Endurance Poems
But I’ll Endure
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice
The changing of happiness to a deepened sorrow...
Living today as if there’s no more tomorrow...
Offering reflections of my deep depression...
Being a parent as a mere concession... but I’ll endure...
The daily phone calls and letters that never arrive...
As if my children no longer feel that I’m still alive...
Did I abandon them as I constantly blame myself... am I at fault...
Take me back in my thoughts
......
Rose and Butterfly
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
As softly greeting a morning sky,
Gone is the memory of the storm,
When all of nature was gone awry-
But summer's come, and it's warm!
Red rose red and butterfly yellow,
Dauntlessly lovely, raging wild.
Where did all the smoky skies go?
Wrathful fury gone sweet and mild!
......
Manipulation
by Ada Fitch
They tell you what you want to hear
Or what they know will make you fear
Or they show you what is trending
Or dictate it so in the ending
You give your time to what doesn't matter
Your senses they know how to flatter
Drawn to sensation the latest chatter
Presented on a silver platter
Not knowing this is by design
Not only want to steal your time
......
Atlas
by baby panda
the days bleed and blur
meaningless, merciless, timeless
glazed eyes staring and fingers twitching
on a pen, twisted and morphed
like it will never hold anything else again
hot tears fall on a cold grave
taunting, tempting, confusing
holding a heart strangled dead, just another
carcass throwing up rainbows
......
Do not give up
by Sharon Morgan
Do not give up
Though you feel down
Do not let go but stand your ground.
Hold on tight, maintain your grip
Claw at hope, with each fingertip.
Do not give up
Though you feel weak
Emotions will play hide-and-seek
The well of life may have a leak
......
Do not give up
by Sharon Morgan
Do not give up
Though you feel down
Do not let go but stand your ground.
Hold on tight, maintain your grip
Claw at hope, with each fingertip.
Do not give up
Though you feel weak
Emotions will play hide-and-seek
The well of life may have a leak
......
Atlas
by baby panda
the days bleed and blur
meaningless, merciless, timeless
glazed eyes staring and fingers twitching
on a pen, twisted and morphed
like it will never hold anything else again
hot tears fall on a cold grave
taunting, tempting, confusing
holding a heart strangled dead, just another
carcass throwing up rainbows
......
But I’ll Endure
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice
The changing of happiness to a deepened sorrow...
Living today as if there’s no more tomorrow...
Offering reflections of my deep depression...
Being a parent as a mere concession... but I’ll endure...
The daily phone calls and letters that never arrive...
As if my children no longer feel that I’m still alive...
Did I abandon them as I constantly blame myself... am I at fault...
Take me back in my thoughts
......
Manipulation
by Ada Fitch
They tell you what you want to hear
Or what they know will make you fear
Or they show you what is trending
Or dictate it so in the ending
You give your time to what doesn't matter
Your senses they know how to flatter
Drawn to sensation the latest chatter
Presented on a silver platter
Not knowing this is by design
Not only want to steal your time
......
Rose and Butterfly
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
As softly greeting a morning sky,
Gone is the memory of the storm,
When all of nature was gone awry-
But summer's come, and it's warm!
Red rose red and butterfly yellow,
Dauntlessly lovely, raging wild.
Where did all the smoky skies go?
Wrathful fury gone sweet and mild!
......
