Obsession in words, with paper and pen
Rest a forgotten old friend
Sunlight and darkness, though clearly reverse
The same when the day has no end
Restlessness fueled by creativities curse
Fixation expressed unrehearsed
A tireless effort,... – by David Padrick Cronk | 54 Views added 11 months ago
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With little regard
Not afraid to betray
The new day begins
While the last fades away
With the rise of the sun
And with opening eyes
The new day moves forward
While the last day it dies
As we check off the tasks
Of the new day ahead
We... – by David Padrick Cronk | 47 Views added 1 year ago
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With little regard
Not afraid to betray
The new day begins
While the last fades away
With the rise of the sun
And with opening eyes
The new day moves forward
While the last day it dies
As we check off the tasks
Of the new day ahead
We... – by David P Cronk | 16 Views added 1 year ago
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I'll find a way
A poem Each day
A poem each day I'll write
Without delay I'll find a way
A poem I can recite
In morning light
Or in the night
While by the candle light
A poem each day
In any way
A poem each day I'll write
And if you... – by David P Cronk | 14 Views added 1 year ago
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How long's too long to chase a dream
To chase a dream each day
How long's too long to chase a dream
Not chase a dream away
If you choose to chase a dream
You chase it every day
You chase it every second
And you chase it every way
You... – by David P Cronk | 20 Views added 1 year ago
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Without boundaries
Often without cause
You infiltrate
Your poison inconsiderate
Your methods ever-changing
Random and unprovoked
To consume and destroy
The young, the old
The healthy, the weak
Wealth and poverty
Meaningless to your... – by David P Cronk | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Though common our ground
Our American dreams
Now our bond's being test
By political schemes
Lies are their weapons
Keep people in need
They press and molest us
Feeding their greed
Lay waste to democracy
What was once great
Smothering... – by David P Cronk | 14 Views added 1 year ago
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My goal's to be a better man
Be better than the rest
Be better than the others
And be better than the best
I better not be second
Yes I better be in first
I better be the greatest
Never ever be the worst
Now if I were a betting man
You... – by David P Cronk | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Three hundred sixty five days
Stacked forty-five times
Gives you thousands of days
Watch each day as it climbs
Forty-five years
And thousands of days
Thousands of options
And thousands of ways
Experiences plentiful
Memories made
Plans... – by David P Cronk | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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In Winter's grip
Through driving snow
You'll feel her wrath
At Ten Below
The creek will freeze
The wind will blow
As nature sleeps
At Ten Below
The bitter chill
From head to toe
You'll feel the sting
At Ten Below
Your heart will... – by David P Cronk | 17 Views added 1 year ago
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Imagine a second
If offered to trade
The path you avoided
With the path that you laid
The choice to go left
Not the choice to go right
Or the choice to be kind
When your choice was to fight
When you chose to be careless
Instead chose to... – by David P Cronk | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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The Poison Crutch
Which we rely
To ease the pain
Is all a lie
We medicate
Without concern
An easy path
For which we turn
Escaping sorrow
Avoiding fears
Shutting down
Wasting years
Grave mistakes
And moments missed
Regrets and... – by David P Cronk | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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With little regard
Not afraid to betray
The new day begins
While the last fades away
With the rise of the sun
And with opening eyes
The new day moves forward
While the last day it dies
As we check off the tasks
Of the new day ahead
We... – by David P Cronk | 16 Views added 1 year ago
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With keys I include
In digital form
Some words to consume
Defying the norm
Rabidly typing
As fingers attack
My motherboard smoking
The touchscreen it cracks
An act of survival
Too high is the price
I'll pass to the next one
And... – by David P Cronk | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Hey you, yeah you!
