Short Persisting Poems

Winter's

Long long winters
Persisting harsh winters
Takeaway yourself away from me...

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Her smiles and laughter
Endure in everyone’s soul
Usually persisting
In form of inactive volcano
With suppressed magma
Watch out
Eruption any time...

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Despair Everywhere to Share

What we did find was much despair;
Existed here, there and everywhere;
Existing,
And persisting;
Always available so we could share.

Jim Horn...

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sustained energy
powering of green
dreams
new generations of
pleasant surprises
amidst persisting gloom
black smoke
in the distant past
she is sleeping
like an innocent
child...

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The shimmer of light stream
a dazzling star and 

these emotions

you and me in the middle
our lips were pouring 

with love
currently distinct

dream persisting.

Written: August 27, 2022...

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passion of the song of love
persisting lingering in trans
pupil constricted sun sinking in
painfully slowly clearing the fog
puddles of oil excretion of engine
passing steps punishing peace
people appear as people...

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Who claim to love but build walls of separation,
Do not understand the meaning of love, at all;
While persisting in false expressions of the meaning
Of love, they thrive on their own self-righteousness.

written June 24, 2021...

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gnats and mosquitoes
so doggone aggravating
hate to give them time
persisting even though warned
merit electrocution

THIRD PLACE WINNER
written August 29, 2021
especially for "A Buggy Tanka Contest"
sponsored by M.L. Kiser...

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DAPPLED   BEAUTY


Amid   Beauty ,  
Clear,  Dappled,   Easy, 
Feel   God’s  Holy,  Illimited  Joy,   
Keeping  Life  Moving,   
Not Obviously,   
Persisting Quietly,  
Recreating   Sunsets To Undermine   Very  Walled  Xanadu’s  Young  Zeal
…………………………………………….

For John Freeman’s Contest...

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Little Paperwhite

You rise and gaze Little Paperwhite;
Persisting for many a year;
No family, adopted, guarding yucca and jonquils
You bring down a lonely tear.

Another spring, unnoticed;
You retreat to your Mother bulb;
And weep a while, then sleep;
To dream of a Paperwhite club.
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Go a little further down the road
Just a few more steps in travel mode
For you may find what you need
A cure for what ails you as decreed

Sometimes the journey seems so long
And to continue may seem so wrong
But persisting in your journey is the way
You may find it was worthwhile so they say.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Why does disaster
Come oh, so much faster
Than happenings flowing with joy?
A plane crash or fire
With death does conspire
To enter our lives and destroy.

Just hearing such madness
Imbues us with sadness
No matter if we are involved;
But while we’re existing
This pattern’s persisting,
A puzzle not easily solved....

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Woman

An epitome of beauty, 
An emblem of peace, 
An allegory of humanity, a hallmark of love. 

A sign of care, 
Persisting without err, 
A light in the dark, 
The lily among the thorns. 

A mammoth reservoir of power, 
A mirror reflecting man's manliness, 
A remedy to zenith? 
A channelised woman. ??


                -S.SamuelJude...

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Pandemonium packs a powerful punch,
persisting pitifully in its path.
Such a pretentious, pernicious prat,
pilfering everything;
Producing panic.

I’ll make pandemonium pay;
Penning a poem that puts
Pratt pandemonium in it’s place, 
permanently.


10-23-2020
Alliteration 004 (I prefer old poems) Poetry Contest
Poet Destroyer A...

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Splashed carelessly aside 
poised, patiently resisting 
every earthen pull. Only you reside,
carved statuette persisting
tethered on stony mountain tops
asking much of fortunes favor.
Catching crisp sunlight, life stops  
upending sensibilities; labor 
like your brother Banff. Capture
all the beauty of the world,
record it for the rapture.

Sunday, January 17th, 2016...

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PASSION

          Passion overflowing.
          Pearly nectar of heart
          Piercing obsessed feeling
          Pointing possessiveness.
          Pricking tangling craving.
          Persisting hankering
          Parching emotive urge.
 
   
  04/10/21

 
                                                        Second Place
'P in Pleiades Form' Contest by Kim Merryman....

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immotile sperms
blind soldiers obedient
polishing blood of contaminated  boots
splashed from the innocent hearts
 workers brain washed
making weapons in the factory of death
incomplete metamorphosis
carboniferous labour of casts
persisting ancient eastern atrocity
we are starving in this sand storm
bayonets grenades tanks and a bombs 
large heads and powerful jaws 
 of the ugly unwanted wars...

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I shouldn’t be here
I am removed in everything,
see within the seed 
of unknown origin 


I am like a cherry blossom
blooming out of content,
a blood red orchid 
persisting in fields 
of white petals


after the burst into flower,
I regather the petals,
and see nothing like self


I am, 
a wildflower 
of unknown origin
flourishing out of context.


and in the pagoda 
a lotus smiles...

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It has been a century and a half since emancipation. 
However, stubbornly persisting is racial discrimination. 
Despite many anti-discrimination laws today, 
people are still breaking and ignoring them anyway. 
Racists from all over are continuing to disobey. 
The situation is just too perplexing to me. 
Why can't we ever learn to live in harmony?

inspired by another member's poem
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I poured myself into your onyx eyes scene;
wanted you to see my soul, and its story.
Like you, brother whale, I endure life’s tough schemes; 
while navigating in  seas, sunlit glory.

No medal beams on your marvelous bold breast; 
yet, like me, you bear the brunt of human fault.
Your faith and strength get you through the toughest tests; 
we kindred souls, persisting, can conquer all....

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Dank, cold, unperturbed indifference,
Untouchable, yet touching all,
Unresolved in meaning,
Still creating each and every fall,
Every whim and leaning.

Touché pas! A cry of weary hate,
And will not accept a helping hand,
‘Till death! Brazen adverse in face of fate,
And alone in piteous stand…

Lone wolf we cry, thy fate is nigh,
Yet stands he still resisting,
That love should die, that only tie,
In error still persisting…...

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Here I sat for hours
Hoping to be in powered   
I write 
Ever so slight
I dream with great imagination 
On the boarder of frustration 
To speculate, oh maybe the well is dry 
To much for the eye 
Into the still of the hour 
Here in the tower  
Of my mind 
Persisting on a note 
Or a quote 
To much time in my head 
Has brought me to the confines of my bed
Oh but rest no, not this evening 
Should I stop with this needing? 
For a expression...

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I was focused on the chess board
Eileen is an unbeatable opponent 
I could not tell her anything
About my feeling for her
A feeling As old as the game itself
Chess is the game of life
My life game
A male was standing around our  table
With a persisting smile
His eyes were solidified around Eileen
As I tried to move
My bishop
To a check mate
Eileen asked me if we can 
Postpone the game
She has a neck pain
She left and vanished with our table host....

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There is this subtle, lingering feeling
of lack, wherein our heart feels incomplete,
with consciousness contraction persisting,
far cry from our vibrancy bliss replete,
as we observe our joyfulness deplete,
until we choose to reject ownership
of ego spawned thoughts of oneupmanship,
shifting attention into staid silence,
head and heart aligned, with pulse of oneness,
reclaiming thus our childlike innocence.

24-September-2021...

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catch this
last kiss kiss
friendly reminder
kinda hard to resist
laughter of our demise
circle ing times flat lines
existance persisting past
chances drank from a flask
drunken under shades tree life
staggering through events twice
insanity has becone corner stone
never left to sip in company alone
misery always prepared lending a hand
though fog may clear still quick is sand
oceans only choice left to enjoy a view
time watering mountans peaking hues
?...

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