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Best Spurning Poems


Mona Lisa: Courting Favor, Spurning Patronage?
Beckoning forward, then muting purpose with placid expression;
Courting favor, but scorning gratuity with nobler accession.
Reconnoitering all, yet countenancing none in stolid derision;
Regaling commoners, but transcending all menial patronization.

Subtle smile endears, but spurns all gratification;
Distant stare, onerous repression or dark depression?
All encompassing view, mistrusting miser or...

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Categories: spurning, art
Form:
Would Be Spurning
Would Be Spurning

If desire we had was really burning,
To what Party would we be turning;
Winner or loser,
Or sex abuser;
Trump again us he started spurning.

Jim Horn...

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Categories: spurning, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Spurning
Ignorance is bliss
My house is burning
Ignorance insists
I not go learning

Ignorance persists
I'm not through yearning
Ignorance exists
a lot to spurning...

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Categories: spurning, absence, analogy,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Spurning Mediocrity
Competition ...
what keeps us alive
Sharpening our edges
fueling our drive

Setting new benchmarks
pushing the bar
Forever defining
— just who we are

(Dreamsleep: December, 2024)
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Categories: spurning, confidence,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry