Best Compelling Poems

I remember the time-freezing moment
When Lieutenant Dan made his peace
And opened the dimension of gratitude
The audience experiencing the quickening

I myself have come full circle
And found a tranquil harmony
No longer griping about the government
The church, or scapegoats on TV

How immature for me to think
That fairness grows like a flower
Our souls MUST experience injustice
The reference point of...

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Fear, always a compelling and daunting adversary -
To sanction fear in my life is to reject the power within.
That I am made in the image of God, I must believe! 
~*~...

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Down,
Up.
What can be expected?
Not much.
If you do not jump,
We can all see limitations!
But the Master can create innovations,
Not the popular way!
But there is a way.
Nothing can be achieved,
As long as you are deceived.
Far from this road shall I travel!
Sometime can be said for uniqueness,
It creates oneness!
Often in those joyful times of youth, 
I sought not...

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A vision legendary among Native Americans...
glimpse her in your mind’s eye
   young Shoshone woman
       with a papoose on her back
   stands on a precipice
   surveying the wild panorama
 
    Her presence treasured by these explorers
     ...

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"I moved through the Quarter
as if through a stage-set to an opera
which, having finished its run,
might be struck at any moment."
      John Wray, Canaan's Tongue

I move through this post-selection Quarter
as if a Fat Lady on an opera stage
which I must Final Curtain
through this eternally regenerating song.

I sing with all PermaCulturing...

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While we take pleasure in the glory of the Lord’s handiwork
Satin’s tireless henchmen seek prey in unlikely places
Compelling the hand of God to run his fingers over the earth


Visual 2  For Andrea's Sijo contest...

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it's always been a mystery 
why i am so moved day or night 
at the sound of native drumming 
when loudly my heart thumps in rhythm 
ducking logic with every beat
stirring deep primal emotions 
awakening dormant passion 
releasing unchartered tension 
setting free inner vibrations 
beneath layers rising chanting 
echoing way inside my head 
is something...

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Difference between crazy wildness and genius
may be soundness of deeply revolutionary resonance,
win/wins discerned and discovered
through transparent co-arising communicants
within a symbiotic multiculture 
of appositional paradigms
co-gravitating me/we consciousness.

I can't say for sure
as I live in a less win/win intentional,
more win/lose conventional,
tribe of mutual thoughtful secular knowledge
v felt sacred wisdom,
each mind v body
denying our complicity in BusinessAsUsual 
v...

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Compelling and Swelling

When you have something to do which is compelling
Will it always seem like your head is swelling
Like poem wanting to come out and be written down
Which sometime in life may become world renown.

To write poems as hard as I can will always try
But what you should do is significantly simplify
So I never, ever...

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The sky is a shade of dark grey now
 
It seems as if our depart has caused this terrible scene
 
Adjusting to the fact that you aren't right for me
 
I can recall the day you told me that we would never work out
 
My brow arose in an instant
 
My heart fell burning with...

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As I sit here thinking of us my dear
My mind is not right soaked in fear
From my child like atmosphere
That made you disappear

So unlike me to smear
When I know your heart is sincere
My mind off in some distant place
As if I was in some kind of awful race
To leave my name in disgrace

Our love so...

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Much I marveled lament a favorite kiss
The beautiful amity a beautiful bliss
And the embrace never-ending cuddling
That moment my soul grew laid
While I pondered wandered wonder romance and shade
What could there be more purely displayed?
Parade
And as lovebirds never coquetting, unbaiting
While we pondered worn and renegaded
You warned me about the shade (once more)
Deep into that finish darkness...

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Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-inside-prideful lies
Memorably, miserably yet magnificently and mesmerizingly myself simultaneously 
Precious and passionately positive and neutrality in my nostalgias, negotiating muses of confusion...

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Islamic,
Fundamental morality,
Based upon human sanctity,
Where a person follows,
A principle of welfare,
There he confirms,
What he eats or
What he doesn’t eat.

A Halal as he confirmed to eat,
Where an animal dies,
As blood flew out,
From a cutting nerve,
Very slowly in drops,
Death takes patience.
That believes,
Meat is free from blood.

Islam warns a Muslim,
If he is Muslim, 
He is n’t allowed to...

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masqueraded as you like it
most cleverly wooed under a suitor's guise
played up most compelling disguise



Wordku: 5-7-5 words...

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