Asserting Poems

You Know You're Past It When

...Do I need normal shoes equipped with cleats?
I’m not as steady as I used to be.
The town in which I live has narrow streets: ...
So where’s this poem going? Bear with me!

I’ve always had an eye...
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Categories: asserting, life,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberRevenge

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The trees are too busy
losing leaves 
or withdrawing deeper 
into their winter selves
to notice me.
Clouds pass overhead
oblivious to my presence,
the wind detours around me
and carries o...
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Categories: asserting, earth, environment, pride,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberFAITH IN GOD WHO REIGNS IN HIS GLORIOUS KINGDOM

...May 29 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Esther 1-3
 
Key Verse –  Esther 1:4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty…
	
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Categories: asserting, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain

Deceptive ain't it?

...They doubted her, once again
Interrogating whether eyes are the most loyal creation alive? 
Or it's just the exaggeration to bring the dead to life
A bit puzzled & hustled she became this time, 
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Categories: asserting, art, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Sense of Belonging

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"Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade
of reason: The desire to be what romantic love makes us
appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are
deserving of the love w...
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Categories: asserting, romance,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberFAITH IN GOD WHO RULES OVER US

...May 3 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 1Chronicles 7-9

Key Verse – 1Chronicles 9:20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him....
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Categories: asserting, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain

Rats and Roses

...I don’t have my learners permit.
I have had to be the adult my whole life.
I have had to tend to their outbursts and tantrums.
I have survived all their rat runs

I’ve always told myself it’s an...
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Categories: asserting, 12th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn a Transgender Child

...A transgender child
does not not exist 
just because a white man 
says that that is so
as two spirited
third genders 
and others
(eight in the Talmud! that I didn’t know)
exist around the glo...
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Categories: asserting, anti bullying, gender, world,
Form: List

Premium MemberColonisation

...Bombarded by myriads of daily data without cease,
I suggest a forthright discourse on this topic,
carousel of trend and sound adherence  merely looming?
some unwitting sentiment  an aspirational d...
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Categories: asserting, august, courage, deep, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Holiday Fun

...This Christmas Santa lays off an Elf
To keep the Elf's wage for himself 
The bearded one does get sued
While his other workers booed
Before becoming gnomes on a shelf 

To old Rudolph Santa doe...
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Categories: asserting, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR PROMISING US ETERNAL LIFE

...December 16 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Titus 1-3 - Philemon

Key Verse – Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.

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Categories: asserting, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberLove is a Rhythmic Dance of Romance

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Love between the two of us is a rhythmic dance, a romance
in the most sensual and subtle prelude we are wooed.
We share amorous flirting without need for words asserting
our intentions but spark...
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Categories: asserting, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism

Unmatched

...Your efforts are focused on annihilation, 

manipulation, and my dissipation. 

My commitment is resolute and unshaken.

Jesus has risen, and I’ve been awakened.

Unfazed, I stand tall, as yo...
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Categories: asserting, beautiful, courage, devotion, god,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHEART'S DEEPEST FANTASIES

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Hear the reverberations of my divine fantasies
reaching-out to the chambers of the heart
yon the rationality of cerebrum...  

Yes, my shouts of plea for peace in a war-torn spot
can t...
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Categories: asserting, christian, faith, god, perspective,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR EXHORTING US TO HAVE FAITH IN HIM

...October 10 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 21-22 

Key Verse – Matthew 21:21-22 Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye s...
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Categories: asserting, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

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