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Best Compensate Poems

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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Categories: compensate, absence,
Form: Nazm
Premium Member Keyhole
"Environmental suits all checked and rechecked.  The chamber is sealed."

"PROCEED!".

"We're losing barometric pressure!"

"COMPENSATE!"

          "Energy output...

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



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...

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

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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...

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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...

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

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

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

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Categories: compensate, hockey, sports,
Form: Verse
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...

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

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Categories: compensate, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member In My Perfect World
In my perfect world let me ponder my thoughts
And tell you what should be, a world that's not fraught

To live side by side all colours...

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Categories: compensate, life, people, placesworld, kindergarten,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs