Red white and blue'
...May peace reign under these three colours?
That the nazis fell to.' America Russia and
allied flags showing the whole world'
The same three colours, that saw us all through'
Here i invoke Christi...
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Categories:
allied, appreciation, beautiful, community, peace,
Form: Rhyme
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 24, 25 and 26
...Part Twenty-Four — The Fifth Cupbearer's Song
O Saqi, one glance—show mercy here,
And heal this wound with wine so clear.
Fill up the cup for we are dry,
Drunk with desire that makes us sigh....
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Categories:
allied, cute love,
Form: Masnavi
Where the Trees are Shellshocked
...A strange autumn this, with its closed fisted,
hollow fruitfulness.
Ashen drapes shroud listless maples, a sky
reluctant to color its face.
A hostile pestilence has worn out
the pith of thos...
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Categories:
allied, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dangle A Backdrop
...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...
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Categories:
allied, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Poppy Fields
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Flying over the front lines
with the French Escadrille Lafayette
a brown and barren belt below
a strip of murdered nature and yet
during the warm months of spring and summer
seeds in t...
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Categories:
allied, death, flower, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom falling
...First Russia fell, a vast land,
Nine time zones, Stalin took command.
Millions of Russians died due to his rule
But Russians don't learn that fact in school.
FDR called him "Uncle Joe,"
Mistoo...
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Categories:
allied, africa, christian, freedom, jewish,
Form: Lyric
Interview With a Goldfish
...I'm the most unlikely one to interview a goldfish
but we've lived in the same house for a few years.
It's really hard to tell, but I think I've seen her tears.
I wonder what she'd want if she had ...
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Categories:
allied, care, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Why Your Cities Burn, Part VI
......Have you ever seen true madness
take full possession of a man?
Gobayth’s dreams of coming home
were now all well and truly damned.
It’s said he screamed for half the night,
so much that it da...
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Categories:
allied, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Casualty Of Your Cruelty
...The radiant shine leaves your aurora
dimming ever so quickly,
as in northern regions you are—borealis
falling into the southernmost Sahara
negative gradients descend—australis
The gloss of mor...
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Categories:
allied, betrayal,
Form: Ekphrasis
Patience Allied with Perseverance
...“With patience and perseverance
We can win the hardiest race.”- By author
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Patience and Perseve...
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Categories:
allied, endurance, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Sonnet
Mirza Ghalib English Translations 4
...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Urdu poems about speech and to speak, the spoken word, thoughts, roses, life, secrets, joy, pain, vows, critics, the heart.
Hearing my speech, accomplished cri...
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Categories:
allied, heart, joy, life, longing,
Form: Free verse
When Something Special Happens again, and again
...Now for the long flight home feeling lost in present roam
Reliving our past days, weeks, my minds in wanting comb
Her smile, her charm, her look of warm, inviting adorn
We walked, we talked, but...
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Categories:
allied, children, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
Auschwitz liberated
...A google article gives 'allied troops' credit for liberation
Of the death camp.' It was Russian forces that did it really.'
Working in step with free countries.' When did they become enemies of the...
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Categories:
allied, anniversary, appreciation, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
The Side Effects Of Evil: Part 1
...An excerpt from my new short story:
Contributing factors, however, are deemed as an assortment embracing negativity and were reinforcements for the young idealist. Granted to resonate by the dark ...
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Categories:
allied, allegory, evil, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Christmas in Twenty-Twenty-Four
...When day breaks on Christmas, and finished is your snore
What awaits the daylight in twenty-twenty-four?
Will you tear into the presents, wrapped up so neat
Then gather at the table, be stuffed as...
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Categories:
allied, bible, christian, christmas, god,
Form: Rhyme
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