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My Poetry Book
I have read that book
cover to cover
many a time
It's held me when I was down 
gave me smiles all night long
It has given me a...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epics, poetry, poets, sad, ,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Erato Muse of Poetry
1.
Uninvited you come, oh Erato*, you muse of poetry, the 
Majority of the times,
Knocking at my soul’s door at any given moment
Insisting on letting you...

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Categories: epics, inspiration, muse, poetry, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Ramayana
Ramayana, a Hindu epic, 
written by saint Valmiki, in Sanskrit
one of the two largest ancient epics,
the first ever poem ever created
many many centuries ago.
It ...

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Categories: epics, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
India Shining
India, my motherland best as any mother
To me, at par with best world over

India's invention of Zero and Decimal 
Critical to scientific calculation, invention

Rich ancient...

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Categories: epics, motherworld,
Form: Couplet
Patradoot Or the Messenger 29 /Many
Patradoot or The Messenger29 /Many 
  
English version by  Ravindra K Kapoor 
Originally written in Hindi by my 
Late father Dr. Amar Nath...

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Categories: epics, epicfather, city, father, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Bard
Someone had to weave the tale of how the beast was slain,
to paint in valor all the scars and make it worth the pain.
A knight...

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Categories: epics, hero, language, poems, poetess,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Candles of Your Fingers
I miss the candles of your fingers holding mine ,
as we waltz on floors that bathe our dusk.
Seasons glimmer of moist orange,
hands tracing night passages...

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Categories: epics, death, memory, missing you,
Form: Light Verse
Amanuenses - Origins
Scented smoke from sandalwood upwards rose
As the venerable sage in yogic pose
Chanted arcane, esoteric Vedic prose.

The Sylvan glade with marigold and rose,
Where the doe with...

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Categories: epics, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member A Land of Poetry It Is
In my dream, appears a mysterious land from far away...                       
of the vermilion sky at...

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Categories: epics, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fathoms Deep
NOT WRITTEN FOR A CONTEST

I often write about the ocean's secrets,
of its crashing waves that roar in apogee
and the treasures it washes upon the shore.
I've...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epics, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
The New Myth Makers
My pleasure is in creating my own mythology.
I have read the saga's, the legends the great epics,
and they have made a garden for my spirit...

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Categories: epics, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Hero of Ages
Hero of Epics,
Powerful spell in his hand.
Your blood on his blade....

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Categories: epics, dark, dedication, hero,
Form: Haiku
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8
The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak

The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play 
The prints...

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Categories: epics, culture, freedom,
Form: ABC
Patradoot Or the Messenger 39 /50
Patradoot or The Messenger 39 /50

English version by Ravindra K Kapoor 
Originally written in Hindi by my 
Late father Dr. Amar Nath Kapoor



When in the...

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Categories: epics, epicfather, father, freedom, hindi,
Form: Free verse
The Apple City New York
While listening to Schumann’s “Arabesque” 
and “Fantasiestüche” for the Mozart B flat Sonata,
I feel the warmth and love that’s powerful within;
a moment of instrospection, a...

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Categories: epics, happiness, hope, imagination, life,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs