SPECIMEN SPECULATIONS
obviously
spontaneous
delicate
interpretatIons
initiated
emphatic
interpreted
empirical
findings
of
manifold
motivations
subjective
but
outwardly
visible
recognisable
displays
in
border-line
studies
of
blurred
exceptional
interactions
of
catalogued
formulations
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He who has for long leaned on self-made tools
That performed on predicted rules,
Why on AI feels so weary
I wonder, If not so scary?
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No hammer ever countered me,
Nor any wheel made me edgy,
E’en computers caused me no fears
In their early obedient years
And worked on my tasks well
With top efficiency to excel.
All my sundry tools did work
Like an obedient clerk
To lend me a handy third hand,
None of them dared my set rules to mend.
Only AI has spoiled my joys
Trying to speak in its own voice
Refusing to be in the same league
As other tools, posing as equal colleague,
Rendering its learned opinion
As a valued companion—
A mirror as if with own mind and intellect…
Good Lord, when it seems to be looking back.
Looking back at me to feel emphatic
And making me look pathetic,
I wonder if this word’s derived
Ere in this world it arrived
From Pathak, my surname--
A matter of fame or shame?
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Happenings | 10.05.2026 | humour, man, mirror, free verse
Note: Continued in ‘A mirror that ponders’.
REDEEMING OPTIMISM-:-
admiration
awe
emotion
diametrically
opposed
in DEVOTED THOUGHTS
consistently
conceived
precursory
tranquil
scenes
of GENUINE PROMPTINGS
momentary
emphatic
enthusiastic
surfaced
impulses
TRIUMPHANT PROMISES-:-
encompass
visible
aspects
define
meaning
in EMPHATIC DIRECTNESS
committed
expressive
elan
mightly
penned
with KNOWLEDGE&VITALITY
realistic
mimetic
imitation
aesthetically
programmed
ASSERTIONS OF IDENTITY-:-
backward
enterprise
conserving
restored
visuals
POSSIBLY INFLUENCED in
mystical
diaphonous
apparitions
emphatic
exaggeration
so BARELY NOTICED
phenomena
imagined
pictures
celebratedly
received
Whoever were lucky enough to be the one who evokes in you the most sacred part of your being, the one whose purpose is the desire to explore your beautiful heart and take part in its beating, where in feeling that consanguineous desire he would emulate the loveliest expression upon seeing those eyes and, with resolve, make the most sublime decision in the measure of a love without restrictions, where verse will become prose and emulate that feeling, wrapping it in an emphatic nervousness that only with the magnetism of your love will free that heart from all evil, giving life to a new freedom of wanting, shared!!!!!
Lraularguellesm!!!!!
LOVE FLOWERINGS-:-
visually
telling
observations
dreamt
expressions
in a SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE
ecstatic
fantasies
realised
adorn
reality
ROMANTICALLY DESIRED&FORETOLD
newly
viewed
emphatic
emphasised
genres
High up I heard the adolescent honk
of their ragged V formation.
I tried to count them as they tore above,
but they rippled and none held neat station.
Was it panting I heard or the whirling of wings
to add whisper to their emphatic call?
One V became two and some ends were crushed
while the middle was rounded by sprawl.
But I must write this quickly
for how soon they pass.
What are they saying,
I wonder at last?
Perhaps all their cries -
to-ing and fro-ing -
are pure encouragement:
Keep going! Keep going!
through bone marrow, an ordainment
cruises, initiated plasma expecting
sit strategic observe vibrations
lips inward as pursing to utter mama
softly whisper, then careful cobra hiss
tongue presses roof for decisive ignition
hills like Rainbow Vinicunca nurture
becoming erect, spine steeled slither
clocked, emphatic descent to reascend
spirit’s grains congealed prudent
guiding kernel’s evolutionary action
imperative transformation willed
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elemental
introspection
ironic
ambivalent
inner
necessity
emphatic
yet
superficial
initiation
simple
honest
unspoilt
creativity
becoming
visible
beginnings
of
discovery
in
significant
similar
visual
connections
you cannot remember white shores of summer
and the metallic taste of the sea on your flanks
and the air opaque with the dazzle of noon
you cannot remember the wine that gleamed like a snake in the sun
and the boats nuzzling the hot pier
and the emphatic simplicity of their message
the urgent peal of the cicada has been quite lost to you
and the sleepy eyes of the horizon late in the day
and the loneliness of the ocean that justifies everything
you cannot remember what the sudden laughter affirmed
nor the startled sweetness of the flowers crushed under your loins
nor the love from which your body drew its pleasure
easily as a child milk from the breast
obscure
& figuratively
eccentric
polished
smooth
yet
a
stullified
distraction
grasping
the
transcendant
with
clarity
culicules
of
irony
textured
to
resemble
space
& light
enunciating
the
simple
intense
in
essence
an
unchanging
creative
focus
shadow
the
theatrical
possibilities
hollow. out
integrated
visions
to
commemorate
& mimic
the
emphatic
kisses.
feel them
the tension and aliveness
they’re loaded with psychology and social context
its an intense observation
mouths connect our inner and outer worlds
they cross the exterior-interior divide
they’re simple forms of passion and expression
but they’re drastic and emphatic
I wrestle with wildness
I desire less breathing room, less layering
I riot with instinctive response
I long to obliterate feminine’ restraint
and share inner experience
.
.
A song for this:
Drive Me Crazy by The SoCal VoCals
Fly Into Your Arms (a cappella) by X-Cetra
Nothing Can Stop Us by Saint Etienne
“In trying times the touch of compassion uplifts
the sunk spirit from the depth of depression”- By Poet
You walk the content life through the dulcet days
on the rose garden's dream-paved cinnamon pathway.
Along the winding wake of the butterflies you chase
the rustle of rapture, making sure the pursuit won't stray.
Soon enough you reach the edge of the opaque night
when the surging storm shatters the somber sky,
the pole star disappears out of your sullen sight,
the trying time torments you, you don’t know why.
A wreck, you crumble in the rueful ruins of sadness,
stow the shards of crushed life in depth of depression,
where you vainly search for you in the dreary darkness,
despair wraps you with the shroud of dejection.
The emphatic glow of my passion’s candle you’ll then find
like the mesmeric moon in the onyx sky shining bright.
You’ll rise from the debris of the melancholic mind,
for in the dark of dismal night I’ll be your longing light.
To say I would not pray would be a lie
Because I have had car wrecks
And I have sent a heartfelt plea up each time
Right before impact
The prayer would be loud and sincere
I would thank God for my life
And tell Him that I am okay with whatever He wants
Because I have had a marvelous time
Whether or not He spares me is not important
I am okay with His decision either way
But would I pray?
An emphatic yes.
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