Masks try to
Hide smiles
Yet our eyes
Overcome
Every
Place I go
I see masks
Cover up
People’s mouths
But not their
Smiling eyes
Syllabic Verse
Smiling with your eyes, also called the “Duchenne smile” or “smizing,” makes you look like you’re genuinely happy. Smiling with your eyes is hard to fake, and it helps to channel good thoughts so you’ll seem more sincere. Once you get really good at it, you can even smile using only your eyes!
Another report!
Each day the news is bringing
Fear into our hearts.
Do we allow the fear to dwell
Or choose to overcome it?
Tanka
Worries
Rise up
Blocking
Our view
Much like
Looming
Mountains
Syllable Lune
Don’t entertain those
Dogged disappointment days
Dismiss and disown
Them from depressing your life
Discuss your problems
Resolve to dissolve
Seek the positive
Discover ways to overcome
Don’t let despondency win
Choka
“There’s always failure. And there’s always disappointment. And there’s always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.” —Michael J. Fox
Falling through life’s cracks?
Or are you a ground breaker?
Growing in the hard places,
Blooming where you’re planted,
In spite of dry times,
Letting nothing hold you back,
From reaching your goal?
Modeling tenacity,
Like teeming dandelions?
Choka
Be prolific
Live life abundantly
Overcome obstacles
Open yourself to opportunities
Magnify what you have and share it
Acrostic
Filled with doubt I elect to stand
Holding fast His words in my hand
I trust and overcome fear,
Embrace life, enemies sneer, as they disband
Florette
(Based on Psalm 37: 39-40
But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.)
#OctPoWriMo Day 3-Insecurity
Theme: Insecurity Form: Florette
Prompts: doubt, trust, overcome, embrace, secure
Hands on the clock move
Sometimes very slowly
Sometimes fast
Yet they always are in motion
Like a river flows
Continously going forward
Trying to reach their goal
Overcoming obstacles
I want to be like them
Choka
Mind is meant to move
Stagancy must be removed
River keeps moving
Haiku
Haiku Horizons Weekly Challenge Week 218 Prompt: Move
Inspired by:
That silver cage that surrounded me
Had now become my closest friend.
I’d come to depend on it.
It was ready to support,
Always there for me.
How could I possibly
Decide to
Let it go
For a
Cane?
It had stood ready to help me in the night.
When I was alone it brought me comfort.
I did not have to worry,
It wouldnt let me fall again.
I was safe with it,
Yet, it held me back.
No! Fear held me!
So I took the
Cane and
Walked!
Double Reverse Etheree
Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that stretches your comfort zone with line breaks. That could be a poem with very long lines, or very short lines. Or a poem that blends the two.
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 