Best Meritorious Poems

...little Rock
               Doves at my feet
             Imploring eyes watch
  as I eat and I    will share my 
                lunch with you not
                   shoo you away
            ......

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...I am bored with Poetrysoup

Premier Poetry website rekindled my poetic talent 
Veterans loved my work and inspired to showcase talent
But soon got entangled in Members Contest
Contests more of m......

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...Dear merciful and gracious God
The Supreme Father of wisdom
The One who provides knowledge and understanding
The guiding light of all creation
Leader, provider, and shepherd of our fathers

I c......

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...They live in mortal sin and shame
Between the lines of old and new
As us the righteous good and few
See infidels who aren't the same
How dare they question our belief
Eternal fire is prepared fo......

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...YET, HE DIED

We are here to mourn our friend,
Who led an ascetic life?
Shrewd, astute and virtuous as he was,
He died.

Upright as himself, second to none
His arduous engrossed incessant obs......

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Written: July 30, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

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The carnival dazzles—  
mirific mosaics of midway magic  
woven with whimsical c......

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...Riding through the walls of my brain.
A non-perfect symphony 
Slides through the edges of my hand.
Did we forget?

Sengbe Pieh:
Bound by blood and sweat.
Your fate was doomed the day you were ......

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...I AM A POEM

Imaginative illustration
intricately impassioned
impeccable individualism
important

Accomplished arrangement
ageless authenticity
appraised actualized
alive

Perfect......

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...
heat of the battle
dog fighters command the sky
top gunning air force


© Joseph S. Spence, Sr., (Epulaeryu Master) 1/22/08
All Rights Reserved, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Senior Advi......

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...Deep ocean of azure blue

Overhead seagulls circling flew

In constant motion, heaving sides

The old merchant ship upon it rides

Rust scorched it's barnacled coat

Salt encrusted railings......

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...Many memories of my mother
making moist mellow macaroons 
marshmallows and Madeira cake,
minuscule madeleines, marvellous,
mum measures, marinates, melts,
more majestic meals.
My matriarch make......

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...Sediments of life experiences may seem precarious
One’s faith and hope that they may be found meritorious
As one lies six feet underground
The hereafter will only be compound
If the Creator’s judgmen......

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...From a galaxy a million light years or more

Descends a created soul's birth through the earthly door.

All pathways delineated on life affirming oath

Ego self chosen for spiritual growth.

From bab......

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...Brahma III

The frivolous life lives vainly 
looking at a phantom, chasing after illusion;
men accuse one another thinking their life is real,
fight each other thinking they are existing. Today ......

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...The battle line is drawn.
Beyond the mystery of your power, 
You've laid us down.
In your bid to get in here you promised to build a tower.

On your shoulder do we rest
Till you daily lay us to......

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