Mirza Ghalib English Translations 4
...MIRZA GHALIB ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Urdu poems about speech and to speak, the spoken word, thoughts, roses, life, secrets, joy, pain, vows, critics, the heart.
Hearing my speech, accomplished cri...
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Categories:
enjoined, heart, joy, life, longing,
Form: Free verse
Where To Now
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A young man had recently finished high school,
but he had not determined what to do with his life.
On a train to visit relatives in a faraway city,
He was seated with an elderly gentleman. A...
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Categories:
enjoined, youth,
Form: Free verse
this star
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This star, Our star, is only Hallow
In the kiss that we bestow.
And this kiss, only ours to give,
Upon each brow,
For we are like a child to the Ray,
We forego eternity, our own device,
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Categories:
enjoined, angst, conflict, emotions, growth,
Form: Rhyme
In the cathedral of eternity, where time itself kneels in reverence
...In the cathedral of eternity, where time itself kneels in reverence,
Where stars are candles burning on the divine altar on high,
There Jesus, Savior and Sun-giver, makes His presence felt,
In the...
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Categories:
enjoined, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
M A I D In Canada
...Life unberable is created..
Proffered Then death by needle
Great effort Enjoined to sanitize
Waste of human rescources
Before our western walls !...
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Categories:
enjoined, anxiety, cancer, character, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Beholder
...The eye will deceive,
but the water never lies ~
always, ever down.
Patiently seeking
the path of least resistance ~
not to be denied.
Gravity enjoined ~
a tool and not a hindrance
harne...
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Categories:
enjoined, creation, time,
Form: Choka
Let Me Pen You With Forever Rhyme
...Let me pen you with forever rhyme and warm your heart PAST end of time!
Let me press your flesh in boundless tome of endless leaves that choose a doom
Earth’s frail seasons bless (like butterfly em...
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Categories:
enjoined, celebration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Popsicle Harm
...You invited me in
just to laugh amongst the array
of your erstwhile friends
you played the host cinderella
saying you were lost
in the dorm of domesticity
You enjoined me in
just to foreleig...
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Categories:
enjoined, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
I Am the Light Now Come Into the World
...I am the light now come into the world.
Whoever follows keeps me in his sight,
Thus has the light that shines, the life within;
The darkness does not overcome the light.
Whoever comes will hung...
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Categories:
enjoined, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Before the Council
...The elders, scribes, met in Jerusalem
With Caiaphas and Annas, priests as well.
When Peter, John arrived, were asked to tell
The power used or name declared by them,
Then Peter, with the Holy S...
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Categories:
enjoined, bible, christian,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Hyphenated
...This is what I am enjoined to be:
Hyphenated !
Bound to vacillate between self-aggrandizement and self-annihilation
I straddle two unrecognizable worlds
only to find solace in none
I am the bege...
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Categories:
enjoined, analogy, anger, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Indulgences
...An indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of the temporal punishment due to sin
An indulgence is not a pardon of sin, nor a license to commit sin, and one who is in state of mortal sin ca...
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Categories:
enjoined, christian, god, jesus, people,
Form: Free verse
Moments of Delay
...We make plans to reach a place, place in time or on our path
Determined, driven, focused, with purpose, our mind set, our heart sure
The place we want to reach means more than so many other things ...
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Categories:
enjoined, desire, light, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Geese
...Blue-black, purple sky recedes
As dawn peeks out her curtain;
Eyelids kissed by rising sun,
of egg shell white, I'm certain.
I say goodnight to night.
With asphalt tapping under foot
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Categories:
enjoined, bird, flying, inspirational, miracle,
Form: Narrative
No Recanting
...May we be 'so graced' as to relinquish any faith, religion, or ideology that is not based in ...
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Categories:
enjoined, christian, forgiveness, god, political,
Form: Verse
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