Best Circumstance Poems

"Cruel birds—ravens—but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness."
- Hannah Kent


My lover's demons are like ravenous ravens.
Her love is a hand grenade triggering exploding emotions,
massacring words into silent suppression
but beyond the threshold of her eyes, 
there's a...

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The ruffle of fleece at her neck
makes her feel manufactured, not born—
brushstrokes of windswept wool,
all soft edges and curves
the color of old milk.

Her lips were no artist's accident,
nor the smirk as she lurks
in the corner more knowing 
than any ewe usually dares. 
Coy smile, a...

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God knows each heart that walks the streets, and then,     
each sense of guilt caught up in false pretense.                    
How not to...

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An ant was digging in the dirt, he worked and toiled so long.
He looked upon the work he’d done and decided it was wrong.

He’d only made a little dent in a job that was too big,
so he decided to find some friends to help him...

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Your thought-balloons are filled with wild and magical freedom ~

until madness seizes your think tank 
trapping your ceaselessly chirping ideas 
within the teeth of its snapped steel-jaws 
refusing to relinquish you; lest you chew up and spit out your mind-racing brain

ire over this cognitive quagmire...

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In depth of circumstance, the heart shall write,
For senses, save one, deceive me tonight-
Pensive contemplation gives in to you,
While words, as they always are yours, flow through-
What she cannot fathom the heart consumes,
Tracing line after line, the passion blooms-
Oh, has this dream come to open...

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My heart is being held prisoner
In her dungeon of coquettishness
She hasn’t fully rejected me
But my advances she coyly deflects

I haven’t given up all hope
She still smiles at my innuendos
But when I approach for a carnal dance
She just steps all over my toes

My heart is being...

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Circumstance of France
Circumflex

Global indifference
Uncaring bastards
For words and letters
Grammar and poetic letters
Stealing our roots, our tools
Our hats
Our very being
Taking us for fools
We shall overcome this injustice
As Rafael Padilla rose above his chains
So shall we restore our dignity


I fear if we left the kitchen
You'd steal our onions...

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Dark clouds overhead
wind whipping the summer green...
thunderstorm arrives....

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I may have, and you have not
But that choice was never mine.
While covet holds for what I’m not
With what I haven’t, I’ll be fine.

I was born, as who I am
Never born to grow as king
To be born as man, or as ma’am
Neither context I can...

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Longing looks or
furtive glances,
shuffling steps
or pony prances

Sheathing swords
and crossing lances
choices, actions
partners, dances

Living, loving
true romances,
fate and chance
or circumstances...

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Happy Earth Day, PS...


How the majestic spectacle of Nature is revealed
At the end of a dull and gloomy day
When the bullying, storm-foreboding clouds give way
And allow the struggling, setting sun to gild, and flush,
And glorify this tiny expanse of rocks and shrubbery
With an awesome pomp...

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Looking at the world 
In a kaleidoscope of color
Vivid and fleeting
Every shade filled with hope of bliss.

Laden with heartache
After ages of pain and grief,
Uncertainty of a 'forever'
Glancing eerily at me, 
Heading for a breakdown that I would never succumb to.

Leaving behind yesterday and its bitterness,...

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Though Circumstances in Life May...
Change my plans
Tire my body
Limit my finances
Challenge my fortitude
Increase my heartache 
and Overflow my tears

They Will Not...
Define my character
Consume my thoughts
Mislead my direction
Steal my joy
Diminish my hope
or Break my spirit

God Will Use Them To...
Strengthen my faith
Anchor my emotions
Multiply my prayers 
Transform...

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You are my guru my confidant my long lost friend
come to me now before you’re put to an end - Silence

You are an out law invaded upon by every conceivable means
marked for smuggling in peace and quiet behind the scenes - Silence 

You are removing...

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