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
Categories:
reciprocal, encouraging, remember, words,
Form:
Free verse
his
gentle
strokes evoke
pleasure and zeal
a celebration of mutual love
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Contest: A Poem You Like
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Categories:
reciprocal, love, passion
Form:
Tetractys
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 romance is there
Chorus
Love reciprocal, that’s intangible
Let us conquer and do the impossible
There’s no part of me, that could ever see
Another true soul claiming our clarity
Just you and me, just you and me
Oh oh oh, just you and me
Verse 2
One cannot describe, how to arrive
To a land where our treasure will thrive
Crossing the verge, beginnings emerge
There’s no other place that I could search
When forces are real, transcending appeal
When there’s no other love I can feel
With time unaware, casting my care
Incomparable romance is there
Bridge (x2)
Let’s do the impossible, embrace love reciprocal
Inscribe the inscribable, let’s do this, let’s do this, inseparable
Written by Geraldine Taylor ©
Categories:
reciprocal, love,
Form:
Free verse
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.
Categories:
reciprocal, nature
Form:
Free verse
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 don’t lock me out. Thought has frequency like sound, but deaf cannot make me hear. Passion doesn’t bring emotion. Thought cannot bring me vision.
Categories:
reciprocal, beautiful, creation, deep, life,
Form:
Verse
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.
Categories:
reciprocal, death, deep, introspection, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
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, have we left love’s embrace.
Our love grows stronger as the days pass by.
Children and grandchildren all on their own,
we once more snuggle into a shared sigh.
Our days together bountifully sown,
those we have left admittedly on loan.
Yet you softly stroke the hair from my face,
sealing our days’ end with Anteros’ grace.
Categories:
reciprocal, blessing, devotion, grandparents, life,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
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 victims.
Violent taughts feel the mind of victims.
Why reciprocal love?
When some people passed through a lot in life,
They will always need more love to recover,
Reciprocal love is their best healer,
Reciprocal love means True love.
As Jesus Christ said, " love your neighbour as you love yoursel"
True love can easily driving out the spirit of revenge in some people.
True love can easily destroy the spirit of oppression in some people.
Share true love to heal some people out there.
February 20 /2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe Mussabwa Chris
Categories:
reciprocal, anger, anxiety, hurt, love,
Form:
Free verse
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 she
is herself,
having earned her grays raising
him,
having watched her own youth
fade away &
now seeing her son’s
disappear with the years,
the overwhelming rapidity
(and ultimate demise)
of a human life
swells within her.
Categories:
reciprocal, life, hair,
Form:
Free verse
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 Lamb of the King
Once I was wondering now I've seen
No longer lost I am fine O' Lord I'm now clothed in your righteousness cleaned
Lord Oh Lord now I am clothed in your righteousness
O' God My God my universal heart
Heart to heart
breast to breast
breath to breath
lips to touch a dying soul
such so sinless
I am close in the righteousness no longer ashamed
I have left my sins in the rain
I've chosen the Lamb of the King
I was once wandering now I found
Now I sing Joy to my God the Lord Jesus my King Hallelujah
11/20/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
Categories:
reciprocal, beautiful, encouraging, forgiveness, god,
Form:
Rhyme
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 open assaults
And could on a youth use catapults
With all their devastating results?
Indeed, respect is reciprocal:
On this never stop being the vocal,
Your stand points incisively focal,
Whether in town or a place local…
This for the consumption of the child
Beginning to sprout wings a bit wild…
Categories:
reciprocal, absence, child, language, words,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
reciprocal, love,
Form:
Free verse
In
a two
way mirror-
a beholder
takes
in
prior
reflections
of the artist's
mind.
Categories:
reciprocal, art,
Form:
Fibonacci
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
Categories:
reciprocal, analogy, rain, snow, spring,
Form:
Haiku
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, a lesson unlearned.
A heart forgiving, releasing the past's unrepentant grip,
A trait I loathe, an internal conflict to equip.
Her unwavering persistence for love's elusive embrace,
Believing in hearts where skepticism might find a space.
Open to learning, correcting the course she's charted,
Yet defensive, perpetually on edge, guarded.
Scared of friendships, a fear she can't dispel,
Misunderstanding the world, a tale she tells.
Believing in change through explanations, a futile endeavor,
Apologizing, though blameless, a gesture she'll sever.
Her reasons dismissed as mere excuses,
Feeling misinterpreted, a sentiment she accuses.
Sometimes alone, a solitary state,
Concern dismissed, a consequence she contemplates.
Suppressing signs of sadness, a stoic masquerade,
Consistently right, a truth that won't fade.
Undeserved hate cast upon her tender frame,
Trust reserved solely for her, a self-imposed claim.
She despises me most, a self-inflicted plight,
Yet in mutual hatred, comfort takes its flight.
Categories:
reciprocal, hate, me,
Form:
Rhyme