Best Focussing Poems

Free Verse

I live not far from humankind the cradle that is of
what and where we are all coming from Johannesburg
so they say and going to one human race of every colour
no need for power domination colonializing margins

The ‘dark continent’ where the ‘savages’ did not abide
by...

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The Way barred, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Le sens clos by T. Wignesan

Every man has to confront his own night
If he wants to continue on his journey.
But Death takes it upon itself to meet him 
At the hour and the place it chooses
(The moment when...

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Eyes
Darting around the room,
not focussing on anything
Can’t focus on anything.
Watering, blurring my vision
I cannot see.

Hands
Sweat on my palms,
fingers trembling.
Not enough strength
to grip anything
I cannot feel.

Stomach
Tied in knots,
somersault after somersault.
My lunch wants to say hello,
just try to breathe
I cannot breathe.

Mind
Racing in circles,
images flashing by.
They always said,
“Try...

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Writing words that don't fit the occasion
It's as if I am lacking a genuine sensation
If only you'd stop stomping on me as if I'm the mat at your front door
My head is in the murky clouds once again and these problems in mind are hard...

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4 arms crossed together,
On a 4x4 sheet of paper.
Their eyes full of life,
Sitting by the ocean sides.
Now they are oceans apart.
Focussing on bar charts.
That snapshot now lies torn and rugged,
In the corner of a Woodland wallet.
No hearbreaks,no tears
Just that laughter for years.
But whenever it is...

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Breathing deeply relaxing the chaotic mind and soul
Stretching to mother nature besotted in the spiritual energies
Mind empty focussing to the enchantment of tradition
Folding bodies flexing into beautiful mind taking positions
Free from anger mind resting from all those everyday thoughts
Meditation unexplainable as one becomes so free
Ending...

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Here’s a twain of siblings so delicate—
The tenor and its weary vehicle,
Similar are, nor yet so disparate
O lady, art not thou so fickle? 

In seeming sameness struts lady contrast, 
Harmony jars to sing in unsure doubt, 
Oxymoron shows a cynical pout, 
Obscure ironies whilst little...

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Standing near the front of the queue
The boy rehearses his lines
"Just three or four pints"
Over and over again in his head

Focussing on every step
That takes him to the inquisitor
Stray too far to the left or right
And there's no way back

Behind him, the underage drinker
Tries his...

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The thin black gauze does not obscure the eyes
Staring at me, one eye closed, one eye open; devoted
Grey metal pipes, exacting in their common goal,
Soon to erupt in justice, to carry out a sentence passed.

The sand below my feet is almost as dry as my...

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Words of wisdom





If you want your words to loudly sound,
and that your emotions may truly count,
Stay vibrant, yet not to reader's astound,
Follow the muse, enrich poetic account,
rather than focussing on the amount !



Written on June 14th, 2015
Words of wisdom- For new writers...

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All I've got now,is a picture of ours 
Kissing me for last time,taken indoors 
Reminiscing the love,I once knew 
the passion and pleasures,which won't renew 

Holding that picture,I look in your eyes 
Can't beleive,your words were mere lies 
you took a vow, only to be...

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Inspired by the painting Shadows In Motion
by Ewa Czarniecka

Which shows people walking in heavy rain. The pallette used is all subdued colours mainly focussing on greys and blacks. The ground looks shiny and wet. Some people have umbrellas, others don't. They are all shadowy. It...

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We see them all as pests to be destroyed.       
For they feed upon our food crops galore.       
And invade all our homes by the score.       
They bite...

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Author Dana Redricks
June 29, 2018

Everyone is focusing on
the external enemy when
we are being destroyed
within
The enemy is detracting 
people while he slowly leads
people astray
The Word of God is where
Can find the truth and
it will set us free
Through believing on
what Jesus did on calvary
to the sin debt...

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An amazing moonlit hazy walk,
A knotted wooden park bench to talk,
A slip of the arm over her petite shoulder
Heart racing, she smiles, he’s feeling bolder

He rises and outreaches his shaky hand,
Coaxing her to embrace as they stand,
Slowly he pulls her close to his large frame
She’s...

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