We Are Borrowers
...We think we are free
But alas..as long as
Separation and autonomy
Are sown into our
Cloak of beliefs
We are borrowers
Accumulators
Of beliefs not our own..
Freedom eludes..
Freedom is felt...
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Categories:
borrowings, death, identity, irony,
Form: Blank verse
Repaying Borrowings
...We borrow
From the banks
Money,once
To repay in installments
We borrow
From air banks
Our breath
In installments
To repay once
Grow more and more trees
To repay borrowings once...
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Categories:
borrowings, environment, feelings, tree,
Form: Free verse
Banalata Sen - Translation From Bengali Poem
...This is a translation of the famous Bengali Poem " Banalata Sen". The author is
the renowned surrealist poet of India - Jibanananda Das (1899 - 1954). This poem is considered as his best and one of...
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Categories:
borrowings, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
The Tongue Ever So Young
...An eggplant need not taste nor look like egg,
Nor in a hamburger ham need be there,
Where's pine, apple in pineapple, I beg?
Nor yet french-fries in France invented were.
They native are— America...
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Categories:
borrowings, language,
Form: Free verse
Something Wicked
...In this spring of discontent
When fair is foul and foul is fair
Something wicked this way comes
And floats, invisible, on air.
To be or not to be is not
The question underlings must ask
For t...
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Categories:
borrowings, appreciation, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Cockies' Lament
...The Cockies are in trouble, they can’t live off the land
Mortgaged out of existence with the need to expand
Hope like the land eroding, luck just giving out
Bushies fighting continually, fire, floods...
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Categories:
borrowings, life,
Form: Rhyme