I heard that several higher ups, want to try and
Make it harder for women to get
A divorce, why? Is it your ego or is it to keep her
From moving forward with her life or is it
Because you won't have anyone to control
Push around, abuse, submit to your desires
While you continue to have extramarital affairs
Anytime you want to
So why should I stay married to you
Politicians the world over
Love a greasy combover
Tell copious lies
And wear gaudy ties.
Politicians the world over
Hope scandals will blow over
Have scrotum necks
And never have extramarital sex.
Politicians the world over
Perform even while hungover
Love to show piety
Especially the Christian variety.
They feather their own nest
The common people they detest
Each other they will talk-over
That’s politicians the world over.
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The nayika (heroine) sets out
to meet her beloved against all odds
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Dreams in mind, hope in heart,
On the way am I to meet my sweetheart,
My mind in turmoil, tumult of passion
Seeking fruition, to end long separation,
None can stop whose mind’s made,
Of no one and none whoso afraid,
My heart feels free from all masked plight,
Naught can stop me from meeting him tonight,
And embrace him despite it all,
Notso can my made-up-mind stall,
Abhisarika I’m, let all world know,
No Vyabhicharika, on wayward go.
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Natya Shastra | 02.02.2025 | Free verse,
Note: This is second of Ashta-Nayikas, eight heroine types, as classified in a Sanskrit treatise on performing arts in Bharata’s Natya-Shastra. The state (avastha) of the eight romantic heroines widely themed in Indian paintings, literature, sculpture, classical dance forms and music. Abhisarika is the second of the eight such heroines depicted here in poetic form. Vyabhichar refers to adultery, extramarital sex, infidelity, or betrayal in marriage.
Halala in Chaklala what do you think malala?
If a woman is have an extramarital affair or feeling for another man.
Woman If you think that man is good take divorce from your husband.
Marry this man live with this man and come back to your first husband.
If you realize that second man is not good is called Halala.
35th President John F. Kennedy
Somehow developed major enemies
Their seemingly styled Camelot
Dissolved when extramarital affairs were caught
His wife the graceful Jacqueline Kennedy
Drew Americans in to total empathy
When her love was killed that day
But both of them had affairs to play
There is no perfect rhyme for Kennedy but I went ahead with that one anyway.
The title line would not let me use apostrophe or a period in it. LOL
I have read that President Kennedy had many affairs but I do not know that for a fact and also Mrs. Kennedy had affairs as well so I have read. They say don't spread gossip but it is written in books.
Written: January 13, 2019
For the contest:
Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire
poetry is a one night
stand
a few minutes
stand
you meet her on the
street
while waiting in a
cafe
in a crowded bar you just dont know when
she descends on you spread her wings
no expectations
i am in this crowded bar now
on the stool
red wine
cabernet
why dont we understand life
she walks in high heeled clad
in red parks on the other side delicately
war is a crime
have to be brief here
characters you know
and space F
i am captivated
she flashes her white teeth
the' cheeks"matched her dress
i am intoxicated
singular encounter no expectations
she winks carelessly
i buy her a drink apple martini
walks across sit close
perfume
extramarital without disturbance
bartender worried puzzled
when i ask for paper and pen
he throws few tissues
we drink a few
her leg rests on mine exploring
we amalgamate into a toungey kiss
i am possessed now
in a frenzy you know
no attachments or carried emotions
for tomorrow
we forget forever till someone brings
it up again
personal growth and fulfillment
empowered
poetry is a one night stand
that is a one liner
Dan, for that extramarital affair, you paid a price.
Alex did many things that were not very nice.
As a lawyer, I thought you would have more sense.
Watching Alex’s actions surely made me tense.
You fooled around with a woman from the other side of the fence.
Well, Alex was a woman in dire need of a life.
Dan, you should have been more faithful to your wife.
Based on the 1987 film “Fatal Attraction”
Bird-girl, gull,
The new Boatswain's wife,
Remember when
they'd call you
the Girl of the Wandering Ship,
the pale fire of the night?
S.S Montblanc,
White Mountain,
I've climbed aboard...
And made love
to sparks,
explosions, powder,
Hundred people dead
in an hour,
victims of extramarital
affair.
I was jealous of her looks and splendor,
taking over my bed so gracefully.
To her strange charm, yes, men would surrender.
In thought, I wished her life, but secretly.
She climbed upon him as he was sleeping.
Perhaps she thought she'd found her next appeal.
Enchanted, I watched as she went creeping
upon my husband! What would they reveal?
Feeling her touch upon him would he wake
to see her there atop him face to face?
I wondered should I stay or silence break.
Wasn't long after, they in arm embrace,
that husband, half asleep, but with some charm
gently blew the spider from his arm.
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