Best Pervasive Poems

In grandeur, a leaf of grass is no less high
Than all the glittering stars in the sky

There is beauty alike in weed and reed
When each...

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But you—the wild one
You were compulsive, fiery and inventive
I had my share of the wild and free
But you were molded from them—with insane beauty
Despite our...

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Soon after the sky had shed her liquid sorrow
When dark clouds quickly vanished 
It turned immaculate, spotlessly blue.
As the cosmic hiss subsided
And the wind withdrew...

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Mary Elizabeth Frye dedication poem

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Do Not My Youthful Life Now Mourn

Do not my youthful life now mourn
My lot was set day I was born
I grew...

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taciturn springs rising
from within the quarry 
of deep earth's wisdom
urging lyrical waters to transpose
while held like singing seas of living reveries
of history and infinity
misting to...

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The satin blanket of night
With it's silky silence 
Wrapping whispers around
My head

Tucking in my dreams
Clicking out the light
Of reality
To reveal the depth of desire 

The...

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"There are those to whom place is unimportant,
But this place, where sea and fresh water meet,
Is important ---"
From "The Rose", by Theodore Roethke

Chilly late October;
thin...

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“THE APPEAL of the SEA”  ©
                The troubled torrents...

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"Revolutions"




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We are all for the Fall
in the seasons of His hands
where He pulls in the strings 
of all His puppets 
calling in cold legions 
in...

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In times of a virus spreading its unruly truths I wonder why

	What matters most seems to be toilet paper

Loops and loops of the stuff and...

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This enduring smile of loves illusions
     Delicate in nature to harm or fate
     Sweet of taste, these...

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a constanza

Is God’s viewpoint misunderstood?
Sodom burned in His discontent
for conduct our courts give assent.

Though some fault rests with Hollywood,
most immoral misbehavior,
living proof, man needs a...

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in the mellow morn
a revelry of roses
pervasive heat, grapes

glossy trees tremble
day's marching into the gold
butterfly frenzy

the day star twinkles
entering doors and windows
housewarming party

a straw hat...

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What is this resplendent thing that sparkles ahead,
Pacing faster than limbs of incapacity
Beyond the all-pervasive dakness of want?
Could my eyes be playing upon me some...

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Demagoguery

Scourge of weakest minds—
Always seeking more of them!
Infectious venom . . . 
	Pervasive and destructive . . . 
Resist this stupidity!

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All...

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