Best Fortitude Poems

I eat upon a creaky table
   and think in quiet realms,
   sleep I will on some luminous cloud,
   wonder where the seam of my labors
   stitched what I have found;
I oft muse aloud the folly of the...

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Fortitude

Foundation of fierce stone,
forging life on its own.
Fortissimo strong heart,
fights for its every part.
Force but with strength of mind,
fiber finer than wine,
from firmest on the vine.

9/23/16




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Oh earthy rock,
the savage man does not know,
neither does the learned understand
the secret to your existence.
You sit here, year after year
watching your adversaries screaming,
and swallowing their wrath.
You have aunthetic power,
I see you resisting their sharp arrows,
and when the competition comes your way,
you out-sing them with...

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A mirror never reveals  
fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins;  
time unmutes raven melodies within,  
tawny tunes of truth~
   I once spoke in colorful dialects.  
Now, I trust just the crying crescent in your  
onyx realms  
...

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P e a c e is a language
spoken between
healing bougainvilleas 
and bleeding begonias,
dripping dews of hope
through simple gestures~
like specks of sapphire dust
from stars sparkling
amidst bed-shaped clouds,
crawling through the horizon
many miles away,
stretching
beyond
the fogginess
that veils clarity,
stirring the
anchored odyssey
to sail through
twisted tides of turquoise,
facing the harshness of reality
like...

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Don’t give in to adversity
Don’t accept defeat
Put your best foot forward
In any challenge that you meet.

Stick to your convictions
Hold your head up high
Know your limitations
Then you’ll be able to get by.

You can weather any storm
No matter how severe
It takes intestinal fortitude
Let me make that clear.

If...

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Here I was then and there desiccated by deterioration
But now, here I stand ignited by determination
                             ...

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A
Chain
lofty
Reaction
Felt around the earth
By the cataclysmic earthquake
Hard to tell the earth from the sky at Shishiory river
Converting the part of island nation of Japan into a floating cemetery.

It was powerful enough to shift the earth on its axis one parking space to the east
To make...

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Tear charged riders 
Above the sea
Born and chosen, 
To rise and clean
Air, and water
Our hills and valleys.

They help filter
UV rays streams
From brazing earth
That all receives
The sun's power
To hold it burn free.

Tear charged riders
Raised by light beams
For earth, like father 
Joined by breezes,
Dancing mother
That life we...

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In my head, I’m in the library, at
a podium, before a microphone, looking
out into the faces of a yearning sea
of people, knowing they expect 
a little kindness but mostly, a lot of
answers from me.  Beyond them,
on the far wall, there are words carved
in the...

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I slaved all day to make our first anniversary dinner—
and you didn't tell me that our relationship or marriage
didn't mean anything to you. 
I cried myself to sleep. 

I began to see why my father had some reservations
about you. 
I guess that I should've listened...

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Die for your country
Die for your friends 
Die for your family
Die for your beliefs
Die for your sins 
Die! because it is selfless

I meant, 
Die! because you are selfish
Die! and forget,
that the will to live and struggle
for everything and everyone
needs more fortitude than the will
to die.

Live...

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Fortitude and Vicissitude

What we will need is the fortitude
So we can withstand each vicissitude
In life and be able to survive
Also as well as remain alive
By a reporter will be interviewed.

Jim Horn


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Braced by praise-filled gratitude
My spirit exalts the Lord for His mercy’s latitude
Upholding faith toward ministerial altitude
Buttressed upon His compassion’s beatitude.

I then repent from vanity-driven aptitude
Beseeching God’s grace against hypocritical attitude
As my heart yields to Christ’s omnipotence-magnitude
For blessed loving service of thanksgiving* fortitude.

*2Corinthians 9:11 Being enriched...

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I will not hold back

My dreams have traveled
As far as the heavens exists . . .
And beyond

I have created my own dimensions
That I may dwell
In a certain certifiable solitudionous state
Where I visit 
To reclaim my ‘Self’
And recover my divine balance

I have looked into the eyes
Of...

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