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268 · Dec 2019
Unloved & Unlovable
SøułSurvivør Dec 2019
I've had a life of sorrow,
I've lived a life of pain.
Wednesday's child. Full of woe,
I've lived a life of shame.

I won't elicit sympathy,
I won't be bright & witty
I'll simply be true to self
I surely don't want pity.

Whenever IT happened
Really matters not
But I had tragedy when young
Was by a devil caught.

IT set about a cycle
Which, like a gerbil wheel,
Made me shunned,
Made me run,
To a trap of tungsten steel.

I was trapped by drugs & vice
Alcohol & more
Accepted *** instead of love
Practically a *****.

I felt unloved. Unlovable.
Ever since a child.
So I died on the inside
Became rebellious... WILD!

I was a cheat. I was a thief.
I ripped off stores for *****.
So I was in the trap of guilt,
Could not help but lose!

I should have died SO many times!
Dragged by a speeding car
By a drug crazed jon of mine
You think THAT left a scar??

But God had SUCH mercy!
He gave me such GRACE!
Heart of stone, and yet...
HIS OWN!
No, I was NOT a WASTE!

I have no doubt I'll always have
Doubts the devil brings
But now I'm LOVED and LOVABLE!

BY THE KING OF KINGS!!!



Catherine Jarvis
12/29/2019
My past is dead. I'm dead along with it. But I've been reborn into Christ's Kingdom. Here I've found the thing I've missed the most... LOVE.
268 · Dec 2019
Roll On By
SøułSurvivør Dec 2019
[Lyrics by Catherine Jarvis]

Windows light up
Rattling sashes
Rain don't stop
It tears & lashes
Thunder sears and
Lightning crashes
Houses up in
Smoke & ashes...

~~~~~~

[Chorus]

Roll on by, storm,
Roll on by!
You won't make me
Weep & sigh!
You will pass me
By & by
I'll wake up
To God's blue sky...

No power of hell
Nor will of Man
No twist or turn
Or slight of hand
No storm or rain
Or lightning slam.
I'll overcome.
I'll understand.

~~~~~~~

The rain won't stop
Won't let me be
But it can't melt
The heart in me!
If you knew
You would agree
I'm an eagle
Don't you see!
I'll rise above
I will not flee
I have got the victory!

[Chorus]

I will watch
& I will wait
Soon the tempest
Will abate
Whether it be
Soon or late
I'll stand in LOVE!
I will not hate!
I will enter
Heaven's gate
To be with Jesus
Is my fate...

I will live with
GOD SO GREAT!


SøułSurvivør aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
Catherine Jarvis
(C) 12/14/2019
266 · Sep 2014
Bleached [10W]
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
Love gives
life its color.
Without it

shadows
are pale



SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) September 25, 2014
Thank you, James, for the inspiration!
266 · Mar 2014
friends over...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
The nourish of
unconditional love
you know is
not

deserved.

S~S
I had a couple of friends come
By today. They just really
loved on me.
It was very much needed
And a gift from God.
265 · Dec 2015
autopilot
SøułSurvivør Dec 2015
all systems down.
this plane will have to fly itself.
SoulSurvivor... OUT.
265 · Sep 2014
Regarding the Poet Tree
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
I'm so sorry folks!
At one time I had an idea.
I was going to have T shirts
Made up with poet names
On as the leaves of the tree.
It's a fantastic idea. But I simply
Can't afford to have the T shirts
Printed at this time. My mom
Has some special needs.

Again, I do apologize!

If you have any questions contact me
Via the site message system.

Thank you!

Catherine
265 · Oct 2014
Grace(less)
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
:-\:-\:-\:-\:-\:-\:-\:-\




Giving a rude woman
A beautiful dress
Is like carving the
Statue of David from

CONCRETE


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) October 4, 2014
Seen People Magazine lately?
Now there is assertive
And there is RUDE.
I'M TALKING RUDE!
265 · Apr 2022
Blue Note Special
SøułSurvivør Apr 2022
Your ears were trumpets
Your teeth were keys
Your eyes were drums
Their rhythms cease
Behind them the color
Of disease
Blue note special
There is no peace.

