Endurance Poems

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Manipulation
by Ada Fitch

They tell you what you want to hear
Or what they know will make you fear
Or they show you what is trending
Or dictate it so in the ending
You give your time to what doesn't matter
Your senses they know how to flatter
Drawn to sensation the latest chatter
Presented on a silver platter
Not knowing this is by design
Not only want to steal your time

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Atlas
by baby panda

the days bleed and blur
meaningless, merciless, timeless
glazed eyes staring and fingers twitching
on a pen, twisted and morphed
like it will never hold anything else again

hot tears fall on a cold grave
taunting, tempting, confusing
holding a heart strangled dead, just another
carcass throwing up rainbows

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On being married
by T. Caddy

We point the boat where we want to go.
And the wind shoves us aside some days.
Or the waters churn with chum and we’re surrounded…
Or the boat springs a leak we must patch
Quick! with whatever’s on hand.
So what?
We paddle our boat together.
We point it where we want to go.

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Cool Duskiness
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Intense thirst in the sweltering desert,
yet, the emerald succulents still thrive;
for surviving, often takes extra effort.
Intense thirst in the sweltering desert,
Then cool moon arrives, as if pressured.
A beautiful, flowering cacti night, alive!
Intense thirst in the sweltering desert,
yet, the emerald succulents still thrive.

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recuperation
by Rikske Kessner

Body betrays while caught in a tempest
The mundane morphs in peculiar ways
A silent storm stirring within you brews
With each surge, it claims a piece of you.

The office now a swaying deck
Unsteady ground, a wretched mess
Fingers clutch with fierce might
Against this inner sea’s harsh battle.


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Recent Endurance Poems
Rubberband Man
by Stewart Watkins

There he is...
On his biz
Unbothered and untethered

After many pernicious pulls and tainty tugs
And so many ghastly grabs and sheisty shrugs
After huge stretches with hopes of breaking
And so much tension, pressure and shaking

Every time!

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recuperation
by Rikske Kessner

Body betrays while caught in a tempest
The mundane morphs in peculiar ways
A silent storm stirring within you brews
With each surge, it claims a piece of you.

The office now a swaying deck
Unsteady ground, a wretched mess
Fingers clutch with fierce might
Against this inner sea’s harsh battle.


......

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Cool Duskiness
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Intense thirst in the sweltering desert,
yet, the emerald succulents still thrive;
for surviving, often takes extra effort.
Intense thirst in the sweltering desert,
Then cool moon arrives, as if pressured.
A beautiful, flowering cacti night, alive!
Intense thirst in the sweltering desert,
yet, the emerald succulents still thrive.

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A profusion of great heat
by Amy Michelle Mosier

A profusion of great heat
Rose up and oppressed my mind.
So few were signs of retreat
It stifled an alarm seldom heard.

Philosophy says the mind
And body are two different entities
And it’s not meant with scorn
But Invincibility disagrees.

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On being married
by T. Caddy

We point the boat where we want to go.
And the wind shoves us aside some days.
Or the waters churn with chum and we’re surrounded…
Or the boat springs a leak we must patch
Quick! with whatever’s on hand.
So what?
We paddle our boat together.
We point it where we want to go.

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  • Ada Fitch
    Ada Fitch (1 poem about Endurance)
    April 17, 1976 - Washington State