The Dowry in The Skies
The smell of fresh baked cakes keeps floating in the air and daylight burst through the sky spilling coffee latte on the roof and I stood still inside and watch the cream drips slowly from the ceiling and my appetite began to grow.
The morning delicacies with its illuminated prophecy is baked in the sun on
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Categories:
dowry, best friend, culture, dark,
Form: Narrative
Three Bottles of Dowry
I bought you
Three bottles of dowry
The Barman is my witness
Then you staggered away
Leaving me on bended knee
You called out Mama and fled
Clutching on the chronicles
On a Sunday midnight
when we roam
What brought you to the bar
I bought you three!
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Categories:
dowry, crazy, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
Dowry Bane
bedecked golden bride
golden goose for gruntled groom
golden noose or life
~25 Jun 2016~
A commentary on the odious practice of demanding dowry from the bride's side in an arranged marriage still prevalent, though outlawed by law, which is often the cause of great harassment leading to suicide, or even murder of brides. The present Law in
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Categories:
dowry, abuse, culture,
Form: Senryu
A Dowry of Dreams
Dreams are approaching my Love
following the stars to your heart,
beside your body I breathe and gaurd your lips
the sentinel of your stellar song, the heat along your lyrics
listening to your language of smooth beauty unfurling lunar fabrics
wasting all the wrong that reaches for your innocence,
demons dare not the sharp sheen of my devoted dagger,
death
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Categories:
dowry, angel, beauty, devotion, heart,
Form: Epic
Stop Dowry
Marriages are made in heaven,
but dowry has made it a business transaction,
Tears roll down from my eyes,
When i think about the burning brides,
Stop dowry,stop dowry...
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Categories:
dowry, marriage, sad, woman,
Form: Rhyme
The Dowry
Prayerful countenance, my soul's own veil
has aptitude in keeping mind's involve
to follow true poetic thought's portrayal
and hold in dowry's distribution ~ love!
A parasite, distrust, does muster fail
that groveling of lust from out its cove
does terminate resumption of faith's hail
to usury's assumption of truth's strove!
That music, consequence, denies sort's time
by its incessant mitigating's fine
thus grace unfaltering
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Categories:
dowry, art, music, on writing
Form: Rhyme