Best Thankless Poems

Thankless job, I think watching
as Thurman tries to teach the young man

The lad sitting up
on the tractor
like a proud young pup
is full of piss and...

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"Join hands to sweep clean of all dirt and preserve the pristine beauty of Nature to enhance the quality of living. If not, fear her...

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(Just my 3rd submission. Don't worry, I won't number everyone of them! Just so that readers are aware that I am new to writing, and...

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Mute
but immutable.
Unmoving, unmoveable;
timeless, yet tireless.
Solitary stalwart sentinel
surveils undulating horizon.

Aberrant, achromatic clouds
pock-mark the skies, as distant
rumblings herald his adversary's
latest gambit in their age-old conflict.

The wrath of...

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like a grumpy ogre the twisted old tree stood guard
notched scraggy boughs reached out in fierce surety
naught had ever compromised its task
in its dutiable charge

the...

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Bullies are feeble beings that grow increasingly stronger 
  with validation and encouragement. Scared to act alone, 
      they...

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Gardens of golden threaded Cyprus;
evergreens perfume sings me halfway to sleep.
I breathe in the wafting scents of neighbor’s roses;
with elation my spirit weeps.

The drumming of...

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A priest once told me that the lump
on my hand was a ganglion,
a fortress of fat besieged by health.
At last it burst and the hand...

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"I look around me, 
Covered in blood and pus I am. 
Dead bodies lie flat on their faces, 
of people all from different races. 
My...

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Love changes me from doubtful to hopeful
From down and out – to up in the clouds
From worried and anxious to happy and content
From lost in...

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 Oh God, in your benevolent presence I find,
A tranquil haven for my troubled mind. 
Even when I stray far from your view,
I feel a...

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The Soul Errand
To Sir Walter Raleigh Tomb.

Since my soul shall though go
Upon a thankless arrent too
I fear not to touch the best so
The truth shall...

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My nightmare is so tangible...so vividly I dream,
The dream, it feels so true to me...reality it seems.

Exhaust and smoke are all I breathe...the air is...

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It's not easy to live with every day problems,
Especially when someone expects you to solve them,

The minute that trouble has raised up it's head,
And balance...

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"The MacGuffin"


Once through, 
cast dreams 
across a rippling mind
Circles ever-widening, 
no shallow tidal pools 
in this design

Through seconds, 
days, months of years 
dedicating
Are you the...

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