"There's a river meandering through the mind,"
older than the Englishmen who raised a bridge
over its Constitution, a nude Indian sped away
from a warring Englishman behind
absconding by canoe to an adjacent isle
but smallpox caught the indie afore ammunition
"There's a river meandering through the mind,"
that witnessed the grapes of wrath in '37
and suffered its wine, the black potential rebelled
against the clear minority who had signed
emancipation letters without intent
ergo, cars with bodies went flying upon the riparian spine
"There's a river meandering through the mind,"
leaning on treasonous city hearts, wrinkling under the trebled
degrees of island sun, chuffing at progressiveness
and how the colour schemes lightly redesigned
black power free, it seems, walks unfettered to its banks
carrying tackle, tiki-torches, tourists, a picnic, and gun
Categories:
absconding, city, history, nature, river,
Form: Free verse
You shirk the weight of parenthood's call,
leaving your children to wither, unfed.
Are you a father, or mere specter of one?
A mother, or just a shadow that's gone?
While others nurture, educate, and guide,
you abandon your own to fate's tide.
Your concern lies with outsiders, it seems,
while your kin suffer, and your legacy beams.
The children you forsook, the partner you left,
will rise to greatness, despite the neglect.
Will you claim pride in their future fame?
Seek praise for years of absence, and hollow claims?
Awaken to your duties, and seize the day,
for the future beckons, and will not stray.
Categories:
absconding, absence, child abuse, mothers
Form: Sonnet
i am india you are india
but india cancelled
more devotees killed in hathras congregation than
soldiers in war
media demonstrate access to absconding guru
than police
fundamental rights thwarted
police judiciary bureaucracy failed india
i am india you are india
but india cancelled
no one demolished babri masjid
no one killed jasika lall,arushi.....abhya shakti
fundamental rights thwarted
police judiciary bureaucracy failed india
i am india you are india
but india cancelled
it is emergence of difference in votes casted,votes counted era
political parties reach parliament in booths captured,unfair election
fundamental rights thwarted
police judiciary bureaucracy failed india
i am india you are india
but india cancelled
Categories:
absconding, absence, bangla, corruption, hindi,
Form: Free verse
H•aving it is worth more than gold
E•ating to live and not living to eat invigorates
the body and soul
A•bstaining from deleterious things that are meant to
subtract from life
L•iving naturally and adding while absconding from
strife
T•he more you add to your essence the more robust you
feel
H•onoring self through exercise, nutrition, and meditation is
how you heal
Categories:
absconding, blessing, happiness, health, inspiration,
Form: Acrostic
Able to take change
in smaller increments …
the total overwhelms
The pieces digested
in tiny fragments
absconding from the realm
— Breaking it down —
taming the maelstrom
hail turns into rain
The whole reemerging
inside my becoming
transforming me again
(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)
Categories:
absconding, change,
Form: Rhyme
Thus
They flee
Absconding
In guiltless flight
On fattened feathers
A pointed arrowhead
Guided by some hidden force
Returning to their beginnings
Arcing slowly over icy peaks
Circling the history of their valley
Categories:
absconding, autumn, journey, nature,
Form: Etheree
Sugar paper petals rippable Hibiscus
Musk sap via jungle civet melts to jelly
Turkish Delight icing, licked clean fingers
Rubber soft texture entices tongues joyfully
Mallow centesimal stripes boiled candy
Star picket stick pink pigment saccharine
Temptress in dress derived from deer manly
Restless gypsy tastebuds buzz within labyrinth
Gender column calm offers an absconding
Seductive glands have universal indulgence
Elon holds obstinately to his Mars 2030 colony
Stamen aims telescope towards closer emulsion
Satellite dish observation grants mans' wishes
Expands our command of unimagined planets
Future mixes musk fusions for either expeditious
Sows anise seeds for Mars far sighted inhabitants
23rd January 2023
Written for Contest: Musk
Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco
Categories:
absconding, change, color, environment, gender,
Form: Rhyme
Spring’s last whiff
wafted delightfully
through my parents
bedroom window
where I swung myself
at that time
after a distressing storm
scenting of newness
light as angel hair
stroking my nose
arousing a sublime
serendipity
Maybe that’s when
poetry flowed
from the brood
or possibly
the years of injury
from a cracked
first wedding
or missing my dad
early on
just as I lacked him most
who grasps
Though I believe
poetry came from
a beauteous strange
amalgamation
of life’s vicissitudes
churning emotions &
propelling them into words
alike now
as I gaze out
over snow-covered fields
gently rolling under
powder blue sky
while a couple of sparrows
chirp happily
assuring all
spring is nearly absconding from
the meadow
1St Place Contest Winner
Written: June 18, 2022
A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Categories:
absconding, analogy, appreciation, beauty, spring,
Form: Other
Five fingers of joy
slyly, coyly burgles; he's
absconding with koi.
