Best Choice Poems

Before you read my poem below please know:
This poem is generalised and not aimed at any individual
It is solely my observation and voice!

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Why must it be analysed and dissected
To whether  a poet comments or not
We all do what we choose to do
We are a...

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A vulture and owl
                        Solitary and predatory
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Dear mom, dad -
keeper of my DNA,
it was not my choice to be conceived 
( these actions you are about to take,
     I never would have believed )

With you, I have placed my trust
- only to be, deceitfully deceived


I have no...

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It takes two to make a baby
But the women bear the brunt
Yet for reasons that confound me,
It’s the men who most confront.

They just plant a seed and vanish
While not caring for a whit
If they’ve left behind a token
And what will become of it.

So the females...

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Write words
that will be scraped
into a stone
by a rebellious kid
who refused
to be owned
Write words
that will make
a hopeless sinner
never feel alone
Write words 
that will move
a homeless man
from a shelter seat 
to a throne
Write words
that will tattoo
the answers
to your soul
about the questions
of the future
that is unknown...

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“It’s not what they say when you are there, it’s what they whisper after you leave.”                             ...

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FREEDOM OF CHOICE

The greater blessing is the power of choice
Not gifts nor riches any way compare
With having your own mind, to give it voice

See then your many options and rejoice
That You may wander here and venture there
The greater blessing is the power of choice

Prefer the...

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Busy getting ready to go to a meeting
I was looking through my closet for something to wear
My 20 year old daughter, Shereen, was in my bedroom
Showing me her new clothes
I marveled at her
What a body
What a beautiful woman
Her curves were to die for
Her thin waist...

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Peace again rules My~Day~
Comforting.... in a pleasant light hearted way
Nature draws me near
Banishing all my fear
Thank You Lord
For giving me Light
Holding me Dear through the Night
It is a Choice that we make
A Dream this Love must not forsake
Take my hand and come with me
There is...

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Perched
upon his resting place, Raven made her call
She
planned to join her lover, using powder and a ball
Gazing
at the markers where the predeceased were laid
She
watched her namesake circle, and heard his woeful voice,
Then
mused the circumstances that took her partner’s life.
Could
sacrifice unite them?
Is there an afterlife?
And
listening to...

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Man-made drugs
Induce an altered state
A psychedelic paradise
Of euphoria
A burst of colors
Impaired reality of dreams
A fix of blissful forgetfulness
Married to ecstasy

What need have I of these?
When I have you
My drug of choice
I will not touch any of the others
But you, I long to touch…
To feel you...

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God given, Ten Commandments understood,
Divine plan in word, for man's guidance all.
Gods' rules of life, not options if you should,
commandments to prepare man for his call.

No other idols, gods, nor name in vain,
Steal not, adultery nor slander be.
To honor parents, Sabbath, dare not bane,
man shall...

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heave bursts from lips can both injure or heal
harsh words strike deep the bayonet’s metal
while kind words stroke soft as a rose petal
floral scent~ gardener’s sweeter appeal



AP: 2nd place 2022

Submitted on March 4, 2020 for contest KIND INK sponsored by CHARLES MESSINA  - ...

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The corridors of life are rarely straight:
Not only do they bend and twist and veer,
We find the way ahead becomes unclear,
Soon blocked by doors -- each door, a different fate.
We’d like to take our time, to contemplate,
But time will press, and each will urge, “Come...

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Rest yourself here where water lies calm
    still, you could fly
              to perch on tempestuous cloudy bank
    perhaps to remain
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