Best Firming Poems

My poem is patterned after John Crowe Ransom's "Blue Girls." I suppose you could call it a parody. His poem appears below mine.


Styling in your leggings, wildly designed,
Strutting to classes in your modern schools— 
While texting. Roll your eyes at those old fools
Who think they're...

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Winter's Perfect Heat 


“Snowflakes gather in crystalline drfitings”

Lifting your hair, kissing the nape of your neck
Warm flesh waits on tippy toe desires
Lips brush skin, lower beyond silver chain clasp
Sighs slip past moon shadow echoes

“Frost bitten warnings fuel whistling winds”

Candlelight flickers in illumined frenzy
Strong hands caress...

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How often have I asked myself this question
As I reflect upon my image in the mirror each fine morning
And wonder,
Who would want you, really want you
And wonder too if sanity might be an arrow in her quiver.
Or more likely, as seems certain, she is kin...

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Admonishing against arrogance and apathy
Building lives buttressed with leadership brace
Caring for his children, blending compassion and circumspection
Daddy* dearest is decisive, determined, diligent, dedicated, disciplinarian...

Empowering with his enabling encouragement
Fatherly figure, firming up family fortress by his faith-fortitude
Godly in gearing, guarding, governing, guiding along grace goodness 
Hoisting...

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Winged Vamp – for contest


Hey, who’s in charge here…?
I need a serious makeover,
spent a summer eating a very…
well….green diet
put on a few ounces..
had some of “those” curves.
Been in here working
on my image, you know,
buffing it up on all levels,
a little firming up,
splash of color,
new wardrobe.
Now...

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Nature is a fugitive here now
the air thick with metallic salt
silver waves lap a barren shore

Governments bend and lie
as we all do – yet a silent army 
of synthetic colors and dyes 
march on attacking the palette

O alumina! O ammonia!
Fill me with your artifice!

Yellow cakes
Red...

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April 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 12-15

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 12:6-7 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.  And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of...

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Taste silvered moonlight
Caress soft firming intent
Sink oblivious...

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Breathing the new air, grasping a trembling news
Firming my grasp, and holding my grips
Asking anyone to trample on my shoes
As me flying my mind, and stiffening up my lips

I cannot cry, as my tears are dry
Messages are not on your mind to reply
I cannot complain...

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As coveting's exchange, and grandeur's aim
does follow course of some insane
new coveting, while a boast proclaims
its piety real, while cause not same.

But teach me God to wear Thy name
in honest truth, as only can -
and humbleness will fill me then,
a richer source, a truer yen.

And...

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Drowning in Fear


This feeling of sudden, impending doom 
corners me with strong arms. 
A deep seated ache of guilt 
for what wrong doing, I know not... 
begins tearing at my insides
 like a sharp toothed rat 
with fire looming at its back 
and no escape...

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Slight of hand
By the orange man
Firming up the border
While he grabs what he can

For the oil backed felon
With an eye on a gem
The Canadian border 
Is just another dress hem
...

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No seeming sight, as left to right were space,
nor style to look upon, not of thy face.

No holding central, like my heart was waste,
and solely rental, as to live were place.

To need you, every way, and find your grace,
so close, that mimic's jaunting of some...

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Sunlight hot strikes hard
	White concrete shimmering
rippling mirages of water far
	piercing cleanly the boundary clear

Gliding swaying moving near
	linen blinding bright conceals
shadowed curves hinted within
	softly moving rhythmically

creamy white buttons
	within slits that hold
unfastened slowly setting free
	moistened flesh lying within

sliding slowly dropping soft
	pooling about sandaled feet
stepping free setting bare
	downward...

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Misery has a voice louder than joy, in firming
as in transposing of the soul,
its journey ne'er returning,
cannot but guess then, where my yearning!

Have I foretold new grace, as candle burning
to so proceed my cause, enlightened learning,
I hear thy sound and closest to my  heart
faith...

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