Best Compensate Poems


On the Horizon

...On the Horizon

My limbs and leaves are trembling
My green days of shade and blue shadow near gone,
For on the near horizon lies
The first cold flail of fall.

To compensate, my Maker made 
M......

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Categories: compensate, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Notes On Dating a Latino: What You Don'T Learn In High School Spanish Class

...One. Latino boys like Buffalo Wild Wings. It isn't clear why, but it's definitely emerging as a pattern.

Two. Latino boys are persistent. When he asks to kiss you for the first time, say no. Why? ......

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Categories: compensate, boyfriend, culture, cute love,
Form: List

Bullying 101

...Step 1: 
Inhale an envious mask upon your castrated 
skull, 
and prompt this necessary illusion to commence.
Bathe yourself in ego-filled waters till you feel superior
to the gavel, and exit wit......

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Categories: compensate, allegory, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Free verse

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Humans Need An After Life

...(unfit 
category 
but no 
choice.)

Life would 
be 
worthless 
and 
short
If this is 
the only 
dear life 
we 
have
Great 
plans just 
death can 
abort
to be 
useless 
once you 
......

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Categories: compensate, absence,
Form: Nazm

Premium Member Outcast

...When one feels like an Outcast, one can over compensate
In ways that are extreme to try and change their fate.
This can make them do things others cannot relate to,
If they know not of such pain o......

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Categories: compensate, encouraging, inspirational, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Better Than the Rest

...Lyrics by Jerry Thomas Curtis  

Better Than The Rest

Some think she has a crooked nose
And real sad sleepy eyes
Her hips they said, had to have spread
To compensate those thighs
But I just ......

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Categories: compensate, love,
Form: Lyric


Premium Member Keyhole

..."Environmental suits all checked and rechecked.  The chamber is sealed."

"PROCEED!".

"We're losing barometric pressure!"

"COMPENSATE!"

          "Energy output is constant."

"The rift ......

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Categories: compensate, anxiety, environment, fear, fire,
Form: Narrative

Sonnet - Midwestern Lethargy

...I am deprived of my old sweet relief,
Turning the page but turn to the leaf.
I spill out myself to sanction some space
To which I can return, try to compensate.
Contemplate and complicate my own ......

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© Samuel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compensate, addiction, fear, introspection, life,
Form: Sonnet

Top of the World

...I'm on top of the world looking in
But in the heavens it's no wind
I sit an meditate 
While my soul gravitates
Million thoughts an a billion heartaches 
My mind an heart communicates
Heart boil......

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Categories: compensate, allegory, beauty, blessing, devotion,
Form: Free verse

Critique Your Own Selves Critics

...why is it I never in my life gave cadence as to critic another poets work
yet they find it perfectly acceptable to rate my own submissions
they aren't Jesus they don't walk on water so why should I......

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Categories: compensate, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Happy 19th Anniversary

...I went on searching since the latest year of 19th century
A place where I can truly share my poetry
A consequence when one of my uncles had inspired me
Sharing his poems at US National Library of ......

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compensate, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Comes the Inevitable Moment

...Comes the inevitable moment to decide at last
Whether to stay or go; whether to love or hate
Whether to stand aside or bravely engage issues
To defy the odds and stand proud before the mast
To be......

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Categories: compensate, anti bullying, discrimination, integrity,
Form: Curtal Sonnet

Premium Member Blue Becomes

...Blue becomes monochrome
painted across a sad tableau
from one side to the next
except where public gaze applies

these flashes absent of the hues
is not enough to compensate
for the drowning i......

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© Sean Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compensate, depression,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member The Game of Hockey

...The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadi......

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Categories: compensate, hockey, sports,
Form: Verse

Make the World a Better Place

...There is enough strife and despair all around
The wounds of discord are open and bleeding
The turmoil is rumbling to burst any moment
The time is ripe for all of us to build bridges, 
Mend fences, an......

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Categories: compensate, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
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