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On Losing Weight
Weight loss is a thing of perseverance;
day after day – looking at food – trying my hardest not to overeat.
Weight loss is a thing of labour;
Some weeks I gain weight against my will…
trapped as though in a prison of excess fat.
Weight loss is a thing of determination;
some days my mind needs a break, but I push on, refusing to quit.
Weight loss is a thing of tenacity;
I simply hate exerci...
Thursday 15th August 2024 4:29 pm
My Love Is For Me, Not For You
Roses are red, violets are blue,
When I think of your love for me, I lose love for you.
What does my love feel like to me?
Being surrounded by beauty that only I can see.
Hidden behind my smile is someone fragile, flawed, and easily broken.
I showed you all of my healed scars and one by one you ripped them back open.
Again and again, my mind retreats to happier days while I ...
Wednesday 27th March 2024 1:03 am
PERSEVERANCE PAYS
working
To survive... to pay bills
Working every hour God sends to pay debts
Pay taxes pay national insurance
Pay this person that person
Home insurance ..Life insurance..
Pet insurance ..car insurance
To stay on the road
To travel to work
Fuel to fill the tank
To get to work
Pay the lady pay the man
Pay pay pay
All in place so we don't pay attention...
Friday 7th January 2022 10:20 am
Stride On
Oh...... another day .... thrown away
another pain .... nothing gained
Stride on - to the sunlight
Stride on - through the shadows
Stride on - even though it's night
Stride on - to the 'morrow
(to the sunlight)
But Oh.. another day .... thrown away
another pain .... nothing changed
...
Monday 1st February 2021 1:51 am
To There
To there,
And from there to there,
And there,
And finally to there.
Sunday 20th December 2020 1:07 am
To Bloom
Sometimes
Life is like the smallest flower
Stretching for some sun
When all the bigger ones devour
All it could become
Sunday 15th November 2020 1:30 pm
Hold fast to dreams/ሕልሞችህን ወድር (በላንግሰቶን ሁጌስ/ትርጉም ዓለም ኃይሉ)
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
ሕልሞችህን ወድር
ሕልሞችህን ወድር
አሊያ ሕልሞች ከገቡ መቃብር፣
ሕይወትን ምን ለየው
ከእርገብ ለመብረር
ክንፏ እነዳለ ስብር!
ሕልሞቸህን ወድር
አሊያ ያም ይሔም ሕልም ከሔደ
ሕይወትን ምን ለየው ከምድረበዳ
በበረዶ ከተቖራመደ!
Thursday 5th December 2019 7:32 am
Psychological dome
Forcing passers by
Curious for peep stand,
Swelling a throng
By every square
Or a roadside
Using his right leg
A nimble right hand
With the other holding
The artefact items hard
A hand-less man
Makes attractive tables
and stools
Hammering nails
And cutting woods
The way the task demand,
A task ,many normal people
Imagine, to handle hard.
Those ...
Wednesday 8th November 2017 7:09 am
Ode to the dreamers
Ode to the Dreamers
For us, are the highest mountains,
For us, are the deepest valleys,
For us, are the lush green pastures,
For us, is the evergreen spring,
For ours is a hunted breed
For ours is the troubled kind
For we live in the world, yet never with it
For we know of humanity, yet never of humans
For we live at the edge of oblivion
For we spread o...
Thursday 12th January 2017 4:58 pm
The Garden
The Garden
The violets speak softly to me,
They whisper to remember who came before,
The tiger-lilies interrogate me,
They say that spring pastures are no more,
The violet flowers inspire me to see my powers pure,
With the gifts that Venus pours my beauty will adorn,
The tiger-lilies scratch and chase me,
They say my will is cracked and torn,
The...
Thursday 23rd June 2016 5:13 pm
Unravelling
"Like peeling an onion" you said.
No.
More; unseaming
Slipped stitches,
Knotted aims,
Frayed edges.
Hunchbacked,
Peddling metal
Over punched pins,
Threading maydays into cloth.
Fingers fumbling at loose seams,
Unravelling weaves,
Desperate hems,
Moth eaten, scrapped themes.
Now, all I am is an empty spool,
Someone's discarded thimble.
Rethread.
Try the pattern again.
Friday 4th July 2014 1:13 pm
Resolve
A narrative poetic thought.
.
Tuesday 18th June 2013 10:10 am
In the Wild
In the wild, the bonsai is an amazing sight and a moving lesson from nature. It depicts the wonder of a resilient soul.
`
A fond gaze
rests upon hope
A testament
of pliant supplication
stunted and weathered
each scar a witness
to fate's coarseness
its scourge did not prevail
A bent torso
flowing in the breeze
over sheer drops and crags
the dour migh...
Thursday 21st April 2011 12:07 pm
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