Dispassion Poems - Poems about Dispassion

...**Being in the Moment** My mother believed in prayers more than my father did. My father preferred to tackle his problems with a flask of white rum, while I believed in the importance of being pre......

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...Stealing your thoughts a crime of dispassion the penalty fatal my name stays unknown A larcenous caper whose felony looming authorities chasing though lost will they roam Returning your m......

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...One may well in one swift motion Snatch a jewel from crocodile jaws, May swim across a vast ocean Gone stormy what with giant bows, Can well fight with a furious snake And wrap it like garland ‘......

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...Easy to please an ignorant, Easier still, man of talent, But too hard ‘tis a call To please half-baked know all, Whom, even gods of heaven can’t. _______________________ Translation | | plea......

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...Men of learning mired are in envy, Those of influence, proud and haughty, As rest are ignorant, My poems have gone gaunt, Untold, unread, old and weary. ___________________ Translation | | poet......

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...Forever who’s in my thoughts, she Alas is indifferent to me, And for someone else longs, Whose heart elsewhere belongs, And that someone in turn loves me! Fie to such devious love indeed, Sc......

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...The opposite of life is death The polar opposite of eternal health is terminal disease, with unease perhaps lying/truthing in-between timelessness and untimely demise So too, my opposite ......

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... Recapturing moments, as if gazing out of a broken glass window. Distorted and blurry from all the tears, the hurt, the sorrow. Lost in nostalgia, Plagued with visions of your laugh, your love, y......

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...I asked my Sacred Arts and Science professor why seminars work and play better in feminist circles than claustrophobic minion lines of lectured from teacher's desk above S/he sings in rings ......

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...My body has needs just as I have mine but since I live in it, I oft indulge, yet watchful that my head and heart align, lest wayward ego shows its ugly bulge. Oh hermit, note these secrets I divu......

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...Three sister winds, Ephemeral progeny, Spawned by the sun's relentless But passionless heat, And the earth's inexorable Grinding rotation: Sirocco dances across the vast emptiness of the......

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...Does a rose bush bring forth cacti? Do tulips bloom bluebells? Do grapes appear on Clematis vines? Figs on Banyan trees? The instinct of creative blossoming, in each creature dwells There's a clas......

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...Enjoying Earth's promised land of compassionate multicultural communion, we share a preference for deep rich soil and fertile green-blue resonating surf As our bodies adjust to rocky and pr......

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... Satiny softness surrounds me as your touch ensnares me in ardent, consuming passion for which there is no exultation too much. I desire no respite, escape, dispassion as I am your unrel......

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...Gratitude for grace already received is a robust measure of generosity. Compassion scans for generosity's fullness felt within as incarnated without As dispassion predicts greed's anxious e......

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