Long Test your mettle Poems

With these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...

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Dueling Americans
love drawing blood from a distance
Crossing swords with their dogma guns ... 
a test of mettle:
Who will bow first
to the pressure building in their lungs
Bipedal zip-lip back-to-back walkers,
bivalve mollusk closed-minded talkers
Fifty paces then turn......

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Allow the mind
Afford its need to conjure
Profound:
If exaltation and majesty
Require a bit of provocation and amnesty today
Humor:
As remedy and coagulation
From the bleeding of
Pain, stress and anger
Affection:
To reach out from solitary
Disconnectedness and remind
Ourselves that human beings...

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Stunted growth, some seedlings need both sun and rain 
The sun went 
away, never returning again Seedlings into striplings 
grown warped and 
weak Striplings become plants, prospects bleak To bear fruit, to 
spread its own...

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Loves me, Loves me not?
Loves me, Loves me not?
Plucking petals is biased, as most flowers have 5 petals!
Counting the fingers and toes
of a poet, is ever so biased as well!
My dear, do you pluck me...

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Thinking Out of the Box

Ah, yes! It is! Another one of life’s great challenges!
Thinking Out of the Box should never be taken lightly.

Being human beings, it is well worth remembering
that we are all in this...

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Passing With Regret?
(Written about someone long since passed)
Written: by Miracle Man
1-23-2020

In spring of life he saw true love and marriage,
It was a time of no worrisome things to nettle.
Being new to the institution he had...

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She entertains fantasies
of unicorns and dragons.
And a curious spirit,
she oft thinks outside the box.

She is an illusionist;
famed for her vanishing act.
And breaking with tradition,
she cuts her own path in life.

She weathers stormy outbursts,
resistant to lightning's...

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My remote control taunts my mortal sloth
Pale light pulses, pulling me like a moth
Such a vast plethora beckoning me
Urging to decide what I long to see

I’ve got cop dramas to test my mettle
Cooking shows to...

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What do you do when you've hit "the wall"
When there's no stamina left and your hope has stalled?
Do you scream at the top of your lungs,
Do you wring your hands that have been many times...

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On the cusp of two seasons,
We savor warmer days and sun,
But bundle up at night for good reason.

The air smells suddenly alive, 
My mood's no longer doleful.
Time to revive and thrive!

Sturdy crocus open and close.
Chilling...

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Drag blade into coliseum gates red,
crimson armor and black carbon metal,
adore my frame as a scarlet knight bred.
Toothy grin, Cheshire eyes, test thy mettle.

Burst petals onyx
Shockwave from footfall rumbles
It’s a massacre

Titan comes through the open...

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My love seems to have passed away
The pain of lies and Death's dire sting;
All stick with me throughout the day

For when morn comes and birds all sing
I then recall my misery
There is no good this...

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