The Rose's Worship
...The rose, beholding thy bright face, entranced hath grown,
All eye and cheek and ear in worship lost and shown.
Thou stole my heart, O heedless one—I still recall,
Though thou hast forgotten me,...
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Categories:
bring forth, cute love,
Form: Ghazal
Delusions
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A thousand bees never settling down,
buzzed within his head.
Their confused drone, into a ruffled rumble grew,
lengthening into frenzied drum beats,
taking t...
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Categories:
bring forth, angst, bible, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Beatifify
...To bring forth the truth
— most holy
To bring forth the light
— Divine
(1st Book Of Prayers: August, 2025)
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Categories:
bring forth, god, light, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 24, 25 and 26
...Part Twenty-Four — The Fifth Cupbearer's Song
O Saqi, one glance—show mercy here,
And heal this wound with wine so clear.
Fill up the cup for we are dry,
Drunk with desire that makes us sigh....
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Categories:
bring forth, cute love,
Form: Masnavi
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 15, 16 abd 17
...Part Fifteen — The Third Cupbearer's Song
O Saqi, pour the midnight wine
That bears the ancient royal sign.
Arise and swiftly bring, I pray,
That sacred draught to light our way.
The wine ...
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Categories:
bring forth, cute love,
Form: Masnavi
Jagged Edges
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“Should we deny ourselves pain, we would deny ourselves entry through many doors in our heart leading to where our soul patiently waits.” Poet
Many cannot conceive truths the faithful b...
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Categories:
bring forth, angst, conflict, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Thank You For Calling
...Thank you for calling Your Destruction.
If you’re calling to bring forth your personal hell, press 1.
If you’re calling for emotional devastation, press 2.
If you’re calling to enact physica...
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Categories:
bring forth, dark, depression, humor,
Form: Free verse
Beauty with Poise
...You're beautiful like no other,
Your smile can melt the hardest stone,
You were raised well by your mother,
Good home training you've always shown.
Many stars shine in night's vast sky,
But no...
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Categories:
bring forth, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Go summer, come autumn
...Days too long for the sun to bite still hard,
All trees bring forth leaves that are mostly green,
Different hues are what summer fails to preen,
With grace, yet with force, summer's hands bombard....
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Categories:
bring forth, autumn, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Ode to Tapuy
...Come! Bring forth the jar that for months had stood
Patiently undisturbed in the shadow!
Lift its lid, remove the leaves that serve as hood
And help age the wine that’s about to flow.
Cat...
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Categories:
bring forth, celebration, culture, drink, wine,
Form: Ode
Under the sky where stars entwine with the shadows of lost days
...Under the sky where stars entwine with the shadows of lost days, when sanctity becomes an echo fading slowly,
we bear the burden of time like a heavy cloak of lead, while madmen escape from the pris...
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Categories:
bring forth, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
epiphanies dawn
...magnetised palms and tingling feet
collaborate with our third eye
moon and the sun bring forth cool heat
toroidal heart lets out a sigh
our breath outpost, tip of the nose
signals readiness fo...
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Categories:
bring forth, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Chicks and Ducks in Splashing Spree
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Bursting, breaking free from egg shells with glee
Baby chicks welcome their blest endowed worth
Amidst mother Earth’s radiating mirth
Ready to frolic in the pond --- there they flee.
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Categories:
bring forth, appreciation, blessing, christian, creation,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Memorial Day, 2025
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While I struggle to understand
the battles, the wars
unending shadows weep
for the moments
just before duty called
you to the front lines,
where you would meet
the last encoun...
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Categories:
bring forth, appreciation, death, forgiveness, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Queen Of Emeralds
...The Queen Of Emeralds.
Thy mothers name is victoria! So full of strength and love!
Thy mothers voice is that of a songbird, spirit is of queen of storms.
Thy mothers net is one of safety, no...
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Categories:
bring forth, appreciation, daughter, mom, sister,
Form: Acrostic
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