Best Requital Poems

Alone upon a foggy night, 
With waxing moon a ghostly light, 
Resounded wings.
My mind contrived a murders flight, 
While lack of cawing did rewrite, 
Infernal...

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Tonight finds me moved to give cause your bottomless emnity

If I am unclean, why do you then tarnish these hills with my blood?

Look well upon...

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When nights are cold and there is naught but pain
and hate and fear are kings that reign supreme,
the cruellest wind shall bring a bitter rain,
can...

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I am faceless

Tattered by actuality

Heart thrumming in my ears

Blind to prospects

Voiceless ... soundless


Yet I scream, mute

Face to the sky, I wail like a fiend

Hailing the...

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The Folly of Man

Into that great abyss we speak fortunes, wants and frustrations
Seeking that witch can only give us solace to that that never bothers.
A...

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MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE - the foggy night
As dark a night that's hidden Paris streets
from prying eyes, fell on the city cold,
there came I to the setting...

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I. Warning Note

Your heart, I have seen
Your sorrowful heart

He would outwit them
As always, He’d done
Master has power, inestimable
He can’t be o’erpowered
So, good trade this’ll be
These...

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In the august acclamations of weaponry
befits this uniform adorned 
and in prideful boast our livery
of arsenal upon the enemy scorned

From this distant seat shall reap...

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MONSIEUR L'VAMPYRE - the foggy night
As dark a night that's hidden Paris streets
from prying eyes, fell on the city cold,
there came I to the setting...

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A loud knock came at the door
And perhaps if I had answered,
It would have sounded no more.
But foolishly I let it ring
And left the stranger...

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Love is unconditional,  but promises are not
When love is not requited such are promises, forgot

Vows deferred as if uncertain sounds of rhetoric
Seems times and...

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If I could find the source of your words
I would trace the lips of their creation
With the sweetness of a cool, delicious melon
On a hot...

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I craft poems by evening time since I can't slumber.
I'm dreary of the one with a springtime splendor.
I'm lacking in rest, shrewdness, and moral dignity.
I've...

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spectrums widen
     perspective seeks to see
our Lord at work

visions of violence  plundering&strife
then
     as now
  ...

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PROVERBIAL EVIL ONE HAS NO LIGHT PM2

"nefarious pernicious, one fate ensues requital punishments"



10/24/19

Proverbial Monoku 2 Poetry Contest
Monoku poetry form only.
Sponsored by: Carol Connell 

Proverbs 24:20...

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