Best Recompensed Poems

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...

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      POEM:

		ADVENTURE TO THE UNKNOWN

Going to a place – never been
Packed my bags for a vacation – 
Train leaves at...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Does a rose bush bring forth cacti? Do tulips bloom bluebells?
Do grapes appear on Clematis vines? Figs on Banyan trees?
The instinct of creative blossoming, in...

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