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Premium Member Musings On Faith
What if love is the religion,
and heaven a voice 
with no ego; 
synchronized in 
harmonious hope,
speaking dialects
of kindness?
What if hell is a myth, 
and evil...

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Categories: shrines, gospel, heaven, imagination, muse,
Form: Free verse



Latent Desires
A world of illusions procreates
blinking sustained delusions
existence shivering in probabilities
memories afloat in traces astray
If only I were a meteor 
I'd cross those barriers
to merge their...

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Categories: shrines, analogy, desire, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marhaba
Ancient tombs, of long ago times
Byblos, the walled city, fortress and shrines
Shrouded in mystery, wisdom's, and thyme
The Phoenicians sailed from this very port
Their ships full...

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Categories: shrines, heaven, history, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Freeing Herself
the splendor of an essence, delicate yet
firm is called

woman…

awed by her mystery through years,
thirst of rivers and shorelines never knew
her meaning,
her perfume and poison
mixed with...

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Categories: shrines, courage, growth, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Take Me Away But I Promise To Sing a Song
NOTE: I have placed this Poem as a Video Poem also on
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[ This Poem is dedicated to Freedom of Expression  
and Tibetan Dharma Guru...

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Categories: shrines, freedom, imagination, inspirational, lost,
Form: Free verse



My India
Let me set something straight -
Right here, right now!
Let me put India in the right perspective,
Let me banish some myths,
Some gross misconceptions,
And take you beyond...

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Categories: shrines, home, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel 2
The Beauty of Charkha the Spinning Wheel  2

The Poem is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi and his Charkha


Cotton has always won the hearts 
Of every...

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Categories: shrines, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pilgrim Lips
devout pilgrim lips
in discovery's journey
leave love offerings
sacred shrines of her body
devotion's recipients

Jade Celeste...

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Categories: shrines, sensual,
Form: Tanka
My Folk Song
Amadioha the great god of Thunder and Justice
We have gathered at the shrine of Alusi’gwe 
To pour libations to you
Even as I do my folk...

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Categories: shrines, culture, dance, god, philosophy,
Form: Epic
The Perils of the Ghetto
Soft silhouettes sashay by my window
Grievingly gazing out unto a world of which you may never know
Linen curtains briefly ruffled in the breeze
Old drunken Julius...

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Categories: shrines, life, people, sorry, world,
Form: I do not know?
Power Rules
In this world
Power rules
What would have happened
If Germany won WWII in Europe?
If Japan won WWII in Pacific?

Jewes would have disappeared 
On this planet
Japan would have...

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Categories: shrines, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Land of Poetry It Is
In my dream, appears a mysterious land from far away...                       
of the vermilion sky at...

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Categories: shrines, culture, history,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Matsuo Basho
I find you in an old silent pond,
The imagery you've left will outlive all,
With nature,your immortal bond
You will stand like a kiri tree tall.

You, the...

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Categories: shrines, tribute,
Form: Ode
Holy Water's Magical Elixir
Hallelujah, born again

chapels scheming, mankind reeling

 in holy water's baptism of wizardly elixir

  postulating an all consuming reverence,  

rejuvenated myths of deiform fears

...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shrines, abuse, analogy, baptism, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lulling Symphonies of My Land
Guarded by towering hills on the East 
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell 
That lulls...

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Categories: shrines, appreciation, home, music,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs