Spiritual Elegy Poems

A tribute to Marie,
Marie, you seemed to draw the short straw in life,
Again and again, 
Yet somehow you were able find a way to keep...

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Perhat Tursun

Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city...

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Do you love to stand upright for the truth?
Or do you love it more,
bending to lies
At an acute angle forty five

Degrees of false moderation
permits you...

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Hear me 
As I make my plea in deep thought.
Of what essence is this that come from my nostril?
In purity of joy I came

Smiling as...

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Nonpareil les belles-lettres spellbinds

Adherence regarding credo
to finish reading arbitrarily
self selected book beginning
to end silent promise made
otherwise, I experience guilt
analogous violating unwritten

law, said private oath binds...

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Freely forming metrical mainstays
poetic occasion to phrase
the fairer and gentler sex,
thus the following turns of phrase
to bestow acknowledgement

regarding wonderful wise ways
of collective she who assays
to...

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Radiating waves of thoughts unseen,
the battle gallant rages 
in sub-hematoma nether places
An invisible clash against dark principalities
from the shadow realm,
the stricken valiant breathe
with unconscious, godly...

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starry eyed cloud of surreal angels

utmost nadir of despair found
this atheist craning his neck skyward
hearing resplendent August
choral symphony may sound absurd,
but...mine supreme auditory sense

(compensated with...

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The game of life  starts 
 With first breath  in
 Then breath out
 Again breath in breath out
 Continue remains till last
 Breath...

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The powers that be
show us 
what they want us to see

But the whispering wizards 
behind the veil,
all have an emerald poker tell

The froggy princes that...

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A life of burden and heavy loads
Protracted suffering and dead end roads
What crimes have I committed 
That my fates are predisposed
To lonely pain, waves of...

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Psalm 116:15 of the Scriptures declares, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.”

That truth speaks well of the heavenly...

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Robert Frost...A Reflection

No matter corporeal essence
     of Robert Frost bid adieu
from temporal plain approximately
     five and fifty...

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Death was dreaded. 
Rehearsed. 
Experienced. 
Dreaded more. 

Being told, 
Silence. 
Empty. 
Frozen. 

Death. 
The day arrived. 
Surreal. 
Nothing. 

The bond was broken, 
The memories ended,...

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Raise my hand beyond your prowess, 
A beautiful harmstrong of the running hill. 
In a watch I saw him coming to trespass, 
Of which his...

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