I sit and look at photographs of relations that used to be,
Some I remember from childhood, some related more distantly,
Their faces often smiling, or serious and stern,
Some looking very peaceful and gentle in their turn.
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What is over the hill,
I've always wondered and I wonder still.
Are there fields of meadows sweet,
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I caught a glimpse of you today
Walking down my street
Skateboard under your arm
Long blond hair flopping over your eyes
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I am unique, an irreplaceable human being.
The first me and the last.
I am God's creature, no one will ever replace me.
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The most popular and and the most old dance
Ancient Kalinga Kingdom has gifted to the world,
This is the Danda Nata, the dance festival of people,
In this season of Danda Nata monsoon of music flows
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(dedicated to L'arc en ciel, a great rock band from Japan)
ashita e mirai e
hito kakera no ai wo
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Eerie howling, wolfhound calling.
Amber eyes alight.
Spirit of the deepest forest.
Stealthy pads the night.
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Being a parent there is responsibility,
Single or double parenthood, it matters,
Nature has kept beauty and scenic love,
We feel in tender watching towards birds,
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When I was very young,
Poetry
was written by
AA Milne.
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From behind, I saw him steal food and drink.
His face was light brown; mine's more pink.
He crossed store's lot to a nearby yard.
‘I thought to myself: "Is his life so hard …
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I changed my hair I changed my style
I changed my look I changed my smile
I changed my hat to suit the fad
I changed the clothing that I had
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Masks prose without links
When last I visited India almost a decade ago
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You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealins' done.
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I want to bake something,
A scrumptious one, because I feel so upset;
Something sweet may do,
To ease the burden stuck in my head.
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How did we get here...from there?
How does life start out so wonderfully
but yet go so incredibly badly?
How do you take a child,
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I changed my hair I changed my style
I changed my look I changed my smile
I changed my hat to suit the fad
I changed the clothing that I had
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Bernadette, I am with you in spirit
Among the Catholic Bourgeoise of a small town
I was the mad poet of my generation
Being told that being poet wasn't an ideal job
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Their apartment was ballroom-huge,
just off Park Avenue; they were
generous with their invitations;
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The Social Classes
I tried to measure my individual status
Against this worlds benchmark
Pondering on common open remarks
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In her local park, winter looks quite stark
With nude trees, their knarled branches
Reaching out like the sign of nature's mark,
Swans glide like graceful ballerinas on
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(dedicated to my all poet friends from Singapore at poemhunter)
Majulah Singapura!
Onward, Singapore!
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Once on a time, there lived a kind
and pretty girl, completely blind
outside the town of Maladise,
inside a shack of tiny size.
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He wanders around passing by strangers
On streets, buses and trains,
As the cold December rain
Pours without mercy for his constant pain.
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Charity starts at home don't we say?
Be kind to kith and kin come what may.
A family's not only your safe haven
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Look at the moon in the midst of
Vastly magnificent sky bed;
Hear the young winds among bamboo;
Feel the air – heavy with fragrance.
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Change in lifestyle
Monday,15th Nove 2021
It is a natural cycle
that is applicable
...
In-Person
Putting your hope in God is a personal decision
and sometimes a personal struggle
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365 days in a year
for you to find friends,
truthful and trustable ones.
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"Save one life and you save the world"
Dark tide of evil swept over Europe
Eclipsing light and truth
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As I sat on my hospital bed, many things went around in my head. They had told me that I had suffered several mini strokes. They were not real strokes, but just enough to make me alter some things in my lifestyle. I couldn’t drive my car for at least a month or more. That wasn’t going to be a great loss. I was going to be off work for a couple of weeks or more. That would give me time to relax.
My diet was going to have to change, which was any thing that big. I had to eat less fatty foods and more vegetables. I could on occasions treat myself, but treating myself didn’t mean everyday. When it came to cream and sweet cakes, they did not really bother me.
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Five months after being mauled by
his illusionist, Bernard J. Ebber reported
the scheme he’d devised. “I can gaze
out my window and see 10
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RETIREMENT: An acquired belief that failure is impossible.
Investments made early-on, makes dividends more profitable.
