Best Stricken Poems

Fall tumbles relentlessly on our door steps
young winter birds inducing provoking sounds scamper in trees 
Watching winter crawling slowly under our feet.

The night rain wet the ground with sadness 
washing  away the environmental stench
purging the atmosphere of  its infectious dew
And  I could...

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My eyes wander across the lush and subtle valleys that embrace the creases in her smiling eyes. 

Illuminated with a connecting glance, 
fires of eternal genetics can not easily be subdued by reason...nor put a far by persecution.

The nervous tension could not possibly be a...

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The rain-god bursts in Himalaya regions
With snow-covered mountains and deep forests
There’s  Kedar temple for Hindu pilgrims
Coming to worship the god in thousands
Sanctum Sanctorum inside the temple
Of Kedar revered by millions of Hindus
A bleak picture of purses, bags and shoes
All personal things lay strewn in...

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Drive me not to love thee more 
The one thing I cannot do 
Devoted head to toe I dedicate my all 
With daily memories of you

Speaketh please and grace my ears
Thine feelings are all that amount 
On our day of love, to be kissing thee...

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Before you i was content
Unhappy but a smile was easier to fake
You infiltrated my mind
Seduced my body
Engulfed my heart
Freed my soul

After you I’m drowning
The hands i once held
Refuse to reach for me
The arms that once secured me
Refuse to embrace me
The lips that used to whisper...

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Somewhere between
vowels and consonants
you disappeared

Although I looked for you
beneath apostrophes
semicolons and quotation marks,

Really
"where are you love" I groaned 
"I'm here, expecting you" I moaned

Commas and fullstops did I leave behind
dash-bridges I hopped over
and question marks I climbed,
and through the narrow pathways
of tankas and haikus
? tumbled...

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The air is clearer up here
can almost taste it,
heaven knows..
just above the stair
where skeins of rope-like hair
lie still
festering..
all in neat rows.  

Why was it to be? cast down, why?
Here where they don't dream
of flying or understand 
the simple rites..
the good in dying.

Years now I...

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Soon the autumn will come
And the winter too.
As I lay counting my days -
I wonder, will this autumn be my last 
season?
Yet I long for winter and spring too,
Will my dying day be happy as I am 
now? 
Yet I long for sunshine and 
moonshine...

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I was truly saddened by the massive quake
that shook China’s Sichuan province;
It was a huge disaster, a furious nature
that at times like this is indeed doleful.

I saw images of devastation all over,
I saw human sufferings in this situation;
I couldn’t believe their profound sadness
seeing deaths in...

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Wrapped in some linen appearing as drab;
Beneath a saber of menace that constantly stabs.
It’s a mother of vengeance with words spat from vile;
It’s a thing of deceptions that has charmed and beguiled.
A possessor of titles with a venomous charm 
But not a confessor of doings...

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Excruciating loss of limbs

As tears run uncontrolled...

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Even through we had gone our separate ways in life
I feel... as if were a mistake
I just can't seem...
I just can't seem to shake this feeling off
And I wish...
And I wish... to have you back in my arms again
Why does love have to be so...

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The strong winds swooned her hair in air
Her tears had welled up inside to the brim
She could not fight alone a battle so grim
They wanted to lay a distraught grief bare

Stalked, abused, and stymied not to dare
No help came to lift her worldview so dim
It...

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I've been stricken by one of Cupids arrows!  I'm madly and stupidly in love with you!
Forever and always, the spell can never be broken.
Because Cupid lives forever and ever.
Therefore my love for you will as well....

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Africa my continent
I remember you today as always
The cradle of civilization
The land of great and revered warriors

Endowed extravagantly with all God’s natural resources
Africa my continent
The land of great promise
Africa of Achebe’s Things fall Apart, I salute you.

Rise up and take your destiny in your own...

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