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Premium Member Jaffna My Jaffna
JAFFNA MY JAFFNA
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All I could see from where I am now,
Jaffna my birth place,
Core of my heart.
So I took my thoughts six decades back,
And saw...

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Categories: palmyra, first love,
Form: Free verse



Lines More Lunatic Than the Sun 7 - 8
Lines more lunatic than the sun – 7

playing on the raw-coal 
the under-clothes of the airhostesses 
continue to sing a song

even-then the germination of the...

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Categories: palmyra, allegorysun, proposal,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Burning
Islam Burning


In deep purple flame
Stapled to the cross
While the peasants yell below
Demon demon demon
Black flags rise
Hearts fail to beat
Humanity has lost this score
The axe swings...

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Categories: palmyra, allah, dog, eulogy, evil,
Form: Light Verse
Refugee
Beating the midday forlorn sun
By foot they begun the journey leaving the pun
Beware of the dangers and tactics to shun  
Between that time and...

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Categories: palmyra, war, , western,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Who Would Milk the Tigress
Who would milk the Tigress
				
                				    wears...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmyra, freedom, mother daughter, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Requiem For An Unknown Tigress Cub
still the climbing green lianoid lass


her tender tendrils torn  


massive metal lying like a cutlass


in her lap forlorn


      ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmyra, childhood, daughter, mother, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133
Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133

(Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmyra, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Once I Was Prince - Part One
for Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)

Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
  timber and stone
  ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmyra, family, day, me,
Form: Free verse
Zenobia
For Palmyra in her eternal home
Your feminist smell, 
Your purple dress, 
And all what engaged of history, 
Transients with psalms war..
Brobos and Oorljnos 
And the...

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Categories: palmyra, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once I Was a Prince - Part Two
Once i was a prince in your eyes my every wish granted
        even before I could wish it
eevaa...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmyra, family, me, water, fear,
Form: Free verse
Gratefulness
1.Heaven and earth unequal
to undone help.
2.Tiny help timely done
greater than earth.
3.Help, unexpecting profits
greater than ocean.
4.Millet size help seems
Palmyra for known.
5.Thankfulness unequals help but
nobility of receiver.
6.Remember...

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Categories: palmyra, love,
Form: Couplet
Summer
Summer has just started
    Let us go to the market
To buy the young tasty Palmyra fruit
the transparent jelly like texture,
which is so...

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Categories: palmyra, beautiful, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Lines More Lunatic Than the Sun 4 - 6
Lines more lunatic than the sun – 4

your body 
that’s fond of tv-soap

with its un-worldly moonlight 	and worldly tricks and posterings
as if  		it wants...

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Categories: palmyra, allegorybody, sun,
Form: I do not know?
Good Mourning
Wake up sleepy head! Guess what. 
You've been selected! As a prostitute 
for the Running Man. 
The eat your own for fame or money power...

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Categories: palmyra, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Squirrel's Squeaky Squeal
Squirrel's squeaky squeal...!


It was a warm evening stroll 
along the bund of a canal;
The river flowing further away,
I used canal bund for my sway.
The muddy...

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© Ram Ram  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: palmyra, beauty, environment, fear, how
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things