Compound Poems | Examples

Compound Sight

Compound Sight

A compound eye
creates a perfect view
Multi lens ties
each individual hue
for dome like sight
Sensitively sought
Insight's simple mission
sensitively caught
Pooled together vision
Brings fluid movement
in full flight. 

Aqua Marine: April 2015




      Seen Simply

A simple eye
Is a focused eye
Remove distraction
with centered vision
Purpose not blurry
Straight path seen clearly 
becomes easy to teach
Pure goals are in reach


Aqua Marine: April, 2015

Insight: Matthew 6:22,23.

Compound Interest

Sitting here, blanketed, the night is so dark
I look through my window and up at the stars
But something is missing, my heart sends a cue
That something is someone, that someone is you
All that you are I'm just waiting to know
But what I know so far I hold in escrow
With compounding interest I've yet to realize
The fact that you're priceless I do recognize

Compound

1.It is an odorless,colorless.
2.It is a clear liquid.
3.It can cause lavage.
4.CNS Depression.
5.Hypothermia.
6.Lack of appetite.
Note.chemical drink drugs game..

School Days

School day memories,
Were Maths and literacy,
Did compound interest, you see,
Before decimal currency,
Had no calculators, 
Used our brains, good for later!

What Day Is It

I sit dazed, distracted, withdrawn,
wondering is it dusk or dawn? 
whence daybreak?  

Shelter in place is perplexing;
changes in routines quite vexing
all daylong 

I dozed awhile this afternoon.
pondering quarantine past June?
bad daydreams

Arising from my computer,
Coronavirus, my tutor,
worse daymare.

“Wash hands, wear masks, find a clean glove”.
This pandemic scares ME out of
the daylights.

May 1, 2020

form:  compound verse
8, 8, 3 - a, a, x - third line of each tercet has a compound word with the same base word.  Credit for creation to: Margaret R. Smith.

Liquid Chemical Compound In My Face

I rolled my finger around in my cheeks 
it was some kind of liquid 
deliver there by a unseen evil dirty needle  
I should have freaked the hell out  
but I was in mind bending shock
definitely destroyed 
saying to myself 
don't be destroyed, don't be destroyed
DON'T BE DESTROYED 
do your crying on the inside
be in devastation quite quietly  
don't let them hear you cry
well that may be to late  
the cheek puddle get smaller and smaller  
each day, but I can still see the needle marks 
and the left side of my face is swollen like 
like i have a sugary premature cavity

when did this take place i can not say 
where did this happen i so do not, not know  
only want it to stop, and if not 
then just to warn the young...

Under the Stars - the Compound Word Verse

Under the Stars

The cobalt sky has many eyes;
they're brightest just before sunrise
as starlight.

Sprinkled amidst the indigo
we stop to let the sandman sow
his stardust.

Glittering `cross the peaceful night
we view a shooting star take flight;
we're starstruck.

The sky becomes a starlit show
as sea reflects its silver glow,
so starbright.

In awe we kiss and say goodnight.
I watch as you walk from my sight,
soft . . . starlit.

3-14-19


This lovely form was invented by my talented friend Margaret R. Smith
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/compound.html

Musical Fingers - Compound Word Verse

Both hands simultaneously
Depressing white key and black key
Fingertips
Arpeggios plucked string by string
Or six strings together strumming
Fingernails
"Pulling-off" or "hammering-on"
Up the neck for chord inversions
Fingerboards

Letter In the Compound Future

One day you won't hear me singing  at the very 
hour, place and perfect time where  the world turns
dead nature.

Make some holes to the bucket full of
feelings I gave you while I was stealing the 
lymph of life.

My silence kicks the pulsing waiting 
spirit but gray is a no land color born
by an incest 

You had me but couldn't see , you saw me and couldn't have
sad as the  fate of pain that roams through the
human memory.

It will be cold, my Life, more sour 
the pain of the leaving silhouette 
until...

A kitten snores on the soft couch telling
the cats' history because you'll still breathe
anyway...

I'd find a happy ending for you, if only
I didn't know you had it through your fingers
already...

The Compound (Hotel California 2002)

A bad taste washes around my mouth,
I screw up my face to spit it all out.
Over Nevada desert and endless sands,
This nightmare place such lonesome land.
Dark night skies over high wind seas,
Sat on the shore, it washes over me.
Blue washed to black as black became deep,
To unknown depths these weak limbs sink.
Darkness, darkness pushing me around,
I stand to fight, but always fall down.
Darkness, darkness covering this compound,
I've searched for light but it's unfound.

The Touch (Relative Compound)

Love that’s so warm and touching
Essence of her touch
Filled my heart from being touched


© Joseph 9/25/07
© All Rights Reserved


Relative compound: 3 lines of one word, with relative example(s)
The subject word must be at the end of each line
Syllable count is 7-5-7
Created by Alvin Othto Stewart

Savior (Relative Compound)

He is a loving savior
His love is saving
The pure love of Jesus saves


© Joseph, 8/1/07
© All Rights Reserved


Relative compound: 3 lines of one word, with relative example(s)
The subject word must be at the end of each line
Syllable count is 7-5-7
Created by Alvin Othto Stewart

Hate {relative Compound}

Emptiness is hatefulness
I once was hateful
Learn to let go of your hate

Peace {relative Compound}

Always strive to be peaceful
Everything holds peace
Inside I found peacefulness

My Jenny ( Relative Compound }

Jenny is exceptional
                                                     Christ  as exception
                                                      Doctor  exceptionalness






My First Attempt     (Be Gentle}
Thanks once more
 Sir Joseph Spence

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