Best Thwarts Poems

Building blocks for future generations
Despite discrepancies of daily needs
Understanding others situations
Sharing overcomes the power of greed
In childlike innocence there is no race
As hunger thwarts one's willingness to learn
He will not let the extra go to waste
In adolescence shows he is concerned
A simple word is so...

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The climate of the world is alarming; we are at odds with each other,                
           divisively separated...a great divide in...

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Life teaches many a valuable truth,
That makes our existence one of worth.

Graying and growing old is no curse,
As experience directs life’s course.

See life as a mysterious puzzle,
And death as an inexorable struggle.

Know, hatred burns life like fire,
And wickedness turns it into mire.

On Earth, forgiveness bonds...

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Written: September 21, 2023
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In a world where illusions often deceive,
Genuine love springs as a jewel to retrieve.
A tale implicit, a...

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Stare all over, O World, you scarcely utter.
Bear stalwart angels to arise over the air tugger.
Odoriferous water may abscond the realm of prosily.
Such as the Goddess of Heaven perpetrates an odyssey,

Please, Lord, I pray you are aware of my plea heed.
The blunder I committed thwarts...

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our god is bountiful because,
with mistakes insight, he forgives,
when honor and pride thwarts my eyes,
he gives me sight.
 
our god is bountiful because,
his love knows no end,
for he is a humble being,
he teaches me humility.

our god is bountiful because,
he is omniscient,
his enlightenment knows no bounds,
he...

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mountains bob like corks
adrift on liquid magma -
pond scum shelters life

Earth’s magnetic shield -
magma’s gift of moving charge
thwarts sun’s deadly winds

continental drift -
neighborhoods fenced by oceans
breed diversity

random mutations
offer death or advantage -
unearned consequence

life’s adaptation
to universe in motion -
the true face of God 

Brian Johnston
January 12,...

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Gone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would now be left displeased,
by hurried tempers bent on winning wars,
neglectful of th’ endurance truth implores,
Tis sober wit we prize? ...

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The day I woke up
I will never forget
Confusion
An enormous pang of guilt hits me in the solar plexus
I curl up into the foetal position
As I remember

The guilt
How can I face it?
Them
Explanations will be expected
I will say it was accidental?
I didn't mean it
But I did 
And...

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she wrote using only her left 
I learned to write using my right 
the dark took her heart to the night 
I lived in sun and bright of light 

she would say yes to caviar 
to me it just sounded bizarre 
she ate things that...

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More than twelve hundred souls
Meet their watery grave.
German U-boat patrols
Spark a fatal shockwave.

This echo of the past
Resounds throughout history.
Rousing war unsurpassed,
Deadly shroud of mystery.

The empire aids Cunard,
Loaning millions in pounds.
Lord Inverclyde toils hard
On deceptions unsound.

They hide admiralty
Within their merchant fleet,
And in reality
War barons plot deceit.

Famed...

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The fable of the two snakes in the grass

There were two snakes in the grass, 
buried in the pit of life, 
now bemoaning their past, 
with hisses, coils and strikes
she constricts 
he restricts
venom spewing out
she thwarts his advances
and he thwarts hers
stubbornness seeding,
in the pot of...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 6

Should the State legitimate entity be
To make the use of force It generates valid
True father protects for life his progeny

Change helmsmen and change its personality
The State’s a will o’ the wisp under tight lid
Should the State legitimate entity...

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Tragedy in Pennsylvania
      October, 2006

I watched 34 carriages 
and buggies snake toward 
three empty hand-dug graves.
		
"Our lives are shattered," is quoted
as an entire nation gazes in horror, 
and one church hosts a prayer vigil.

The iron wheels of a horse-drawn hearse
tracks...

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As Yggdrasil stretches into heaven
Hyperion watches a new Armageddon
As General Sherman towers above
Methuselah cradles a mourning dove

Old Tjikko refuses to bend
The baobab thwarts the wind
The Tree That Owns Itself
Will never, ever be compelled

The Cedars of God remain
Despite any flood or hurricane...

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