Best Competes Poems

At seven sixteen, I heard the first bird sing.
You're still asleep with breaths steady and even.
I'm drinking my tea while birds are on the wing.
Nature's...

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Fueling Autumn's color change each year
are shorter days and cooler, longer nights,
and a plucky October breeze that bites.
Vermilion, crimson, and scarlet appear
as emerald canopies disappear.
And...

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Lost among shadows of solitude’s flow
Stained glass illusions destroying her heart
Sadness competes for a seat on the row
Little it knows long ago brought it’s start

Sorrow...

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a patch of, alluring sea
the wonder of this buoyancy

the gentle waves, the searing sun
with all of nature, I am one

my aches and pains just drift...

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The First Six Months

     January, you remind me to close the door to yesteryear 
     And to...

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flash dancing with dawn

hued dawn rises as
lightning flashes in spring skies—
mighty sol competes

5-23-19

A STRAND (1059) Poetry Contest~N/A~
Sponsor Brian Strand


Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, ~First Place~
Nature...

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Astounded ...

Death caught his breath ...
          cast his net to the stars,
    ...

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Amidst the sacred places
I've witnessed distraught faces
A virtual Kaleidoscope of races
History often traces
Many are hungry and cold
Politicians bought and sold

Achingly, our God embraces
He competes to...

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the 
thick message 
competes with reality,
 pulls us like string puppets, 
wags the tail of truth,
prevents positive emotion,
obscures historic changes,
stopping time....
....slowing progress

increasing
 shareholder
value...

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I open my eyes to the lovely smile on mom's face 
and the tenderness in her gaze; 
but why is there more silver 
in her...

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Spineless behaviour, walks on mud and leaves no foot prints
the creator’s puzzle, only unravels through difficult hints
existing as one of morality’s abandoned orphans
bladder is always...

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I think he's talking about a cooperative bicameral political system,
with "How to talk to the other side".

And what could that possibly mean, dear Yang?

Well,
I was...

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Once within our time,
SkyPrince and SunGod talk,
as usual,
endlessly actually,
sending their radiant messages
out toward mutually gravitating receivers,
no Yins allowed to pitch;
just catch integrative flow.

SkyPrince wonders if...

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A dance of elegance they leap
in grace of movements sweep
moonlights skipping on the waves
upon the circuits the currents paves

A Spanish Dancer twirls her skirt
whose painted...

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A four piece string ensemble competes
with fluted crystal glasses harmonizing
to the tinkling of fine silverware
underpinned by the purring whispers 
of well-to-do's and their hobnobbery.

Buttery lobster...

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