Best Withstands Poems

The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers

The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's" fair hair,
Shed history's warm light to chase away all care .
From shadowed chambers where dark ravens shriek,
To hearthside tales that...

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I love you just the way you are
(after they buff that awful scar)
and laser the tattoos over your heart
I'm sure we're destined never to part
     Remember to tuck up that cute
double chin
     and put those buttocks back...

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Scarecrow’s tattered clothes
Clever birds are never fooled
Sit defiantly
Arms of hay hold heckling birds
Eating the last grains of corn
 
Nature’s curtain falls
Vibrant leaves make no encore
Tumble to damp soil
Yellows and reds turn to brown
Trees’ skeletal limbs shudder
 
Fall’s first kiss of frost
Invades farmer’s pumpkin patch
Hardy fruit...

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My Enemy
From my time I have learned
It is not republican or democrats
king or queens
That shall determine my fate
It is not the color of ones skin
That makes them who they are
Or which religion one serves
Or which corner 
They choose to worship
It is not the feud
Of which...

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~~~~Flower for Heidi~~~~ 

Is it the lasting touch or the telephone, 
one's loved so much when feet find home.
Sentimental for the days recorded duly, yet hope withstands,
gentle flowers afforded beauty by Heidi Sands. ~Heidi's hands~...

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He grabs her wrists to keep her fists
From beating his still chest.
But she withstands and pulls his hands
To rest on her shrill breast.

He pulls her near to hide her tears
And kiss her pallid face.
But then he leaves her soul bereaved
And flees their secret place.

She runs–...

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Where Love Has Never Gone Before

...the legacy of a poet...


A man is not a man until his love becomes idolatrously immense
Since time began, his love eagerly evolved with his ideal intense
Now in suspended animation, his love spirally stagers in suspense
Within his venal violation, the Angels...

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My Inspiration,                         My Only Beloved,                ...

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October's rose, October's rose
High upon the trellis grows
Silky petals in the rain pose
October's rose, October's rose

Withstands the wind, cloudy gray sky
October's rose on trellis high...

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Sipping from the well of sorrow
withstands an unusual life cast.
Sad rivers and sifting sand remain
tuck away this tragic river
apart from the entire world.
Tears stream down my chin
a liquid flow of unending love.
A waterway radiates pure splendor. 

Isn't it frightening to adore... 
something death may reach?
A...

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I pray for your faith
That it will always sustain you
Bring you through the worst
And abide with you in good times

I pray for your hope
That it always makes a way
Even where there seems no chance
There is always a opportunity

I pray for your joy
That it keeps you...

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Shall I contend thee on a summer's day?
Thou art more vengeful and more aggressive.
Rough winds do shake the bleeding buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short to live. 

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven brands,
And often is his gold complexion grimmed;
And limit...

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In the darkened city, she slowly walked.
Baptismal rain droplets on her that 
seemed to talk.

The lovable scent of fresh raindrops filled 
her spirit.
There was God, hope and freshness in it.

She heard the soft meowing of a distant 
cat..
And she marveled that the earth was not flat.

Dreaming...

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Zinnia Grandiflora a golden beauty 
Yellow Prairie Coneflower conical cutie

Xerophilous plants designed to survive
Waterlily attached to bottom soil to stay alive

Venus Fly Trap grows wild in marshes
Ulmus grows wild along with birches

Texas Bluebonnet cover fields with hyacinth like joy
Shasta Daisy white and yellow who could...

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They found each other when time changed course
unhindered, at destinations that had never known routes
drawn by the call of their karma, they dance blind,
the saga of two universes, and their thirst for one another
songs get rewritten in the brilliance of their mystery
worlds left behind helpless,...

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