Submissions by AltairEndian
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
13th May 2023 12:09pm
13th May 2023 12:09pm
After the flight
The head turns up
It smelled the coming fight
Seeing the lion closeup
The antilope turns to flight
She runs for her life
The lion close behind
All she can do to strive
For a way out to find
And after a long day
The predator gives up
The antilope gets away
She drains the victor's cup
Look at her grazing peacefully
Not thinking about the next day
Not dwelling upon past dismay
The sun is all she needs to be
If we could be more like her
Not getting lost on future's shore
Not crashing...
It smelled the coming fight
Seeing the lion closeup
The antilope turns to flight
She runs for her life
The lion close behind
All she can do to strive
For a way out to find
And after a long day
The predator gives up
The antilope gets away
She drains the victor's cup
Look at her grazing peacefully
Not thinking about the next day
Not dwelling upon past dismay
The sun is all she needs to be
If we could be more like her
Not getting lost on future's shore
Not crashing...
#peace
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
14th Mar 2023 6:55pm
14th Mar 2023 6:55pm
It all depends on you
The ego is the master
That says that this is true:
"If you screw up the world goes down
It all depends on you"
Near and far, far and wide
Only you can turn the tide
Every problem you must pursue
Because it all depends on you
Serious face and every place
Everywhere they know your name
And they will come after you
If you bring upon them shame
Did I say each man on earth?
Nonsense, all the universe!
Knows by heart whom they must sue
Cause it all depends on you
By now you may know where I'm...
That says that this is true:
"If you screw up the world goes down
It all depends on you"
Near and far, far and wide
Only you can turn the tide
Every problem you must pursue
Because it all depends on you
Serious face and every place
Everywhere they know your name
And they will come after you
If you bring upon them shame
Did I say each man on earth?
Nonsense, all the universe!
Knows by heart whom they must sue
Cause it all depends on you
By now you may know where I'm...
#funny
#wisdom
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
5th Mar 2023 8:53pm
5th Mar 2023 8:53pm
Each single day
What is the purpose, what the meaning
If I could look into every book
What grand plan would I be gleaming?
I do not know, I can not say
Sometimes don't even know the way
A single week or day may take
Sometimes I don't know what to make
Of this one life I have been blessed with
But I will make, like any good wordsmith
A statement that is here to stay
Let others dream of great endeavours
My purpose is each single day
If I could look into every book
What grand plan would I be gleaming?
I do not know, I can not say
Sometimes don't even know the way
A single week or day may take
Sometimes I don't know what to make
Of this one life I have been blessed with
But I will make, like any good wordsmith
A statement that is here to stay
Let others dream of great endeavours
My purpose is each single day
#determination
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
12th Feb 2023 11:39am
12th Feb 2023 11:39am
Alone
Since I awoke in silence here
My lonely heart awoke to steer
My mind, my soul on a new course
Awoke the longing, made it worse
The longing not to be alone
Weighs in m heart like blackened stone
I try to find, but don't succeed
The community that in life I need
I run away from my desire
I do not want to feel this fire
Pretending everything's ok
But I can no more look away
I need to feel like I'm a part
Of something that can fill my heart
So I will put down verse again
Even if words should be in vain ...
My lonely heart awoke to steer
My mind, my soul on a new course
Awoke the longing, made it worse
The longing not to be alone
Weighs in m heart like blackened stone
I try to find, but don't succeed
The community that in life I need
I run away from my desire
I do not want to feel this fire
Pretending everything's ok
But I can no more look away
I need to feel like I'm a part
Of something that can fill my heart
So I will put down verse again
Even if words should be in vain ...
#loneliness
#hope
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Jan 2023 12:43pm
29th Jan 2023 12:43pm
In a sense
There are two senses to my life
And when I act consciously
When I am in the moment
And choose rather than be chosen by my fears
Then both are fulfilled
For in a sense everything I do is for you
And in another sense everything I do is for me
For when I truly take care of myself
Then I create the energy I need to take care of you
And with every concrete act that helps another
I bring joy to my own heart
For this is true, above all:
We want to be happy and help others be happy
Everything that deviates from...
And when I act consciously
When I am in the moment
And choose rather than be chosen by my fears
Then both are fulfilled
For in a sense everything I do is for you
And in another sense everything I do is for me
For when I truly take care of myself
Then I create the energy I need to take care of you
And with every concrete act that helps another
I bring joy to my own heart
For this is true, above all:
We want to be happy and help others be happy
Everything that deviates from...
#happiness
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Dec 2022 6:33pm
26th Dec 2022 6:33pm
A slave no more
The slave in us is when we say
"I've done it all my days this way
If I change I may go astray
On this the well-worn path I'll stay"
To be this way is being like stone
But if we want us to become
More happy, joyful, alive and strong
We have to learn to say: "I'm wrong"
This season is a quiet time
A time to learn to love what's mine
And not to grasp for more and more
Right here, right now is heaven's shore
I every breath I can adore
I will be a slave no more
This journey is for truth to see
This journey...
"I've done it all my days this way
If I change I may go astray
On this the well-worn path I'll stay"
To be this way is being like stone
But if we want us to become
More happy, joyful, alive and strong
We have to learn to say: "I'm wrong"
This season is a quiet time
A time to learn to love what's mine
And not to grasp for more and more
Right here, right now is heaven's shore
I every breath I can adore
I will be a slave no more
This journey is for truth to see
This journey...
#gratitude
#wisdom
#rhyming
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
26th Dec 2022 6:26pm
26th Dec 2022 6:26pm
Even if I tremble
Life has great power over us
If we can not learn to trust
The waves, the ever higher waves
It's then when we become like slaves
The boat gets thrown about by lust
The bright steel of our will will rust
Aversion, grasping, lead away
From what a gift is every day
From pieces of a fearful heart
I vow to make a brand new start
A greatful life assemble
Even if I tremble
Attention paid is payment full
No single breath is truly dull
If curious spirit sees its way
Curious and grateful every day
To...
If we can not learn to trust
The waves, the ever higher waves
It's then when we become like slaves
The boat gets thrown about by lust
The bright steel of our will will rust
Aversion, grasping, lead away
From what a gift is every day
From pieces of a fearful heart
I vow to make a brand new start
A greatful life assemble
Even if I tremble
Attention paid is payment full
No single breath is truly dull
If curious spirit sees its way
Curious and grateful every day
To...
#gratitude
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Nov 2022 6:00pm
13th Nov 2022 6:00pm
The beauty of the dust
You say "nothing will remain of you"
You say "there is no point"
And to this I must say "it is true"
Or would be if I didn't know
The value of the most fleeting lust
I know the beatuy of the dust
In darkest nights the demons come
They say no battle can be won
For it will all one day burn in the sun
Yes, nothing at all is here to stay
It will all die and whither away
It is quite depressing I must say
And then I remember the wise man
To whom one day these demons came
And said "they will not remember tomorrow ...
You say "there is no point"
And to this I must say "it is true"
Or would be if I didn't know
The value of the most fleeting lust
I know the beatuy of the dust
In darkest nights the demons come
They say no battle can be won
For it will all one day burn in the sun
Yes, nothing at all is here to stay
It will all die and whither away
It is quite depressing I must say
And then I remember the wise man
To whom one day these demons came
And said "they will not remember tomorrow ...
#happiness
#hope
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Sep 2022 2:05pm
10th Sep 2022 2:05pm
Whate'er befalls
I sit here, look back on my life
At all the triumphs, all the strife
It taught me one thing, til it's done
Whate'er befalls, you carry on
The parents dead, grandparents dead
They saw their own last setting sun
Each morning ray, and each new day
Requires me to carry on
Sometimes it's heavy, and it's hard
When falling down to rise anew
You will not always do your best
Sometimes you'll barely muddle through
But one will call, and you will answer
An angel, friend, god, Buddha, loved one
An re-ignite that voice...
At all the triumphs, all the strife
It taught me one thing, til it's done
Whate'er befalls, you carry on
The parents dead, grandparents dead
They saw their own last setting sun
Each morning ray, and each new day
Requires me to carry on
Sometimes it's heavy, and it's hard
When falling down to rise anew
You will not always do your best
Sometimes you'll barely muddle through
But one will call, and you will answer
An angel, friend, god, Buddha, loved one
An re-ignite that voice...
#strength
#hope
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Jul 2022 3:04pm
10th Jul 2022 3:04pm
As the river flows
What everyone knows
That time is a river
And life goes
As the river flows
Sometimes the cold of the water makes me shiver
Sometimes I look ahead to the stones
Over which it will flow, I imagine big rocks
That will smash me to pieces
That's when I don't go
As the river flows
But I swim against
With almost lethal force
When I loose myself to fear
When I'm not really here
When I'm lost in the future
When I'm lost in the past
Then I go against how the river flows
It gets buried...
That time is a river
And life goes
As the river flows
Sometimes the cold of the water makes me shiver
Sometimes I look ahead to the stones
Over which it will flow, I imagine big rocks
That will smash me to pieces
That's when I don't go
As the river flows
But I swim against
With almost lethal force
When I loose myself to fear
When I'm not really here
When I'm lost in the future
When I'm lost in the past
Then I go against how the river flows
It gets buried...
#hope
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
8th May 2022 3:15pm
8th May 2022 3:15pm
Let it RAIN
When I'm down on myself again
When I can't go on
When my mistakes seem to be always the same
I will change the wind and let it RAIN
I will Recognize - what makes me afraid, angry, sad, hopeless
I will Accept - whatever it is that makes me feel this way
I will Investigate - how I can deal with it and make it better
I will Nurture - the best in me and love myself
This I will try
When darkness comes around again
I will change the wind
and let it RAIN
When I can't go on
When my mistakes seem to be always the same
I will change the wind and let it RAIN
I will Recognize - what makes me afraid, angry, sad, hopeless
I will Accept - whatever it is that makes me feel this way
I will Investigate - how I can deal with it and make it better
I will Nurture - the best in me and love myself
This I will try
When darkness comes around again
I will change the wind
and let it RAIN
#hope
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SELF POEM
Published
15th Apr 2022 9:51am
15th Apr 2022 9:51am
For you
I am afraid of going on
Responsibility weighs heavily
Thinking over and over
Of the damage that could be done
If I fail
If the team fails
But there's no choice but to go on
Because some years ago you didn't give up on me
Now you are not with us anymore
But this legacy
Lives on
Even though I don't see what worth I would have left if I failed
You saw that worth in me
Unconditionally
That's why I must continue on my way
Seek help from outside
To see
That aside from my commercial...
Responsibility weighs heavily
Thinking over and over
Of the damage that could be done
If I fail
If the team fails
But there's no choice but to go on
Because some years ago you didn't give up on me
Now you are not with us anymore
But this legacy
Lives on
Even though I don't see what worth I would have left if I failed
You saw that worth in me
Unconditionally
That's why I must continue on my way
Seek help from outside
To see
That aside from my commercial...
#anxiety
#dark
#honesty
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