Nothing To Lose - for Poetry Nation, Faceoff
What's left when you've nothing to lose?
Do you try robbing a bank,
but end up on the news?
What happens when you can't pay the rent?
If you really got evicted,
would you steal a tent?
Would you abandon your dreams,
your family, your life?
Or hold it in with silent screams?
When your car dies, without a fuss,
would you sleep in it,
or try hijacking a bus?
Keep your hopes up or sit and frown,
the rainbow might dawn anytime now.
You'll miss it, if you only look down.
See, you always have something to lose.
It's mostly in your point of view,
how you handle it, is whatever you choose.
So, hang in there when all seems lost,
because things don't stay the same.
Eventually, things change at any cost.
mn - 2009
Week #13's topic is (Loss)
Rules are as follows:
All entries are due by Friday Evening at 9E/8CT.
Winners will be announced by the following Sunday.
Please tag your entries with just faceoff.
Lines are limited to 40. The word itself does not have to be used so long as the idea is clearly represented.
A 1st, 2nd and 3rd place poem will be chosen with overall points being taken off for lack of adherence to the weeks topic, lack of adherence to poetry form chosen and going over line limits.
The top three will be featured for the week.
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Don't Sweat The Small Stuff
Don't sweat the little things
Cause you won't enjoy what love brings
Don't sweat the small stuff
It just gets in the way
Just say enough is enough
And get on with your day
Don't battle with those who love you;
Their numbers are too few.
Try to help me, help you,
Find something that's new.
When push comes to shove
It's never worth losing someone you love.
Carol M Lloyd
Copyright ©2006 Carol M Lloyd
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this fire
and so true!
Great theme, you rose to the challenge, Marilyn, I like what you did with it. Is there such a thing as an analytical poem? I think William D. called it realism once, so maybe that is it.
So for educational purposes, what do you call a poem that is done in segments of three lines and what pray tell is a stanza - is that one set of those three lines?
I hope you don't mind me asking.
Good poem. Thanks
Beautiful write to this, Carol :) I know that many more {at least around here} will be and are still facing the same questions as the lay-offs and foreclosures continue, more, by the day.
A poem written in groups of three lines? Got me!
A stanza can be two lines, three, four or whatever part of a poem, as long (and someone please correct me if this is wrong), the other lines are made up of the same amount, so you'd have several stanzas, no matter how many lines they each had.
Marilyn
such truth in your poem.
life can be unpredictable and what would happen if such things happened. I would probably steal food for my family if we were starving. Sounds bad, but it is amazing what you would do to survive.