Best Relented Poems

Just a regular curbside puddle,
It really wasn't that big.
But it had the look of an ocean,
To a sweet little puppy named 'Pig.'

"Your paws might touch...

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a hallway.  offices.  tinted sunlight.  
people who have forgotten my name.  
but i am here.  
and then a room. ...

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In low tones we chatted
On the steps to her porch,
We talked of the decades
Since I’d carried her torch—

Of love we knew nothing
During young naïve years
Of...

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Chipped the factor of maybe days, 
  Wondering sweet tooth cracked in the night 
And the cap spilled parallel, baring the nerves, 
 ...

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When I met your beautiful soul,
it was clear as day
That you were meant for me,
I saw it no other way
When I persisted and you relented,
and...

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I was walking on a green field when a cyclone came and picked me up,
He wrapped me in dark whirlwind, so I screamed that no...

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Long ago, in the fastness of the north
lived a people known as the Inuit.
They lived in perpetual darkness.
Although they had heard of light from Crow
they...

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The Old Car
by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2016

Remember when we used to say 
“I’ve got to trade this car”
it hard to start in the mornings
and...

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A tale of greed, power, 
deception, discrimination and 
love. 

Miller, daughter, king—
All the actors are present
Except the small man. 

The king summons the miller 
for...

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ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS
Abbreviated by an early autumn night
the summer, once tormented by a torrid sun,
relented to September, as if dying might
give reason to all things...

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ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS
Abbreviated by an early autumn night
the summer, once tormented by a torrid sun,
relented to September, as if dying might
give reason to all things...

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Nineteen Seventy-Seven Alumni

Some conspiratorial and malevolent force
     must be fast at work
     cranking chronology dial
an extraterrestrial force

...

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No monarch stays in power forever.
And a lot of a good thing can be too much.
In the rainy season, the crops began to drown.
And the...

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With bent torso, fenced horse Corso,
Tows corpulent gent Morse into a Kent forest.

This portly source torments tense Corso to such a contentious extent
That he sends...

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A few years ago, one of my younger sisters said to me, “Daddy was a bully”.
I never thought of him as such, because I felt...

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