Short Deterred Poems

much pain
incurred?

sounds like
a turd

be not
deterred

with time
heart’s cured

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Response to Caren Krutsinger’s A Little Bird Told Me...

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A leprechaun grants me three wishes—it’s my lucky day!
But for my ex he’ll double each gift--much to my dismay! 
Not at all deterred
And for the last and third
I say beat me to death just half way...

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I forgive
I forgive your arrogance
Matched by your ignorance
Interrogated by malevolence
I took you condescension
Your hidden intentions
Your lying invention
Politeness deterred prevention
I’m glad there was no extension


David Cox 31/03/24
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My prose becoming painful,
poetry yet a joy

Explaining has deterred me,
rhyme a favorite toy

Sentences locked and muted,
as couplets run and play

New paragraphs unwritten
—as verse my heart does pray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Sighs
The fresh chill
Of November morn
The stare of icy eyes
While the sun is born
Fetal innocence
Unaware, the Fall demise
Young oak unconvinced
Not older braver trees.
Blow north wind
Unfettered
Against the shallow charms
And golden warmth, deterred
By fragile youth's alarms....

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Hearts bonded across the land
not deterred by the miles
Whispers and promises
finally a chance to meet.

Hearts were finally filled
such joy never known
they sat and watched
the sun settle into the Pacific

“Hold on to me,” she asked
“just a little while longer.”


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Rocky Mountains tower in God’s sun 
Their splendor captured in photos
Below wild stallions make a run
Putting on such fun-filled air shows

Silhouettes of birds passing by
I call to them, but remain unheard
Now I too feel free enough to fly
But looking down, by fear I’m deterred


*For Shaz Cheesman's "50 Word" contest...

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THE TWIST IN THE TALE

They say once man has tasted human meat he cannot be deterred
But if caught eating human meat, then to a psychiatrist is referred

The psychiatrist behind thick protective glass will examine his mind
Before deciding if he is the real deal, invite him to his home to dine

Indiana Shaw . . . ; )...

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Some numpty bad mouthed my soup style
I’ve taken a break for a while
But I won't be deterred
From writing about turd
And subjects some others deem vile

I’m producing book number two
It contains some poems on poo
Foul flatus departing
Old codgers rank farting
And my pet hate vile doggy doo!
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So far in the past-
Were those promises,
A campaign now cast-
To the blank corners of the mind,
What happened to you?
Have you succumb to the greed of green?
Has it deterred you from what is good and right?
I beg of you, Barack-
Keep the promises,
Do the proper things,
Do not allow yourself-
To be bought by big business....

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before barristers
bone-busting brouhahas broached
barbaric bedlam

comely charwomen
cringed contemplating cruel
commonplace cudgelings 

dank dungeons deterred
disorderly drunken dolts
dissuading dissent

(Alliteration)


07/25/2020
Let the Pens Flow - Alliteration Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Jenish Somadas...

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Emma, I would love to be you
How careless you seem with love
Trusting your hands with blind eyes
Guided by only the faith in your heart
If you get a break or suffer a bad fall or two
You keep moving as if nothing bad happened to love
Pain is so frustrated  being deterred and always lagging behind
It never seem to get ahead in your heart
Emma, I would love to be you...

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The innocence of daughters plucked off their souls
Orphans spread wide, agony on streets
Scavenges merry on rotting heritage 
Nation's sweat burning, humanity's creativity scattered in ashes
Men were not teary, nor deterred by their transience of life 
They match, hoping to wreak the bloodthirsty beast
Of vengeance and wrath 
They carried the future's hope in the search for peace...

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PRACTISE

Tell me and I forget, he said
Yet I never shall be deterred
It is advice that one has read
Benjamin Franklin’s wisest word

Teach me and I will remember
It is always what I have heard
Memory’s like a hot ember
Benjamin Franklin’s wisest word

But then Involve me and I learn
A significant role preferred
Understanding is what I yearn
Benjamin Franklin’s wisest word...

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Splashes of waves;
crashes on rocks,
facts about life
told me, I thought.

Deterred the rocks stood;
crashed harder the waves could.
In bad and good times,
be it rain or sun shines.

