#teamwork
Number three runner
rounded the final turn -
heart pounding in sync
with his pain-racked legs.
Reaching his mark, he surrendered
the baton to his waiting team-mate's grasp
then collapsed full-spent to his knees.
Still panting, he toweled his face -
glancing up to watch his friend
sweep first past the finish line.
Gathered for a hasty camera snap,
the team locked arms in a victory clasp
that only a bonded quartet could share.
4d ago
May 30, 2026 at 5:47 PM UTC
Dive deep into those domes we go
Soil, h2o, building homes we go
Not ***** water but damp soil to grow
Planting seeds of love for Hope.
Dirt brick houses can't hide the snow
To cuddle closer whats needed is cold
Melted into mud
For the first time i'm not afraid of deep water
Before we bloom the flowers Bud
The seasons change, the sea gets hotter
"April showers bring may flowers."
Fall leaves may bring powers
Rising up at early hours
Building blocks
Foundations for summer towers
Kingdoms that we now know are ours
Condensation
Precipitation
Participation in the cycles
Team work to build disciples
Jan 20
Jan 20, 2026 at 11:03 AM UTC
My team can do it
all, we can gain first prizes:
eight billion winners.
Jan 18
Jan 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM UTC
There's the wait,
That constant ache,
Moving forward through
The gate,
Your hand in mine,
Let time unwind,
As long as I'm with you
All that's left is the climb--
Up the steps, one by one,
Screams are heard,
the nerves have begun--
But you look at me
and squeeze my hand
I'll try not to make you have
to catch me
Because with that look--
I can barely stand.
You liquefy my core
and it radiates like
the waves of screams
like the parabolas
All stuck together
Laid with track
It's our turn soon.
The turnstiles whir
My stomach stirs,
We both have palms
slick with sweat
But we're here.
We're on this adventure
Together.
So our held hands
Lead us past the back,
Past the middle,
The front seats.
The very front seats.
The first to fall.
And we sit.
And I lean into you
with tears in my eyes
from fear and excitement
and feverish, crazy love
and those clicks start
and the carts budge
Forward
And Forward Again.
And by the time we're
At
The
Top---
There is this feeling of teetering
On the
Edge
Of the Abyss
And you're staring at the only
THING
You can stare at and it isn't
DOWN
It's each other. It's
taking solace
in the ultimate fact
that even in our fear
attempting to face it
Together
we're impenetrable.
Our screams
Are of joy
and excitement
and love
and adventure
and life.
And then it rolls
to a stop,
The air break hiss,
looking at each other
with smirks
and knowing
we're getting
Right back in that **** line
and Going Again.
Mar 29, 2025
Mar 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM UTC
I AM A MOTIVATOR!!!,
I have SELF-WORTH and
GOOD HEALTH,
I am such a MOTIVATOR,
I even MOTIVATE MYSELF.
DON'T YOU AGREE???,
OH, CAN'T YOU SEE!!!
I WANT to INSPIRE YOU, to
the HIGHEST DEGREE!!
DON'T GIVE UP and
DON'T GIVE IN,
Your ACHIEVEMENTS are
AROUND THE CORNER,
KEEP PUSHING and
YOU WILL WIN!!!!
I AM A MOTIVATOR,
Just STRIVE for A CHANCE,
No, DON'T LOOK BACK,
NO!!!!,
DON'T EVEN give it a GLANCE.
KEEP YOUR FRUSTRATIONS
to the BACK, and
BE MORE BOLDER,
PUT IN THAT WORK,
Come on,
YOU'RE GETTING CLOSER
I BELIEVE IN YOU,
OH, YES I DO,
WOULD YOU DO ME A
HUGE FAVOR,
BELIEVE IN ME TOO!!!
Let's STICK TOGETHER, and
WORK THIS THING OUT,
PERSEVERANCE is the KEY, and
"TEAMWORK!!!!"
IS WHAT I AM ALL ABOUT!!!!
NOW,
WE GOT TO STICK TOGETHER,
THROUGH the GOOD AND
BAD WEATHER,
WILL WE WAVE THE WHITE FLAG???
Let's HOPE NOT EVER, EVER,
AGAIN,
I AM A MOTIVATOR!!!!!
don't ever let know one make
you feel DEGRADED,
on that note:
LET'S GET MOTIVATED!!!!!
B R.
DATE: 10/14/2024
Oct 14, 2024
Oct 14, 2024 at 6:13 PM UTC
I have medals for ballroom
And Latin,
And Rock and Roll,
Gold no less suggesting a degree of competence,
Dancing is joyous and exhausting,
It needs commitment and teamwork
And tension in the arms
And closeness in the bodies of those involved,
It is not easy to find one
With that tension and strength
Of core to truly dance well,
And those who do are popular,
So a partner once found is
To be treasured and respected,
There is no room for discord for
The dance wont work that way,
I know all that and
I have found my dancer,
And I will hold her close
And forever be a frame to her moves
Because I do not wish to dance alone
Nor with any other
Ever.
Nov 29, 2023
Nov 29, 2023 at 6:13 AM UTC
Hut Hut Hut
Let's go
Running it hard
Going for the goal
Oh yea !!
