Short Insisting Poems

slovenly and ill-kempt but happy
we decided to make him snappy
we did it our way
thought he would be gay
now he felt less than himself, and crappy...

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Trump has smeared our Snail Mail with slime
Insisting it is not a crime
Ballots need inspection
To win an election
And Biden may die with more time!...

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She insisted on careless key twisting.
Now she's mad and locked out and it's misting.
And her sister's locked in...
Who's "in-sister" again,
If the "out-sister" did the insisting?...

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Rehabilitation from taking second and third glances,
From being enamoured with rust
And letting love turn to dust
Insisting it’s the real thing.
I’m learning real love can’t be downloaded....

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The dawn broke
with thoughts
raging furiously
insisting on response
capturing my being
now a prisoner
with no escape route
an accessory before and after the fact
plead I for freedom to engage the heart
on its destined course....

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Well, you’re at the top of the stairs
Completely Sincere
I hear you stop and listen
And you giggle like a dolphin

Stamping bare feet,
Insisting,
Both of us that is,
I adore your smile
When I come home

July 19th 2017...

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A pert young lady from back in a hollow
Had trouble with her new fellow, Carballo
He was giving her head advice,
In fact, he wasn’t very nice
Insisting now that she learn how to swallow. 

Written May 29, 2022
11/11/8/8/11...

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All is mathematics
The wind is mathematics, 
and your tear ducts
me insisting we continue, 
the curvature of your smile

the rock you sat down on, 
the ocean that sighed in your stead

the proof that life is a theorem,
which can never be proven to be one...

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Words

appear discretely
but seem to grasp us
by the throat
insisting they are
most fleeting
and simply point
to the thing
to which they
point..
What is that thing..?
it seems as
something between
something dancing
and shouting:
don't pin me down...!...

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Wind, the Barber,
   shears the trees
   decisively
with naught but
   his own  Fall design
   in mind,
Refusing imaged   glass
   for his reluctant clientele,
insisting    they trust
   his ancient  artistry,
Born of  a driven 
   fate again
   and again.
...

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Trixie is insisting on a hyphenated name.
Okay, I say. Let me get a pencil. She insists on a pen.
That one is blue ink, she says. I want you to use black.
The most demanding muse ever.
I do what I can to comply, so she will stop with the demands.
Where is my car? She asks....

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Mum said the rooster was my christmas cock;
Serving me just the wing was then a shock.
Insisting on the drumsticks she called my bluff;
Beat me and said drumsticks were daddy's stuff.

Date: 25/11/15.
Name: Kayode.
For the contest: A Christmas Memory.
Sponsor: Broken Wings....

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Insisting one might was well be dead
Feasting upon dark emotional words
This is how the young have been led
Magnetic this compass for the birds
Signal sent be that of infrared 
Drawing them all in by the herds
This be part of their pseudoscience 
By misusing the cognitive science...

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The sound of harmonica, inminent regression 

Every curl of his hair moves you  

Moves a tireless mind thirst for change 

 

The sharpness in every guitar cord takes me back there  

Asking you to open up to me, no way to keep insisting  

When all I really want to do is baby, be friends with you...

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Giving high fives
to the giggling squalls of rain
I feel like I'm in Millionaires row
Laughing at the people
who cannot summon a smile
All I see are blueberry pies
not listening to the world's advice
If you have a hand
Give in to religious Chant
still insisting theres meaning in it
This madness is too sweet to resist...

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The mighty river flows,
He has the power to keep its motion,
a force of  impressive water running
through the lower mouths of
deep canyons and along the
ribbon of wending roadways,
a determined waterway,
insisting on carrying its
inhabitants to spawning
pools awaiting life and death,
an irony of God.


March 24, 2020...

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It does rattle the Bone 
To be oddly alone 
And one makes prone 
To fingering one’s phone:
The seed of solitude sown 
And fruit of boredom grown, 
Life is a hollow cone;
One like a defaulter over a loan; 
In ears a loud insisting drone 
Of an unseen plane being flown…
 
Loneliness reaches the bones 
And speaks in our moans....

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Grumpy
Elderly people
Ridiculously fussing over nothing
Inventing crazy stories
Attempting to get over bed rails
Trails of body waste on the floor
Repeating questions over and over
Insisting on being toileted when they can't walk
Commanding to have their backs scratched.
                   BUT-
Sweet souls that need to be taken care of....

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my stomach
growls,
insisting I 
eat 
poking my 
skin 
already cant
sleep
dog snores
neighbors dream 

I lay, 
just starring 
zero money
to claim
future not 
planned
no calendar 
here,
each day I 
dream
each night I 
see

still I am
here
with a muse to
feel
a muse to gaze 
a muse to eat

morning brings sun
and coffee that 
will fill

I got it 
good...

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Your throb and her heartbeat pulsate in rhyme
yet your minds thought of something very wrong;
insisting that the night is the right time
to let you taste the weakness that’s so strong.
Till you savor the joy of peak to climb;
only to regret what you’ve waited long.
Why would she ever embrace you again?
Didn’t you know that link is hard to trim?...

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To open up the sky
To dig up abandoned graves
The touch of silk replaced by steel
And forgive the dramatic implication
But Im getting out
Forgetting faces
Ignoring the nameless
Avoiding these places
Washed away to scrape my flesh
Replace the numb with burn
Suffer the fright 
Set me on fire
But Im losing you
Forgiving the time
Insisting on feeling
Cant be mine...

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We are wishing, hoping, dreaming
Always wanting such a lot
Not believing, caring, trusting
Having faith in what we've got.

We live in constant conflict
Which never seems to cease
But still we go on fighting wars
Insisting it's for peace.

Anger, greed and prejudice
Are what we're taught from birth
Not how precious life is
But how much money is worth....

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Constantly you throb ‘pon mine 
                member
                 inciting
        recruiting all of mine

        rousing the moments
 
                adoring
                   me
               insisting I
         persist as no other

              collapsing
              entreating

                  Truly

             in your grip
           I have no mind...

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Renaissance

Time has overtaken age
and caught the years in its wake,
insisting that all follow
at a pace which increases
with every day of life.

The elastic years of childhood,
when every moment is crammed
with new life and excitement,
give way to mundane monotony
with little to inspire or thrill.

Time steals the solace of Spring
and hides it in eternity
for our renaissance....

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How difficult it is to pursue
A moral code that seems so trite
For a young son whose modes are new
Insisting his thoughts are alright
When a bold mind creates a fight.

But the choice to stand by my will
And show reason to discipline
With tough love, I claim and instill
That harmful friends are not life's win;
And praying our bond won't crack, as kin.



Hard Choices Contest by Dr. Ram Mehta
From J.Torrente...

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