Pain Epigram Poems

I suffer
but nowhere
do I suffer least
than in a mighty hall
of sufferers


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What hurts, well can things handle,
When ground, gets fragrant, sandal, 
Pain suffered, goes not in vain,
To see unseen, douse candle.
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Epigram |11.08.2023| light, dark ...

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EPIGRAMS IV

Improve yourself by others' writings, attaining freely what they purchased at the expense of experience.
—Socrates, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I didn’t mean to...

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Humiliation can be an affliction of age

   Better to smile ~ and turn the page...

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We love to laugh
       it keeps us sane

    Perhaps because
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There's no pain in drowning.

It's the fear that kills you....

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If the pain
comes,  its not
to disdain...
treat her right
with love,
that she goes through......

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I
If you're discovering love from earth to heaven, read Joe; if you seek beauty of daily living, read Vijay (under God's compassionate sun/SON)

II
Love without regret,...

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Fossilized cadavers
Unable to be cremated or buried
Refusing to disintegrate into oblivion...

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The Past

In a dream, I found this tale -
Memories are water in a pail
We pick the pail each time we move -
Water spills (yet we...

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Ancient Greek and Roman Epigrams I

Wall, we're astonished that you haven't collapsed,
since you're holding up verses so prolapsed!
Ancient Roman graffiti, translation by Michael R. Burch

You...

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I know it hurts to say goodbye, 
The pain inside is hard to die....

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Everything exists in this world...
There is my pain and the pain of others,
for both I suffer..
There is life and there is death,
I conceive because I...

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When aches and pain break the heart, 
The mind and soul fall apart....

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No tears
      belong to us...
      They are legitimate daughters
      of...

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