silver anklets
..."When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic.
When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant."
-Quote by Confucius
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feminine luxury...
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Categories:
anklets, culture,
Form: Free verse
Tower Of Magic
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when elixir of moon drips wine
into the crystal goblet of magic
this late night beguiles my skin, reeling
on a Friday parade of lights;
my hips oh so beckon, swaggering t...
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Categories:
anklets, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
My Beautiful Lady
...Snow is fair and so my lady,
Roses are red and so my lady's cheeks, red, red, red.
Eyes like the deep ocean,
Lips like the fresh strawberries,
Feet soft like the tender coconut,
Her long hair mo...
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Categories:
anklets, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Nepenthe
...P o e t r y
the timeless nepenthe
to my aching soul,
a cluster of calming couplets
caressing the ventricular vortex within my heart.
When dark is the dawn,
when cold is the air,
and heavy ...
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Categories:
anklets, feelings, heart,
Form: Free verse
Ashta-nayika -1, Virahotkanthita, Suffering separation
...One among the eight heroine types keen (utkanthita)
to end separation (viraha) from her beloved
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My eyes long for one glimpse of thy visage
That eludes me like a mirage,
M...
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Categories:
anklets, anxiety, emotions, i miss
Form: Free verse
chamomile clemency
...f o r g i v e n e s s
is the window
to unknot the twigs of tainted trees,
where cuffed anklets
around the star-struck skin of
seraphic silhouettes
feel the suppressed sighs
of the ice-moon...
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Categories:
anklets, forgiveness, friend,
Form: Free verse
14-4-2024
...My family spoke two languages
I’m not the same
Results came in still thankless
Feels weird to be diagnosed anxious
Results so plain
I’m still hiding under several blankets
I ain’t sleeping
The...
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Categories:
anklets, abuse, addiction, childhood, extended
Form: Rhyme
Ceaseless Constellation
...sometimes I sing
antique anthems,
of the nights
I was confined
within a bottle
of diamond tears,
wept woefully
from the widest sky
that held kaleidoscopic stars~
amidst festooned f...
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Categories:
anklets, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Hungry Stones V
...In time when night turned to dawn, I could see,
It all appeared like sheer fantasy.
Light-hearted, I put on my office hat,
And hurriedly in my horse carriage sat
To drive away myself to sink ...
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Categories:
anklets, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Bholu- the fun poem
...Seems like he is Bholu from my village,
He used to come every morning to fetch Neera(Palm Toddy) from the Taad(palm) tree,
He would tie ends of his anklets with a little rope.
and we would watch h...
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Categories:
anklets, humor,
Form: Free verse
jmaa el-fnaa -
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hold still …
eventide -
I am a capricious cad among wraiths
waltzing with a mop in a Marrakesh courtyard -
catching stars as they drip with
waxy and wild wonder
into the braids of my maudli...
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Categories:
anklets, analogy, city, imagery, travel,
Form: Free verse
In My Back Garden
...that barn owl in the tree must know something,
quietly it looks, follows all night long,
looks from left, right, left.. like pendulum swing,
its ears pricked, is someone humming a song?
autumn ...
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Categories:
anklets, death, devotion, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Red Gems
...Red Gems
A middle-aged man in an old wheelchair
moves slowly and with determination.
On a crowded street filled with happy tourists’ feet
his arms look as if
they’d finished an Olympic rac...
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Categories:
anklets, culture, imagery, inspirational, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Satirical Euphony
...SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY
Hissed her path to say No
As amulet dangled on her' dandled
Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn
As no help came to a hearty hut
On the rafter was a treasure kept
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Categories:
anklets, character,
Form: Free verse
I Wonder If You
...I just wonder...
If you would have loved me
if you had not read the imperfect sonnet
that I wrote for you in a piece of paper
adorning it with petals of roses:
my first scr...
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Categories:
anklets, love,
Form: Free verse
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