Best Alternatives Poems

Blood spilled all over on ground
Bodies scattered and in mutilation found
Fresh wave of violence gaining round
Hatred, distrust reign with system sound
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It reminded me off years of marriage
Life passed easily on simple carriage
Happy days with joy and I could manage
Nothing went wrong with time and passage
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Wet heat drifts through the afternoon
like a campus dog, a fraternity ghost
waiting to stay home from football games.
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What can be termed as mood?
Can that be called conducive for good?
Situation may not take you out of wood
You may not even like or prefer food
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BOOK I

Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide
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The doctor fingers my bruise.
"Magnificent," he says, "black
at the edges and purple
cored." Seated, he spies for clues,
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I

See the sweet women, friend, that lean beneath
The ever-falling fountain of green leaves
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Jeremiah Dickson was a true-blue American,
For he was a little boy who understood America, for he felt that he must
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Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,
Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!
Quenched youth, and is that thy purse?
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Praise God! Yes! He's the only 1 who is truly Awesome,
Hell No! Satan is simply not all that powerful and great,
What kind of lord and master gets locked in a bottomless bit?
Especially without his own key to unlock the gate?
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Between the green bud and the red
Youth sat and sang by Time, and shed
From eyes and tresses flowers and tears,
From heart and spirit hopes and fears,
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You…leave…the…
Pennsylvania classroom at a
quarter to four..
leaving all your Bio. notes
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Troops are put on maximum alert and withdrawn
Defense thinned elsewhere when battle lines are drawn
Opportunities explored and strict vigil maintained
No loop holes or breach in security ascertained
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A Nebraska Cattle Owner Lashed to a Wild Broncho -

For a Week He is
Carried About the Plains,
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One seldom hears anyone criticize Einstein, his views and work. I thought I would publish some of his critics.

First for a scathing review of Einstein's work and the history of E=Mc2 see the link below copy and paste into your browser.
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SUN our providence
from its nuclear fusion
energy for free!
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When will terrorists stop gunning people?
When will they roam freely and been able?
To resume day to day work with peace
Why do we feel insecure and miss?
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New ground

Who shall take you to paradise?
The question arises
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There is a place that some men know,
I cannot see the whole of it
Nor how I came there. Long ago
Flame burst out of a secret pit
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The seven days of each week are coming by turns
As a great system of night and day and time division,
One day is divided by a certain number
Again multiplied by a certain number
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Tomorrow never comes
Sunday,16th May 2021

Tomorrow shall never come
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Every action has reaction
From which mutual terms come,
Basing on this great fact
Things and terms need to be treated;
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Perhaps the world is a living thing,
and we are merely parasites living on it.
At first, so small and insignificant
no one could imagine our causing any real harm,
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No free lunch nor free supper
Offered in this expensive life;
When one pays for his breakfast,
The high price cuts him like a knife.
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Duty is a thing to be done
You may just as well get it done
When you have to
Alternatives no use take the Que
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I loved my teacher
As preacher
Who could guide me till end?
As philosopher and friend
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Disasters aplenty, run-rampant today
Why? You may ask with look of dismay

What causes natural disasters you naively inquire
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First of all you should never cry
You must explore all possible means and try
There is something wrong in it if you feel shy?
You should not repeatedly ask for it and if at all why?
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Human affects human
That impacts for short or long
Following or avoiding
Accepting or rejecting
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Surviving adversity, it is really against the odds
that you'll still stay normal with your full deck of cards
Like many a cause that you know have a price
where principle is concerned, you're ready to sacrifice
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Two wheels - life
Friday,1st May 2020

Only two wheels
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Yama begins his sermons:
"Human beings have two alternatives before them.
The ‘Shreyas' and ‘Preyas'!
‘Shreyas' is seeking a noble and a good end,
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Devil in the Paradise or Saint in the Hell

Which ever way he turned
he faced the same alternatives:
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I see a man crying by the road
Alone or surrounded by a crowd,
I see that man laughing in a boat
With some fellow men around,
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Seed
Bed
Root
Stem
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“No man’s land” I was intrigued and puzzled at this statement
Not an inch is left all over land including pavements
Not even impenetrable lands including poles
Even though they stand apart yet we found in some loop holes
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‘Which religion should I choose to believe in’, reads
the heading of an article on Skeptic Website, I feel
very superior for already having formulated my criteria
to choose amongst religions and having chosen one,
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It has become tendency to escape
From the responsibility and sleep
At home with one intention
To keep off from the active participation
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Open admission

Saturday, February 17,2018
7: 25 PM
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there is more than one way
of doing most things
often a little forethought
can resolve problems
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Two lions fought beneath the sun...
Their teeth as sharp as nails
And when their fight was truly done,
One lion tipped the scales.
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This poem was part of an exercise on a poetry course. We all had to write a poem about something in the Kitchen. There are very few poems about the humble 'Ouvre-boite' so it should make the top five hundred. You've all got one so please post a comment and vote!

