Short Esteems Poems

Some men are rich with a promise,
to others—millions are never enough

Fortune esteems what your vision can dream,
contentment elusive as such

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...

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LOVE:
Accepts, believes, cares, dotes, esteems, feels, gives, hopes, increases, jubilates, keeps, laughs, 
mends, notices, offers, praises, quenches, radiates, satisfies, teaches, uplifts, venerates, watches, 
x-halts, and yields with zeal.

© July 22, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen

Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: ASPECTS OF LOVE 
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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What a beautiful face it seems
Her teeth is perfect and white as she beams
Why don't I have that beauty one screams
And so to the beauty parlour with many dreams
to get makeup treatments and many creams
And another falls to the cosmetic industry schemes
For the beautiful face is a product of Photoshop teams
Its the lasting inward character beauty that redeems
But the passing cosmetic fools gold is what society esteems...

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I am in the village that speak
Of the past of our forebears.
Take the children back to school,
Teach them what tradition had done
To their father and, let them be brave.
Listen to their heart beats always,
Paint their fears with encouragement
And sit with them behind the sun.
I have spoken to the moon to shine
To you always and buttress the children esteems.
I will come soon before june and july,
But let them know that their father cares....

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As sinister repercussion denies salve,
I deal with Thee, in all I have.
Rebounding fate esteems its own faith's path,
while faith, as Godly reason never lathe -
is tried as empty, no one clad
in truth, deny their ministry of glad.

Oh love, that love were covering, were not fad,
a moment's hovering, a thought of had.
Some timeless truth between us, yet not add,
has neither emptied thee, or I - or bad ..
I love Thee so -
       ...respecting thee are sad!...

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Famine
Written: by Tom Wright
3/29/03

The dove of peace flies clear this land laid waste,
where life is sacrificed daily for a misguided belief.
Those responsible voice mellifluous words in haste,
living sumptuously, while commonalty seeks relief.

For the uncaring, God, esteems with arrant disdain,
as children's bulbous bellies, in number, are as sand.
With vociferousness the caring unite in loud refrain,
oft shedding tears that only God would understand.
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