Best Acumen Poems

...Peering beyond reach of human capacity
I revolve around the sun in a solar orbit,
Looking deep in space for origins of bygone
Going way beyond anyone has ever gone,
Exploring unknown world of ast......

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Written: January 27, 2024
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"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. Why do you stay in prison when the ......

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...Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
       pulled C's in English, D's in History -
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Furious with Zeus, a vengeful Hera searched the w......

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...oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope, precisely made
                    yet giv'n to stain the bib of war
          a bleed each mother answers for.


the whee......

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...Written: October 10, 2023   
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A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in ......

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...THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD GAVE!
Looking out life’s window,
Trying to find out why I am so sad and down.
I don’t blame the Lord for my struggles.
I know strife in life is th......

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* For His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum *

oh …

how I’ve dreamed of you -
sultry mistress to the sun's ire …
dappled and coy amid the palms, a-sway
your eyes of the glo......

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...Emotions diverse
'pon reading your verse
laughing and crying spontaneous
face a-beaming
tears a-streaming
joyful and sad smile-utaneous

My head is swollen
my heart all but stolen
wending across the ......

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...Her poetic mind is uncannily artistic,
She can make a long grocery list
Sound like an art of Shakespeare
and still forget the humble Pear!

With her talent she writes poems
She can express the ......

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...I do not know you well, Joyce
     But I know your poetry
          And your character and kindness
               Are there for all to see

Your words are crafted carefully
     And phrase......

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...To write in a 'poem' that one is perfect
and worse yet, made that way by God
is to be guilty of arrogant disrespect
when it's yourself you praise and laud.

A humble person, who is mild and meek......

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...Blessed ...
   This was a day unlike any other
      The sun arose and stole my breath
         Oh, I have seen countless such day-wakes
            Here on this shore, ancient, sparkling .........

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...There is a refuge, sweet, whereto I rush,

          (Where all but clever words would be remiss),

               When cheeks of evening sky begin to blush,

     As setting sun bestows a ......

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...I awoke to find 
that Jack Frost had paid a visit 
to my bedroom windows
for the very first time 
this Winter.

If only I had seen him at work
I would have thanked him
for decorating 
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