Let's go
Get the ball
Pass & Rush
Scoop & Score
Let's go
Bump & Run
Getting it done
Blitz it baby
Chopblock
Handoff
Touchdown
Let's go
Scramble
Hail Mary
Flea Flicker
Shotgun
Bump & Run
Let's go
Touchdown
Getting it done
Hell Yeah
With...
Sweat & Sacrifice
Success
That's how it's done
Teamwork !!
So ...
Let's go !!! 🏉
© Jennifer L DeLong 🦏 🎭 9/18/2022
Sep 18, 2022
Sep 18, 2022 at 1:35 PM UTC
When today is all red
but yesterday was full green
-remember, we’re all in this together
When you feel your belly wriggle
due to their infectious giggle
-know that there’s sugar with the spice
If you are doing three
transfers in fifteen minutes
-remember, we’re all in this together
If you feel the garden hose spray
of their amazing joy-full day
-know that there’s sugar with the spice
At times when the top of the first
feels like the bottom of the ninth
-remember, we’re all in this together
At dawn of Thursday’s Eve
as you feel a week’s worries start to leave
-know that there’s sugar with the spice
When the bus has not arrived
but your patience has departed
-remember, we are all in this together
When success smells like sweet grass
freshly cut, or a masterful CLP class
-know that there’s sugar with the spice
Should the day’s turmoil find you throwing
your bowling ball down the wrong lane
-remember, we’re all in this together
Should you feel your day’s ride’s
Slick with joy like a waterslide
-know there’s sugar with the spice
Oh when today is red
but yesterday was full green
remember, we’re all in this together
know that there’s sugar with the spice
and for all of our sakes
keep your stick on the ice
~
NM
*In loving memory of
Jon Wiebe (1993-2019)
Jan 6, 2021
Jan 6, 2021 at 6:09 PM UTC
Out of touch with the ground
I walk a thin line
I am in lonely equilibrium
A broken umbrella
Swinging to-and-fro
On this trapeze
Coming untethered
From these elapsing heart strings
New love's dividing line
Depends upon its precise timing
Port de bras
The illusion of imponderable lightness
Take a leap of faith
Reach out for me
Oct 24, 2020
Oct 24, 2020 at 1:20 PM UTC
Tie my laces,
Anchor me now,
Release the tide of emotion,
It’s ready for the crowd,
Electricity pulses in my chest,
Jolts through my limbs,
And sparks at my finger tips,
Connected to the earth,
I’m grounded,
I’m strong,
My stride will leave lightning,
Powerful and long,
My decisions quick,
Agile, steady,
Ready to dip, dive,
Juke, swerve,
Hop & leap,
Through that hole,
I'm ready,
Ready to be a brace,
For my family,
Jam or be a ****
To achieve our goal,
Together as one we skate,
Into the unknown future we go.
Jul 15, 2020
Jul 15, 2020 at 6:58 PM UTC
Screaming internally; sitting in silence.
Make these feelings wash away without a word spoken.
Articulating perceptions while throwing water on burning oil.
Flames and rainbows blend until the fuel is exhuasted.
I am exhausted.
Oct 23, 2019
Oct 23, 2019 at 7:21 PM UTC
We will work together
through sweat and strain,
coffee in hand
as we drink late night
to numb the pain.
Times may bare tension
blicking with blame,
but we'll get down
to play the Game.
You have my back
and I yours, through the night.
Though the score low
we shall last the fight.
Like crazy glue
we will stick together
and fend off the storm,
as dark clouds break off,
We will stand.
Then we shall say
we fought together,
and never gave up
to die!
Feb 1, 2019
Feb 1, 2019 at 12:49 AM UTC
The flags interweave in a synchronous pace.
A pattern is formed and dissolves into space.
Kaleidoscope movement and the swish of a sabre.
What flows like dance is a pain and hard labor.
Glitter and make-up fluff and curls for the show.
But there's nothing soft about the rifles they throw.
The best part of the guard is not seen by the eye.
It's teamwork and sharing and daring to try.
When the show's over and the props put away.
There's always more practice and some time to play.
So just when you think the guard is all done.
Somewhere in a gym, they're still having fun.
Jan 19, 2019
Jan 19, 2019 at 9:09 PM UTC
you brought a light into my life,
yet had the knife ready to take yours,
many times i disarmed your thoughts away from self harm,
you always did say i had a sorta charm,
always there for you when i heard the alarm,
but when mine went off you ran away into some one else's arms,
told you from the start this ain't no one-way street,
we each got our own heartbeat,
so for this to be concrete you gotta be able to stand on your own two feet,
yet when the other one falls,
remember to help them back up,
not just walk away like a thot,
cause that ain't how a team works.
© Try
Dec 8, 2018
Dec 8, 2018 at 4:33 PM UTC
Do not worry
For WE got this love
For there is no I in team
Yes there is a ME
But if we turn the M upside down
We can get a W
Thus get a WE
For there is no YOU
And there is no ME
It is WE and US
As WE are not alone in this
YOUR pain is MY pain
And the reverse is true
So lets pick OUR head up
Lean on OUR shoulders
Because WE got this, babe
Nov 16, 2018
Nov 16, 2018 at 1:37 PM UTC
It's hard to see
Goodness
It's easy to hear the
Bad
We each fight our own
Battles
But why don't we walk hand in
Hand
It seems like we only
Hurt
But there is so much
Love
The light is just inside
Us
And together we'll fly like
Doves
Nov 15, 2018
Nov 15, 2018 at 6:23 PM UTC
Oh do not look at me like that.
Although I pulled the trigger you loaded the gun a long time ago.
Oh do not complain that my loose canons of speech are finally repulsively soaring.
When you gave me a deadly spark.
If you do not blame,
Then I promise I won’t too,
The collateral damage of two wishful hearts needs no ownership.
So stop trying to win a forgotten war,
What’s done is done.
No more friendly fire.
Jun 26, 2018
Jun 26, 2018 at 12:41 PM UTC
The cold air seeped down with no heart,
What was once a sea of beauty and life,
Now had been turned to a grave of white and death,
The city had almost all but stopped living too.
Morning turned to night and yet all was still bright,
Panicking for necessities like bread and milk,
As if they were a commodity like gold and silk,
There was no lease from this grip of icy might.
The Robins so proud with their coats of glorious red,
Out playing like children on a canal iced bed,
Scattering wild seed around upon the snow covered ground,
Bobbing along like cheeky cherubim gathering with a chirpy sound.
A man stands in the not so far distance,
Stood outside clearing snow as it's finally stopped,
I ask and offer myself to give some assistance,
Is seems the final flakes have now dropped.
A path slowly appears as do others now congregate,
Friends, brothers, sister's all one with a common goal,
Time rolls on but we persist as it gets late,
A United effort from one and all like a heart to a soul.
(C) Grant Dickson 21/03/2018
Mar 22, 2018
Mar 22, 2018 at 8:09 PM UTC
Each day when I rise and I walk out my door,
The world that I see isn’t mine anymore.
The rules are all bent so I can’t see their shape,
And on every street corner I pass police tape.
When you sign onto Twitter, catch up on the news,
But it might not be true, so watch out for the clues.
They say, “Hey, you’re transgender? We can’t let you fight.”
“Oh, you’re black? Or you’re Asian? We’re best ‘cause we’re white.”
If they’re caught in their lies, they don’t overreact,
Mumble “something-or-other alternative fact.
If you glance out your window one night and you find
A torch wielding mob, well, just never you mind.
Join the big three ring circus! Its painted faced clowns,
And its ringleader with his red white and blue crown!
So turn on your TV, watch the latest debate,
And what you will see is the next Watergate.
Or just do what I do, use your eyes and your heart,
Then you, too, can watch as fear tears us apart.
Or maybe it won’t, if enough of us see,
When we all work together, we still might break free.
Jan 8, 2018
Jan 8, 2018 at 11:49 AM UTC
If we get closer
I hope
I can still
Make myself feel better,
Like I did today.
Because
I want to be strong
And work
As a teammate.
Instead of
Depending on people
Too much
Like I did at some stages
In the past.
I'm empowered
And happier
When I'm more in control
Of myself
And the relationship;
Instead of being reduced
To something that fits
In someone's pocket.
I want to flutter around
Have a good time
And leap in excitement
With my partner's hand in mine.
Both trying our best
To find happiness
In hidden places.
Nudging each other forward
Helping one another
Remember their potential
When they start to fall behind.
That's a relationship I long for.
I'm glad you took a moment
To yourself earlier.
I can understand
How that'd be stressful
And you put yourself first
Which is a good thing.
Thank you for that
And I'm proud of you,
You should always come first.
I hope you're relaxed and at peace
When you rest,
Cherish it while it lasts.
You never know
When another battle will arise.
Trust when I say,
I'll have your back
If you ever need me.
l.v.s
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 7:17 AM UTC
Christ is our cornerstone love is the foundation
The cross; the bridge between the people of every nation
When we work together, when we love each other
One big family with one father and mother
Compassion will seal and wounds begin to heal
In safety and peace we have nothing to fear
We are building your kingdom here
With mercy for all; a place of refreshment and rest
Here in the kingdom we welcome the guest
We'll bring just a little bit of heaven down to Earth
And try to help everyone see the greatness of their worth
In the building of your kingdom all will have a place
In the building of your kingdom we shall see your face
In the building of your kingdom all will be made new
Singing, dancing, and great jubilation for we will be with you
You love us and you call us each by name
You hold us in your hand the Lord the One Who Reigns
We are building your kingdom change us from within
We are building your kingdom may the whole world join in
Oct 7, 2017
Oct 7, 2017 at 2:28 PM UTC
When I say I'd give you the world
I meant it
All the mountains we must climb
All the oceans we must cross
Everything we face
I meant it
All the doubt is in my mind
While all the love rest in my heart
So when I say I'd give you the world
Believe me
Because you are that world
Jul 8, 2017
Jul 8, 2017 at 9:23 PM UTC