Exacting Poems - Poems about Exacting

Chiaroscuro

...Backlit in life’s shadows –
the exacting burden of responsibilities –
you are lost.
Bathed in light amongst shadows
of trials and tribulations that
internal hope defrosts;
one can but surmise 
...

Craig's Job

...
I’m in Inner Voice.
My name is Craig.
I get paid 55 an hour by the Heaven Cloud Company.
We’re not angels.
We’re suggesters.
(Angels get paid way more.)
Our job is nuanced, nudging,
Exacting...

Burden

...To be a burden means to not use the tools strewn about. 
The rusty trowel and bucket filled with half-thoughts.
Be a burden. 
Your words are just wailing and buzzing at us.

I can be a burden. 
...

my attitude is laissez faire

...Laissez-faire is the attitude I wear
For worrisome things I don’t give a care
Government may concern another
I’m not running, neither is my brother.

Some people are exacting and stern
From the...

God's Vision of Me

...What could, what would I be?
Daily, do I choose an Ideal Me
And do my best God's smile to see?

Is He my Best Friend and Lord?
Does The King of the Universe make me bored
Exacting a price I can...

The Social Security Senilitis Bonanza

...The times of forewarnings whereby recipients within close proximity of retiring may have to keep on working as a possible solution and thereby embolden the faltering and weakening future, and...

Where do dear friends go?

...

Right after Teddy finds a shelf,
Embryonic, soul-discovered 
Comrades, introduce new rich textures.

Pondering gone epochs,
past yields of buddying,
Genuine, sounded, grounded. 

Twelve s...

she wants to bring peace to the world

...Marcie is a delicate, pretty girl with pale blonde hair
Everything about her is natural, a hippie throw back
She thinks like her grandmother, which means she is open
to all kinds of people, and id...

The Conflicting Trio

...Infinite and enticing is the world at large :
Full of curious, motley marvels that enrich,
Appease and alleviate with divine charge,
The eager, stirred soul at the varied pitch ;
Live spirit ever...

The Empty Nest

...absence was noticeable like the wood yet blessed with nails of plenty
hellfire snuffed out gossiping walls abandoned
vacancy in one's upper regions merely invites painful issues
focus compliments ...

Flamboyant Swashes

...Flamboyant swashes; flaming crimson,
could be my face, as the flyswatter-hand
could impress such lettering upon my cheek.
so I
severed the crescent-angel of my imagination,
dashed my dreamy curs...

mundane

...rising from bed in the morning
seeking shelter when it's storming
idly whiling stray hours away
dreaming there will be better days
fabricating a self-image
with a more prominent linage
doodling...

Aftermath of Flood

...
Damaging winds whip and slash, whirling wild, drenching rain,
Roads decimated come to standstill, as gushing floods reign,
Inundating swollen terrains, roiling deluge of a tenebrous day,
As tree...

Heaven and Hell

...Once upon a time, there was a world, a one-derful world. Before they
needed explanations that became their defining moment. Contrasts,
and differences that tore them apart. Heaven and Hell are cons...

The Poetry Police

...

The pressure is on, can't let a day go by
Without writing a poem... that would be unthinkable
The Poetry Police would be breaking down my door
And exacting severe punishment
Us poet g...

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