Best Of Necessity Poems

...Here I am, My Lord,

                                      A hot iron,

                          On the anvil of necessity,

                                         Waiting

               ......

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...A poet dips and plants
till a green appears from
the tip of his pen

no wonder 
the old masters used a deep
well of ink       to troll 

pierced their boils of necessity
for a word-ooze,
pa......

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...Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace her forehead like a crown;
Her thick and shining......

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...What are we but vibrant green leaves in the foliage of the tree of life, soon to be turned brown and fall before others take their place? 

What are we but fast-moving waves on the surface of the o......

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POTD June 15 2025

Smoke And Mirrors – Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe

When regulation picks at pillaged dreams

The searchlight shines its ......

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...This country’s sure got problems
Corruption, crime, and drugs.
And though we try to fix the world
The world just hates our guts.
But for all our woes and troubles
I still love the US
‘Cause com......

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...the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
  old and new empires jostle, reshap......

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...All newborns move from womb to crib;
and toddlers leave the floor to play in yards.
Most youngsters go from home to school,
learning a new milieu some with ease.

Our kids both young an......

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..."Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by, and
That has made all the difference".
The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost

We deem it normal for babies to cry when they arri......

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...I pledge allegiance to a dream
embodied in the fabric of a flag.
A flag imbued with hope
tarnished by fear
bloodied of necessity.
This flag, this weary tattered symbol
of what we strive to be.
......

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...One summer hot, 
clear day,
It was time to deal with dirty laundry.
In silence,
with a countenance of stone,
unrevealing deep emotions,
things of necessity were done.
She hung bleached-white s......

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...There is a comfort to the Sadness

There is a comfort
to the sadness,
not that it was
comforting,
more a realization
of necessity.
Oh, there were tears,
stories, followed by
laughter and me......

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...At the moment we are but
wandering clouds chased across the 
sky of existence
 
by 

the winds of necessity, and consumed 
by the sun of voracious time,

why 

do we waste our ephemeral li......

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...Lord be my salvation.
Lord be my salvation in times of necessity.
Lord be my salvation.
I am just a wretched soul in a perilous acquaintance looking within iniquity.
Lord have mercy on me.

Lor......

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...Unquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII

     for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski  
     who let not even hope sustain them and who used their own last   
     dro......

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