Best Raising Poems

Running hard into the early raising sun
                        A warm breeze lifts off the river
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Here is to those who tiptoed out of my life 
Without explaining what I did wrong 
In order for me to do it better next time 

Here is to those who thought they knew me 
Who judged; without getting to know me 

Here is to...

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A morn's sun raised the blinds
As sunlight pinked the clouds
Its colors fell across
My lap, tinting my words
Sublime, pen and ink tried
To contain sentiment
As they spilled blue
The blinds dissipate
As words release truth
High the sun rises
Its light controls pen
Slower the pen
Then pauses, waits
As the day wears
Colors painted
Artist...

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A tempest rages deep within
A storm brews in my soul
Outside conflict seeping in
And stirring in my bowl

So many things that I expect
And never seem to gain
I try to stand back and reflect
But I'm clouded by the pain

A simple task that I request
Be done when I...

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It took a long time, but they finally grew up
Each...with individual diversions...Ha!
Five roads...five conclusions, (yet, but not)

“Children are a gift from God”, unwrapped at birth
Coercing us to change...not an option
I’ve become a doctor, judge, nutritionist, 
speech therapist, teacher, and chauffeur...
All without license

In the final analysis...

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apple falls near tree --

children reflect their parents

values and morals...

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Benjamin Franklin, to prove lightning held electricity,
Flew a kite in a storm; attached to the kite cord was a key.
Though some thought this dangerous experiment was a bit odd,
Franklin sparked more inquiries and invented the lightning rod!


1/25/19...

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Velvet soft, like rose petals, these thoughts 
Free falling like rain drops unto the thirsty earth
Rivulets break cobwebs washing dust prints away
Seeping through a wall of steel formed by time 
Will they raise the dead; roll the stone away?
~*~...

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Adam, take the dust and
blow into tomorrow's winter world
the intruding consciousness
is evolving, embroiling a vainity of values,
who are we now, why this
language of redemption ?
the truth hurts once we
were exhiled from God's perfect garden,
the roads behind are
cold and alone, its you and me against the...

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Barn Raising
Dr. James E. Martin
©November, 2013

The barn was quickly raised.
The crowd was simply amazed.
They later were confused,
No one was amused,
As the barn was speedily razed....

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Eve, this land is already populated,
peopled by persons who seem like us,
although diffetent too, like seasons in soul,
divergent in their dreams for dynasty,
they have dialects from a depth of  Dawn
that awoke long before we arrived to thrive here,
customs peculiar as shapes to stones,
Father never...

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A hirsute young lady named Tash
Decided to do something rash
She shaved off her stubble
Oh boy she’s in trouble – 
Tash now sports a beard and moustache

22nd June 2016...

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Proud I am children, proud for sure, proud of day and proud of night
I can finally turn the key in my own door
No latent echoes filled with omnious warnings
Measuring out my freedom in abbreviated noons
And uncoiling mornings with elastic circuit of the sun
I can plant...

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A bald-headed man from Jamaica
Attempted to scale a sky-scraper
From his hospital bed
He was heard to have said
‘I was seeking a hair-raising caper!


Bite Size Poem No.42 Poetry Contest
Sponsor :Line Gautier...

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Raising Bread

When I was a little boy things were complicated
Let me start again
Yesterday I turned 7 and I don’t know how to read or write
I don’t know words and I don’t know letters 
(Don’t ask what I’m doing here.  Just have faith.)
My parents think...

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