Battles with silence
...“Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart.”
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Categories:
expurgated, analogy, angst, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Platonic Relationships
...Platonic Relationships
Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
Japan celebrating Tanabata festival
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Vega neglec...
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Categories:
expurgated, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
The Allegory of the Cage
...The Allegory of the Cage
I have not written much of late;
I toil in my hamster wheel.
While ev'ry sage of ev'ry age
Will gape with wonder at my cage,
And speak in voices small and still
About...
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Categories:
expurgated, allegory, angst, dark,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
...Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*
In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Compar...
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Categories:
expurgated, books, eulogy, french, poems,
Form: Elegy
Tanabata-W
...Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love like Yaksha & his beloved
In the Bard Kalidas’s epic poem Meghd...
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Categories:
expurgated, stars,
Form: Verse
Tanabata-W
...Tanabata
Look at the 1st quarter moon of the 7th
Day of the 7th month in the naked sky.
There! The two stars Vega and Altair
Blinded by love like Yaksha & his beloved
In the Bard Kalidas’s epic ...
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Categories:
expurgated, stars,
Form: Verse