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Premium Member Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...

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Categories: narrow, analogy, how i feel,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Umbrella
*I Will Cry*

If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?

I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...

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Categories: narrow, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member World Day Against Racism
You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how...

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Categories: narrow, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Glory of the Eastern Edge
In moments of twilight civility
an exchange of gifts - 
darkness for light..

RISING

from beyond the softening silhouette edge
you brighten like a blushing damsel
hazy haloed
unabashed in the...

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Categories: narrow, appreciation, beauty, imagery, morning,
Form: Free verse
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: narrow, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: narrow, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
The Turning
The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the...

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Categories: narrow, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Streets of Blood
Streets of blood

She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow

With swine and pearls running...

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Categories: narrow, hate, love, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Transcendence
When imbalance of life churns hapless poignancy
And the zephyr of inequities breezes melancholy
Dissonance reverberates echoing pathos of grief
Seeking exaltation within metaphysical profundity
As hushed posture conjures...

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Categories: narrow, inspirational, introspection, peace,
Form: Verse
Mountain Church
Four friends and I, one Sunday, take a ride.
our church still closed just short of one full year.
We drive, white almond blooms on either side,
instead....

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Categories: narrow, day, devotion, nature, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Paper Boats
(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)

You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings...

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Categories: narrow, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Simple Words For Simple People
If I  had a pretentious brain
which acts faster than my heart
Maybe then,I would abhore this soul
which spreads freely through each verse
Maybe then I would...

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Categories: narrow, analogy, beach, beautiful, books,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Love Letter To My Friends of India
When I think of India, I think of dark eyed beauties,
their foreheads painted with decorative red dots,
and I see them moving deliciously in beautiful bright...

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Categories: narrow, community, friend,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                ...

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Categories: narrow, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Robin and the Sparrow
Oh if I were a true poet
one that could write a good rhyme
I would compose a few ones
and earn myself a dime.
 
Why, I'd write...

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Categories: narrow, bird, red,
Form: Light Verse

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