Gate Of Inner Sanctum
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“The inner journey of piety opens the floodgate of
divine bliss” – By Poet
I chase the GOSSAMER mirage of the drifting desires
in the desolate desert of my GRIEF-STRICKEN existenc...
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Categories:
floodgate, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
This nomadic wind
...This nomadic wind
This nomadic wind, and along the way the buds are a fallen subtlety
i have gathered them all, paved to greet your way
Accept , please accept them all, with thy humble ha...
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Categories:
floodgate, art,
Form: Free verse
Where Are We Going
...I see a world wet with tears of sorrow;
there is so much bigotry, greed, and hate.
I fear what fate may befall the morrow;
while politicians beg you to donate,
corruption runs like an ope...
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Categories:
floodgate, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Dizain
Departed - Helal Hafiz
...Where are you staying these days? Are you doing fine? Send me letters.
One twilight hue rejoiced with the whimsical hand fan, bought from fair
How is that doing at your hand so late at night, li...
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Categories:
floodgate, literature,
Form: Free verse
Bones Ache Yet Heart Sings
...Unsatiated cravings open the floodgate of suffering,
the surging torrent of torment tosses the servile soul,
for in the karmic cycle of being born and reborn,
desire doesn’t die, but it’s a blink ...
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Categories:
floodgate, analogy, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Floogate
...Walls were covered in cobwebs that chattered.
Splash is flaking from the crumbling floodgate.
It was flawed to wait while you were battered.
Walls were covered in cobwebs that chattere...
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Categories:
floodgate, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Triolet
Peace On Earth
...When all squabbles and wars shall cease
As for the complete world, we will create peace
Individuals ought to be more socially adept,
not scolding one another for being incorrect.
Co...
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Categories:
floodgate, analogy, appreciation, humanity, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Floodgates
...A floodgate
Is opened in the
Meanderings of
Wholeness
As THIS gains
Resonance..
THIS excludes
No story..and all
Stories can expand
Racing away as
The story of the
Exp...
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Categories:
floodgate, confidence, fire, how i
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Giant of Africa
...Torrents of thoughts torment me
Floodgate of distractions rack my soul
Avalanche of delusions
Decapitate my mental faculty
As I muse over the degeneration
That has dogged my beloved country
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Categories:
floodgate, africa, anger, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Free verse
To Be Without You
...When buildings crumble
& return back to dust
& heads turn in disgust.
Faced with lust & deeds
Of mistrust.
When all else fades
& the stars speckle
Like eons of old dust collected
& swept ac...
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Categories:
floodgate, appreciation, black love, for
Form: Free verse
Fear
...Easily kicking open The floodgate of panic,
The quickening of blood circulation, titanic:
A once normal breathing is disturbingly hoarse
And the modest in behavior dreadfully coarse.
Eyes now pop...
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Categories:
floodgate, fear, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye Rose
...Cancer is an ugly disease…not only for the life it takes
But for all the sorrow and sadness…left floating in its wake….
Although I did not know her personally I’ve kept abreast of cases she has t...
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Categories:
floodgate, death, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Poems Come Faster and Faster
...Poems come faster and faster
Once you open the floodgate of your imagination
The world of make believe is more than ready
Bringing for more what ifs and maybes
Than you can organize or manage
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Categories:
floodgate, art, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Purest Love
...At 22, her life still gave mine meaning
This feral kitten born inside a barn
In dark times, she was ever intervening
To bring smiles, she wrestled balls of yarn
When arthritis kept ...
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Categories:
floodgate, cat, pets,
Form: Rhyme
My Beloved, In Love's Embrace - Part - 7 - Valentine's Collection - 2020
...22.
Love is divine, never a chore,
love, the sentiment we adore,
our passion has come to the fore,
Now, we shall open love’s floodgate,
love divine we shall consecrate,
we walk slowly, the ...
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Categories:
floodgate, dream, emotions, love,
Form: Sonnet
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