When you don't reflect, on cause and effect, you're leaping right to the middle
With half of the clue, apparent to you, you will never unwrap the riddle
But when you know how
Milk comes from a cow
You'll be over the moon, finish work before noon, cause you'll know cat comes before fiddle
Better the heart that breaks
for some high cause
than the heart that beats on
for no cause at all.
Be not the shrinking shadow,
but the light that shines,
a torch that dares the darkness
and becomes a star.
Friends may be wondering why I pay
more attention to true romance,
since I was warned and told,
" Work your way to kindness,
and appreciate it more than gold. "
Falling too easily and too quickly
for somebody seems crazy. "
I should have listened
to my mom for once,
not given her a nasty look,
suddenly sped away;
she meant well, but it didn't stick.
I kept spreading my bed
with scented rose petals,
invited beautiful girls over
on long days of hot summer
and took their innocence away.
Did they understand their mistake?
Did I understand I was bad?
For each tear they shed,
no younger heart cried and bled
more than they did;
they were angels caught
in a Paradise
of unexpected surprises,
It opened their teary eyes
and made them see the real me,
showing a false romance
that didnt make sense;
I played the role of king
and felt happy.
Stubborn boys out there,
don't ever try this trick;
playing with false romance
harms innocent girls:
it's unkind, it's an awful fix.
All naughty boys
shouldn't be remembered
and loved,
but despised
and pushed aside;
they are the cause
of false romance.
unsouled seem I as binary star
a twin forever separated in time
space holds ace yet cause and effect
must harvest its dues, no tasty stew
breathed as one by the One
masculine to ground feminine
to sky ~ high is low, mirroring sows
east ties west, four feet be blessed
hearts entwined for missions divine
dualistic artistic to be realistic
black with white etheric swirls
through aeons timelines twirled
union within is goal to achieve
like worker bees we do believe
yin-yang is Almighty's conceive
unsouled we weave to finally
c l e a v e ~
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Honorable Winner Poem
Allpoetry Contest: Theme : unsouled
May 26
There are nights you fold into yourself
because the world feels too heavy
and your own name feels like a burden.
Nights when you stare at the ceiling
and wonder how a heart can keep beating
when it’s this tired.
You think no one sees you.
You think no one hears the quiet ways
you’re asking for help.
But I do.
I hear every unspoken plea
in the way you hold your breath
and pretend you’re fine.
You are not a lost cause.
You are a bruised soul
still trying to stand
after life has knocked you down
more times than you admit.
And that fight in you —
that tiny, trembling spark
that refuses to die —
that is proof
you’re still worth saving.
One day, you’ll look back
at the version of you
who begged the universe for mercy
and you’ll realise
they were never broken beyond repair.
They were just waiting
for someone to remind them
they mattered.
You matter.
You always did.
You always will.
You leave a hole in my heart
every time you leave
and a band-aid
every time you come back
My life hurts...
Cause for concern
Pain is management
Suffering's just learned
My days die...
Darkness to sunrise
Shawdows demand it
In the light of lies
My future is false...
The Evil reciprocates
Then laughter begins
As sin manipulates
I just want to leave
But no one can leave
Please just let me go
NO!
Flower flourishes, then follows the fruit,
Dark clouds gather, only then comes the rain,
Seed’s sown at first, and then arises sprout,
Cause and effect, ah what a sure-set chain!
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Sanskrit translations | 13.01.2026 | cause/effect, change, fruit, rain, seed/sprout, quatrain
Note: Sanskrit has thousands of Subhashhitams, words well said set in a quatrain and metered. Transliteration of one talking about cause and effect follows.
Udeti poorvam kusumam, tatah phalam |
Ghana-udayam praak, payah tat antaram |
Nimitta-naimittikayoh kramah ayam || Subhaashhitam ||
You came as a effect.
You will leave as a effect.
So don't let causes affect your effectiveness.
The First Cause is our Heavenly Loving God
More intimate than any of this sod.
His Holy Spirit abides
Like the Life-Sap confides
And purifies at the root,
From head to foot.
My blood is deep.' And dark so old..' more
Than blue.' P'raps purple bold..?And yet a
Servant i'm glad to be..For the only One
Who will always Be..Who always was, He's
To come and reign..Celestial master ever the same.' God of the universe.! God of all
Only He can uphold, His Glory my call.. By Him I stand, so come what may, should you
Wish to test me.? Have at it I say..Unshethe your sword, cross my blade today.' As fate and temper, rise and rage.'
Let oceons rail..And thunder roll.' Let the Lightning fork, I'll have at it again
For from the richest inkwell, i shall draw
Forth His pen.'
First say cause first say do -it
Like it when she all into it
What's better then
Me ,you and when
You stop acting like we
Just friends
You wanna get all into it
Passion kisses
When we do it
Ain't no time for resending
I love you so
That's what
I am mentioning
We alone
We gonna do it
Take your time
Get right into it
Love you so
Ain't no shame
In my game
If you feel like
Me then
We ain't shamed
Tell your man-freind
He is ah-chump
Break me off piece
Of that pusst junk
Tell yo Missus
I gave you ah thousand
Kisses
That's what you need
That's what you been
Missing
Got me singing
Ooh lah- lah- la, la
Oh lah- lah- la
Singing ooh lah-, la la la
Lah-
Singing ooh lah-, la,la lah-
Public night
We together
Said
I love you so
Said
I:d leave you never
Do my thang
When you let me
I'm right for you
You right for me
Left my uncertainty
at the door
Said I am in
Love with you
What's he here for
Come on now
You gotta believe
In me
Opened for you
Maybe now you can see
"The casket, laden with flowers disappeared as the curtain was slowly drawn.
If not before, now was the time for all those crying to mourn." The poet.
Immortality has always been an impossible dream.
The notion of living forever had lost its gleam.
When illness befell me and I wished for it to end,
Life led me to the soothing words of a friend.
Confusion overwhelmed me, I knew not where to turn.
Life led me to where I realised, I knew I could learn.
Despair and heartache let me see nothing but strife,
I was led to Christ my saviour who brightened my life.
Feelings of comfort and security and being held tight,
Brought love to my being and I knew all was right.
In the wild the young are held tenderly by clenched jaw,
Just one of the reasons a nurturing parent is for.
I have trod this earth for many a worthwhile cause,
With laughter and tears, in the safety of life's clenched jaws.
Its now time for the jaws to release my soul and open wide.
Not the end, this life let me go and I am at my Maker's side.
belief begets hope
not the reverse
hope less belief
beggars the verse
The dilapidated building wavers the hindsight
In a single city
Hidden conformity owns?
A previous creation of economy
Current currency in ink creates no mad article
One must adhere in the thick heat while justice witnesses change
The current volume of water "allowed" from water station
From station to station the ear is clipped in interest if reported earnings.
In this fashion panic has created itself a source of retired journal timing.
Cycle of labor markets itself
Not a new nor another
Speak easy
Speak easiest
Differing reason in seasonal appearance
In the space a forgotten person is left to entertain
The remainder of civilization has been acquired
The unfinished civilized area per "your" affront, complaint, insult
Inflammatory remarks is creation of code
Creating colony
Demanding colonization by war
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