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Best Present Day(A) Poems

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Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: present day(a), dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Why the Willow Weeps
The Willow did not always weep,
in summer sun and breeze.
But sorrow once did quickly creep,
amongst the bark and leaves.

For long ago a maiden fair,
would bask...

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© Tom Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: present day(a), loss, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tolerance
TOLERANCE

I have little tolerance for tolerant people.
Those that will endure the corruption of
the truth, the erosion of meaning.  While at
the same time being intolerant...

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Categories: present day(a), betrayal, freedom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Vietnam War
The pro-Hanoi Vietcong many years ago
In the 1950's Diem's government they'd overthrow
All opposition was crushed killed or jailed
These elected ones to their people they failed

This...

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Categories: present day(a), death, history, hope, life,
Form: Quatrain
Journey To Spirit Mountain
Minter Bridge Road to Burkhalter Lane
Alpaca farms dot the hilly terrain, baby llamas
Wear thick curly fur, until the shears come
They look really funny when the...

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Categories: present day(a), environment, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



A Love That Can Never Be
You stand before me proud and free
	At first I thought you were a fantasy.
	You're smile, your touch so real to me
	I need to know what...

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Categories: present day(a), imagination, life, lost love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member First Love's Indelible Memory Pure
First Love’s Indelible Memory Pure

Deep in my memory remains a pure vision of a first love,
long-forgotten—now conjured up as a present-day image.

This rare, soulful reflection...

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Categories: present day(a), allegory, confusion, destiny, emotions,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Holokauston Page 2 of 2
After the quiet we all have to go
Dragged and carted by the Sonderkommando
To be dumped in pits covered by lime
A race to dispose by it's...

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Categories: present day(a), angst, brother, childhood, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What About These Days
Times change to the present day.
No woman would dare knock on doors
in districts that are unknown,
for rapists are ever-present
to satiate their selfish lusts.
Gossip is called...

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Categories: present day(a), life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holokauston
holókauston

Around that table picture the scene 
Self appointed leaders if you know what I mean 
What were the topics on the agenda that day 
The...

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Categories: present day(a), death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Time
 "Time is the thief you cannot banish."
                 ...

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Categories: present day(a), age, faith, god, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Spark of Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time....

When the darkness came to greet me at my door
I would simply answer "She doesn't live here anymore"
And when the darkness prowled...

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Categories: present day(a), depression, introspection, lifeme, me,
Form: Rhyme
In a Heartbeat
My first love
Was born
One hundred and one years before me
He never made it to thirty
He was ahead of his time and my time too
What's a...

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Categories: present day(a), first love, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Way of All Flesh
At five foot four and seven stone,
Steve was all skin and bone,
At six foot two and twenty stone,
Brenda was all muscle and tone.

A love story...

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Categories: present day(a), gender, god, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do You Know Jesus
Do You Know Jesus
 (Or Just Know Of Him?)
Written: by Miracle Man
September 9, 2020

 Is our relationship with Jesus mere afterthought,
have we let daily thoughts...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: present day(a), angst, depression, god, jesus,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things