Best Contentions Poems

The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the...

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Skies star-crossed over treacherous weather
Divided voices splintered in turmoil
Hope dissolved along with burning heather
across four score and twenty summers’ soil
Yet, I have seen redemption in...

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Tell us of folks with conscience clear on terror; of trusted neo
terrorists that oust teams, terrorizing thousands... near, far, and wide

May it marinate in their...

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For hills and ideals we died,g
And how many dreams went buried with us
No one shall ever know.

For mounds of ideals
Created by men who sit behind...

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MY SIN IS GREAT BUT GOD'S GRACE IS GREATER

My sin is great but
God's grace is greater
Your sin is great but
God's grace is greater
I may have...

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A tiny mottled maple leaf
appeared outside my window pane.
Its superficial veiny face
Clung wet glass precariously.
Its nemesis, the wind, blew strong
But yet the tiny thing held...

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My thoughts, not like what can be written on paper -
A paper so thin that you can see through,
onion paper, yes,
are not worth citing still,
they...

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Punk is not dead. It was never alive.
We stitched it together from mangled parts
with contents we poured from inconstant hearts
in our basements during bleak nights.
Finding...

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The sport of ball games is many each summer and each fall. 

Within the Major leagues, and the Minors are many whines. 

The events that...

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“You play on my every weakness from my past, 
As a heart-wrenched spirit of truth caresses your comrades
They are perturbed as you are by the...

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No matter what you've done
 in the past
I was in Idolatry, greed, covetousness, love of money, 
I was Complaining, not loving God full of gluttony,...

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Mr. Telephone man, I got some questions to run past you
Is it the phone the line or is this cold dime just that coo.
Honey’s a...

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A word play you said!  The mimic copycat this day
For hundreds of people to sigh and feel the now 
Will take ages to write...

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Flowing from sad eyes, weeping while mourning

Rivers of tears caused by words of lewd scorning

Angry insults inflict wounds too painful to abide

Garnering grief that no...

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Yes
It happened again 
When you walked away
Leaving me in this grave 
All alone
After killing me softly
Silently blowing me away
From my elementary capacity
Just like that 
You...

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