Best Permanent Poems

I am standing naked on a crowded street
But nobody seems to be noticing me
I am less embarrassed by my nakedness
Than by my invisibility

They all seem to be looking right through me
Or staring down at the concrete walk
With iPod plugs shoved deep into their ears
Nobody can...

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An episode of birds hovers beneath 
a marmalade moon , just for a while,
as  cotton-clouds sweep
the brushed limbs of a sky ready
to cradle the cloaks draping avian settlers;
those who like us ascend on hammocks
of dreams windblown by heady seasons
gliding through embroidered spring, the livid
lust...

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Brain spatter smacked me in the face
Blood was everywhere, so thick I could taste it
I rolled to the left and with blurry eyes aimed 
Eliminating the sniper five seconds too late

I wiped off my face with the sleeve of my shirt
And looked at my friend...

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PERMANENT SCARS
Dads are supposed to be strong
But here he is
Eyes welling up
At the thought of his only daughter
Leaving so suddenly
In the prime of her life
Never to return
She would not come back
But her memories
Now haunt him
‘Fond’ memories
Giving ‘pain’
Keeping her alive
Even after death
While he tries to rid...

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a permanent scar
an earthquake crack in pavement..
the broken heart bleeds

one name no longer
appears in the new poem list...
sigh, heart racing gone

romantic poems filled
a gap in this empty life...
would you write love soon?  

Sponsor: Poet Destroyer A
Contest: (Double) Valentine Haiku Plus Questionku #2
Written: February 2,...

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Nothing is permanent 


Baby to Toddler,
Toddler to Child,
Child to Adolescence,
Adolescence to Adult,
Old age then death.
Appearance vanishes,
No permanency in-
the growth of human.



Nature is there,
It’s destruction acts,
Change features.
New features,
New growth.
It’s appearance exists,
Permanency expires.


Happiness, Sadness,
Failures, success,
Never last long.
It’s like illusion. 
It teaches,
Nothing is born-
to stay for ever.
Be calm...

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No one is permanent.

You wake up, get dressed and go to school,

you walk down the same hallway

and go to the same class at the same exact time everyday.

You go to lunch, talk to the same people and then go back to class. 

You go to...

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Why is life so complex?
Why am I feeling vexed?
Pulling one way,
Not feeling one has any say,
Too much involved
For the problem to be solved,
Not wanting to disrupt,
Feeling all is corrupt,
Fire stations closing across the land,
Waving goodbye with a heavy hand,
Hospital consultants contending to be at the...

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My first wife wanted more than I could give her, 
My work she told me robbed her of attention, 
All my energy focused on ‘provider, '
Caused much more trouble than I care to mention.

What wives really expect can be a killer
When you dismiss their tears...

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Forgiveness has no need for a court system.
But tell that to the Brontosaurus snarling in my face.
My wounded heart, my soaring heart.
Freedom is a smile away.
Beyond your own gate
Are no more gates.
All of it melts in her cinnamon eyes anyways....

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Bureaucrat's wonderland, admin sensational!
Dealing with legions of forms immigrational
Fill 'em out, print 'em out, copy each copy 
Certify, verify, check it's not sloppy
Ensure that your mug-shots' dimensions abide
By strict regulations, for proof bona fide
Designed to deter and deny the defrauder
Tho' he is from England, not...

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Where once my heart seemed shattered
				(A million shards of crystal deflecting light)
My eyes, as well, remained so dim
				(For nothing to any longer gaze upon)
Yet, somehow I had known, we’d reconnect
				(You are the light that does so shine, still)
As the attraction that once was, would win
				(You...

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There'll never be another, wonderful as you,
To make me experience feelings I never knew.
Your soft voice, to my ears, a melodic rhyme,
In the future, to seal it, the wedding bells shall chime.
I won't be the type to love a thousand girls with passing days,
Instead I'll...

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inhuman torture
in a beautician's chair
willingly self-inflicted
hopeful of the outcome

childhood dismay
hair curled on rollers
hooked by wires
to monstrous machine
relentless weight

aftershock 
embarrassment
head cap of electric frizz
fright wig extraordinaire
Li'l Orphan Annie's twin 
staring back from the mirror

no way to undo it
endure, wait it out
pray for rapid growth 
and a...

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Intelligence, it seems, is very expensive.
It makes you work to gain advantage.
It makes you pay to find success. 
It’s the law of supply and demand.
To learn, one must also be willing to lose.
The scarcity of human resources,
Even in a world of eight billion souls,
Requires that...

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