Best Reciprocal Poems

Returning compliments
Received, a kind word to
Redeem a thoughtless tongue
Reach out to the shy ones
Remember when you were
Raw and blue, the one who
Relieved your wounded wings~

4/17/21

Pleiades R contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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his 
gentle 
strokes evoke
pleasure and zeal
a celebration of mutual love




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Love Reciprocal
Verse 1
Two souls complete, let us retreat, to a place where our visions can meet
Captured to stare, none can compare, with true love and war becoming fair
When forces are real, transcending appeal
When there’s no other love I can feel
With time unaware, casting my care
Incomparable...

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Mitosis
movements
wrap together in
pulsing conduits
of vibrant vigor 
to nudge
the prod of
creation

until all
division lines
fold down to
ampersands
welcoming
liberated
hands
operating
in unison

despite all
individualistic
instincts sordidly
hoarding for
dominion of
identity

denying
the swirling
dependencies
holding all
bodies in
godly
orbit....

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Pride please go in my pocket. Faiths come out and play. Love don’t hate. Real don’t behave fake. Peace don’t bring me war. Pleasure doesn’t bring me pain.  Being rich can’t make me poor. Struggling for something can make you grateful for nothing. Open...

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Drainage cracks and fingers of
eroding souls.

Long dim hotel stairwells
are sarcastic chasms to the flood,
like artifacts of insanity
and poet's blood.

We dare to run down as
prisoners on parole,
humming parodies of parables
and dying at sea.

Our graves are laid in the
phantom fathom estuaries
and reciprocal tunnels
of our beginnings....

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Why reciprocal love ? 
Whenever injustice and 
Discrimination operate,  
Many people fall in the deep pit.
  
Hard to come out, 
Hard to stand , 
Hard to voice out , 
Hard to be heard,  
Hard to develop,

Anger and tears turn to be 
Daily bread of most...

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mother turns her head to 
see her son’s hair in the 
light shining above the
breakfast table all laid out &
spots a gray---
the dark brown hair once flailing
behind the drumset in the 
garage
during the teenage years,
has begun to go away &
it makes her feel older than...

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Heart to heart 
breast to breast 
breath to breath 
lips to touch a dying such
Soul sinless

I'm naked and I am not ashamed 
I am naked and I'm not ashamed
I am naked and I'm not ashamed

I have left my sins in the rain
 I've chosen the...

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See me as I am
Me, being me
A person
Wanting
Needing 
Feeling
Hoping to
Forever love
And be loved by you


Butterfly - my own created style - no rhyme with syllable count of 5,4,3,2,2,2,3,4,5...

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In
a two
way mirror-
a beholder
takes
in
prior
reflections
of the artist's
mind....

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just a snowflake falls
dust particle evolving 
atmospheric dust
~
from skies to ground up
and down gathers temperate
seasonal rain snow
~
winters dew frozen
spring moisten air rainfalling
falls filling terrain 
~
water moisture aire
gathering reciprocal
spring rain winter snow

12/28/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr...

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I was once asked, what's the one thing I despise?
But words faltered, for she, my reflection, listens to my cries.
In the mirror, her gaze sharp, like daggers, meets mine,
A silent dialogue of disdain, an internal sign.

I detest her patience, unrequited and unearned,
Kindness persists, tears withheld,...

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Have I ever told you that Anteros	
whispered love notes to me the day we met?
His sensuous breath carried love’s arrows
and my heart became yours without regret. 
You must have heard the whispers he had let
for you softly stroked the hair from my face,
and never since,...

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A long stare at one is plain insult:
I’ve never done that to an adult,
Even one in his dying Renault,
Badly harassing him with some fault,
Wanting to end up in their own vault
Or owner dispatch to his own vault…

But should one adult spare insults,
Who has been offering...

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