Best To The Contrary Poems

Now this is quiet a famous little stream, many untold story
The muddy waters run slow, but don't let it fool you when it comes alive
Divides the United States and Mexico, but it is just a line
Old Cottonwood trees and quick sand, some cross it for...

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TO WIN A HEART
To win a heart you must be true.
Integrity, should you win let it be part of you.
You'll find no need for compromise,
True love, is not ever in disguise.
it's in the eyes, true love realised!

Integrity, should you win let it be part of...

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I think my words are far more worthy
than I am, the writer – often feeling,
grateful – but apart!  For the mind
and heart, can seem, at times, mere 
spectators to the being. Inspiration 
pouring in, as if a blessed shower
or cloudburst, from far off or...

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The fall of man is attributed to Eve
Who urged Adam to eat the forbidden fruit
Such is the story ancient biblical scriptures weave
Bringing about, as is said, on all of mankind disrepute

Reserving judgment on whether this tale is false or true
Blind belief that we have sinned...

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It takes real faith to be an evolutionist
For as you study science
The most difficult element to find
Is randomness
And if randomness is scarce;
Almost theoretical,
Then there is design
(a thought heretical)
And if there is a design
There must be a designer? 

DNA is information
Coded strips of pure devotion
To the...

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DIRTY HANDS 
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



Little boys playing with mud and silty sands
Will return to their houses with dirty hands
Mom will scold them, but knows what to do
A little soap and water, they’ll look like new
Soap and water doesn’t clean off all stains
Especially those amassed from...

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For each gift that you make to a man’s spirit,
Servant gift, not the kind that dishonor brings,
There’s a peace that comes soft. (Can your ears hear it?)
And the heart of the man soon forgets its stings.

A first kiss from a girl that you really love,
Like...

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Nine wild mustangs canter across the prairie
Old West symbols of animals on free range
Known to them is only one adversary

-- Pounding hooves fade into history’s pages

Magnificent specie appears unwary
Victim of habitat infringement and change
Government roundups so unnecessary

Protection not offered, to the contrary
Mustangs captured and sold...

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My lady friend Mary invited me over one day to have a little ham
So, I put on my big heavy coat and my fur hat and grabed a digital cam
It was late in November and the streets were white with snow
But when Mary invited me...

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What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system--
little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay 
of a segregating Country Club.

No, this is addressed to economic policy re-tirers. 
Keep the tire and the chairs, 
but let's...

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I propose love is not the answer
It’s not what brings us together in our lives
I believe it’s to the contrary
Perhaps that’s the flawed reasoning in our “why”

The majority of our life we suffer
We fervently strive to avoid all of life’s pain
Ironically
We suffer and suffer more...

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You had to pass through security
and insisted you could stand 
on your own two feet
and progress of your own volition.

Though your wheelchair
and diagnosed dementia
evidence to the contrary,
I figured: Who would it hurt?

The stares of strangers
as I held your hands
and helped you to your feet
informed me...

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In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.

If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your own Atlas father,
you might feel certain
he would prefer you grow...

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We are the people, did you know,
Better be ready, do feel it so.
But, to keep you accurate to, you! 

We live in a human world;
Where sin is thick, judgments clouded;
In a world that's full of hate; 
The people were shouting.

People are boasting about themselves:
In prideful...

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There is only one true freedom we have in this world,
That is not hindered by the Time and Place of our Birth,
Our Religious Beliefs,
Family circumstances ,
Or even the dictates of the regime we reside under.

We can try,
And keep on trying as long as we have...

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