r/poetasters

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The Falcon Knows

The dove does not know

the falcon is beautiful.

It only knows the shadow

passing over the grass.

This seems unfair.

The falcon knows

the dove is beautiful.

Knows the softness of its breast,

the small white miracle of it.

And is hungry anyway.

This is life.

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u/alexandra-thaler — 11 hours ago
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[poem] Spirit Guide

Spirit Guide though I can not see you with my eyes

I know you are the only reason I am still alive

Spirit Guide protecting me when in the lions den

Where I can not hide,wiping the tears away when I

Cry, spirit Guide though I can not see you with my

Eyes,I know you are always by my side...

Spirit Guide hear the prayer I pray today

With every step I take please show me the way

Be near,calm my fears when I am feeling lost

And afraid, forever, forever and always

Spirit Guide hear the prayer I pray today...

Spirit Guide take my hand and lead me back to

The ancient place I come from,help me to understand

My connection better to the great one,is it through

The eyes of the eagle,the bear or the wild cat

Give me the strength I need to leave the past behind

And find peace of mind,no looking back,no more

Looking back...

Spirit Guide hear the prayer I pray today

With every step I take please show me the way

Be near,calm my fears when I'm feeling lost

And afraid,forever,forever and always

Spirit Guide hear the prayer I pray,hear the prayer

I pray today!

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u/BoLanier — 1 day ago
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[poem] on the huam'namification of pouvoir

Person-in-Narrative, drowns in own fore-runnership

Hardened by having, comfort is expensive

Taken by bigness in relative-surpluss,

saying less morely, a hear is harrowed.

Remorse in reflection, whole considered,

leads virtue to a self-recollection,

means untrumpen by inheritance,

the one with itself, undoes man & sin,

reclaiming being, from trappedness within.

 

Delight in self-deprecation,

the cost of collapse, is an exact name.

 

Whole of parts are those displacements,

free by totality against totality, order is total,

yet ordering comes partial & with partalarchy.

 

from Green-savings processed in fluffy white,

mutton is a prepaid forgiveness that pays again,

each time, in squandered will to grow, feeding another,

who eats you and whom you shall never know.

 

Inanity aflame as fire, with new preoccupations,

a spine keeping time endurable, it feeds saturation,

and becomes as loss is. Taken by feast of cheapening sin.

Nature's retort is an opposite reaction almost equal,

losing energy each itteration, a tit for tat, imminantly,

necessary, unplanned (with deeper dignity?); accursed-share minted,

in conservancy.

 

Farces in willing's impotence, calls forth,

sacrifices before eyes, in an open fire of benevolent squander.

Far from self-making, autophagy turns into compression,

as the employ of disturbance in the use of itself in its opposite.

In scarcity, the small matters as care's possibility towards itself.

In having, all is as picture to itself, in satiety's unwant for spoil.

 

Equaniminity sits on top of a wave, waving.

Whose schadenfreude, which self-remmunerative ethic?

Lack of lack, as be-leveled-settlement. Bracketted.

All lost but chaos's removal.  Solid-state but as freedom.

 

If the waves grow tired, so shall I.

Mine as route, of the absolute resource.

Saturation turns a new tide, & forgets.

O)_(O            <huam’nam>

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u/an-otiose-life — 1 day ago
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Remember to lock the latch

I heard someone say once a hole is dug
the rule is to replenish the loam
but if the hole comes from deep within
a filthy squatter can call it home

His golden grin masks his rancid breath
He’s hidden in plain sight
He makes his bed and sings his hymn
a lullaby to sleep through the night

The fear at first is now a fleeting thought
“what was I so afraid of?”
He asked me one evening to sing a duet
He told me I sound of a mourning dove

after many songs sung, the gold started to tarnish
and copper canines were left in their place
a gilded smile quickly turned to a deadly thing
a karmic intervention or open-shut case

We gave up on lullabies and only sing after noon
Sometimes even two maybe three
My voice is tired and my throat is raw
But he still wont sing without me

Madness comes in all sizes and shapes
an infectious beat could strike the match
if there is only one lesson that can be learned in life
it should be ‘empty holes look better with a latch’

Wrote this tn…never posted on here but im curious what unbiased folks think

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u/Tiny_Tension4723 — 4 days ago
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[Poem] In My Cottage

Well and something seems to be missing here in my cottage at the bottom of the Blue ridge mountains and a crystal clear blue stream, when the night falls My lonely heart calls but now I can only see your face in my dreams...

In my cottage of candle lit windows, firelight casting off the silhouette of dark shadows, in my cottage I am up for hours and hours on end reminiscing when, just sitting here drowning in my tears, creating my own false fears in my cottage, in my cottage I haven't left in years...

Well maybe I am just like some old hermit not quite in touch with reality, a broken hearted fool gone crazy, they say we always hurt the ones we love the most but how do you reason with a ghost, oh and when the night falls My lonely heart calls staring at your picture on the wall....

In my cottage of candlelit windows, firelight casting off the silhouette of dark shadows, haunted by the memory of you spending hours and hours on end sad and confused, just sitting here and listening to the knock of a cold winter's wind trying to come in, in my cottage lost in a dream, drowning in my tears creating my own false fears, in my cottage, in my cottage I haven't left in years...

Just an old hermit and a cottage by a river and a valley below just an old hermit and a cottage with candle lit windows.

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u/BoLanier — 5 days ago
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Heartsong

In the beginning, he pondered the tale

A journey through shadows

Where all dreams set sail;

With each twist of fate, he crafted his path,

Turning sorrow to joy and

Escaping the wrath.

Time dance with the sun,

Casting warmth on his heart

As love whispered softly

igniting the spark.

in the blink of an eye

Reality blurred

A canvas of moments, where

All hope was stirred.

With a pen as his wand

He conjured the past

Building castles of sand

Where memories last.

Wisdom etched deep

in the lines of his face;

Just a traveler of the worlds

Seeking his place.

Through shadows, he wandered

From light into dark

Finding God in the shadows

igniting the spark

Each truth that he held,

A reflection of grace

A tapestry woven

Unique in its space.

The masses may chuckle

But he knows the score;

For life is a journey

With lesson lessons galore.

in meadows of thought

Where his spirit takes flight

He waits for her presence

To bask in the light.

So let flowers bloom

And words intertwine

Love is the essence

That makes life divine

Through echoes of laughter

The whispers and sighs.

His solace is knowing

Sweet love will come by.

by Joel

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u/Objective-Form-6121 — 12 days ago
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[poem] Tigers Eye

Lyra in the summer midnight sky,heart on fire

Black Forest tigers eye,behind flames of desire...

I can still hear your voice in the wind on nights like

These but I could use a stronger spell so you will never

Forget about me, come back to me don't believe the

Lies they tell,we have a history and many more lives

Together still to come,the cards tell me Everytime you

Are the one,you are the one and only one...

So where have you gone to dwell these days,I can't find

You in my crystal ball,what happened to us,I don't know

But I could of sworn we had it all,I know we had it all

Til they turned your mind inside out,what the hell is that

About and now the summer is turning into fall...

Maybe you could catch a silent signal when I think

About you, sometimes you just gotta break the rules

Maybe you could find me and my shadow by candlelight

Tonight,I wish I may have this wish I wish tonight ...

We have a history and many more lives together still

TO come and the cards have always said you are the

One,you are the one...

Lyra in the summer night sky,heart on fire,black forest

Tigers Eye through burning flames of desire....

As the sorcerer sends a message on the wind,then it's

Not a question of if,only a matter of when!

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u/BoLanier — 10 days ago