Compelling Poems

Premium MemberRomance in the forest of Arden

masqueraded as you like it
most cleverly wooed under a suitor's guise
played up most compelling disguise



Wordku: 5-7-5 words
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Categories: compelling, games, romance,
Form: Other

Compelling Conquer


G-ood
L-ife
E-mbraces
N-ew
D-ays
A-bout

C-herished
O-pportunities,
L-etting
L-ively
A-ctions
D-efeat
O-bstacles

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Monocrostic (Birthday of Glenda A. Collado)
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Categories: compelling, birthday,
Form: Other


Compelling Confusion is so uncool -No Way? Yes Way-

Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-inside-prideful lies
Memorably, miserably yet magnificently and mesmerizingly myself simultaneously 
Precious and passionately positive and neutrality in my nostalgias, negotiating muses of confusion
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Categories: compelling, angst, anxiety, community, confidence,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberLoves Parade Compelling-

Much I marveled lament a favorite kiss
The beautiful amity a beautiful bliss
And the embrace never-ending cuddling
That moment my soul grew laid
While I pondered wandered wonder romance and shade
What could there be more purely displayed?
Parade
And as lovebirds never coquetting, unbaiting
While we pondered worn and renegaded
You warned me about the shade (once more)
Deep into that finish darkness
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Categories: compelling, analogy, appreciation, inspiration, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCompelling Rapture

Compelling rapture, laser beam
It is our wake up call
Benign bliss currents within stream
In this storm, we stand tall

All’s enabled, here now
If free will does allow
Love magnetism to wow

Thought cannot capture
Compelling rapture 

23-March-2022
Quietus 
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Categories: compelling, joy, love, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme


Journey

Down,
Up.
What can be expected?
Not much.
If you do not jump,
We can all see limitations!
But the Master can create innovations,
Not the popular way!
But there is a way.
Nothing can be achieved,
As long as you are deceived.
Far from this road shall I travel!
Sometime can be said for uniqueness,
It creates oneness!
Often in those joyful times of youth, 
I sought not
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Categories: compelling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Classicism

Premium MemberCompelling

it's always been a mystery 
why i am so moved day or night 
at the sound of native drumming 
when loudly my heart thumps in rhythm 
ducking logic with every beat
stirring deep primal emotions 
awakening dormant passion 
releasing unchartered tension 
setting free inner vibrations 
beneath layers rising chanting 
echoing way inside my head 
is something
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Categories: compelling, emotions, introspection, life, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Patience My Love

As I sit here thinking of us my dear
My mind is not right soaked in fear
From my child like atmosphere
That made you disappear

So unlike me to smear
When I know your heart is sincere
My mind off in some distant place
As if I was in some kind of awful race
To leave my name in disgrace

Our love so
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Categories: compelling, games, girlfriend, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme

A Compelling Spirit

A vision legendary among Native Americans...
glimpse her in your mind’s eye
   young Shoshone woman
       with a papoose on her back
   stands on a precipice
   surveying the wild panorama
 
    Her presence treasured by these explorers
     
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Categories: compelling, appreciation, native american, tribute,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLife's Compelling Quarter

"I moved through the Quarter
as if through a stage-set to an opera
which, having finished its run,
might be struck at any moment."
      John Wray, Canaan's Tongue

I move through this post-selection Quarter
as if a Fat Lady on an opera stage
which I must Final Curtain
through this eternally regenerating song.

I sing with all PermaCulturing
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Categories: compelling, earth, games, health, math,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member Compelling Wisdom

Difference between crazy wildness and genius
may be soundness of deeply revolutionary resonance,
win/wins discerned and discovered
through transparent co-arising communicants
within a symbiotic multiculture 
of appositional paradigms
co-gravitating me/we consciousness.

I can't say for sure
as I live in a less win/win intentional,
more win/lose conventional,
tribe of mutual thoughtful secular knowledge
v felt sacred wisdom,
each mind v body
denying our complicity in BusinessAsUsual 
v
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Categories: compelling, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberCompelling the Hand of God Visual 2

While we take pleasure in the glory of the Lord’s handiwork
Satin’s tireless henchmen seek prey in unlikely places
Compelling the hand of God to run his fingers over the earth


Visual 2  For Andrea's Sijo contest
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Categories: compelling, beauty, evil, god,
Form: Sijo

Compelling and Swelling

Compelling and Swelling

When you have something to do which is compelling
Will it always seem like your head is swelling
Like poem wanting to come out and be written down
Which sometime in life may become world renown.

To write poems as hard as I can will always try
But what you should do is significantly simplify
So I never, ever
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Categories: compelling, bereavement, betrayal, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberA Compelling Adversary

Fear, always a compelling and daunting adversary -
To sanction fear in my life is to reject the power within.
That I am made in the image of God, I must believe! 
~*~
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Categories: compelling, courage, fear,
Form: Sijo

Compelling Satisfaction

The sky is a shade of dark grey now
 
It seems as if our depart has caused this terrible scene
 
Adjusting to the fact that you aren't right for me
 
I can recall the day you told me that we would never work out
 
My brow arose in an instant
 
My heart fell burning with
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Categories: compelling, time, body, day,
Form: I do not know?

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