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Notwithstanding Poems - Poems about Notwithstanding

Premium MemberHead And Heart

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When your heart and your head
Have a major disagreement,
Which body part should win?
Certainly not in every case,
But in 2020, my heart won.

Two of our dearest friends offered a gift to my...
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Categories: notwithstanding, love, math,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberAppearances notwithstanding

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I am simple yet complex in my simplicity;
I have many masks and facets, 
and will wear a multitude of hats.

I show the me I need you to see,
you'll never know the whole of me.

I am the per...
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Categories: notwithstanding, introspection, me, simple,
Form: Free verse



If Life Were A Game Of Chess

...If life were a game of chess,
I would not be holding the chess pieces. 
I wish to become a chessboard, 
So I could see the wonders of life and be free
Or I may in another way I can explain
A pla...
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Categories: notwithstanding, character, life, sports, success,
Form: Free verse

Because I Would Not Stop for Death: A Homage to Emily Dickinson

...after Because I could not stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson

Because I would not stop for Death,
he kindly stopped for me.
A wilted bouquet in one hand—
a reminder of life's mortality....
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Categories: notwithstanding, bereavement, death, grief, journey,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberBig Pictures

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There are people with whom
One might disagree at certain levels.
The dividing levels might even be ones
Of insensitivity, discouragement,
And even hurtfulness.

Notwithstanding such disagre...
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Categories: notwithstanding, together,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberJust Walk Away

...From distance far she came;
From California she drove;
Notwithstanding the pain.

About halfway here, she stopped in
South Dakota, picking up a family of
special friends. Together they braved t...
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Categories: notwithstanding, christian, family,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberBrainwash

...To the best of my memory, the word brainwash
has been used in reference to me only twice.
The first time happened more than 50 years ago.
The second one occurred less than a year ago.

One refer...
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Categories: notwithstanding, perspective,
Form: Narrative

In your Eyes If it was not a whisper of a lost Tangible promise

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The Reflection of light to.. 
A sanctimonious imposed Tyranny, 
A stifling Medical spellbinding idiocracy, 
Of a State Sanctioned Nihilism that couldn't stand the irony, 
Sycophant Pagan philis...
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Categories: notwithstanding, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Covid Prelude to a Seminal Moment

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Most Free thinkers ought then to agree,
that this 'Cabaal' has always been, 
Quite sophisticated, hidden 
Although very devious utterly, 

Yet openly subversive, 
With its insipid evil meth...
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Categories: notwithstanding, courage,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Bitterest Pill

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Generations of the entire world.. Once abided by a force fed conditioning, 
An indoctrination so deep, so vast and yet so hidden.., 
Reveals a new rekindled conscious bliss, 
For our obligatory ...
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Categories: notwithstanding, analogy,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

My Country Endowed With God's Natural Beaches

...Farthest in the background is the blue sky
Standing afar is the green ridge mountain
Beneath below is the blue turquoise sea
Near the front view is the white sandy beach.

Looking at the left si...
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Categories: notwithstanding, beach, culture, people, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHanging on for Dear Life

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      A marriage, once strong, is slowly disintegrating.
      People and negative forces r a g e against them; 
        Laughed at in the trenches, yet, they fight to 
      Keep everything...
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Categories: notwithstanding, endurance, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Narrative

memoir uv proclivity

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                        grab thuh pen
                              write...

                 the thinker whom yourn
                              grabz
                             likewise...
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Categories: notwithstanding, adventure, allegory, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Epyllion

Premium MemberThe Sweet Life

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Jesus said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive".
Notwithstanding, a life of giving one's self sacrificially is pricy.
Indeed, a 'self-giving life' is rewarding but also costly.
The air ...
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Categories: notwithstanding, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberOUR NATURAL STATE

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Arrogance does reign
hoisting human nature’s gain ---
notwithstanding, we are led toward downfall pain.

Beyond towering pride
that offers us jubilant ride---
nevertheless, there a...
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Categories: notwithstanding, blessing, character, christian, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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