Short Notwithstanding Poems

Notwithstanding,

Men changed over to machines

Our women standing washing machines!...

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equivalent
  but different
in design

complementary
  notwithstanding
the patriarchal mind...

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Stroud's Laurie Lee
known novels rather than poetry
Notwithstanding wrote sensuous verse
atmospheric succinct&so terse...

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Imagist Skipwith Connell
an unusual forename as you can tell
No bios seem to exist
notwithstanding with his 'Nocturne' do persist...

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Magadalene Abakaus be quite certain
lived life behind the Iron curtain
Notwithstanding& for her part
created her much beloved fibre art...

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Naturally particular, normally pedantic, never problematic - pessimism notwithstanding.

Thoughtfully intuitive, interested in thinkers; tactile in time, nuance in tenderness....

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Surgical reviews, 
notwithstanding, 
relapses of cliche 
should be confined 
to private journals, 
read once, 
with delusional sighing, 
then burned to prevent 
the spread of infection....

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How many with lust some call love unite with the sunset
How many notwithstanding walk away not to survive the dawn
How many so confused love and sex numb beyond emotion.

© Harry J Horsman 2013...

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Ivo, I certainly do not find this poem to my liking;
Notwithstanding, I encourage you to keep on writing
Just because I don't like this one you don't have to be sad.
I do enjoy most of your writings, kid. Aren't you glad?...

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Lost in space, is our human race 
     On a lone world, in the right place 
      Nowhere else, simply have to be 
     Because we are here, you and me 
    We ask ourselves, why us, why now 
      Notwithstanding we are somehow 

By
David Kavanagh...

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Science's
True
Enthusiast
Pioneered
Hope
Eternal
Notwithstanding
Withered
Human
Admonitions!
Who
Knows
If
Noosphere*
Goes On?
_______

*Noosphere - the sphere of human thought, from Teilhard de Chardin

(In Honor of Dr. Stephen W. Hawking, 1942 - 2018)

2/25/2019...

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an acrostic in free verse

P  Peace
A   and contentment?
N   Not understood.
D   Demons were given
E    Earth.
M    Man's
O   Options
N  Notwithstanding;
I     I know Satanic 
U    Uproar has only a
M  Matter of time left. 

August 4, 2016...

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Not that we might not
Have ever known if
Our leaders had not
Noted their official
Capacity for not telling
And said nothing anyway,
Then in the jargon of non-
Truth tellers, liars bestsaid,
Notwithstanding, and had they
Said something worth hearing,
Then no one  would have understood
What it was they did not say....

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Sometimes 
You have to 
Leave that which 
Puissance couldn't hold 
To chance,
Trust
The rhythm 
To Dance 
Back 
Good corollary.
The falcon 
Flaps 
Awhile 
Seize, 
And spread
Wings—
A flap—
The air 
Notwithstanding 
The direction 
Carries 
It through. 
To Chance 
Sometimes 
Some things 
But with faith....

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I attended the funeral of a friend 10 years ago.
It was by far the most unpretentious of funerals.
Notwithstanding, it was real, vintage, and genuine.
The face of the funeral looked identical to my friend.
The body was well done, but I'm speaking of the character
of the funeral itself. Like my friend Cal, it was the real McCoy.

071221PS...

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GRAMMAR   ALWAYS   RULES


If if and and were pots or pans
There would be fewer conjunctions 

But when  because  or  some such word
Was changed  into utensil it became  absurd

For although since the demise of if and and
There have been no other losses grand

Nevertheless, heretofore, notwithstanding
The loss, we must retain our conjunctioning...

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do you get hot with a passion, 
with the right person, 
close at hand,
the liquid state of subtle dampness, 
when love is in a sweet demand, 
when all is out of focus,
tossed out the window, banned,
thought of wanting,
has command,
consequences,
notwithstanding,
babies can be unplanned,
fate can conquer all, the plan.:) 

Don Johnson...

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.

                   i
            mine think
              believes
                 taut
                 failz
                 save
                  if'n
                 yep
           "hern purty
                winks"

         notwithstanding
                 thuh
              "college edgejuhmuhcation"

                
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Listen to poem:

winds whirling clouds about
within the confines of this mind
stirred emotions in motion
stagnant waters notwithstanding
spinning all perspectives askew

after the pub crawl
where will we land
if not by the sea
practicing our butterfly stroke
under a monarch moon


AP: 2nd place 2023, Honorable Mention 2023

Posted on March 28, 2023 

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(
                             Always believing creations divine,
                        each future generation hindsight intensifies.
     Just knowing lifes meaning, notwithstanding our past quarrels.
                      Redeeming societies trust, unifying values.
                        Welcoming xenodochy, yielding zealotry.

      10 / 31 / 2021....

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Notwithstanding, stars must be tall
To separate me from the waking-up of miles.
They glint when there’s no more light at all—
Drawing from my eyes; For on sky’s blackboard,
A p..m. set of chalks, rise in awe
To sketch, dreaming within a child’s hours—
Notwithstanding, stars must be tall
To separate me from the waking-up of miles.




-not a regular Triolet...

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O the eternal bliss of peace!
Like a traitor to the cause of humanity,
you did not receive the impression of my dream
in peace, congealing into flesh, the enumeration of
my nightmare, giving evidence against your soul.
But, notwithstanding, have no delay;
you may yet effectuate this business of peace every day.
You may have slumbered here, 
but the vision did not disappear....

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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 person I want you to see
and am only satisfied if you're baffled 
by the multiplicity of me.


Submitted on July 24, 2025 for contest MULTIPLICITY OF THE SELF sponsored by ALICE REYNOLDS...

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The clouds pass silently above
On their way to infinity;
Sojourners drifting in the sky;
Compliantly acquiescent
to whims of dominating winds.
Our paths to perpetuity
are like those hovering above:
Short time stays in this dimension
crammed with egregious egotism;
Marvel at insignificance
as though it were significant.
Our egos pass, notwithstanding,
into amnesic nothingness....

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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 disagreements,
One might yet endorse and support
Such a one on other, more vital levels.

In so doing, one should see it, not as
a conflict of interest, but rather as
a higher view of the big picture.

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