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Canto Poems - Poems about Canto

Canto Dreams
(A weary voice whispers) Like a slave to love I once looked for true completeness But like Beatrice and Dante, There was always a great barrier Between us (C) Copyright John Duffy Foundation. Does society, peer pressure, family or religion, hinder many when searching for love?...

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Categories: canto, life,
Form: Rhyme
Bel Canto What's Ruining me What's Ruining Us
One's perspective might be the precursor to his down fall when it's all or nothing he might end up with know one at all betrayal of ah lover has real consequenses a fool only loves someone that he only misses a celebration doesn't make you a celebrity I've found someone else we're alone when it's just you and me can't do that round here everyone know's were married they push...

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Categories: canto, break up, conflict, culture,
Form: Ballade



Premium Member As Long As Canto Lasts
I’ll be around as long as canto lasts. The beat of drum, a naked blast of sweat. My skirt, a round, chases the breathless casts of oxygen - the faces red - oh my - and so is mine. The passion fire. I sigh… Of sticks and stones that create hate - my bones do ache and amplify sensuous zones. The opera,...

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Categories: canto, dance, song,
Form: Dizain
Canto De Maio
Canto de Maio Em maio surge um canto de esperança, do menos, fazer mais é a regra; superar e realizar com força para fazer mais e mais. Em maio, no palco do mercado, o sonho é real e o negócio é: fazer com pouco mais e mais....

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Categories: canto, business,
Form: Free verse
Hindu Anarchy Coming To India: Canto Ii- Two States Begin Fighting
Which is the easiest way to make two Indian states to fight? One is to throw power, language, water- Issues on their face. So you’ll have got two Dravid states Fighting eternally, O’er slight and petite things for decades Meaningless, mundane, So that your Aryan Empire in the North will have its way Of flourishing and bringing in caste and Sect-bred troops set free. Not one but...

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Categories: canto, corruption, environment, malayalam, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Hindu Anarchy Coming To India: Canto I-Farmers Farewell
A common confrontation between Man and animals From the wild, are pigs roaming farm lands Destroying the crops Of pöor farmers, it’s indeed a Problem in Indian states With forest borders, acute in her Many smaller states. In larger states where lands are vast And circumference of Pigs’ roaming areas big, those only Near the woods suffer, But in small states like 'Kerala where Ham'lets and villages Are not...

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Categories: canto, betrayal, culture, farm, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Glowing Lantern - Canto I
In the dark of night, in the timberland, The moon became obscured and overcast. A burst of rain covered the ground so vast, And through the late-night air the moisture fanned. A fog began to form after the rain Had trickled off, and soon it subsided. Through the...

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Categories: canto, friendship, light, memorial, night,
Form: Rhyme
The Glowing Lantern - Canto Ii
The stranger now asked if he could sit down— The other man’s head then began to shake. The traveler then felt fully awake, As he looked at the stranger with a frown. Once the stranger sat down at the table, He placed the glowing lantern between them. The stranger...

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Categories: canto, friendship, light, memorial, night,
Form: Rhyme
The Glowing Lantern - Canto Iii
The eyes of the two men then raised and met, As they looked at each other in the night. The glowing of the lantern remained bright, And their damp clothing no longer felt wet. "Your efforts will soon begin to pay off," Said the stranger, as he began to rise. ...

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Categories: canto, friendship, light, memorial, night,
Form: Rhyme
Crustacean Canto
Lobsters packed in eighteen-wheelers grapple with their feelings. A mass custody of shrimps spoon together still pink with passion. Crabs cross-dress bound more-or-less to nips of salty resentment. A soupçon of sea bugs dished up on bright porcelain plates. Fresh alien captives worth more alive than dead until we break bread....

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Categories: canto, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member K1087 and K1089 of Canto 109 In the Thiruk-Kural: Thagainangkuraiththal
K1087 and K1089 of Canto 109 of the THIRUK-KURAL: Thagaianangkuraiththal (In the transliterations, the capital vowels stand for the repetition of the same vowel: eg., “A” for “aa”) K1087: kadAak kalittrinmEl kadpadAm* mAthar padAa mulaimEl thuthil As veil o’er angry...

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Categories: canto, beautiful, emotions, first love,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Book Three of the Thiruk-Kural On Un-Authorised and Authorised Love: Canto 109, K109 To 133
Book Three of the THIRUK-KURAL on Un-Authorised (concealed) and Authorised (religion-ordained) LOVE: Cantos 109 THAGAIANANGKURAITHTHAL to 133 (Note: Love between mainly the wedded pair from the standpoint of the fair liana-like “lady” of the pliant bamboo-shoulders, light of tread, fresh as the lotus-shoot of a light-green hue, bedecked in jewels, matched by pearls for teeth, her...

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Categories: canto, beauty, loneliness, men, sensual,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Thiruk-Kural On Women Who Know No Bounds: Canto 92 Varaivin Makalir K913,K919 and K920
The THIRUK-KURAL on Women who know no bounds : Canto 92 – K913, K919 and K920 (Thiru-Valluvar comes down heavily on women of the « oldest profession in the world » in this Canto 92 consigned within Book Two since the stress laid on the wishes and practices of such women are based on WEALTH, the...

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Categories: canto, drink, men, money, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member On Praising Ladies On Their Qualities In the Thiruk-Kural: Canto 112, K1114 and K1120
On Praising Ladies on their Qualities in the THIRUK-KURAL: Canto 112, Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal, K1114 and K1120 [Please see "introduction on the plight of young girls" in the previous post on this Canto 112: K1111 and K1113, and please note that they were (and are still from all accounts though less frequently) given in marriage by...

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Categories: canto, beauty, child abuse, mother,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal
Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal [The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amorous relationship between the sexes, i.e., cantos 109 to 133. of which the first seven concerns itself with "concealed love" (the Gandharva marriage) while the last seventeen...

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Categories: canto, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil,
Form: Epigram

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