Short Try As I Might Poems

Try as I might
I've lost the might to try...

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I must'a been a beautiful baby,
but that ain't true any more
But try as I might, 
I'm still a pathetic sight,
One that no one can any longer adore...

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I am... 
Mute. Listening.
To the swallow's song.
Maybe...
in a second,
I might try and sing along,
even if, I buzz,
more akin, to,
the bumble bottomed,
bee. 
...

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I phoned the incontinence help line today
To say “I’m Mrs. Brown, can you help me pray”
In the hope of having my condition assuaged
But try as I might it was always engaged...

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I phoned the incontinence help line today
To say “I’m Mrs. Brown, can you help me pray”
In the hope of having my condition assuaged
But try as I might it was always engaged...

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Hold me tender, love me tight
My life has become such a fright
Stay with me through the night
Please don't ever leave my sight
Yet try as I might
I can't seem to reach the light...

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Try as I might, I can't win this fight. Again you take my hands, and oh how we dance.
Before They take what is mine, Kiss me one last time. Confusion reigns more than ever, We
can never be together....

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I can no longer, escape.
I am caged, in my mind.
A slave. To my own, thoughts.

And try as I might. I am trapped.
A songbird, that longs,
To be free
But is trapped 
In a cage 
Of its own
Design....

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Darkness dwells within my past but it will never forcast my 
fate. I maybe filled with hate but it will never compare to 
the love within but try as i might to let it all out nothing 
comes but fear and doubt.....

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I should be asleep
But try as I might
I can’t help but keep
Wanting to write
Not only deep
Into the night
But till birds cheep 
And it’s all but light
Then I sleep
Not only deep
Into the day
But till birds sleep...

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try as i might
i cannot church
it hurts
the jesus stripe
runnin down my back
ive been whipped before
by the lore of your legend
im no beggin fool
andi still think ill go to heaven
7/11
did you have em?
im laughin...

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Calling me a turkey, doesn't make for good friends
Tend to take offense and things get quite tense
Shy away from a fight
But try as I might
Self-preservation wins out, run like hell bumping into that fence...

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Try as I might,
  to hide from the words

Distant and fleeting,
  they still can be heard

The nouns are a kite,
  lone verb as the tail

Flying inside me,
  my heart their contrail 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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emotionally draining 
distressing encounters
became the norm
highly emotionally 
volatile situations
would erupt with
or without any 
probable cause 
try as i might 
i was never able 
to douse the emotionally 
driven flames...

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Never seen a star
just its dying light
never felt happiness
try as i might
never heard true loves whisper
within the steam of night
never smelt the sweetest rose
above the bile and stale
Never spoke a truer word
than this hopeless tale...

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My world moves parallel to yours
Try as I might I cannot reach you
I may understand from a vantage point
But I’ll forever wonder
Try as you might you’ll never reach me
You may only imagine
But you’ll try to help anyway
And that may be enough...

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I have a shameful secret to tell

I never really learnt how to spell

Tho’ try as I might 

It seldom comes right

But my checker, SHE does very well




Contest: Challenge—Max 8 Lines
Sponsor: Russell Sivey
Margaret Foster Oct 10th 2011...

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see her, you see
That distant part of me
Never to be lonely 
In the mind of my "one and only"

Omare in her sight
Feelings are aflight
Jousting for attention
try as i might

She will not ignore me
Nore has she ceased caring 
Transparency of my love
I am undeserving see...

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Formed on a common link.
Broken by the years.
Tossed away without a chance
To be saved from death.
Melted like the winter snow
Into a puddle of tears.
Cast in doubt instead of trust,
Leaving one hurt behind.
Try as I might
I will never understand
All the crazy rules of it....

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Apply all those misconceptions,  
by witch trial I am burned alive;
Cry out but cut off with a snuff, 
try as I might I can’t survive; 
 
Phrase used just to degrade me, 
always the one who never quite fit;
Flyaways land where they need to, 
displays karma of my eternal spirit....

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My mind spirals with every thought.
I know sleep is what I ought.
Salt fills every drop.
Try as I might, I cannot stop.
Thinking of the wars I've fought.
So poems I begin to jot.
Trauma like this cannot be bought.
So every night I am wrought.
Within the fears I seem to be caught....

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Note just for today
Words have a way
Of slipping away


A dry season here
Not much to cheer
As words die right here


Rhyme out of reason
Thought ply treason
Yes a dry season


Try as I might then
Words in down trend
Empty odd dull blend




Leon Enriquez
20 September 2019
Singapore...

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i wander i ponder i whisper i chuckle
i laugh of what i have just done
i think of what i should do next
what evil lust will i think of now
i cry i weep i heave a sigh
but try as i might i cannot stop
addicted to my lusts i must not quite
it is a part of me now this fear these tears
a part of me now and forever...

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I slowly open my eyes as the morning chorus of mother nature sings
     A cold bubble of impenetrable sadness enveloped me, like icy angel wings
     As quickly as it came, it recoiled, like a crisp whisper in the thick air of silence
     Try as i might to capture it, the feeling slips from my grasp in muted violence...

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Come sit right here
On my little ledge
Safely guarded from the storm
There's room for you and me

Come sit right here
Right by me
Don't worry, don't fret
There's nothing to fear

Come sit right here
No tears or fears
No hate or death
Just you, just me

Try as I might
They all take flight

(and leave me here alone)...

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