Best Merit Poems

Oh these lovely tones in gloaming skies,
I know you feel it too, that warmth...
I'm so content with my second chance
     with you...my fears now fleeing.
Let me paint the love reflected in your eyes.
Let me wipe the doubt from yesterday's tears
As we...

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Even precious jewels cannot approach their value,
For the women of merit are priced beyond them.
Their beauty is found in the works of love they do,
And in their smile facing the future that is never dim.
Most arise at dawn when it is still like the night
And...

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The Four Fields Of Merit: 

First is Filial Piety
Second the Dharma 
Third is Charity 
And fourth the Fauna

With Christmas and New Years  approaching, I just wanted to remind everyone of the importance of generosity. In Buddhism, there are four fields of merit: Our parents/elders,...

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When you empty out your
Handfuls of time and drink
From the flask of forever.
You have made it home,
For Heaven is earned, not given!...

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An atmosphere of animated energy fills December's frosty air.
During the Christmas season we kindle the fires of love 
between family and friends, and spark the flames of charity
in our hearts for it's a time of rejoicing and reflecting.

The spirit of Christmas swells in us, knowing...

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~~Exceptional merit is easier to achieve
             by those who in themselves believe~~

Written July 28, 2022...

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R-eceive God-given merit, 
E-verytime you do His will; 
Y-our heart is truly filled with a huge thousand thrill.

J-ust receive God-given merit, 
O-n pleasing His holy name; 
H-e loves the obedient child, 
N-ot the wicked one in shame.

R-eceive God-given merit
E-ach day you remember
Y-our life comes from...

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Regarding merit: absent, missing, void
Of all redeeming qualities, save one,
The apple of His eye, His "very good.”
Was He, in pleasant garden, much annoyed
When they His one divine decree did shun
To taste forbidden fruit because they could?
And did He not foresee that such an end
Would come...

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Peacocks-n-Parrots, two beautiful colorful birds, of a different feather, never 
seen flocking together, canary-n-blue seas transparent, her true colors 
apparent, symbols of love, sand white as a dove, look a gorgeous orange lava 
sunset above, our souls make love, our hearts hug, beautiful colorful birds,...

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When Merit Pay Would Save Money

By Elton Camp

Miss Grundy’s the best teacher at school
Yet paid no more than its biggest fool

If he has the same experience and degree
How that’s fair is nearly impossible to see

Her work’s interesting & academically sound
The failed coach is the biggest...

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Who has enough merit to earn God’s precious key?
It ain’t the clergy; it ain’t the Sunday school teacher
Nor is it a church team leader or choir members who sing so sweetly.
	
Who has enough merit to get into Heaven?
Is it the family who lives clean and...

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MEN WITHOUT MERIT

smallminded lopsided 
these are the
men I mind

jealous of anything outside
their re-invented Utopia
like jealous little gods that
would have the whole world
bow to their insidious 
arrogance wanting the
world flat because they
are faking a fauxflat 
perception to launder
the grossness of all
other souls

they paint secrets in Arabic
which...

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Progeny of the people of merit,
May not for sure would inherit merit.
Take fire and sandalwood,
The ash born smells no good,  
To wit, O never generalize a bit.       
_______________________
Translation |27.01.2025|  

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of...

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dyke of righteousness
built across our life river -
swells pool of merits.


Second Place in STRAND PICK 7,any theme,any form Poetry Contest sponsored by Brian Strand...

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...I was working construction jobs,
there was a big job for the trains,
to replace an old viaduct
that shook in the wind and the rain.
The government gave money and
put strings on it, that’s what they do,
wanted to ensure diversity
in the engineers and the crew.
They especially wanted women,
to...

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