Short Undeterred Poems

Traveling life's roads
there are detours here and there.
Select best new course.
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star ranks in sable —
outline of pines and myrtles
undeterred by clouds

8/5/2020...

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blue crane undeterred
wings flap and emotions spurred
raspy sounds are heard


Contest: What's the Buzz
3rd Place...

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While here I can write undeterred
This work will at times seem absurd
When this kills my high
It's just time to try
Finding joy solving a crossword...

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Undeterred the heart that harbors love marches on for it is protected by God's mighty shield! 







© Demetrios Trifiatis
    08 November 2018...

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To defeat me,
an emotion he created.

I rose above it
undeterred and elated.

Then, he declared me cold
and hard- hearted.

Yet in my strength
I felt just as charted.

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Crawling slowly into the notion,
Undeterred by obstacles before me,
Pressing onward with determined uncertainty,
Seeking guidance where none appears,
Pressing on shedding fears....

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Some poems describe passions stirred 
With others written undeterred 
Unloved I fell apart
A piece on thinking love absurd
And one declares a love unheard
I wrote them from the heart...

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Truth independent
of perception
A falling tree
 crashing unheard
Existing beyond  
what senses receive
Essence eternal
—by time undeterred

(Villanova University: April, 2021)...

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Poetic intention
exceeding my words
Meanings now idle
truth left unstirred 

Marching unspoken
 Marching unheard
Marching without me
—to march undeterred

(The New Room: March, 2022)...

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We shall overcome, a theme we've heard for years
We must live undeterred in spite of our fears
Smile and move on
Sing happy songs
Plot may be different but grab yourself by the rear...

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Bridge
opens
ships passing
hazy river
lazy afternoon
interstate traffic flow
commerce never gets hindered
regardless any human toll
expendable drones toil away
pandemic death march steady undeterred...

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Judging our tensile strength

As she furiously reams 

Nibbling away at our armor

Undeterred by wishes or dreams

Alternately pushing and pulling

Rending our world with her blast

Yanking us apart at the seams...

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My
despair
confronts me
I sit lonely
looking out window
neon lights flickering
the building across the street
silhouettes and shadows enter
my fear of ghosts and ghouls undeterred
wanting to party but still too bashful...

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Love, the irrepressible
Unflinching, undeterred.
In a lost toned request for aid
What is manly answered.

Brunting iced gales, though blindly
Though dipping at the head
An old boat, steered but of one!
"Ahead!" screams on "ahead!"...

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It hibernates in the dark
recesses of my mind
starved into submission.
I keep it shackled
for if I were to let it out,
to be free, to run undeterred,
I'm afraid I'd lose control,
unable to retreat.
Taking me with it
straight to hell
where it belongs....

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The cleanse,
The wait,
The length of days,
The time supposed,   
The time past midnight.

All good things desired,
Don’t fall like cards,
They don’t take the stage like the summer sun,
Smoothie for the soul,
Don’t walk its way to the cup.



October 18, 2022....

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Crackerbox and Chatterbox
Walk together down the street
Chatter talking endlessly 
Cracker undeterred
She wonders if he listens
when for a breath she'll pause
It's only for a moment she doesn't really care
She asked him once just where he was 
He said she drove him there...

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Rod Humphries was raging
As Keir Starmer came staging
You covid conniver!
Such lies lit this pyre'
Neath the sign of the Raven
He inferred of Keir coward craven'
Undeterred by a minder
He barred the sidewinder
Now more are wiser
We await a decider'

©Joe Maverick 22-4-2021...

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There’s a voice that hides
with message plain
“IT STILL IS NOT ENOUGH”

No matter how the 
phrases turn
“THEY LACK THE FINER STUFF”

It sits in judgment
undeterred
to flame and scold unbound

To speak when I’m 
inopportune
—and turn me inside out

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)...

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*Inspired by photo


I found my place under the tree
Where the skies glow
Illuminating the land
Enhancing everything in life
A purpose reignites within me
Undeterred by the shade
Only thoughts shining through
To carry on, to accept it all
To shine and shine again

Heidi Sands

4/22/18...

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A nerd slurred a word unheard, to be his preferred password.
A bird flew over a furred herd, be-gird by a Kurd. 
He stirred and blurred, to a curd a third of turd.  
But undeterred he spurred the transferred word, to be heard and conferred.
To reword the inferred referred word, to be deferred is just absurd....

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Distilled attention, unfettered
Vibrant presence, mind uncluttered 
Awareness self-aware, that is
Deepening stillness, undeterred

God alone is, now we know this 
Form in fullness, feels the bliss fizz
Recognising we’re God-essence 
Born by breath divine, all is His

24-February-2022...

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They fight to death
Drenched by thirst
No need to resist-
Their Waterloo 
They met

They sip little
And leave the jar
Harmless, they are-
They purge that little
Hope for more, undeterred

Do they last days?
Before they're taken preys
By the erring humans-
This austerity doesn't heal
Their agonies I feel...

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I searched for you
Followed in the wake of your song
The sillage of your sensual scent 
Long after the sun had lost its glow
I persisted, with cards in hand, 
Defying destiny, undeterred
By night and melancholy darkness.  

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“On Broadway” Contest
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
        Placed 1st
© 27th June, 2020...

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