Best Circumspection Poems


Premium Member Mindful

...Mindful  

Startled out of nonchalant light,
Wakefulness stands at attention
Ignited flame from the eternal candle,
Energized vigil of the watchman
At the soul’s dawning daybreak
Tingling in t......

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Categories: circumspection, blessing, life, light,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Not Today, Not Anymore -

...For 15 years I have tolerated,
calculated, anticipated, sublimated workplace degradations, derisions,
subversions towards my character,
not today, no more,
yes, my pride has become livid, swollen......

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Categories: circumspection, business, work, me, work,
Form: Epic

Premium Member Tilted Dahlias --The Artist

...The sage green wall had worn a blank look
until, slightly askew, with a tilt to the left
dangling helplessly, without a complaint 
is the pride of an artist, who lacked all constraints.

He dippe......

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Categories: circumspection, art,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry


Timing Is Everything

...To balance on a bike

you've gotta keep moving

but

 

since we can't

always move

 

our lives will improve

if we learn just when

it's time time time

to put a foot down

 ......

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Categories: circumspection, christian, dream, faith, father,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Embrace the Chaos

...Not conscious of infinities blast Big Bang into reality our matter hurled 
The Moira in our ancient past held us captive in this world

The blessings are the curses in every man’s situation
A pro......

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Categories: circumspection, life, religion, science, ,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Soul Stance River - 13

...The river smells like damp cotton this morning,
the weather has been so complimentary to our exertions
frost invades the nights nicely and soft sunshine comforts our faces in daytime,
we have been......

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Categories: circumspection, adventure,
Form: Epic


Living Out Loud

...A good portion of the nation is living out loud

involuntarily, because of invasion of privacy,

Inquisitions prompted by religious affliliations

and racial discriminations,

Private living has beco......

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Categories: circumspection, confusion, life, political, social,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Think Spring

...Now, unlike my usually trenchant literary librettos, i regale the unknown (tum me) reader for savoir faire articulation, elocution, and indomitable tour de force proffered by spectrum of bounteous ex......

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Categories: circumspection, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Dad's Legacy

...Admonishing against arrogance and apathy
Building lives buttressed with leadership brace
Caring for his children, blending compassion and circumspection
Daddy* dearest is decisive, determined, dil......

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Categories: circumspection, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: ABC

If

...(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling!)

If you can keep your head when your computer crashes
right after a new programme, removed essential caches!
If you can smile when you lose a whole day's work......

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Categories: circumspection, computer,
Form: Narrative

Listen: I Can Speak

...Speak when spoken to was the law, when in age I was tender
Never answer adults back, independence was surrendered 
Do this do that go here go there, and never question orders
Did they not know the......

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Categories: circumspection, love
Form: Light Verse

Sealed Lips

...The affliction I have encountered has fastened my lips,
And I am at a loss for words therefore my feelings I cannot express.
However, as  I dip the end of my quill into apprehension,
And with urge......

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Categories: circumspection, lost love, sad, words,
Form: Rhyme

Life

...At the moment of our birth,
we begin a journey on earth,
knowing nothing of what awaits.
Being a one way uncharted road,
it’s where we’ll gather a disparate load
of indiscriminate likes, loves a......

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Categories: circumspection, life,
Form: Narrative

Premium Member In the Mirror of Life

...In the mirror of life, God shows* us His perfect will
Teaching us to trust Him while staying serene
So that His plan we can perform with zest
By His instruction, making us triumphant.

I......

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Categories: circumspection, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium Member Reverberating Poetry Line

...“To be or not to be: that is the question”*
Shakespeare’s wise words, worthy of introspection…
Such was first brought to my young mind’s discretion
During an English grammar class instruct......

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Categories: circumspection, christian, encouraging, faith, god,
Form: Monorhyme
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