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!

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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 soccer, ice hockey, and field hockey. I am a soccer goalie as well as a field hockey goalie, but I am a defender in hockey. I also like windsurfing and kayaking as well as many other sports.

My friends mean the world to me, and are a huge part of my life too. They are also the reason why I live each day and continue to push forward, even if it is hard. I love each and everyone one of them and I don't need to name them because they know who they are.

I love music as well. Aside from my sports and friends, I live for my music. I played in my school concert and jazz bands on the trumpet and trombone, but I am also learning the bass and can do a bit of drumming as well.

Some bands that I like (in no particular order):

Linken Park, Cold Play, BarlowGirl, Hawk Nelson, tobyMac, Fall Out Boy, Oasis, Maroon 5, Gorillaz, Good Charlotte, The Offspring, Blink 182, Sum 41, Simple Plan, Billy Talent, Yellowcard, Switchfoot, Evanescence, Bowling for Soup, Sublime, Story of the Year, The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, POD, Jack Johnson, Relient-K, Green Day, Rise Against, Our Lady Peace, The Starting Line, My Chemical Romance, MxPx, Weezer, The Temptations, Backstreet Boys, etc...

Other than all the stuff mentioned above, I am also a Christian. Sure, some of thoes bands are definitely far from it, but being a musician and a poet as well, I look more at how a song is put together, i.e., instruments, rhythm, tempo, melody, harmony, etc. Lyrics are usually secondary to me. But that is all a bit off topic. The fact is that I had went through some rough times which are only slightly depicted in my poetry. I learned that turning away from everyone, including friends and family, and most importantly the Lord, was not the path I wanted to go down in the end. I am still recovering from thoes past years, but i have definitely turned my life around a lot since then. In the words of Relient K, "Who I am hates who I've been." It's not an over-night process to change and it will take time. It's not easy, and it never will be, but that is why my God is there to help me. I pray that no one will ever have to go down thoes dark paths, and if they do, I am always willing to talk and help them out.

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

The oppisite of war is not peace; it's creation.

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.
-Mandy's Bedroom Wall-

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.
-Annoynmus-

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-

Negativity is a waste of energy.

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.

Don't take yourself too seriously. You'll miss out on the most enjoyable person you'll ever meet.
-Dale Schmitz -

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-

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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-

"Be boundless. There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are thoes who turn one into the other."
-Douglas Everett-

Don't be sad that roses have thornes but rather, rejoice that thornes have roses.

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

"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
-Andy Warhol-

Be very, very careful what you put into that brain, because you will never, ever get it out again.
-Paul Jackson-

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

People are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be
-Abraham Lincoln-

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
-Abraham Lincoln-

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules.
Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

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

"Always be a first rate version of your self instead of a second rate version of someone else."
-Judy Garland-

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-

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

"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-

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
-Charlie Chaplin-

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld-

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-

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

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-

Not all who wander are lost.
-J.R.R. Tolkein-

To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
-Albus Dumbledore-

Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
-Magic: The Gathering-

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

*Silver*

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

*Bronze*

-The Lost King
-Undeserving Love

*7th Place*

-Broken Lives

*Honourable Mentions*

-Partner in Crime
-A Friend in Need
-A Sin in the Dark
-Never Say Good-Bye
-The Lost King x2

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