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Insists Poems - Poems about Insists

In The End
... While the universe is ever-expanding life on earth becomes even more demanding despite a few one or two world-shattering improvements man is still wallowing in the proverbial primordia......

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Categories: insists, future, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member utmost
...I have a confession to make. I’m a trust fund baby and a member of the educated Elite. In my defense, I'm a newcomer in both categories. I got my trust fund at 18 and graduated Yale University t......

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Categories: insists, baby, boyfriend, humor,
Form: Free verse



The Espresso Salon
...He’s behind the bar, polishing glasses like they’re his last remaining purpose. “I know things!” he insists. “I watch Question Time! I once bought quinoa by accident!” He pours stout with ......

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Categories: insists, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Respect for the Dalai Lama
...The Dalai Lama, who has earned great respect and admiration, has said that, after his death, he will achieve reincarnation. The school of Mahayana, a Buddhist doctrine, teaches social concer......

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Categories: insists, appreciation, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Fumbling Sheep
...I'm a really hungry wolf One that’s never satiated. Your heart isn't enough I need your whole arm off I'm a truly gentle wolf, Feeding on your bounty. Maybe flesh is all I need Not the tears......

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Categories: insists, angst, deep, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Muse Is Under the Credenza
...I want to write a poem today but the wood insists on ritual— Pledge and patience, lemon oil, a soft cloth circling what must be remembered. The coffee table’s judging me. The hutch has turne......

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Categories: insists, art, conflict, house, humor,
Form: Free verse
Time Shops
...Crazy how past days weighs heavily on each raindrop passing by, as a train token in the abyss, it sinks deeper subconsciously, i reminisce, careful thoughts glide over ice, paradise is n......

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Categories: insists, age, anger, change, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Song unsung
... There is a piece I've longed to share, which, up 'til now, I wouldn't dare, where courage pushes fear aside and shackles up my foolish pride... To put to words, as much for me, affection in......

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Categories: insists, dream, love, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
...I. Sighting I saw you through refracted light- a prism of chance splitting ordinary into spectrum. Wind-tangled hair terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails th......

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Categories: insists, dream, innocence, journey, loss,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Sparky: The Phantom Dog
...I've never, ever seen my dog, 'Cause he does not exist. I try to explain this fact to him, But the truth he does resist. He says to me, "I have no bowl." I say, "You do not eat." He says, ......

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Categories: insists, animal, funny, humor, surreal,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rinkydinks: Volume 1
...Dear readers, I may still be suffering a bit from April Fool's Syndrome, but I'd like to introduce another Q and A series called "Rinkydinks". It is also dedicated to nonsense, but unlike "Grins and ......

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Categories: insists, humor,
Form: I do not know?
A light still shines
...A light still shinesEndless hopes and endless dreams, That were shattered all in once, In agony and pain my brain screams, Your life shall stay in utter ruins. Amidst ......

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Categories: insists, emotions, heart,
Form: Rhyme
TIME FOR ME IT'S ALL LIKE THIS
... The past is gone and will never come back the future will never come to an end the present insists on not running......

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Categories: insists, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
snake in de grass
... Smooth with his talk Slipped through the shadows, a snake on the walk. He called me an old fowl laughed in my face Wrote poems about me then left not a trace Said,I wanted wood but let’......

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Categories: insists, 12th grade, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Him
...At night I stayed awake Wondering what I had done wrong To make you hate me When all I had ever felt was love between us My mind insists that I’m over you Every feeling now gone The pain dull......

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Categories: insists, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

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