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How Gambling Haram Harms
Our religion forbids all 
games of chance guys
We ain't allowed to 
indulge in that harmful 
enterprise
But no one can claim that 
gambling is at all...

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Categories: elaborating, abuse, addiction, games,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member 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 


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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elaborating, education, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Parteeeee
Principally, pretty Penny the poet gave the ILLUSION of preening
Outside the Palace in the portico pre-party. 
Edward the Bard entered elegantly, elaborating with an INFUSION...

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Categories: elaborating, funny
Form: Acrostic
Young Falling Minds
Approaching life with no scrutinizing dispositions.
Relishing their youth,
Basking in the freedom of their most lively years.
Or so they say.

Young falling minds:
Everything is limited by perception,
Perception...

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Categories: elaborating, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Denouement
The garden was abloom
Life passed in glee
They were close friends
In a happy levity

He never felt that
She had started believing
The whole canvas of his poem
Was her...

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Categories: elaborating, conflict, dark, emotions, hurt,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Action Reaction Mx Missle
mr.X may have said,"By any means necessary." In elaborating, I'll say,"By any means necessary which is sensible, logical, rational, ethical, and most of all moral."...

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Categories: elaborating, autumn,
Form: Blank verse
Words
Words, some times be brief
Words, never a full sentence
Words, like those of belief
Words, that bare reference
Words, can be powerful
Words, sometimes stark    ...

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Categories: elaborating, write,
Form: Rhyme
City Night
Eclectic is the night, with its potpourri of smells and sounds...
A perfect muse on this lit, but dark, city street...
This town seems to change after...

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Categories: elaborating, social, people, people,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Literature
Literature
In a kingdom full of textbooks
There stood a documentary brooks...
Literature
Take thy literacy from out my heart
I am sworn of my descartes
The paper bound proficiency pretesting
My...

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Categories: elaborating, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whispers of Autumn We Longingly Recall
Under the canopy of the pine trees we lay
Enthralled in saffron shades of flaming fall-forest
As feisty robins sing and zesty sparrows play
Nestled in thick branches...

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Categories: elaborating, autumn, memory, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Quit Being Hyper Hypocritical About Freedom
Stop it! Quit being hypocritical about freedom
What type or what kind that you are talking about?
Be serious! Keep on talking about freedom
Until you drive me...

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Categories: elaborating, africa, america, betrayal, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Get No Gifts Sans Giving
Only so pleased by sacrifice
Proffered through sacred flame,
Graceful gods do give gifts of choice
So deserved by unselfish aim;
He that eats fruits by them bestowed,
And gives...

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Categories: elaborating, giving, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
The Squirrel Is Dead
The squirrel who played like a kitten is dead
    found her stiff and rigid body where she used to tread,
  ...

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Categories: elaborating, animal, death, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme
10-16-14: In a Conference Hall
The grey chairs form a perfect line of grey,
Like stagnant, grey-clad businessmen at work.
I have no life to give this lifeless day.
Blind, blundering Heart! Will...

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Categories: elaborating, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Flight
Tiny humming birds
Buzzing like bees
Fluttering fast
Fluctuating
Flying like a fleet of 
Helicopters sucking
Up cargo

Red and black flowers
pollinated by
crews of workers
not colliding but collectively
Cooperating
a church on mission
absorbing,...

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Categories: elaborating, caregiving, faith, inspirational, nature,
Form: Free verse

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