Best Work In Progress Poems

I am not finished yet, nor am I perfect.
I am a lifetime project.
I am a work in progress.

Each day, I grow a little.
Sometimes bigger … sometimes smaller … 
Always older … often wiser …

My days would seem to be all the same.
Rather sluggish … Frankly boring …
And they are, yes … in the main.

Yet each...

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Finally tears of joy swim from these tired eyes
No longer am I drowning in murky waters
Nor trapped in a crowded school of goldfish 
Today I dive into fresh invigorating waters
Hoping to make a huge splash 
To pay forward a path for others
Never will I forget those who kept me a float
For they are my hero's...

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Well it's the reason for tears on your face
Well it's the reason for no embrace
Well it's the reason for no sunlite skies

Well it's the reason for your frown
It's the reason you are so down
It's the reason you're no clown

The recliner is totally down
Caput, Colapse, 
And it's no surprise


Tears coming from your eyes
Part of you has...

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Though born a sinner, I shall be…
A saint of God eternally.
By Faith in Christ, great Hope I see.
He is not finished yet with me.

Though trials test and pain abound,
His grace and mercies are my glee.
His arms of comfort doth surround.
He is not finished yet with me.

Though sickness deals a heavy blow
The great Physician hears my...

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spectrums
       of art
        bring
wonder
and ecstasy
a
fleeting
inwardness...
a heightened
sense
of the infinite..
so distinct
a visual
        chord
yet
out
    of key,
an
    idiosyncratic
act
of freedom
and chance
evolving..
into
a complete daub 
upon
the canvas
of experience...

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Contemplative, taciturn
Willing to commit
An immutable zeal to learn
Endowed with acerbic wit
Endless potential
But having few outlets, to express it
Seemingly aloof or deferential
Unintentionally causing pain
Coming off inconsequential
An indelible stain
Easily misunderstood
Without composure refrained...

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A lonely soul, I haunt this peopled earth;
     and ever solitary, I beside
remain untreasured and ne'er knowing mirth.
     Woe am I! For wherefore do I confide
in Thee, O Lord? For, alone and unloved,  
     I perish day and night, year after year:
for...

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Many Many Jobs
If I was a kid,
I'd stack them like pogs

Never did I find a place
That I wanted to pursue
A legitimate company
Seemed long overdue

Searched and Searched
Found no more
Can't be late or get fired
Really? Who's keeping score?

Finally found Verizon
Worked on the phones
Thought it was a final destination
Melted my sanity to my bones

Felt I was sufficating
My world...

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My whole life is a work in progress. This includes everything 
I do, have to keep working on and improving, fine tuning,
use some spit and polish. Needs some more strokes of
the paint brush to give it more color. Blue, green, red, 
a brighter shade of pale. Mix it all up splash it on the canvas,
see...

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She winked, and smiling with 
her eyes,
kissed my parched lips,

I could not return her kiss,

and though the years have spun 
their cobwebs,

fashioning vacuums out of 
forgotten dreams,

It is that kiss that I most miss.


Tonight, I lie awake,
lathered in layered memories,

of love lost, and of love gained,

of open skies,
and of rains crashing through 
my weak rhymes,

that...

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Parents control what their kids are taught
It's not a matter of them wanting to or not
Go to school and get a job
That's how people pay bills on these blocks

Get married and have a kid
That's what everyone I knew did
While working full time
Stressing and counting every dime

Vacations on credit cards
Outfits for sports and leotards
Payments for the...

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a double acrostic 

S - Scared to death, I dreaded failures
E - Exams in high school were formidable. 
L - Leery as I was, my final grades were phenomenal 
F - Finishing with a B- average I stood in disbelief.  

A - A little less shaky, I headed to higher academia;
C - College-life was...

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I don't have to be a monk,
tucked away on some far off mountain,
to feel the profound joy
of contemplation.

Nor do I have to be a party animal
to laugh at ridiculous jokes,
during game night
in the company of cherished friends.

Flip me all you want
I will either land on heads or tails.
In any case I'm still a coin
and you...

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She!
Intimated by guilt broken by perplexity
Waiting for the love her life but until then,
committed to memories of forlorn moments
Threading on the joy rides of halcyon days.

 
Her! 
Heart of a woman in the depths solitude 
Plunged and played by people she called friends
Lonely soul tormented even by happy melodies
In her emptiness void her soul forever...

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« Fools are my theme and satire is my song. »
                   George Gordon, Lord Byron
I
Donald Trump is an ignorant man,
Put in power by a populist gang,
Property dealer of some renown
Rode with post-truth into town.
‘A living libel on mankind’,
On money...

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