish it or not, nothing stays long
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Was wir müssen,ist nur weiter zu gehen
by Mario Odekerken
Was wir müssen, ist nur weiter zu gehen.
Auch wenn der Weg sich verliert im Nebel
oder im Lärm der Welt.
Keine Karte zeigt,
wohin das führt,
dichtbij die Schritte zählen
mehr als das Ziel.
Manchmal ist Atmen
......
From the roots up
by Mario Odekerken
Beneath the soil where secrets sleep,
in shadows dark and silence deep,
a seed once cast without a sound
began to stir beneath the ground.
No witness marked the moment small,
when life first stirred beneath it all,
but roots reached down with quiet grace,
to find their hold,to claim their place.
......
I Must
by Aditi Hayaran
In melancholy, where I drown,
I must reach the shore while I’m watched with a frown.
With a soul deprived of warmth and light,
Living in a world where I must perform.
High on the past, suffocating in the present,
Dreading the future, where I must not descend.
In a fight with time that’s slipping away,
Every hour I wreck myself to escape the greatest harm.
Yet I must not stop while carrying this weight,
As I dreamt of being someone, for whom I fight fate.
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Geloven tegen beter weten in
by Mario Odekerken
Ik draag jouw naam in stilte
zoals een gedachte die niemand begrijpt.
Als geloven in jou waazin is,
laat mij dan maar gek zijn,
want zonder dat geloof
blijft er niets van mij over.
De wereld meet alles met verstand,
weegt liefde op een koude schaal.
Maar wat zij niet kunnen berekenen
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I Must
by Aditi Hayaran
In melancholy, where I drown,
I must reach the shore while I’m watched with a frown.
With a soul deprived of warmth and light,
Living in a world where I must perform.
High on the past, suffocating in the present,
Dreading the future, where I must not descend.
In a fight with time that’s slipping away,
Every hour I wreck myself to escape the greatest harm.
Yet I must not stop while carrying this weight,
As I dreamt of being someone, for whom I fight fate.
......
Was wir müssen,ist nur weiter zu gehen
by Mario Odekerken
Was wir müssen, ist nur weiter zu gehen.
Auch wenn der Weg sich verliert im Nebel
oder im Lärm der Welt.
Keine Karte zeigt,
wohin das führt,
dichtbij die Schritte zählen
mehr als das Ziel.
Manchmal ist Atmen
......
From the roots up
by Mario Odekerken
Beneath the soil where secrets sleep,
in shadows dark and silence deep,
a seed once cast without a sound
began to stir beneath the ground.
No witness marked the moment small,
when life first stirred beneath it all,
but roots reached down with quiet grace,
to find their hold,to claim their place.
......
BEYOND,Into the light
by Ariella Lawal
The world behind-a shadowed cage,
A book still waiting to turn the page...
A child of dust, with a soul untamed,
A spark within, though still unnamed.
Beyond the breakage, beyond the tears,
She rises,facing her fears.
Her soul reaches out, a pull unseen,
The world awaits just beyond her dreams.
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