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Best Benefactors Poems

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Premium Member The Greatest Gift
To give is good, most would agree,
When helping poor feel more secure.
A splendid thing's philanthropy,
Though motives are not always pure.

We seldom sacrifice at all,
Our charity,...

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Categories: benefactors, community, giving, humanity, money,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member This Docile Earth
This world, never ours alone, but shared with other creatures great and small.
The Earth turns and new dawn comes, and will long after we're gone.
A...

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Categories: benefactors, bird, cat, inspirational, nature,
Form: Prose
Wealth Care For the Rich, Others Not
"The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill.
It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class 
and poor families to the richest people...

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Categories: benefactors, america, people, political, sorrow,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Blasphemer's Lament
why do so many humans elect to be tended and herded like sheep?

should path to salvation require forfeiting self-determination?

long have golden trim and precious jewels...

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© Ng Rippel  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: benefactors, change, people, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The Alley of Dead Infant Clowns
We play in the streets shaded of grey
We sing and dance but in the saddest of ways
Duplessis turned us into little clowns
In boarding houses of...

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Categories: benefactors, betrayal, care, childhood, history,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Domesticated Animals
DOMESTICATED  ANIMALS


Our friends, Animals, 
Your name from the Greek word
“Anemos” comes,
That  Anaximenes, the wise of old, 
The divine wind, that sustains the
Universe, named,
Which...

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Categories: benefactors, animal, dedication, love, endurance,
Form: Epigram
Water
Water

To obey no law, but gravities very 
own and harbor so much life; so 
much death.
Power in every ounce to sway to an 
unheard rhythm...

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Categories: benefactors, beauty, birth, body, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Orb of the First Dynasty, Queen Merneith,
Scattering spellbound in search of this utopia
Minds-eye in shortfall dissects one's monopoly
Through no choice of own approach it sloppily,
Exude to a position such promised, Ethiopia-

As...

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Categories: benefactors, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ingratitude
INGRATITUDE 

“No surest enemy than the one who was benefited" SOCRATES 
 

Ingratitude,
You ungrateful: 
Traitor of trust
Destroyer of kindheartedness
Apostate of friendship
Annihilator of beneficence  
Assassin...

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Categories: benefactors, friendship, grief, life,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Holy Order
stone for stone the building
had begat during
the nature of sudden
earthquakes a calling of holiness

beyond the greatness
of st Francis of assist
while my eyes focused on
the smaller...

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Categories: benefactors, faith,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Pleasantly Aware
i do supposed as ghost grow mold, that they would 
reminisce on the past they hold, some grudges untold
so people past and become cold,
this be...

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Categories: benefactors, adventure, love, passion, today,
Form: Free verse
Endowments
How, oh how, can some endow
A building wing? Well, holy cow!
So many millions must impress
All comers, thanks to their largess.

Such lavish generosity
Is well beyond the...

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Categories: benefactors, money,
Form: Rhyme
Ibadan
Raise your voice aloud 
And echo that which taints your heart
The days of the chain are laid to rest 
And the closed eyes are made...

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Categories: benefactors, africa, best friend, courage,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member If You'Re Invited, Rsvp No
Pieced together
Blood, bone and brain
With another’s parts
Senses bring sparks
Of imagination, inspiration
Insight into the heart
Who is not Frankenstein’s
But his best friend 
And confidant

Pieced together
Naked skin so...

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Categories: benefactors, dark, death, funeral, obituary,
Form: Free verse
What If I Rule the World
Should I ever rule this World 
Where thousands of Worldians
Inhabit so free;

I'll pray to God that this planet
Be as he first designated it to be,
Free...

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Categories: benefactors, bible, blessing, humanity, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs