perseverance poems

I Will Return | Wanjiru Wa Ngugi - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

I Will Return | Wanjiru Wa Ngugi

I will return,
One day I will,
Not because I lack guile,
But because of the need to be invigorated,
Oh yes I will return,
It will be enlivening I know,
Full of energy and enthusiasm,
My vivacity will be unheard of,
Full of uniqueness and gusto,
Not because I have made it,
But because rising and falling are a way of life,
I fall and rise in the same measure,
I will return,
Lacking sophistication no more,
Until I get there,
where my heart will be at ease,
Oh yes I will return.

Larger Than Life | Kenneth Vincent Walker - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Larger Than Life | Kenneth Vincent Walker

From the mundane
To the profound you
Approach everything
With style. Those who
Know your name can

Attest to this fun fact.
Though branches may
Be broken and scars
Show their tracks. Ways
To hide the fine cracks

You’ve come to master
Even though you fight
Depression behind bars
Of your laughter and wit,
Which is no big disaster,

Because you are larger
Than that, larger than life.
Even birds chitter-chatter
At the sight of your light.
So upon your departure

Burn brightly, burn bright.

No Island of Escape | G. Louis Heath - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

No Island of Escape | G. Louis Heath

There is no island on the rivers, nor in
The lakes or seas, or in abstruse clouds

To escape the plagues of humankind.
All bear the black dog on their backs

As shadow nibbles mountain, plain, and
Valley to our doors. Yes, the megrims

Bite deep but we must carry on against
The plagues that beset us. The way is

Hard, strewn with mighty windfalls and
Boulders, on a high, torturous route, each

Step precarious. We hunger for the meadow,
Open to all. There we can enfold one unto

Another, build bridges of spirit and act, to
Deny the evil days of barbarous annihilation.

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