Personal Best

Accidental Poet

My talents I’m told

Reaching far and wide

But they leave me yearning

For something more inside

 

Something created

Shaped from my own hands

Built from separate parts

Only a craftsman understands

 

The part of me

That reaches deep within

For something that took

My whole life to begin

 

And this I must confess

Creativity dares me

A challenge I can’t resist

For what is yet to be

 

To build it straight and true

Polished to a luminous shine

Knowing all the while

It’ll always be mine

 

It’s the searching

For that unfulfilled quest

A thirst needing to be quenched

The pursuit of personal best

 

Copyright © Accidental Poet 2015

  • Author: Sharon\'s Poet (Pseudonym) (Offline Offline)
  • Published: August 8th, 2017 03:20
  • Category: Reflection
  • Views: 89
  • User favorite of this poem: malubotelho.
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Comments5

  • Brycycle

    The words you have used in this poem are great!
    Nice write 🙂

    • Accidental Poet

      Thanks Bri. I appreciate the compliment.

    • BRIAN & ANGELA

      WOW AP ~ It is encouraging ~ that @ 60+ ~ you still have ambition to produce your best work ! I'm half your age so i still have a lot to prove ! However (as you know) I do not post my Poems until they are "Polished to Perfection" and that is true of all that I try to do. Your Poem (elegant in Form & Function) encourages us all in "The pursuit of personal best !" Thanks for caring and sharing ~ BRIAN

      • Accidental Poet

        Thanks Brian, I do try to encourage and inspire as I myself am from everyone here.

      • Goldfinch60

        We must all strive for more, if we give up we will fail. All we can do in doing that though is our best. Good write.

        • Accidental Poet

          Thanks Goldfinch. There's a lot of personal best here @ MPS, including you.

        • myself and me

          The pursuit of personal best

          That is the best we can do and by doing it, there will be no regrets left.
          Wonderful writing.

          • Accidental Poet

            In my best Elvis like voice, "Thank you, thank you very much". Seriously, thanks for your comment and compliment.

            • myself and me

              I hear you and the charming voice.

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            • malubotelho

              It’s the searching

              For that unfulfilled quest

              A thirst needing to be quenched

              The pursuit of personal best
              Need to confess that this is what bothers me, what keeps me looking for something special, something not yet at my control. I loved to read you and the way you state how you keep searching for that something. Awesome writing.

              • Accidental Poet

                Thank you for the compliment. May you always have that thirst and the ability to quench it.



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