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  January 2023     10 months ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

To Love Is...

To love is, first of all, to give away for free
To love means, like a rapid river run
And like the spring's exciting over-brimming glee
You grant your heart to your beloved one!

To love is to be lying barely awake
And with the early dawn, be...

– by Ben Potapov

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Grant This, O Lord!

God, make the hunched ones straight anew
And newly bless the blind ones with the sight
Please let us be a bit like You
But no one stays a little crucified

Save from the might we may receive
And save us from our fake heroic acts
Let us be...

– by Ben Potapov

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added 1 year ago
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Praise the Lord

For everything, O Lord, I praise
After my troubled day replete with weakness,
You send me evening’s dawning rays
The vastness of the far away and meekness

Although by loneliness indwelt,
I still behold the sunset spread its glitter
The...

– by Ben Potapov

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Lord Inscrutable

Oh Lord, inscrutable and full of might
To my feeble mind prone to fault,
But not because Thine seraphim did light
The giant sphere above the world.

And to the dead man with a fiery face
The laws you’ve given to adhere,
You wake all things...

– by Ben Potapov

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added 1 year ago
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I hope the victory will be yours! This reminds me of classical poetry. It's easy to read and has a good theme and flow.

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