Best Forestall Poems

I move my hurtful head and stare forlorn
Over my non-existing boundary,
Where past is seen and future laughs decayed.
Here language is an unwelcome guest,
In stillness awkward,...

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Black Diamond Night

Life is a cruel wench, a beckoning tramp, she is.
 Sprawling wide open to draw us into her erotic nectar.
 She whispers lurid...

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The Wall

Just another brick in the wall
One by one by one
Trump thinks he has won

His wall is narrow as it is tall
His wall seems in...

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Accepting Pain
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Accepting pains, 
I fain life becomes troublesome.
In Sun or rain
As days of great helplessness come.

Praying remains, 
Sustain...

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THE POUND


He looked at me with cautious eyes
As I walked by his cage
The white whiskers on his face
Attesting to his age

I wandered down the row...

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Elusive being sought by far and wide
Seen by many unresponsive to our call
As veiled, elusive vacillating bride
Apparently intending to forestall

Don’t look for Holy Spirit up...

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What is the journey of a tear
Where does it begin
The thought that I may lose you
That you could leave

I feel these pools of sadness swell
As...

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Choose wisely your what guards your heart; for we are products of our environment.

Written: October 21, 2023, For Miranda Hawley Contest
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In the rising sun,
Coming down by the mountains,
Echoes the sirens of seas.
Teaming with all life
Were clouds of foul defilement
Shifting torrents to crimson...

Metal vessel floats,
Tainting with...

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Cool withdrawal from love

Do not think that I love you less
Than when at your mercy I lay
But to forestall the sad distress
Of forlorn love, I...

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Football, volleyball, baseball, softball, 
Racquetball, handball, basketball, hardball. . . . 
There're lots of sports in the world you play with a ball, 
And you...

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Memories mark moments of time, passing like a carousel
  A bitter day in January Challenger exploded
  Hopes for the future of our space...

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I've traveled this celestial ball visiting many places of beauty and renown.
My world travels are over, but there is many an American city and town,
That...

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Alas morning has come, 
the treacherous storm has passed
Anticipation heightens my senses as the wind swirls past, 
The essence of musk engulfs me;
Replacing the aroma...

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A lone tree
Used to stand proud and free
In a meadow its shelter we sought 

But now bends its old branches in a parking lot
In the...

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