Long Obviate Poems

A Passing Cloud - Poem by Lora Colon on Poemhunter.com

I like comparing him to a summer cloud
That drifted one day into my life, 
While in his shadow, I found my peace, 
A refuge from the...

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Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023

The idea of Friendship Day originated 
in the United States in 1919, 
proposed by Joyce Hall, 
the founder of Hallmark cards. 

It gained official recognition 
when the U.S....

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Unlike this papa akin
     to being racked, raided,
     and raked with hot coals
during his adolescence devoid of
     a social network and academic goals
if...

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The Jewish brothers in Defiance were definitely tough.
One wanted to kill many Germans, the other to save many Jews.
The German soldiers were expendable, unmarried, unremarkable.
Each little death was very little, a little spittle in a...

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Be not soft upon the morrow
For the maliciousness it contrives.
The future beckons unending sorrow
To gamely catch the vulture's eye.

'Tis the destiny of mice and men
To be laid waste by nature's curse.
Where foolishness belied of ink...

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Narrow escapes- thrice threatening
Came and went
Despite succor abstaining
My soul under no circumstances meant

Harm to my person
Stolid as I sometimes dreamt to claim
Not heeding, not learning warnings a salutary lesson
That on me poured blame

Sucked from narrow...

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I thought it is wiser that I confess
That I overlooked that you are complex.
And that I had nudged you off the edge.

I thought I could mumble an apology to you.
For nobbling you and causing you...

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Some words sometimes may create problems for
us, mostly we use words without thinking,
what exactly those words mean, with less care.
What comes to mind we just speak unthinking.

Sometimes forget process of thinking and
words used determines our...

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The New N Word

Volcanoes erupt
Ice melts
Boulders
Scree
All move freely
All have purpose
Ultimately resting
Until dealt with
Or not

Such reality
Chooses not a destiny
Relying instead on nature's digestion
Its need to purge on occasion
Allowing gaseous release at times
Forging its evolution
Becoming either challenging...

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Allurements...allurements...allurements...
Please don't enthrall my feelings,
I am so fragile when it comes to these cases,
You can easily captivate me without any assaults.

Yes, you seduce me wholly...
I tried to elude but it's too late,
Your irresistible kisses touching...

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The need to forgive is oft for self-healing,
that we may be at ease,
so we pretend to let go of hurtful feeling,
happy as heart contractions cease,
obtaining from pain release.

Yet, neither repression nor sublimation
is the answer dear...

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Heart
           by Odin Roark

Can an enigma be weighed?

Many would hold the heavy heart
Is indeed noticeably of greater weight

And yet…

What can the heart do
When all its...

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Wind carries the dust from your ash door,
How much more can you afford to pour?
Throw away your shoulder height,
Weaken the grip of such a cloying life.

"Sink them down to a thousand fathoms deep,
Grab chains tie...

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It's a groovy morning
in a simpletons ecstasy
the rushing
sea and waves
and my appalling vessel

what is my source
a zephyr
oh my anxiety
what's the scene 
of the weak spot
obviate
strangulation

everyone should be 
provided shelter for
and you as well
with me
stay


Written: May...

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I feel like I am just one step shy of despair
as I sit quite anxiously in this dentist's chair.
The dentist told me I would not feel any pain
after he shot my gums with novocaine.
There is...

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Can we contemplate a love between friends
phycically attracted but spiritually exempt
from the common consummation?

Can we sustain a love that never ensds,
a touch of hands, a kiss, to obviate
the threat from consummation?

Can we contemplate a love...

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Welcome Sun you move in our direction,
the Northern World is waiting for you call,
will you cure this Winter's introspection,
bring light before the darkness starts to pall.

Longer, warmer days anticipated,
for annual gifts we wait with bated...

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Our fingerprints leaves our identity
On walls, doorknobs, books, all around
Each touch an impossible escape
Challenging me to face each reality
Compassion and kindness be abound
As good heartprints, my great break

Thus, they can never be use as "mask"
To...

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Vacant hearts can lessen scars along the way
Avoiding risks from pain when love's let in
Yet, how can life be lived before the grave
Whose mission is avoiding life's intent

Though closeness lends itself to greater loss
What yields...

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