Life Columbus Day Poems

BLACK BOARD
BLACK BOARD COLOUR IS BLACK
CHALK COLOUR IS WHITE
BOTH COLOUR COMBINATION ALWAYS WHITE
WITHOUT BLACK BOARD CAN’T GET EDUCATION
THROUGH BLACK BOARD CAN GET EDUCATION
BLACK BOARD ENGLISH...

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Byzantium

In August, the heat tastes of dust and desperation
the despot feels that soon a time will change
the power is but in the eyes of the...

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OCTOBER

One is for Columbus, Two my Lady
This tropical place rattles memory --
Third cannot be memory of Autumn
The tropics dance to another rhythm

Yet where I am...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Life is a balance of holding on and letting go
Where we weighed both quality of joy and sorrow
We live, we love, we cry, we understand
Sometimes...

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You and I have met people who become just a flash, and
sooner or later we determine If they are 'a God send' or not

If you...

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The earth is beautiful at the end of the Milkyway;
The blue-green marble in space some would say.

A planet like no other known;
Full of a variety...

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Pan: Betel. Or quintessentially creole, made anew, pan-American music
Aloo: also Native American, the staff of life, versatile with curry
Naan: often translated roti, chapati, dhaalpuri, but...

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This poem is not meant to be a speech nor is it written to offend or give anyone blame.
It just a mere observation of how...

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The Psychiatric Patient 

Driving home from the shops I do not walk around anymore
I noticed despite the winter is holding us like victimized Palestinians,
a thaw,...

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Parallel Lives  

Is there such thing as living two separate lives?
I lived in a vale called the “Valley of the cobblers” were everyone
wore wooden...

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basket of green and red apples 
fullscreen fruitful seeds planted 
rotten apples in my eyes
have no demise
I find useful rotten fruit laying
in the middle of...

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Is it Epson Salt?

All those nice villas along the coast are empty save for stray cats and those too poor to live inland because the...

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Speculations and Amusements

We speculate and are amused
by the questions we raise..
All questions..however..
reduce to one question:  What am I..?
We discover all speculations and amusements
seem temporary..entering...

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Good Friday Gratitude to Settlers
Columbus gave it lip service
He loved the Virgin Mary
Almost knew Jesus Christ
Could not have had the Holy Spirit Fire

Today, or any...

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