When the beats are low and visions are light,
Often, in my dreams, I see an unseen sight.
Through nervous passage to uneasy chore,
My anxious sensation does open the door.
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Let me not play tuneless in today's time,
Some purists sure get praised as Gandhian,
Yet, crass nevertheless is no more crime,
Old values are hailed may be in heaven.
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Eager to announce an opinion
Itching to speak, to divulge and declare
Often clueless, unknowing
Yet, raring to express;
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Dispel the darkness frightful
in the prideful, hardened mind
feigning greedily to be kind...
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How they strut about, people in love,
How tall they grow, pleased with themselves,
Their hair, glossy, their skin shining.
They don't remember who they have been.
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for my mother
I am clueless how brave you are
while conceiving me as mysterious infinitesimal cell at first
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I feel alone
This space in my heart is hurting
It's a hole that yr love has left
The emptiness I try to fill it
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Humming of endless mystery
Life glides down noiseless
Like a trail running into the dark
With thick drapes drawn down
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Relaxing in a lazy chair
Casuarina branches, painted on an ever blue sky
A breeze of traveling fresh air
A wondrous white cloud wanders by
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I feel like I'm drenched in the Arctic sand,
While listening to the music of downfall bands.
My heart does not recognize your great existence,
Because you are fixated on someone else's residence.
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In the 'Add New Poem' instructions PH says 'Take a deep breathe',
but it should say 'breath' [rhymes with death], so I now DO grieve!
It's a grammatical error, one even (I think) 'Bri' has made in the past,
AND I'll bet my high school English teachers would....now be aghast!
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Welcome to the scene
There's some stains from a loather
A twisted love conveyed
By what's drained on the covers
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Did you sell your soul
For a sensual smile
On a younger model
With a wayward style
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I’m sorry I love you
I’m sorry I miss you
I’m sorry I’m not perfect
I’m sorry I’m not smart
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It was nineteen sixty nine
October twenty nine to be exact,
She appeared there on the scene
At Asha Sadan in a coastal town
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Now that I've typed 2019, I'll concentrate,
to, this New Year's showcase, consecrate …
to the "divine purpose" of entertaining you,
with dozens of poems, or ….at least a few,
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Last night, Lisa, Peter, Leeza and I were in her father's 50th floor study watching New York City. It's a corner room with glass walls from floor to ceiling. He likes to watch the city himself and has a small,5 seat sectional couch facing the view.
The left wall window looks across Hell's Kitchen to exactly where Sully Sullenberger crash landed flight 1549 in the Hudson river (it was 3: 31 pm and no one was home) . The right window overlooks Central Park and Upper Manhattan. Lincoln Center, almost dead center of the corner, looks like part of a toy train-set.
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He sipped the elixir
With the same degree
Of guilt or satisfaction
That Adam had
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My brother and I
Are like Tom and Jerry
I am young and silly
He is my big bully!
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Slowly
I am ageing
start was slow
but pace is fast
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Flame flutters and tide wanes without reason,
Death drops shutters as life sinks in a pit,
Day looks dull when hind dark clouds hides the sun,
Night is moonless, no stars are still well-lit.
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Crawling my life, Harmless offcourse
Stale to death sleepless remorse
In my regular blues I wake up
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Stealthily stealing from Mother Earth.
She strikes fear, brave hearts perspire.
Catching souls in her clutches of death.
Sweeping through the terrestrial plane, an avalanche of sorrow.
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(Late night scene in the CT suite…dedicated to all the staff)
An aged face in the dead of night
Flashing blinkers coax a fight
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Wronged hearts braving
Winter rains: While they stay firm
Clueless rulers sulk.
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Am I floating
Towards my wishes
Or away from them
Is this my morning thought
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Cousin lover friend and wife!
Days now spent in sterile strife.
Ginger locks by a chiseled face
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As I'm putting your laundry away
I stop to look around your room.
The hundreds of Hotwheels
parked, as they should be, in their crate.
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Under Delhi's cloudless, cerulean blue sky,
Our Leader,
Sporting a victorious orange turban,
Walked to his seat through India Gate,
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Tears rolled down her small chubby cheeks
did not speak of pain or agony or joy.
