Short Tenaciously Poems

diurnal haiku
tenaciously remember —
the silver-lined cloud

11/19/2018...

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Zephyr
Stirs warm fall air
Some leaves spiral downward
Some cling tenaciously to tree
Until  ...

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Tenebrous and tumultuous turmoil’s pound….Tall tenaciously ground.





27-Mar-2016
Contest: In one line (monoku # 10) write what you SEE or FEEL
Sponsored by: Poet Destroyer A...

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Cautiously, creepily,  carefully, camouflaged, calmly chewing
A rodent? Bunny? Mole? Rabbit? Something obviously dead.
Tenaciously chewing, happily chewing, swallowing their sweetness....

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TRUST

Tenaciously clinging to hope
Resting assured
Unwavering
Surrendered to His will
Timeless endurance

Worry 
has no place here
On the bridge
 between
Prayer and desire…


mja...

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Ah, I really know 
this poem
from the heart, the 
very same way I know my dear wife
in the dawning chill.

Rhyme reaps aged mind,
alliteration immerses
into the emotional sea, 
sun rays darting 
my skin, tenaciously free of boozes....

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Tall
Totally 
Thoughtless 
Tony 
Tore 
Tenaciously
Through
Tiny
Terribly
Timorous
Timothy’s
Twenty-two
Tofutti's
To
Taste
Those
Terrifically
Tantalizing
Treats

Oct. 25, 2019
for Eve Roper's Tautogram Poems Poetry Contest...

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Sickness incredulously slipped the noose
wormed its way past healthy constitutions
and lodged spear like into Adams’ rib

Tenaciously Life held back 
marshalling the frontline
lymphocytes funneled nutrients
from Mother’s soup
into the societal fray....

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There's a leaf as small as a tear-
drop, fluttering on the tender limb
on which it was born. It clings,
tenaciously, as if it knows to fall 
means becoming brown and crisp 
and forlorn, like we who hold tight 
to our lives, await the butterfly 
when spring arrives....

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A delicate daffodil tenaciously pushes her way through the snow. 
Her cousin Gladys is next to her, doing the same thing but faster.
I love spring she says, it is our time to beautify and petal show.
Gladys replied yes, we are both a tribute to our glorious Master....

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young love, June moonlight
shimmers across still water
to be grasped and held
tightly, so tenaciously,
dawn arrives much too early 

SECOND PLACE WINNER
written June 5, 2022
submitted to "Moon in June" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Andrea Dietrich...

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If I knew then that home was so
Ferociously fleeting,
I would have spent less time 
Worrying about which way this world
Wished I would go, 
And traipse tenaciously towards
The town with the house
Which gave me a tiny terrace
And a place to pour my passions
Into passages on pieces of paper
That I could call my own....

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ginko's spring green leaves
being whipped by brutal wind..
tenaciously cling

ginko's medicine
very pure all natural..
sip bitter tea

ginko's extract fine
for memory decline...
side effects mean

sexual problems
ginko leaves help relieve..
lifted up once more


Sponsor:Tracie~~*~~Indigo Dreamweaver
Contest: ????...!!!!...!!!!...KuKuCrazy...

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Poem as Surrogate
                    by Odin Roark

Streaming messenger
With expression unchecked
Imagined ink yet to dry
The page fearful of touch
Find the eyes
Beneath which awaits the meaning

For

This frame that lives also as picture
One's fleeting first-person impulse
A captured inner focus shared
Clings tenaciously
To the world's lenity
Every poet's temporary forever...

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On a large elm tree,
there hung a young broken branch
swaying in the wind
Tenaciously it clung,
as it perilously swung
Hanging on for dear life
by a sliver of vine
And I beheld in nature
something so divine
A broken limb
struggling to mend
Refusing to die ... to give in
Then I understood: I too must try,
fight desperately to live
For a broken heart too can heal...

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WHY THE SWORD KILLS
When I give my mother a slap
She remembers the nine months
And years she nurtured me tenaciously.
When I bomb the temple of my religion
She regrets all the spiritual feedings-
And the ideals she showered on me. When I betray a trustworthy friend
The confidential confiding and love, will be remembered
If I betray my nation
The national pledge
I am forever indebted....

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Hideous cancer chisels away
With strange tragic sculpturing
And exposes dark flaws
heavy and black:
Inoperable, they say.

Ever present cigarette
Tenaciously supported
By shaking hand
and unfaltering need
Moved toward fried death
As wrenching cough spewed
Fire in weakened lungs.

A machine by the bed
Connected to tubes,
She wavers between
Sleep and reality
Fighting to hear 
The voices around her....

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His pillar braced by the Lord's might

anchored working faith's steadfastness...

supports tenaciously our plight

for children's* service-fruitfulness.

*Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children....

June 17, 2019
Edited on August 3, 2021
1st place, "A Brian Strand 4 or 5 line" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 8/5/2021....

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God’s mountains with its mighty peaks,
could be seen well in the distance,
separated by rivers and creeks,
and one featured plumes of angry smoke,
shooting in upward streaks,
everything in its path will choke,
it rose seemingly to the top of the sky,
imaginations fly,
dust leaving organic signatures,
as God’s blue print covers and surrounds,
and clumps of debris,
clung tenaciously to the ground,
for all Mankind to see....

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Still clinging quite tenaciously,
a withered leaf on family tree. 
The storms are gathering around.
In day or two, that leaf is bound
to lose its last courageous  grip
and to its waiting brothers slip.

So sure now is the leaf to fall
we're waiting for the dreaded call.
We cannot count on one more day
until our brother slips away.
One generation almost gone.
Sister and I are on our own.


Won a first in Leaves contest...

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Broken buried bond
Regretful recurring rain 
Pouring putridly passionless
Provocative priceless pain

Falling furiously fast
Ominous oath to obey
Torrential teary torment
Conventional course conveyed

Submersed soul stammering
Darkness deadening distantly
Drowning deep disarray
Methodically mocking me 

Laughter lingers lucidly 
Submerged suffering sight
Treading thoughts tenaciously  
For a fruitless fearful fight

© Stacy Lynn Stiles...

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gripping the shards of memories
ignoring the bloodied emotions
why do we torture ourselves 
with that which we cannot change
 
these evocations
vivid
disturbing
invisible to others
but our élan spotlit
driven
instituting mostly patronising
eleemosynary projects
 
perfect recall
subject to
experiences dictated by
accident of birth
the authenticity of memoirs
tenaciously defended
but ravaged by
subliminal influences
a testimony to its perfidy...

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A leaf fell from the Maple tree;
Another from the Birch--
A dozen more unhooked themselves
From off their lofty perch.

Some fell to heaps upon the ground;
Others scattered on the breeze--
A few still clung tenaciously
To the nearly barren trees.

And I took the winter as a thief
Since it pillaged every tree--
Recalling just how green and full
The branches used to be.

But then I felt a drop, or two
Reminding me again--
That winter is no place for leaves,
But rather snow, and rain!

~M...

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