Best Vain Attempt Poems

* A collaboration with the wonderful poetess Subhadra Naryann. Please check out her heartfelt poems here on PS.

In transcendental dreams a lover's voice
seduces from beyond...

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Heart impenetrable.
I hammer a nail
In a vain attempt
To hang my portrait.
In the depth of her soul.
She loves me not,
The spark has long died,
Like a weak...

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On the road to cessation,
I discovered tiny tears,
The kind most accompanied
By legions of saviors
(albeit rented for just a few hours)

Undeterred, my race resumed;
Candles lighting my...

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Fragrant flower, Jasmine infused,

the evening breathes comic book laughter,

colors white and green and yellow.

Our heroes, our saviors in bold of

twilight blue and mud red ocher.

Perfume...

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INTO THE WILD

I dreamed ......

An arboreal wandering into the wild
Creeping in narrow-leaved green herbage
Afraid to be mashed by other wolverines got riled
Their safe abode is...

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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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Because of you I will engage 
In a futile, vain attempt,  
To put in words upon this page 
What loving you has meant. 

Through...

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Love’s Sullied Rose


He emptied the trash and his heart
the detritus of loving’s pain,
vain attempt to erase the start,
He emptied the trash and his heart
of sullied...

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You Cut – You Choose


“you cut – you choose”
Solomon-like solution
last cookie dilemma.
Not so easy with a duplicitous heart.
Clutching both halves in vain attempt
at holding each...

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Her hands were happy, 
she fluttered them against 
a cliché sense of blue in the air
and laughed when the allure of 
the flowers further on...

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For Didds

Four tankards found at the foot of the hill
Bet someone got w*nkered, and now they feel ill
Bet it went down so easy that no...

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The evening dark and foggy as the children in their guises
with Mums and Dads in tow; collecting trick or treat surprises.

My porch, festooned with spiders,...

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Misspelled words and drawn remarks lend palatable distinction to the AIR 
surrounding this 
poems. The meaning of a word takes from the birth of the...

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 Eye chased mye deer into the rough the golf was tough and leathery the...

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Like a Tuber mushroom
an Authoritarian State
thrusts myriad mycelium tendrils
in a vain attempt
to control every contingency.

Like a Fragrant fern
a Constitutional Republic
radiates spores far and wide
to invariably...

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