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, clean environment.
My eyes stay empty, yet insist and glare
Through looks of expectation all around:
“Where are the others, how long did...

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Recycling ourselves endlessly, we are the givers of life for all.
A misconception is that we bear the shape of a tear.
In fact we are flat although from the side, we appear
Nearly round, as from the sky we fall.
Dropping gently as showers when we are small,
Reveling...

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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 words which promise to forestall
 The imminent erosion, of illusionary perfection.

The promise of a tomorrow? Few have the inherent structure,
...

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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 fallible
His rhetoric rusts and soon will crumble

His wall it will not fall
For my army shall make it ever taller
For I...

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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 hope that hurts shall soon go.
Forestall complaints.
Watch faith with great endurance grow. 

Go not insane
Nor spend thoughts on self-pities lure.
And...

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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 of strays
Looking at them all
In hopes I'd find the perfect one
And ones homelessness forestall

There were several that I liked
Most jumping...

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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 above
Nor in the dark of night in call of prayer
That being portrayed as a Snow White dove
 Comes not with...

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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 sorrow glistens
My eyes about to overflow
To not forestall

A single droplet breaks away
To realize its due
As heartache overtakes my soul
Torment rushes...

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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 slow corruption;
Flora, fauna, disruption...

Hopeful sakura
With leaves falling, vanishing;
Whales sprawling from erosions.
Trying to forestall,
From corrosions nature squalls.
Dying, perishing pleura...




*Collaborative with J.C.M.C.*...

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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 keep away.

Pipe dreaming for everything
Which I have known to be your traits
Your image to my fancy bring
And  makes my...

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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 can't play any of them if you're an oddball. 

If you want to be good at any such sport, 
You've...

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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 program quickly eroded
Recalling the fate of the first teacher in space, on sadness dwell

On a November day in Dallas, nineteen...

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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 I really pine to visit before I cease to function and cash in my chips.
I reckon you could say these...

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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 of sea salt that once filled the misty air
I am assured that my beloved pirate is homeward bound

Perched upon my...

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