Best Iva Poems

L ive your life level bes T.
O cean of tears - cease this fiasc O.
V iva la Vida,  never to see he R
E ver again, except death comes soo N.
R omantic days and nights platea U.
S uppose you don’t switch off the bedlam P?

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Candle maker Iva Bentwick's
business couldn't take a trick,
So he changed his name
to one not so lame,
Now business is pretty slick.


alternate last line:     Now many candles are being lit....

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Cool Fact: Elvis Presley holds the record for the most platinum certificates issued by the RIAA, with 70. Elvis Presley's records spent a cumulative total of 1,155 weeks on the UK singles chart since his first hit Heartbreak Hotel released on May 11, 1956.

Everything went...

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A butterfly lit on a leaf
And drank the Sacred Dew
That there had gathered in the dark
While yet the day was new.

Atop the blessed Iva tree
From which the dewdrops fell
Condensed from rivers and the sea,
He humbly drank his fill

He stayed there till the night came on
And...

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Tomes of scriptures, too much to know,
Too little time, woes, strife on toe,
Track what lies at the core,
Of crux, crucial from lore,
Swans do as from water milk draw.        
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Translation |16.10.2024| scriptures, knowledge, time,  woes, essence, milk, water

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Long at first, truncating then on,
Short to start, sounder as goes on,
Like forenoon and post-noon shadows,
Friendship of the good and bad goes.  
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Translation |34.09.2024| good, bad, friendship 

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam.  This verse talks about...

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Joys thrill upon suffering grief,
In dense darkness lamp’s light as if,
Good days all gone, should one get bad,
All alive, poor soul lives like dead.            
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Translation |31.10.2024|happiness, joy, grief, men

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of...

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I want to tell you
Tale of very old time
When god made
Adam and Iva 
To learn the flourish 
Concept of love
And spread it
Generation next
God was so happy
By his successful effort
And a now generation started 
Increase in population was
An automatic possess
So the tale of old time
Imagination of...

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Outgo way ahead
Than income if stirs man’s head,
She in a shrunk blouse,
Although from a cultured house, 
Oh looks a bit lowly bred.
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Tanka/Limerick |13.07.2023| humour 
Poet’s note: Based on a shloka in Sanskrit:
Vittam parimitam adhika vyayasheelam purusham aakuli kurute |
Unaam shukam iva peena-stana jaghanaayaa kuleenaayaah ||
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The learning of he who lacks poise,
In coward’s hand arms carried rife,
Contentment there’s, nor calm repose
To old man with a winsome wife. 
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Translation |07.10.2024| knowledge, weapons, timid, wife, old man   

Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. ...

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Our first romance was Satan’s pressed buttons
In my presence, her blouse lost three buttons.
And I, helper, to fix back the buttons
While she had it on and watched my patterns,
Leave giving my eyes to meet a buxom 
They were just bound to decide was awesome!

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Known for arms of a lovely lotus stem,
Visage of moon’s sleepless silver,  
Eyes like smiling lilies in lake, 
And smile of  a full moon’s sliver,
To win as wife, a woman of such fame,
Who’d not greatest of gamble stake?    
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To uninformed ears
The best of pen plain appears,
To him who can’t see,
A cross-eyed girl is beauty,
To hard to hear, jeers are cheers. 
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Tanka (Tongue-in-cheek) |14.07.2023| poetry, beauty
Poet’s note: This is a Tanka dressed as a Limerick. 
Based on a shloka in Sanskrit:
Aprati-buddhe shrotari vaktur-vaakyam prayaati...

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The trees rustling, sound like the oceans
Coming up to shore and going out

Slowly calming sounds of the motions
Knowing a crab is walking all about 

My life is also like the oceans 
Constantly seeking approval of life

All we have is our emotions
Screaming into our eyes


As I’m...

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