Best On The Basis Poems
Jungle DrumsJungle 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
The Amistad MutinyThe 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
Everyday ChristiansI 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 ColourColour 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
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
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 DeathThere 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 LifeMahammad 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
K375 and K376 of Canto Xxxviii of the Thirukkural With CommentaryK375 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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Categories:
on the basis, fate, life, nature, people,
Form:
Couplet
The Build Up To a Fallen DreamMy 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 Miracles3Phi 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 NestNeighbour 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 3But 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 PerceptionSlaves 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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Categories:
on the basis, introspection, love, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse