Best Iven Poems

I attempt to make other people smile

Melancholy days - forget them for a while!
A real belly laugh is good for your soul
Keep on writing humour is my goal
Even on days when I’m feeling down

Find me in my sexy dressing gown
Often I'm writing late into the...

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M eaning one thing and saying another, those
I nsulting words that were never spoken
S urrendering to your own paranoia, not the truth
U ntrusting your soul, looking for what was
N ever intended so can never be found, yet 
D iscovering it nonetheless, so you
E mpathise with...

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Beautiful lions without presumption or stare,
Rightfully existent in time, contribution and air, 
Ending fright and despondency from stalwarts, 
Asking nothing but your reaction, leaning and heart:
Thwarted by trends, images of culture and expectation,  
Hearing nothing but your heart beating, your darts, 
Thatching ears with...

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The Chance Given

T ~ here then and forever after since they touched the miracle of love and

H ~ ope when her heart and soul crossed his path out of nowhere as passionate

E ~ ssence in miraculous wonderment sealed a union beyond the wildest dreams


C ~...

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Given the altruistic nature

Of righteous believers, their asservation that God exists

Dwindles not; it is axiomatic, for all creation is proof that it persists.


April 11, 2018 for Robert Haigh's  Triple A Challenge - 14 lines Maximum
(I can't believe I left one of the words out...

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Great is the need for the multitude
In their hour of pain of great solitude
Voices seem to come from everywhere
In their hearts time seems to be despair 
Never grasping the reality of grace
Given by many for the human race

Those that don’t seem to notice kindness
Having seen...

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A faraway place
Frequently forgotten
Given to much social unrest 
Hardly known, never understood
And
Never completely tamed
In spite of decades of turmoil
Since overrun by power-hungry
Taliban
And
Never likely to be civilized...

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Cinematic specters, their light bewitching vacant minds,
Under gleaming signs, native voices twist into silence,
Lost in the glare of borrowed tales, our hymns dissipate,
Temples once hallowed now echo with foreign incantations,
Unremitting tides of glossy lore erase ancestral streams,
Riven hearts recall the silence where old songs soared,
Eclipsed...

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GREETINGS ALL!
Greeting people on the street
Reason cannot assess how
Even a quick American "hi" in retreat
Elevates someone's mood, and the State's
Truth be told, can't say how Americans started
Ice-breaking among strangers on the street
Now, in England, silence (on tubes) is not rude
Given past racism in South Africa,...

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J-oy
I-s
N-ow
G-iven

Topic: Birthday of Jing Avecilla (April 21) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Our Dreams 

Ask yourself; are you happy?
Bad temper indicates something makes you unhappy.
Can you hide your own feeling?
Days after days find you’re concealing.
End of the day you remain displeased.
Find the answer of that question; what made you aggrieved.
Given the opportunity you will rethink
HE knows all;...

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L-et 
U-s 
D-o 
I-t 
L-etting 
Y-our 
N-oble 

L-ife 
U-se
M-eaning 
O-nce 
G-ood 
D-ays 
A-re 
N-icely 
G-iven 

Topic: Birthday of Ludilyn D. Lumogdang (July 17) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A-s 
N-ewly 
G-iven 
E-xtended 
L-ife 
I-s 
C-heerfully 
A-ccepted 

Topic: Birthday of Angelica V. Echanez (April 3) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A-im at the basic building block 
N-ecessary for salvation; 
G-o fight first the devil 
E-arnestly roaring like a 
L-ion. 

E-xclusive basic building block 
L-ets you know its value; 
E-termal life is in store, 
G-iven by God so true. 
A-llow yourself to enter 
D-irectly into the...

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G-iven faith can do anything, 
L-ike moving a huge mountain; 
O-n the twelfth of May, fret and fear are forgotten.

D-oubts and woes disappear, while hope and trust remain; 
E-ven the clouds can turn white, eventually stopping the rain.

V-ictory is in sight, 
E-very chance is so...

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