Shadow Keeper• Show poetry

Hey everyone! Jambo Marafiki! What's up, habari yako, and how's it going? Thanks so much for dropping by. I welcome you to my page and hope that you will enjoy my poetry. I kinda go back and forth between fiction and truth, but usually my fictional stuff is based on something from somewhere else or the way that I am feeling. But hey, I always like to change it up a bit! I also don't write that often. A lot of the time my works have to have me be motivated or inspired or I must be in the mood to write. I guess that also has to do with the fact that I can be pretty lazy sometimes. Anyways, sit back, relax, and I hope you like my work!

"To me, poetry is the words you want to say but cannot speak, what you hold in your heart but cannot say, and what subconsciously you are thinking about but do not know it"
-this is what poetry means to me

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Some stuff that I love include sports, they are pretty much my life. I love all sports actually, but my favourites are field hockey, soccer, and ice hockey. I am a goalkeeper in both field hockey and soccer, and a defender in ice hockey. I also love to snowboard, ski, windsurf, kayak, karate, softball, curling, and fencing.

I am a Christian, and there are a fair number of my pieces that reflect that. I have had a troubled past though as well, and there are a fair number of my pieces that reflect that too. I believe that through my work, not only can I express myself, but I can help others as well. That is why I try to write what I feel and not always make it so complicated or sugar-coated so that others may understand what I am trying to get across. Other people have helped me with their poems, and I just want to give back too. But for the most part though, I just write and whatever comes out of my head is what I put down. I try to not revise or change poems because that takes away from what I originially wanted it to be.

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**Just some quotes that I thought were cool... **

A true friend can see the suffering in your eyes, while everyone else can just see the smile on your face.

"Have the courage to live. Anyone can die."
-Robert Cody-

100% of the shots you don't take you miss.
-Kory Delehanty and Wayne Gretzky-

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
-Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau-

Never explain; your friends will understand you, and your enemies will never believe you anyway.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become, the hours of practice, the coaches who push you, and the fans who cheer for you is the little girl who fell in love with the sport and never looked back. Play for her.
-Anonymous-

Good teams become great ones, when the members trust each other enough to surrender the me for the we.
-Phil Jackson-

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
-Maya Angelou-

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
-John F. Kennedy-

The only thing you should do behind a person's back is pat it.

One's greatness is not measured by how many times they admit it, but by how many times they deny it.

It is better to be hated for who you are, then to be loved for who you are not.

It is always better to fail at doing something than to excel at doing nothing.
-Anon. Per. K. Marshall-

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-B. Dahyalal-

Most of the shadows in this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Things turn out best for the people that make the best out of the way that things turn out.
-Lea McIntosh-

The time to make friends, is before you need them.

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."
-Joe Paterno-

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
-Proverbs 27:6-

"Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart."

If you feel someone kick you from behind, it means you are ahead.
-Arabic proverb-

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
-Mark Twain-

"Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer."
-Norwegian proverb-

"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
-Stalin-

Life is that brief interlude between nothingness and eternity.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity
-E. Letterman-

Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
-Ezra Pound-

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
-Herman Hesse-

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

Friends are angels that lift you from your feet when your wings forget how to fly.

Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death and judgement, for not even the very wise can see all ends.
-Gandalf- JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring-

Destiny, chance, fate or fortune - they're all just ways of claiming your successes without claiming your failures.

With great power, comes great responsibility.
-Uncle Ben, Spider-Man-

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**Trophies/Awards**

*Gold*
-Partner in Crime
-The Lost King
-Enough For Me
-Rock of my Life
-Comfort of a Pen

*Silver*
-Ode to the Trombone
-Partner in Crime
-Dusted Reflection

*Bronze*
-The Lost King
-Undeserving Love
-The Final Letter
-Complicated Simplicity

*Honourable Mentions*
-Partner in Crime
-A Friend in Need
-A Sin in the Dark
-Broken Lives
-Never Say Good-Bye
-The Lost King x2
-Pressing Onward x2
-I Cannot Recall the Day
-Dying to Live
- Rock of my Life
-Sea of My Heart
-The Love That I Have

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Thanks for dropping by! See ya, later days, keep it real, kwaheri!