Best Purposes Poems

Squeezing out a saturated rag.
Torn asunder, pieces of a heart.
Head, eyes, lips, arms — sore-sag.

I’d thought I’d known weeping.
I was only dreaming; nightmares
hidden in caves, silently creeping.

A mime’s hand, waving away his smile,
pocketed in eternity’s change purse.
“Geez,” muttered, as a flood beguiles.

Tempest, no longer outside...

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FOR MOTIVATIONAL PURPOSES
MONOTHEISTIC CHRISTIANITY
Old Testament

I am a giver not a taker.
I am a lover not a hater.
I excite not incite.
I bring courage to the fight.

When you down, I’ll help you up.
Sadness is just moving on to the next level.

I am pleasure not pain.
I bring ecstasy...

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Imperfect world, purposeless person.
I retired to pursue perfection
learn jazz tunes, woody and herbaceous plants,
read every inch of English literature,

Scientific American and Foreign Affairs,
have an affair with an American.
Oh, and by the way, before you ask, I'm from Mars.
Orbiting your planet, admiring the girls.

Paraphrasing prayers by...

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Children and pets!!...

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Original New Yorker Intents and Purposes

So who did you expect
to actually elect,
Vandana Shiva?

from Uniting Constitutions of MotherTrees

Tribes and groves
grow forests together
forming more therapeutically perfect Unions
of unity yin-flowing integrity,
not quite so much uniformity
of Yang's violating offensive strengths
for deductively commodifying
financial quantities of economic justice
as real estates for...

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Poems for Meaningful Purposes

If my many poems were like little pills
How and which ones could cure all ills
For problems become a big solution
Filter air to find all of the pollution.

Make things rest easy along with mind
Provide food when you wine and dine
Poems as costume worn...

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Two fawns
Twins
Siblings
Innocent and sweet
Headed to dangers unknown to them
A warning from a stranger
Mother arrives
Babies play at her feet
Mother knows best
Always 
Toward the danger she leads
No fear
No doubt 
Just instinct
In and out of danger she leads them
Confident
Alert
Determined
Lessons to be learned 
The stranger holds their breath
It is...

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Cross Purposes


They were always hanging there
----those crosses

Condemning me as a sinner
---in first grade

Overseeing the evil that
----awaited me

Held high above the sheepish flock
----lest one escape

Crosses hanging at the end of beads
----mumbled supplication

Crosses to be borne
----to curry favor with this god

Of crosses
-----passed down through generations.

They still hang...

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How do you come across a dream?
How do you come across a desire?
You don't.
It comes across you.
Why do we look so hard for meaning?
For a purpose.
If you knew your purpose,
it would be fulfilled.
Why were we so quick to grow up?
To forget?
Because now we wish we...

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Poetry has its perceptions
imposes itself upon silence and
fulfill voids of the heart ...
All its way is ethereal and charming
and then walk with eyes of spirit
and hands of humanism..
For being emotion
live to offer peace
and joy for free...
Poetry is magnanimous,
does not aim for laurels
nor subserviences...
Wish so only...

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In a forest, a tree sits by itself and is quite gnarly
Bright light shines inside the grove, and on the tree with crooked branches
The purpose of the tree is misplaced, but the power is true

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Rick Parise's "Sijo" contest

12/27/2012...

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When a calm breeze, whiplashes trees,
and the sun, hidden behind cloudy skies,
casts deep shadows, then we need expertise
to fix what’s not broken.  Though it’s no surprise,
to know our world has turned topsy turvy!

When a swimmer braves, storm tossed waves
of a serene and placid sea...

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VIDEO: Lyrics in English and Arabic  (double click the video to widen...

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Content in my reason, I indulge my future distress
Feckless friends and fiends lie...together
Our homemade misery surmounts
Indeed, we do have a habit of making habits

This Intention for contention is our invention
A fleet of reckless daggers flow from my mouth
I decimate past and present alike
Thus, the future...

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O God of the universes of Creation as a whole
I raise my hands; and open my heart and soul.'
Prostrate I call upon your power, to bless my
Friends in these long dark hours' these days
Long abhorred stand now at their doors, I ask
You gird their spirits...

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