Life Allegory Poems

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when words pursue their quarry
people turn wary

simple is better
even in Dear John letter
feelings unfetter

angry verbs go rogue
no matter how softly spoke
estrangements invoke

lurking cold...

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much of what's behind
lies buried within the mind
revised or maligned

boiling down this life
using memory as knife
won't halt inner strife

trying to avoid
staring straight into the void
ego...

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The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No...

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Light finds its way to come through,
after a nightmare at night
heart beats fast.
My dog is lying next to me,
I open the blinds
another morning to see.

Sadness...

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I swear to tell you the truth 
Nothing but the truth 
But your heart is so feeble 
And your spirit so brittle 
A whiff of...

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Rid me of the pain of this world for I have my own pain to bear 
Everytime they look at me it feels I'm burned...

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         I

  first flowers open, seasons begin ! : 
  bloom before doom 
 ...

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air rockets skyward
uppercutting inside
plastic neon flesh
contorting at inhuman angles
what does my body language spell?

ankles anchored into the Earth
to stay grounded as the wave
of time and...

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The Bumblebee 

He grew up in a poor household, thought
sofa-beds were the norm, but his mother
an eager reader had many books that were
given and sometimes...

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Let the wind blow the sails while the waves hit hard.
Imagine yourself on your dream boat on the ocean.
Feel the breeze that every day caresses...

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" Life is the story of men who have strived, won or failed and of hearts that keep yearning against all odds"   ...

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I used to be afraid:
afraid of being disrespected,
afraid of losing,
afraid of staying alone,
afraid of being cheated.
Now with the passing of time
and growing age,
with continuity of...

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In India, it is midnight now,
and the solar eclipse wasn't visible for that reason.
Still, I remained awake till the solar eclipse was going on:
because I...

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My Mast

It’s time to get my life together
I have travelled through the stormy weather.
I have eaten the bad fruit before
Many times, I have hit the...

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Lonely pearl what troubles you
Is it the clam within you grew
Dont forget you'll shine so bright
Dont forget you'll be harvested at night

Flimsy string what is...

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