Best Atonement Poems

I saw a famous fountain, in my dream,
Where shady path-ways to a valley led;
A weeping willow lay upon that stream,
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The roses of Love glad the garden of life,
Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew,
Till Time crops the leaves with unmerciful knife,
Or prunes them for ever, in Love's last adieu!
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Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning
hours,
ran to the market place, and cried incessantly:
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I'll tell of Canute, King of England,
A native of Denmark was he,
His hobbies was roving and raiding
And paddling his feet in the sea.
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MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering,
On time, space, reality--on such as these, and abreast with them,
prudence.
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Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet's Song,
Record the journey of immortal Milton thro' your realms
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Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn,
Or of the Eternal coeternal beam
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,
And never but in unapproached light
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To Ianthe:

Not in those climes where I have late been straying,
Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deem'd;
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NOW shone the morning star in bright array,
To vanquish night, and usher in the day:
The wind veers southward, and moist clouds arise,
That blot with shades the blue meridian skies.
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'O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our soul's as free
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,
Survey our empire, and behold our home!
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It was a broad moon light robbery.
The theft was notified
and the bandit was identified.
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Lord, Your humble servants hear,
Suppliant now before You,
Our Father, from Your children's plea
Turn not, we implore You!
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Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams of
Oceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the
ships with the armour that the god had given her. She found her son
fallen about the body of Patroclus and weeping bitterly. Many also
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In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began,
The word of the earth in the ears of the world, was it God? was it man?
The word of the earth to the spheres her sisters, the note of her song,
The sound of her speech in the ears of the starry and sisterly throng,
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Invisible gulls with human voices cry in the sea-cloud
'There is room, wild minds,
Up high in the cloud; the web and the feather remember
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Oh, Anne, your offences to me have been grievous:
I thought from my wrath no atonement could save you:
But woman is made to command and deceive us —
I look 'd in your face, and I almost forgave you.
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(ll. 246-260) The Holy Lord, All-wielding God, with mighty hand
had wrought ten angel-orders in whom He trusted well, that they
would do Him service, and work His will. Therefore God gave them
reason, with His own hands shaped them, and established them in
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Over the sea, past Crete, on the Syrian shore to the southward,
Dwells in the well-tilled lowland a dark-haired AEthiop people,
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Seven moons, new moons, had eastward set their horns
Averted from the sun; seven moons, old moons,
Westward their sun-averted horns had set;
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The Landgrave Hermann held a gathering
Of minstrels, minnesingers, troubadours,
At Wartburg in his palace, and the knight,
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To whom the heavy burden clings,
It yet may serve him like a staff;
One day the cross will break in wings,
The sinner laugh a holy laugh.
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Our vows are heard betimes, and heaven takes care
To grant, before we can conclude the prayer;
Preventing angels met it half the way,
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Doubtless, sweet girl! the hissing lead,
Wafting destruction o'er thy charms,
And hurtling o'er thy lovely head,
Has fill'd that breast with fond alarms.
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Thus did the Trojans watch. But Panic, comrade of blood-stained
Rout, had taken fast hold of the Achaeans and their princes were all
of them in despair. As when the two winds that blow from Thrace- the
north and the northwest- spring up of a sudden and rouse the fury of
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Never lose that luminous light
Especially when the veil of night befalls
Always continue the good fight
Even when dreams seemingly forestall
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All is well—in a prison—to-night, and the warders are crying ‘All’s Well!’
I must speak, for the sake of my heart—if it’s but to the walls of my cell.
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... Oceanward I am ever yearning,
Where far it rolls in its calm and grandeur,
The weight of mountain-like fogbanks bearing,
Forever wandering and returning.
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Overcome with remorse and guilt,
O, Conscience… stress has built...

I can’t sleep and just ruminate,
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A cape where two seas merge in one ocean,
substantiate feelings of oneness
an amalgamation of soul and heart
one union of love and passion
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Here is the height of land:
The watershed on either hand
Goes down to Hudson Bay
Or Lake Superior;
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Hollow, dark, and dreary night
on a light post out in the street
a spider war wages,
within the wicked web she spins
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Still half drunk, after a night at cards,
with the grey dawn taking us unaware
among our guilty kings and queens, we drove
far North in the morning, winners, losers,
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The atonement of Christ.

