Best Chastising Poems

...the waning moonlight thinly enveloped 	
the dusky canvas obscurely sprawling
across the way from the window I looked,
I knew a park was there with slides and swing	
but for the moment dark re......

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...A rose held before the dawn, overwhelmed by benevolent beauty,
its virginity violated by hostel hands,
only then will it reveal its blood-stained thorns,
where infatuated innocence is lost...
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Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan


(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour......

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...King Hypocrite

We have the king of hypocrites, right here on the soup
With more chastising, straight from his stoop
Once again, he points his finger, from high on his wall
A brand new blog with......

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...A Golden Steed Gallops

A golden steed gallops in my dreams as of late
 echoing sounds of my so darkly imagined fate
 chastising my wicked deeds of an ill-spent youth
 increasing the chasm betwe......

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...Plateau of common sense
Enabling one to step back, far back,
Reasoning on poles of points
Separating right from wrong
Placing trust in the matter at hand
Erasing past failures which interfere
C......

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...“The Clock on the Wall”

That clock! The clock with cruelty, unmovable.
Telling time to be forever in motion.
The ticking, a deafening sound. 
Marked by grime. 
Yellowed by generations, grown d......

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...Crows, bats, witches, haunted houses, goblins, ghosts and me
Pumpkin bread, corn pudding, warm caramel apples my way.
Delicate intricate spider webs between my house and garage.
Holding me in a de......

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...I took a stroll through the woods like I do every Fall;
it's a sensual treat at this time of the year.
And I came across a grove of ancient oak trees,
shedding amber, yellow, and golden leaves;
g......

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...Raccoon with knowing eyes stares at me from across the room.
He is darling!  Brought home from an estate sale.
Hanging from a limb, accusing me, chastising me, all powerful.
I wish I knew who pain......

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       Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

      To come by a happy day

(In this poem, Parra maintains lines of twelve to thirteen syllables with every other line ......

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...Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the m......

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...Why

Had

He come

Here? For peace?

Solace? He began

To realize there wasn't the

Perfect quiet around that he would have expected—

Out in the country. Plenty of disturbances here an......

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...What is Peace

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
 Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
 Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
 Peace is the generous,
 tranquil cont......

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...Catastrophe of the dry run

         The sea, Ice, air, human are rapture
        The powerful are brought to ruin

        Green horse making this World hot

        70% is absorbed in heat
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