Best Discovery Poems

We are born ---
  we live, we die;
  and in between we gaze the aftermath of the gods...
  and the great shining stars at night ---
  with greater grip in old age than fleeting youth;

More fiercely we cling to ebbing mortality,
...

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Taps to Discovery

“Here, I’ve bought you something
Push this and the bell will ring”
But I want a real toy
Thought that tender little boy

There it stood unwanted went
While time with proper toys was spent
Then one rainy afternoon
Into his mind there came a tune

The plasticy machiney thing
He found...

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I’m not the body
suffering
not even the mind


6/22/2018
MagiCicada 13 - Body and Mind Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Maureen McGreavy...

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I have found it at last
 Flower told in legends past
    
Its color vibrant as gold
My furry body it will hold

I have had no color since my birth
This is the only color left on Earth

Its yellow beauty is so bright
Brighter than the...

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i cannot count enough stars 
   to tell how many shine in your eyes 
     nor can i gather into one 
     the brilliance of the sun 
      that your...

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While I sometimes give thought too, sometimes I know I ought too, find
myself and the recovery to the awakeenning of those desires to become
myself. Noone else, NO! not just a better me, but a new me, because I'm
better than that, better than the chase of...

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“I'll follow you to the ends of the earth” is a very old line
But recently, they've discovered earth is round, will take a long time
Sounds good on paper
But methinks this caper
Could mean death crossing by dinghy the ocean brine...

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We found each other again
Above the sea, before golden skies
Shining upon us for miles ahead
Our conversation would never be forgotten

Re-uniting on a bridge we cross
Leaving troubles behind us
With each soft step of forgiveness taken,
We discover what brings us to the other side


4/20/19

Photo #3

Placed 2nd in...

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Searching in the wilderness,
amongst thorns and creeping silence,
Finding myself lost and dazed.
The night whispers in my ear,
of unfulfilled dreams and desires.
I find myself alone,
praying that this isolation doesn't last for long,

I have journeyed into the wastelands,
Too far to turn back and admit defeat.
Bound by the...

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My work is identity
The axe in my hand
No blisters to bother me
As for years I just stand

The weeds and the flowers
Call me back down to earth
The brown rust confuses
Destroys my self-worth

The tears and the rain
Have frozen me here
It could be forever
At least that is my...

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I, to the pasture's green could run, 
and fly a kite beside the sun,
but choose, I do, to linger still, 
among the dirt, what is my frill?

Low, be it may, to sink my feet, 
into the slimy, pungent peat, 
but with my grandad by my...

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I open up my chest
You see my beating heart
I sometimes wear it on my sleeve
If ever we're apart

I know I should be guarded
Protective of this flesh
But then again your gaze upon me
Rejuvinates to fresh

I open up my tiny realm
Allow you to step in
The veil between...

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I stand atop a mountain tall,
look down upon the land,
the forests clinging to the slopes,
green valleys long and grand.
Rivers carve torrents right through them,
can still hear them up here,
cabins scattered amongst the woods,
one such belongs to me.
Some wonder why I walk up peaks,
why I deal...

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sunray glitters
on a silken thread
toddler’s finger
reaches for the
spider web



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~DARK CLOUDS~ 2020

AP: 2nd place 2022

Submitted on June 11 for contest YOUR CHOICE (7) sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on June 9, 2019...

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Moses opened the "Red sea",and "Jesus Christ" raised "The Dead"through "The Lord God Almighty"!!! Praise The Lord! He holds all the cards! I think it is a good idea to "Praise The Lord"!!! That is not "Hard"!!! Praise The Lord!! Moses opened "The Red Sea"...

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