Short Reciprocal Poems

In
a two
way mirror-
a beholder
takes
in
prior
reflections
of the artist's
mind....

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Compassionate,
Affectionate,
Reactive,
Encouraging,
Genteel,
Inspiring,
Vigilant,
Earnest,
Reciprocal,

Care Giver....

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his 
gentle 
strokes evoke
pleasure and zeal
a celebration of mutual love




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Contest: A Poem You Like
HM...

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a workman-like
attititude
can become
a tour-deforce,
to express
to explore
without a 
proviso:
a reciprocal
to compensate..
a
neglected
imagination...

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Why should your poetic voice be violent?
If you can’t sing a sweet song… be silent.
     Respect is reciprocal,
     It’s sweet to be social,
Poets should endeavor to be emollient!...

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See me as I am
Me, being me
A person
Wanting
Needing 
Feeling
Hoping to
Forever love
And be loved by you


Butterfly - my own created style - no rhyme with syllable count of 5,4,3,2,2,2,3,4,5...

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clear crystal gemstones
on borders and veins adorned ---
leaves stand grey-green commingled 

sparrows stay cuddled
on these snow-filled silver leaves 
both draw reciprocal warmth


10 January 2023...

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The limerick's first line is typical,
The second one is quite reciprocal,
Then the third breaks the pattern,
The fourth follows the latter,
The punch of the fifth line is critical! 

February 06, 2020...

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As a silent thief
In the middle of the night 
Reckons sudden love
Wobbling existence meaning
With reciprocal spellbound













Example For When Love Reckons For A Second Time Contest
August 25, 2016...

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Returning compliments
Received, a kind word to
Redeem a thoughtless tongue
Reach out to the shy ones
Remember when you were
Raw and blue, the one who
Relieved your wounded wings~

4/17/21

Pleiades R contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman...

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Im in a bad place
get out of my face
I need my space cause its all you that I hate
yall lean on me but its never reciprocal
I always give but never receive 
Im always deceived though I never deceive
ending this world would be a relief...

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A fascinating journey it's been.
Reciprocal peaks and valleys.
Worry lines,laugh lines also
tell the world my story
that I've come this far.
Darkness and light;
joy and pain
mine to
own.



written October16th 2013
for Dr. Ram Mehta's Nonet contest...

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Listen to poem:

I am the reject, or the neglected,
I am the wanderer or refugee,
I am unwanted, I am the hated,
I am the outcast, the one not to be.

Although, my parents need of me was null,
In time, my feeling was reciprocal.


2020 February 02...

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Death
final Bliss 
spiritual reciprocal physical 
separation dominations 
all decay rotten flesh 
separation spiritually from God 
living carnal being
spiritual souls
humanoids 
ManKind
life

4/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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Trump and A Snow Job

What had happened I do suppose;
From foot to his head he had froze;
Change his ways,
One of these days;
Into things with nose will not nose.

Jim Horn

Missed out on Upside-Down or
reciprocal contest. Trump can't
wait to reciprocate....

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What was the idea of charity, 
when you were hiding
yourself from you ?


Was it a non-existence ?
Or you were writing an
unseen anthology ?

Was that your kin choice
for a reciprocal pain,
inflicted in dark ?

Between right and wrong
I am laying my wreath
on my grave.


Satish Verma...

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A sense of the scared,where the spirit finds liberty.An everchanging  interplay in perfect counterbalance.This reciprocal aesthetic of reflections synthesized in a balanced vision.Shadows and light,intense contrasts,circles, and squares juxtaposed in a filtered dynamic of visual pleasure...

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Loyalty is the crux of a good relationship.
Outstanding foundation built on trust.
You defend your friend if you hear rumors
Allow the other person freedom to be himself.
Love enters into this reciprocal equation.
Trustworthiness is a must in situation.
You would keep their confides confidential....

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a spec of dust in
 the air a drop of moisture
 reciprocal  splash
~
winters renaissance
 drops froze participation
dust in frozen aire
~
snow flakes abundant
drops of iced rain droplets 
winters tears falling

12/17/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023
...

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Utopian only in the eyes of the incipient yet vastly virtuous inverse commanding 
leagues of the damned. Unbound in a secular disposition it rots, the treaty of the 
voracious. A reciprocal nexus lapsing into a grave valor. Inter-dimensional seals torn 
asunder for control. Looping utopia, learning untold evil....

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My words are BLEAK
~As EMPTY emotions
NUMB as a sleeping limb
~They’re VOID of 
Reciprocal LOVE
~Which once Touched 
Tingled and TRANSFORMED  
~Them into LIFE
Now BEFUDDLED…
~Struggling to find 
Worthy adjectives to Inspire
~A forgotten MAZE of Nouns 
BURIED deep within my
~Sublime subconscious

Lay...

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Inbetweeness 
    inwardsness
 in
     facsimile contrasts 

energy
     deployed innovatively

  an equilibrium 
of parallels pursued
     interwoven
 overlaid

 lines with circles 
in reciprocal
        motifs 
counterpoint 

        visualisaed 

slowly

    in 
        mosaical 

harmony....

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Soldier boy
Soldier girl

Don't ask
Don't tell


Indifferent
Tolerance

Died service
For country

No one
Someone

Somewhere
Was scared

Seldom promise
Seldom tranished

Spiritual Guidance
Reciprocal cadance

Reminds me
Combines me

Died for
Us All


3/3/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©...

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I wished you could feel the same feeling, but it was not reciprocal.
Your heart belong to another. I understood. You cannot say to your
heart whom to love. It was heartbreaking, but it was overcame.

I wished you all the best. Although, I don't know if someday I will find 
someone who loves me, I will start by loving myself first....

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Love, Hope, Forgiveness.

Patience, Humility, Empathy.

Resilience, Beauty, Humanity.

Extrapolate, Calculate, Evaluate.

Reciprocal, Communicate, Team.

Adventure, Playfulness, Spontaneity. 

Sharing, Caring, Contributing.

Listening, Whispering, Changing.

Ecology, Well-being, Frailty.

Accepting, Unique, Character....

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