Best Resolved Poems

Resolved: I’ll make a MOCKERY of death,
metaphoric wake may open my eyes.
I’ll ADORN kitchen walls with shibboleth -
an OPULENCE of signs which look passé.
using words like “Get Up and Exercise”,
“Calories Count” and “Don’t Forget to Weigh.”

I will EXULT VICARIOUS free time:
tasting all those shows on...

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sunlight unshaken
in the wind...
motion and quiet
... reconciled

Inspired by a Janet Lewis 1899-1998 phrase...

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The holidays are a time when we hold loved ones close

making New Year's resolutions to be better and not so morose.

With trimming the tree,  the gifts, the cards, the good wishes for all

Spending too much time and money at the mall.

Our hangover on Jan...

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(With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe )  

Finding myself so berated, 
I muttered something syncopated, 
as seething and with burning eyes stormed I forth as on a secret chore. Returning answered well his gall 
for I, with no remorse at all, 
blew his feathered...

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 quatrain 

Resolved to quit, a collection betrays my dear Mona.
Hers are the ones marked by colorful stain.
Her obsession likens her to my aging Smith-Corona.
It’s coughing just now as if in great pain.

Its lungs store a shiny bobble divorced from Mona's ear,
three of her Lucky...

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He's back
In sack!

Contest: One Footle - Judy Konos
Jan Allison
7th July 2015...

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What do I resolve for the coming new year?
time just to myself, have I made myself clear?
It's a matter of choice, well, and my career
and I mean to do it without any fear.
No more overtime work, I'll not volunteer.
No breaks, no gossip, is that too...

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storm clouds relentlessly 
crashed on rock bottom
with the only crack dragging 
wreckage and carnage through
a trapdoor into oblivious fog
gruelling sediment confined
a rotten Self of incarceration

the stakes were high 
for being impaled
a sizzling cauldron 
waiting for a sumptuous feast
manna from hell and a spell
on the barbed...

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Sometimes... perhaps other time
I am here and everywhere
To mean I am here but you cannot find
The one me in moments unlikely to bear

Someone called it self-involved
Yet... I'm pretty much everywhere else
Can I call it self-resolved?
Simply... no one and I truly knew and tells

I cannot place...

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This is my space, my firm position
anchored upon the firmanent
No push or prod can make me budge
my locus' ever permanent

No entreaty nor allure shall pull 
or waver my good judgement
No threat can raise me to my feet
nor curses cause my movement

I am colossus;  a...

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I am not extremely important.
I am not powerful.
I have only minor influence.
I am a small person.

I thought I was omnipotent.
I defer to my leader,
To my country and to God.
I give my ounce of influence
To Lester Holt, journalist, NBC News.
This is my resolve.
Thank you for reading...

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Resolved, this will be my best year!
Envisioned, still with end unseen,
Shall Christ find me with lamp in gear
Or will I be begging for oil?
Lamp I am, His light on this earth,
Verve within me – Spirit of strength.
Embarking on His call to worth
Determined I will fan...

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Boy could not get a satisfactory answer on earth
So he resolved to speak to the moon
How will you do it? His dragon asked.
I shall fly up there tonight in my dreams, of course.

Boy was a possibility thinker.
That night he flew up to the moon and...

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Rejuvenated all the more to do utmost best midst constant revival 
Earnestly, I’m resolved to fulfill God’s will along values eternal
Steadfast through Christ’s strength, I’ll abide in His compassion’s security 
Optimizing, over frailties, offered reaching-out opportunity
Love, grace, and mercy with others I’ll share liberally
Vanquishing selfishness...

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I will continue to write the things I should,
I will come to the defense of those maligned
I will always stand up for right and good,
For I have an obligation to speak my mind.

I know that I probably should remain silent
In the face of bitter nastiness...

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