Best 39 Poems

Frozen roses die 
            November frosty window 
            Summer’s memories! 






           03.11.2014
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Dear Life,
that betrayed the heart-shaped shells,  
breathing colors of coral caves in slow cadence,  
I’ve surfed through whirling waves of woeful rhymes,
  to navigate tides of tormented tercets,  
  to cleanse my stained soul with briny bliss,  
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Wildlife 39

A rampant and agile young filly,
Was blatantly acting quite silly,
A young colt cried "Neigh!"
"Now just stay away!"
"And get your hoof off of my willie!!"...

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When the tar-soaked rain cascades from ominous clouds,  
And the oceans roar with Poseidon’s might,  
As the screaming ground heaves beneath your careless feet,  
Will your deadly heart remember the last 39 minutes of my life?  
When tears stained my scarred...

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steam rising
off hot metal -
a dog lifts his leg...

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Patradoot or The Messenger 39 /50

English version by Ravindra K Kapoor 
Originally written in Hindi by my 
Late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor



When in the nectar pond of her mouth,
My kiss use to take breathe, dear,
Even the pride of the beauties of heaven,
Seems faded before...

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blue moon
reflects on the water
lovers kiss

2/10/14...

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Out past fading smoke

the smell of saddle-leather

lone horse by campfire



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by the campfire

cowboys share haunted tales

leaves rustle in moon's shadow

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the tapping of boots

on creaking woodfloor

line-dancing


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coffee beans'scent

 from the musty log cabin

Cowboys 'return




My first attempt re cowboys haiku...

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moral tug-of-war
King Henry VIII's divorce-
Sir Thomas no more...

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now having found self
R -E -S -P -E -C -T
true love for others...

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in the tidal pool
small crabs walk on shining stones –
a dog barks...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 39  

Carbon molecules woken up by thunder
Is violence life-wire of existence
Can God come into being beyond Nature

Violence in warp and woof of our nature
Can one avoid being part of violence
Carbon molecules woken up by thunder

Who put Arjuna...

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my private field
	an embarrassment of dread
	stones, cold rain

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	buried in cheap wine
	obvious worthlessness
	stones, sinking
		
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	blue and gray despair
	red and purple my anger
	stones, submerged
	
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	color salvation —
 	“Paint yellow,” she said
	stones, receding water
	
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	climb to clean air
	to yellow, orange, bright green
	stones, in my garden...

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Never not what it started as;                                       ...

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Quiet speaks much,
Till my heart says no quit;
Conscience or guilt,
One is stronger, and I won’t know which,
Cause’ I don’t know how you keep them both,
It happened before and,
It happened after choice,
6 down after choice,
In lifting up a voice, that’s 6,
A couple months ago = 6,
How...

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