#invictus poems on Hello Poetry

Jun Lit Mar 2021

Alpas sa gabing lumukob
Dulo’t dulo’y itim pulos
Salamat anuman yung d’yos
Kalul’wa kong di pasakop

Sa pagkakataong malma
Di sumuko ni lumuha
Binugbog man ng tadhana
Ulong dug’ua’y tunghay-laya

Lampas ditong hagpis-luha
Tanging lilim lang ang banta
Datnan man dantaong sumpa
N’ia ‘nong takot, ako’y wala

Makipot man ang lagusan
Bale-wala’ng parusahan
Ang palad ko’y aking tangan
Ako’y ako ang Kapitan.

This is my attempt to translate my favorite poem Invictus into Tagalog.

#invictus

Michael Theophilus Masimbira Dec 2020

Keep In Touch

I am sorry for not keeping in touch
I get lost in the moment
I am barely there for all of you
But I truly care for you

Remember when you texted me
And I couldn't text you back

It's not your fault
We all flawed
Incomplete
Like a zygote

Stop trying to be perfect
Only God is
Try not to finish you self
Can you regenerate?

I feel gleeful

#invictus

Michael Theophilus Masimbira Nov 2020

Beauty Without Brains

She drains my energy and enthrones my hurt...
When it rains I feel pains inside my frame.

She craves love but knows not
how to preserve it
She weaves wants and calls them lovers

When she is
Heart broke
She only needs
A rebound
That only deepens the wound
Of the heart
Bleeds as it hurts
It pleads afraid to love again.

But foolishly
She gives in to lies
Wide open thighs & wide shut eyes
She tries to moan
But he groans as she mourns
In the morning
He takes off like a raven
For true love only lasts one night if not an hour

Now she shudders recalling when he shuddered
Oh God she is shuttered and severed the slipknot...

True Love Is Real n Rare!

#invictus #elfuric #writes #intrinsic #energy

Michael Theophilus Masimbira Aug 2020

I Am, Behind the D.N.***

Man from a worm
And the egg without a shell
Weak and feeble at the start
Yet mighty and smart at heart

He subdues all he sees
And sadly succumbs to all he can't see
Man mighty and glorious
But still plagued by the invisible

Who created life,
And filled it with strife?
Eat today to be eaten tomorrow
Lose today only to win tomorrow

Who thought of an eye
And all the things that surprise?
Or the tongue and the good food?
And the skin, which feels good?

I stand in awe
Because life is full
All the creatures
Are unique
And posses a great technique

Who thought of a man
And gave him this form?
Two firm legs
And two strong arms
Eyes above all
A mouth that speaks
And a mind that imagines

Imagine how easy it is to breath
Think, or to make a conversation
Who gave us words
Numbers, colors and what we own?

Who gave him this mind
One of a kind
He settles not
And searches everything

He finds meaning in the stars
And his mind runs wild
He finds meaning in the sounds
And makes decisions

Man from a worm
And the egg without a shell
Weak and feeble at the start
Yet mighty and smart at heart

Man from a worm
Made by the unseen
From the seen
A biological machine
And a house for ghosts

#invictus #elfuric #trappoets

Michael Theophilus Masimbira Aug 2020

Corona Days

Unscathed I stand
Against the impetus
Of life with strife
Is rife but understand
That by every stride
You leave behind
The man you used to be...

To be ripe
Is to be ready
Like a serpent
Shed your skin

#invictus #elfuric

Michael Theophilus Masimbira Aug 2020

Your Favorite Rapper!

Let me chelate your doubts
Maybe you might make it out
I diagnosed your problems
I suggest you fix them
You follow no rhythm
No Wonder why you boring
Like waves in the ocean
Clearly you're flawless
No wonder I am careless
When minds I carass
With subtle gentleness

For the fun of writting.

#invictus #elfuric

Derrick Jason Smith Jul 2020

So Be Invictus

So be Invictus, unconquerable, Invictus, unconquerable, Invictus, unconquerable, so must the human light spirit be in the universe,

Be you blind, but Invictus you shall be?
Be you weak, but Invictus you shall be?
Be you in darkness, but Invictus you shall be?
Be you facing death for the light's true way, but Invictus you shall be?
Be you standing alone against a mighty foe, but Invictus you shall be?

So be Invictus, unconquerable, Invictus, unconquerable, Invictus, unconquerable, so must the human light spirit be in the universe!

14/7/2020

#invictus

Remi May 2020

Afflict us

Out of the day that smothers me,
    Thick as a wall from brick to brick,
I curse whatever person may be
    For creating a math textbook this thick.

In the fell clutch of math circumstance
    I have both winced and cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
    My brain has gone ******, and has bowed.

Beyond this place of pain and tears
    Looms but the freedom of the shade,
And yet the menace of the math entering my ears
    Finds and shall find me afraid.

It matters not the angle of the gate,
    How charged with questions the scroll,
I am not the master of my fate,
    Math is the captain of my soul.

A parody of William Ernest Henley's INVICTUS.
I just had to turn this inspirational poem into a representation of the lives students around the world, working on math textbooks as thick as brick walls and getting bludgeoned by questions about chance XD

#invictus #parody #painofmath #smile

Michael Theophilus Masimbira Mar 2020

Invictus Reloaded

Still i TREND, NONE I dread.
Fiend or friend, None I trust.
Still I stand, blooded yet undead

#invictus