Best Erroneously Poems

Spelling, syllable count, vanity, too simple, Simon! Be prolific, cruel, smart, up to par, above the bar, fit for the stage. Tap, tap, tap…
—by poet

The Prismatic Self

See the wooden stage, markers for my feet, bright lights, great expectations, critical analysis. Curtains will open any minute...

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Dear Siblings Three,

I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.

This is a variation on a diaspora story.
But, here growing physical distance
is seen more as a geographic effect
than a political cause
of growing estrangement on one side,
and...

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I searched many years, high and low
Looking every place I could go
Yet nowhere could I find 
the sublime.
The keys eluded me
How could I ever be free
should I falter and err erroneously. 
I looked into the eyes of Buddha and 
no key did I find.
I looked,...

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The tormented cries of a heart confined
Barely ever met a gratifying end
The meager state is but a trick of your mind
For the course of destiny lies in your own hand

Forsaken love, a conceivable excuse
For a shattered being, to give up life
It is but a presumption,...

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Defining a Man ( A Letter to my Daughter )

What is a man in these modern day attitudes and parlances of our times
harder now, I think to define a man than maybe it was
but then maybe not, considering how much we all have learned

Rather it...

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Once, 
About ten minutes ago in the year 
2006 or 
2549, depending upon which avatar or
 Messiah is consulted, I  
 Tumbled out of my bed to the 
Untranslatable 
Predawn
 Cackle of 
Frantic voices
Descending.
 
So, with urgency
 Rarely experienced since the 
Evacuation of my...

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Did your mother ever tell you,
Did you know?
(Some of us have a penchant for the inscrutable)
Did, your mother ever tell you
(These bonds are primordial and immutable)
In one of those intimate conversations
Between mother and child
(Mostly wasted on superficiality of dopamine significance)
About your origin and your age?
(Neither...

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She turns from side to side in the mirror
As she critiques her body
Comparing it to the fashionista standard size 2 
So far she’s found at least 6 imperfections
Blaming it on the food that she ate
She knows somehow this doesn’t add up
Because her body needs nourishment,...

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Standing up tall holding my own leaning hard headlong into the wind yes I believe I have heard felt seen it all it seams. 


Been down on the row held my hand up high up on the bush - but yes time tells me to...

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As the wind blew over the smoking embers,
The smells moved into homes-
Houses that stood by the ancient crematorium.
It's always crowded, so many people die these days-
We've even seen half burnt bodies,
There's no time to reduce you to ashes.
But we can purge you in other ways-
You...

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[I work at an office,
with a fixed salary
to feed a family:
without a denial to hardwork
I work tediously
my little ones attend school routinely,
We solely wish necessities
neither comforts nor luxuries]. 

Dear me! I desire if it was true
but fellow humankind treat us erroneously.
It's arctic outside.
we wander the...

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Love this World by showing care
Treat all the souls with affection
In case they erroneously blunder
Rescue them by kindly forgiving

All may not be great experts
As they may possess defects
See the brighter side to love
This opens gates of peace

Converse with a kind heart
Stress the best benefits
That may...

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We all incessantly search for joys
Joys of life in whatever we pursue
The quest for joys though genuine
Is, always misplaced unfortunately
But true, nevertheless, undoubtedly.

Joys, we seek erroneously, in things
And objects that are away from us
Hence the chase of a mirage, unreal,
Lead to loud despair, and trepidation
And...

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IDEALLY, THE WORLD WOULD UNDERSTAND WOLVES.

Rarely do they kill just to kill…but for survival.
Even when wild dogs kill sheep, wolves get the blame.
Mysterious, aloof, confident, proud and beautiful
Every action a wolf takes is for the good of the pack.
Many people fear Canis lupis and kill...

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Men are now women and women are now men?
People have no more sense, than a rooster or a hen.


People blowing up fatter like parade balloons?
Then, we can float in trash dumps that once
were beautiful lagoons?


We no longer believe in God or His resurrection.
Just destroying the...

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