In Spite Of Poems - Poems about In Spite Of

...We're all searching for eternity — To, in holy book or telescope, someday see A version of everlasting me Hanging in the heavens of some infinity. That we can with, in spite of, or through A han......Read the rest...

...In the depths of her soul, she's yearning for touch, In a void of despair, where emotions are crushed. Once her fortress, her solace, her knight, Now distant, indifferent, cloaked in spite. He ......Read the rest...

...I love women who gracefully dance And sweetly sing; and women who Avidly read and who brilliantly think; I love women who love to love— And who despise to hate—and who Receive and give of th......Read the rest...

...This Frisbee here turned upside down It never flew quite right Landing on a post and spinning round Like circus plates just out of flight It's edges all inverted Said a clown that caught the sig......Read the rest...

... In clamor continuum noise navigates decibel waves beyond discernment numbed, voice of frenzy feels the caress of hushed calmness, halcyon sentiments sink slow ......Read the rest...

...They were exhibited as strange curiosities, They all had a face, a name, an identity on this land soiled by negrophobia. They looked without seeing, their eyes lost in the ruins of their humanity......Read the rest...

...Restless Regrets This story unfolds with a young girl in her early years feeling the effects of love, in a quaint little town all rashenalty went out the window when she meet this older man she felt......Read the rest...

...Big hands of this man Who I remember as a child? Growing up in and at a time, When real men were fathers then. Supporting that family, no matter what, Working their fingers to the bone Tr......Read the rest...

... Ephemera, a short lived life of cherished times before the strife meandered into detritus with depth enough to bury thus beneath the memories with spite. Photographs torn up by his wife, t......Read the rest...

...Villanelle by Michael R. Burch Is poetry mere turning of a phrase? Has prose become its height and depth and sum? What happened to the songs of yesterdays? Does prose leave all nine Muses ve......Read the rest...

... Live long and prosper* In spite of your death desire; Find the releasing pit, Empty your anguish into it. *Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, Star Trek......Read the rest...

...The first crocus appeared, showing much pluck in spite of the cold, trying her luck. But then the wind hit her and the wind was so bitter that the crocus thought "This just sucks!"......Read the rest...

... They used to call it the Empire State. But the empire isn't doing too great. Democrats in power, big ideas they plan. Too bad for the middle class and the forgotten man. Low-income high rise ......Read the rest...

... Written: April 13, 2024 for Unseeking Seeker Contest Rumi Quote: "I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God" ......Read the rest...

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So this is what they call anomie? A grayness, A blank, All things devoid of beauty? When the eternal arms, Have left me to my own devices, To toil in ......Read the rest...