Best Persistent Poems

In shadow, shade and angled light,
memories echo, when given time.
They persist, though out of sight,
when even bells will loose their chime.

To torture, teach or reprimand?
Why then comes, the weathered old?
The heart and soul hold scars and brands,
when even stars burn out, turn cold....

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Persistent Truth


Auburn I miss
A starvation of flames
Burns inside my eyes
Conflagration of ever present kiss
Soaks the emptiness
Saturates my veins inferno desire
Pounding pestle to mysteries mortar
In my blood

Auburn I miss
The contours of your skin
Traced upon the desperateness within
Sensual vibrato of your calling
Leaves me in an orchestral voice
Of...

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Being Persistent
By: Miracle Man
2/4/2021

One of the biggest illusions many have,
is that of entitlement.
Few things arrive on a silver platter,
and when they do,
absent is any feeling of gratification.                  ...

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Waves refuse to cease,
Kissing impassive shorelines:
Countless refusals....

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Yesterday, my heart felt a little tapping
Coming from the inside, a friendly rapping
It grew strong then weak, refreshed then weary
Sometimes ordinary, sometimes eerie
So I opened the door and looked inside
Looked past the smiles I've held and the tears I've cried
Right above where passions subside 
I...

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He’s the best in care but still like a friend online
tops every strategy to beat all other’s design.

Despite his wide fresh waters, my heart stays dead
keeping me amazed but to love another instead.

Yet another episode of my no and his resulting cry
the next one may...

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A persistent dream
Where all my family
Anyone ever born
In my blood line 
Is sitting
Waiting for me to wake up
in my living room 

Thousands of cousins, grandparents
and second moms 
A Fleet of similarly composed individuals 
Kiss and embarrass me
As I come to in fog
Even the thousands I...

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My love for you is growing more stronger
very much longer,
a love for you that's definite and sure,
in words I will express this some more,

my love for you is wide open
a heart-beat love that will never die,
it's not a joke or a lie,
my love for you...

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Seamlessly out of reach,

Coming to a grasp,

Then just to leach,

To lay down,

A hand brushing out over these blades of grass,

Touching, is it not?

That he may find her,

Such formlessness,

When will the time come?

Oh, the times there were,

Though the times that may,

Like cogs in a machine turning...

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Valentine’s day chimpanzee has designs on me
I tell him I am taken, and he says “tee hee!”
I show him my initial, the ancient letter C.
He says come and sit down up my knee.

I tell him I am old enough to remember Paul Klee
He says we...

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There's something inside that just won't quit
A voice in your head "you're not there yet"
Unbound to dying dark or birthing light
Refusing excuses or forgetting's delight
The path reappears after deliberate detours
As if to say you've been here before
And here you'll be, again, and again, and again
Where...

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Poets pen Personifications, Pantoums, plus Prose
 Providing prepositions, present participles prettily pose
 Patiently presenting parodies
 Portraying powerful persuasive possibilities
 Painting pictures poetically 
 Persistently pursuing perfect phrases
 Perfectly pleased postin poems

 12-10-2020
 Alliteration Poetry Contest
 Sponsor: Eve Roper...

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Sharp edges are boundaries
in our perceptions which exhibit
the persistent illusion of a mind plus world..
So we allow the encroachment of Awareness
to soften the sharp
to expose the illusion
and bring us to discovery
of the Self reality
which as background lies ..
Allowing the sharp edges
to be sharp once more
made...

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Off in the misty distance
I hear a hungry woodpecker
Hammering with his head.
This omnivorous, opportunist
Breaks the silence of the morn
With his rat-a-tat-tatting
As if knocking on a door.
His persistent pecking
Will end with success
When he excavates
The hapless insect
A meal deservingly gained
But the silence won’t remain
Because he'll begin all...

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No Conclusions***

Can’t figure things out?
Never between 
    the lines.
Outside the lanes, 
Staying spaced 
In gray shadows
Or mist or fog…
Outlying and altering.
Possibly close,or
Beyond
Leaving,
 Below or high.
Yet, wearing
    pseudonyms,
Always being    
Lost, then
Re-addressed.
Oscillating.
But, remaining
Persistently    
 ...

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