Exigent Mind
...I swear tout de suite,
that...
My noddle ain't petabyte
But just a condign floppy disk.
So I could swiftly flush out some memories,
And retain only what's necessary.
I swear I wanna draft some ...
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Categories:
condign, absence, deep, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
Brazen Lines By An Outwardly Pompous Poet
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If the sin of pride is my condign curse;
then I own it, and I can do no worse.
If the world disdains me, not saying why;
then I can stand it, though I want to die.
Outcast for good, alone...
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Categories:
condign, forgiveness, god, hurt, loneliness,
Form: Heroic Couplet
King Trishanku
...His voice raised, with the right hand
And a proud, angry face to the sky,
The sage chanted mastered hymns aloud;
His strange mission was to send
King Satyavrata into the abode high;
The latter w...
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Categories:
condign, philosophy,
Form: Lyric
Grim Measures For Similar States
...grim measures for similar states
successful, expressed for reliable mobs
of absolutism, a gallery for Maghreb’s
intellectuals with frail aims
infringing mourning words, words of familiarity saved...
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Categories:
condign, allegory, allusion, creation, dedication,
Form: Sonnet
Send Not To Know
...No favourites does lacklustre death play
With equal fervour the doors
Of paupers and kings he strikes
Whether high or low
He does not care
At his summons
All must follow
To where their worldl...
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Categories:
condign, death,
Form: Free verse
The Bridge At Abydos 1
...I
There are two ways of being in this world,
the eagle and the serpent, sometimes called:
while one seeks boundless heaven, wings unfurled,
the other through low dirt has always crawled,
and see...
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Categories:
condign, history,
Form: Rhyme
How Do You Know
...How do you know what you deserve?
How do you condign yourself so free?
How do you know where your treason lies?
How do you know thy true worth and thee?
How do you judge yourself unrestricted?
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Categories:
condign, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, dark,
Form: Rhyme
I and Me
...Seeing, what others want us to see,
Invigorate ‘them’, by subduing our plea.
Tears inside, still continuing with a glee,
Temporal affiance, desisting us to be free.
If this is life then what are ...
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Categories:
condign, courage, dedication, deep, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
Beauty and the Beast
...There swims in each of us, a catalyst for dreams,
an urgency that calls from shores that never were,
a twinge of terror, lining distant paradise,
uniquely all one's own.
No one knows where all this ...
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Categories:
condign, allegory,
Form: Free verse
All My Trials
...The thrust of mind on every plane
relflects adversity...
and life idealized
is every life that cannot ever be.
Profound, the misanthrope that operates
behind the shadow of our consciousness.
Pervasi...
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Categories:
condign, angst, life,
Form: Free verse
Toujours--Jamais--
...(one of my very few macaronic poems. If you read even a little French, you will understand why I chose this form)
Your tongue embraces paradox, Monsieur,
in its perpetual romance,
and most condign...
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Categories:
condign, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Condign
...white light melds red
streak bloody down the sky
gravitational will, drawn
constellations of tragedies
kiss the mark,
kind bullets
shooting star, reloaded
heavenly mess explained....
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Categories:
condign, death, religion
Form: Free verse