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Influences Poems - Poems about Influences

In the battle of markets, where influences clash relentlessly

In the battle of markets, where influences clash relentlessly,
In every war, the lies of professionals resonate loudly,
Where religious fanatics, sincere to the point of incandescence,
Sell a holy crusade to defend virtue from the shadow of Evil.
In the silent march of soldiers, where the soul's turmoil is deaf,
A story is born of a world seeking salvation

Categories: influences, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Influences

Extreme temptations and lures from family, friends and the world that could lead to your corruption

Categories: influences, mental health,
Form: Monoku

Bad Influences

Bike to ramp and from ramp to tree
In just a second you can feel the hit
Hanging midair is a time of glee
Adrenaline rush with teeth a’grit

Grasping his precious jewels 
The tens unit clung
Crank that cruel switch to eleven so
His unborn kids will know he was stung

A blindfolded face, cigarette tastes,
Tighty-whities, and a Big Mac burger,
A

Categories: influences, childhood, friendship, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Welkin - and - the Influences

1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small white beach
Skip stones / thoughts nag / mind fug stills

2. The Influences 
Seeds sprout / stems firm / youth glean part
New buds / core splayed / new growth hearth
Weeds choke

Categories: influences, analogy, nature,
Form: Jueju

Influences 2 American Dreams

It was old Woody that lured me with
Dust Bowl Ballads and so much more
Telling stories of a West
That I'd never heard before.
I was with the Okies as
 They travelled down the road 
Got a new hero from
The Ballad of Tom Joad.
Then on to Steinbeck
Faulkner, Williams, Hemingway, 
Until dreams of America
Filled my teenage day.
The whole world

Categories: influences, america, dream, growing up,
Form: Rhyme

Influences

In youth I learned to jump
First off steps, then rooftops
Spirit of adventure
Nurtured in the heart of a child

Preschool acrobat twirling on my head
Grandma swatted my bottom
Repeated words like Tomboy
Never learned to be ladylike

Catholic school discipline
Uniforms, religion classes, daily mass
Never satisfied with any accomplishment
Even the nuns called me “perfectionist”

Blessed with storytellers in my family
Dad and sis

Categories: influences, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Influences

People and events come and go
Forever changing our lives
We all know this to be true

Influences show up
From out of nowhere
Some good, some bad
And some that didn’t seem
To make any difference at all

Whether a tragedy or celebration
We hold on to the hope
That whatever comes our way
Will take our weaknesses
And turn them into strengths
Through these strengths
Our dreams

Categories: influences, dream, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Sad Influences

There’s deep contemplation 
in finding INSPIRATION,
there’s much meditation in 
the joy of using my quill-
I’ve found that my sorrow
and pain in desperation, 
has become my motivation
with a craving to fulfill.

In anguish I peak,
on my parchment, I must speak-
in torment I find my muse, 
with many syllables to use.
I find my joy is oblique, 
as my

Categories: influences, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Heavenly Influences

Heavenly Influences

All the random acts one lives.
Are they what the universe gives?

Do they come from one’s heart beat?,
or do they come from the soul’s seat?

Does one’s life’s experiences come from the hands of fate?,
or are they reflections ?, refractions the psyche doth state?

Could karma be the force, the energy that guides one home?,
or is one’s

Categories: influences, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Early Influences In Life

Born in late '53 post Christmas
adopted was I being six weeks old
my new parents lived way out country
enjoyed these formative times like gold

Early on discovered I had stammer
but mother especially showed real care
made my little bedroom my cocoon
living out so free was myself there

We had little cairn terrier McGregor
he was real friendly to take a

Categories: influences, life, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Outside Influences

The pair couldn’t see beyond the present
Such hope, great expectations
Children, a home, great love
 
It was what they could not foresee that hurt
She holds their wedding photo
The war took him from her
 



Entry for Dr. Ram Mehta's contest Wedding is one of the special events in marriage

Categories: influences, war, weddingwedding, wedding,
Form: Kimo

Influences of Luna

When she dresses in her full gown of white
And dances across the starlit sky at night
On sane men’s minds she will play a trick
And convert them into her lunatics.

Farmers will harvest when she abides
She influences oceans, moving their tides
Songs to her glory the wolves will howl
Sinister men, for her will prowl.

Young boys dream of visiting

Categories: influences, naturesky,
Form: Personification

Changing In Forms... (The Way Influences Work)

When the naif that whispers
deep passages of unheard words
into my ears, stop.

I am once more able 
to hear my own thoughts.
How they drift.

And, begin to speak,
a collision of words.
Those that vibrate the
walls of my mind.

Recalling the confusion
of free thought. I have once
more submitted my being
and am lost. That within
my own thoughts.

Categories: influences, life, science fiction,
Form: Epic