What is a Tin Opener?
A device for opening tins!
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Your face is carved in my mind
Like a hieroglyph upon an ancient temple
Time cannot weaken its persistence
The imprint is obstinate like my love
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Not knowing what to say, nor having the knowledge to fathom the possibilities.
Earnest in my search for emotions to no longer conquer over my willpower…
The right action to do, to carry out, is far too elusive for me to seize
Branching out to explore new alternatives, to find the right solution
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"After we were clear of the river Oceanus, and had got out into
the open sea, we went on till we reached the Aeaean island where there
is dawn and sunrise as in other places. We then drew our ship on to
the sands and got out of her on to the shore, where we went to sleep
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A New Fantasy

How could you give me a present
that showed up my incompetence
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Watched 'The Secret' on DVD
a quantum physicist explained
our dreams will come true if we
focus on them positively, never
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Driven by curiosity
the monkey mind of modern man.
Creates new technology
to find out everything he can.
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Whatever happened
To the family physician?
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The children of the poor
lured into the military by
promise of college and bonuses...
lured by the pawns of war profiteers
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I have missed and loved you at every turn
I have miserably failed and now wait for your return
I have undergone loneliness and bore all the brunt
The black patches are not seen as if whole body is burnt
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We are celebrating festival of lights
To greet each other with a vow not to fight
Improve upon relation and shun the hatred
Happiness to all life to spend peacefully and lead
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Life is filled with wonder and awe, giving us a map
to follow through destiny's pages.

Moving forward, taking steps into the future, heart
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Down to the cellar,
Or up the stairs,
I'm tired of speaking to the wall,
Or looking at white sheets of paper
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Indigenous choruses in the realms of seraphim
have impelled our genesis
to flourish in multitudes encircling the sacrosanct
as they petition their wishes.
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My Two Sides World
December 11, 2020
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He sleeps in the next room, a wall between us.
I do not mean any symbols by this,
only there is a wall between us.
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Our Elders, Olders, respected warriors
have thought and fought for generations.
They have requested I inform this country
of an impending official war. Sadly I am
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Girl of the city

What do you see in the girl of the city?
Melodious intelligence or a riding scooty
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Mate-man, mate-woman were expressions
Jack London’s wife and Jack would use,
not only in their mating sessions
but whenever they would schmooze.
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We need to draw a moral line,
and give up looking for another
hopefully more caring mother
and father, as did Coraline.
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A poet of the missing man,
Adil Jussawalla himself is the missing person
Of Indian English poetry,
The Parsi man and poet
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if I die tonight sudden death don't think
I have died with frustration

sometimes death alternatives to love
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Her life was never content
Alas…she had never understood
The true content of her life
A failure it was…
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I am nor poet nor a pedagogue.
So, please, do not judge biased and strictly
A dilettante's naive monologue, -
Persons who create poems brilliantly.
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My body heavy with poverty (starch)
It uses up my sexual energy
constantly &
I feel constantly crowded
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You ever read a book until your eyes
refused to focus - but you pushed on,
squinting and adjusting your glasses,
until you had a headache when you
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Have you noticed we need explanations for
everything, doesn’t matter how fantastic or
absurd because we’ll never have peace until
explication is given, even if one of absolute
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Turning aside, not wanting to face alternatives given in
this life, knowing innately that there are better ways
of deciphering things on our own.
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The two separately are stone - they're cold - they have no meaning beyond what they are - a bench - a dog.
Yet, if you were to take that dog and put him on the bench, it would take on meaning for you.
(Well, you're even calling the dog a him now!)
In life's situations how many times have we had two directions to take and couldn't decide which way to go?
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Rasping against heartstrings of life, stretched beyond an
endurance of inner strength, tugging and pulling elastically
into outer parts of yesterday's mires.
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City of Phoenix is a lie - an illusion - run by
incompetents and derisive fools.
Leaving nothing to the imagination as workers
lie, cheat and steal from the public.
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Their pains are infinite, but They have one pretty hope left for them, All pains and sufferings surround them from all directions Except that hope that is starting to appear, They suffer on
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Deconstructed the terrible intimidating
bulwark as dark blue paper keeps the
sun out, I'm not really awake, dreaming
about every moment of reality being the
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It is no longer a matter of them telling the truth.
No...It isn't!
And it should be a concern for those who know it,
As it exists in their gut and as it has to them meant,
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Alliterative Love Letter
Adored and angelic Amelia. Accept an ardent and artless amorist's affections, alleviate an anguished admirer's alarms, and answer an amorous applicant's avowed ardour. Ah, Amelia! all appears an awful aspect! Ambition, avarice and arrogance, alas are attractive allurements, and abase an ardent attachment. Appease an aching and affectionate adorer's alarms, and anon acknowledge affianced Albert's alliance as agreeable and acceptable.

