Best Exhort Poems

Herstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

Beneath stardust's scattered gleam, 
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.

Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise, a...

Read more of this work...

My driveway is packed with the cars
of friends and family,
chips put out, and the little ones
are running joyously.

A cooler filled up with bag ice
keeps cold...

Read more of this work...

I strain against the rising tide
    But I find no solace there.
My only hope for some success
    Is to...

Read more of this work...

HEAT WAVE (Tanka)

“gods    exhort the sun
punish the unbelievers”
and so it was done
the greeks believed in many
but we now pray to just one

“oh...

Read more of this work...

Poets, Open Your Treasure Chest Of Words

Poets, dare to present what your heart speaks
let it roam other realms, true meaning seek,
venture into lands with magical...

Read more of this work...

The Word WALK has a long history, going back to the beginning of time.
Even though I WALK THROUGH the valley of the shadow of death,
I...

Read more of this work...

Don't pour scorn on this three legged table
The Carpenter's spoken "it is more stable"
Trust in the Word of the designer who knows
Listen or your ignorance...

Read more of this work...

Dearest Father in heaven above,
To whom all honor and glory belong,
Thank you very much for your love,
And holy spirit that keeps us strong,

We thank You...

Read more of this work...

Now is going on through a secret way
Between the martyrdoms and the ground wall,
My master, and I behind him to stay.

“Oh highest virtue, who me...

Read more of this work...

"O Yellow Lily! You smilingly bloom
   Early in the morning in my terrace garden,
In a jiffy, you take away all gloom,
  ...

Read more of this work...

Alphanumeric emergency is her agency of supremacy,
press your neck with a kiss ment for carniverous kinesthetics,
move you into a position of requisition, repitition aphyxiated with...

Read more of this work...

I know a maid—her name is Rose.
     She has long hair that’s thick and dark,
and great, green eyes like no one...

Read more of this work...

Breaking DNA Strains

In Biology lessons, one reads of mutations…
That inexplicable quirk of natural selection…
For once in a while some individual thrives…
While at other times, another...

Read more of this work...

The folds have heard his gentle voice,
In which I was yet to hear.
They say it is still and small;
A sound to comfort the tiers.
Had I...

Read more of this work...

It's okay to be white,
it's okay to be brown,
it's okay to be Asian
hailing from Shanghai town.

It's okay to be Jewish,
or of the Christian sort,
or be...

Read more of this work...