Nightingale’s Lamp
...Demanding schedule,
Shadows lengthen in the quiet hours.
Everyone pushing pens, crumpled papers in bins,
Mistakes made, restarts with no end.
Demands unmet, demands that are too much,
Yet the he...
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Categories:
dementedly, culture,
Form: Free verse
Rebuilding Paradise
...Paradise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciat...
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Categories:
dementedly, earth, eve, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Mirza Ghalib Translations
...Near Sainthood
by Mirza Ghalib
translation by Kanu V. Prajapati and Michael R. Burch
On the subject of mystic philosophy, Ghalib,
your words might have seemed deeply profound
and we might have...
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Categories:
dementedly, soulmate, spiritual, tamil, truth,
Form: Verse
Paradox Lake - Thanksgiving 1972
...Corny: I haven't used real butter
In years
Only eat this fake crap now the
Colorful plastic tub
Slather it on the baked potatoes
All you like
Won't hurt you none as a left eye
Twitched...
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Categories:
dementedly, food, thanksgiving day, travel,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 10
...“Clap your terrible wings, vivacious serpent of old!
Imagine my plight as dangerous as your spite,
Stomp your clawed feet on these prison floors,
Peace shall always follow the sink of your fangs…”...
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Categories:
dementedly, adventure, confusion, growth, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Requiescat In Pace
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Requiescat in Pace
Written: by Tom Wright
February 2015
At the outset,
Tears start like dew from a tender leaf,
Then transcend into a torrent;
A mind is a library of thoughts,
N...
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Categories:
dementedly, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse