Short Reclaiming Poems

Priority Devolving
Chasms of Unchanging  
Echoes Reclaiming...

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Any vice is a good device 
for reclaiming a man from vice.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014...

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Attention mired in ego craving
Go in oh hermit, reclaiming bliss enlivening!

28-September-2020...

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attached to transience
shifting tides determine mood ~
piquant dilemma 
let’s get to the source, hermit
reclaiming light eternal...

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Trying to be present,
  I gave up the master plan

Sacrificing what’s past beyond
  —reclaiming who I am

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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Contagion of anxiety,  
a blanketing wind 
Deafening all
with the force of its emptiness
Reclaiming the silence
—in betrayals of fear

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)...

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The winds of disaster
blow solemn and cold,
sweeping away my heart

From out of the North,  
reclaiming my soul
—in torment to depart

(West Campus: November, 2020)...

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Little steps towards solitude 
Inner eye feasts on control
When small belief is penitent, impetuous 
Growing doubt buried

Rise from the shackles of fury
Reclaim the lost goal...

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forlorn beach awaits
high tide of life, reclaiming 
wasted stones, sands

bringing back boats
loaded with catch of happiness
prosperity, festivity, longivity


16.5.2020...

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our aliveness, given to play
seeking expansion, to God prays
reclaiming innate bliss nature
far above form caricature 
divine love and light, our mainstay 

15-July-2021...

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The seed of a park,
Indigenous plants emerge;
Reclaiming beauty.







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Written for the haiku contest in New York,
in the transformation of Freshkills Landfill to Freshkills Park....

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I trace the path of murder, reclaiming
the blood stains
on grass. Becoming a stranger
in my own land.

Stranger ? Yes.
Lead name missing.
Always wanted

less than enough. 

I bare my chest
scrawling a blue butterfly trying to
unwrap the colour. 


Satish Verma...

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Buried in the sand of ill regret,
a rifle washes free
Remembrance of a time when darkness coiled,
a snake of Russian greed
Its chambers empty, sights removed,
it could not, would not, fire
Perdition’s tide reclaiming fast
—its shame into the mire

(Warsaw: March, 2022)...

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Remind me how easy
Regret can steal peace. I
Resolve to right the wrongs,
Return items borrowed,
Restore what was ruined
Reclaiming what was lost.
Reparations saved me.

     Written for Kim Merryman's Poetry Soup
     "R" Pleiades Contest  4/16/21
     WON THIRD PLACE...

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I’ve felt the stir of resolution
to throw off careless greed.

I’ve heard the soothing voice of reason,
long thought to be extinct.

So pound your plowshares into words,
turn your anger into votes.

Let’s march together towards sanity,
reclaiming fragile future’s hope....

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Stars race as
Time in space
Aligning themselves
Inside the solar system
Resuming 
Westward
Alluring
Yellow-orange
Twilight
Older
Than
Heaven's
Exuberant
Symmetry
Terrifically
Arranged
Reclaiming 
Supremacy


Written by Andrew Crisci
for Linda-Marie's contest,
" Stairway To The Stars "...

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Tapping into redemptions dream,
I put my smaller dream aside

And reveled in its greater power,
reclaiming truth from lies

So blessed in this light ablaze,
than by candlelight unknown

In thanks I kindle warm again
recharged—with heart aglow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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Moon Story

The moon is fractured 
by hawthorn trees
cracked in velvet 
Twigs formed 
act as structure before its mirror
Silver and black, 
hopeless and hopeful 
as our forever 
the frozen superior quietness that rises 
silent and slow
reclaiming ancient shadows
washing living ground...

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lost souls wander
in deep discontentment
hypnotised by the environment 
yet reclaiming in an instant
vibrancy of their soul
in staid silence

aliveness here now
immediate and intimate
delights in the beauteous dance 
unaffected by outcomes
being always free

24-April-2023...

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Tapping into redemptions dream,
  I put my smaller dream aside

And reveled in its greater power,
—reclaiming truth from lies

So blessed in this light ablaze,
  than by candlelight unknown

In thanks I kindle warm again,
—recharged, with heart aglow

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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In fevered mornings, the salted sky
has halfway birthed her fiery sun.
All day the houses will guard the sea
with totems of windsocks and briny shells: 
a foamy shoreline where bones of 
dreams and shards of thoughts
are laid to rest, reclaiming the child
you were, spread-eagled, creature 
to God, God to creature....

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The art is fading,
Like the civility it shows.
Hard now to find those
Who understand the shading
One needs to give to common speech,
To convey benedicence
Through common sense,
And with all the forms of courtesy teach
A repartee' that clashes not like jagged, tumbling stones;
Reclaiming dignity over our tea and scones....

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Be it this or that, it does not matter
To our tranquil heart, pulsating with bliss
For we have gone beyond thought form chatter
In time dissolved peace, where nothing’s amiss

We would, if we could, transfer this rapture
But it’s something ego cannot capture
So we invite all to meld with the void
No longer by ego cravings decoyed...

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Your beauty intoxicates me, like some one slipped me love potion.
Trying to build a bond, on a foundation of devotion.
I get lost in your eye's, float on clouds of emotion, your bigger then these words, 
your poetry in motion.
You've got my heart racing, whether near or afar, most settle for the wish, I went 
and caught the shooting star....

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Made in God’s image, we are living light,
deep truth scriptures affirm time and again
but since ego has clouded inner sight,
lustful desires have not been to rest lain,
so we dwell in darkness, crouching in fright,
bound head to foot to a delusion-chain.
Silence shows the way how to cease to sway,
that we may see our true Self, clear as day....

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