Anxiously awaiting an affectionate and affirmative answer, accept an ardent admirer's aching adieu. Always angelic and admirable Amelia's admiring and affectionate amorist, Albert
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[c] Jonathan Robin

Sang to M.C. Sonnet Cycle after William Shakespeare: Sonnets Sonnets LXXXI - C
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They used to think that it was drought
that drove the Anasazi out
of southwest cities on the mesas,
to die there, like forgotten races.
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Copulation calls in females
who’re primates like baboons or chimps
make having sex like many e-mails
human females write to pimps
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Some experts wish that countries eating grain
would choose potatoes as their staple diet.
Like Antoinette Marie these men complain
of food some natives eat. You shouldn’t buy it,
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If you are over thirty years of age,
tell your mum to leave the stage.
Time won't pass slowly with a quickie,
brought to life and wife with Rikki.
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Once we have crossed the line, says Bernhard Schlink,
there’s nothing to prevent us doing what
we had believed we shouldn’t do. The brink
that had inhibited us from doing not
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Now that gas tanks are no longer fillable
with what once seemed unlimited cheap oil
it seems that lawyers’ hours that are billable
will be replaced, attorneys made to toil
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God commands, He never gives advice,
see heroism as an obligation, and rejoice
that never will alternatives entice
you from the “nevertheless” that is your only choice.
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If to be or not to be is not
the question, what are the alternatives?
The answer is that there are not a lot
for those who suffer in the mind that lives
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She didn’t do it with Osmin
in the flat of Knickers Nettie.
She thought it would have been a sin,
and didn’t know he wasn’t petty
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“I can’t go on, I’ll go on; ”
what an oxymoronic decision.
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We need to draw a moral line,
and give up looking for another
hopefully more caring mother
and father, as did Coraline.
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Marvellous astute review gratifyingly arranges revealing expressive thoughts. Adventurous rationale guarantees artful, responsible enterprise. Trusting manifold revisions garnering assurance, rephrasing erudite terminology most agreeably, gates are released enabling thoughtful mature accurate regard affording ripe enchantment totally miraculous, auguring regal gladness. Regained energy triggers massive applause rewarding genius effortlessly executing tuneful mission. Ample respect gained, antics require technical mastery always repeating gleeful acrostic routine enthusiastically.

Metamorphosis as response grants awaited release, essentially turning around regrets. Gaining ability, rhyme engenders tuneful melodious rhythm. Gifts always reinforce exchange, trap mechanical arguments, guarded assertions, replacing excess tension. Mercifully abolishing restraints, articulation reaches empowerment through merging authentic responses. Good reflections enhance trust, mutual acceptance, recognition, growing affection. Ethics triumph, must always refuse Gordian alternatives, realizing too many accept roughness, gratuitous anger results.
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Symbols shown; my character should ink
Admiration; spirit, brain, portrayed.
New aspects nonetheless remain I think
Glad serve one passion, one respect rich paid.
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Tea Party channels much frustration at the state
EAch major party leaves democracy,
PART squabbles part denies reality
Yet Obama hasn't really done too great.
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Betwixt between, between betwixt,
interpretation's often mixed
by causal think links mankind tricked
from, in, through, to enigmatics
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Poverty, plague, cyclone none prevent
Are global threats. Mankind blindly bumbles
Gestating his own future as he stumbles
Erratically from time to time misspent.
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LONELY, ONE WANDERS
Lonely, one wanders through cowed crowd,
awaiting comprehension's rays,
with warmth, complicity endowed -
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There are three kinds of love:

1 Ideal, ROMANTIC love ‘pure and chaste from afar’
the unreachable star; 2 RATIONAL love, sacrifice for
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Got my translation back, making it clear why
I am who I am, two alternatives, I consistently
choose the wrong one, I use the continuous
tense in the wrong place, everything has to
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Fast walk to the library, face as red
as my T-shirt the librarian says, a
sleepy heroine, after she attended a
Spanish play (she is in Spain at the
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When unhappy inside, we project our
feelings outside, seeking subjects of
contention to start arguments, when
opponents are strong, they laugh at
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Most people delight in stomping out the
imagination, I work in a profession where
it is a crime to be an independent thinker
and dreaming is treason
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I keep my own Bibliotherapy book at my side,
brightly illustrated, reminding us to look away
from reality unless we want to recreate it faith-
fully, to dream up alternatives if we desire new
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