Best Ongoing Poems

I set up my writing spot in front of the window
Then, I found myself in this ongoing trance
Nature was on stage, it chose to put...

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Standing firm 
we live 
we give 
we take 
we learn 
we strive to make sure 
each day enlightens us 
and brightens us
even as light fades...

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dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body

family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid...

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No flame within! 
      do I hold for you
no delightful delicacy
      shall I put to...

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I am very pleased to present a fourth collaboration, this time in rhyme
with my dear friend Lawrence Sharp, a truly exceptional poet. 
.
Thank you, Lawrence,...

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#2 to the Motivational Series

Haunt me no more

Your words will haunt me no more
They will not close me in, I will not shut the door
I...

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Don’t judge that kid with her arms all scarred
Don’t brand that kid as bad
You never would have survived 
If you had the life she had
So...

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Repulsive Slumber  

Down the basement, 
not a single color of envy,
flat-lines, are standing still all around.
The stillness is suffocating,
everything coming my way.
Different from,
the morals,
of...

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Yesterday Richard inspired me to write this update. Thank you Richard. 

To Be More

3 days of this virus, feels like 3 weeks
Every hour a battle,...

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I am very pleased to present a fourth collaboration 
with great poet and friend, Robert Lindley.
Only Robert's mighty pen and personal encouragement
could possibly have inspired...

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writers

p u r s u e

verbosity

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readers

d e s i r e

brevity

[Brevette form]
The Brevette, created by Emily Romano consists of a subject (noun), verb, and object...

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When taking a bath in the tub
The first thing you'll notice, if you stay in too long,
Is how your fingertips shrivel.
Then, as you rub and...

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Wings of Wisdom
- there is no life without pain -

On all these roads we travel
with free will to choose each turn
There is no avoiding pain
Heartache,...

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I was an environmental scientist, working with large wind farm developers,
To harness wind and generate electricity, as a plum sun flees, to tell others.

I worked...

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God creates effortlessly, Himself medium, substance-source almighty – nothing can rub, manifest resistance to His Will -- 

God rested. Think not of fatigue...nor of a...

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