Your hands were golden
Your feet were clay
Your head was sodden
Your hips were grey.
Your legs were green
You paid your way
Now all we can do
Is sit and pray.
SøułSurvivør Jun 2017
The Dragon's Apprentice

When I left off in my last segment I mentioned Cricket. That's NOT her name, but none of the people in my tales of woe shall have their true names revealed (save family members).

Cricket was a flibberty-gibbet. The modern definition (and the archaic) are applicable. She was flighty. And an irresponsible gossip. But more than that, the girl was evil. A "fly by the gibbet" feasting on the rotting corpses of the convicts slain there. I don't believe she *meant
to be evil. She was (and is) an irresponsible person. She's a gypsy who lives life by the seat of her pants. She was a crack ******* addict. She was one of my suppliers later on in my life. But more on that later. Right now I'm going to tell you the dynamic of our relationship.

Her father and mother (and sister) targeted her sexually. She was a "problem child". So she moved in with us. She was 2 years younger than I. I was 13 when she moved in. We got along fine... at first. But I was an overweight teen. Not terribly attractive. After I lost the weight, due to illness, she became extremely jealous. We'd have terrible rows, some even physical fights. She'd "borrow" my clothing, and appropriate it. When I'd demand it back, she'd "somehow" stain it, or put holes in it. She'd tell her friends (especially male friends) awful things about me. But her worst attribute was her penchant for drugs. She was my supplier even back then. My mom has yet to forgive her for this, and her wayward ****** ways, which influenced me as well.

I'll never forget one incident. She brought home a couple of good lookin guys, a 1/2 ounce of very potent marijuana, and a brownie mix. Yup. She talked me into letting her make Alice B Tokeless brownies in my parent's home! I was afraid of the repercussions if my parents found out (though, quite honestly, the ethics of doing such a thing eluded me). But Cricket and her friends talked me into it. So the brownies were made. The whole house was permeated with the smell of baking chocolate & ***!

We each ate
one brownie, and were so high we got lost on a hike around the neighborhood! I lived on an old ranch in the desert. The Tucson Mountain foothills. Anyway, we were good n ******! Well. We returned to find my brother and his little friend had returned from hiking, also... and had eaten half the pan!

This may, on the face of it, seem humorous. But it was not! Those two little boys were high for three days! They were obliterated!

Now, granted, i didn't know my brother & his friend were home. I thought they'd gone to his friend's house. But, NO! They'd just gone on a hike and were nowhere in evidence when the brownies were made. But I got in SO much trouble! Cricket did, too, but because SHE was YOUNGER the brunt of the punishment was on me.

And that pretty much sums up our whole relationship. I was the cat's-paw. A role I was to carry on well into my adult life.

There's more on Cricket in my next segment. But I want to introduce another character in my comedic tragedy of errors also. Another girl who I will term
PILL**...


SøułSurvivør
(C) 6/17/2017
Sorry I haven't been around. Had a friend come in from out of town. I'll be reading a bit tonight, and will concentrate on doing the same tomorrow. But I HAD to write this. I want to conclude chapter 1 so my friend can read it. Thanks for understanding!
260 · Mar 2014
O Moon! ~Haiku~
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
O moon! Brilliant orb!
Gentle face on golden sail
a velvet black sea.

Haiku
Soul Survivor
(c) 2014
Stars reflect you to port
Planets to your lee.
260 · Sep 2014
Media ((@))_((@))
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
I dumped all the media
Out of my mind ages ago.
All they want is to control.
A poet should NEVER be controlled.

SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
I have no idea if Brad and Angelina
Are even still together. Nor do I care.
260 · Sep 2014
"Religion" [10W]
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
Religious spirits lie!
More oft
the knots of
LOVE

UNTIE!**


10W
SoulSurvivor
THERE IS A RELIGIOUS SPIRIT

It is the "angel of light"

It is meant to separate the people who love
and make them hate each other.
It is differences in religious doctrine.
It is judgmental hypocrisy.
I BELIEVE IN LOVE. NOT L I E S!!!
259 · Mar 2014
Sometimes I Sleep
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Sometimes I sleep
sixteen hours at a time.

