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Borrowings Poems - Poems about Borrowings


Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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

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