Best Compete Poems

Lingering rays of sunlight slowly die
as scarlet burns the sky, where clouds ignite.
And when the birds roost, bats begin to fly,
capturing elusive moths in mid-flight.
Luna hangs high in an ebony sky,
spinning dreams into beams of golden light.
And twinkling stars, like fireflies in the night,
confetti the...

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How does one compete with a Frost or a Keats,
a Dickinson or Whitman for words,
how can we say in our language today
what we feel within has been stirred.

Like those in our past who intrinsically grasped 
the secrets to living and more,
their visions, dreams, and ideas...

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Words whispered into bullet holes in motel walls
how reliable are they?
They mean less than they did once upon a mattress
or underneath it perhaps.

Words bullying and strutting
Make no difference 
when a mean one comes for you.

Words cannot compete with health.
I used to think otherwise but there...

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ON LONELINESS
Simply gaze around
what do you see?
I see nothing and am deaf to an offensive sound
and that's precisely the eay I want it to be

lonely people alone in a strange place
all of us have nothing of substance to do
its sort of like a ninety mile...

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Follow your heart, to thyself be true
do not fear the coming of the day
when you compete with no one, no one can compete with you

See the gray as gray, the blue as blue
your eyes are your greatest gift, don’t let them slip away
follow your heart,...

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..I cannot compete with YOUTH, it will take me years to get back,
I cannot compete with BEAUTY, 'coz I know later it will only sag,
I cannot compete with DISTANCE, even with TIME, it'll just pass, 
I can only compete with 'ME' & the LOVE I...

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Nature compares but classes
Are imminent and permanent
In levity of stratified system.



Even when a cat kills and eats
A rat it can't be equal
To a lion in the jungle.


Hunting speedy antelope
They may both be carnivores
But one is king of the jungle....

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How do I compete against M.S.?                                  How do I win a losing...

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The stars compete for position – 
Floating their weight on for connection;
As it’s always hard to live alone - Forming eclipses by relation;
Never caring when to take precaution – 
Conscience is not theirs for correction:
The stars do pose for attention – 
Looking down on the...

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Sappho fragment #2
translation by Michael R. Burch

How can I compete with that damned man
who fancies himself one of the gods,
impressing you with his "eloquence" ...
when just the thought of sitting in your radiant presence,
of hearing your lovely voice and lively laughter,
sets my heart hammering at...

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Never retreat, but ever try
Though you may badly fail
Let efforts reach the Sky,
To give God a pleading mail,
It is better to pray, never cry
As prayer will always prevail,
Attempt like the Sea-wave
Tempt may fear to enslave
With contempt, give it a grave
The problem you must face
And solve...

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From prehistoric stone there was sharpened a point then a spike:
chiselled and engraved and hoisted and thrust,
raised high above men toward a target lofty, afar in a field.

Competitors rose from primordial waters, 
harpooning dreams and dripping ambition,
tired and bruised but practiced and hopeful.

Javelin was once...

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Could chronic stress,
like sleep deprivation,
noise and light and air pollution
also derive
by avoiding barely still alive
high-risk trauma messes?

Sometimes sadly beginning
prior to economic and political puberty

Including multi-generational suppression
misogynistic sex tensions
and monotheistic depression
and homophobic repression,
hateful Othering paranoid impressions,
chronic monocultural climate despair,
uncivil disinvested oppressions

Endarkened
by a popular FirstWorld
anthro-privileged
secularizing, dividing, dissociating
evolutionary...

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Then leave it Slowly.                                         ...

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Capital Growing valuables,
liquid and solid infrastructural,
are also sacred AnthroElder artifacts for 
Future cooperative co-investment,

health preferring multicultural control
over thoughtlessly biased
ego left hemisphere privileged
AnthroSupremacist competitions
with other
lesser beings
competitively anxious
about sufficiency of Earth's healthy systemic limits
on perpetual economic
anti-ecologically dissonant 
Over-development

of remaining
positively deviant
multiculturally resilient health care systems
giving and polyculturally receiving
back...

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