Best Resourcefulness Poems

Born the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief
she was captured by the Hidatsa in her teens. 
And sold to the Mandan Missouri River tribe
where she met and married Toussaint Charbonneau.

A French Canadian trapper and a trail guide
Charbonneau was familiar with the region.
Meriwether Lewis and William...

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Scorpios are known for their passion
Their resourcefulness and compassion
Since a Scorpio I is
Here's a toast with sloe gin fizz
May our traits always be in fashion

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
©  All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 6 in LeeAnn's "Zodiac Race" Contest - September 2010...

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Oh when I was a child I loved Popeye cartoons,
Guess there’s no real accounting for any kid’s taste,
But you always knew spinach was up Popeye’s sleeve,
And that bullies like Brutus would soon be disgraced.

“Just deserts!” to all thugs what the world hungers for,
“In the kisser!”...

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It was a summer of indifference
Billionaire Nazis who preach ethnic cleansing
And powerful ladies clad in iron
Play tug of war
With the hearts and souls of the people
While governors deceive the populace and their own parties
And confused men in collars and cassocks
Betray their vows, principles,
And even the...

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Oh, where do you sleep my lost German friend, 
where do your bleached bones lie? 
Believe me good Sir, we did search for you,  
we gave it our best try. 
 
You woke from its sleep this giant of a land 
by treading the...

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Iridescence
      intermingle
         explicate
            wriggle
               
& inspire ...

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My given name is of no consequence.
You can call me Spider Girl.
It’s an appropriate name, I think. 

I’m indistinguishable in many ways 
from billions of other creatures just like me.
(Character building experiences 
tend to breed cartoons.)

I might appear pretty easy to step on
but don't underestimate...

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Up next in lit class was the unit 
on Transcendentalism.
Between that topic and the teens,
there yawned a wide, deep schism.

I struggle with the theme myself.
Quite rigorously I'd prepared 
by grasping points I knew must be
included; those, in class I shared.

They questioned “divine oversoul”
but warmed to...

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Tiny finch you land with a beakful
of nesting material spinning 
a pretty crimson tail 
I am motionless, considerate of
any mishap that might interrupt
or cause you to reject my presence

I watch your numerous returns
where with lightning quickness
you successfully organize
into a tiny nest, various grasses,
downy seeds or...

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I keep ringing your phone
Only to get back the last memory again
A voice frilled with youth
Laughing at the old man's obstinacy
One day you shall wish to find
In the centripetal torment of the world
I still pray for you
That his promise to you only good
And not evil
Through...

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There is beauty in your absence
     there is greatness in your silence
there is pain in your wishes
     In your innards, there are dreams
Poetry and you are synonymous
     I am synonymous with love
how I love you both.

      Poetry is...

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You sprout quickly

ready for your debut

setting an example

for all to see.

Your two arms intertwine and meet

at one point, one body.

I see your beauty,

you rose amongst thorns.

The other grandiose angiosperms

envy your resourcefulness,

your readiness, your confidence.

You stand out like a red moon,

your beauty misconstrued.

Nevertheless, I love you....

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What does it mean, when the Sand gets stuck?
(Gets stuck in the Hourglass)
What does it mean about time?
What does it mean about space?
Are we given a Respite?
(I meant, ‘was I?’)

Does this mean that all callow cruelty has been redeemed?
Resourcefulness in God has won me over?

Right...

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One of the freely 
bestowed
ingredients, 
Existing thickly 
within 
the solid formation,
Brought out, after a 
boring exercise,
And seperated from 
its 
siblings.
It is stretched long 
in 
distances,
Prior to measured 
reduced divisions;
Then comes the 
adjustments to 
classes
Of designs; sharp 
opposite blunt.


Used in both internal 
and external 
Arenas -...

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I comb thy noblesse, in that some lost hurt
might bring thee sorrow, choosing some avert -
a random's borrow to then so divert,
God's asking of our faith, to so invert
our courage, from His marrow of exert.

I comb the gray to know my own alert,
in functioning abuse...

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