Rom. 3:25.
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THE poor earth was so winter-marred,
Harried by storm so long,
It seemed no spring could mend her,
No tardy sunshine render
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Down a dim corridor of infinite length
I wander, following a voice that whispers
The atonement of faith.
Past doors half-closed like hidden guilts
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Just to miss it by a hair's breadth! Nay, not miss it! To have held it
In my hand, and ofttimes through my fingers run the swarthy ore!
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I'm not remembering her;
chancing to meet.
we greet
synchronizing expressions
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When Caesar, following those who bore the head,
First trod the shore accursed, with Egypt's fates
His fortunes battled, whether Rome should pass
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Grace for the godless
Mercy for the messed up
Atonement for the alienated
Redemption for the reckless
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Processionals in the exemplary cave,
Benediction of shadows. Pomfret. London.
The voice fragrant with mannered humility,
With an equable contempt for this world,
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What a “schmucky putz” this Bernard is.

He “jewed” so many investors and banker across to globe for all their money to be his.
Adolph Hitler blamed the Jewish bankers for the fall of Deutsche Mark after WW One,
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But in the distant regions of the earth
Fierce Caesar warring, though in fight he dealt
No baneful slaughter, hastened on the doom
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Come the Dark again
I will be steel this time,

my Heart
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(**In continuation to Medieval Philosophy after St Augustine
Part -III, on page 3)

PRELUDE TO SCHOLASTICISM
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Ah! Today’s misty morning plays sad notes
On life’s lyre, the dove’s distant coo
The wail of the kite, the nightingale’s twit-too
In the lurid sky float
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Now through Alcides' pass and Tempe's groves
Pompeius, aiming for Haemonian glens
And forests lone, urged on his wearied steed
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Are you coming, Ivan, coming?—Ah, the ways are long and slow,
In the vast land that we know not—and we never sought to know.
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They were men of many nations, they were men of many stations,
They were men in many places, and of high and low degree;
Men of many types and faces, but, alike in all the races,
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I sit by the fire musing,
With sad and downcast eye,
And my laden breast gives utt’rance
To many a weary sigh;
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We have all had that Romeo moment
When something we said to our love went wrong
And then eat humble pie in atonement
And to go off and rewrite loves sweet song.
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Atonement

Tears in rain
The cloud-let repenting
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Oh! yes, I will own we were dear to each other;
The friendships of childhood, though fleeting are true;
The love which you felt was the love of a brother,
Nor less the affection I cherish'd for you.
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How gladly, Madam, would I go,
To see your Gardens, and Chateau;
From thence the fine Improvements view,
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Welcome, good friend; as you have served your term,
And found the joy of crime to be a fiction,
I hope you'll hold your present faith, stand firm
And not again be open to conviction.
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sin fast!
it's late
and the holy water
is past
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For my dear Sister-in-Law
(I do hope you read Poem Hunter too) ,

A Very Happy BirthDAY for you and your dear family
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Any given weekend
Late night eggshell ballet
Time bomb ticking
Think before you say
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Scars from decades of struggles,
Countless old wounds remain,
Atonement perhaps for my sins,
Reminders of old battles won and lost,
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E-vade
V-icious
E-vil
R-eaching
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All my life, it felt like I was in a atonement for enternity.
Trap in this mental prison called the system.
As I am the prey, while they is the predator.
Running for dear life, to escape this mental carnage.
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I wanna be that one guy…
That one dude that’s sweeter than apple pie
Memorable dude that friends won’t forget
Favorable guy that girls won’t regret
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This was made plain the anger of the gods;
The universe gave signs Nature reversed
In monstrous tumult fraught with prodigies
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PASSION brings reason--who can pacify

An anguish'd heart whose loss hath been so great?
Where are the hours that fled so swiftly by?
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I saw Leonard Cohen on TV
slightly stooped, shining white hair
dinner jacket, black bow tie
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By God's Poet Tom Zart! = Most Published Poet On The Web!