With the big black sack
You took my poems
I want them back
I poured out guts
To write each one
If you take all
I'm left with none
I'll make a deal
If you'll comply
I'll pick a few
That you can try
So take em... – by David P Cronk | 14 Views added 1 year ago
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While walking the park
My gaseous release
Set fire to a bench
And murdered 3 geese
Its cloud carried further
Real close to the lake
The water it boiled
Its dock it did shake
The frolicking children
Screamed in despair
As cloud floated... – by David P Cronk | 14 Views added 1 year ago
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As year's end draws near
Soon cast atop last
Reflect and foresee
Look forth and look past
The times made before them
And times to be made
The path that's been traveled
The path to be laid
Each year left behind us
Lie another ahead
... – by David P Cronk | 20 Views added 1 year ago
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A poem I've written
Begins with an A
Creative expression
Descriptive display
Expressions included
Free to convey
Guiding the reader
Helping portray
Inspired by giving
Joy to project
Kindness provided
Love and respect
Made to be caring... – by David Cronk | 54 Views added 1 year ago
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When winter grips her rugged shores
With wave and wind, enraged she roars
The peaceful mask of autumn's grace
With rage now worn, a wrathful face
Her awesome might, now on display
Each crushing blow, each passing day
With frigid snow,... – by David P Cronk | 23 Views added 1 year ago
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What has become of the time honoured verse, seems like rappers today spitting words in reverse
Is the moral decay being put on display, with the rappers who cant find any words to convey
With their words being mumbled and constantly jumbled, being... – by David Cronk | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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The brave press forth
Upon command
No venue lost
Air, sea, and land
In light of day
Or dark of night
No force on earth
Shall quell their fight
To shield from harm
Those who intend
Grateful are
Those they defend
The fiercest foes
... – by David Cronk | 15 Views added 1 year ago
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It's brilliance owns the midnight sky
Bewildered stare, with gazing eye
With mighty strength, can shift the tide
As darkness grips, It's other side
Man once obsessed, to walk It's face
A giant step, a march toward space
To dance with... – by David P Cronk | 28 Views added 1 year ago
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When it rains it pours
Or so they say
In minds depressed
It rains each day
Burdens weight
It's crushing load
A life-long ride
An endless road
Though others share
None can relate
No caring act
Can compensate
You need to know
... – by David P Cronk | 15 Views added 1 year ago
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With best intent
Here to include
A piece I wrote
To shift the mood
A smiles light
Extended hand
An olive branch
For fellow man
Our goals we share
Our needs compare
A calming voice
When no one's there
Built with pride
Without... – by David P Cronk | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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In evils wake, Queen City weeps
The souls of ten, the Lord he keeps
Friends and loved one's, laid to rest
Our wise, our kind, our brave, our best
It's hates intent, that we divide
That colors used, to pick a side
But hate itself, could... – by David P Cronk | 15 Views added 1 year ago
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Depression draped in slumbers cloak
Sunlight lost along with hope
Eyes pressed tight, mind dark as night
A pain unknown when not in sight
To not be seen, to not be heard
As silence brings no caring word
In solitude, alone inside
Where... – by David P Cronk | 26 Views added 1 year ago
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Mind still engorged with thought
Inspiration abundant and all encompassing
Though his pen rests, the writer never does
Creations backlogged, not yet shared
Time not aligning with desire
Obligation crushing wants and needs
Expectations... – by David P Cronk | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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Wishes weapon
Wasted words
Waiting, wanting
Left unheard
Scripted statement
Cautious tone
Careful context
Rules unknown
Fearing judgement
Past mistakes
Build a lie
To compensate
Stop wasting time
Its not too late
Wishes answered
We... – by David P Cronk | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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One of man's most unique attributes is his ability to feed off adversity and aggression
Where almost the entirety of the worlds creatures will react with fear or rage when faced with it, man has the ability to laugh in its face or shrug it off
In... – by David Padrick Cronk | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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Consumed by inspirations of the day passed
Many hours into darks grip
Wrestling with the words to convey
Approaching again days light
Not yet sharing in its last appearance
Knowing its story must be told
Fearing it will be lost to its rebirth... – by David Padrick Cronk | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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Hours tick
Light turns to dark
Precious moments to some
Not shared by the few
Oblivious to its hold
Unaware of its addiction
Trivial to them
Critical to us
Slumber overcomes them
Our absence their blanket
As their mind rests
Ours comes to life ... – by David P Cronk | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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Its canopy hugs me
Disguising daylight
Casting away the suns heat
Its boundless canvas
Teaming with life often unseen
Conscious of a strangers gait
Welcoming but aware
Only exposing enough to tease
Superbly constructed
An image so perfect... – by David P Cronk | 30 Views added 2 years ago
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Sleepless again
Minds roar keeps eyes wide
A freight train of thoughts
Kept trapped deep inside
Endlessly contemplate days in advance
While miniscule moments scream as they dance
Scheduled moments, obligations and plans
Reaching out fruitlessly... – by David P Cronk | 17 Views added 2 years ago
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Pain masked by expressions
Not selling distress
A heart torn by struggle
Hidden in breast
A cry for a assistance
No sound is exposed
A life with a purpose
The door to it closed
A mind running restless
Its answers left blank
No signs of its... – by David P Cronk | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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A glorious land
Respected embraced
Til white man he came
Stripped life from her face
Reckless abandon
Insatiable greed
Centuries bounty
Replaced by his seed
Her keepers cast westward
As progress demands
Home to the strangers
Her proud native... – by David P Cronk | 12 Views added 2 years ago
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Cowards weapons words on screen
Boldness cast on those unseen
Mighty verses keyboards wrath
World wide web warriors path
Conflicts born a trivial source
Keypad fingers rapid force
Words in person they refrain
Fearless now in techs... – by David P Cronk | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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Exhaustion so deep
Beyond counting sheep
The eyes of the poet they weep
For to sleep Is to miss
All the world that exists
Inspiration thats within his reach
So keep open your eyes
Leave rest where it lies
And embrace what the world has to teach... – by David P Cronk | 17 Views added 2 years ago
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There's those who do, those who don't, those who will, and those who won't.
