Best Remanded Poems

"The Forest"

In the forest 
we meet strange gods
our reflections 
are seen in their eyes

in our dreams
we remember them
we meet them face on 
we touch them

they do not remember us,
they consider us, 
we are common, and 
very well known to them

we are like glass,
broken pieces
we are...

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Cheap wine dimmed in the candle light thinking my life's bleak like her dreams keep cramping my sleep and I've had it with uncleaned teeth clamping when they bite like a dog with a lock jaw slamming tight.
Remote needs batteries check her sock draw and...

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An outcome more preferable than becoming a slave.
Peace beyond dreaming on the way to my grave.
Accused and found guilty, I was not remanded.
Inflicting retributive punishment is what I was handed.

The noose hung before me, my future to die.
Onlookers glaring in silence, then an insidious cry.
Relentless...

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Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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I love my pet - ignore those who would scorn,
Question, my adoration proudly worn.
I can spill my guts freely without fear
Always here to listen yet will never sneer.

Where can you find this type of loyalty?
More than just my pet but like family.
He never does any...

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Once was a calm that lurid me
with all her warmth and hope.
Once was a storm that captured me
with all her force and might.
a wind that ensued with it 
and remanded me throughout the night.
Where were you as I was drenched
for her clouds unleashed that day?
Once...

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He began his life of crime at the innocent age of two,
When he STOLE the hearts of those who loved him true!

At age five he PILFERED cookies from his mommy's cookie jars,
And at the age of ten, began SMOKING by puffing on his Pa's cigars!

At...

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Flower in People’s Heart

Arrested! Contained!
Remanded just the body
The iron heart will never,
Never surrender.
The tip of people's arrow 
For democracy
Flower in heart will blossom
Over the dictators!

USA, 25 Jan 2011...

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Unprecedented and unannounced
The sound out-hauls the band
The beat of corruption much allowed
Now in dual they posses the land

Who should the finger now highlight
The finger itself is bent and bet
White in the day but black at night
The unlucky hens now incur the rent

Hope appears to be...

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The murky, green,
monumental mass,
rippling in an battling bounce, chopping in equal anarchy.

Man's disturbance leaving and sparing no measure,
a injected energy an pulsating riveting melody.

All as one and all divided,
the spoke has broken, 
but glued in an endless movement.

Cracking slightly, fragile, 
gently grasping,
thinly separating and ever-parting.

Like...

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There was once a sot named Cletus O'Toole

   Renowned 'bout town as a well-rounded fool

      Saturday nights without fail

         He was remanded to jail

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The Pen I Stole from Work

Sweet is the air of fortitude;
Its molecular structure is arranged
From a lesser degree of longing;
The whim and stance of breathless
Wonder supersedes it, yet it seeps a billet
Rise in the light of all such atmosphere.
Up this hill I stand and quake...

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I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?

The wind is calming now; the earth is bathed in dew;
the stars'...

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There was once an old boozer named Dale

   Who guzzled copious pints of ale

      Although he tried his best

         He flunked the road-side test

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Make provisions 
             in the morning
in the blurred and blackened darkness,
        as  you  traverse 
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