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Elucidations of a Primal Being

CANTOS I (Tract I)


The woods were stirring,and the stars twinkling,
   the wind whispering a thousand new breezes;
....if a sound came, it came with...

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Categories: cantos, god, nature, truth,
Form: Free verse

Hooker's Got Paid

I can repeat the beat without knowing what I’m saying               ...

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Categories: cantos, abuse, anger, angst, anti
Form: Lyric

Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar

Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan 


[Given...

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Categories: cantos, education, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Epigram

Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal

Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal

[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to...

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Categories: cantos, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil,
Form: Epigram

Paradies Bei Der Strasse/ Roadside Paradise/ Paraíso De Borde Del Camino

Grünes Paradies
Am Seitenarm der Mandau
Neben der Strasse

Helles Vogelgezwitscher
Aus den Sträuchern am Ufer

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Green paradise
At a side arm of the Mandau
So close by the street

Bright bird's twitter
From...

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Categories: cantos, animals
Form: Tanka

Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-Valluvar

Villanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate

         For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of 
the...

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Categories: cantos, beauty, character, creation, god,
Form: Villanelle

Sailing Verses

As if time has stalled for but a moment
 above the pleasures of a new day’s play
 Fantasy seems to have taken a holiday 
...

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Categories: cantos, fantasy, words, writing,
Form: Free verse

Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133

Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133

(Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the...

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Categories: cantos, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual,
Form: Epigram

A Running Chestnut- Prosodic Ha Ha

By any other name what is in a name 															prosody Rosa Dee the sweet voices arise in        ...

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Categories: cantos, funny, history, on writing
Form: Free verse

Amanha

Se eu tenho de morrer
Meu deus! 
Que não seja já
Eu quero ouvir nas ruas o meu povo gritando
“ Havemos de voltar”
Quero ver a minha terra...

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Categories: cantos, sad,
Form: ABC

More Magnificent Monuments

When we pleasantly stroll down
the streets or boulevards
of any historical city or town,
we  stops pensively and reflect deeply
by the magnificent monuments erected for the...

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Categories: cantos, history
Form: Narrative

Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - I

Part Two

shrinking you again within our ruwai
though always fearing, always cringeing at the thought
of the day
when his brothers would come in numbers
bearing fire-spitting engines
over the...

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Categories: cantos, fear,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Does the World Need Another Sestina?

Bloody, bloody Ezra Pound
I never got my head around
his magnum opus: The Cantos
I’ve tried so hard but goodness knows
he didn’t intend it to be easy
for...

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Categories: cantos, funnyme,
Form: Sestina

The Treatise of the Illustrious Sage On Response and Retribution

Canto I: The Words of Laozi  

The Divinely Illustrious Sage  
Prays for every soul to heed:
That neither woe nor weal
Heaven has foreordained,
But wrought...

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Categories: cantos, blessing, heaven, humanity, judgement,
Form: Epic

Self-Service

I know the way you feed

your wife and children.

 

I see you asleep at daytime

as though it were night.

The bamboo floor

complains about your

body weight and

length...

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Categories: cantos, satire,
Form: Free verse