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Best Efforts Poems - Poems about Best Efforts

Premium Member The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World
...I. In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll— left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice between being and non-being......

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Categories: best efforts, childhood, identity, introspection, loss,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member A FLOWER, A BIRD, A BUTTERFLY AND A TREE
... I wonder when Mother Nature was creating our world…from the mountains to the sea If, in the beginning, she started out with one flower, one bird, one butterfly and one tree. When she brought ea......

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Categories: best efforts, nature,
Form: Rhyme



the ocean is unfamiliar
...the ocean is unfamiliar i see the aging in the seaweed's expressionism oh how i love getting reacquainted with an old favorite change is inevitable despite my imagination's best efforts the oce......

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Categories: best efforts, growing up, growth, i
Form: Free verse
Redirect
...Sometimes our best intentions miss the impossible target-perfection Sometimes our best efforts leave us hopeless and contemplating defection Sometimes our goal of being everything......

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Categories: best efforts, care, change, character, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SEVEN GRANDFATHER TEACHINGS
... It’s ironic isn't it…how even though we tried to destroy indigenous cultures and replace them with our own. how even though we no longer want this history to be known… How in spite of all t......

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Categories: best efforts, native american,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I cannot play Poker
...Some people can play poker Not me My thoughts and feelings sit at the edge of my face Jumping on the necks and backs of people If you disgust me, my disgust might take a bite out of you If I l......

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Categories: best efforts, me,
Form: Free verse
Milk in her tea
...i feel like i need to hand her over with a manual. like this precious thing who so carefully needs looking after and i can’t let him make one mistake. i need to tell him what to do on days when s......

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Categories: best efforts, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Walk the Tightrope
...Trudging through thorny and rocky paths, His feet often got cracked and torn. Yet he persevered, for he had a lovely family. His dear one stood by his side as a pillar of support, Sharing the joy......

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Categories: best efforts, angst, dark, endurance, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Robert Sherriff A Grave Warning to Humanity
...Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian The End of Earth as We Know It A Grave Warning to Humanity The clock is ticking, and the end of Earth as we......

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Categories: best efforts, birth, creation, death, god,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member A School Daze Turn
...'Tis off to the races now that homeschooling has ended. One half earns for their subsistency, other half learns about delinquency. Be they friends and their best efforts were suspended. Tale ......

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Categories: best efforts, analogy, farewell, friendship, student,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member love, to love
... ~ for Mom & Dad ~ love … was the air that you breathed … there was no course navigated no interaction made no thought processed or act completed no example set as people or parents tha......

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Categories: best efforts, analogy, parents, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
What Would You Do?
...Picture yourself in a room Full of everything you love Everything you need Everything you desire Now imagine the room filling with snakes Or spiders or slime or fog Whatever makes you choke ......

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Categories: best efforts, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Flowers-A Poem About Death
...You got me flowers last week, The petals started to wilt and fall yesterday, –So I carefully glued them back on. Despite my best efforts, they continued to die. No amount of love and care can ke......

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Categories: best efforts, death, flower, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thor's Cave
... In a small village in the green valleys of the Peak District, Sarah gave birth to a son, after a decade of trying for a child with her husband, Peter B Perfekt. It was a joyful occasion for the fa......

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Categories: best efforts, allusion, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dyslexia
... Why would people criticise a child’s best efforts because he does not measure up to their own abilities and twisted reasoning? Learning disorders are not to be looked down on; instea......

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Categories: best efforts, judgement, motivation,
Form: Fibonacci

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