Best Hermitage Poems

Night stirred memories, once forgotten of the days 
I burnt in love when you consumed my days,
and I carried you like a queen in the...

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Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in...

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My Muse 

This muse – personal trainer of my pen,
 This restless spirit pacing in imagination’s sanctuary,
Gathers fleeting moments into anticipation’s tabernacle
Swaddles divine laughter, brooding...

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The Love Story of
Kacha And Devayani-
One


BACKGROUND OF THIS
LOVE STORY

This beautiful story
from the Indian
mythology
speaks, how love and
hate can go to
extremes
when it is guided by
motives. 

Kacha was...

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The Wandering Yogi 

From city to city, from every  town to town
Catching every smile to smile, every frown to frown.
His allegiance...

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The Love Story of
Kacha And Devayani


Kacha

Allow me 
Dear friend Devayani
To leave 
Your heaven like,
hermitage
As I have completed 
All my learning’s
today 
Under the feet 
of your...

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I take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.


FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding...

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If you would get lost ever,
This beautiful world shall turn fade,
Every step shall be dormant,
Blood cells to get enthralled.
When all around become worse,
Love and romance...

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Winter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs...

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O Ahalya 
celestial beauty
bloom like lotus
ivory red pink lips
supple like  snake
fragrant like rose
A king Indra
a majestic man
radiant like moon
overwhelmed by Ahalya's
beauty like heaven
yes become...

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Vishwamitra was enraged 
how he been duped 
by Deity King Indra
felt ashamed of 
lost all the virtue
gained through years
after penance and asceticism
distanced from mother so...

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Alpha Bet Cap Cha

Just twenty six letters of the english language to whit
twisted in various & sundry combinations pit
this bull dog of a canonical wordsmith...

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III

Brahma thence forged a form— a female-head, 
Born of impending need, a weird form—
Black as born of darkness, tongue and mouth red, 
Eyes burning yellow,...

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The roads are clean and straight;
Lawns with no weeds.
The wild is locked and fenced;
The trash is in your pocket.
People park within lines;
Never mind arbitrary confines.
The...

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It's another Saturday night
ending this week
as started
alone again.

I came here
almost two years ago
to my retirement hermitage
but oddly,
and often uncomfortably,
shared with my hurt kids,
mental and physical...

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