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A Rooster Crows
Born there in a manger, shepherds loved you dear,
Welcome exalted Savior, we feel your presence here.

You hung the stars celestial on pegs to shine at...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renounced, religion
Form: Rhyme



Sky Full of Stars
'Twas pain that taught my heart to bleed 
for sorrows of another...
then kept my deepest heartfelt needs
in silence to serve a buffer

For in the cutting...

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Categories: renounced, love, , sweet love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Dance of Salome
The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,  
for tonight we revel...

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Categories: renounced, dance, daughter, moon, mother
Form: Narrative
Life Abandoned Me
I’ve been deserted and forsaken, 
relinquished and reawakened.
Renounced and completely vacated,
living a life intensely complicated. 
In the throes of woes, I’m saturated. 

No more time...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renounced, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mindful Eye
Mindfulness shows us the way,
self-aware through night and day.
Ego urges deflect thought,
thus its best, to be self-taught.

Exiting game of shadows,
we graze in heaven’s meadows.
Erst fears...

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Categories: renounced, spiritual,
Form: Jueju



Emo Love
With this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone...

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Categories: renounced, anxiety, beauty, emo, i
Form: Narrative
Die As If Lived Forever
Life is beautiful
Happiness is state of mind
Spiritual pursuit elevates soul 
Alexander too departed with empty hand

Happiness is state of mind
Emperors too faced gloom’s wrath
Alexander too...

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Categories: renounced, death, lifesenses,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven

The Final Days:  Rosalia’s Death and Destruction
In the wake of such evil, debauchery and...

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Categories: renounced, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By Thiruvalluvar
Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan 


[Given...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renounced, education, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Twenty-Four Black Roses
Deserted 
    Desolate 
    Destitute 
    Empty 
    Homeless 
   ...

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Categories: renounced, birthday, eulogy, rose, valentines
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member L'Octroi Des Droits a Jacky - Transl of Mudrooroo Narogin's They Give Jacky Rights By T Wignesan
L’octroi des droits à Jacky – Translation of Mudroroo Narogin’s « They Give Jacky Rights » by T. Wignesan


(Note : The first aboriginal writer to...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renounced, discrimination, freedom, political, race,
Form: Free verse
Renouncement
1.Renunciating a thing liberates
one from grief.	
2.Early renouncing earns many
delights for harmless.
3.Renounce by controlling desire-yielding
five sense-organs together
4.Renouncing, righteous, desiring, falling
back as unwise.
5.Banishing birth-sins body surplus
why rebirth...

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Categories: renounced, retirement,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Kalamatsch
Kalamatsch

As a kid I played with mud in pouring rain
               ...

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Categories: renounced, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Crime Is Snowed Over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Il Neige Sur Le Crime
The crime is snowed over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s  Il neige sur le crime

Are we buried under snow holding our silence
in what immense Cimmerian...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: renounced, absence, devotion, war, ,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost of Christmas Future
Marley’s Warning

Much to do with shadow and ghastly renown,
Showing us all where we end up in the ground.
Rusty hinges, let swing old cemetery gates.
Their screeching...

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Categories: renounced, old, me, old,
Form: Rhyme

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