Short Recompense Poems

Wise Eden retold
Come, pay homage to old age
To recompense gold....

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rewards
recompense,
await your best-
within literature's
harvest...

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Don’t we all move on?
To forever where swan song
Lays in excellence
Before us all 
In recompense...

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Down the hedge
a spun web
sets a trap

butterflies
flying blind
become prey

as spiders
patiently
wait rewards...

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While living our lives in daily sequence,
Time slips away without recompense.


8/25/12
For Susan's "Time - single couplet only" contest...

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Tense from Trump Pestilence

The thought of Trump  made us tense;
He kept bugging us with his pestilence;
We must tattle;
Losing battle;
For it never received any recompense.

Jim Horn...

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An old man slumps on a wooden seat --
Pigeons flocking to his feet.

Once he labored.
Once he loved.
Once he dreamt
Of days to come.

Now he ponders on a park bench
Pigeons pecking at his recompense....

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In this life, 
of inevitable recompense, 
of inescapable accountability, 
for collective responsibility, 
indifference to injustice
is not an option;
an epitasis, it is,
in this metaphoric 
epic drama of life...

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There must be no playing with years
For this translates only into ceaseless tears, 
I must rise and get recompense for years wasted,
For heavens gave me all the merit
And I gave myself reasons enough to make sport it!...

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Love is but a game of false dice, sweet lies and oaths 
to tame pretty rebels for astute, overmastering gentlemen
- harsh, dishonest and less in love, who loan affection with interest 
and measure passion like coin recompense....

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I
Clouds of dark smoke billowing away 
The beginning of nature's decay
The marble freezing within the fray 
A brick wall obstructing the pathway   
On dry ground shadows forever lay
Waiting for the sun to shine their way…  

(2017)...

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Hate 
Miracle Man
November 25, 2023

Hate is a horse that only tosses off its rider,
Hate seldom affects the cowboy on the fence.
Hate is evil and makes differences a divider,
Hate is a condition and commands recompense.

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Special Ops!


My heart needs a tourniquet
     For all the holes you burned in it...
          So the bleeding stops!

You'll rue the day for this offense
     And suffer without recompense...
          My job's Special Ops!


deborah burch©
5/01/2012...

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I stole the surges of the ocean and the glory of the wave,
the roiling seas as recompense for what you never gave.

And I thought that I might see you at the dock or by the bay,
and I thought that you might love me, but my words washed you away.

17 June 2016...

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Mysteries
Unspoken 
Silence
Evoking 

Poetry 
Outstretched 
Newly
Delivered
Enlightening
Recompense
Imagining
Novel
Genius 

Verse

Mysteries unspoken silence evoking poetry outstretched newly delivered
Enlightening recompense imagining novel genius...

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If it were you,
    tattered rags would litter landscape
        far reaching
tides would rush with discarded care
    certain of no recompense
horizons would tilt 90° with laughing 
     disdain
life would become undone.
     but . . .
don’t dismiss God’s will....

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I dabbled in darkness
For a glimpse of the light

All that was wrong
I'd mistaken for right

Truth waits in silence
When sought 
It is found
Dwell in its glory
And no suffering abounds

Children of the lie
Hear not the righteous cry
Underground they commence
Will you not pray for their recompense?...

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I guess you can say
That we are dissident's
From the Cross
Cleansed of sin
Fore God has offered us
A new beginning
From
Which we are gaining
Immortality
We have a new Heaven
From which
We are gaining
A new devotion and
There is a new vocation'
From which there will be
No recompense[ or recourse

GF...

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She has left my bedroom lately. Lately?
It was long ago. She has taken my guitar with her.
But history has slipped out of memory.

I am not prepared for a reckoning.
Is it a time for uninterrupted grief.
This no bitter recompense for no fault done.

The Tigers beat the Angles 4 to 1.



***A song for Lulu...

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One
we go
Two three through
this life for all
they seek the Fifth column
they had a Sixth sense to 
recompense the poor the weak impoverished Ones
Petrarch, Dickens, Marx, Harding-Davis, Riis, Mother Teresa,
In form rare to Multitudes, but not these souls,
Thanks to human kindness amidst the insanity-- Ah the Humanity!...

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Dying Alive
             by Odin Roark

Cultivating
Seeding
Nurturing
Weathering
Gathering 

How generous the bounty
Bruised and perfect
Life’s full basket 
Hoisted upon the shoulders of experience
Carried as pain’s reward
Needing not a marketplace
Accepting fruition as recompense
Knowing wealthy are those
Who die healthy of mind...

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Dying Alive
             by Odin Roark

Cultivating
Seeding
Nurturing
Weathering
Gathering 

How generous the bounty
Bruised and perfect
Life’s full basket 
Hoisted upon the shoulders of experience
Carried as pain’s reward
Needing not a marketplace
Accepting fruition as recompense
Knowing wealthy are those
Who die healthy of mind...

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Alas oh time
I see thy hand
Slipping through my soul
Taking and never returning
That which is mine
Memories seen of time pass
Years now lost forever
Hungering to be heard
Demanding a recompense from the scars
And the hatred you spewed upon me
Oh the horror of understanding not
Times' shadows
Oh the pains that be in the heart...

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A mountain of faith
Like a mountain of dust 
A good gust of wind
Will banish all trust
Faith likens hope
Delusion to some
To others the vision of
Great things to come 
Foolish is he who stands
Twixt the two, for he
Risks the wrath when
He faces taboo
Better he sit's on polemical
Fence, than enrage the 
Faint hearted with no
Recompense!...

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so the poem goes
along the nose
a proboscis bridging
along the ridge in
alphabets of aromas
mouthing wordy stomas
with stanza's scents
to write recompense
right between the eyes
seeing to a surprise
fleshing cheeky meter
poetic phrasing sweeter
'til lobed on ear and
lips whispered near in
recognizing expressions
facially i reckon

© Goode Guy 2012-01-25...

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