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Premium Member Sipping Coffee
“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma

As also this dopamine boosting flavour I taste

I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of my heart

Breath...

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Categories: abstains, abuse,
Form: Free verse



Mirza Ghalib Translations
Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch

On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we...

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Categories: abstains, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 18
Villanelle : The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 18

World in which is ingrained innate violence
Where nation-States all hell-bent on blitz wars
He who abstains from doing...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abstains, freedom, political, violence, war,
Form: Villanelle
The Big Bang
The big bang, 

one week ago today, 

an ounce of energy degrades-

young and righteous, 

a story evades-

rebounds like the waves, 

a story evades, 

surges and...

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Categories: abstains, candy, care, city, destiny,
Form: Carpe Diem
Another Clerihew For a Special Few, Not That All the Others Aren'T Special
Wayland here again with another clerihew to end the year
These will probably never be famous, but that isn’t the fear
Sometimes the honesty is these may...

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Categories: abstains, dedication, fun, humor,
Form: Clerihew



The Flute
Faraway I heard the whistle of a flute
Playing a beautiful symphony
It echoed along with the flow of air
I closed my eyes without any care
And enjoyed...

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Categories: abstains, musicdance, words, longing, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Laurel and Hardy
Stan Laurel
thinks he can sing in reality he warbles
His best buddy Hardy slaps him quiet
Before he can start another riot.

Oliver Hardy
Is usually farty so he...

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Categories: abstains, funny, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member The Windowpane
A Winter chill pierces the heart just when its wishing for the sun’s gaze – Quote by Poet



Feathery boughs of ice crusted veins
Whispering across the...

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Categories: abstains, cool, snow, winter,
Form: Limerick
Distraught and Lost
My screams are heard in the middle of the battleground—I’m fought 
Now I’m in grief and I’m striving to set my mind elsewhere
But I’m frantic...

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Categories: abstains, angst, fantasy, hope, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflective Spring
Let clocks unlock unbroken birds they bind:
Too quick in May they peek Azalea’s bloom;
Wide eyes enlightened bound by darkness blind,
And spring reflected bares a thinning...

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Categories: abstains, daughter, divorce,
Form: Sonnet
Daybreak's Imploring Symphony
Sunbeams serenade my window pane
Imploring restful notes to disdain

Abridging curtain the bright melody doth strain
My top sheet covers the harmonious chain

Gilded streams strike heartier refrain
But...

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Categories: abstains, life
Form: Couplet
The Lectures
I was strolling down a side street of our little town last night.
Did I say strolling, no that’s wrong; I was a sad and sorry...

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Categories: abstains, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Death Jones
To bespeak her time I shan’t
A mere penny possesses more value
Than that of which her presence preserves
The daring, lingering foretaste that is affinity
Though to raze...

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Categories: abstains, life, loss,
Form: Verse
Rain Storm In Winter
The aura of the oak
is ice and silver sheen.

This is the season of snow,
but there is only cold rain
in heavy ringlets of wet.

We feel the...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abstains, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Indian Election Machinery
during elections,polla colla is sprayed
people abstains from voting or
cast vote to all of the above
like putin war machine
phantoms defeated in failed state

during elections, polla colla...

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Categories: abstains, anger, freedom, how i
Form: Sonnet

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