Best Persuaded Poems

"Laureate"



Laureate 
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind

guide my hand 
I write I write I write

receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether 

sublime 
not normal...

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I’ve said it many times before, and so I’ll say it one time more -
the many reasons which brought me right here to this community.

I...

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The devil, he be a wandering,
Searching for a fool,
Someone easily persuaded,
To come under his rule.

Pride, deceit and unbelief,
Are the tools of his trade,
Planting seeds of...

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AFFLICTION?
It is said of young physicians when they first set out to learn
All the symptoms and conditions that known illnesses convey
They perceive these indications each...

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A flick of light within my soul
becomes a beacon for my life
wherein I join with You in Christ
free from normal life of strife.

Today breaks boldly...

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It has taken me two months to write about this

It was me, you and him
All of us in my place 
I was drinking margarita, you...

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Oh, my dear honorable poet!
Words recess when I write about you
 For, they start loving you

You were a sincere lover,
   when you wrote...

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"It is known that the Bible, in its hundreds of different translations, is the most widely distributed book in human history. The bible has been...

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I have from the earth grown pumpkins
Pregnant with a golden lust for words
And scattered seeds white as stars
Across the long green of desire. Birds
Have left...

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Rarely reaching the expansive ranges
Where infinity influences reality changes

With illusion marked stigma stamped impressions
Sparingly accessed acceptance processing life lessons

Voided all non-existent concepts entered into calculation
Subtracting...

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I sat at the counter
drinking one too many
oblivious of those around me.
"Drowning your sorrows", she asked.
What did she know of sorrows?
"They float, you know." she...

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Deeply motivated
                       ...

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Persuaded by time,

clothed in rust, night reveals a

lonely Halloween...

Illusions of my childhood

drift away with falling leaves...

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PRELUDE
There has always been animosity between Greece and Turkey as far back in history as we wish to go.  Greece was occupied by the...

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Voices ringing throughout my ear
Some far, and surely some near
But this distinguished sound is what I can’t s.
top seeming to hear.
So I seek to know,...

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