Life Rewards

Character

Built slowly

Over one’s lifetime

Integrity becomes a habit

Precious

Making It 

Life

Trekking uphill

Reaching its summit

Fulfilling journey never ends

Perseverance

Starting Over

Discipline

Sometimes lacking

Daily excuses strike

Replace with fresh renewal

Determination

The German-inspired poetry style of Elfchen (or Elevenie) contains five lines of poetic verse, usually without the use of rhyming verses.  A total of 11 words are used with a sequence of one, two, three, and four words before ending with a single word in the final verse.