Insisting Poems - Poems about Insisting

... I asked my shadow to swim on the surface. I didn’t want it to sink in fear, from the ripples pulling it down, fading into gray below. I asked the silence to hold a chord until it could re......

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...Contest: What makes you smile 2 Sponsor Karen Jones Date 22/6/25 ___________________________________________________________ When my day has been pretty tough, And I have been dealing with lo......

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... We brought a puzzle to the cabin, rented on a Friday-front holiday. Our tween was bored before we passed the first exit. We needed the escape— a break from where we'd been and where we were (o......

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... I have a voice within my mind that never stops talking, it is rattling and annoying and intrusive most of the time: though, at times it speaks to me of random memories, like the smell of g......

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...Sight It’s the hush before sunrise breaking loose— lemon light spilling through the slats, a field of dandelions laughing into the sky’s blue face. It’s the color children use when the......

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...Isabel was the youngest of four children, dwelling in a large old house, Nestled under the burgeoning oak trees, in green spring, of no doubts. Isabel's parents were devout churchgoers, i......

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... In the ebb and flow of feelings that is the cycle of my life I seem to be caught in the spring of my emotions while winter stalls refusing to take its leave. Like a bad virus insisting to over......

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...Southern Rata (is a stunning Kiwi Tree) Red or scarlet harlots instead...a bucolic frolic.. Tranches spread as if bulbous branches have gorgeously bled.. Overpowering flowering towers gl......

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...TATTOO DEPORTATION I’d almost forgotten that damned tattoo A small symbol that years ago, I had got It was a couple of lads, drunk on vacation The tattooist did it in red on my shoulder I’m a ......

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.... not in mine imagine nay it were this true each help'd not mine weak insisting lock thank'n each they en ......

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...I'll wake up each morning, A dull ache in my side. I hear the room door open And wait for you to come Throw yourself on top of me, A mumbled good morning or a groan Before insisting we go For ......

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... Glistening on a graceful pine, The glow, the flame, so alive Tells a story of a gentle vine, Written by love who shall thrive. Poured out on the believer Is the wonder of God’s grace E......

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...In the silent spaces between words, Where meaning often gets blurred, I have wandered, weary and worn, Translating my heart, feeling torn. Searching for one who understands The dialect of my u......

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...“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”) by Gunter Grass translation by Michael R. Burch Why have I remained silent, so long, failing to mention something openly practiced in war games w......

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...It is right there in front of your face. Look around, it’s all over the place. Don’t know why it is you cannot see What is plainly apparent to me. Could I get you to open your eyes? Look again......

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