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Best Mendicant Poems

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Poetic Mendicant
by Michaelw1two

 The bard, the muse, the low versifier,
 each the times bemoan;
 stressed by compassion's grasp,
 ingrained word sown life disowns;
 individualist rare, previews...

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Categories: mendicant, poets, riddle,
Form: Free verse



Ode To a Mendicant
He owned no fabled treasures
Nor the kingdom of a king, 
No horses or elephants
Nor a catapult or a sling.

He said he owned the blue skies
Birds,...

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Categories: mendicant, wisdom,
Form: Ode
Called the Mendicant
The waking causer
anguishes my the meat
that is ,
could be the unknown called .
Flourished I ,
in my the last dreams 
where and there 
were I 
under...

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Categories: mendicant, lost love, sad, sorry,
Form: I do not know?
Mendicant Monk
MENDICANT MONK

As a mendicant monk
my empty begging bowl
glistens in the moonlight,
yet this is the path
I surrender to in life.
Another night of chanting
with a growling stomach
caving...

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Categories: mendicant, birth,
Form: Free verse
Vanity Nemesis
Within the mendicant monolithic mirror
The fraudulent faces that are never nearer
For in the whimsical wonderland of Alice
Parasitic pretenders in the pompous palace

As we listen to...

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Categories: mendicant, corruption, fantasy, mirror,
Form: Free verse



Money
Money is better than barter
Money is better than share
Money takes you further than you dare
Though hands,  not money built my walls
Hands put together materials...

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Categories: mendicant, betrayal, funny, how i
Form: Narrative
Cowboy Logic
He was a cowboy problem child
rescued by a mendicant sage brush sorcerer
resulting in his remembering everything
flawlessly insolently permanantly
birth death life things in space have a...

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Categories: mendicant, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Its My Birthday Every Day
Its my birthday every day just because I awoke to see another day 
a new breath an extra hour beneath my belt, I am God's...

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Categories: mendicant, appreciation, life, light,
Form: Couplet
To Valerie
Paranoia, thy name  is Valerie
My buried bones you've bared.
My skeleton is out of  the bag
And my cat is out  of the ...

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Categories: mendicant, write,
Form: Blank verse
Dear Pen
Dear Pen

I learnt you are the oldest
of creations, and you’re modest.
You’re the muse of the wisest student:
you inspire him, make him prudent.
Here I come with...

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Categories: mendicant, devotion, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Pearls and Curls
If you are the cold rapier of sovereignty 
I'm the flames of hell that forge you

If you are the spread pallor of night
I'm the sleepless...

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Categories: mendicant, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The Causes of the Shipwreck
am the one that you corruptly and acidly destroyed I once a country of success and national prosperity hub educational champion, but you politicians ruined...

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Categories: mendicant, abuse, africa, betrayal,
Form: Bio
The Tawdry Realm
Unacceptable precepts and principles
Torment and stir one's emotions
Sullen sunrise and sunset
Supremacy you believe

Obscurity  a heroine ventures
Never be a mendicant for your appreciation
Your menace grows...

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Categories: mendicant, anger, bullying, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Fruit Vendor John
Fruit vendor John was polishing his pomegranates
The green piece of clean poplin was kissing warmly
He once rubbed the pinkish crust with the soft cloth 
Would then...

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Categories: mendicant, life, people,
Form: Free verse
Off Starboard
Horizon is illusory.
White sails appear across the morning watch,
are lost at noon,
and sighted once again at vespers 
when the antiphon is sung.   ...

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Categories: mendicant, faith,
Form: Free verse

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