Best Flawed Poems

When the mirror of 
               life is a gossamer film,       
 veiling v i n t a g e polaroids that 
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I don’t need thunder
to feel the rumble,
nor lightning
to sense storm’s flash

nor icons to tear
nor statues to bleed
to realize within all
creation, God’s sacred 
omnipotent cache -- 

Yet, while in the smallest
unlimited vastness – 

and in the deepest fathomless 
depth --

admittedly, all by grace of Almighty
God,

little joy...

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The humble man stands before God,
Contrite, and aware he is flawed;
As each day begins
He confesses his sin
Then kneels before God and is awed.

The flawless man stands there as well
Convinced he has no sin to tell
And that God is his equal
Which leads to his sequel
Of life...

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You say, my hair is too kinky and my nose is too broad
But I see perfection it’s your vision that’s flawed

Complexion of mahogany , defined too dark by some
But I see pure radiance, kissed by the sun

You say my lips are too full and my...

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I am a diamond, a faceted gem
One thousand faces each flawed are them
Some hold the truth but most hold the lies
Hidden barely behind all my beautiful smiles
Nobody knows but surely they’ve felt
The darkness inside me my true, hidden self

That’s which is captured, kept under lock...

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Believing the Universe was built 
 from an explosion, and without plan,
 a thousand times more foolish 
 than believing you could build
 a library of fine literature
 by exploding words into the air.


Won a 2nd place...

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Sol's the personification of the sun,
     a sun-god once worshiped by ancient Romans.
          In the Circus Maximus, races were run,
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Once, my actions were juvenile,
a naive youth with a cute smile.
A wingless bird, I could not fly,
but now, my wings soar through the sky.

I'd forgotten we are but dust
and in whom I should place my trust.
I was grounded, living a lie,
but now, my wings soar...

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The macabre’s amusing at times,
makes for off-beat, hilarious rhymes.
To my wife they’re not funny;
she wants cute little bunnies
and not ones that are strangled by mimes.

She says, “Why must the animals die?
And that one with the bird made me cry.
In the end, she did soar
off to...

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Without God
It’s all flawed





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Sponsored by Brian Strand
November 15, 2020
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There is a state of mind known as woebegone
In which one feels like an addict on methadone
The more one tries to feel upbeat
The more one suffers mental defeat
And the mind plays on like a gramophone.
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The boys outside the bar appeared rapscallion
Their actions were downright reptilian
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Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner,
We know this from history.
And when he died, most were solid,
And very few ever let free.
Yet Jefferson himself put down the words
That led to our great progress,
When he said men were entitled to
“Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.”
Do we ignore...

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My physics is flawed
                                      I have learnt Einstein's...

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Winter clouds are hanging low,
stitched to the horizon's hem.
And the sky, a blue sapphire,
streaked with white veins, a flawed gem.

Trees stretch skeletal fingers,
entombed within ice and snow.
Yet a hint of life lingers,
giving them a greenish glow.

A shapeless Snowman's melting
and swiftly falling apart.
For freezing rain keeps...

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a double tetractys  and couplets

When treasure is found in jars of clay
it's proof that worth
comes from God,
not from
us.

My
noble
acts are mere
crushing defeats
when I forget God commands light to shine.


Recalling a time I took a tumble
trying to create my boardwalk divine.

Forfeiting fam'ly, blazing my own way,
I...

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