Long Recompensed Poems

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 things love, life and flourish casting all pertinent fate to...

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		ADVENTURE TO THE UNKNOWN

Going to a place – never been
Packed my bags for a vacation – 
Train leaves at 11:35 AM – get there in 8-1/2 hours.
Hope no catastrophe...

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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 God

	
	her mother a whore in the town’s creep joint

	father a...

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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 
and the wild winds forced flames t’wards the sky. 
The...

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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 inventions. One night he borrowed his wife's ironing board and...

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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 to the next victim be mean
 
I pity the poor...

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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 easy, meaningless, course
	Wherein, that I, upon my labor, might get...

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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 each creature dwells
There's a clash between soft cells. Yet, the...

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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 mat.
 Total her dedication but bitter was her heart she...

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He asked, in Gethsemane, if there's another way
If sin can be recompensed without His blood to pay
But silence answered as He prayed
The world held its tongue, as if to say
"There is no other way."

The narrow...

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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 hope to fill the cup
Of life and meaning and joy!
A...

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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 in gloom with the shadows

My lips, they were sewn with...

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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, recompensed
If I drink new seas. Aged by decades through,
Impossible barely...

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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 there
you rule a world not your own.

When the sun 
is...

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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 the whole, such poor readiness needs to be recompensed
sleep afflicts...

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