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Best Benson Poems

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Benson Drew
Through the Pit's mouth she saw it-
Inert body prostate, lightly lit
the pale face staring up, hollow eyes
the cold waters, the mud, the mice.

Through the pit's...

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Categories: benson, cry, death, loss, lost,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member The Stanzas By the Sea
I

when the world had no headsets
the sunbathing crowd
fell asleep to the sounds of
transistors played loud
while the deckchairs and windbreaks
kites, beach balls and more
formed the stripes,...

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Categories: benson, beach, england, holiday, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mournful Harp
As I lie amongst wildflowers
beneath the butterfly weeds,
you pondered, through my mind
as you often do,

delicately fragile
essence bursting free
eccentric, dazzling colours
deteriorating, slight physique ~

weakening petals withered
mournful...

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Categories: benson, beautiful, best friend, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Abstracts Are Never Absolute
He deems the ways and dares to understand,		
a measure of a love that went astray,
from libelled forces, which compelled his hand,		
to lies, and morals left...

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Categories: benson, abortion, anxiety, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Writing
WRITING

when other souls
are conceiving
in their dreams 
my breath 
gives birth 
at midnight

my soul
only knows 
to labour
to push 
to birth
alone

~ Eshe Benson...

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Categories: benson, dream, inspiration, life, poems,
Form: Free verse



The Night Before Christmas Military Version
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the bay
Not a soldier was stirring in the hall or the way.
The clothes were all hung in...

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Categories: benson, christmas, military,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mountain Forecast
Today Mount Benson is covered in snow.
Down here, below, we have none.
It's a sign of Winter, this we know,
in spite of today's bright sun.

We look...

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Categories: benson, mountains, weather, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Holy Bible - the Quatern Style
~ The  Holy  Bible ~
 (Quatern)


 It tells the beginning of man
 How  God  created all from start
 He made the...

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Categories: benson, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Like Mother Hen
"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it"
Swedish Proverbs

All the while I went my way
Hot hostility halt my been...

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Categories: benson, motherme, world, love, me,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Bad Man
Atuk was a bad man,
He split his family, lost his money
He drank the dark tearful sorrows away,
As he walked he abused,
The syahadah he refused,
He was...

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Categories: benson, death, grandfather, love, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Widow's Mite ~ Weston
Weston worked and worried
from sun up till sundown
for the freed-man knew the reason
that Pap had gone to town.

Pap had loved his family
but now that Ma...

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Categories: benson, adventure, black african american,
Form: Free verse
To My Late Grandma
In the telling told, the stories unfold
Of days long faded, in history's hold
Grandma, your presence, a memory gold
In our hearts engraved, for times untold

In Leteng's...

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Categories: benson, death, family, feelings,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Greasy Spoon
several formica red tables
glass shakers of pepper and salt
big plastic tomatoes I wanted to squeeze
and shaped bottles of sarson’s own malt.

netting on all of the...

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Categories: benson, appreciation, change, england, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Violence - the Shot Heard Round the World
V-   iolence found in the hand of one who claims
“I-  must be god!”
O-  watch your back when you think you can...

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Categories: benson, death,
Form: Acrostic
A Song Sung To Her Dying Husband
I was on YouTube listening to the many artists that have sung Bob Dylon's song
To Make You Feel My Love. I love listening to the...

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Categories: benson, loss, love,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things