Best Forgoing Poems


Premium Member O My Brother I feel your Pain
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O my brother, I can see your pain.
Unlike the ignorant, I hear your screams,
yet you refuse to explain, why you're
lost in forgotten fast flowing streams,
wandering like a forgoing wave,
think......

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Categories: forgoing, angst, brother, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Time's Loving Deceit
...Anger flies with swift wings
As tedious pleas for more time reverberate through his mind
He is the servant of Time- yet takes the blame
When her clawed hand unwinds the clock
He, the sovereign of......

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Categories: forgoing, corruption, dark, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confusion Confounds
...No one faces lost love rationally,
forgoing all their romantic notions.
For confusion confounds reality,
when running a gauntlet of emotions.

Doubt anonymously attacks with guile,
its ......

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Categories: forgoing, anxiety, break up, emotions,
Form: Sonnet

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Pickings
...When the snout of lush abundance is full and flowing,
when all prey and creature-kind spill upon the verdant swards,
then it is that I worry night and day,
for the stoat, fox and hawk are at work,......

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Categories: forgoing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Husband Feebly Tried To Smite Figuratively
...Preface preceding promiscuous philandering peccadillos
undermining energy and time not spent with missus
and mother of our precious progeny,
whereby, yours truly sought, (somewhat assertively, mod......

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Categories: forgoing, betrayal, conflict, depression, desire,
Form: Rhyme
The Life of Jesus Christ Lord
...In Galilee, his voice was heard.
In Nazareth, he rested his spirit.
Cana is where he was first miraculous.
In Galilee, the crowds were like a flock of sheep.
But his crucifixion in Judea defeated......

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Categories: forgoing, america, religious, tribute, trust,
Form: Pastoral


Traversing the Lucky Country
...Exploring the suburbs at Melbourne
Glad are the late nights’ burnt

Bustling Bourke Street Mall
Epitome of a retail therapy’s call

The archaic Flinder’s Station
Scheduling warrants attention

Cho-ch......

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Categories: forgoing, holiday, red, kindergarten,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Nurse
...Ever since the creation of the universe
Man is bound to suffer from diseases
Human beings are constantly
Victims of various ailments


Stepping into the shoes of the first nurse
Florence Night......

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Categories: forgoing, care, christmas, joy, new
Form: Prose
Burnout
...Burn out

keep the pedals turning
Within the cogs inside your mind
Staying late to get it done
With solutions that you find

Skipping lunch time after time
The weights drops from your thighs
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© Jan Parkin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forgoing, inspirational,
Form:
Phoenix
...Sometimes I want to scream
“This is not me!"
But then who would I be
Without these reflections 
Of the world outside 
So I abide 
In the lie of conformity
And do my best to ignore the enormity......

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Categories: forgoing, birthday, journey, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Green Eyed Monster
...Hent my heart from wandering concepts of affection.
Recant the murmurs of insecurity that riddled my temple.
Like a slow wound toy awaiting release from a child's grasp and attention.
Toss and bir......

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Categories: forgoing, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member For the love of salt and sea
...For the love of Salt and Sea
A man,
Standing tall and feelin free.
With his old raggedy clothes,
Pipe
And his sunburnt nose.
On the bow of Ole Navy,
Just watching,
And waiting for the Jubilee......

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Categories: forgoing, blue, boat, death, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
The Morning Rush
...The Morning Rush

Early to bed early to rise, makes one healthy and wise....
So here I am,  wide awake and awaiting sunrise....

The millionaires, they sleep on, not a surprise...
If they awake......

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Categories: forgoing, anger, community, conflict, cry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Gun In Every Home
...Two fine films: The Lost City and Blood Diamond.
I joined Blood Diamond during a village massacre
and said to my wife A gun in every home.
Those devils would think twice
before razing the village......

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Categories: forgoing, fear, home, lost, music,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Children and Dogs Replenish My Soul
...As I spend as little time as possible with hard-headed pompous adults
Avoiding antiquated arrogant beliefs, often set in stubborn stone,
Avoiding inane conversations and minds that have not grown,
......

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Categories: forgoing, animal, appreciation, children, dog,
Form: Italian Sonnet
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