My body catching up
with my

dreams


Soul Survivor
March 13
2014
This is the TRUTH.
I slept the day away yesterday!
I work days at a time
then
CRASH!!!
258 · Sep 2014
€C£¥P$€
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
When something
light years away
can blot out
all light...

... much like a modern romance.


Soul Survivor
258 · Jan 2021
HELEN OF TROY
SøułSurvivør Jan 2021
NITE-VISION ~ The HELEN of TROY

How could human language describe perfection? There were no faculties nor imaginations that could describe Namé as she made her entrance onto that yacht. All eyes snapped open and even some of the most cynical had a moment when they bulged. There were double takes everywhere. Gasps of something akin to awe... She was simply stunning.

She was wearing a dress that was cut from the fabric that she was famous for. NITE-VISION. The fiber-optics shot through a velvet you could sink your arm into. It was a background color of deep purple & indigo. The scintillating sheen every color of the aurora borialis.

The dress itself was a simple cut. The figure within it, however, was anything but simple. Curve upon curve, line for line she was the most lithely lush female, statuesque yet strangely approachable. This was FLESH. Not a marble form to be cordoned off.

If the masculine eyes could be torn off her lower body, rise above her neck which was like the curve of an egret, they would dwell on her face. And they would never leave.

She was angelic. Yes. She was. Yet she had ascertain mein which was almost like a waif. A street urchin. Her jawline was almost a perfect oval. Almost. There was an angular quality to it too. The Planes of her face could have been sculpted by an Egyptian. Or Greek. Or a Japanese mask maker. There was absolutely no way to describe it. Her cantilevered cheekbones were delicate as glass, but seemed to have, in their depths, an Armitage of pure tungsten.

Her hair was a color the painter Titan would envy. It could never be captured by his palette. Gold. Platinum. And Hollow fire. It was swept up on the side and you held by a perfect Indigo, lavender and Ivory comb. It was in the shape of an orchid. No one had seen her hair. Not fully. It was always held up with braids and strands on the top of her head. Tonight it was fully down. The comb the only thing that graced it. It was like a river going through the Black Hills. And all the colors of it's Pink gold.

But her eyes were the most arresting feature of her face. Fringed by lashes that were dark brown golden fire, as every bit as  long as her mother's. The irises were dark indigo shot with cerulean blue. But towards the pupil they were light lilac. If eyes were the windows to the soul, this was a soul that was not simply human, nor even angelic. Namé was a force of nature.

But the reason for the four men in dark suits with steam shovel Jaws became quite obvious on close inspection to the lady's midsection. Yep. She was wearing it. Just as she said she would. The most dazzling pearl to grace woman...

The HELEN of TROY
Excerpt from the book I am writing... StarChild.
256 · Oct 2023
Song of Souls
SøułSurvivør Oct 2023
The Soul sings in
its highest range
when it must be heard
above cacophony


SoulSurvivor
255 · Mar 2014
Wha...?
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Please. Take your mind
Out of the gutter...

... mine must go by.

♥ Cathy
Well???!!! I'm not perfect! I go THERE... but never beyond the drain!
255 · Mar 2014
East to West
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
how
much
does
Jesus
love?
He laid His arms down on the cross.
No fight. No struggle. They nailed.
As far
as the
east
from
west.
That
is how
much
Jesus
Christ
loves
you
and
yours.


S~S
"As far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed our
transgressions from us."

Psalm 103:12
254 · Nov 2014
on the low - not a poem
SøułSurvivør Nov 2014
if i am not reading
oftentimes i am praying
for or talking to
someone on the low.

there's a poet on site in need.
please pray for them,
or send good thoughts.

thank you!

♥ soul
253 · Sep 2014
Universal Law #1
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
To help others is to reap
what you have sown

The answers they
will find may be

YOUR OWN


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) September 25, 2014
J - Jesus first
O - others second
Y - yourself last

Not pop culture philosophy.
but often TRUE.
250 · Sep 2014
World [10W]
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
You can go 'round the globe
And never find yourself.


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) September18 2014
249 · Oct 2014
High
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
---




What if the
Moral high ground
Isn't a peak


But a TABLE MESA?


