Meeting the Challenge

This poem was inspired by the Random Read Challenge in the May 11, 2016 poetry newsletter

Meeting the Challenge

Built on stone foundations
Faith's stronghold
Will stand firm when sandcastles fall
When waves of frustrations
Shout and scold
Causing the ego to feel small.

Faith is the soul's domain
Goes beyond
The realm of matter - death and life
Partners spirit and brain
It is spawned
And strengthened when we confront strife.

Faith the power within
That gives us
Inner strength to meet life's demands
With a determined grin
Without fuss
Working hard with both minds and hands.

Line Count: 18
Form: Tri-fall - created by Jan Turner. Has 3 stanzas with 6 lines each. It has a rhyme scheme of a,b,c,a,b,c and the meter of stanzas are 6/3/8, 6/3/8. It needs little or no punctuation and can use any subject matter. http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/trifall.html
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Random Read Challenge
         Use the random review tool and get inspired!
         1) First read and review the piece.
         2) Find something in the poem or about the poem to write about, or
         3) Write a companion piece.
         The poem I read and reviewed from the Read & Review was

The Citadel Within  (E) Inner strength comes not from succeeding but from trying (Form: Tri-fall) #1685329 by 🌝 HuntersMoon

Words from poem to use: inner strength, sand, build, demands (I can use any derivative of these words).