Best Exaltations Poems

Where Has All The Beauty Gone?

There is no time like the now times,
The ever-present blood-swooshing times.
Time again to surrender as a smitten lover surrenders,
To the...

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Contest Name NATURE COMES TO LIFE
Sponsor Carol Brown 
 

earth changes seasons…
life timed for exaltations
buds profusely bloom

tides of fragrance spill
invigorating senses…
beauty flourishes

hopes rise from seedpods
roots...

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MY OLD BOSSES FUNERAL 
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS 


Went to the funeral of my old boss
After several speakers I was at a loss
Who was this person...

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I am a Krisnochura tree at the Dhaka University,
I love to stand still with my curiosity.
The white clouds are used to touch my head, 
Sometimes...

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I see the expanse now,
I see the expense now,
How we expand now,
The sun never sets on Empire,
Pitted, packed dry-cake gully
Sere, stolid waiting the return 
Of...

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I’ve come to my autumn years
While my heart falls silent
Trembling with its gentle tears
Reflecting on the former things
Some hopes and other fears

I’ve come to my...

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I am a captive
   and a prisoner of your affections
    draw me with robes of purple
    ...

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Ah! Yes! Yes! You say my poetry
reminds you of a great musician;
the ear to feel and a heart
to impart—so the conductor
motions his vessels to sail:
a...

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Most mind boggling mysterious mortal

Mystification prevails stupefying yours truly
befuddled, he blindly stumbles along rocky
pathway illusory impediments strewn helter
skelter intangible obstructions hinder access
psychological barricades effective impasse

detains,...

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What right have I to write?
What sanctuary allows me entrance
into its sacred domicile?

Who really scribes for me?
Is it the stars or the trees?
The streams or...

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Hold still my little blue, for I know you are ready to explode
I shall extract your exuberant energy with vibrancy and vigor
For my palettes drip...

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As I walked through the ‘PEARLY GATES” and saw :LENORE on the far shore
Waving exuberantly, running atop the Aqua Blue, tranquil “ Ocean of Heaven...

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Angel of mercy please intercede

Weakest most lame specimen
among human breed
control of my life I willingly concede
wordless son of a gun fires off 
following capricious poetic...

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If tomorrow never comes
may love at least confess its deeds
beneath a glittering star welcomed by night's deep exaltations
which offers a bond under Heaven's eternal sky
pledged...

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Hushed be the whispers of angels, their gentle and lilting croon, 
Amidst the showering of star lights, halos encircle the moon; 
Voices that penetrate lightly,...

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