Best Desist Poems

A collaboration between Paul Callus & Carolyn Devonshire
 
Where were you when she disappeared?
Is the moment caught in your mind?
Were you nervous as the day...

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Be it known as convenience food, junk food or munchies;
whether spicy, melt-in-your-mouth soft, or crunchy,
food, inglorious food, seduces with ease
and ensnares with the emptiest of...

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Poet, stand up! 
                     ...

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You feel empty inside,
robbed of its passion, your spirit has died.
It was a deftly theft
no trace of trust was left,
so you're feeling bereft
and can't shake...

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Love too great can drown the one adored.
As if Jove sent  tsunami as a gift
Overwhelming all her personal choice.

Little offerings gentle and deserved
Will ...

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It’s been ages since I cooked chestnuts for mother
Now that she’s in Heaven enjoying better things.
But each year she would ask me for her favourite...

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Huxley was in his nineteenth year,
a freshman at a fancy school,
the kind with excesses of ivy,
who claimed they accepted no fools.

The academics were no task,
he’d...

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O' the case of Dorian
progressing through the sea,
battering the Bahamas
then shifting to a "three",
Have you seen the damage caused,
how islands lie in rubble?
Property and lives...

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"Give it to me,or else I will die"
This is the repeating sound
Of a body governed by addiction.
It stirs up one's mind
With an itching desire to...

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Similar to the way a poet begins his creative process
I'm not writing this—I craft hastily as views progress

Doubt often sneaks in and affects how a...

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Midnight presents, words and peace
Unwrapped in process, to release
Feeling sense of infinity
Embracing welcomed trinity
Let me speak; love, share to present
All the years of time I...

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"discarding narrow thought flow crutch
we learn directly by soft touch
and what we garner we relay
to the vast void in childlike play
entwined thus with the universe
we...

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I'm over it
I'm giving up
I don't have to do it
Yet you force me to like I'm a chump
I avoid it like an illness
You let it...

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Espy, distinguish divinely made lively, lovely Trees
He or she, inhales carbon dioxide, then breathes
out for us humans, life given clean oxygen
Stout roots run deep, holding...

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In whispered silence two hearts run in league
Reluctant each to raise the wakeful mist
By mantle of night and moonlight’s sweet mystique
While forbidden fate hides a...

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