Those who choose to waste away, and those who live to seize the... – by David P Cronk | 16 Views added 2 years ago
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Among a forest of granite, it's stone chiseled face
Lie a wizard of rhythm, his last resting place
A creature unique, unbridled and free
The music his maiden, for all us to see
The fruits of his craft, he'd strip from its tree
Insatiable hunger, to... – by David P Cronk | 27 Views added 2 years ago
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The city it slept, for decades too long
The promise it kept, left when steel it had gone
Centuries burden, worn shoulders it pressed
NYs golden apple, its jewel of the west
Toxic remnants of industry left in its wake
As promise relocated for... – by David P Cronk | 19 Views added 2 years ago
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Obsession in words, with paper and pen
Rest a forgotten old friend
Sunlight and darkness, though clearly reverse
The same when the day has no end
Restlessness fueled by creativities curse
Fixation expressed unrehearsed
A tireless effort,... – by Writing | 24 Views added 2 years ago
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Her tools an appendage of blistering pace
A product of wisdom and will
Each stroke and each swipe, all actions precise,
Each space on the canvas she fills
Eyes fixed and focused, unflinching intent
The love of her craft as her muse
The... – by David Cronk | 40 Views added 2 years ago
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Her shore stands before me its brilliant haze
The coast line vast rugged and raw
Her waves crash upon me a million ways
As her fury brings war to the shore
Port City in slumber, brave sailor's wife weeps
Waiting for him to return
As the streets... – by David Cronk | 17 Views added 2 years ago
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Love is perhaps man's most difficult emotion to determine and assess. It can be said that loves mystery is more complicated and bewildering than any of life's many unsolved riddles.
Loves existence and meaning differs from all who think they possess... – by David Cronk | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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A nation forged bravely in tyranny's face
Two hundred years history, firmly in place
A union imperfect, though boldly defined
The flaws of its freedoms exposed over time
It's glorious fruit, snatched by leaders unchecked
While spilled blood of... – by David Cronk | 22 Views added 2 years ago
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We Marvel at infamy
End Game Infinity
Wars Far From Home
Their Homecoming a certainty
Incredible the Winter
The Guardians Gaze
Soldier through Galaxies
Brilliant stars haze
To Captain through Marvels
A vision unseen
Eyes focus of archers
Consumes... – by David Cronk | 15 Views added 2 years ago
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The assets residing inside of my head, move mountains with thought, put the sleepless to bed.
Strips thunder of decibels, lightning of bright, steals the light from the sun and the darkness from night.
Telekinetically moving the earth in reverse, as... – by David Cronk | 16 Views added 2 years ago
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No more swing of the bat or pound of the glove
Our birthplace lie silent, devoid of your love
Laughter and comfort , one voice left unheard
No lifting of spirits, no encouraging word
A place at the table, your dominant frame
Silence is present... – by David Cronk | 8 Views added 3 years ago
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Words spit from mandibles
Crude and corrupt
Rabid the animals
Minds they erupt
A weapon honed perfectly
Ready for war
An unflinching predator
Settles a score
Question me cowardly
Whisper my name
Speak ill and spit lies at me
This is my game ... – by David Cronk | 28 Views added 3 years ago
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Give me your tired, your poor, priced while losing no sleep. By King bedded fat cats who's pockets run deep.
The huddling masses, no hope to breathe free. Caged, separated, no freedom to see.
The wretched refuse, the burden in cage
The cost to the... – by David Cronk | 17 Views added 3 years ago
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Bitterness felt, through flesh and through bone
Erie's bold fury stands stoic alone
Gusts blasting shorelines, unbridled resolve
Mans footprint lie ruined, in defeat we absolve
Inches to feet, iced pathway and street
Impassable danger post... – by David Cronk | 24 Views added 3 years ago
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As he wiped the perspiration from beneath his aging brow, It finally occured to this ancient man how he'd gotten there somehow.
All the days and all the miles and all the sights to see, were never seen from this man's eyes, he was blind as blind... – by David Cronk | 26 Views added 3 years ago
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The process embraced, glory restored
The roar of the Mafia silence those once implored
Seventeen savior, passed to fourteen received
The joy who bear witness, those who believed
Orchard Parks chill masked by warmth of the crowd
The red and the... – by David Cronk | 13 Views added 3 years ago
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Footsteps from Erie's all-encompassing gaze
Queen cities lights dimmed by industries haze
Rustbelt erosion in glory days frozen
Birthplace of grit the strong and the chosen
Skyways shadow cast on towers of grain
A city of plight, hope, resurgence,... – by David Cronk | 42 Views added 3 years ago
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