Best Present Tense Poems

Temple of the Gods


Within the realities, unseen deified admits a parallel preen
A shielded smokescreen for their succus is made unclean
In the matriarchal machine a throne...

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A fatherless generation
153 million or more
Abandoned and forgotten
Desperate and poor

A prisoner to hopelessness 
Everyday so full of fear
In this chaotic world they live in
Nothing is...

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Mindfull of a parallel sequence
we seem to function light between
thought and hurt hoping for
easy advancement up the channel steps--
pecarious invoking with someone who
knows--- and not...

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Pterodactyls Thriving

On steamy summer days as warm waves lap the shore
     The pelicans pass over in perfect V-form

Their silhouettes appear dark...

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FIRST LOVE

Never speak of first love in the past tense
For the depth of a first love is eternal, ever present
To place it into the recession...

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Panes of glass in my soul divide me from my past
Portals that serve as the windows into my future
Yet clearly distort the visions of my...

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Difficult it becomes, the secret of
the judgement and metamorphosis of
the painted cotton into a stained truth.

To save the present tense. A dangerous
crowd of vowels to...

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"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the...

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let today be the present tense.
              yesterday be the past tense.
 ...

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Weather is poised to slap us into submission.
Threatening with the largest storm in history
To make us aware of her power to destroy
And yet, here on...

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Don’t look back with regret
The time is gone and
There’s no reason to fret
Don’t look toward tomorrow
It might not ever come
There’s no reason to foreknow
Look to...

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(Remembering Innocence)


Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing!...

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Oh Robin my friend, I am writing this to you in the present tense not the 
past,
because to me you will always be here with...

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"Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me."
       Buckminster Fuller

Evolving...

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I

School bag, blue shirt, hair parted on the right,
Dal-rice, clock ticking away in delight;
Cycles stop, wagons with seasonal crop, 
Get to her class before the...

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