Long Staying power Poems

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVII - Tongue Twisters

If you want to « have » your cake and « eat » it at one and the same time, simple enough, just split it into two equal parts like...

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I nudged my way through the throng of women and positioned myself at the starting line—an archway of variegated pink balloons.  It was mid-October, and a stiff autumn breeze swirled around my body numbing...

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Youngest Champion In Woman Squash

There you have it, the youngest ever World Woman Squash Champion..
At a tender age of twenty, Nour El Sherbini is the 2015 Woman World Champion..

Coming off the prolific production line from...

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What will this day bring - its gifts
of lingering sunshine & flower storms,
the thundering of xanthous hues,
bright beams of crimson and green…

What will this day bring - a knock
or a ring, my feet go, the...

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The ill-equipped revolutionaries fought and died to set this nation free.
Against all odds they triumphed sending George's troops back across the sea!
The precious freedoms we cherish today were won due to their staying power.
It can...

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In perfect rhythm they coupled softened rhymes

Yet they did not adhere to the script and chapter

This will be over in a flash the onlookers assured

You are lacking staying power and our approval


Self appointed hypocrits
 ...

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I found it endearing, the crazy look to her virile flare!
Like she was an Angel sent from above.
With 
Love's Tigered Eyed stare-
that appeared as a releasing of Doves, 
through a ring of fire.
It appears it...

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LEECHES IN POWER

As old as the sand on the earth
So do I in power.
All colours leech on power
The dark loves me more.
Either you want me or not I will never flow in your direction
Those that...

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You fill out a form to get into the dorm;
you fill out a form to get out of the dorm.

There are forms for the Government, forms for the school.
Forms if you've foolishly broken a rule.

There...

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Faith is the substance, the sustaining force that gives us the patience to wait to 
receive what we need or what we believe has been promised to us.
Faith is not blind; it sees its way...

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In through the front door he creeps 
The old girl lies upstairs asleep
Then he hears her call 
In his drunken stupor he falls
Her swear words should carry a bleep.

He's broken her ornamental well 
He hears...

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if only i had made better choices
if only i had said no
if only i knew what and where love was
if only i had simply remained faithful
i would be sleeping in a warm, comfortable king size...

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Let me tell you about a man
Who wasn't just passing through
He arrived on scene with a plan
Who planted a seed and love grew

He says he knew in just one look
There she was, his forever
One smile,...

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I’d  like to teach a lesson to you
You may laugh and question me
My eighteen years have seen enough
To hopefully make you see

Lust, my friend, is pure heat
Some say unbridled passion
Sure is pleasing, to say...

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My doctor says, as we grow older,
and keep cramming stuff into our brain,
sooner or later, it has to dump.

Is this really true?
Or, is it simply a doctor's excuse
for something to which he has no answer?

Somewhere...

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A flash in the planetary cause,
 a momentary held applause 
  on the evolutionary roll of time paused;
These last seconds on the timeline hesitate
 when man appears upon fostering the world's fate
  and...

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You leave little sprinkles
Of crystalized sugary words
Everywhere you go
Traces of sweetness
Meant to tantalize
Everyone the same portion
Of the rich desert of your soul
Little sugar sprinkles
Just a little lick…

Please forgive me
I don’t appreciate
Something that melts so fast
With...

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earth sinking
equator like northpole-southpole tunnel bisecting earth
cities clocking population reduction 
countries resourceless in failed planet
people aspiring for bi-planet citizenship
india shown it's place

earth resolution on it's axis accelrating
equator like northpole-southpole tunnel bisecting earth
cities clocking population reduction...

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Another poetaster or a budding Baudelaire?
No one takes much notice, no one seems to care.
He writes his contributions yet knows deep down within
Another terse rejection slip is what’s awaiting him.
Enclosed within an envelope the editor’s...

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Resolutions Poetry 
 

Related meanings I have to firmly determine myself
Everyone lies to themselves resolvere, "to loosen, undo, settle."
Stick-to-it-iveness pertinaciousness we find ourselves in abated promises
O bstinacy my power over myself obduracy obdurateness fosters my...

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It's an agony that assails and assaults.
It's a state of indecision that boggles the mind;
It's a heart and soul that's off track and taken aback.
It's a sleepy boredom fighting hard to stay awake.

It's a darkening...

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Your eyes have spoken to me softly
So many words of such sweet delight
Filling my heart with a burning desire
Whose flame will burn ever so bright

The words which my heart now embraced
Today have not fallen upon...

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Blasted, I am sorry I said that.
Blunt, however, I must be honest.
Life is magnificent to those that express themselves.
Well enough to know that insults are not the way to go.
Just a ground to stand on...

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Three hard-working bricklayers were once asked what they were doing.
Their replies said a lot about them and the goal that each was pursuing!

The first answered, "Well, I am laying bricks, as you can see!
I strive...

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Consider I am just a man and of declining years,
And one of hundreds you will know though life's a veil of tears!
In love, you reap what you have sown, just one page in a book,
Investments...

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