Tears were the tears clueless for why they fell down,
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Sudden call from your inner conscience
No use to sit idle and see across fence
Time is running short and has to pack
Final journey with no possible come back
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Life has really no purpose
If some one offers no rose
If not a flowers then wishes
It must make everybody happy on face
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Find him out
I want to put big hoardings
And announce good amount as offerings
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Should there be no sun, when tomorrow is gone
Should we fall down, voices drown our own
Visions blur, murmurs confuse, threaten
Knees bleed in pleading, thinking
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A dazzling darkness descended
Aghast, open-mouthed wonder
And a surge of rustic blood
The fireworks, like never before
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My Window
Staring out my window,
sometimes the view is very wide,
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I talked to my best friend
Told her I like this guy
She had nothing but good words to lend
She didn't even ask why.
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He hung on
mesmerized
to the deluge
of wisdom
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Next their turn
Monday,13th January 2020
Has it remained mere slogan?
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Glittering, gleaming, fairly sighs.
Wrinkled, shriveled, wizened eyes.
Beware! Sham vibrant fetching ties.
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The elderly parents two
Their son and daughter-in-law
With their three grand sons too
Set out on a tour with awe!
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Life begins at forty, today I was born.
Yesterday swept by the wind.
Tomorrow, pregnant with hope.
A new chapter is about to be written.
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Snow last night
Early this year
Flakes still flutter
White drifts four feet deep.
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You might say I am crazy
Obsessive, insane
But I'm just a girl
With an American name
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Is the person in dispute
He, she, neither or both?
Genetics, Endocrinologists,
Psychiatrist, Gynecologists,
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While Waiting: September 2023's Showcase Of PH Poems I Have Recently Enjoyed... :) Enjoy!
Yes, like MANY other P-H members, I'm sure, I'm ' WAITING ',
waiting for more poems like James McLain's on masturbating.
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Rebecca;
The eternity waiting for you
On the blink of sunshine;
Wake up!
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What happens in your world is not what happens in mine. Looks oftentimes adorn herself in an apparel of deception.
Bruised but not crushed.
Broken but not shattered.
Down but not out.
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The sun doesn't know
how the earth yearns for his
warmth, his touch.
He doesn't know
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ups and downs
twists and turns
mystery through out
life goes on
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I found my love walking a one-way street.
Imagine how confusing ‘tis to find
Not knowing love's will— felt out of my wit,
It was chaotic but of cuter kind.
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Flee for sure, but where to from this bug?
Witless we bow— hand shake, kiss, nor hug,
Corona's such a scare,
Clueless are caught to bear,
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Root of success if lies in tireless task,
My will for given task is pretty strong,
What if then the ocean is endless long?
Why wonder I it'll not dry up, I ask?
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बदलते मौसम की तरह
तुम यु बदल गए,
इसकी वजह पूछने आये तो
तुम बात करने से मुकर गए,
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Fragile soul sings
betrayed love and trust
on the verge of tears
confused and clueless, lonely
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I am in a lonely desert, dying of thirst and I found an oasis.
I was groping in a dark scary alley, and I saw a dazzling light.
I was drowning in an ocean of despair, then I clutched to a straw.
I was suffocating from asphyxia, then I found a breath of fresh air.
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The past, void, died
An untimely death
As life eternally spied
On the cold lonely hearth.
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Nothing is written
you have well imagined
all is ones path on Earth
birth once taken
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Limerick-30
- - - - - - - -
I was confused between a rose and a dandelion
When I toiled to fix up my garden
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Pockets full of ego
Splashing the latest gadgets
Hanging out at the most luxurious clubs
With faces made of the latest make-up
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It was a magical moment
As my niece's boyfriend
Approached her the day after
Her birthday
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A boyfriend with time
A girlfriend with none
A boyfriend who's always got her on his mind
A girlfriend who never realized she had a boyfriend
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Now as I watch from heaven,
I can see everything!
My rapist, family, boyfriend.....Everything,
It hurts to watch them!
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Before:
Dear me,
Have you stopped lying?
