Best Determined Poems

I’m going to break this Beak loose
Got my mind around in circles Duck Duck Goose’
Been through 
‘Life’, Milton Bradley
Speak my mind,Expressing my feelings while Genuinely showing the real me.
Have you listened to my story?
What I have faced or what I have seen.
I have had to...

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Men worship women
                       Great culture that we are
               ...

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FRAGILE BUT DETERMINED

When leafage brushes hues of gold and brown
painting a canvass delighting the senses. The mind
tickled in imagination to wander, wonder round.
Amidst tweaks heard from brittle lumber's arms:
a seasonal alopecia brought by winds, crisp-cold.

Breezy chill caress, frenzy fanning sometime in a flash.
I tag his...

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As I lay another cedar beam plumb for our home
smoke plumes, serpentine and sulfuric,  interrupts the sunshine,
I look below the ridge, Eve standing silent
with weapon in hand, a woman so grand,
panic has no nest in her person, fear has no finger on her pulse,
I...

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I'm determined to be heard
Through the walls 
Beyond all That 
Deafening windfall

My voice never deterred
Tasking freedom 
dispensing wisdom 
Offering up hope

I am the force, overheard  
A solid speaker for the mute
Constant presence for the Word

I shall reverberate the hurt
You will feel the guilt 
In your...

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I remember taking a discarded sixth grade history book home, the last day of fifth grade.
Determined to wow my sixth grade teacher, by learning it cover to cover over the summer.
I taught myself the first three chapters, and tried to entice my friends into learning...

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Fresh out of college, I got a substitute teaching job

in junior high school Spanish classes - my WORST nightmare.

Spitballs were flying; students leaped over desks like zoo animals.

School ended; I was holding back tears, an utter wreck!


Right then I decided I would only teach my...

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DETERMINED! By Paul David Powers! It began when I was younger, I truly was a nerd! Then they said not good enough, gotta prove to you my worth! In my teens I was a Hippie, they said Hey cut your Hair! Even as a Christian,...

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A journey of a thousand miles
Begins with a single step
A challenge of great magnitude
Requires determination to accept.

The heart must be strong and brave
The mind must be focused and clear
For when the going gets tough
You must persevere to the end.

The courage to stay the course
And never...

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What do you do when she’s born two months early?
Nothing in place but cute baby clothes
Wishing we could at least kiss her on her nose
While in the incubator she had us in a scurry

Expecting a boy, peering through the glass was a girl
So my folks...

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When you look at your reflection in a mirror, what do you see?
I see a failure, and that failure is me.

I feel like I’m stuck yet I pace up and down.
My face is etched with a worrying frown.

The problem is I tend to fester and...

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He crawled methodically up the stairs
A man of six foot four

To what would become his death bed
As he did each night as before

He insisted at being at dinner
With the family while he still could

His family no longer argued the point
Of what he shouldn't or should

I...

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I'm down on the ground,
My brain starts to pound,
It may not be fun,
But ten seconds aren't done.
10 seconds remain.

I still have time,
To arise again,
The timer hasnt hit ten,
Time isn't my friend,
8 seconds remain.

I punch hard, I kick,
I choke, I feel sick.

I try to yell, over...

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Tim was the new judge in Deadwood Flat
Not really qualified, just a rancher at that
He first case was of the outlaw, Horace Slade
Caught red handed in a cattle raid

The jury took ten minutes to recommend the noose
Better than letting this rattlesnake loose.
Tim smoothed out his...

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A metaphor for a beautiful flower in a lovely vase,
Is your beautiful smile on your lovely face. 
When the stresses of life make it hard to cope.
I look to my “rainbow” who always gives hope.

You’re a woman among women, a natural world beater.
With strength enough...

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