Best Onward Poems

Yet Pushed, Ever Onward, I Dare Tread

BEHOLD, I wade into darkening mists,
My journey, clarification of Fate
When I balked, black ghost said, I insist
Hurry destiny cries it is too late,
Strolling deep within, horrific the sounds
So strangely pungent the circling winds
In distant valleys, baying of the hounds-
I...

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Onward Christian Soldiers
(Chivalry Dead)

God’s crusade upon them laid
a stubborn suit of mail brocade.

Knights Templar, Teutonic thugs
Mercenaries out for blood.

In guarantee of resurrection. 
Skull bludgeoning insurrection.

For every heathen to the cemetery
Pope so grants indulgence plenary.  

Urban calls to cut out “sin.”
with war for Jesus, champion.

Death...

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As a boy
I explored shallow river beds.
I carried home in a jar unnamed water-bugs,
minnows, tadpoles and
little frogs that glowed yellow
when the sunlight swam in the creek.
Now the sun comes to my window,
sheds streams of light
to carry me back
to where shallow waters sing
of all unnamable things....

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Yet Pushed, Ever Onward, I Dare Tread

BEHOLD, I wade into darkening mists,
My journey, clarification of Fate
When I balked, black ghost said, I insist
Hurry destiny cries, it is too late,
Strolling deep within, horrific the sounds
So strangely pungent the circling winds
In distant valleys, baying of the hounds-
I...

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Sometimes when you're alone
Who can you call?
Who can you phone?
Close friends are few
Some just grew old
Nobody new
Nights always cold
So now you stop
It's time to think
Life does not vanish
In a wink
Lots of new folks are still here
It takes some work
No need to fear
Lots of others need...

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"Onward and upward"

the good men and women were heard to say
as they drew their swords to join the fray
The enemy was vanquished and did quickly give way
And peace was preserved in a grandiose display
Now for those that gave all we kneel and pray
So they will...

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I struggle to rise to this day
 A Robotic gait leads My way.
Emotionless is My new smile
Numb is now My hearts style
Searching in the oblivion of this cloud
Pressing on 
Lost in a fog 
Do not question 
Do not think 
Onward..........

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Onward Christian soldiers
Marching off to prayer
Making sure your wallets
no one at all will share

Onward then, ye Christians
as atheists help the poor
blend you prayers with hypocrisy
as the lord closes all your doors

Christ may not be handicapped
he sure as hell isn't blind
stop playing life's lotteries
give food and...

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a cavalcade wept ashore with frenzy like a beastly bus
oblivious of tribes who blissfully dealt without a fuss
triangulated within an ever narrowing pen
contaminated, decimated, eradicated “red” men
once a collection of indigenous separate “nations” 
plucked by invaders who usurped america as their den
releasing poison couched as...

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Onward to Byzantium
One stone
One
Thought
Mayan time
Circle
Of
Stone
Mound
Of
Sand
Return
As
Is
Pure...

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The March for Our Lives [2018 and Onward]

Shooting and killing is not a way of life.
It hurts our mentality and distorts our minds.
We are here as privilege and meaningful life.
A barren earth will not ever revive.
We are not the creator of life form.
This is where...

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reluctant, 
I set darkened seas.
horizons slip through feebled fingers
impotent against sky.

what pinned the stars in place?
what streaked dawn’s last trace?

matterless now
an emptied course.
mute sirens sit, clicking
watch disaster, shaking heads.

blunder blindly ahead 
backward no more-
no peek at distant shores
for signs of smoked remorse.

no retrieved reprieve
just on...

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BUGS!HAVE BUGS,THAT ALSO HAVE BUGS.
WITH KIN AND HISTORIES SELDOMLY DUG.
WITH HAMMERS AND CHISSELS WRONGFULLY USED.
AND COPYCAT FAILURES ALL BEING CONFUSED.
STEP FORWARD THE CRUSHING FOOT.
THE UNKNOWING TORTURORS ARE IN CAHOOTS.
INBORN SURVIVORS ARE BLESSED PROOF.
ONE SINGLE BUGS ENOGH TO MOVE.
THOUGH ALL THE MIGHTY  THUNDER  OVERHEAD.
A...

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(co written with Linda- Marie Bariana P.E.P.S "Sweetheart"


How richly sings our heritage,
O, that of days gone by.
When strangers first traversed these shores
under that of a foreign sky.

So distant from the lands they knew,
these pursuers of another life.
They came in quest of better days
and an end...

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Onward ever onward down the awesome lanes of time,
Coming going, dying reborn, another life inclined,
One time in Tasmania the Pommy hunters killed us out,
A prisoner in irons, cat of nine tails cut about,
Ever suffering for my crime,
What is it all, this doubt?

Ironic is the suffering...

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