Best My Own Poems

On My Own

It is early in the day for most. 
I am just going to sleep. ‘
This will make many people angry. 
But at times, I just don’t care. 
I wish that I did. 

A glass of wine, a pill from the doctor. 
That is not enough. 

Soon, it is a second glass, a second...

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Sometimes when I write, I tend to stretch the truth.
Same as when I gossip; I've done that since my youth.
It's not so much deliberate, but to tell a story well,
Folks tend to stray from tedious facts to magnify the tale.

This habit's often utilized a bit, I have surmised,
In speeches heard at funerals for loved ones...

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Along this season’s mid quarter-time,
I find myself wandering between 
The raw of night’s wanton  pleasure
And the sacredness from morn awakened:
Late evenings replay a dancing fire
when each hour blazes  thrilled adventures
daring  the  self to run with passion: jazz music
gyrating through city lanes, sauvignon kisses
 from love’s rendezvous, the late communion
with this artist's...

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My own proverb.....

Dream with your words,  make love with your pen
And create an art of poetry with your soul.

Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka
All rights are reserved @ 2016 Ravi Sathasivam...

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In the middle of my own small world I stand,
Both feet planted firmly on the land.
Gold is the sun in the sky.
Oh, that I could fly!
Then you see -
I
Would be free!
Earth-bound, though, I sigh.
I'll remain so till I die.
Knowing that out there is something grand,
In the middle of my own small world I stand.


Written 2/5/15...

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Some people call it breakfast which makes me snicker and giggle
It might have been since it starts with a pancake or two
except then I add extra things to make it into a dessert.

At the very least I add a pacakage of vanilla pudding,
a teaspoon of cinammon, a quart of fat luscious blue berries
Then I lavishly...

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Sometimes when I’m alone --
                          I start to think ---
Had I not been an addict ---
              ...

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Poetry to me is my legacy 
Poems I write to live on endlessly 
So like it or lump it
I’ll blow my own trumpet 
And leave them to historic supremacy....

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Cold misty clouds rise above the grates
The streets only illumination, tossing shadows like pennies
Faded street lamps at each end
The cold is biting, as I roll the collar over my neck

I received a call earlier that day
A new client, who insisted not to meet,
At my office
Just fine with me, my office scared its fair share
Of prospects...

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wrap your arms around me a little too tight
let yourself be the noose that ends my life
tear ladders in my tights while holding me down
pull a little too hard and drag me to hell
take my heart, its in the center to the left
its yours, my darling, take it right out of my chest
clutch my hand...

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Too long spent in deep shadows 
prevented my eyes from seeing
why the lights were so dimmed 
why I had the need for freeing

Verses written by candle light
but not signed with my name
with one step out of the shadow
my first poem went up in flame

No lack of inspiration to fuel
a captive poet's sensitive ire
he reached for...

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YOU'LL NEVER WEAR THE CROWN
NO BETS YOU'LL WIN THE RACE
NO MEDALS ON YOUR CHEST
NO TROPHIES FOR YOUR FACE 
NO ONE COULD EVER LOVE YOU 
YOU'LL NEVER MEASURE UP 
DON'T EVEN BOTHER TRYING 
YOU'LL NEVER BE ENOUGH 
THESE THOUGHTS SWIRL IN MY HEAD 
I'M DROWNING IN SELF DOUBT 
THE FEAR TRIES TO CONSUME ME 
MAKES ME...

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My own proverbs.......

' Make your life rich with compassion and not with wealth'

- Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka
All rights are reserved @ 2015...

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They come to me with their tall tales.
I pretend to listen to their fables
Appropriately sad, I say
It's well my sister. 
Everything will be fine 
I say it like I truly mean it.
The truth is,
I have my own problems to deal with.


People throw banters and enquire about each other 
They act like they mean well for...

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" If you need food on your table,
always try to earn it"

- Ravi Sathasivam...

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