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Limbless Love 1
Limbless Love

Light gone and then sound,
Romancing darkness at hand,
I cheat night again,
Courting your formless fondness
Embracing  your  love, limbless.

@ 05/ Nov/2012 

S.Jagathsimhan Nair

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Categories: limbless, love,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: limbless, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Put Them Out of Sight Now
Lay down your old ink pen...
Rise from the table...
Push back your chair.
Gather them all up...
Put them out of sight now...
Place them safely in the cupboard...

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Categories: limbless, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Five Word Challenge - the First Daughter of Eve
My Father, 
See the little serpents slither
Among the Wolfsbane, the Foxglove and the Daffodil
My mother distains the creatures,
And fears the beauty of my garden
Though I...

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Categories: limbless, beautiful, desire, inspiration, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Dead Spiders Weave
“It’s a terrible love 
And I’m walking with spiders…
It’s a terrible love and I’m walking in
Its quiet company…”-Birdy

Three long claws enclosed around a lone beating...

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Categories: limbless, analogy, creation, devotion, grief,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Reserved But Cannot Be Forgotten
A blessed soil which perspires cashews and coughs out black pepper,
its global banner of rice is raised so high
which is only beaten by one.
Specializing in...

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Categories: limbless, community, earth, education, environment,
Form: Ode
My Yellow Slippers
Day one of her stay,
     and it was with my yellow slippers I had to part away.

She seemed to love them...

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Categories: limbless, feelings, life,
Form: Couplet
December Is Lost
Without you next to me as I sleep, it’s like carbon monoxide in my lungs. I awake rotten and malnourished. Experiencing life as a ghost,...

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Categories: limbless, adventure, art, dark, december,
Form: Romanticism
Respect Life
Hearing distant cries,
Hope you hear my demise
The deceased fight a battle, recognize
Armageddon heven began to rise,
Evil had no disguise,
Man idolize the warning of the wise

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Categories: limbless, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn At Sunset
At twilight’s ease of dusk the autumn leaves do flutter in the
Evening breeze, trickling downwards across inspirations canvas,
Creating a multicolored cascade at sunset, a leafy...

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Categories: limbless, adventure, animal, autumn, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Forgotten Voices
The date
July Twenty Eight
The year, 1914
The War which we feared 
It began, something we could not foresee
This date, still haunters me
To this very day
Those bewailing...

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Categories: limbless, conflict, courage, depression, military,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enterprise
A crippled mass of beggars
Each at the corner of every street
Deformed by cruel and greedy hands
They perform their daily feat
Of scrounging from the passers by
The...

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Categories: limbless, angst, introspection, sad, society,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Immoral War
Blinded and limbless, I represent
the hundreds of thousands young men sent
to fight in another country’s war
on rough terrain never seen before.

Our country called and we...

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Categories: limbless, adventure, death, depression, war,
Form: Rhyme
Headlines
Believe me,
                       ...

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Categories: limbless, confusion, courage, death, holocaust,
Form: I do not know?
My Neighbourhood
The road to my backyard is long and straight
Evergreen trees abound and provide welcome shade
Home to myriad birds, butterflies and the bees
Last summer their branches...

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Categories: limbless, loss, nature, memory, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs