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Compass Poems - Poems about Compass

The Cartographer and the Sea
He drew maps for a living. Not of roads, but of promises— soft lines where her laughter once lived, tiny arrows where her eyes used to point when she couldn’t say stay. She was the sea— ever folding into herself, a hymn of salt and leaving. No harbor could hold her, no anchor dared ask. He traced her tides in silence, built cartographies of could-have-beens, and marked in...

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Categories: compass, break up, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Reversed Signs
Isn't it ironic? You sat on my right side when we first met And you exited my life making a left turn down my street It was my right hand that comforted you in the beginning And it was my left hand that tore off something that was supposed to be permanent in the end How the directions changed...

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Categories: compass, break up, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member May the forest be with you
May you remember the sail ship white wake behind, seabirds about When the bedrock begins to slip When life's purpose is in doubt May you remember every friend When enemies surround When only on few can you depend And harshness is the only sound. **(Chorus)** May the mountains come in waves That lift you up from under. like desert rain that saves. Like a cavalry's thunder. When...

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Categories: compass, betrayal, confusion, courage, forgiveness,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member APROPOS OF GOD'S COMPASS: A TANKA TRIO
Be as the sun, And doubt not the Son of God; Your guiding compass:- Divine guidance is your gift; Praise God for each day’s dawning:- After sleep, you wake, There’s sunset and sunrise; You’re guided between: Always believe in yourself; Always be in God’s guidance:- Journey faithfully, You are destined for success; God is your compass: When lost, sign in your compass And be guided on your way:- ...

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Categories: compass, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member My Heart Is A Compass
"My heart is a compass lost at sea finding its North in the gaze of thee." This compass points directly at you whether your North East South or West Aligned to your magnetic pole I am being magnetized You are an orientation arrow my Polaris * my North Star Configurator of my soul, I...

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Categories: compass, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Broken Compass
Written on March 3, 2025 By Gail Debole A man, an expert of scam, Possessed “gifts” birthed from his clan. With an IQ higher than most, Lived on funds scammed from his hosts. He possessed a charm most moms would like. He was likeable from the age of tyke. Yet as he grew his life went awry To create victims with financial...

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Categories: compass, betrayal, corruption, money,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Christian moral compass
If you don't want it to be taught how America brutalized the American Indian, and you don't want it to be taught how America brutalized the enslaved black, don't talk to me about your Christian moral compass, because a Christian moral compass is something that you lack. ...

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Categories: compass, christian, dark, discrimination, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member - Haiku X 344 - compass -
Categories: compass, beauty, nature, universe,
Form: Haiku
Love Without Measure
I love you beyond the borders of language, where words stumble, faltering in the shadow of feeling. No map charts the expanse of this tenderness, no compass finds its edge. I love you as the ocean loves the shore, returning endlessly, even when it is sent away. I love you as the sky holds the stars, cradling light in an infinite embrace, never asking why...

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Categories: compass, imagery, love, metaphor, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member journeying without a compass
sunshine above our head moonlight caresses our nights no roadmap no gps just following instinct AP: Honorable Mention 2024 Posted on October 13, 2024...

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Categories: compass, happiness, journey, life, love,
Form: Free verse
VERBAL COMPASS
Sugar-coated tongue sway the sea, Like lilacs and roses allure the spree. Barbs dim one's worth, leaving scars to accrue, Stripping away dignity, leaving only rue. Choose thy verbal artillery with grace, For they hold the power to create or erase....

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Categories: compass, words,
Form: Couplet
Surmise compass points
The cold consummate summer eyes unclued beyond the veil of tears South were pleasant lands East was the golden sunrise the winds strolled gently West were Mike and Suzie dominion smiles on their faces offering no apologies to the wayfarers they needed no clue ...

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Categories: compass, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Compass Tears
Distance is different spurning direction The miles a marriage time has divorced Spaces concurrent flowing together As coming and going fade in — remorse (Dreamsleep: April, 2024) ...

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Categories: compass, time,
Form: Rhyme
Moral Compass
Look at your virtue Send the tears to the goddess Guiding aims be true....

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Categories: compass, character, motivation, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Moral Compass
The bombs of justice overcome the bombs of terror The drones of peace fight back the drones of war Some gnostics claimed this world was the God’s error I rather think about the error 404 The moral compass has not been updated Since 1970s, it wiggles every way According to the graphs the most outdated Drawn from the dust of ancient...

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Categories: compass, extended metaphor, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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