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When depressed, I felt
Everyday is dark even though sky is blue
And sun is bright
Everywhere is grey even though spring cherry
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Part I
Walking in the burnt-over forest near Shi-shi Beach
I see gutted trees growing in knobby shapes
They have been half-dead since the Forties
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Dark and dusky
And I call it black beauty
With fertilizing tears
They sprinkle water
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As I 'gayly' reflect on your birthday tomorrow,
I've reason for pause both in joy and in sorrow,
But give me 'three minutes' and know, take this in,
That forever I'll love you, divorce too, a win,
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He was alive if breathing be called life,
Peaceful and blissful with no surface strife,
To me, he was suffering for far long,
The man I knew— a man of self-esteem
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Sometime back, I had read in the newspaper about the plight of a little girl in a very similar situation that I have depicted in this poem. This is what prompted me to write and share my opinion about Child Labour - a social evil prevalent even in modern times.
She
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I am a bird with no feather,
Still I can fly with no fear,
Up in the sky and through the river,
The Eternal bliss that found in neither,
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Like all good things come to end
So did yours and mine too,
The good moments we shared together
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We're all frustrated!
In one way or another
Looking for answers
In Life's clutter.
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Spelling
Spelling's just not my forte,
Poor spelling for such a mind as mine,
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She fell from the sky and landed on 2 feet
She then stood and looked around
A thousand eyes stared at her
She paved her way through the crowd
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I'm cold and lost in the dark
I'm in a big open park
As I walk I wonder of where to go
This is a place I don't know
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I'm missing your touch and all we had,
I'm so sorry for makin you sad,
making you angry and gettin you mad;
I long for the love that we used to have.
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Had it not been you,
I'd never make this breakthrough,
With your uplifting and your trust,
I achieved everything in a just.
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They say that I am clueless about reality.
They say ''Nobody gives a care about morality''
They say ''People are evil and hurt you when they can''.
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Is the moon really made of cheese?
Is the talk really about the birds and the bees?
Are stars just fireflies stuck in the sky?
Or is all that I’ve been told a lie?
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How could this angel break my heart,
Lust is a powerful emotion,
But when it turns into infatuation,
You can’t control it,
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Back in the days when i was happy,
everything was ok,
i was healthy,
i was always smiling,
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Without YOU....
Who can replace you?
& fill my empty heart? ?
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Epitamy of thought resurrected
Rebirthed with a promise corrected
Wise of misfortune, a clueless disguise
A power, a surge, on this day shall rise
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It was an old chap, with an old little stick,
Big white moustache, a coat-the colour brick.
He walked alone, near the ocean blue,
Back bent, quivering hands, a ripped up old shoe.
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I am your first child.
You carried me in your womb,
you fed me,
you kept me warm,
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I was homeless till you gave me a place in your heart.
I was restless till I found succour in your bosom.
I was helpless till you took my hand.
I was breathless till you gave me air.
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The economy is crashing
The education system is crumbling
The political system is unworkable
The government is dysfunctional
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The thing before my own eyes are FACELESS masquerades.
The country is going cashLESS.
Girls are going topLESS.
My people are becoming hopeLESS.
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My heart is out there on my sleeve
Risking my all without conceit
If you perceive with deceit
No longer my concern
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Sometimes I am me
Most times I am emptiness
Enveloped in silence
I am non-existent
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Wearily i stood alone,
Emotionally, i cried in tears
Dead in thought as i walked alone
Clueless of what to do to save my people,
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How often we miss to see the truth
That we have a birth
Not to age but to endure like abiding nature
And as we call her dear loving mother
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It's Tuesday morning. I'd thought, until Leeza corrected me, that Thanksgiving was today.
"Thanksgiving always falls on *Thursday*, dorkus, " Leeza said Sunday, at breakfast (extirpating my hopes) . "Besides, notice we haven't been cooking? " She added.
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I'm learning a lot, dating Peter. For instance, I have a whole new awareness of how clueless older Americans, like people in their mid-twenties, are about things in the modern world.
I think Peter's learning things too. Like the other night, I was 30 minutes late because I was gluing little, glittering rhinestones to my eyebrows. Was he mad? Yes, we had a little drama, but that's just because he hasn't learned to respect my lifestyle choices.
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How easy it may be
To bravely blame some one
Clueless to sniffle
Life and trust let be undone
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Numbers march not to return
In their footsteps centuries burn
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