Each wave made the rocks glitter;
so does our life,
enriched with experience
better or bitter.

Rushed the water
as it swept by;
so does our life
with smile or sigh!

- Mugdha Prabhakar Bhurke...

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Heart of fire, Soul of grace
I feel strengthened by His Love
So tell me, "What is Insurmountable?"
God Is Great, Through Him all is possible
Rarely deterred by obstacles faced
Actually, I feel empowered by His Grace
Caring Lord, I am anointed with Your Blessings
Empathetic Lord, This cold world I will face


May 15, 2021

Sponsored By: Regina McIntosh

'Giving Godly Grace' Contest Info...

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I know competition is only war
It is all we are trained to do
There in parade an army of czar
Republican troops forward too
And bright still shines the regiments
Of kings, or a modern queen
Islands too with prouder contingents
Marched upon the Olympic scene
I cheer because there is no blood shed
No trumpet crying over the drum
Grumbling for the burial of the dead.
It is bloodless better, this deterred wisdom...

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as youth and beauty slowly fade
a black and white reel from yesterday
the blossom falling from the flower
while the clock ticks away the hours

all the innocence seeped away
painted with a brush that’s jaded
a mirror reflection of who we were
looking back a likeness blurred

the image not at all the same
deterred by the game life played
wondering where the good life went
now that we are old and spent...

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What has words has voles into what into what I say may come in the month of May. To see what happens can be deterred. So I tell to a future in love can come soon.
I well rise soon to my time and there is something I wish for you. Can you ask? 
Can you do or is it still to soon? I call thee to my soul. Bring happiness to the world for the holy is to rise inside the light. When the time comes all thou shell art in the world...

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Chasing the wind
By Michelle Morris
12/07/2020

Chasing your dreams
Can feel like you're
Chasing the wind -
It's always just
Out of reach, 
And you can't hold on.

But if you stand really still, 
And allow the wind to 
Embrace you;
Everything you need
Will be brought 
Right to you.

So don't be deterred;
Focus on what you want - 
Instead of you
Chasing the wind, 
Let the wind bring you
All its got. 

© Michelle Morris, 2020...

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They put up a sign on the highway
Which pointed the way to a bridge,
Replacing the prior one, thinking
Perhaps it improved things a smidge.

But yikes! No one bothered to proofread;
The name of the bridge was misspelled.
If I were the person in charge, well,
They’d censor the words I’d have yelled.

It boggles the mind to imagine
How something so stupid occurred.
A double-check would have made certain
Such nonsense would have been deterred....

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The limerick form IS risqué
It’s bawdy and contains word play
I won’t be put off
By critics who scoff
And shoot off about foul play

I’m gobsmacked, I think it quite fickle
That someone’s upset by a pickle
Although some deem it ‘nawdy’
Limericks can be bawdy
My humour won’t slow to a trickle

I will not be deterred from trying to bring a little humour to people's life and bring a much needed smile. 


01/12/21...

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So that you shall be blessed
I pray more than you are aware
For you because you are
A friend of many friends.

May age not break your stride.
Remember all of your days
And on your tongue have praise
For those on whom you relied.

May God look down and see
You at play like a child
And like a parent smile
When their child shrieks in glee.

I pray that the crazy ways
Of this revolving world
Neither make you deterred
Nor dim the light in your eyes....

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Tunnel Vision 

I’m not aging, I’m evolving
Despite less time to brave the earth
Nessitates a vision path
To overcome and seek anew

My path is straight explicitly
The sides deterred by blurried mists
My concentration set in place
The vision is no longer vague

My destination clear in mind 
fixated on a single goal
and not dissuaded  by the norm
I’ve reached the apex of my soul

Tunnel Vision Contest
Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann
April 24, 2018...

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Tunnel Vision 

I’m not aging, I’m evolving
Despite less time to brave the earth
Nessitates a vision path
To overcome and seek anew

My path is straight explicitly
The sides deterred by blurried mists
My concrentration set in place
The vision is no longer vague

My destination clear in mind 
fixated on a single goal
and not dissuaded  by the norm
I’ve reached the apex of my soul

Tunnel Vision Contest
Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann
April 24, 2018...

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