#opportunities
Opportunities are knocking, but hurdles are approaching.
Opportunities are knocking, but hurdles are approaching.
Whenever you try to escape, chains of resentment grow narrow.
Whenever you try to speak, chains of communication grow shorter.
Nov 22, 2025
Nov 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM UTC
deserve
it more than most, more than anyone, indeed, in deed,
your passion drowns me,
overwhelms and even makes me admit
out loudly
over comes
your faceted identities,
delight, charm, provoke,
and evoke
multitudes of moods, desires,
even writings...
but you are too stern,
this thing called love,
is tissue soft, so hard to form,
so easily torn, it requires
time & hard work, many words,
though oft the fewest are supreme,
and I laugh at myself, for the only word
I think that rhymes with supreme
is
dream
which is
just another synonym
for
endless opportunities***
and I, we, read each others poems
to each other
quietly,
for that is the only, & the best way.
Sep 8, 2025
Sep 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM UTC
Beginning are opportunities
For failure.
And flight.
Endings are opportunities
For darkness.
And light.
But you are an opportunity
To set my
heart alight
Mar 7, 2025
Mar 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM UTC
My cry took me to closing certain feelings
And this process hurts a bit
Now I stay pride, reconciled and stronger
Seeing clearly my past
Prepared for new opportunities
Dec 13, 2024
Dec 13, 2024 at 4:16 PM UTC
The breeze stretches and cools the season
along the country road
variegated light, leaf-filtered
from trees that lean
in rivalry for my eager eyes.
Their foliaged arms dangle, then drop
an amber snowfall all around
as if to awaken me
to the autumn creep
into my bones that click and tick
with each tottery step.
Earth awakens me to the beauty
in this splendorous season
of the gliding swaying passage
of life in alteration
and spiritual invitation
to bathe in the slow current of creation
along this road
and its cool and bright possibilities.
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023 at 2:09 AM UTC
As chasms open up to swallow
I’ll eye them carefully
to see if I should cling or dive
The thing about chasms is
that there might be something amazing
at the bottom, that reinvents you
Or there could be spikes and crocodiles,
or spiky crocodiles
with knives
You just never know with chasms
Jun 28, 2021
Jun 28, 2021 at 11:11 AM UTC
And unto the new life thou promised
On it I pray thou hold thy grip
And unto thy ***** hold thee tight
Grasses here are greener than thou think
Mar 26, 2021
Mar 26, 2021 at 4:56 PM UTC
I have questions I’ll never get to ask
Answers I desperately need to hear
Thoughts seeping then escaping
So rarely any resonating
I drink more than I should,
Believe more if I could,
Die in your arms, wish I would
Guess I’m just misunderstood
Laughter turns to anger in my throat.
Senses scrambled when I need them the most.
Don’t you know we’ll all die alone?
Recognize emptiness in your bones
I swear more than I should,
Trust you more if I could,
Transcend doubt, wish I would
Purposely misunderstood
Chances left on the table like scraps
Another time we’ll never know
Things like this change everything
Sacrifice one for another again
I lie more than I should,
Love in full if I could,
Be young and free, wish I would
Always just misunderstood
Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021 at 9:34 PM UTC
Not like life, when it's the end, it's the end
The sun will set, yet it will rise again
The lost opportunities can be rendered tomorrow
But, the same sequence will never show
Enjoy the clouds while they're at fleet
The patterns will never aver again repeat
Be open to the opportunities that knock
Like a rock, once thrown, they'll never come back
Regrets, nostalgias, and broken dreams surround
As the pink skies are swallowed by dark clouds
When the day comes to an end
It remind
things in this world are transient.
Jun 20, 2020
Jun 20, 2020 at 9:40 PM UTC
Walking into the house of someone we don’t know
you can definitely tell right away
this is not my type of crowd.
Following your friend around we made it to the backyard
sitting on a couch outside on that cold August night.
Your other friend couldn’t stop messing around, he
was really getting on my last nerve now.
You’re watching us from across the table
beer in your hand and daggers shooting from your face but
you didn’t even try to put me aside to dance.
Face to the side and you start a conversation
with someone else while one of my friends drags me to the side
of the house and asks “Which one is it? Which one do you want?”.
How I couldn’t tell right then and there that I
was putty in your hands is beyond me since
I just wanted you to take me where the music wasn’t
too loud even if it was just to talk or stare at the sky.
But I barley saw you at all, looking grumpy all alone while
I was a rushed inside the house just a few rooms down the hall
holding my friend’s hair as she threw up from mixing too much.
Came across you again when it was time to leave,
forced to sit at the front since I was the only one
on her right mind and your friend didn’t want
to be bothered after finding out that you and
his girlfriend had stolen a bowl out of the house.
It was just us four in the car.
How I wish you had been sober that night,
talked to me even just for a little while.
Maybe I would of had the guts to kiss you in the corner
of the living room or held your hand later that night when
we walked side to side down the road whilst our friends
chased each other around.
- why did it take me this long to figure it out?
Jun 7, 2020
Jun 7, 2020 at 11:42 PM UTC
I asked for opportunities,
They said i should search.
I searched in all available channels,
They said i should apply.
I applied for everything,
They said i should be qualified.
Then i told them, I am hungry!
They promised a viand.
I reminded them,
Wait, They gave me hope.
Everything that had remained,
Started overflowing.
For the stubbing,
Was all over my body.
May 29, 2020
May 29, 2020 at 1:19 AM UTC
Just like rain drops
my tears fall
watering seeds sown
from my past.
Before too long
they will flower
into wonderful opportunities,
stunning all those who see,
never knowing the damaged roots that lay underneath.
For you see the colourful bloom reached for the sun,
Illuminating the world in a sea of colour,
ready to take on life's next adventure.
Just like rain drops
my tears fell
watering seeds sown
ready to bloom into wonderment.
May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 at 10:49 AM UTC
I didn’t want to let it go
To be honest
I wanted it to work
But banging on a closed door
Only put splinters
In my hands
Apr 19, 2020
Apr 19, 2020 at 6:27 PM UTC
Open doors
Options
Freedoms
Opportunity
Come
in......
......Go
out
Do I have to make up my mind?
Yes silly cat
It’s cold in here!
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 20, 2020 at 8:32 PM UTC
It is only right
That you should venture out
To pursue the higher mountain,
But how I will miss you
In climbing my own.
Feb 26, 2020
Feb 26, 2020 at 12:01 AM UTC
I've heard the Chinese phrase for crisis equals opportunity
From where I reside we bring in the cavalry when opportunities arise
As a problem shared with care was never really there
Feb 17, 2020
Feb 17, 2020 at 8:18 PM UTC
Confidence in all of us is attached and frigid
Opportunities will always survive and be there
The burning desire to better ourselves is genuine
Can we really be so ignorant to believe that someone or something can stop us
I THINK NOT
Brian Hill - 2020 # 31
Jan 31, 2020
Jan 31, 2020 at 9:30 AM UTC
How many chances
How many opportunities
How many failures...
Brian Hill - 2019 # 158
Jun 28, 2019
Jun 28, 2019 at 8:56 AM UTC
All I see is wasted time
Wasted feelings and missed opportunities
Life passing infront of my eyes
Getting old when yesterday I was just a kid
Walking on a long road along the city lights
Wondering why I am here when there is so much more to life.
Jun 24, 2019
Jun 24, 2019 at 5:56 PM UTC
blazing moon rises
darkness chases frightened soul
fleeing own shadow
Jun 21, 2019
Jun 21, 2019 at 8:56 AM UTC