Beneath it all, the pride of your labors will show.
Like a harvest moon or a brightly colored rainbow.
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CORONA has no prejudice
Against any of its unsuspecting hosts,
High and low, rich and poor,
Powerful and powerless,
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Wish Never Ends - 4
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I wish you, dear friends
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Shadows of clattering glass fallen deep below the surface,
schrieks of yesterday's magnets longing for redemption,
caves of internal shards of regret, I can't handle the curses,
the black crow cries out that it was never his intention.
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Dying is such a huge responsibility
I'm not sure I'll even attend.
Will there be sad tears
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On 17 June 2022 Mikhail Muzintsev,
head of the National Defence Control
Centre of the Russian Federation said:
'since the invasion 307423 children
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Auschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
...
Last night's dream was awfully unusual,
Something I rarely have experienced.
Death and destruction not of Nature's
But the casualties caused by humans.
...
(dedicated to Ms. Anna Netrebko, a great soprano)
She wanted to live
Like a colorful butterfly
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I'm thrilled with the small things in life
and I don't need a lot of notoriety,
any thing that I do
I do it smooth and quietly,
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This entire existence is violent,
Yet the media will remain silent.
Darkness overwhelms the vastness of light.
Cannot anyone cease these pointless fights?
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Love may take place
Friday,120th Aug 2021
Love is what we expect and want!
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You can spend a week or a month
Writing and rewriting, editing
Working through lines with a fine pen
Work and rework the ink over and over
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I am a scribbler a far relative to Apes,
And sorry for this unsolicited letter.
I'll be free at weekends most probably
And voluntarily willing to stay in one of your vacant cages
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RARe 2nd Stanza - My Culture
January 22, 2021
...
Take this as an example.
Mary paid a double fare
Upon the local bus, I fear.
The reason for this overcharge
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Michael Jackson real estate is in default,
Neverland is a real estate, not in a Peter Pan Story,
Michael Jackson’s peculiar lifestyle has contributed,
To amusement park, with an attached house, quandaries.
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Prodigy in birth
Peers so many
Perseverance her strength
Pitfalls several she invaded
...
My name is James McLain I was molested by Dr. Wilson Crump Rippy at Tampa General Hospital,
And reaching out to the other survivors, this is what I received from other children now grown
Asking!
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Indented surface of deeper edge,
This is suddenly snatched here,
Notch is never seen but felt,
Many tried to pass through this.
...
privacy gone
your hearts now black
no respect
its a soul you lack
...
“They love God he showed them their sight in a mirror
They saw a great person finally changed
They seemed content finally knowing their name
Finally found so they couldn’t see themselves more clearer”
...
Before he committed suicide
Magan Bhai met me one night
my parents were out at a movie.
...
-Author's note-
Sadly enough this just might be how some people feel.
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Oh father, my father
Am humbled by your ways
As you sustain innate integrity
Of having a low profile lifestyle
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A dainty crow writes a long letter
to a white duck.
My dear, I am really fed up with my lifestyle.
Everyday I have to fly here & there for my daily bread.
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It’s the flash of bright sunlight
reflected off a passing car
that stops me in my tracks –
picking out the teatime plate which
...
I.
I told him something has to give way sooner or later in your life.
It may be you,
your company,
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The candle extinguished but I see,
still not dark, many candles were lit,
a living candle, a source of light,
let the candles lit, we need it.
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Life is beautiful and life is precious,
Life is nice gift by God on Earth,
He has given us much freedom,
Only we need to lead for right duty.
...
When one does teasing to another,
Throwing contemptuous language,
Through bad behaviour directed,
Then it is of course mockery,
...
Resources in this world are many
These are extracted and reformed
Whatever we see today are amazing
Many inventions we have for comfort.
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What is poetry?
Sometime I ponder…
Is it a quest?
Or a reason?
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November 12,1992
Oh, what a glorious day this is;
My first child in ten years was
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Symmetry and balance they say
Are the measures of everyday living,
And there is a very high price you pay
For being a free soul that doesn't care giving.
