The Dowry

Prayerful countenance, my soul's own veil
has aptitude in keeping mind's involve
to follow true poetic thought's portrayal
and hold in dowry's distribution ~ love!

A parasite, distrust, does muster fail
that groveling of lust from out its cove
does terminate resumption of faith's hail
to usury's assumption of truth's strove!

That music, consequence, denies sort's time
by its incessant mitigating's fine
thus grace unfaltering in its pensive rhyme
is Heaven's calling, echo's true of thine!

Significant react solves undermine
as nuance of regret is so assigned
to journal's keeping, studious as mine
aforethought's mention holding in consign!

I trail this vestige in consent's refine
insolvent, rough suggestion, veering crime ~
exacting, while saved virtue not define,
and calling names assumes its new combine!

Convention then so claims my lonesome pine
away from thy quiet peace, God's given sign,
and that small claim in thee to wholeness line
is in my poem . . . dowry's adept divine!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008


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Date: 6/3/2009 5:48:00 PM
Very beautiful poem you have painted for us to read, i enjoyed it every bit! Congratz on being featured also!
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Date: 6/3/2009 7:33:00 AM
Congrats on the re-feature, Paula. Vince
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Date: 6/1/2009 12:34:00 AM
Congratulations on your featured poem. More power and success in the world o poetry. Ernilando
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Date: 5/3/2009 5:56:00 PM
Paula, my belated congrats in making the semi finals...Raul
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Date: 4/28/2009 6:02:00 AM
Congratulations on both your poems making it into the semi finals. Wishing you the best of luck in the finals. Love, Carol
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