Tag: thrive
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Poet Spotlight: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman has been regarded as one of the greats among poets. Walt was born on May 31, 1819 in Long Island, New York. There are few people that live out their dreams and even fewer that reach the pedestal known as success. But Walt Whitman was a man that accomplished just that. Walt came…
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A Poem About Fake Friends
If friendship is only transactional… Is it really friendship? It has the appearance of closeness But lacks the value It is a trojan horse that pulls up to a closed gate When adversity arrives It is inertia to your distress Eating away at your progress Convincing you to accept stress Rarely adding to your happiness…
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Compromise
It is bright Like smiling sunshine It Is light Like coasting air It draws from ambition and hope Dipping deeper into the horizon In order to cope Desiring to break free to somewhere remote It is determination sailing on a big boat I used to cling to what I achieve My success spilled over into…
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To Sow Shade
To Sow Shade It looks bad. No visible progress made kind of bad. No goals for greatness achieved. By all accounts the situation looks quite dismal. But such is the nature of a seed. You sow it and hope for growth. Along the way a storm comes to water it. Then as it spouts from…
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Dad’s Compass
Dad’s Compass You taught me how to get back up! How to dust off the dirt And keep on walking How to taste better tears But keep on talking You taught me how to survive How to address the hurt inside And stay alive How to move in a room of sharks And thrive You…
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Survival of Essence
Survival of Essence i see through to your soul reaching over ruined, decayed rhetoric and broken concrete roads to a paradise long departed but a frankness that the downtrodden proletariat know battered pants tattered and full of holes like the 80’s yellowed teeth with thick plaque covering the surface of eroding enamel trailed…
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