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Premium Member Review Aug 22

Lawrence Ferlinghetti,another beat poet,painter,activist,essayist publisher in this example pens a long lined unpunctuated 'unstanzard ' list poem ,staccato  in concept & possibly it recites aloud better than it reads.

Premium Member Henry David Thoreau

American naturalist, essayist, philosopher, poet, teacher and transcendentalist.
He pursued spiritual growth through denial of worldly pleasures and simple living.
He left society to live apart in a small cabin as one of the first hippies to exist.

There Is I Am

There is I am
where the white dawn with the flying pigeons is
where the golden noon with glittering afternoon is
where the silvering dusk with rhythmic twittering is
where the silent contemplating night with poetic words is

Yes there is I am
where this dawn to dusk, night to day, ground to sky
everything with the poetic expression is

And there is I am
where beloved poetry with Whitman's pensive pen is

07.09.2020 Chattogram 


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Tribute to Walt Whitman, an American poet, essayist, and journalist and as a humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.


A Smile

Again and Again 

 The profundity of our love is my medium to write 
 about you & your way?

one: Without a comb i wave my hair which you dreamed some time when i think
                          
                     Two: Empty room full off my words which is as silence as kiss of peck

                                      Third:Celebration of beat of heart in the ground of party for me by betles where i miss you color i  am ,joy i am,the essayist also i am,just a guest is you that  i miss is you 
                                                                                
                                                            Four:Miracle happen in this era that such a honorable inventions and kind notes are their to connect us form far to far 


                                                                                           Five  Silence fallen me down to my nerve to see you again & again 




                                  A SMILE 



With love all 
Jagdish bajantri

Premium Member It's All Too Short

Do you ever think life's long enough?
no matter what things you want to do
time seems to be the winner always
three score years and ten is so few

One's head can be full of thoughts
but still, feel plenty of room for more
they can be good and bad even neutral
it seems you're bursting open at the door

So many miles all over the world
think of all the walks you could walk
many parks and forests to go and visit
mountains aplenty but mind a block

Wish I could read more and more books
many categories like history, bio and the like
how to fit them all in, the hours so few
but exercise the mind never go on strike

People in so many places in the world
many of them are friends so dear
you want time spent with them all
time's all too short this I do fear

('I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.'
- John Burroughs (1837-1921) -American naturalist and nature essayist.)

Writer May Be

writer- 
may be a poet or poetess
may be an essayist 
may be a figure of prose, novel, drama
may be a treasure of etcetera 
 
writer can write himself, 
can write others 

writer can write world nature 
can write seen-unseen 

writer can write nonsense
can write thoughtful
  
writer-
may be introvert 
as well as extrovert 

writer-
a figure of total expression 
small to great wisdom and notion



-January 03, 2019 Chattogram


No Promise of Tomorrow

P- “Poets have been mysteriously silent
O- On the subject of cheese.” I quote
E- Essayist G. K. Chesterton's thoughts.
M- Molded from Thomas Carlyle, these words:
S- "Speech is silver;  silence is golden."

A- Arise, to your pens, ye poets of today,
R- Re-write like there's no tomorrow.
E- Eventually thoughts will match up with words.

H- Harold Camping wrote the world will end;
A- And dating it  brought him much sorrow.
R- Ripening of thought is like cheese and wine,
D- Distilling the words takes time to age.

In the Corner

In the corner
Is my pole star
Light and insight
Never blur
In the corner
Balm they are
For wounds of war


When sun is dark
Empty the park 
In lingering pain
limps the lark
Inside the clock
Hours of shark 
Roads are blocked 
Rooms are locked
Sky has fled
Dreams are dead
I look for the corner
The soul warmer


Delight serene
Ever green
The brilliant shine
The mighty minds
The hill fountain
The lovely pens

Immortal stare
William Shakespeare 
The world adores
Bard Tagore
Jibanananda
Clouds in calypso
Brilliant tussle
Bertrand Russell

I sit with them 
Love the gems
A river shore 
Ennui no more
Lovely grace
All silk and lace
Doves umpteen
My bookshelf green
In the corner
Shines the polestar
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26/03/2017
Note: Jibanananda Das, a Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist, is often acknowledged as the premier poet of Bengali literature after Rabindranath Tagore, and considered as one of the greatest modern poets in Bengal.
As a representative taste, an interested reader may go through, BANALATA SEN in English translation at poemhunter.com

Caffeine

Chemically: crystalline carbon compound
Commonly consumed as coffee, Coke 
Choices? Consider chocolate
Craziness careens corners

Attitude and attention adjuster
Autumn afternoon activator
Accelerated activities
Ask another altruistic answerable

Fathoming fatherhood 
Folgers: fresh or frozen
Foolish frolicking
Fickle frazzled frog

Favorite flavor?
French fanilla (fun!)
Famous for flying
Fan for “FREEDOM!!”

Endurance enhancer
E’erlasting elixir
Endocrine epoxic effects
Essayist endorser

I, internal igniter 
Interestingly included
In iced infusions
Imagine: ignorance imploded

Nosy noisy neighbors 
Night-time ne’er-ender
Negative nightmares…
Nice neanderthal!

Everyone’s elated 
Elliptical epiphany!
Elephants eat evergreens!
Ellipsis

Rejecting

Ministries common following's ford
as rambling messaging's spaced toward
linguistic parsonage accord ~
. . . a neither pace attempts the Lord!

A breech of favored in between
is not the true essayist dream,
identities foregoing ream
is but identical in its seam!

Occlusion as the outcome's scheme,
a floating chance of origin
has none, but nature's begging scene,
doubt casting's fate becomes adjourn!

That placate stifles truth's concern,
while tensions buckle with their yearn!

Devils Or Humans

Devils or Humans 
Devils or Humans 
 
 
Essayist or fiend or friend of man or devil and not human kind a man may play 
with a computer while everyone else is working and they look at MOVIES of the 
making kind the horrible transformation of a killing and destructing documentary 
of an old war footage on the screen of mass destruction of the NAZI king a Hitler 
of a flick intended to reinforce the lust of course Oh wait he is a student of the 
History course and it is just a work assignment then why did he not take notes or 
use a textbook to accompany his gleeful watching of the devil show his ears 
looked for all the world aglow and bent Oh brave new world is teaching men 
again.

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