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Some eat to live
Some live to eat
Some eat corn
Some eat meat
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Life is simple
just like the wind
though can't be seen
yet animate as spirit
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The body has grown leaving the mind behind.
Our lifestyle has grown leaving life's true meaning behind.
Science has rapidly grown leaving our philosophical growth behind.
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They sleep peacefully
Who did nothing wrong.
They run from pillar to post
Who evaded the tax on income.
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They say pigeon is a symbol of peace
Then why a country with so many pigeons
Is unrest and fighting wars?
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Was it the hand of an elderly silver
Haired God with a long flowing beard
That flung the stars in the night sky
And who created Man in His own image
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Kangaroo from bangluru
No longer willing to be in zoo
Eloped quietly in the blanket of darkness
Seeking the name of holy angel of whiteness.
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You were around other people today
I wasn't
Usually by incidental lifestyle
Now by intent
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Mind is poised for embroilment
in the tireless journey
chasing for desires
short term and long term
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The way she contrived her life was not the way life was going. Like every independent girl she too wanted to feed her every need, she too wanted to finance herself. Dreamt of being an architectural but life dragged her to the parents orthodox and conventional way of lifestyle. Her parents never allowed much to attend any pub, coffeehouses, parties or get together's with pals. These gigs were considered to be in the name of those who were uplifted in the bed of gold. Such words were not accepted by the respected and sober reputed family but she wasn't a credence of typical values, though she knows to stands in the society, to face the horde. She never bothered even to ask her parents if they would allow her to attend the shindig of her best crony because she knew the straight answer by her mother, 'NO'. Maybe that was her dread. She was scared from her family rituals. She endured but never questioned or argued. And this was the reason perchance that she abhor to make best comrades. She feared to be loved. She feared from getting attached because even if she wanted to get close she would fail to do so due to the bogey. Terrified from the society. Terrified from the family believes. Terrified from the questions of her mother, question of why she is into love.?
She was nursed with utmost horror. She cannot speak her heart out. She is living in timidity. She cannot burst her emotions. She cannot spit the rage out because she would get a cuff on the phiz or in return she would be taught to control her antagonism.
She played hard with the utensils to thrust her soft hands. She hurt herself daily by this or that. The rain made her leaves arid.
She was in way to explore her life, to give a high flight to her dreams. But the journey lead her to the graveyard.
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there is no love
if there is mental torture
this is not conjugal life
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The Words of Salaam
March 23, 2023
Salaam means peace
...
Blood flows through my veins
With love for the person and the land
Who gave me birth
In the land
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Life is not about making money,
Life is not about acquiring power,
Life is not about gaining recognition or wealth.
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I remember the night you were born.
Cleaned up and swaddled in a soft pink cocoon.
Holding you close, sweet newness emanated from your forehead
Dreams of tea parties, shopping trips and girl bondings
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Round and round and fast and forward
Steady balancing on either side
Swaying, speeding, not a coward
This is your one and only ride
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my lifestyle use to be an eye for an eye...
i sit back and watch these days go by
it seems like these walls get bigger and bigger
thats common so its not hard to figure
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Love,
True love,
Sweet love!
Please, take me as i am;
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A bookworm in a boulevard tramples with boredom
Who stops at every library?
His topics always in classics and the half of his life
Who turned the pages of massive books?
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I am bit inquisitive of bees collect pollen
from the flowers swollen.
And they prepare for the coming Autumn.
A decayed old tree little embarrassed
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In deepest need,
when they can
no longer say
prayers but
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Colbert always thought, he was a very cool cat
He would spend all his days sprawled out on a mat
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I spied him on a park bench, my how happy he did seem
As contented as a sleeping man within a pleasant dream
So full of equanimity, so tranquil and refined
Obviously no distress disturbed his state of mind
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Always a lie -
My wife is complaining.
Unfaithful -
My wife is telling me.
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Oh, with so many enemies
I have to live here at this time.
And here I have to
Taste lifestyle and lifetime.
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A kitchen sink
Gets when over flooded,
Thoughtless we rush,
Not a moment to think,
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Bees together wait for
The season comes
Flowers bloom,
They make hive
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