Best Perspectives Poems

A Child's Thanksgiving Prayer 

Lord, I thank thee as I sit to eat,
For mashed potatoes that I helped to make.
And thanks, dear Lord, we're having something sweet.
Besides the beets and peas, there's pies and cake!

I thank thee for the sweet potatoes too
‘Cause Mom put tiny...

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There is so little space I could give in my skies, 
Every moon has left a whole cluster of clouds full of lies, 
I cannot unclog a product polluted in disguise, 
Don’t ask me to lay in your web you chose to improvise , 
I...

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Painful Perspectives
                Bullying in America

"About 77% of students have admitted to being the victim of of one type of bullying or another."
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        Black boxes atop a vintage shelf
            adorned with dust of opinions groan.
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Good new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my sin,
peace,wholeness and integrity
Free to become uniquely me;
Empowered to make a fresh start.
Placed...

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I was a learned college professor, who was forever eager to know more,
As blue-gray waves, finding sandy beaches, turn to seek another shore.

I drove to work smiling, in those tangerine days, so glad for avid youths,
Like when dusky stars waltz out dreamy, winking to show...

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I respect all that you are;
               all that you think;
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Existence precedes essence,
or so I've been told. 
And living in the Aesthetic 
one can choose to question, or not choose at all
and float effervescently oblivious into the cosmos.
 
One longs for moral prospects of Karmic law,
but absurdism reigns Almighty
and at the base finds something raw;...

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I.
The red winged blackbird  knows how hard it is for me to connect with humans.
But I can still share my joy over this bird with my mom, who is dying for a way in.
II.
I was just told today by my teacher that I have...

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She needs to feel in love to drive aside the night,
I love to feel in love, ONE source of joy and light,
When love is not at home, she’s sad to be alone,
When love is not in sight, the world is mine to roam.

Beginnings bring disquiet,...

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being number one
wiggles underneath the rock
a spade descends

being number two
hides behind the rock
a foot falls

being number three
lays on top of the flat rock
skin to stone

being number four
perches atop the rock
shells crack

being number six
flies over  the rock
guano falls


*who are the beings [do you see them...

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(I SEE)

anchored by stone spire, rising above ocean's swell; guidance her vision

5-7-5

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(I FEEL)

standing in shadows, shouldering the weight of waves; I am moon's harbour

5-7-5


For Poem Destroyer's Contest "In One Line"   MONOKU

Written March 27 2016...

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When I think of time, I feel my limits of perspective. How can I understand ‘time’ before the universe was formed? Time must have existed before the material universe. If not, no change would have occurred. For us, time can be recognized only through changes....

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I'm channeled rhymes, perspectives of young poet late in life!
Evolving too, I hope to please, share reveries a wife
(Scheherazade) shows to her spouse (loved patrons, here confessed),
who fears both too, for wives do fail, find heads divorce their chest.

Attention found here couched in verse, two...

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beer bloat
morning after
football Sunday 
am I, or the bar
the consumer
I don't know
I had a good time
shot some pool
cracked some jokes
flirted with girls
not half my age
so vain
so pointless
so fun

journey coming
soon, so
shutting it down
redirecting energy
focus
vision
to what I want more
than football Sunday
a different land
a different people
I hope at...

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