Best Compensations Poems

What doesn't thrills me,
it doesn't conquer me...
which doesn't lift me up,
vaccinates me against...
What makes me feel fine,
feeds me...
what harms me,
  I leave it behind,
and...

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COMPENSATIONS
unusual times
were to inspire
 a response
& suspend
confidence

 a triptych
 space
 sound bites
 informed views
 inspired
& realised
a
conflicted
mix

in rotation
of points
 of reference
transparent
  revolving
elements
'til
   outwardly
 conceived
into
 reality
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one...

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First Snow

Daylight~
My world is covered with pure white snow

Untarnished

The branches of the red pine out my
Window, softly comforted with a thin blanket
Of downy fluff ...

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I sometimes forget advancing years
Then a reminder blindsides me
Senior discounts, free Tuesdays
Sad eyes in my mirror
Daily aches and pains
Compensations?
Little voice
Love you
Nana...

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Women who live singly and privately
suddenly become preys to fleas,
who are seeking self serving opportunities,
If they aren't married they are considered
old maids, or bombarded with...

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Earthquake broke out
Disaster came
No prevention but salvation
Fate is to be blamed or
God is to be blamed
Loss of properties
Deaths
Destructions to landscape 
Countless and unpredictable
Where compensations won't...

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These are not donations
But only my frustrations
From working all workstations
Yet no compensations
For Calais formations
From all my creations
Confrontations leads
To my deviations
Exclamations 
In need a vacation
I feel...

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Golden Years


Golden Years who’s kidding who
It’s a farce It’s just not true
Try us old folks to deceive
More like rust I do believe.

Take ARTHRITIS when your...

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Uncommon Sense 

Uncommon sense comes to the fore,
Secretly telling us what lies in store.

Memory can be misplaced;
Destiny must surely be faced.
Fame vanishes into thin air;
Undue...

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Birthday Funk

Little ones can’t wait to mark the passage of time,
Presents and cake, everyone making a fuss.
Young folks use this time to push out their...

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He comes like the tide
warm sunset eyes, gather stars.
On the sands I wait for miracles,
my mind leaves those lofty spires
Love has no compensations,
needs no diminished...

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It was a foregone conclusion before finishing high school and leaving home.             ...

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If it were to be foe, I could bear it; He was my friend;
Why should he betray me? In public that too; at the end;
I...

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The Young and the Still 22/7-2011


Walk softly now 
on the green lawn of sorrow. 
Too many tears shed
may turn it into a maudlin
Hollywood quagmire;
and make...

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There is this hypothesis
I unjustly
and perhaps traumatically
just made hard and patriarchally up
is not down 
and retentatively not out
soon enough for healthy comings 
and goings

A ridiculous...

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