Short Recourse Poems

If at worst I seem
Pray not for hell 
Or the heavy beam
Say alls swell
Fight the force
And quell the calm
Without recourse...

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Life is a temporary 
Course of circumstance
From which their is
        No since
   Or recourse
       -Or-
 Reclamation

          GF...

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time, that unrepentant thief
steals the roses from my cheeks
leaving wrinkles in their place
my only recourse is
to turn mirrors to the wall....

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As I blunder
Misdirect my course
Falling away
From recourse
I sit and sigh
The time is nigh
To get up and 
Stand fast
Get a career
So my family can last...

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“Would that my Ruby prevail upon my carnal intent with honest recourse and passion bring; oh that the warm fervour doth consume we both in loves lost embrace so we may sing”...

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All shut 
When we find doors 
And there’s no new recourse, 
We try cracks of light to look out
And go. 
___________________________________ 
Cinquain | 27.11.2008, revised April 2023|...

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Creation
slips off firm gyration,
Stark convulsions, wildly fluctuate.

Where fanatic zealots refuse to deviate
when the blare of trumpets finally obviate
any need for recourse for the dead?

Watch the moon, rusting red.
Feel the dread....

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If something isn’t true,
is it necessarily false

By the polarized abstraction,
are we blinded to recourse

In the either or equation
and the depths of zero sum

Is all meaning trapped forever
—inside this web we’ve spun

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...

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Justification is the only recourse 
When truth starts sounding bitter 
They will convince you 
They will argue with you 
They will beat you 
They will kill you 
They will idolize you 
Like a stagnant pool stand you 
They breed out of you 
You become the Justification 

Suresh M Iyer...

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If we lived in a state
With no societal contract
Formal laws, constrained movement
or expression

Would that bring out
a hidden harmony?
or would humanity
debase and debauch
having no recourse
to reward and punishment?

Would we still exist, love, and share joy?
With no social control or design?...

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Beauty is in the 
Eye of the beholder, they say.
Another being might not 
Undo my reluctance.
The hours pass by with no recourse,
Yet you stay, and 

I’m relieved.
Seeing your truth before me,

My pleasure is yours to command.
In curves and sweeps, you take me
Near to Heaven - 
Enamored, I am....

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Suborned to serve without recourse
Bonded to fight in dissonant force
Branded as national material resource
Sanctioned to bridge political discourse.

Constrained to go on amorphous mission
Commanded to kill with cunning precision
Ordered to sacrifice without condition
Feted to die in lowly contrition....

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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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" Often in the recourse of time
is an eternal Eden wherein the abiding are in the liking of a burning star, drifting afar beyond the restraints of trying burdens, that are no more to be lived as a dissolving mist thats met  it's end, gone but always in the  quering mind of the living."


Alfredo Gonzales ©...

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You ask for too much, tho
your categories make me so
frantic.

Teachers are like that, right?
('cept for the few, of course,)
who know how to deal with recourse

that has something to do with antic.

Could go on and on
but wouldn't want anyone to
panic.

as I whistle
and so on
And so on
And So On

.......

and the beat goes on...

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For hygiene no hope,
No recourse to soap,
Cleanliness for rope
Germs no longer grope;
Easy patrols: lope

To those who hate soap
Do you ever cope?
All Catholics Nope!”
For I could tell Pope.

Soap is Next father
Of laundry’s lather
Dwarfed only by surf
But to Dirt still rough

Use it no odour
You’ll smell the other....

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A mist is coming off the dishwasher sea,
Noon daylight is wearing thin,
A dormouse rustles last year’s leaves
The village sward shines verdant green
So much is done, so much will come,
So much is still to do!
So, we’ll make a friend of the soft grey dawns
And by light work the long evening through.


© Joe Maverick 08-10-2010...

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Banished by nature.
 Condemned to a watery
 grave of recycled

 tears. Struck down in the
 wake of newborn innocence.
 A fallen angel

 surrendered in an
 untimely demise, seizing
 tangible feeling.

 A photographic,
 stagnant beauty entrenched in
 a cleansing casket.

 Existing among
 the wrath of nature’s recourse.
 Embodied silence....

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My love has never been closer.
Unfold your eyes to the hushed glow
That strips your armor.
Oh, our emotional multitudes!
Our quaking desires!
Where does a whisper come from?
Does your head not twitch as the crow's does?
We’re all holy in our being,
Sacred in our existence.
Our blood rushing through 
Livid presence.
All being One.
All being Love.
No other recourse....

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Flush with falling leaves of rust,
I stand balanced among the dampness of night;
Glittering skies alighting my path.

A chilled repetitive moan of wind
catches the serried strands of my hair,
while frost lightly tickles my frozen face.

The celestial crescent adorning October
surrounds me in a quilted patch of darkness as
the harshness of Winter confrontation draws near....

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Short Verse On Stupidity
By: Tom
3/17/2020

“Stupidity won’t kill you but it can make you sweat,”
stupid things in our past are unchangeable of course.
Looking hinder at our lives oft bring thoughts of regret,
over rueful matters hiding there we've no recourse.



“I am patient with stupidity,
but not with those who are proud of it.” 
Edith Sitwell
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Plans for life at prolonged range
Where everything is glebe strange. 

No more strain prompt from the past
I have concealed it fully at long last. 

Memories of mine for what I've been
I sanctified that filthy slate clean. 

Expeditiously, I will be among the few
I look forward to my hereafter new. 

Soon all flashback will get depart
I will have recourse to A NEW START....

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Far now from harm and my own evils
I look to the blowing bamboo for absolution
Banging knocking striking each other
here and there without recourse or resolution
infinite battles with wind and rain
and peace
in times of suns warmth friends again
quiet neighbors
a moments respite before the ignorance of man
ignites a fire 
which reduces us all to ash
and I walk once again from hope to horror...

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While wishing for that convenient chair
do not arrange answers with presumed prayer.
Wise words in recourse reckoning -
patience preferred and bless-ed beckoning. 
Listen, look up until grace
rewards reason with your Father’s face.
Find rest and relief in His embrace.

December 6, 2021

I chose picture #5

Contest:  Alliterisen -2
Host:  Joseph May
I used Poetry Soup's Syllable Counter and Rhyme Zone...

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I recanted ever knowing Love's quotient,

Over me had Cupid never distilled Love's potion,

My staid lips never bantered Love's discourse,

While stoic mindset made terms of endearment no recourse.

My posture belied that of a court jester,

And sensory images could not my emotions' sequester.

Desire, passion's impulse, became a muted feeling;

And Hope, residing in Despair's harbor, offered little healing....

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