Best Slipped My Mind Poems

Sharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his...

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41.
        Resist I Must

Pride is hubris run amok
To rot the soul within.
It rises from the depths of hell...
The...

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I wear a white buttoned shirt
And my friends call me four eyes
But I don't care, just slowly walk away
And give 'em my gang sign

Don't bother...

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Mama you missed a part….
You never told me;
You groomed me mama.
You taught me to walk and talk like a lady:
And that I did.
But Mama you...

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forgive me master
while you at your desk
took private your thoughts

i dared trespass...
approaching silent
i slipped your mind
in the rays of sun
i came from behind

the master
and I...

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Hello, how are you?
There's something urgent I need to say
Oh me? Well, I'm fine too
But I'm not the reason I've called you today.

It's our feral...

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The Sermon

You must be mistaken has it slipped your mind
Allow me to explain it to you one more time
I’ll never leave God…again I say never
Even...

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He turned into a rooster, right there before my eyes
His arms became plump chicken wings, imagine my surprise
His chest puffed out and swelled with pride...

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 Tetractys 

Oh Dell, what did you do with my poem?
the one I wrote
just last night.
Where is
it?
 
Duh!
Of course
I saved it;
I always save.
I have looked...

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To the torn page out of Modern day Merlin’s book of wizardry,

I regret to inform you that you are nothing more than a recipe for...

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(reference...read the poem by Danny Nunn.."The Wind Called Dolores")

Last month here on Poetry Soup, an imposter invaded my space
Un invited she came with a vengeance,...

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just because you had blue eyes
did it make you crazy
just because you had dark hair
did it make you lazy

because I was friends with your family
and...

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I dwell on virgin moments lightly spent
beyond the lips of verdant fairy glens
A grand invincibility was mine
and life, ah life, the sweetest purest wine.

I danced...

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The Art Of Wondering 

Another wonderful discovery.  I had it all the time.  But I didn’t know it was mine. Maybe 
it slipped...

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I knew he’d forget

All I wanted this year was a bike, I even wrote Santa three letters so he wouldn’t 
forget. I ran to my...

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