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) October 13, 2014
I.remember seeing a
Political cartoon of a bunch
Of right wingers shooting it out
Atop a table mesa. The point
Being obvious.
(This can apply to the left...
ANYONE ACTUALLY)
248 · Oct 2021
0
SøułSurvivør Oct 2021
0
no time
no space
no beingness
no object of beingness

NOTHING

our minds writhe
at the concept
of sunya

the concept
of a state in which
nothingness
becomes
the two
cuneiform
indents between
quantitative
indications
that something

ANYTHING
exists

the idea

this implies a
spark in the synapses
between the brain cells
this implies
space

in
nothing

THERE IS NO SPACE

what gives words meaning
but the negative
space

around

them

we ***** out
the idea
thus leaving
our stomachs
empty



VOID


0


SoulSurvivor
2/2021
Sorry I haven't been able to tend to this site here. I've been treating you all badly and I apologize. I will be reading/ writing here a lot more often! 💜 Cathy
246 · Sep 2015
lonely [10W]
SøułSurvivør Sep 2015
---

should
life's
banquet
be
a
table
set
for
only

one?


soul­survivor
(C) 9/25/2015
Been going through a
very difficult time

Please pray for me.
246 · Dec 2015
there's more to consider...
SøułSurvivør Dec 2015
I was furious today.
I was rash.
I didn't pray.

I AM RIGHT.
But then again
I've got to watch
my mouth and pen.

Do not worry.
fear for me.
I'm the Lord's

*and I am FREE!
As you may have read, I was on staff
with an infamous cult. I won't write
their name again. But if you are at
all familiar with Hollywood
you've heard of it.

I had to take the writes down.
The Lord told me to.
I was absolutely furious because of
their treatment of me. I've been a
TARGETED INDIVIDUAL
for 20 years due to the cult.
I wanted to "get them back"

If I lived alone and had no other
people in my life perhaps I would
rake them over the coals.
But i don't.
I have my elderly parents to consider.
So I'm "backing down".

Also, it says in the Word of God
that He fights our battles for us.
Who am I to say He's not doing a
good enough job?

The bottom line is that I didn't pray.

I'm sorry I upset people (if I did).
it's been 20 long years of hell...
246 · Sep 2014
Proliferation ~ 10W
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
4000 guns for every
1.5 people shot
on planet earth


10W
Soul Survivor
I want off!!!
246 · Jan 2016
what a concept
SøułSurvivør Jan 2016
-

the letter i
means nothing
without the
space surrounding it


10W
SoulSurvivor
(C) 1/30/2016
Ego. Gotta love it.

-
246 · Mar 2014
You were a good child...
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
.... long before you were
A "BAD" ONE.
And He Said It Was Good

HE IS GOD.

GENESIS ONE
246 · Oct 2024
i's
SøułSurvivør Oct 2024
i's
SOMEONE is stealing the silver around here.

I KNOW.

Some of my words have "i"s. 👀



🤣😂🤣 Cathy
Hahaha.... but it's not funny!
SøułSurvivør Dec 2019
This song, it won't berate you
It won't, the Bible, beat
It's only a reminder
It's not meant to defeat.

It won't put you down at all
Once I was where you sit
It won't proselytize at all
(Well, maybe just a bit).

We enjoy the holidays, right?
With friends & family round!
We await the "Jolly Elf"
And happiness abounds!

RIGHT?

Deck the halls and celebrate!
Put on festive togs!
Put the roast beast in the oven
Burn those yuletide logs!

Christmas or Winter Solstice?
Does it matter, folks?
We're having FUN this time of year...
Laughing! Telling jokes!

RIGHT?


That's true of many people
But do ALL withstand the test?
There are those who have no family
Not all of us so blessed.

Those of us who have our friends
May not understand
But when you have nobody
Holidays ain't so grand.

(Chorus)

Those of us despondent
At this time of year
When everything seems gloomy
A light CAN, in us, appear!

No. Holidays aren't for everyone
No Christmas cards to send
But when you know a Savior

YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE A FRIEND.

(BRIDGE)
So let's light a candle
It is NOT THE END
Once you accept Jesus Christ
You'll always have a friend!


Catherine Jarvis
(C) 12/23/2019
I love you all! I wish I could be around to read more. I have so much going on in my life right now, it's just difficult. But after the holidays I will make a point to go on my home site. Blessings for the holidays and the new year!!
246 · Sep 2014
Up all night...
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
... at the poetry site,
Didn't go to bed 'til 3
I'm agog, my brain is fogged
I'm so tired I can't see!

Up all night
It is a fight
To keep myself awake!
I don't know which way to go,
My sanity's at stake!

Up all night
By iPad light
Hours I shouldn't keep!
I should slow, this I know,
I really need the sleep!

Up all night
Is not too bright!
I must live by conviction!
This I'll do, but I am blue
With poetry addiction!

Up all night
It isn't right
To have an aching head
Weary to bone, when I get home
I put myself to BED!!!


Soul Survivor
I have periods of time where I just
Write a blue streak... hey!
An idea for another poem! Oh no!
244 · Sep 2014
If I Were An Angel
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
If I were a holy angel
I'll tell you what I'd do
I'd paint the vibrant sunsets
and make sure the skies were blue.

I'd ask The Lord to bless me
that artistic jobs were mine
I'd distribute dewdrops
and polish them to shine!

I'd be happy helping people
I'd want to make them think
I'd inspire poets
and give them grist for ink.

I'd scatter the stardust
brighten up the moon
and busy up the butterflies
to make the flowers bloom.

I'd make each tiny snowflake
coat your panes with frost
and make sure the colors
in the rainbows are not lost.

But since I'm not an angel
I'll tell you what I'll do
I'll pray the holy angels

bring all these things to you!


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) September 23, 2013
I wrote this while in a
lighthearted mood.
I don't know that angels do
all these things
but I like to think they do!
I hope this brightens your day!
242 · Dec 2015
Oh, great! [15W]
SøułSurvivør Dec 2015
The very mind
I use to Create things of
great Beauty
is my
greatest
DOWNFALL!


SoulSurvivor
(C) 12/15/2015
I'm in a slump
I want to read
but am only able to
do so very slowly

PLEASE BEAR WITH ME!

---
242 · Dec 2024
Sunset Upon Wilted Lillies
SøułSurvivør Dec 2024
their
forms
like
wax
melted
in
white
smears
down
their
vase

star­­s
abandon
them

their
moon
eclipsed

beautiful
still
the
sun
whi­c­h
once
sustained
them
is
now
their
sworn
enemy

and
their
cloyi­ng­
scent
fills
only
the
nostrils
of

the

dead



SoulSurvivor
(­C­) 1/31/2016
241 · Sep 2014
Prisoner - 10W
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
There is a prison
You can never escape from

YOURSELF


10W
Soul Survivor
No matter where you go, what you do.
No matter if you ascend to the gates of heaven
Or make your bed in hell
You will always be you.
Best the be happy with who you are,
and what you've done. Hmmm?
241 · Jan 31
Stone Angel 10W
A dove flies over
the stone angel...

feather drifts down.

Haiku by a friend
who also commented...

dove flies over
The stone angels uplifting eyes
A feather drifts down


Soul Survivor aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
SøułSurvivør Jul 2015
i suspect there are people out there
who are denegrating me on the low
(via the site message system).

i hope i'm just being insane. paranoid.
i really do. but it has happened before
to my CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE.

if you know of this and don't want to
tell me i'll understand. but please put yourself in my shoes. wouldn't YOU WANT TO KNOW? SO YOU COULD PROTECT YOURSELF?

this is SLANDER. highly illegal. if i
wanted to, i could prosecute. i know
who a couple of these people are.
but i won't. why? because i am a

DECENT PERSON. unlike them.

but i would like to know exactly what
they are saying. so i can voice a rebuttal.

