Best Recompensed Poems

      POEM:

		ADVENTURE TO THE UNKNOWN

Going to a place – never been
Packed my bags for a vacation – 
Train leaves at 11:35 AM – get there in 8-1/2 hours.
Hope no catastrophe to delay.  Or is the plane 
better to arrive....

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Being Content
Written: by Tom Wright
5/29/00

	Lord,
	I've asked not from you, the fastest steed.
	Nor desire I to possess the keenest eye.
	Nor do I seek, from life, an easy, meaningless, course
	Wherein, that I, upon my labor, might get by;
	
	I've never searched out paths being arrow straight.
	Nor found great...

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I've moved on you can't hurt me anymore
I've moved on so go make your next score
Ive moved on I've flushed my heart clean
Hope you won't to the next victim be mean
 
I pity the poor thing once off guard you beguile
It has been many years...

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George worked in a construction company. He spent all his days walking the steel beam but when he got home, he became the master of inventions. One night he borrowed his wife's ironing board and made himself a grilled cheese sandwich by pressing the iron...

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While the world quiet lies
silenced
by the realm
of Night.

When asleep
lie
the remains of day,
amidst
dark encirclement of shadow
in merriment 
you sport yourself
wavering where you please
like bats
flying here and there
you rule a world not your own.

When the sun 
is blotted out
darkness
engulfs the day
the old ships sail home
the palpable sorrow
of...

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Had I, been I, would I have been born in the all time of all of things positive Spanish, esp the Flamenco fragrance of all things love, life and flourish casting all pertinent fate to a tortured wind. Cassanova to the Don Juan and their...

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I saw the importance of the things that I say
When my train of thoughts was ferried away
A sentiment scrounger enticed me to follow
Leaving me speechless in gloom with the shadows

My lips, they were sewn with threads of forbidden
My heart couldn't handle the sudden constriction 
And...

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Be unbounded by the ways of the world.
Ignorance claims the dogma of men
To qualify as the sheer pith of truth.
My thirst will then be quenched, recompensed
If I drink new seas. Aged by decades through,
Impossible barely built its name, so
I, enough, am bold to say, “I...

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she was only too aware that her own conception had been maculate

it had been not been a virginal birth and yet a blessed gift from God

	
	her mother a whore in the town’s creep joint

	father a loose unknown alcoholic desperado

	a blasphemous union had sprouted its seeds

	outcast...

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Cheering colossal galaxy with Creator’s radiance
Directing mankind toward Providence-guidance…

Eye* of God reveals His light’s empowerment
Freeing the blinded against ignorance-imprisonment…

*2Samuel 22:25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

June 25, 2019
5th place, "Arbitrium Divisa 2" Poetry...

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The Great Mother 
She was a famous mother of the church worked long hours 
to help the poor die- with some dignity- on a straw mat.
 Total her dedication but bitter was her heart she prayed 
to a god that did not deign to give...

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Less than ten hours is this exam, wasting precious time as a day talker
the body must stay awake, the mind should be a night walker
from the whole, such poor readiness needs to be recompensed
sleep afflicts this willing body with great suspense
so expensive is what defines...

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He asked, in Gethsemane, if there's another way
If sin can be recompensed without His blood to pay
But silence answered as He prayed
The world held its tongue, as if to say
"There is no other way."

The narrow road that stretched ahead
Was paved by the ugly sting of...

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The relentless biological clock
Our best endeavors mock
God recompensed our growing old
By grandchildren to hold.
And if not,
We are still hot.
Alive, loving and looking up
In work and hope to fill the cup
Of life and meaning and joy!
A daily routine stops, shocks toy
With our mind, emotion and will.
Change...

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One morning he focused his sight on a range 
where a column of smoke caught his eye. 
The scrub was alight and engulfing the trees 
and the wild winds forced flames t’wards the sky. 
The old man sought shelter away from its wrath 
in the...

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