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Premium Member Jungle Drums
Jungle Drums

Well known was Molly by gossips
Words fell so easy from her lips
They always found ready ears
Revered was she amongst her peers

A casual meeting Molly made
Good conversation she displayed
Invited then to mothers meeting
Where received a rapturous greeting

For all the ladies gathered there
Knew Molly had a...

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Categories: on the basis, life,
Form: Couplet
Wishes
(on the basis of Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata)


Be calm, because it's vanity of vanities,
reach harmony taking a truce.
Be generous, despite “in vino veritas” 
all in the world forget the truth. 

Remember that all have their rights –
an ignoramus here or there a fool.
And are you right...

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Categories: on the basis,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Amistad Mutiny
The Amistad Mutiny

Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle Passage3 leg of the voyage,
Disenfranchised from their Mendiland4 home in...

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Categories: on the basis, africa, america, history, racism,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Everyday Christians
I would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.

I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least in church on Sunday morning,
would have imagined this same Invisible...

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Categories: on the basis, body, christian, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Skin Colour
Colour me,yellow,white,black, or red,dont
discriminate me,
For my blood is same like yours!
Just do enough to stamp out,
racism,intolerance and xenophobia.
Respect all nationalities,religious backgrounds,
sexual orientation and ethnic origins.
None of us chose their skin colour,
we found skin colours on us.
They were given to us by the Almighty,
why judging me...

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Categories: on the basis, people, social, uplifting,
Form: Chastushka
Premium Member Salvage
"Salvage"


Salvage the fixating salvation 
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming 
the ladder from the deep of all things 
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping 
dissolved differences, tight discrepancies peppering the salt stings 
something honest and...

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Categories: on the basis, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style
~  SEEK  THE  LORD  ~
 (  Star  Of  David   )



~O~
 

God
For sure
Knows  sees  all
Wants best  for  you
He  sure loves  us  all
Lord wants us to have Love Hope Peace Good...

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Categories: on the basis, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
There Is No Beauty In Death
There is no beauty in death
Not a lack of, but none at all
Death is a hunter, a fierce one at that
You and I are mere prey

From the moment of birth
When you take your first breath
It is beside your bed to introduce itself as death
“Hi, I’m...

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Categories: on the basis, death,
Form: Lyric
My Love Has Tired Me of My Life
Mahammad Fuzuli (1494-1556)

Mahammad Fuzuli, the poet-philosopher, is one of the founders of the divan genre in the history of Azerbaijani and Turkish literature. He wrote his works in three languages (Turkish, Arabic, Persian) in the genres of ghazal, qasida, musaddas, tarkib-band, tarji-band and rubai. 
The...

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Categories: on the basis, art, destiny, dream, inspirational,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member K375 and K376 of Canto Xxxviii of the Thirukkural With Commentary
K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary

(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner and in a milieu where the oeuvre took precedence over...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the basis, fate, life, nature, people,
Form: Couplet
The Build Up To a Fallen Dream
My ASPIRATIONS were TOUCHING the sky!
NOTHING could stop the way this would FLY!
EVERYTHING was on track...or so it did seem-
but.... 
"It Was The Build Up To A Fallen Dream!"

                ...

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Categories: on the basis, dream, future, image, loss,
Form: Kyrielle
Holy Quran Miracles3
Phi matrix program is an American program used for displaying golden ratio of pictures and drawings. If we assume the longitude and latitude map of the World as an everlasting painting which has an endless depth, and open it in this program, we will find...

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Categories: on the basis, dedication, faith, world, city,
Form: Rhyme
The Neighbour's Nest
Neighbour likes to look into the neighbour's nest.
they want to know what's happening wrong or best?
they regard them on the basis of their assessments,
they share sadness or happiness to celebrate refreshments.
sometimes progress made them mad they nail hate,
in the absence of parents they abuse children...

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Categories: on the basis, caregiving, dedication, life,
Form: Lay
Sonnet *** Change, Life and Adaptation 3
But how long should I flog myself?
Even when all else choose to beat me silly.
Or, if life be justified to change,
Should justice now lead to the gallows?
When I’ve only chosen to live life.
Or, is it just that I suffered dis-applaud
For living life on the basis...

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Categories: on the basis, africa, art, fashion, journey,
Form: Sonnet
Slaves To Perception
Slaves to Perception….
 
Perception is influenced by probability judgments formed on the basis of earlier actions performed in similar situations
 
 
And I think I know
 
As much as I know of a triangle and breathed in the number three, all of this unto me all of this unto...

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© Toni Orban  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the basis, introspection, love, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things