thank you.
<3 Catherine
241 · Jul 2017
highjumper
SøułSurvivør Jul 2017
~~~

a high highjumper
stumbled over the curb flat!
zero points for that!


[senryu]
SøułSurvivør
(C) 7/2/2017
Haiku is 5/7/5
and is about the
natural world.

Senryu is 5/7/5
about human nature
and foibles. Especially
regarding their irony.

I looked them both up.
These are, of course,
classic rules. They are
broken by
American haiku/senryu

But the rules of
Haiku - natural world
Senryu - human nature
still apply. Just sayin'.

My father's much better.
They gave him antibiotics
so his fever is down & he's
not hallucinating as much.
Thanks to all who cared enough
to wish him well. Prayers and
good thoughts still appreciated!
240 · Jun 2017
Meant To Be
SøułSurvivør Jun 2017
On this day
There was a wedding
In the church
Just down the way
It was a touching
Thing of beauty
A TRUE love
Was bound that day.

Their story is like a
Fairytale...
The man came here
To make a start
Learning of our
Lovely planet
To nurture it
And be a part.
He met the
Sweetest woman
Even then she
Took his heart.

Her interest is
Early music
A muse which
This man also loved
She loved Scotland
All things Scottish
The man was
All of the above!
They became friends
And found their
Hearts met...
They fit together
Hand in glove!

Then came time
For him to leave here
Couldn't stay
Within the States.
T'was time he
Returned to Scotland
But their love
Did not abate.

The lady had a
Real talent - was given
Scholarship and then
Went across the
Great Atlantic
To England's lovely
Shores and fens.
There, in London
At a concert
They saw each other!
Met again!

There, their love grew
Like a garden
He, a Thistle
She a rose...
Finally he could
Wait no longer
He bought a ring
And he proposed.

The two lovers
Met in Tucson
To Tucson
They returned, you see,
And in holy matrimony
Their love was bound
But, at last, freed!

Their blossoms joined
In bliss forever...

For their love was

*MEANT TO BE!
With love,
Cathy Jarvis

To my sister Christina  
And her husband Martin
On their 29th wedding
Anniversary (woot! woot!)

Blessings! May you have
Many more happy
Years together!

Martin it the Thistle
Because he's Scottish
240 · Sep 2014
Learning how to BE...
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
To come to the present moment
Count and be aware of each and
Every breath.

Look around you and take in
The glory of what The Creator
has given you today.

Go outside, take your shoes off
And find a patch of grass.
Walk in it and feel the
Soft blades caress
Your toes.

Get back in tune with the
Living, breathing earth.

If you can't do this physically
Imagine it... Lie down and
Just BE.

Count your breaths. Breathe deeply.
Listen to your heart. By inches
We all move toward

*eternity.
You are a human BEing,
Not a human DOing.
SøułSurvivør Nov 2024
Lighthouse, built upon the sand
Of masonry so thick,
Wrought of gold and silver. Grand!
Built up Brick by Brick.

Your light"s the finest ever made!
Your precious stones, they glitter!
Babes around you laugh and Wade,
Butterflies swan. Bluebirds twitter!

You've worked so hard to build it!
You took such precious time!
You wasted not a second to sit
You wanted it Sublime!

It WANTED you to work for it!
It berated with a frown,
But when the storm and lightning hit
It came tumbling down!

For it was built on sand, my friend,
Those who built it did not care.
No Foundation held it, in the end,
It's destruction brought despair.

Ships there sailing on the sea
Crashed horrid on the rocks!
No one paid that they'd be free
They didn't walk their talks.

That lighthouse built upon the sand
It is deadly, friend.
But it is all so wonderfully planned!
So they built it all again.nn


SoulSurvivor aka
Write of Passage
2022
239 · Nov 2019
YOUR CHOICE!
SøułSurvivør Nov 2019
They say our lives
Are made of choices
Many turns and
Many voices...

Forks in paths
Right or left?
We're on the cusp
We're at a cleft
We're in the clover
Or bereft!

At times the choice
Cannot come slow
But we can't choose
Which way to go!!
Of the outcome
We can't know
It's the high road
Or the low...

Should we climb
A path that's narrow?
Or the broad road
With our fellows?
Or bushwhack through
Straight as an arrow?

Brave the thorny way.
The briars.
The broad road
Full of thieves & liars
Or find the path
That takes us higher...

I suggest
You take THAT WAY!!
I hope so more
More than I can say!
Accept Jesus Christ today!

For the way is narrow
The gate is strait
But a fulfilled life
Will be your fate!

You must choose.
At LAST... be FREE!
Be with the Lord

ETERNALLY!