As you like it, as you wish;
carpe carpum: seize the fish!
—————-
POTD 0/28/2022
Categories:
absconding, silly,
Form: Tanka
The fire in her kindled,
All too soon dwindled:
Nearly in a twinkle
That made her laugh a crinkle
While her forehead described a wrinkle…
Max’s disappearance shall ears tingle,
For remain she will single;
Alone with lover-fed pringle…
Things haven’t been at all simple.
And she’s beautiful, no face pimple.
The harshest of prices for love in ample
By one merely longing to emerge An Example…
Now she’ll have to damn it and ahead go to show it:
A Wronged-By-God Spinster,
Her Absconding Max, A church Minister.
Categories:
absconding, anxiety, beauty, betrayal, break
Form: Rhyme
For ages, I used to rear my goats serenely;
Before I invited Mr. Hyena at home.
Green prairie my goats adored around the home.
Peace, the rustics relished too;
But an intolerable mistake I made inviting him.
Peace and life of villagers he happily bothered.
As an approachable and judicious man, he came;
With everyone and every junction to acquaint:
Who did what, who slept where and when, he learned.
To viciously raid all the goats;
Eating some and scarring others.
Distress and insecurity led others to absconding.
As some of our friends, Mr. Hyena behaved.
Poem by Mugisho N Theophile
Categories:
absconding, betrayal, confidence,
Form: ABC
households lurch
creak unmoored
hulls rocking
the twang of whip lashed rigging
as electric wires stretch
pull up clods
yards of plantings
where once roots clutched
bricked-up aluminum
long jacked-up boards
swirl and bloat
bed-springs shiver off
unwinding sheets
the dumbfounded foaming
of absconding pillows
bedrooms fall out
of plunging submarines
chests and draws
shedding a put away sundry
then the roll and billow
baffle and muddle
the face-up exposure
of everyday innards
sweeps by
riding the backbones
of the up-turned
the bowled over
hard to fathom
that a river of storm clouds
could move all this
manifold clutter
the cheesy and cherished
dumping down clumps
into wet clay models
of any new address
Categories:
absconding, poetry,
Form: Free verse
To the world,
I promise to never give up
I undertake to fly high without any limitation
I avowed to do my best absconding my trepidation
And just as you know I'll never give up
I'll be as sturdy as the wind
Shine as brightly as a soaring sun
But won't be as a moon to shine in the dark depending on others
I'll be my own moon to shine in my obscurities
And just as you know I'll never give up.
The scars in my crust
The pain dormant deep inside my hub
All these will come to an end
But still it can't be forgotten as I got streaks which I can't obliterate
Whatever the outcome is I won't plug up
I'll do my best with my utmost audacity
And just as you know I'll never give up.
Categories:
absconding, 12th grade, courage, dedication,
Form: Free verse
In searching of peace
soul of writings sought hermitic milieu
O loneliness of mind shrine
know that you’re curse!
O loveless love of wedding heart
know that you’re curse!
On the nib of starry pen
all words of loneliness and cruel love were dancing
the pen grinned by the feathers of outcast love!
Oh! the silent head tomb devours the writers penning insight
at the end no peace was there
from strolling vacationer to whole unknown
the writer was dispatching in absconding .....!
by this way alone bard is decaying!
21.06.2020 Chattogram
Categories:
absconding, heartbroken, life, loneliness, poets,
Form: Free verse
I was thinking
after returning from duty,
will write a lovely poetry.
I just want to build a Tajmahal
on the chest of paper
with the words
which were playing
hide and seek with me
since last few days.
The words will flow fine
from my divine pen
just like a sacred river,
A rainbow will be framed
in the paradise of my thought
with a new form.
But
What is this?
What happened??
Nothing came to me,
No words, no warmth !
Hoped, all naugthy words
just got mustered
at the tip of my pen,
Few absconding ones
were just making fun around me
and enhancing my strain.
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N.B : This is translated from an Odia poetry written by Mr Shiba Shankar Das, An eminent writer of Odisha/India.
Categories:
absconding, feelings, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse
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