Short Overriding Poems

retribution for wrongs,
real or imagined;
ruthless drive for payback,
regardless of outcome;
rancor that supersedes
reason, overriding
rational, moral thoughts...

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If your courage lasted for
just an instant
Overriding your fear,
all excuses behind
If one choice you made
could then reimagine
A world once illusioned
—stepping out of your dreams

(The New Room: February, 2021)...

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I should like to come to that place of rest
Where a sweet peace overshadows all poverty,
The mindset has become always doing my best
Where the freed mind allows me pure liberty,
Where my overriding, compelling drive is sincerity. 

Written July 20, 2022...

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Setbacks and Comebacks
Faith goes beyond the fear
It transforms our imperfections
And makes it beautiful

Hope drenched in fire
Destroying the liar!
In truth and sincerity
Your purpose sparkles higher
This is your comeback
Overriding your setback

Mark Frank

Copyright 2023...

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The Thermometer shows
Heat increasing causing
Expanding liquid and
Rising numbers
Mercury
Overriding 98.6
My temp measured creating
Exasperated thinking due to my
Temperature intensifying.....forecasting
Emanate sickness leading to a
Reluctant doctor visit.

??

Thermometer...

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Tiring also feeling well no
Sick beaten or bed ridden 
Walking slow for taking grave 
Going with the nature's law 
At the age of Ninety four 

Proud of Queen Elizabeth 
Finding her way to riding horse
Overriding her power of will 
Proud of Queen riding old all 
At the age of Ninety four...

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cold-shoulder 
wind chill blowing 
negativity  
sweeping 
aside progression 
dismissing changes 
in over all 
prospective    
overriding    
strides upwards
on the climb to 
the top of the 
montion to gain 
a different vantage
point from which to 
view the landscape 
of this countryside 
filled with it's
hidden beauty...

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failures and triumphs
whose

there is no one here
save presence
in a space-time warp
as has been impulsed
in this lucid dream

residual identity
sometimes resurfaces
that we may feel
transient tremors
seeming as real

overriding all sensations
the magnetic bliss current
as ignition renewal
steadies the love flame
as the false drops away

06-January-2023...

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I will join you there one day
On the shore watching eternity
Splash at our feet

It will be a place of wonder
Unknowable until revealed
Our mortality lost

There is but one path
One central theme of life
That is love

All others contrast or complement
Weaving the temporal tapestry 
We see today

One overriding cause that is will
Willingness to wait while we
Complete our course...

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I was waiting for it impatiently
With a note of longing in my heart.
After winter I need it urgently,
So I’d like bright spring days to start…

And now I may marvel at them,
And rejoice at their subtle beauty,
And try to preserve them in a poem
As if it was my overriding duty.

For this fabulous sight and a warm breeze
I memorize it for the rest of this year:
Little leaves on barely awoken trees,
And this shy greenery… It’s so near…

Spring, 2006...

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SAVING GRACE

In the middle of the universe, I stand
Where it all revolves around man
Selling and consuming disastrous blends 
Burning the candle at both ends 
Neglecting duty, overriding beauty
This story of the ages, never told by sages
Who lived in the bell jar, with the fat cats in the big car
Where small minds, busied and blind 
Lost the human race
NO ONE’S SAVING GRACE!

2.4.15:  J. Polatnick
Submission:  In the Middle of the Universe, I stand...

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The heart  speaks and
Listen when all's lost
It has its own language
When all's lost-when it's  over
When it's overwhelming

The heart speaks
It speaks at last
It finally makes a point
Final decision,conviction
worries,misgivings
It speaks through
Body screams,chills
Overriding the mind

The heart  speaks
When the mind's undecided
When the head's hoping
When the spirit perseveres
The heart then speaks
With chills!chills! more chills
The heart speaks...

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