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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

quote by Fran Drescher
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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Feather in Universe!

Feathery, feather, feathery
Blowing wind, it twirls and dances
Drenching rain, oh, feather, feathery

Like the Stars, Planets, in their orbit
Mystic and steady they go, no pillar
A distance to cover, energized, re-energized

Hmnn, feather, feather, feathery,
No staking, own, and alone, traversing
A soul in the wind, in Universe, Oh, feather!

poem by Charles Jagongo Ogola
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Nothing For Nothing

Plagiarism is
an inappropriate appropriation.
Signature plastered page
lays claim to sealed sentences.
Creativity is minor mind merge
between creator and creator.

Stolen is nothing
gleamed of unaccessed
cosmic consciousness.
Forger fakes nothing
except unacknowledged played
out spent claim.

Pioneer moves
mountainous mother-load
staking unknown
unrecorded name.
Stolen spent spatial memories
maketh not mesmerizing mind.

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Winds bend the brown green grass of fall

Winds bend the brown green grass of fall
Whether in current age or decades past
Landscape gazers catch creatures storing seeds
Scattering yellow and white capped weeds
Preparing for winter their pattern unhindered

Winds bend the brown green grass of fall
Constant marker as mankind races
Ploughs terrain staking claim
Highways vanquish sod and plain
Yet tuffs of the brown green grass remain

Winds bend the brown green grass of fall
Off roadways geese settle and call
Despite cluttered asphalt the landscape recalls
Natures evolving, preparing and readying
For ice glistening cold when life sleeps through all

poem by Stephanie Eve Kane Arado
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Love Sonnet 165 I've Known That Victory A Winner Makes

I've known that victory a winner makes,
And with defeat, the poor loser is wrecked,
As true with games when played at higher stakes,
That oft involves betting that goes unchecked;
I bet my love to win at all the cost,
Staking my all, and never fear the loss,
My very soul it seemed, I now have lost,
With my gold gone, I'm left with but the dross;
What worthy cause will now my days be filled,
When emptiness invades my mind always,
I reel from blows that Fate has thus so willed,
Love, fill my mind, lest Satan there soon plays;
.......What's love to victories or to defeats?
.......Does it enhances or, if not, negates?

poem by Reyvrex Questor Reyes
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VOICES ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (in honour of my fellow poets)

It is how we are and who we are
that we live out here on the edge
the ragged rim of the world
It’s the nature of our vice
This dark self imposed isolation

Yet the paradox in it shines bright
As the isolation bears heavy
upon our pale and brittle skin
for unless we share our souls
there is but dust in what we do

Each staking a separate claim
along the river of the golden muse
and each naked in hand and heart
bares the working of a soul
tasting the ice in the edges isolation

yet from each site along the rim
the voices of comfort and support

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poem by Bill Mitton
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Nameless Selves

it is only I,
nameless selves,
dissolving, evolving...
appearing, taking form,
only to disappear back
into formless fermentation.

leaving only the stink of living...
the green scent of plants unfolding,
the grey soot linger of poverty,
of countless stones laid,
and trod upon.
blood and sweat and shit and prayers,
the pine walls of eternal casket.

the soured milk of nipple bitter,
the stench of rope,
too close to the flame.
rich red clay worn by infidel boots,
whose fathers were unknown.

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poem by Eric Cockrell
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We’re not apart

You and I by fate
Now fell apart,
With rendezvous
Becoming rare or never.

If I needed you
Would you come to me
For to soothe my pain?
May not. You are tied.
If you needed me
I would come to you
All along from anywhere,
Even risking my pride,
For to soothe your pain.

Still if I needed you
Would you send me
At least kind words
For to dress my wounds?
Doubtful! You’re afraid.

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poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Bloodless raptors over north Waziristan

The unpardonable slaughtering of
family and faith, the vital birthstones of
olive and roseate,
hallowed in the humble hands of the
shepherd of North Waziristan,
covered in harsh layers of foreign dirt by
ambivalent charcoal cowboys.
Maneuvering through untamed mountainous terrain
theses bloodless birds of prey,
Mar's and Kali's hellish effigies of the eagle,
operate their heinous missions of indiscriminate death and paralysis
from remote nests.
Steel wing raptors fly above sovereign boarders and established law
raining sterling flames with impersonal virtual ease
guffawing as the poor shattered squirter runs for cover,
relishing every distant bugsplat.

Secluded in their holes, the white livered mice shirk responsibility,
offering local state officials promises of treasury filled peanut shells
in exchange for staking claim to these armchair massacres.

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poem by Gregory Allen Uhan
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