Best Recompense Poems

A kind word, of course,
Can soothe the flustered soul or bring a smile
To a frowning face. That’s a given, but
In one’s troubled times, words still...

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The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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Naked souls...
Find in each other a kindred spirit
That speaks divinely, without words.
Auras coalesce in euphoric passions
Warming hearts and bodies
That rise to ethereal heights.
Sentient beings aware...

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September meets with warm embrace,
 quickening the harvest pace,
though looming autumn can't efface 
 what's left of summer's arid grace.

The linen hanging on the line...

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...inspired by 'The Salamander' by C.S. Lewis
 
 
The sun bore down with blinding rays,
the oceans boiled and came to nought,
it was withal the end...

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AN HOUR WITH YOU

If I perchance could have my time again
And, knowing what I know, could alter course.
To veer left when the signpost right said...

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I’ve always been a cash man, so when me cash was blown,
I might be sitting back all stony broke and pleading for a loan,
at least...

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Oh! Those whom I loved and cared that left this world
  Enjoying the bliss of heaven when my heart wreaths in pain
  Free...

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Earth is what we become and makes us whole.
 Air is the first and last thing we breathe in.
 
Fire is what consumes us and...

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We cannot mimic the cry of a loon. Nor capture the light of the moon.
We'll never reach a distant star. Both too high and much...

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"Baroque Spring"


Viewed externally
I am the Winter House
Internally I am too too much 
I am eternal Baroque Spring

He watches his 
mirror twin 
and assigns fatal love
to...

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You're my
Poem of the Day
line upon line
of artistry divine
word upon word upon word
you beautify the absurd
this crazy world makes more sense
and I don't need recompense
for...

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The lady In Red

She missed out on the green silk dress; it was sold before she did buy
But when the red dress came to the...

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I stole the surges of the ocean and the glory of the wave,
the roiling seas as recompense for what you never gave.

And I thought that...

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Wrapping your loving arms around
somebody whom you love with passion....
is an expression of affection,
and no one expects a reward!

Only God gives love freely...
to demonstrate how...

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