FIGHT YOUR BATTLES ON YOUR KNEES
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Holy river and holier places
Centers of pilgrimages
Of devout devotees through the ages
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Sage Vishwamitra
deeper in penance
years has passed
never opened his eyes
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On the top of old Mount Baker
stood a bald and bearded Quaker.
Prayed to God and stated loudly
and with arrogance quite proudly
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‘Atonement’ – for me, it has a solemn,
lifetime, deathtime, this-is-final
ring to it – spoken in the severest tones
in some headmaster’s study in the skies…
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Joining back tribe
was not atonement
for separation.
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There's a man in the moon
pouring down dreams
upon still waters,
and a snake lurking
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Bathed in final sweat of his blood
A sickle above ready to wreath
To the breath-taking holy din
He bleats with gory eyes
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The Day of Atonement is here
Autumnal equinox ad diez
The Feast of Sukkot being near
Trouble with those of the Suez
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Mystique is the word that enveloped him ,
His looks hastened me to atonement .
With his aura of aloofness chilling me to new depths —
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I sit here and read the signatures
on an elevated plaster cast
that supports a splintered tibia,
remembering the ill advised
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If we walk with good atonement
for everything we do,
we need on apologise
for anything we have done.
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The bells of waiting Advent ring,
The Tortoise stove is lit again
And lamp-oil light across the night
Has caught the streaks of winter rain
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Cold chill fills the air
And seeps into your life
To remind you again
That you’re somebody’s wife
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In my time of dying
I knew only pain

In my time of laughter
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Brick bashing in one’s
frugal atonement of sin, is
a lark taste of sugar, a sweet face
chastise a warm embrace.
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Pentecost, day of rejoicing, had come. The church of the village
Gleaming stood in the morning's sheen. On the spire of the bell
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On the tenth day of the seventh month
Christ was born to Atone for sin
As a new born babe His Tabernacle was a stable
To fulfill the Feast of His Father's People
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Shhhhh.....stay quiet
There is big medicine in being reverent
Around Medicine Wheel
One must esteem this place, son of my son
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When time bound life race through strife’s;
When comrades tune to blow their horns;
And money in tons is the element that talks;
Laughter turns to snuffle And Smiles to sneers;
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Once there was a good family
in a very bad city

they sought comfort
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C-omplete
H-appiness
R-emains
I-n
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Some are keen to adorn themselves in the
Latest fashions; for weekend revelries.
Some seek atonement in worldly fame.
Others cling to obscure mysteries.
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we dreamed of god,
and created war!
pointing,
with dismembered fingers...
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Arrogance...the varicose egos;
time and space is nothing more
than synchronized Death;
so, I wonder...wonder, wonder I do -
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Time is so confining -
Einstein had the right intent
In third dimension we exist
In fourth, time can be bent;
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Ho, songs! My own good songs and trusty!
Up, up! and don your arms!
Let blow the merry bugles,
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Lent is meant
to be the gracious time, lent
By God to man, to repent
For wrongs and sins and relent
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Folks greeting those they meet.
Children playing in the street.
People working hand in hand
For the better of the land.
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There's murder in the air.
The night going black with gathering crows
drips red
deep into a bloody sunset-
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Pukllay battles
were not fought
in hostility
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Sin always separates the sinner
from the protective love of God.

Repent and go to God.
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When neglect has
.......................... riven trust,
.................................... despair wins.
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It came upon me gradually,
a long delayed reaction to
what seemed like minor slips that night -
in winter many years ago.
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The Lord has work for all to do, prepared good works for me and you.
A work that is intended to Glorify, the One who on the cross had died.
Jesus’ work accomplished for all, man’s redemption from Adam’s fall.
Christ’s finished work for all of us, a work in which we place our trust.
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Be a precious stone of value and an admiration
Provide charity and generosity and show the beauty of gratitude
Educate yourself as you train brave and courageous men
Be wise and jolly and not a fool and a folly; just be a simple friend
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