Sunrise
...A morning sunrise...
multicolored flowers stretch
welcoming the light,
radiating redolence...
Summer's attar and essence....
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Categories:
attar, appreciation, summer, sunshine,
Form: Tanka
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:
attar, allusion, bangla, fantasy, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Triolet No 4
...A wider landscape I see beyond;
It beckons to me from afar.
The land has a kaleidoscope dawn
And many wonders that lay beyond.
Run your hands over its grasses blonde;
Catch a whiff of its sacred...
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Categories:
attar, adventure, nature, rose, sun,
Form: Triolet
Sweet and Sour
...The tang of the vital body
scents an inner sky
the fleshy funk
as it surfaces to be perceived.
Aromas; the perfumed stench
of the incarnate
so like a flowering orchid
its thick leafed presen...
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Categories:
attar, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Humble Stranger
...Jogging on the roadside,
With my friends at my side.
He moves every inch with us...
I almost forget we were four.
Seeing him as one; we discuss
Along the line to the very core
Before I kne...
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Categories:
attar, africa, angel, art, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Love Stories
...It's a bloody mess,
murder most kind,
the kind that does not kill.
Desires clawed within rib cages
or delved into tender marrows.
You get used to it, want it,
it keeps you alive
the way some...
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Categories:
attar, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Tango's and Waltzing
...It was a bloody mess,
murder,
the kind that does not kill
but stabs on and on.
You get used to it, want it,
it keeps you alive
the way some poisonous medicine will.
We slammed together, brui...
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Categories:
attar, poetry,
Form: Free verse
April Ambassador
...April Ambassador
April, ambassador of spring, appears -
Mediator of the truce
Between dusky winter’s sighs
Of first snowfalls
And the incense of l’air du temp
Where mourning doves entwine wit...
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Categories:
attar, spring,
Form: Free verse
Eternally Grateful
...Moneywise, I'm far...
from rich, but in life
and love, I sure am rich...
for that, I'm eternally grateful.
Today was not made
for some; their e...
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Categories:
attar, blessing, life, meaningful, thanks,
Form: Lyric
Evening Hours
...Evening Hours
An azure sky is being defeated
by a shadow world where
a persistent half-moon is already
making its way up the silken expanses
of blackest night
A horse whinneys, spooked
...
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Categories:
attar, simple, write,
Form: Blank verse
Comes the Night
...Evening Hours
An azure sky is being defeated
by a shadow world where
a persistent half-moon is already
making its way up the silken expanses
of blackest night
A horse whinneys, spooked
...
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Categories:
attar, poetry, write,
Form: Prose Poetry
Ecstasy of the Flower In June
...R-ed, elegant and beautiful,
O-ne which perfumes the air;
S-mell or scent that carries
E-xcitement from the flower.
C-omplete and lasting redolence
H-as brought pure pleasure;
A-nother att...
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Categories:
attar, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Let Red Rose Spread Her Aroma
...R-ed rose spreads her aroma
O-r her most sweetest scent;
S-melled by attracted snoots
A-t the most exciting event.
L-et red rose spread her aroma
I-n the spacious open air;
N-oses that sniff ...
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Categories:
attar, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Oozing Love
...The
Ardent
Dilection
Oozes from the
Bloody heart chamber
With rose petals attar
True love stories quintessence
With plethora innervation
As an invisible arrow darts
Two souls with a feveris...
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Categories:
attar, longing, love,
Form: Etheree
The Skilled Poet
...Drinking a bloody mary, he stands aloof.
Not a snob but superior to his trade,
He is a poet of today.
Just look at his attar.
His facial expression tells of his dramatic aura.
Maybe, he is in ...
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Categories:
attar, appreciation, character, for him,
Form: Verse
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