Catherine Jarvis
(C) 11/29/2019
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
Roses are blue, violets are black,
Our families are dead, and they're not coming back.

Dad works three jobs, if he has the will,
Mommy works too, to cover the bills.

The kids have to work, to keep themselves fed,
They mow lawns and babysit, to pay for their bread.

They don't pay the light bill, 'cause it sure ain't small,
Still there ain't enough money to keep up with it all.

Roses are black, violets are blue,
Joey in college doesn't know what to do.

He used to believe he'd find a great job,
Now he finds US changed, and he feels robbed.

Black is the color of the hands that are bound,
Blue is the color of the lips of the drowned.

We're bound by our Uncle, were drowning in debt,
It's gonna get worse, just how bad can it get?

Well, let me tell you, stock up what you need.
On basic necessities, plant gardens from seed!

We've been in a coma, it's time to WAKE UP!
Get yourself coffee, pour a big cup!

The world is changing, it's time to defend
Our basic rights, or folks...

... * it's the END!

I hope that you'll listen, and salvage your fate,
It may already be too little too late...

Listen, my people, you know that its true,
Roses have thorns...

... *and they're Red, White and Blue.



Soul Survivor
Please. I'm not trying to scare you. But it is a fact.
Our currency is devalued all over the world,
And the time will come when it'll take
A wheelbarrow full of hundred dollar
Bills to pay for a CANDY BAR.

This is the tip of the iceberg.
BE PREPAIRED.
238 · Sep 2014
Poet of Stone
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
I am a sentinel ~ poet of stone.
Standing apart ~ standing alone.

I do not ****** ~ no toast from a glass.
I do not think ~ about things of the past.

I am no wooden flute~ played with lightness and ease,
My breathing on earth ~ has long ago ceased.

I'm no longer able ~ to hear and to talk,
But, when I move ~ YOU WILL HEAR ME WALK

I'm not man or woman ~ I'm not boy or girl
I no longer see ~ with the eyes of this world.

I cannot touch ~ and I cannot feel
But I can exist ~ I assure you, I'm real.

I'm on an Easter island ~ a massive stone head
All those who made me ~ are long ago dead.

I am the likeness ~ of their greatest god
But they're all gone now ~ isn't that odd?

Those great stone carvings ~ a metaphor be

Those silent stones ~ are actually ME.



Repost
Soul Survivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) 2014
The stone heads of Easter island are a reminder
To us all of the facts of nature. The natives who
Erected them were using up all their natural
Resources. They believed if they kept carving
The likeness of their god the natural world
Would be replenished. It didn't work. And,
Eventually, they all died off.
236 · Sep 2014
Despite all
SøułSurvivør Sep 2014
do more
than put one foot
In front of the other.

stretch a leg

and point a toe


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
(C) September 17, 2014
Easier said than done. I know.
236 · Oct 2014
Depression-be-gone [10W]
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
There IS something that
helps depression.

Helping someone else.


SoulSurvivor
Catherine Jarvis
Easier said than done.
TRY
And you will find that
I'm not kidding.
If you live with someone
Do one of their chores.
Get a bunch of oranges
And start handing
Them out to the
Homeless.
They are easy for
Them to chew and
Good for them.
(Making sure they are not diabetic)
Write a poem for
Someone who is down.
If you need help
In prayer contact me via the site message system.
Please contact me!
I need to be
Helpful and close
To God. Thanks!

This is not a cure-all
BUT IT DOES HELP!
SøułSurvivør Nov 2020
I never have time to
Read, my friends!
The fact that tests me sore!
I am harmed, but not alarmed...

You don't read ME anymore!

😢😢😢
235 · Mar 2014
Microchasm
SøułSurvivør Mar 2014
Billions of worlds
which have their existence
within the figure
0
Soul Survivor
February
2014
234 · Oct 2014
not a poem again
SøułSurvivør Oct 2014
I placed "leaf" and several
Of my other poems on
My "collections" sites. They
Have not shown up there
As I check out my home
Page. Is anyone else having
Trouble?  Please contact me
Via the site message system.

Thanks.

♥ Catherine
234 · Jan 2015
blind [10W]
SøułSurvivør Jan 2015
~~~


when the heart
is in darkness
the soul is blind


soulsurvivor
Sorry I haven't been
Keeping up with my
reading... I have to
get an iPad as this
Phone is still on the fritz
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