Best Grata Poems

I am nothing

pariah     outcast    a worm

I have nothing to offer, nothing of value

except these words

for when I see the sunlight reflect

in your chocolate brown eyes I envision 

paradise

eden   before the fall

and when you smile you 

radiate

all...

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Beware!  in our own confines - a predator
hiding without so much as a warm hello,
Persona non grata veils its character.
It’s green with greed and  jealously pale yellow;
our words give vent to this parasite-fellow.
A proud remnant perhaps of a life once led,
it bleeds blue...

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("Blue Egg In Red Sea", 2020, original oil)

Person Non-Grata

Call me old-fashioned,
but I’m glad my mother was a woman.
I’m glad about a lot of things actually,
the little things in life 
like a stable marriage, well adjusted children
a good education and something tenuous
yet pervasive enough to take...

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Persona non grata  so I sang beneath a
moonlight sonata.

A ghost-finger touched a quivering semi-tone note,
,your soul con-caved beneath that haunting,
longing, aching spirit!

So persona non grata my coattails in winter
snow!

:: ~ ::...

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Pre-puberty years
Playful innocence 
Warm ready embrace
Quarrels, aberrations 
Rapidly erased
An uncluttered mind
Open, forgiving heart
Reborn each morn anew

Growing up, ego manifests
Taught to be street smart 
Testosterone levels high
Feral instincts prevail
In the game of one-upmanship 
Need to win our obsession
Heart shrouded in darkness 
Conscience whispers in dreams

Upon expending...

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God we have appreciated and applaud;
Is our Holy one who we love and laud,
And we heard;
His every word;
Removed sins when from us were shod.

Always remember what we did envision;
We were determined to make a decision;
God must choose,
And never refuse;
Had been done precisely with precision. 

To...

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            Persona Non Grata

   She was persona non grata.
   But, very blessed to not know it.
   Her loving words, but a naive sonata,
   Unaware, she was...

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Agradecimento Fevereiro - Gratidão

Tenho certeza de que todas nós 
estão vendo nossos números recentes 
relacionados à produtividade e volume. 
Mesmo em mês de muitos feriados os números 
são positivamente muito impressionantes. 

Este é um momento muito empolgante para trabalhar neste setor, 
com a oportunidade de...

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You tell them, that a poet has lost his words.
You tell them, I never thought being numb could hurt.

If I was to lay back and gaze at the skies,
I would be embraced by the dirt.
For my soul no longer burns,
it no longer yearns to run,...

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Full of anxiety
A perplexed child storming in me
Bad in the crowd 
Hardly present heads in a single cloud 
Outcast defines my whole entity 
Filled with obscure philosophy 
Trapped in constant lunacy
Undivided emotion hidden in my subtitled brutality
I devour myself 
I feel uncertain and unsafe
Persona non...

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Persona non Grata That Is Terracotta 

Seems to be persona non grata,
Having a head that is terracotta;
Lump of lard,
And head hard;
Likes sandwich cheese with tomato.

Jim Horn...

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Grata

Seja grata sempre
a gratidão, transforma 
aquilo que temos
em suficiente
negação em aceitação, 
caos em ordem, 
confusão em clareza. 

A gratidão sempre
transforma 
menos
em mais 
e mais....

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I’ve made a veritable art form
out of ignoring others

Taken it to the highest level,
its crown made out of thorns

Turning my back and looking away,
denying their importance

A world where they do not exist
—no insult could hurt more

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Pague adiantado e seja grata antes

Na vida e nos negócios
reconheça 
e seja grata 
antecipadamente.

Antes da vitória
pague com gratidão
cada pessoa ao seu lado
e assim,
conquiste seu compromisso....

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Grata

Seja sempre grata,
a gratidão transforma 
aquilo que tem
em o suficiente 
e muito mais. 

A gratidão transforma 
a negação em ação
uma casa em um lar, 
o inesperado 
em um “favor do século” 
em um momento
para fazer mais e mais.

Diretora...

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