Best Diapered Poems

Cupid's arrow missed your heart,
an uphill task waits for me,
should I be diapered kid
and try my hand once?



© kashinath karmakar
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Placement: 4th;(March 2011)

Contest:Winged Cupid

Sponsor:Dr. Ram Mehta

By:kashinath...

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NATURE'S PSALMS

Is Beethoven's ensemble fairer than nature's psalms?
Amidst a crowning sun: ears and eyes are drugged,
drenched with tender notes, orchestrated by greens,
inhale deep, the aromatic...

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Diapered kid flies around,
shoots arrows at mismatched souls,
and does it all blindfolded?
That stupid Cupid!


For the SYLLABLES OF WISDOM 2 Poetry Contest of Silent One...

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A baby was named this past Saturday
At a service that I attended.
On Sunday there was a memorial
To remember a life that has ended.

One weekend’s events,...

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Aching hands, aged and scarred
Wrinkled, arthritic with callouses so hard
Knuckles swollen from times being broken
Now weathered and weak, quite painful to open

In days of youth,...

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The Zweiback Warrior


Zweiback cookies – teething biscuits
Yucky, gnawed upon, gummed delights
Xeric surface absorbing wanton drool
Wielded, by the toothless cherub, in
Valiant fencing stance encumbered by
Unsteady footwork...

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Don’t know about you, but I think it’s stupid
To give lethal weapons to a diapered Cupid
(and what happens when he’s gotta go?)

See his soft feathered...

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Asifa's Blood Pens 
(The Courageous Princess)

No! No! Wipe out the name of Asifa! 
No more Asifa's on this earth to be born!
O Lord, my creator,...

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I think that cupids arrow
Must have been full to the touch
Cause when he sent that nock your way
It barely made a scuff

It didn't find its...

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Potty Training and Capitalism

“My Bobbie was potty trained by 13 months”
The wicked lady drawled

As she cast a sideways glance
My direction

The glance
~was noted!

My 2 year old...

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(Nakshatra is Sanskrit word for constellation of stars )
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A midnight canopy diapered in silvery dust
glows celestial light into massive vastness ,
where rapturous brilliance of pearly...

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My grandchildren are growing up faster than dandelions on a summer’s day.
One second they are pulling themselves up on couches, 
and falling on their diapered...

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Walk slowly and chew gum
eating prunes makes you run
Thinking of what you should have said
spending more then what you have

Time flies young boys sigh
when they...

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staccato repetition reverberating in his ears
The rattle and the spinning flicker lights
Is it all a ploy to break him in his weakened sleepless state
A way...

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My Plastic Architect
Clean lines,
Sleek designs,
The heart of a 
Cold-blooded killer.
 
All for plastic presentation,
And glorifying adoration.
 
Being in absolute control,
Is imperative,
To his detailed nature.
Critical to...

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