Best Vantage Poems

How strange it must seem
when each thing becomes clearer
seen from a distance…

Perhaps the eyes have more time
to see every point of view

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** Devotion Poem, VANTAGE POINTS **
(For Jim. #17 in Devotion Poem Series)

“I’m not a romantic,”
   you announced at the very beginning
With a side-flick of your hand
As if you might then stand
To exit…taking along your trail
Of cool colors — the blues and greens —
Too...

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The queue curls;
Serpentine. 
Crimson faces
A woman exhales!
The last breath of her cigarette.
Takes her place:
at the tail end.
Thin silhouette, vital teeth missing!
We remain at the vantage point; watching.
Food bank: a new entry
In our dictionary.
A kindly man hands over green apples, a loaf of bread
And a tin...

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Papa God, From Your Vantage Point

Lord, from Your vantage point, 
You are able to see,
each star and sun You’ve created and yet
the hearts of all men and still able to zero in on Allen and me.

You can be in a crowd yet 
but You still...

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When I look in my mirror
I don't see what you see
I see fear and failure
I see hate and anger
I see inner turmoil and scars of self destruction

What am I missing
I hear your words about what you see
But what you talk about is skin deep
I don't...

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When the sun disappears from our presence
Hidden away by huge orbs of dark clouds
Spirits become forlorn, emotions tensed
Our focus is lost, and we float about.

As if we just lost our best friend, we mourn
The days when the sun made it all sublime
We could see our...

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She is afraid of suspect spaces,
with sparse starlight, ancient arches,
abyss-steps, swinging lanterns &

comforted by a moonlit garden,
an expansive sky of navy blue,
glitter-stars in an elocutionary’s box.

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Serenading you with my sincerity
assembling praises in your name
your one glance falls in place 
a thousand emotions it resurrects.

Dawn is the new dusk
you pretend and wave it off
but the beauty in it 
like an elephant without a tusk.

I wander to find peace 
to render apologies...

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Things we take for granted
Might be treasures in disguise
When reflected from the vantage point
Within a baby's eyes.

From a teapot to a squirrel
Or an airplane, flag or bird,
There's amazement when you offer
Explanation with a word.

You can watch the wheels start turning
As the pieces start to click
And...

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I visited the shadow world,
preoccupied with shadowed thoughts
that smoke across the page, 
and vanish in the light of reason.

That is to say, it is the proper way
to deal with thoughts like these,
the ones with worrisome exteriors,
fuzzing up the mind...to visit, sift them
through the lens of...

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Holding the handle
Touching the toe at arm’s length
I see what you see

By Robb A. Kopp
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Life trickled through an hourglass of hurt

Oozing not soothing a nectar of stagnation

He turned the pivot upside and downward

But the aperture never shifted its focus


Narrow and confined he felt trapped inside

Squeezed from outside and within the pain

A kaleidoscope of constricted reflections

Or a rushing mirage on...

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celestrial stars 
sparkles ever so brightly 
from afar they are 
~
stars ever trinkles
ever moving shining so
from a vantage point

12/25/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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This poem is inspired by Jeff Ripple's painting titled 'Stormy Weather'. You can find the link to the painting at the bottom of the page, and there is also an image of the painting uploaded with the poem. It is recommended you view the artwork...

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I see what I saw as I saw what I seen;
Reality vision horizontally is it real;
Is it in the distance is it in the fields;
The verizon pictorial so discreet I see;
The distance and it's free;
Open vision imagery it's so real;
As I look upon the canvas...

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