Best Reclaimed Poems

Reclaimed Recycled

Discarded in a rubbish skip
Mid broken bottles rags and bone
T'was destined for the council tip
And so I claimed it for my own

I took it home  that rusty shield
I rubbed it down, and found the shine
of tempered steel its glow revealed
So glad I found...

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Upon the forest floor lie
trees of yesteryear forced by
changing seasons long past gleaned
comforter of summers greened.

Nature doesn't bow to restraints 
devours walls with  an embrace.
Grace solace with no complaints, 
stretched tight among time and space.

5/28/2018...

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Lured with 
Laced  saturated oils of crystal and sand
Covered in roses
Black silk curtains filled the womb as they flowed and danced
Following the rhythm
As he spun at his web
She laid down her wings 
as the music softened
Her dress followed
She was in tranced,  as he...

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Wildfires of fall bring us whirlwinds of flame.
Black-scape throughout, life’s survival or death?
Spring blooms of dogwood. Renewal sustained.

Santana stampedes, she’s wicked, untamed,
through canyons of ages. We hold our breath.
Wildfires of fall bring us whirlwinds of flame.

Now Dante’s hellhound of Hades renamed!
Desiccation abounds where there were...

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Reaching for the universe
 fate extends a hand
Shortcut to Andromeda
  route at its command

The speed of light exceeded
all flashes turn inside
To burn and bend eternal
where life no longer dies

Each star laid out before me
 whose orbits spin and weave
Their presence all revealing
what black holes...

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I meet with three faces
   that come in the night

In dreams that preplace, 
  masks of darkness and light

Their voices once spoken,
   remain in my head

Until words are then written,
  pitting joy against dread

These triplets were born
  in...

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In me search for understanding I came to know not what I sought.
My past and present tribulations amount to nothing in the end.
Blinded I was.
But now I can see.
It was only misplaced, and now reclaimed....

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I didn’t know it at the time,
but my misspent youth was planned

The training ground for what I’d write,
then hard to understand

The many schools, the teachers chides,
expulsions my reward

Postgraduate work for future truth,
all voices untoward

The risks were high, survival mined,
Shangi-La, a vagrant’s room

My pen disclaimed, all...

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Man is predestined
to destroy his world
Consciously damning
‘free choice’ unfurled

An apex predator
upon himself
No rhyme or reason
or logic dealt

Self-destruction
his stock in trade
His nature foreign
to all else made

Killing his brothers
killing his sons
Shakespeare prescient
of what’s to come

Time irreverent
he never learns
What sets him free
his folly spurns

The clock is running
the hour...

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Escape in a Poem,
—freedom unchained

Words now alive,
  seven sirens renamed

Brevity conquers,
  all urge to refrain

As magic unfolds,
—the present reclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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Crossing Montana for the first time…
everything was changed

My heart no longer my own
—my spirit there reclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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trees

upon

forest floor lie

underneath decaying

from yesteryear changing seasons

long past gleaned comforter of summers green

solace in soundlessness hollow,

nature's

home

6/22/2021...

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She's done sitting back 
and taking his abuse:
the physical, 
     the verbal, 
          the mental
               the psychological; 
Today...

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My soul ancient,
  but my spirit new

The past a contrivance,
  the future untrue

My thoughts reborn,
  all feelings renamed

To christen this moment,
 —its present reclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Escape in a Poem,
freedom unchained

Words come alive,
distant sirens renamed

Brevity conquers,
all urge to refrain

As magic unfolds
—the present reclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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