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Forever and Ever Dear
...Originally Written on February 05, 2024; 12:13 AM Written for my deceased grandmother: Purification C. Ferrer In Manila, where work fills my days, I’d visit for your birthday in so many ways. ......

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Categories: cf., death, loneliness, longing, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Please don't leave me I love you
...He reignited my creative passion when he reentered my life His can sense to the core how I am feeling and asked me right away to be his wife Though it's been 45 years we have known each other and......

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Categories: cf., loss, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse



Question
... What's purpose of life - thought provoking question. Guidance stated by many is confusing. Advice received doesn't give any direction. Some say to find happiness or love people or ......

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Categories: cf., god,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Tuan Tata: Song of Uda - Parts One and Two
... TUAN TATA : Song of Uda - I by T. Wignesan (Patrick Noone, a British anthropologist, discovered the Ple-Temiar tribe living isolated in the jungle highlands in the State of Perak on the west ......

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Categories: cf., death, murder, tiger, wife,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story -X-Xii
...Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun (The pantun line varies betw......

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Categories: cf., age, humor, literature, satire,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Vii-Ix
...Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX Continued for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun Check out: www.stateless.mysite.......

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Categories: cf., age, humor, love, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story - Iv-Vi
...Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued) for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun Check out: www.stateless.mysite.com/Pant......

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Categories: cf., age, humor, satire, sensual,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Variations On the Malay Pantun: the Old Man and the Short Story
...Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun Check out: www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout......

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Categories: cf., age, humor, imagery, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lx and Lxi
...IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LX - LXI The Yijing says : " If the common folk commit crimes, the fault for them shall reside with this one person (i.e., the Sovereign) himself… " Transl. R. J. Lynn......

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Categories: cf., bullying, immigration, leadership, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
...Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, When I was twelve and he fourteen, It took away his ambitions, To study at Oxford - the pipe organ’s steam. I u......

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Categories: cf., atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Villanelle: Do Evil People Know Why They'Re So
...Villanelle Do Evil People know why they're so " Evil people resemble the Gods in that They too may do as they please. " From the Thirukural* (Cf. T. Wignesan. The Thiruk-Kural o......

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Categories: cf., evil, fate, god, humanity,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Recipe: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal - Concluding Stanza
...RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - La Ballade “Le Chant Royal” -Concluding Stanza (Note: As you can see, I have taken certain liberties with the fixed form, but have always kept close to the ......

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Categories: cf., abuse, allegory, child abuse,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member The Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K899 and K900
...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90, K899 and K900 [* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought t......

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Categories: cf., political, power, tamil, ,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K895 and K897
...THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90 K895 and K897 [* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and wise people whom the King ought to......

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Categories: cf., leadership, political, power, tamil,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration In the Thirukkural, Canto 4, K35
...Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration in the THIRUKKURAL, a random example: Canto 4, K35 by T. Wignesan alukkaaru avaavekuli innaacchol naangkum ilukkaa iyanrathu aram (refined, shorn of co......

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Categories: cf., memory, poetry, tamil,
Form: Epigram

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