Best Fallibility Poems

* Many years now since this very talented, very HUMAN guy left us … those holes never fill, and he is sorely missed. (This is...

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I'm not crazy about political poetry
Because politics feel a bit ... soiled to me
But as a requirement for the contest
I will say the following, as...

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Why is it the intransigent
find the intransigent
to be pigheaded, willful,
inflexible and pertinacious?
Engaging, as it were,
in an endless “tug-o-war”
neither side allowing
for consideration of 
the fallibility of...

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You and I
I concede 
You are virtuous 
I am delinquent 
You refrain from forbidden
I oftentimes give in
You pride on your piety 
I accept my fallibility...

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As night draped its cloak over Baltimore's sleeping form,
A cargo ship, the MV Dali, sailed to greet the dawn.
From the bustling harbor shores it had...

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Spiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord

Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before...

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ODE  TO  A  NEVER RECEDING ECHO
For  Onyebuchi

Day  and night in an eternal combat.
A  truce : the eternal cycle of...

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Have I not told you that what you mistake
for madness is but the overacuteness of the senses?
- Edgar Allen Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart
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I have seen...

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   time …

drips as color, inked and puddled
minutes like sable bristles, bound
laying down the hours as fading bands of value
what are the shades...

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The dimensions of a human mind
Encompasses the vast universe in itself
Everyone of the humankind is indeed
A unique experiment in consciousness.

Then why are we bounded by...

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Acceptance of life—
The hassles and strife,
With moments of mirth;
No utopia on earth.

Acceptance of self—
In sickness and health,
With humanly flaws;
Just because.

Acceptance of others—
As imperfect sisters and...

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Hent my heart from wandering concepts of affection.
Recant the murmurs of insecurity that riddled my temple.
Like a slow wound toy awaiting release from a child's...

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The nest of wires
so loosely tethered
at the base of control
suffers from rigidity
while hard-linked
to each portal of
infinity

until cracks snake
the foundation
like menacing grins,
all mirthlessly mouthing
infallible truth
behind certain
fallibility:

every...

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Great Lakes mariners fear the “Witch of November”
Winds blow fiercely in the cruelest month of the year
The crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald would concur
If in...

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If I am but a man, then be it so. 
And I eat strength and breathe fallibility. 
But I confess, to be man is a...

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