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Premium Member For Amadeus
Stray with flamed music along bay’s shoreline
Give in to notes playing among the sand
As fingers dart symphony’s rush, I pine
	
Caress your tinted strokes written longhand
As I feel allegros bursting moon’s shine
Give in to notes playing among the sand

How can frail youth’s light steal your brightened...

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Categories: longhand, devotion, youth,
Form: Terzanelle
Disappear
DISAPPEAR
Tremors are the worst,
the full-body shakes
its like my skin is too tight,
my body doesn’t fit,
my life doesn’t fit
the anxiety no one understands
its invisible,
I’m invisible.
“Snap out of it, Shaky”, they say
“You’re just faking it.”
And I want to crawl into a ball and disappear.
Where did my confidence...

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Categories: longhand, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Artemisia, Part 2 of 12
(It was 1860 when the English poet Robert Browning
stumbled upon an interesting artefact as he walked
through the city of Florence.  It was a file of documents
from an old Italian criminal trial, and he would turn
this material into his masterpiece, "The Ring and the
Book".)


The Old...

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Categories: longhand,
Form: Blank verse

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Premium Member Golden Secrets In the Flower
"...The Secret of the Golden Flower is not only a Taoist text of Chinese yoga but also an alchemical tract. (...) it was the text of The Golden Flower that first put me in the direction of the right track." C. G. Jung

"The Golden Flower...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, angst, introspection, world, flower,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Be That One
Time has flown by. Much of your life
you've spent denying all the strife.
But you can never answer why
much of your lifetime has flown by.

Hand each sad tale you write in. Long,
ambiguous, verbiage strong -
saved in your mind. You never fail -
you write in longhand each...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, age, growing up, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Where Do We Come In
Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages  pictures  or else make for images of what we saw dreamt of as part of our lives in...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Growing Up Too Soon
growing up too soon

	you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
						being passed by
	a hasbeen
				still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
         in fidgety drawn-curtained waiting rooms

and the always taken-for-granted toiling mothers maimed in mid-life stoopbent under...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, age, growing up, lonely,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Did I Say What I Said You Said
Did I say What I said You said

You said looking a little forlorn
						a little redundant
	the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
   thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the day
             ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, grief, humanity, metaphor, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part One
Prizes for Ultimate Sacrifices


    prizes for the abstemious  for abstinence  chastity ?
                 the countless occasions for love you let slip    ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, howl, inspirational, metaphor, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Anyone For Humiliation
  anyone for humiliation

                   do even the best cringe
in shame
                ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, abuse, angst, courage, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Poems: I Didn'T Say Poem
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Brahman Nemesis
                             Brahman Nemesis

          22 But to those who...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Naked Death

			Naked death


…the barred and sealed cattle wagons
							disgorge
at the Konzentrazionslager
						            the faux pas relief
    from urine mud faeces sweat and tears
unkempt armpits buttocks best wear
   turned to damp rags
 ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, bereavement, death, grief, hate,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Who Would Milk the Tigress
Who would milk the Tigress
				
                				    wears no armour    gasmask
				pail within squat thighs
					nor bloodless forefinger and thumb

Cows wear forlorn looks 
	distressed mien 	
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, freedom, mother daughter, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unmeant Meanings
 Unmeant meanings

	Words keep watch
				
      their eyes in the empty spaces
                             ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longhand, imagery, meaningful, music, song,
Form: Free verse

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