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Premium Member The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 1
The skeletons and songs of samsara eternal
fleshed, fattened and flamed in karmic harmony,
your heart begins to beat in dark plethora roll
an in utero thunder thumps...

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Categories: samsara, birth, death, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Samsara In the 5th
"Samsara in the 5th"



The phenomenal world
is illusory, it calls for 
nothing of substance
romance is laid out
legs and hearts spread
open like a catalogue 
touched through the...

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Categories: samsara, desire, dream, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Romanticism
Ouroboros and Samsara
karma is a boomerang  an unassailable yin and yang



Cliche:  "What goes around comes around"...

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Categories: samsara, anger, angst, happiness, irony,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 2
In the heart where your naivety resides
you wonder what haunts the sun
and why pain enjoys your childhood eyes,
when you see warm blood run
then you know...

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Categories: samsara, birth, death, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Samsara
Samsara
Endless, pointless 
Boring, joying, funny 
All beings struggling to escape from this realm 
Hell!...

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Categories: samsara, faith, imagination,
Form: Cinquain



Samsara
Why must all things suffer so
Oh how I would like to know
Why are we given life
Only to suffer hunger thirst and strife
Fairness is a thing...

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Categories: samsara, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 3
In the vigor of day no cloud, in night's creep thought so loud
the body of your birth shock animated, 
where nothing lies or dies 
and...

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Categories: samsara, birth, death, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
What a Buddhist Knows - Samsara Revisited
I am not a Buddhist
But a friend of mine you see
Is a student of the Dharma
And passes on to me
The wisdom of the ages
To help...

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Categories: samsara, destiny, life,
Form: Rhyme
Samsara
raindrops
falling upon leaves
of reincarnation


March 30, 2016...

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Categories: samsara, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Villanelle: If You Haven'T Had That, What Have You Had
Villanelle : If you haven't had that, what have you had*

If you haven't had your life, what have you had
In fear of what lies beyond...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: samsara, death, happiness, life, time,
Form: Villanelle
Sonnet 33 'sometimes, a Slow Fire Burns Inside of Me'
Sometimes, a slow fire burns inside of me,
And eats away at all the good I’ve done.
The Spark Divine’s across the Nether Sea*,
And of the blunt...

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Categories: samsara, anger, angst, anxiety, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Rainbows Here
Good earth styles
Fine ample grass;
A fine raiment


Sun and rain speak
Splurge fond refrain;
Rainbows echo


Dawn flings 
Shadows drowned;
Awake to birdsong


Man-made park
Forest architecture;
In the city


Journey here
Begin within;
Greet the...

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Categories: samsara, devotion,
Form: Free verse
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: samsara, education, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member The Warlord Wars No More -4
We've been taught the terror of triumph from where the heart looks...
General Caesar Sir, 9th Recon reports that Pompeius Magnus has fled by sea to...

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Categories: samsara, history,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Mother
MOTHER

         O Sakti, the spouse of Siva, O Isvari, Durgey, Mata Parvati, the creation
   ...

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Categories: samsara, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs