Best Leverage Poems

It's easy to set the goal, and even put the process in motion, but continuing to push forward through struggles and frustration can require a shove to help draw out that emotional leverage.   ~ Leigh Wilson

Emotional happiness is a goal everyone would like...

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Business before pleasure
Are you a big spender
Mortgaging your heart
For lustful endeavors
Straddling your bottom line
Leveraged with burgundy wine
She wants a quick merger
Before your numbers decline...

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Oh...and hello
to you, some hours past, I
returned from counseling,
(hence this boy yent -
     albeit beastie boy 
     figuratively basking
in fading afterglow)
great kickstarter session,

countless moments ago,
sans treatment plan,
she facilitated emotional airflow
i.e. Stephanie Dodds,
(sat straight as an arrow)
whereat this...

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The by-far dull child at orphanage,
After placement on beverage,
Mathematics above average:
A sixty-nine percent anchorage?

Other kids could only vilely rage;
The most envious began fast to age

The once-empty thing at orphanage
Could thrice try syllabus coverage,
Teachers wasting words; he could manage,
No need to be under tutelage...

Means beverage gives...

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Written: May 19, 2025, for contest by Edward Ibeh

Quote: "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." By Rumi

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As the seacoast...

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A muttered song through 
the winds at moonlight,
draws me closer to your 
castle by candlelight, 
in a twinkling of an eye, in 
a blink of eternity,
I stumbled into the streams 
of  sanctity and sanity.
Paint my past with pardon, 
frame thy fragrance
into our future and...

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She believed her Barbie's and Ken's
had shared a love far more complex
than any feelings they'd expressed --
AND dolls couldn't even self-dress!!!

She knew they were a mistake -
one she wanted them to address.
Her thoughts led to a request -
they both take a fear of change test.

Pleased...

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G-reat
I-ndividual
L-everage
A-bout
S-trong

P-layers
I-n
L-atest
I-nternational
P-erformance
I-s
N-icely
A-gain
S-hown

Topic: Basketball (February 24) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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In life in turmoil,
               in the wavy life,
               tide life...
       ...

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The hollow sounds of fog return this time of year.  
Loud echoes of potato chip crunching tires on frozen snow.
Disappearing into the city night as stars emerge from hiding
in a black-blanketed sky. We move toward the cusp of country,
body twitching with remembrances of anticipation.
That...

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I am the wrench in the clockwork,
a tiny twist in the gears of a universe
too vast to notice my pinch,
yet enough to reroute the cascade—
leverage, a quiet conspiracy of small forces.

Like a catapult built from old regrets,
I launch myself over gravity’s grumble,
where time folds like...

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A-vengers'
N-ew
G-iant
E-nemy
L-oses
I-ts
C-ause
A-s

E-ach
L-everage
E-ffectively
G-ains
A-dvantage
D-efeating
O-pponent

Topic: Birthday of Angelica F. Elegado (February 06) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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D-etermination
I-s
M-ankind's
P-otential
L-everage
E-mploying

M-ight
A-s
D-oubtful
R-eaction
I-s
D-eactivated

Topic: Birthday of Dimple Madrid (February 24) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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I don’t raise my voice.
I raise stakes.
One quiet word
can tilt the floor beneath you.

It’s not about force--
it’s about weight.
Where you place it.
When you shift it.
Who you let believe
you’re not watching.

I learned early
the value of silence,
how it echoes louder
when someone leans in.

Let them underestimate.
Let them smile
like...

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L-everage
O-f
V-accine
E-ventually
L-ets
Y-ou

J-ust
O-bliterate
Y-ucky

N-astiness
A-nd
V-iral
A-ilment

Topic: Birthday of Lovely Joy Nava (June 03) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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